MIT had a much more successful project here: http://eastside.opamp.org/. While I think U of I's girls might be hotter, the MIT calendar does feature more hints of engineering-ness, which is also hot. Hmmm.
Hitler actually fought for another country. He was Austrian and volunteered to the German army.
Funny to see how, after Bush==Hitler became obvious for some Redditors, the next step is apparently to claim Hitler was actually a better man. I guess the support Iran's "Holocaust conference" got from the same people is also part of move.
Hitler also had a moustache. That's the easiest way to tell them apart.
Now, that CIE chromaticity chart WAS boring.
"Then they need to speak up."
Maybe you're right. The parallel is that atheists who don't hold the extreme view that religious people are an inferior class should speak up, too.
A CE major should be able to write microcode
Allows listeners to choose the best quality music downloads. Shows formats and bitrates used by each store and whether DRM is used.
At 21 every college student is full of themselves and think they are the best damn thing on the planet. After thirty years experience I suspect her opinions have changed radically.
In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.
And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely.
"Everything must have a purpose?" asked God.
"Certainly," said man.
"Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God.
And He went away.
Kurt Vonnegut (Cat's Cradle)
Do you happen to have a link to a study which indicates permanent memory damage, and ensures that at the time of testing the subjects have used no marijuana for some reasonable length of time like 30 days? From what I remember of the studies I read, I was only able to find one study in which that necessary step was taken, and it found no relation between marijuana use and memory. There were several other studies I found that claimed to have found that marijuana permanently impairs memory, but none of them enforced a substantial drug-free waiting period, which makes their findings useless. Also, it's worth mentioning that all these studies generally use very heavy smokers (typically every day for years to decades).
The skateboard in slide 15 was naked.
Depends on where you work. I am happily sharing it with my coworkers.
What stir did it caused?
im an american. i like france (never been there).
besides, if it weren't for france's considerable meddling in our revolution, we might not be the US today. not that i really care one way or another about that. you shouldn't either. flags are for retards.
I like sage in thing with bacon.
I'm not surprised. Digg is being revealed as a Leftist forum run by an elite few, and the people who profit from Digg's advertising are running scared, as they know these revelations will drive traffic to other sites.
This test does measure some kind of personality. But not who is better. The world is too complex and so are the problems to solve. Who performs better depends on type of problem. Of course, this test does not predicate much.
New Intriguing Nintendo Wii games that are sure to entice many avid gamers. These games aren't for the kiddies!!!
WTF??? Thats almost NSFW. Almost got me in trouble.
Bad journalism. He's a Muslim pretending to be Christian because being Muslim isn't good for an American Politician.
Any woman willing to be with me is "Harmoniously-Proportioned".
I don't understand your comment.
HELLO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
finding truth despite the obstacles is the best thing i can come up with. i think i'll roll with that for now.
You only need to steal a few good domains a year to make millions. How can this happen in the computer age where we have records? If the account wasn't expired how can they sell it? You can't sell someone's house just because they're not home. They need to roll back the transactions.
Interesting perspective and argument on the reaction to the Icelandic decision to resume commercial whaling
Betsson now offers a bigger bonus up to 1500 dollar.
..is not a monopoly. Anyone can buy either man-made diamonds or buy a real diamond from countless other sources. See eBay or your local pawn shop for details.
I originally marked this down as I just assumed it was one of those stupid spam emails (e.g. "send this to every1 you know and microsoft will pay for some orphan to get brain surgery").
My bad - but damn this is scraping the bottom of the barrell in terms of promotional tools. But at least some good will come from it.
This is a funny anecdote about a drunk guy who wreaks havoc when he gets ripped off in a Japanese massage parlor.
no, you fucktard, a strawman is....
a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted (dictionary quote)
the cartoon doesn't use a strawman cos it doesn't set up any argument at all... it merely portrays the fucking scumbag whining xtian pussies as they really act. you can hear foxnews use this fake outrage ploy every fucking day
You should think of it as an investment into the well being of your own country which the benefits of which will trickle back up as well.
does anyone like Vista....anyone. I decided last night to downgrade to XP on my 2 week old laptop because there arent any drivers for most of the things I need to work on my laptop.
salam
Why not?
One of Dick Cheney's vacation houses, no doubt. Here's his Washington mansion...
A video about the New World Order & North American Union.
#body{
position:mine to fsck with as I like;
background-color:skin;
color:black
font-family:"Helvetica Neue"
}
#retarded {
position:absolute;
margin:obviously not very accepting;
margin-top:pretty low;
}
go suck geezuz jew cock, you fucking faggot godder
Are you kidding? I just loved the grin on Syed Karim's face!
digg also hijacks your 'back' button if you go look at that article.
whoever gave kevin rose those bazillions of dollars is probably feeling really really stupid for going with such a tv show pony.
You might be interested in this.
yeah, just about the same time you get over your fcuking geesus
I suspect that if we can afford to fund a war that no one wishes to fight then we can fund a program that everyone wishes to see.
The difference is that https is essentially unbreakable.
To break this "encryption", all I need to do is buy a plane ticket and walk down the street.
Pleased to see that comments so far rank this as a ho-hum 'secret'. I'm not a fan of the Senator, but we all need time to develop thoughtful political opinions. College is the time to do this.
http://www.nodaddy.com/
Let's see: no joke, no insight, no art. As usual.
As for guilt/concerns about saying the right thing and the asker's perception of the poll-taker: the poll asked about blacks, women, catholics, jews, homosexuals, and atheists. Only for blacks and catholics were the numbers so high. The difference in the numbers show that the desire to say the right thing wasn't the only motivation behind the answers in the polls. Isn't quite astonishing that almost 30% replied that they would hesitate to elect a well-qualified woman?
Also, I think you're overstating the difference between the poll and a vote, specifically in terms of the difference in the extent to which those same motivations of guilt/perception/doing the right thign would apply. Only a handful of voters are truly undecided when they head to the polls- when their decision is between themselves, God, and a Diebold employee. Otherwise, the decision-making process is very social, which leaves lots of room for those motivations of guilt, perception, etc, to have influence.
Many people see Obama's race as a handicap, but it's based on electability- in other words, it's based more on their perception of what other people think about a black president as opposed to what they think themselves.
Obama has plenty of experience, but again, he has an image problem. Actually, the fact that he's eloquent, charismatic, young-looking, and hip makes him less convincing to some voters because they associate those qualities candidate full of fluff. Find some Democrats, particularly older ones, who don't support Obama, and ask them why. I guarantee you they say experience, and that half of them make some comment about how voters are so stupid that they will vote for someone uncredentialed so long as he looks good and speaks well.
you are a fcuking idiot. evolution is 100% FACT
My comment doesn't imply anything of the sort. I'd prefer a universal health care system, even for adults. It's just easy to convince people to do it for children because of the reasons I stated.
I hold people accountable for the mistakes they make in their lives, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to try to help them up again so they can have a second chance.
Hmm it seems everything Kevin Rose touches...
The Higgs bozo just wandered down my street. Looked kinda heavy.
there's a sucker born every minute. i just want to make sure they don't drag me down with their stupid choices in life.
FAQ that does not often get answered
Because it would be much more effective to link to a similar illustration that shows the more intelligent stories the OP implies weren't there to prove his case, rather than the cowardly cry of "another lying liberal."
hillary's no 'leader'. she's a typical delusional (convenient cause shes a thief advocate) bitch. "it takes a village" fuck that stupid bullshit. i fight to keep the pretarded village of vicious xtian dumbfucks, OUT of my existence.
NATURE has a much BETTER plan for the stupid and weak. and it doesn't involve me carrying them with me. woohoo!
hillary get out of my country, you're a FAILURE as an american. and as a thinking human. and as a hot chick.
I can see it now... the next big reality tv show...
Engineering girls show down! MIT vs UI! They can code, they can
calculate and they can get down and dirty!
...interesting that the number of comments sometimes decreases over time. Theoretically, that could be because people delete their comments, but I think it is a bug in reddit.
Well you know what they say about statistics....
Canada has a substantially smaller population than the United States. Something like 35 million to 250 million in the States. The population of just Texas is 20 million, for crying out loud. So, consider the problems of healthcare for everyone as it's done in Canada, and multiply that by 10!
Of course, everything I've said about statistics applies to this as well ;-)
Context of the discussion. Inerte asked a question. I answered the question. Without answering the question the casual reader is invited to answer it him/herself. Often questions are asked not for answers but to create an impression. I prefer to make my opinions clearly known. The record on reddit can be entirely transparent. I think this is an advantage, inevitably Reddit or a system like it will better cater to my needs as a news consumer the more I indicate my preferences.
Reason #842 why it is obvious to a 3rd grader that religion is bogus in general.
There are many more rightist articles (Coulter, for one) on Digg than there are on Reddit.
sure they are, 2 distinct forms of fascism
I think there is one lesson to this, however: don't try to hide your past. Accept it, or hell, even openly reject it, but don't try to bury it. If she had said "Yep, I wrote that when I was young. Here it is. I don't really know about it, anymore" it would be pretty much the end of the discussion. Sure, some people might bring it up, but I think they would have been cut off at the pass, so to speak.
They should also ban WorldNetDaily, if they want to truly be "fair and balanced."
Nice, it means that they will not censor this videos on YouTube now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltP2t9nq9fI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEtqN04Hl7w&mode=related&search=
You mean they did before?!
I'm not inclined to give the gov't any more money to do anything, even if it's helping old ladies across the street. They'll just fuck-it up and/or steal the money.
...in my pants!
(Somone had to say it)
oh well, lol
And getting tons of publicity from a spat with Sony is worth a lot more hits than either of those. This is the Jessica Cutler for Kotaku.
(Jessica Cutler being Washingtonienne, who was "outed" by Kotaku's sister blog Wonkette...thus scoring both blogs significant publicity)
maps of neighborhoods on the internet
Cheers man. :)
Obviously I'm both, and people that get too uptight about tattoos don't really worry me too much.
My (also-html guy) coworkers response was: "Noooo! You can't do it! You'll regret it so bad! You'll have open tags forever man!".
well the xtians are a sneaky sort, besides the fraud. i guess i should've seen it coming sooner. but, oh well, no crying over spilled milk. at least, myself (and others) realize what's happening (been happening for decades) and are beginning to fight back. i have some mitigating circumstances for my lack of realization...i was raised xtian...and you know that whole carrot and stick thing REALLY does a number on your ability to think beyond: "don't hit me with the stick please!"
oh well, i've escaped now, hopefully enough of us can take the nation back to the PRINCIPLES under which it was founded (despite of the theft and murdering...we'll have to get past that somehow).
What absolutely amazes me is how Americans, after daily witnessing the gross inefficiencies and incompetencies of government from federal to local, whether it's waiting at the post office or DMV, costly never-ending road projects, screwed up voting systems, the complexity of doing your taxes, massive overspending from fighter planes to bike paths.. that Americans would for one second actually believe that the government would do a better/cheaper/efficient job managing you health care is absolutely incomprehensible! Are you fucking insane?
The feds already run Medicare and Medicaid for the poor and elderly, and you don't exactly see those people touting how great it is.
Leon Lederman called it that, and the name stuck.
Liberal arts degrees, by nature, are degrees that do not provide a direct path to a career field, in contrast to degrees that teach a trade. Math and science are included because, like other elements of a good liberal arts education, they impart good general knowledge and do not limit you to a particular career path. Engineering is a "trade" field of math, so it is not included.
If you want to redefine what a liberal arts education is for your own purposes, by all means go for it. But please recognize that when someone is talking about a liberal arts education, they likely are thinking of the actual definition of the word.
I've had bosses who will throw out a resume the second they see a typo. I think she's trying to say that you shouldn't be obsessed over little details - but that's the wrong "little" detail to not obsess over. People will ignore you based on that.
true dat.
Pre-emptive discussion of potentially up coming mass media smear job on Hillary. It's anti-Hill meta news.
Enough of the bullshit coverage in the MSM, already!
I'll take that prediction and short you all the way down.
Go to trade sports and propose it as a topic.
To get better health care would the rich then go to Canada or some other western country where they too have national health care? Maybe Cuba?
Well, then, by all means, let's nationalize health care. I also think all Americans should own a car. All Americans should get $10,000 for burial expenses upon their deaths. My grandparents used to get free food. Unfortunately, they had to stand in line to receive it--they lived in Cuba.
no.
It's not really free. These guys get rewarded for this and they know it. That's why they do it.
from the FAQ (Help/submissions):
tip for successful submissions
A useful and/or entertaining title can also go a long way toward piquing someone's interest. Alternatively, deceiving readers with false or misleading titles is a surefire way to suffer karmic retribution from your fellow redditors. Likewise, linkjacking an article from its original source in order to drive traffic to your personal blog will likely just drive down your karma. Submitting personal work isn't taboo, but trying to flood reddit with every blog entry you've ever written is certain to be punished.
I believe I am in full conpliance. Have a nice karma!
In Soviet Russia, Godwins YOU!
She's actually still kinda cute.
I really don't care that they are engineers. Really don't.
The estimate is just that, an estimate. It's the best guess a contractor can give you before starting work. If she looks at some flooring that has to be removed and thinks that it's asbestos, works the (high) cost of removing it in her estimate, then later finds out that it's not asbestos, it's perfectly reasonable for her customer to expect not to be charged for the extra cost of removal.
Even if you do not think of it as a rip off, it looks like it was company policy to return anything under estimate: "If a job came in on budget, the customer was supposed to receive money back." If they didn't want to do it, it should not have been policy.
However, this story is about more than returning money on high estimates. It's also about work that was simply not done. Do you think it's a rip off if they take your money without doing the work they promised?
Terrific idea.
The personal automobile is the greatest waste of energy and space this planet has ever seen.
Walk. Cycle. Public Transit.
Sprawl is evil. Make suburban idiots pay for their stupidity... i tired of it.
Yea, but what if they have fences so you can't see half the property? Or you don't know if they have gates/fences on rooftops? This is just to prevent details from being disclosed. Of course they could rent a helicopter, buy some high-tech super-telephoto lenses, etc... but this is a logical, easy way to make it harder.
CEOs many criminals are.
There are many who have yet to comprehend the implications of this continuing business trend to grow, merge, centralise and consolidate. I hope the following will help.
If Microsoft really spent all these years developing Vista properly as they claimed they did, it is supposed to be a good OS. It's huge and probably insanely complex so we'll have to work through all the glitches for the next year or so. Only after that we'll know if it's a great improvement or not.
Ok so it was joke, well what do I know, huh? You must understand that that isn't obvious to everyone eventhough I had my suspisions. Still, I have meet a lot of redneck types bulling people in the "hey you faggot / pansy / nigger / whatever ..." sort of way. In the situation that they are actually confronted and have to defend thier doings they quiet often claim "It was only a joke, shit man don't you have any humor?". Another valuable personal skill which you might want to practice to realize when you are a dork and face the fucking music without being a retard about it. Interestingly enough you are also using the this-is-the-internet argument while crying about me giving you a hard time. Welcome to the internet, you got you ass kicked, get over yourself.
I'm getting so tired of news "stories" where they hide the bottom line in a sea of "writing" because they think it makes it more interesting. Cut the crap and cut to the chase already! If that's interesting, then I'll read the back story.
Anyway. I'm gonna stop frantically reloading this comments-page now. I have my 15 secs of fame filled. ;)
Thanks to the people that posted kind comments. I still like my new tattoo. :)
No, that's really just the frequency of the problems...
I think Americans would be willing to pay higher taxes for health insurance if they felt the government could manage to pull it off. But ours is so incompetent I think many have doubts. And, who knows, maybe that's their plan. It's funny that the same people who complain about how inept big government is are the same people who elect the ones who are too incompetent to run it.
Let's review recent big-government (conservative) screw ups: the intelligence sector, the war on terror, the Department of Homeland Security... I mean we, literally, can't organize a rescue effort after a hurricane we knew was coming. No wonder people have doubts about national health care. Still, if my tax dollars are going to be spent one way or another, I'd rather see it go towards an attempt at health care than an attempt at a war in Iraq. And I think most Americans are on-board with that.
I think we only need to look at other Western countries to see whether or not their citizens mind having national health care. Do they mind having lower infant mortality rates? Do their businesses mind not having to chip in for health care?
man I was just about to join FB when I saw this...what are the alternatives?
preferably somewhere where only I can access my account :)
I am confused by your statement about random experiments, as it seems circular.
Sorry about that. What I mean is that, when an action or observation is repeated many times ("experiment"), if the result is not always the same, then that "experiment" is random. (Of course, provided the conditions don't change). If the result is always the same then it isn't random.
Here, the meaning of "the same" and "don't change" is intentionally vague.
The sequence of bits you talk about can be seen as the result of sampling the output of some machine, be it cosmic rays, a coin-flipper, a shift-register, etc.
This is an awesome horse video!
Statistically, no bottom-level employee will make it to the top. There is no ladder--or it is not where people say it is. The sooner you realize that, the sooner you will either find a real ladder (your own business?) or accept the plain reality in a corporation (tell them "if they want more, they can pay you more--otherwise you will put out the same as everyone paid the same as you").
Remember the main line from Office Space: Work just hard enough to avoid being fired. Working any harder gains nothing. Sadly that is the system that the corporations have chosen to set up. They set up the system. Very sad choice on their part. So much more is possible if they chose to truly empower and reward their talented employees instead of rewarding and promoting them for joining a simple club of "management by applying the same answer to every problem without understanding the original question".
Tell your boss that you are able to produce two times as much, but only if they pay you two times as much.
no it measures who is better. clearly, i am better, since i know this.
the world is not complex, it's true or it's false. i am true, you are false.
me > you
you < me
see?
include
define lose 0;
main()
{
int you=0;
char me[2]={'m','e'};
char winner[2];
if(you)
{
you = lose;
}
else
{
winner = me;
}
/ ultra failsafe /
you = lose;
printf("The winner is %s",me);
}/ end main /
see now?
you know im jerking your chain right?
fine
Not since Geraldine Ferraro ran with Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis
Um. She was the running mate of Walter Mondale in 1984, against Reagan and Bush as incumbents.
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yeah, I thought it was a poor title for an interesting set of comments.
Exactly. I wanted to completely rewrite my thesis the day after I handed it in for binding.
you can have my dog.
Yes, and I modded it up. Thanks for asking.
Not surprising, carrying all that responsibility (giving the other particles masses).
Sun does.
Bloody genius! Using kites to propel ships.
Someone was probably predicting the end of religion 1000 yrs ago.
besides, what would you have me do? just say 'this was interesting' LINK? bleh. Content Matters!
But why give the attacked a complete history of the machine via a history file?
Because not only should you optimise for the common case, but optimising for the uncommon case really doesn't buy you much even when it actually happens.
I have remote boxes that have to boot up unattended, bringing up encrypted filesystems with hidden passphrases. I've hidden this all quite well and without comparing md5s of the binaries I've tweaked you'd never find it. Having any form of history file on this box would completely give the game away.
Why? Bash's history records what commands the user executes. It doesn't record what happens on boot-up. Furthermore, every utility I can think of that requires a passphrase allows you to enter it via stdin, which also won't be captured by shell history.
Even so, if the filesystems are already mounted, then giving away the passphrase isn't important - the attacker's already got access to the filesystem because you already auto-mounted them for him.
Normally, I'd agree that trading convenience for security is a bad idea. But in this case, I think there's no real security being lost.
I always drop subtle hints so that people start using Qt, and I can keep producing better code quicker with the really ultragood secret toolkit (whose name starts with T) :-D
I do too--it's an awesome idea (as one geek tattoo person to another :)
Quote: Americans showed a striking willingness in the poll to make tradeoffs for a better health care system, including paying as much as $500 more in taxes a year and forgoing future tax cuts.
$500 doesn't get you a full years worth of health insurance. Especially if $250 is in government waste.
UK is spending 20% of it's budget on NHS and whoever can afford tries to use US health care for important surgeries. And don't forget that instead of decentralized adaptive system that we have right now we will have a
- national commission
- inspectors
- ballots
- initiatives
there is no such thing as a naive gullible religious person. ALL religious people use 'god' as a weapon to beat others down.
the reason you don't think xtians force their beliefs on others is because you do it too... just like you have done here with your lying oppressive bullshit designed to cloak yourself in purity and innocence but all i see is a fucking fascist asshole trying to beat down the even the possibility of conversation that is negative against xtians.
and i know this cartoon represents all xtians because i live it every day and have to suffer thru pernicious bullshit like yours blaming ME for YOUR fascist behavior by telling me that it doesn't exist.
Will it never end?
Do you think Pedophiles like to keep in the shadows, looking to lure your children away? Nope. The twisted monsters are now out in force, demanding legalization of their perversions.
If you didn't already know the Clinton Machine is just out for power and doesn't care about ideas, where have you been the last 15 years?
Hillary is maniacal. She will win the dem nomination, Clinton Co has enough influence in the party to ensure that. But by then her slimy campaign will have been exposed enough, and she will be crushed in the election.
there's no war on xmas... that was bill o'liarly's strawman claim to sell his book and other crappy merchandise
The jobs you mention suck. If you work hard for your company and cannot take off a little extra unpaid time, your company sucks. Find another one. Bad companies need to shape up or be replaced by reasonable ones. People matter. The company expects you to be flexible, so we expect a little of the same back from them.
Dude, what the fuck? Where's the DOCTYPE declaration? Now how will your tattoo ever validate? Why are you spreading further broken HTML in this world? Won't anyone think of the childr--importance of code validation?
I hate you, and I hate your sister. Oh wait, I don't, but you get the idea. Or maybe you don't. I'm still hitting myself in the head for not having come up with this tattoo myself, because I think it's pretty cool. Damn, no, it's not cool, because it doesn't validate. Well, at least is semantic-friendly.
P.S: After you validate it, get a W3C HTML valid tattoo.
Fools will always be fools, but the best let others do the fooling.
all diets & vitamin pills are worthless, exercise can't help you, your body will resolve to the weight you're genetically predetermined to be. don't worry about, live your life & be happy.
:(
--vat
As disappointing as the recent display a certain Ms Spears gave to the world. God/ natural selection (delete where applicable) made pubes for a reason.
who cares?
I use joker.com, and I have no complaints.
So does your name imply that you abuse animals sexually or just physically?
Buried as inaccurate. Lefties go insane? Really? The article only got 302 diggs, and a cursory examination of the responses indicates little or no insanity. Just what is little green footballs' agenda?
most of what i've written in the past 5 years has been network interfaces (server to server apps that shuttle data between disparate app systems for sharing purposes). they have no user interface (other than admin)...so that cuts WAY DOWN on things that can go wrong. and they've never had an unhandled exception after go live(even with updates to interfaces and functional enhancements. (none of them...course i use the same basic design for each...that i came up with of course)
in other words, they just work. and i used the obvious (so i can read it in 6 months) approach...lots of comments...each step gets it's own line...practically looks like a story (if you know C/Perl)...i was told to make them maintainable by non development staff...but since they've had no problems, the management hasn't bothered taking them from under my supervision. kind of a cushy gig really as the years roll by.
We live in scary times.
A lot of atheists start by trumpeting how 'scientific' and 'logical' they are
hasty generalisation
Nice.
Fine, let's generalize. Many atheists seek refuge under the "trumpeted" shield of science and logic because there's no evidence for god's existence. Science and logic are the most readily available labels for disciplines that require evidence and proof so atheists, naturally, get drawn to those labels. The hypothesis that god created the universe doesn't have any concrete support. Thinking about science and logic is the first step for a lot of people to start asking themselves "how can so many people believe these crazy things without evidence?"
As for your straw man comment, I'd guess you're alluding to atheists attacking caricatures of belief systems. Picking on the fundies. Well, have you ever considered that maybe atheists attack the fundamentalist position because they're the only honest opponents? They're the only ones that have a consistent belief system that doesn't shift around as you poke it. If you involve yourself in a discussion with a religious moderate, you have to spend a significant amount of time figuring out which version of the myths they actually believe and which parts, like you, they denounce as silly. With a fundie, you basically know where they're at (Heaven, Hell, Virgin Birth, Miracles, World created in 7 days, Evolution is wrong, etc).
However, you seem like you're really looking to advance the discussion. It could help you to think about a few different points of view. Of course, if you're just looking to tee off on atheists, this won't help at all.
There's a fundamental disconnect between atheists and theists. Neither side can really fathom how the other side could believe what they do. As a long time atheist, I've lost some empathy for theism and sometimes it's hard to listen to people espousing ideas that literally sound insane (devout co-worker of mine was witnessing to me recently. Said "God occasionally hurts people (or their loved ones) to get their attention". Really? The most powerful fucking being in the universe can't send a letter?)
The burden of proof for the god hypothesis has been magically shifted over the years. Theists get to claim faith and atheists are charged with proving deities don't exists. That's bass ackwards.
It's entirely possible to have an extremely reasonable discussion about religion. The main requirement for the discussion to be reasonable is that neither side can claim to be certain about things they can't possibly be certain of.
Atheists are often accused of feeling/acting superior to theists. They're often accused of pretensions to intelligence (relative to theists). I don't think this is true. There is something there, but it's not "I'm better than you". It's more like "I don't need these childish stories to hide behind". It's not intellectual superiority, I think it's moral and emotional superiority (I've just never seen that written).
Anyway, I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts, assuming you're looking to learn rather than to fight.
No, the company needs to plan for times of understaffing--not overload the non-vacationing people. That's called management. If a company's managers cannot manage a dynamic situation like this, the company needs to find new (better) managers.
He should shave his head and do a tribal DOCTYPE!
...or not.
The mathematically perfect woman is a Snail? ;)
Hey honekaimedia, you might want to invest in a dictionary. X-Rays are VERY different from infrared photos.
Well played. /Golfclap
Although it has nothing to do with the "work" he is writing about, i find it curious that he seems to have created his own python-postgresql bindings module, hacked into the venerable (but extremely crusty) PyGreSQL module... when there are far more complete DB-API compliant modules available that already do many of the things he has in his adaptor's TODO list (pyPgSQL for BSD license, and psycopg2 for GPL-with-exceptions license). Odd.
When it comes to events that are ancient, doubts fade away and it is the hazy (and sometimes self-contradictory) facts that become ever more certain, at least for those who want to believe.
Buried as inaccurate due to shavedness.
You said "Adults are held accountable for their station in life."
I'm just saying that your comment is "libertarian" and "laissez faire". I call that view is harsh. My comment was an attempt to explain that people do not control their station in life and we should not hold someone accountable for things they do not control.
I posted this mainly to get comments, and posted the title as it was described on Google Video to get comments on the idea. Some of the comments are quite illuminating.
Actually Excel is pretty good at all of those things. And it most certainly is a decent project management tool -- I think it's a lot easier than Project -- not great, but good enough for a lot of simple things like this.
I recently looked at some 20 year old code I wrote.
It's still brilliant.
yeah, you're just a fragile porcelin trinket in this shop of butcher knives. take your delicate effeminate sensibilities to your mom, where she'll pat your head and protect you from that big bad world out there and all those uncouth savages on the internet
You remaind me of that soviet dude who was sure everybody would starve if state didn't run bakeries...
(sarcasm) oh, but they are worth less. Literally. They pay less taxes. Some don't pay any income tax! Do you think, maybe, we could give them a hand with national health care? So the little money they do make doesn't go right into health coverage?
I've made $24k/year and watched about $500 a month go into a health plan. That's a helluva lot of money each month when you're making $24k. Let's also talk about spending $6000 a year on health care AND putting your child into day-care (that's at least $5000 a year these days). OK, out of $24k gross, I'm spending $11,000 on basic needs. I have almost no money to spend on goods and services. I've actually taken unemployment and taken my kid out of day-care (for about four months, before I joined the Air Force) because I actually made MORE money that way. Think about that.
Or, perhaps, some of that could be subsidized by the country as a whole. Then, maybe, I could afford to take more chances--take some classes, start a small business. I think everyone would benefit from that. At the very least I'd have more money at the store, which helps the very rich. My company wouldn't have to chip in for my health care, and the big box store, or the local bank, gets the extra I save.
Cancer doesn't care about your birthdate? ...what's your birthdate?
The "Girls of Engineering calendar" didn't give some sort of clue, that maybe, just maybe, this link would contain scantily clad girls from a calendar?
There are also large downward jumps in comment count that happen simultaneously for many stories. I wondered about that and checked that it wasn't a bug in the code of the graphing app. I reckon the reddit system might automatically delete out spamming comments, but I haven't investigated enough yet.
these kids really gotta get out more!
wxWidgets has excellent cross-platform capability, but is somewhat old and so it's probably archaic compared to more modern toolkits like Qt.
Qt's license is expensive for commercial products, which is something to consider if you're not doing open source.
Baffled as to why my post has been modded down so much - did I say something incorrect?
"President" Bush only won the popular vote via unscrupulous purges of innocent voters, intervention by the Supreme Court, and paperless voting machines that screwed with vote totals all over the country.
Ohioans knew they had jacked with the elections there, that's why in 2006 the voters there threw out their sleazy Repub Secretary of State who was also on the Bush re-election campaign, as well as a number of other Repubs.
Having lived there for nine years during the statewide sheeplike "whatever the Repubs say is what I believe" era it is most gratifying to see Ohioans stand up and demand democracy, beginning with fair elections.
hejj
/Golfclap....lol.
Hmm, this argument smells like a straw man. The first statement doesn't apply to what I would classify as classical right wing - most people in this camp would happily pay taxes for those services which would only make sense being taken care of by the government. The rest has nothing to do with conservatives or health care. Heck, the neo-cons aren't even conservative by any stretch!
The relevant question is whether or not health care should essentially be a service of the government. I can afford good health care, and I want to preserve the access that I have bought. I don't want my taxes to go up (too much!) to take care of those that won't take care of themselves (the real leeches). I like my taxes low - unlike the outrageous taxation in Canada and Europe which inevitably support most nationalized health care schemes.
I think the code I wrote 20 years ago was something like
10 print "I am awesome"
20 GOTO 10
In other words, brilliant.
The garage has told me that my car is going to be off the road for over a week? How am i supposed to get around. Has anyone got any advice?
Jumping jibblies, this guy's got five mouths! Freaky.
moniker.com... great record, heard nothing bad about them, and i have some of my domains there and have had no problems
I would vote Republican if they were actually conservative! Barry Goldwater, where are you when we need you!!!
i would have made it about 1/4 the size, but i'm still impressed.
Top 20 circulating books 2006
This proves the creative bankruptcy of hollywood and television beyong all doubt.
Can I write a program to use these same gateways?
those girls are fugly as hell
I like the updated cleartype and search in the startmenu. Faster and tear free rendering of the interface is nice too i suppose, but I don't have a direct X 9 card (who came up with that stupid requirement anyway). Otherwise it's pretty boring. I think it's just a small upgrade over XP just like XP was over 2000. Vista just took a hell of lot longer.
By the way did you try windows upgrade for drivers? Lots are missing on the dvd but can be found there.
Damn, forgot what I was going to post
i think the argument can be made they are NOT constitutional (using mostly the preamble). coupled with the 'idea' of FREEDOM being a basic tenet of our nation's foundation.
which means, pretty much, you do NOT attack/abuse/destroy other citizen's lives who's choices you don't approve of on religious or 'moral' grounds (a very VAGUE concept in reality), unless there is a VICTIM (another citizen...stretched to human...)
if we need an ammendment, it would have to be ammendment to FOLLOW the goddamned constitution in the BASIC SPIRIT in which it was written...(FREEDOM!)
You guys are fucking hilarious
Um, even if it wasn't lame-assed spam, that's impossible.
If there were pics there, I'd vote it up even though it's just some lame linkspammer. Fall in a well and drown.
You need to read that aging paper referred to in the article. There is no proof or sound evidence demonstrated for CR in HUMANS.
good if you can post dealing with special node in circular double linked list..
I don't see any mention in the Quran of virgins being the reward for suicide attacks. Apparently, any believer who makes it to heaven gets these "companions". Also, no mention in the Quran of the number of "companions". So where do they get this "72 virgins" stuff from?
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i have a much broader range for 'perfect'. everything but obesity...and well you probably shouldn't have 'shit' all over you either. everything else is fine...choose 1? NEVER!
hallo hallo
Does Texas have better health care than Canada then?
You're backing up your claims with an outdated 1950's scare film AND you're lumping homosexuals in with pedophiles. That's like me using Team America World Police to justify a claim that all Arabs are dangerous and accusing you of being responsible for black slavery.
Which makes you think... have you ever considered the awesome impact Hitler has had on facial hair fashions? You can't have a mustache like that anymore unless you're part of a hate group... I find that rather amusing.
No, there is a difference between printing a rumor, that is there job, Sony had no right to ask them not too and that could likely have been patched up, and printing a private e-mail.
Trust, and good working relationships. If someone says something to them that is meant to be kept off the record, and they go ahead and print it, well, now they aren't trusted. They won't get off the record remarks anymore, they won't get advance notice on inside info anymore.
They traded a good relationship with the source for there news in for a quick boast by sticking a knife in there sources back.
This does not mean loosing integrity as a reporter, it means keeping it. Report the news as accurate as you can, but when someone tells you something that is meant to be private, respect that.
Is that "Crap. This comment is crap.", or "Crap. I can't code well enough to pull this off."? (:
that's good point. I would be interested in what folks like him were worth myself. probably put everyone to shame...
Engineers do.
Where is Neal Adams when you need him??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc9EwHFiX80
Just apply the pimping lemma.
That's horse shit. Many people knew it and stated as much. But the McCarthyites had enough use for the threat to keep the myth alive. Straussians need a convenient threat. Just as Goering said, "All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." Terrorism (even if Saddam wasn't involved in 9/11) fits that role nicely.
Is that REALLY amazing?
I worked at a Wal-Mart in loss prevention before, and after, the change... Wal-Mart does not focus on shoplifting anymore, but 'organized retail crime' and 'safety concerns'. They lose more money in ORC and safety than any other portion of profit and loss. I quit a couple weeks after the announcement. That combined with the fact it was me alone searching for shoplifters in a 220,000 square foot retail environment. Crazy.
8 should marry me and have my children! Hopefully they'll have her looks AND her brains, and not mine!
/if this comes out boldface, I didn't do it
This 'feel goodism' that Oprah sells makes me sick.
Like prayer, its a do-nothing response to problems. The world is a complicated and scary place. Sitting around, congradulating yourself for being special, entitled and worthy in substitute for accomplishing something real is sad.
Oprah and her disciples are a collection of do-nothing barriers to progress.
arg.. my photo scroll thingy won't work..!!
That's so American.
(Oops, was that hate speech?)
For one of his first computer related jobs, Ellison lied about having a college degree. Source: Softwar.
One can always go that route.
I never said the White House press corp is how things should be, it is how things are. I agree the press has sacrificed investigation for access. I don't present any solutions in that post, I merely try to state the reality of the world and call "bullshit" on your previous post.
My guess: it's the gates to the Hell.
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A nationwide credible "minimum" income guaranteed system for every one whether they work or not will bring in "dignity" instead of desperation for the working poor and "inheritance taxes" will stimulate "compassion" instead of collusion.
Such system will prevent all socioeconomic issues in India viz farmer suicides, dowry deaths, child labor, fear, frustration, corruption, bribery, prostitution, terrorism etc.
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Makes me wonder... are there any people with TeX tattoos?
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/7184/guitool.html
Maybe we should remind the male suicide bombers that
the 72 virgins in heaven don't have anuses. They'd stop
blowing themselves up right away...
Sorry about that....
I missed the other 841, can you review them please?
It took me no less than several days to install Linux and get it to recognize, and work with, every piece of hardware and embedded software. I never blame Linux. People don't blame Linux. We blame the hardware manufacturers. I don't see how this case should be any different.
"Make me a window that looks like this."
is just barely programming. we call those power users.
how much large system/ enterprise development do you do?
when you say 'shops' what are talking about....small town, help 'harry's bookeeping inc' with his inventory?
or are you talking about large networked corporate (or other) systems that do everything from front to back (warehousing, billing, order entry, inventory, etc, etc)
all of those things have standards and practices and many are federally regulated. and you are NOT going to (if you're manager is competent) be involved if you aren't a KNOWN quantity regarding those standards and practices.
certification and degrees are what we call PROOF that you can/have mastered the material and goals put before you.
people who don't trust bonafide credentials (yes i know there are phoney ones too) are either fools, or they are not certified/licensed/degreed themselves and are afraid of getting their ass handed to them.
also people who are NOT certified OR degreed OR licensed have NO basis for judging the VALUE of that sort of thing. you haven't even PASSED the test, how could you possibly know it was valueless?
typical pretard 'thinking' IMO. sloppy and self serving.
I imagine that. I am a biologist and never had shortage of nice, intelligent, beautiful women in my classes.
bayrou : l chouchou des blogueurs ?
wow...some took sexy back
Well, as one of the commenters on his original posting ( you can look it up here :
http://warrenseen.com/blog/2007/02/21/a-freelance-programmers-manifesto/#comment-870
)
I can mirror practically every point he makes, and I've been in the business of software development and design for 2 decades, already. Which goes to Warrens point, and for those question his "longevity" in this business as shortcoming, I can say "Kudos, Warren" for "getting it".
No, grapes. "virgins" is a translation error ...
I found Ubuntu the easiest to intsall and get the hard stuff (widescreen resolution, multimedia, wireless) running on my laptop. These Vista articles are amusing. I even upgraded from Dapper to Fiesty Fawn with little problem. k3b and mplayer aren't playing nice, but it didn't take 3.5 hours like this guy's upgrade did.
Yes. You probably want to look into the Open Financial Exchange specification, or try manually importing QIF files.
I think it doesn't really help the "engineering girls=hot" cause. I think they are really not that hot.But I really like how even when they probably chose the best pics, most of the girls look like they feel pretty awkward modeling, that is the best aspect of the calendar. Beside from that, the girl in pic 2 and "Laura" are very pretty. And Lastly, being in your underwear in the lab can be pretty dangerous ;)
That and traditionally the MySQL people cared about performance more than data integrity (this has changed somewhat in the past few years). Postgresql has traditionally cared about data integrity more than speed.
What was swift boating again? Embarrassing a politician with their own past words and deeds? How is this different from, say, reminding people about Bush's booze and drug habits or his National Guard service or whatever. Or is it only 'swift boating' when a Democrat's involved.
There are many failed suicide bombers in Israeli prisons. They have been interviewed and studied to find out what motivates them to blow themselves up. The promise of the virgins usually isn't a prime factor in their decision.
didn't say it couldn't happen, i know it does. im just relating what it's like where i am and with all jobs like mine.
leading teams for startups. and you like 'dropouts'...hmm do you make them sign intellectual property agreements? you may be one of those shady sorts, cause your general characterization of your work sounds shoddy and seat of the pants, money grab...a shark. we've seen that sort around here too. and they are usualy full of themselves...and bullshit.
how successful are you? how many startups have you 'helped' and where are they now? and for how long have you been doing this sort of thing?
If you have good health insurance, I'd say it's better. If you don't have good health insurance, well there's Ben Taub (in Houston) where the cops take the people they shot. Canadian health care is somewhere in the middle, though defintely closer to the former than to the latter.
More stuff:
FLTK looks good: http://www.fltk.org/shots.php
I'm actually making some of the same evaluations right now. FLTK has a WYSIWYG GUI developer which to me is huge... I hate writing GUI code manually.
Um, what? People who earn less than $25k do so pay income tax. If you don't want taxes going for health insurance, that's fine, but your comment makes me think you feel people making under $25,000 deserve the situation they're in. The person who got a two year degree in child care and works at a day care because they love kids, the chef who made that great meal at a restaurant, the certified nursing assistant who helps grandmas take a shower at a nursing home... all needed, important jobs and all usually under $25,000. There's something messed up about seeing a way to help them as charity. I'm not saying taxes are the answer, but your attitude is condescending.
I agree. Just more shit from Republicans looking desperately for shit to throw - since they have no other plan. People change over 40 years time - unless your name is Dubya. Normal humans learn and rethink positions - unless your namee is Dubya.
A somewhat similar thing happens to me writing music. The longer I work on something in one sitting, the less perspective I get. Once, I wrote the most horrible piece of shit, your garden variety abomination, and thought it grand because I had been working on the bastard for 8 hours straight. Listening to something on loop continuously for that length of time will really screw with your head, just as hacking on something for too long can put you too close to the problem to remain objective.
this website is primarily USA based where xtianity is by far the majority religion. most americans have zero personal experience with islam, buddhism, etc ...they only see it on tv. but whenever these other religions do make the radar, they get the same treatment as xtianity... and why shouldn't they, islam for example, is even more batshit crazy than xtianity
healthcare is NOT a poker chip or PILL.
healtcare is FULL of BULLSHIT and SNAKE OIL.
stay the fuck out of MY pocket. pay for you own BULLSHIT 'therapies'. or DIE. i REFUSE to CHOOSE to carry parasites.
its not that bad.....but it is bad :)
Dufus. The same can be said about global warming. No one can measure the cause and affect, so by your reasoning it's not real and only idealogy. Junk science and quackery.
You've proved that don't know anything about economics. You just know your idealogy.
Isn't Google the Microsoft of Web?
I'd like to understand this and, perhaps, subscribe to your newsletter. Is it an issue of not wanting your tax dollars to go to someone else? I can understand that.
What is an example of someone not taking care of themselves?
About high taxation rates: I think most people in Canada and Europe see the benefits of high taxation and are thus in favor of it--they may be crazy though. The French pay high taxes but they also have, perhaps, the best health care system in the world statically and in satisfaction rates--not to mention they get six weeks off! Again, they may be crazy, but their sanity aside, is this all a net negative?
Agreed, and I would be fine with the legalization of marijuana, but a problem I have (and I think mlkmnz would agree) is that I worry that pot is more dangerous than it needs to be because its negative effects aren't recognized by the people who use it. Now, when one side of the debate (the drug war side) treats pot as much more harmful than it is and spews all kinds of absurd lies about it, I can understand why the other side would react by insisting that it's completely harmless. But I just don't believe it is. I think alcohol's harmful influence on society is greatly reduced by the fact that most people understand its dangers (drunk driving, alcoholism, liver problems, etc) - I wish the same were true for marijuana. I'm so frustrated when I hear smokers insisting that they can drive safely while stoned out of their minds. The only voices I hear in the debate are "There's no danger in smoking pot" and "Smoking pot is so dangerous no one should ever use it." Where are the people who think it's fine to smoke, but for god's sake smoke responsibly?
Well, damn. I have no clue why that's boldface. I apologize to anyone I offended. Still think she's a fox.
Obviously lots of people are having problems. The author was very specific in the problems he has had, and this kind of info is a lot more useful to a prospective upgrader than "works for me".
When I look at upgrading Kubuntu to each new version every 6 months, the main things I look for are specific problems that people have had. This is the best way to avoid or at least prepare for potential pitfalls.
Voted down faster than a wired article on digg.
Yeah, well, I can't type. :-)
This story is retarded.
It's only a mistake if they correct it. However, they have not corrected the "mistake." In the past, they've sometimes acted when public outrage grew.
A domain registrar should never ever steal your domain that you paid them to register for you. Even if they do this once, it is not acceptable.
I'm inviting (or rather, challenging) every single person who reads this, and has tried Vista first-hand (installed it by yourself, on your own computer, and, of course, used it) to *post their migration experience. Not about how beautiful, sucky or expensive Vista is. Just how painful or painless you managed to switch to it. The method you use. Version. What did and didn't work. A brief description of your hardware would be appreciated. Please participate and not just vote, even* when your entry is just like another person's. I hope this will serve as a guideline to people thinking about upgrading, and also give us a little more insight to how much we can trust people with their little arrows. If you don't like the idea (or just me, or both) just downmod this thread. Thank you in advance.
edit: I'll start. Everything worked. I invested $40 in a VGA for Aero Glass to replace my several-year-old one. PartitionMagic moaned about incompatibility but worked anyway.
Meh. Post a link when she actually reveals how in her presentation.
The JVM might be a good option, but even with a decent language on top of it (Nice, Scala?), the amount of code you need to write for a decent MVC Swing application is quite huge. And it even misses some bits...
I'd really like a good wrapper for this, something that manages to abstract lots of type-heavy tasks and makes data binding in Swing obvious.
The metacompiler argument is pretty overblown. Qt's moc doesn't add much complexity to the language and if you're compiling with gcc, you won't notice the speed loss. Turtles and speed bumps...
PyQT would be a good choice for him, probably. Quick turnaround, nice language, tested bindings.
Unless wxWidgets has changed a lot lately, I'd put it in the MFC category regarding bad code.
Someday I'll have to test-drive Ultimate++...
Well, i thought even the original was cute :)
I didn't say I was redefining the word, I knew the original meaning of the word before reading your posts and was basing my argument on the meaning I perceived in your post. I was merely pointing out that to me it's not a very useful categorization when humanities are lumped in with the hard sciences. That is all.
If you dump the entire database, schema and all, you shouldn't run into any problems. I've found though that if you dump the schema into one file, and the data into another, the data isn't in the correct order (i.e. table A which depends on table B comes before table B in the dump output).
No, I thought it would be a bunch of frumpy looking girls wearing thick glasses, braces, and pocket protectors.
Nope. It's just another "doesn't work for me".
How are we supposed to post a lengthy blog entry about how something just works? There's simply nothing to talk about that.
I wonder if the visual representation of voting patterns would show articles where users are trying to cheat the system through group voting, etc.
Oracle buys Hyperion for $33.3 billion but Microsoft will continue to dominat the OLAP market
So ... did they do all the animation in color back then or what? Plus who had a TV during WWII? I smell a rat
People who earn less than $25k do so pay income tax.
No, they don't. It is probably deducted from their checks because they didn't change it, but they get it all refunded at tax time.
As an E-4 in the Air Force, I not only got every penny I put in back, but an additional $1000 thanks to the EIC. I made $22,111.20/year.
You don't think that the people who work at Sony have feelings?
You mean, judging by how they treat their customers?
http://maps.ask.com/maps?ml=lt%3D38.92156%7Clg%3D-77.06683%7Cal%3D-1%7Ccx%3D-7183149%7Ccy%3D-3944008%7Czm%3D2%7Cvt%3D2~#1
Its fine on Ask, suppose they are less under government control.
Oh, I thought we were generalizing.
Just for you I'm upvoting you so you won't have the pleasure of seeing your prediction made correct.
Simple: blind support to Israel and schmoozing with AIPAC and supporting Apartheid is the way to fame and fortune! Otherwise a politician will be accused of being anti-Semitic!
Haha! Sorry, everyone, I couldn't resist.
comparing bush to hitler actually trivialises the sheer brutality and horror of the Nazi ideology - and shows an awful lot of ignorance and stupidity on Vonneguts part.
If you think America's right are excited to pay taxes for essential government services, then you don't know them.
May I introduce you to Americans for Tax Reform?
Oh, and here's the Club for Growth
These nice people want to dismantle Social Security.
I could tell you the answer but then it wouldn't be obscured anymore.
Unwavering faith in anthropogenic global warming is a religion.
"Sustainability" is its "salvation."
"Carbon credits" are its "plenary indulgences."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence
there's other differences........
hitler wrote a book. bush never actually finished reading 'my pet goat'
hitler was a great public speaker. bush is a fcuking chucklehead who confuses himself and trips over his own words
hitler never got arrested for drunk driving.
hitler never fell off a bicycle
hitler never choked on a pretzel, fainted and conked his head on a coffeetable
hitler didn't snort 200 metic tons of cocaine
excellent video
http://blot.google.com is still in beta.
Possibly because there are more of us. I'm not defending the current state of affairs - where health care sucks in the US, it really, really sucks. The public system here is awful. But, European countries and Canada have far less people than the United States. On top of that, we pay more to cover malpractice - there are no caps on damages. It's not exactly and apples to apples comparison.
I would support dramatic improvements in public health care and caps on damages in malpractice lawsuits, for starters. Then I think we'll see some improvement in health care for the poor.
Ha! Thanks, but I don't want to be president.
I want this guy to be president.
Well, that's what the engineering girls at my school looked like.
Well, have you ever considered that maybe atheists attack the fundamentalist position because they're the only honest opponents?
The fact is that there is a panoply of different concepts of God. Ranging from the spirituality of Buddhism to the paternalism of christianity to the spinozan God of nature. Just because I (or anyone else) don't happen to fall into the nice neat caricatures provided by Dawkins et al, does not make me (or them) dishonest. By analogy, I believe in general relativity but not string theory - that does not make me a dishonest physicist. If there is dishonesty, it is the claim that everyone's views fall into these categories, "all religious belief is as delusional as the tooth fairy" etc, when they clearly don't.
If you involve yourself in a discussion with a religious moderate, you have to spend a significant amount of time figuring out which version of the myths they actually believe and which parts, like you, they denounce as silly.
Yes, religious belief is diverse, as is virtually every other corpus of information in the social sciences. This is why attempts at the simplistic classification that you appear to want all end in failure. In some ways it would be nice if we lived in a world where there were no complexities and everything could be meaningfully partitioned into 1's and 0's, but it is just a cold fact of life that we don't. It is a good idea to get used to this as soon as possible.
The burden of proof for the god hypothesis has been magically shifted over the years. Theists get to claim faith and atheists are charged with proving deities don't exists.
Firstly, I believe that the default position on anything (religion or otherwise) should be 'neither believe nor disbelieve'. If there is evidence in one direction, you should move your beliefs in that direction. If there is evidence pointing the other way, you should move your beliefs the other way.
Now, there are certain beliefs held by certain theists for which there is overwhelming evidence of them being false. I do not attempt to defend them. However, as I have explained above, there are other beliefs for which there is no particularly convincing evidence either way and there are others still where there is absolutely no evidence at all. The default assumption for these should be agnosticism. I don't mind if people drift to one side or the other of the belief/disbelief spectrum, but I will show no (academic) mercy if they claim they are holders of the One Truth, and that everyone else is stupid/insane/delusional/evil.
I consider it as a form of slander; if you are going to call your opponents delusional, you'd better make damn sure your reasoning is watertight. At the very least, there should be no obvious gaping holes like "X is religious and has stupid beliefs, therefore everyone who is religious has stupid beliefs".
I am certainly no expert but I could see the larger population being an extra hurdle. That said, Germany has 82 million people and they seem to make it work. I'm sure there are always exceptions here and there, but in general I think most people are happy with the system.
I'm sure countries make their national health care system work because it's a priority. They want to make it work. I'm not sure if it is a priority in this country. People say they'd pay for it, but I don't think we're as passionate about making health care work as we are about other things. I could see that being the biggest problem.
I agree, and it's damn hard to say that when we're talking about Vonnegut
I like the Geico commercials, but this has the potential to be really, really bad.
Anyone still think repubs know what they're doing at all?
Wean yourself from the proprietary teat.
Tobacco is a pain in the ass to cure, and you have to grow significantly larger quantities to keep up your habit. Keep in mind that a heavy weed smoker is going through the equivalent of two or three cigarettes a day at the most (assuming reasonable quality), and most people will never go beyond one a day (keep in mind that joints/spliffs/blunts are generally rolled when people are sharing). A few plants in the backyard and by the end of the summer you'll have enough to last you a year; with tobacco you'd have to grow a huge field.
Besides, what kind of pothead responds to marketing? I was under the impression that only sheeple were influenced by advertisements. THC helps to liberate your mind from that bullshit.
It means I drop-kick anklebiters like you.
seriously berkeley girls in engineering...
"I call bullshit on this. As fucked up as the US healthcare system is right now, you need to provide a reference for that kind of statement."
HAPPY TO OBLIGE!
Elective C-section? As much as $30,000 more than 'natural' birth, depending on where you are. How about one of those popular gastric bypass operations? Yeah, some people need it, but those that don't are benefitting to the tune of $20,000. Eyelids a little droopy? Okay, that one doesn't cost $10k and is a little lame, but it doesn't matter because Uncle Sucker's Medicare will pay for it anyway!
very good m8... nearly clicked it...
Good god, how many paragraphs of annoying, bullshit suspense building can an article have? I gave up half way through, anybody mind giving a quick summary of what the article is about?
I think there should be quite a lot one could do in that area. But that would require access to the complete voting data (by user id), which isn't available from the web interface.
Creep City.
i'm a scientologist
and the private sector in US healthcare is "efficient"???
Nice try, but I didn't say that.
What I did say was why anyone would think that the government, which has no profit motive at all to keep them from turning health care into an even bigger bloated bureaucracy than it already is, would be more efficient? Anyone? Is there any evidence at all to believe that national health care would be an improvement over the status quo?
Did you read beyond the headline? The rest of the essay pretty much agrees with you.
Wow. How can this possibly be anything but a monumentai failure?
Weak article. While it's true that following OOP ab absurdum can lead to ravioli code (vs. spaghetti) his example doesn't do a good job of showing this.
i found the perfect woman, i could not ask for more
she's deaf and dumb and blind and owns a liquor store
Wow, I actually find myself agreeing with the Tax Reform people. I don't see a contradiction there. I will happily pay for essential services, but have you filled out a 1040? Seesh!
And, as for social security, that's a tough one. I would never want to be in a position where I am dependent on the government for my social security checks, and I have taken every precaution I can - savings and investments - to keep that from happening. But I think, I think a social safety net is important nonetheless in a civilized society. The current system definitely needs to be reformed.
"it wasn't invented by America you know."
True, but leave it to us to maximize efficiency.
This is a super fast and healthy food suitable to eat anytime.
do you code with GOTOs?
Exactly. A thesis paper is hardly a manifesto. Most thesis writers are working on their academic postures, cobbling together the points they feel are important in their twenties, and applying as much original-seeming spin as possible. Big yawn.
You're modded down because snark adds little to the discussion, even a discussion as silly as this one.
Seriously, though, the speech recognition was impressive.
I wouldn't say its best for what the presenter was trying to do with it (programming), but it looks like it would work awesomely for mundane word processing.
Are there any speech recognition systems of this caliber in the *nix world?
(And if so, are they the type that require special voodoo sacrifices by the full moon to get them running? :/ )
Typical sour grapes Brit doing some India bashing. Bloody nonsense. Transformations of this scale take time - one has to start somewhere. India is definitely poised. 100 Million people is about one third of the US population, and twice that of the population of England. For just ten years, that is no laughing matter...
Either this guy has some remnant colonial rancor, or he's just plain stupid.
I dunno, maybe pay off one-fifth of the costs of the entitlement programs that year?
I think Xp was (mostly) an upgrade for 95, not 2000. 2000 was for developers. 95 and XP were for everyone else.
Edit: added the mostly.
Funny to see how, after Bush==Hitler became obvious for some Redditors, the next step is apparently to claim Hitler was actually a better man.
I don't think this is an argument that "Hitler was a better man," I think this is just "Hitler was less obviously hypocritial."
We don't have enough girls in my engineering department to make a 12 month calendar.
It's interesting, I was in the military and there they employ a sort of "national" system if you will. If you get sick you just walk into the hospital. A LOT of people are in the hospital waiting to be seen but they do get seen. It takes longer because more people are trying to get help but they get helped. If people are sick enough to go they go. The military wants it that way. They don't want you staying home ill, or unable to go because, in the long run, that costs more money and a very sick person is unproductive longer. I found that interesting.
So it's definitely Vista's fault that hardware companies haven't gotten their arses around to make drivers for it? Given that Vista has shipped for, um, how long?
(also re: jacobolus) How exactly does it matter how rich Microsoft is?? Let's say I make this, um, USB-something in my backyard, connect it to Mac OS X and (surprise) it doesn't work. Who's at fault here?
Also, I don't think I really understand your analogy at the end. Sorry.
OMG! Insane!
... and humans made razors for a reason too ;-)
On the other hand I question how many atheists could answer a child asking "Is there a god" with an unquestionable "No" and feel that they have told the whole truth.
Usually, atheists are created when the parents don't answer this question, saying something like "How could I know? Find out for yourself."
I guess he wasn't always a humourless git. Yay!
So.... did anyone actually read the article?
What a win...
Looks like Vista isn't ready for the desktop yet.
Yeah, a private club including all the world's governments, diplomatic and immigration services, so basically you are right, it's just a whiney little document. I might have guessed from your question that you weren't really interested in the answer but just wanted to have a chip at the UN.
female suicide bombers get a 72 virgin train run on them?
i understand your frustration, but really. this child died. this mother lost her son. sure, she may have made a bad decision by waiting too long to get her kid to a dentist. i'd imagine though that you have also made bad decisions in your life. do you deserve to be labeled a parasite worthy of death for them?
out of curiosity, just how would you define 'stupid and weak'? are people, is life, really of so little value to you? attitudes like that have lead to genocides.
i don't know anything about you, but based on this post, i believe it would be safe to say that loving other people rather than hating and judging them would be a much more fulfilling way to spend your time on this earth.
Because people voted it up?
Dude, it's okay: radiation makes MUTANTS, not zombies. Even if you've got both, it's not like they're going to team up.
Terrorism will eat itself.
Too bad new york has no sympathy for hockey players who have emotions. They called him Cryin' Ryan. Give me a break. I think most player who play 14 years in one city would be pretty emotional when getting traded to New York of all cities. And not even the rangers.
Several comments on that page refer to Python as a 'secret weapon', jokingly ask that it not be hyped to let other people know, and so on.
My goodness, if -Python- is a secret weapon, what are Forth and Lisp and APL? Top secret weapons? You fools-- you talked too much about 'secret weapons', and now the idiom isn't secret anymore.
But can he pass the FizzBuzz test?
This reference is a best-practice approach, based on XHTML 1.0 Strict / XHTML 1.1.
Hey come on, they got into the congressman thing for the money and the power, why should they have to deal with any responsibility? That's just not fair!
Mmm, gotta love that "Character building" paranoia, what a horrendous business. I smoke it quite a bit, but it's certainly not the fucking be all and end all; people that bang on about it all the time are boring, just go away and smoke it. I can't stand those twats that have t-shirts emblazoned with a marijuana leaf, fucking bag made of hemp etc. Yeah, just shut up and go and skin up, don't preach to me about how "Harmless" it is, how hard is that?
I'm in the UK by the way. We have tough laws, but only for dealing. In Southeast London where I live, they pretty much turn a blind eye. Thank God for that, as it's led to far fewer idiot students mooching around in dayglo, crying for legalisation of something they'll give up as soon as they leave university and start working for satan.
I don't understand the hate and vitriol thing either. Or rather maybe I do, but am perplexed by what it means about US society as it relates to women in politics.
On the face of it what is all this hate and vitriol actually based on? What is the line by line case to be made against her? You are right in painting her a moderate dem, possibly even a little more right leaning than a lot of folks in her party. This childish blather about Marxist this and socialist that is just plain silliness.
I think most of how Hillary has come to be defined is actually the result of the ceaseless right wing media smear machine against her and her husband over the years. We've become so used to hearing it, we've come to accept it as actual fact without spending the extra time and thought to realize we are basing our opinion of the women on a politically partisan "photoshopped" image sold by folks who very much want us to view her a certain way - and not a good way!
I think giving NYC cops an excuse to harrass young blacks for no real reason is a brilliant idea!
Today's Reason to drink
March 2, 2007
In 1995, Yahoo! was incorporated! Celebrate the Internet boom with a toast!
Given the user base of reddit, I can see a lot more cool things being done had APIs been provided. (:
I never blame Linux. People don't blame Linux. We blame the hardware manufacturers. I don't see how this case should be any different.
The difference is that MS charges hundreds of dollars for each copy of Vista, and is sitting on a 35 billion dollar pile of cash. If customers are going to be gouged on software, at least they should get a working product in return.
Not necessarily. There's wiggle room in any such negotiation. The employer may be prepared to simply absorb the extra cost. There is an absolute maximum they can afford to pay you before you become a net loss, but chances are you're not paid anywhere near that much yet.
this is a very nice gallery of graphics made using the pgf/Tikz package for TeX. It includes png, pdf, and source code of all examples.
I'm gonna say he pretty much nailed it. Hopefully multiple times... on the couch... on top of the refridgerator.. etc.
So what happens to those 6 iPods if and when you decide to stop paying the subscription? Do you lose all of that music rented so far?
Music has been seem to be a different phenomonon than video, though you compare them as the same. As a rule, it seems that people like to listen to the same music over and over, though movies are watched much less often.
Actually Excel is pretty good at all of those things.
Please tell me more about MS Excel's capacity as a VCS.
this is exponentially more interesting... FOOD FIGHT ...screw math, just go grab a beer and get laid. It's only the retards who can't get women that spend lifetimes doing this shit. How bought you start calculating why your hand is your only lover. Calculate the jerk to sobbing ration Horatio.
Gawd, is that Lucy VanPelt?!??
Socialism is an abject failure, thus I do not understand how this "investment" will pay off. It will only be a disaster.
No problem! A good place to start is here: http://www.lp.org/
I'm sure they have a newsletter than you can subscribe to ;-)
There are plenty of examples of people not taking responsibility for their own lives. People who have like 3 or 4 kids with different fathers without any means of taking care of them. People who spend welfare checks on 20" rims on their Navigator and big TVs, and complain about being oppressed. Drive through parts of inner city Houston, and you'll see what I mean. I know it sounds harsh, but I don't feel sorry for these people.
There are other cases, like single mothers whose husbands left them and they work two or three jobs so that their kids have a good education. People who work their tails off to pull themselves out of poverty. Also drive through inner-city Houston to see examples of people like these. These are people the people I want to support.
But, I don't think the way to do this is with hand outs, but rather hand ups. It's a platitude, I know, but still true nonetheless. A decent public health care system is one way to go. But not at the cost of getting rid of the private health care system! Am I crazy when I say that this can be done?
As for what you feel you get out of taxation, to each their own. If you feel that the insane taxation of Canada or Europe gives you more bang for your buck, move there and be happy. But, don't blame me for fighting for lower taxation here in the States!
Who is to say whether or not fairies exist! Here's a look at the most famous fairy sighting of all!
Not inaccurate according to my last 3 girlfriends who all shaved.
Universal Health Care? Go ask the Canadians that
come to the states for treatment because if they waited
around to get treatment they'd be dead.
Also, I'm paying a boat load of taxes already to an amazingly inefficient government. Having Univeral Health Care will make Health Care even more expensive because of Agency Costs. Our taxes will be 60% and then we'll be going to other countries for treatment just like the Candadians. Sounds like a great idea!
Also... even if most Americans want UHC .... doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Most americans can't balance a checkbook. Let alone understand the economics behind UHC. Look how much we are paying for Medicare already!
Now go to your paycheck and multiply that number by 10. How do you like it now?
You want to bring health costs down? Have no insurance whatsoever.
You'll be paying $20 for a kidney transplant. Having insurance companies
makes health costs even higher.
Does that take into account comment hiding (i.e. when the score is below a certain threshold?) That would account for it well.
Neat !
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Clearly, images get the most votes on reddit. So we can stop pretending we're any different from digg hides
no big secret. That is where ancient Atlantis was ripped out by the roots, blasted off into space and became the moon.
This guys computer setup is amazing. I don't know why you'd need all that power for video editing, but it makes me jealous.
No, reason 419
Exactly! And that's why it is so totally screwed up.
Those evil beach boys!
Albertan health care then? I can only speak from my personal experiences, and from these to choose the system under which I would rather live.
No. The crust is the best part.
My favourite part of the story is that they had assault rifles with them, but no ammunition. That's budget cutbacks for you...
And I've been to Liechtenstein, it's really not worth the visit, let alone going to the trouble of invading. It's even more expensive and exclusive than Switzerland, which is saying something...
I think you forgot a noun somewhere in that sentence.
As far as I can tell, due to the way RBS authentication system works (i.e. they ask for three different characters of your password randomly), they must store passwords in clear text on their database.
Anyone work there that can do something about this?
Anyone who doesn't vote for someone based on the contents of a decades-old school assignment is an idiot.
I'm a bit dubious. I do believe that 99% of most 'software patents' are complete bullshit, but there is a 1% set of completely new algorithms (skiplist, judy arrays) that represent actual innovation. In short: 'one click' can be a NO without saying no to ALL software patents.
But why? I thought everyone prefers it without the crusts.
I want to know what her thoughts were when she was thirteen years old because that's the age I base my judgments on.
I couldn't agree more, it was vagif who asserted the false dichotomy that the health issues were somehow related to US enforcement policy. I was simply pointing it out.
utter anti-climax.
get a little creepier.
Exactly. Where the heck do they get "majority" from anyway? Did they just do a poll of 1000 people in NY or something?
A fifth grader who doesn't know how to rotate a picture 90 degrees counterclockwise.
Although the Bush administration has warned repeatedly about the threat of a terrorist nuclear attack [especially during election campaigns] and spent more than $300 billion to protect the homeland [or, in the original German, Heimat], the government remains ill-prepared to respond to a nuclear catastrophe.
urbandy: Yeah, but if you look at the FAQ it still says unlimited when ordering over the phone.
http://www.apple.com/go/giftcards/faqs.html
Great new info on the Wii Weights.
These cartoons were actually shorts shown in movie theatres. I'm sure the other propaganda context that was shown with this short was just as "controversial".
I don't know why this would be banned, it is an accurate representation of propaganda being shown to the US back then and an important part of history. At the very least we should learn from films like this.
I don't see this as any worse than their ethnic steriotype cartoons which are available for purchase in their collections.
I guess reddit really has jumped the shark when making fun of people's screen names gets modded up. My guess is you have a few puppet accounts on this site. Explains how so much of your crap makes the hot list.
Tell me, is "ankle-biter" the preferred term or are you just stealing terminology from the people you hate so much? Not a good sign... maybe a secret desire to be religious fascist yourself?
"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
--Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform
Yes, and breaking someone's leg enables him to use crutches.
yet sad because they'll eventually have to part ways anyway.
Not quite. If real computers were finite state machines, we couldn't write parsers for programming languages and other interesting things that require recognition of non-regular languages.
Real computers are closer to linear-bounded automata, which are like Turing Machines but with finite length tape (size linear in the length of the input, hence the name). These have a decidable halting problem because there are a finite number of arrangements the machine can take (but very very large: exponential in the size of the tape).
Note that even with these linear-bounded automata, it is still impossible to decide whether such a machine accepts all strings. If that weren't the case, a lot of open questions in mathematics could be easily resolved.
What you call "professional courtesy" is called "I was just following orders, sir" in reality.
But who is more likely culpable here? ALL of the vendors or the 1 operating system?
ALL of the vendors? How many pieces of hardware works in XP but not it Vista? I seriously doubt it's over a hundred. What about all other devices that run fine? Now who's more culpable?
they better make sure they give the hardware vendors an easy time.
See above. What makes you think they aren't doing that?
but the people who live there seem to love it.
Since those who don't have migrated. I won't argue that OS X is one very solid platform, but how did you come to the conclusion that Windows users don't love Windows? And there's also that 'grass is always greener' mindset...
As much as I think mild use is probably ok, and I do support legalization, I'm certain that heavy use is just as bad as any other drug you over-use. It just can't be a coincidence how many people who act like the stereotypical forgetful, stupid, confused stoner (a la "Half Baked") are, in fact, stoners.
I knew he was a journalist. what I find hard to believe is that he is on wikipedia.
My point is that it shouldn't be that. And killing off the last few people trying to do something like real news does not serve their audience at all. Which is what they are supposed to care about.
I bet they're spending more time coming up with all those lame backronyms than with the actual legislation text.
Just because I (or anyone else) don't happen to fall into the nice neat caricatures provided by Dawkins et al, does not make me (or them) dishonest.
Honest was a very poor word choice on my part. I didn't meant it more literally (and I hate it when others do that). I was trying to say that many religious moderates do not have a coherent belief system. They haven't thought about the details of the things they believe. Fundamentalists have. I actually recall reading somewhere (don't recall where) that anthropologists have problems with this when delving into tribal religions. The people of the religion have never really thought too hard about the details. No one ever questioned them on it. So when under the pump to produce answers, they make stuff up on the spot. It makes figuring out what they really believe quite difficult.
Again, honesty isn't really the issue. That was a terrible word choice on my part.
Now, there are certain beliefs held by certain theists for which there is overwhelming evidence of them being false. I do not attempt to defend them. However, as I have explained above, there are other beliefs for which there is no particularly convincing evidence either way and there are others still where there is absolutely no evidence at all.
Can you give some examples of each of these categories?
I don't mind if people drift to one side or the other of the belief/disbelief spectrum, but I will show no (academic) mercy if they claim they are holders of the One Truth, and that everyone else is stupid/insane/delusional/evil.
I think you're a lot closer, ideologically, to Dawkins than perhaps you'd be comfortable with. Certainly, I see little to distinguish your position from Harris'.
... I'd still tap them.
they get to re-virginize themselves 72 times?
Woman's place....kitchen....gah.
i hate ogame
No, actually we do understand the point. We just disagree with it. If you really believe we only understand winner-take-all, then you don't understand americans at all.
"we already pay the equivalent taxes to obtain universal healthcare, we just don't get the product."
I don't see anyone but you arguing that we're paying for it and not getting it.
It's interesting that people in other countries keep insisting we should do it like they do it. It almost seems like they want to share their misery.
OK, but you have to keep both models working. No way I'm giving up the classics -- on the other hand I'd probably just buy the CD if I really want to keep it forever.
that second chick is smokin.
I read this and completely agree. I had to show it to my wife and she laughed her head off!
But at least she finally admits she now gets why guys love head so much..
The relationship of trust that matters is the audience trusting the reporting news organization. Not the reporters relationship with his possible sources. I don't trust anybody in the mainstream press much because they are all bought and paid for by the people they cover -- large companies and politicans. Which makes the news reporters irrelevent toads.
One of the things I dislike about ruby is that the pickaxe book is considered the reference
Oh, I hate that book so hard. You can still find 1.6 documentation in English, written by matz, but he apparently hasn't bothered the English after the pickaxe book struck the community like an evil meteorite. It isn't a reference, it isn't documentation; javadoc is a perverse form of reference, it isn't documentation. Sometimes I forget that ruby doesn't have documentation anymore, and I go look for it to support an argument -- and my bitterness is refreshed.
disclosure: at an impressionable age, I helped edit the English translation of the Ruby User's Guide, which also served as my tutorial for the language. Among other things, this tutorial had you write a repl (yes, this happened before someone wrote a nicer repl and ruby started shipping with it) to practice Ruby with. (After a while, some other person came and did his own complete English translation of matz's original. -- I've some ideas: the version I worked on became unavailable for a time; the new author wanted to support the community-wide purge of foreign-sounding English.)
i bet he's running fs commits async on mysql and sync on postgres. There's an easy fix for his performance woes. ;)
(warning: do not try this at home)
well, what can I say, apple fanboys (and girls) deserve what they get :)
This story sucks....like a gay man....on a penis...
( In response to email directly from the author, sent directly to me ) :
Thanks for helping to fill my junk email file. I'm not hesitant to respond, because you've
made another baseless accusation, this time against me personally. For the record, not
only did I read your article before I responded on Reddit, I also just re-read it to make
sure I didn't miss anything relevant. Big surprise: I didn't miss anything significant.
Your article was and is a simplistic and ill-informed bit of fluff that attacks "the
market" while lying about your proposed alternative.
Let's make one thing perfectly clear ( as if this has not already been done by a number of
people who responded on Reddit ) : the health care systems in the United States of America
are NOT subject to market forces as you clearly imply in your article. The vast majority
of health care dollars are spent by the government and insurance companies. Blaming "the
market" for the faults of non-market forces is an irresponsible act, and again I call on
you to retract the article and publish an apology.
Why am I asking you to do this? Because telling lies about "the market" spreads ignorant
misconceptions about the very real forces which work to improve our standard of living and
defend our basic rights. Take this lie, for example: in one paragraph, you openly call for
'single-payer health care', and then three sentences later, you're claiming that this
isn't 'socialized medicine'. If 'single-payer' isn't socialized medicine, then what is? If
you're not endorsing socialized medicine, why are you implicitly endorsing 'universal
health care in Connecticut' ? Then you mischaracterize capitalism, implying that it has
some sort of aim to 'help society' - capitalism is about freedom, not altruism, and it's a
method, not a result. Then you further distort reality, claiming that capitalism only
"works" when demand meets supply, utterly ignoring the way capitalism actually works -
alternative supplies, the generation of more supplies, reduced demand, and all the normal
and dynamic effects of a free market. News flash, college boy: the proper way to phrase it
is supply meeting demand, and it's never a perfect match. Finally, responding that
you've "praised the market system" in your article makes me mad; even the title of your
article makes you a liar.
In summary, I can only say that if your credibility rests on your academic background,
then I am forced to respond as a capitalist; you should be demanding your money back.
Clearly, you've been ripped off. If the source of your statements is truly the lies you've
been fed in school, then you have my pity, and you may assume that I'm angry at your
teachers and not you personally. Unlike most Randroids or hard line Objectivists or
anarcho-Libertarians, I'm willing to assume you're making honest intellectual mistakes.
Again, I encourage you to do further reading on more fundamental topics like the
philosophy behind capitalism and to ignore the vast majority of the pre-digested nonsense
that's doled out at typical university courses. At the very least, you can avoid the label
of 'hypocrite' by responding to the substance of my response to you, which is still
attached to this thread.
( my earlier response ommitted for brevity )
We need some work on titles:
The title implies that Saudi oil reserves have depleted by 8% (either from use, or false estimates) in 2006.
What it should have said is:
"Saudi Oil OUTPUT declines 8% in 2006"
These are very different things... because output is a choice... the government can choose to raise the price of oil a bit by slowing down output... but reserves are only a choice in terms of whether we're being lied to about them or not... they are presumed a factual estimate of the amount of physically accessible oil... and if THEY dropped 8% there's something VERY fishy (IE we're being lied to) going on.
I do, however, suspect that the two are linked in that the Saudis have for a long time inflated their reserve numbers and now they feel they should cut back slowly without making too many waves on output... as they slowly cut back on reserve estimates too...
this sounds like the premise for a modern B movie:
To answer some of these questions Dr MacLeod with a team of scientists, led by marine geophysicist Professor Roger Searle, Durham University, will travel to the area which lies mid-way between the Cape Verde Islands and the Caribbean.
The expedition will be the inaugural research cruise of a new UK research ship RRS James Cook.
Well thought out Add buy guiness gives proof of evolution.
I'd have to pass that question to reddit (or run an experiment): I get the number of comments from the summary on the front page. I don't think that would explain the synchronicity between stories though...
Edit: interestingly, this thread is listed as having 13 comments currently, while I count only 9 on the comment page.
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im so proud of my school right now.
Actually, many people have considered it. I know I have thought about that many times, and I am quite certain I read an article about it too.
Hilton probably shouldn't be news, but what strikes me is the openness about how easy it is to manipulate what the pubic gets to hear about. why should AP and other outlets decide this stuff? this is exactly why reddit and others will increase in importance.
From about.com
1993 - MPEG-1 standard published.
1994 - MPEG-2 developed and published a year later.
November 26, 1996 - United States patent issued for MP3.
I don't doubt that there were people swapping WAV files. Hell, I used to download vivo format movies, but for them to suggest that it was the primary use of the internet seems like it would be fairly absurd. So absurd that I kind of doubt they did it in the first place.
I bought a new hp laptop with vista home edition installed. As soon as I brought it home I installed vista business edition to remove all of hp's bullshit software and give myself a few more useful features. The fresh install was quick and easy. Took me a while to configure vista so it wouldn't bother me all the time. Overall, it works well and I have no problems using even 10 year old software that I expected would never work.
ROTFL!
it was intentional! that's how it would look from outer space!
Is there a tag under your hair on your crown?
A tag on your heels?
I absolutely agree. But the problem is how to provide anonymity while allowing others to test out algorithms via such an API. I wonder if "being open" would be seen as a compelling reason to switch sites by enough users?
No.
ESTEC is situated here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=ESTEC+noordwijk+netherlands&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=52.215042,4.418821&spn=0.00259,0.009516&t=k&om=1
What I don't understand is why it's bad for the universe's forces to be tuned to 1 part in 10^32 which is required if supersymmetry does not exist...
I assume they mean that tuning is needed for OUR universe to exist, and that otherwise, it would turn out 'aborted' in some fashion. But we already know there is a 'island of stability' for long lived universes, where gravity, nuclear decay, electromagnetism, the fine structure constant, can only assume certain ranges of values to get elements heavier than hydrogen, don't die rapidly in a big crunch, etc.
The Anthropic principle states we are here precisely because the universe has the exact settings for complex life to exist.
Just because "Being tuned to 1 part in 10^32" seems too crazy to be true, and thus supersymmetry must exist seems a poor excuse.
That's what Bill said.
As much as I hate Bush...
Bush wasn't responible for a major war that killed about 100 million people.
Bush didn't kill 12 million in death camps
Bush can't quote obscure German philosophers.
Ok... the first two are on his list of things to do before Jan 2009. But he's not up to the task. Thank the non-existant gods for small favors.
The link is a very good summary from The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It doesn't really cover the political maneuvering that caused Hindenburg to appoint Hitler to Chancellor but otherwise a very good summary.
they had assault rifles with them, but no ammunition.
That makes sense to me. It's a training exercise, so you want the soldiers to practice transporting their rifles. But you don't want anyone to get shot.
it's really not worth the visit
Yeah, "Switzerland ivades Liechtenstein" makes as much sense as "Dermatologist invades small growth on left buttock".
Unfortunately it is not obvious to these suicide bombers, who believe religion enough to go kill themselves and other people by their interpretation of it.
I'm atheist, but all these "Quran/Bible/etc is fiction anyway" arguments are meaningless when you have hundreds of millions living and dying by these books. This makes the books much more influential on reality then most non-fiction books.
Yet that shows that your brother is impatient, whats the point in going to school for those 2-3 years only to drop out a year or 2 before you get the degree. Seems like he wasted a lot of money to suddenly say oh let me start my own company. Why didn't he finish the 1 year or so that he would have needed and then start his company? Seems like College was kicking his ass and as you say he is not as Financially or Professionally he is not quite successful. It actually shows the type of dedication he has which is not very much.
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What, you mean you don't have on your butt?
Wow, 12 bytes! Just think of what you could do with that. Why, I could spell my first name!
On a more serious note, I would claim that there's significant evidence that the complexity of programs scales very non-linearly* with the their length (and space available to them) which makes this little more than a cute game.
The busy beaver problem can be thought of basically how long a program can run and halt using only a certain number of states (which maps loosely to program complexity). The two state system runs through 6 operations, the three state 21, the four state 107 the five state > 47 000 000, the six state >= 3 * 10^1730 (!! dang).
So their choice of 100 isn't quite capable of working for a program that only has four possible states (ignoring memory, where less than 12 bytes is used).
Ha! I agree with the first part. The second part, is that hyperbole or is he serious? I'd need to see more context. I'm sure this guy doesn't want to turn the US into Somalia.
But that said, I would like to drown the current bunch in the bathtub!
EDIT: I read some more about this guy, and he sounds like a nutjob. Unfortunately it's usually the extremists like these who are the torchbearers. But surely, he doesn't represent all those who advocate small government, just like ESR doesn't represent all of those who advocate Open Source!
microsoft is so arrogant that they think they can shove total garbage down their customers throats. however, seems to be a bit of rebellion coming from joe average-user. too funny.
also, there's a movement among the cracker community to NOT crack vista so everyone has to pay for it. and there's a virus going around that uses vistas DRM against it and triggers reduced functionality mode
plus the super high price of vista ultimate ($399) is making macs look like a viable (price competitive) option for the first time ever.
Irreverent misdirection should not be mistakem for an opinion. Vonnegut apologized, and rightly so.
Oliver Hardy shaved his moustache that way, to much different effect. (There are great Laurel and Hardy clips on YouTube.) If you need a positive image to conjure.
I'm never doing gift cards again! I had a similar experience where well intentioned relatives thought they were "pooling their money" buy buying gift cards for one of my kids. We got iTunes and Apple gift cards mixed in and then there was no way out. Money was gone and it's still sitting there in Apple's cash machine -- I looked through the website and you have to dig pretty deeply to see the limitations. It's not that you can't find them, it's just that when you're buying you don't expect strange rules like this. And then the website is wrong! I'm done with gift cards from Apple.
I blame Global Warming for this.
There are hundreds of moral and ethical reasons to provide universal care but there are also dozens of concrete financial reasons to do it.
If you take away the middleman (govt) taxing all to provide "universal" healthcare, what you essentially have is Joe robbing Susie to pay for Joe's healthcare. I don't know how that particular analogy strikes you from an ethical standpoint, but I find it clearly immoral.
When you talk about "hundreds of moral and ethical reasons", you're really speaking relatively amongst ambiguously moral alternatives. Imagine that Joe has possibly terminal cancer and Susie has cancer, but it's not as immediate a concern. Now, you're a bureaucrat and you have to decide who gets healthcare, the immediate concern, Joe, or the less immediate concern Susie. Only one will receive treatment becuase funds to pay for this healthcare are, unfortunately, limited. So who gets it? What is morally correct in this system? And what happens when you create a system whereby Susie resents the existence of Joe because he's the more pressing need, even if Joe is almost certainly more likely to die despite treatment? Universal healthcare is a deplorable system precisely because it pits human beings against each other, allocates resources based on dubious claims and political power, and results in a flight to the lowest common denominator (i.e. No doctor, I'm more sick so I need treatment now, more than so-and-so who's less sick).
Sure, a free market system could result in the same two characters vying to pay for limited healthcare. Or it could result in two characters where one can afford healthcare and the other cannot. But at least it wouldn't necessitate that Susie pay the price of Joe's healthcare at the barrell of a gun, and then resent Joe's very existence.
So using taxes to fund healthcare as opposed to public works such as roads, defense, waste disposal etc., makes sense since by putting US manufacturers on equal footing with their overseas competition would help the US economy.
Just because other governments subsidize certain industries in other countries doesn't mean that we should fight back by subsidizing those same industries in our country. This has been tried before in the form of tariffs. The end result isn't pretty: everyone pays higher prices.
Hooray for correlations and drawing lines. The Saudis have plenty of oil and a ton in reserves. If the prices continue to rise they'll be able to extract a lot more, as will Alberta, Venezuela, and many others.
Don't worry about running out of oil, worry about what might happen if the price continue to go up. I think in the 80s we hit close to $80/barrel in today's dollars, so we're still not in a lot of danger, but $100 could be bad.
Agreed. Downmodded for terrible title.
It could have been oil prices, production, consumption, exports, imports, purity or anything.
And as the above commenter said, it's a matter of choice to lower output. Saudi Arabia is the biggest producer in Opec, and usually has to take the brunt of any overall production cuts. Opec's production as a whole (not including Angola or Iraq) fell by around 3%, in an effort to maintain oil prices at current levels.
For Opec, prices are more important than production levels right now.
Did I leave it in the kitchen? Or underneath the cushions of the couch?
I can't find it anywhere, anywh-...oh, here it is.
De Beers has enjoyed monopoly privilege in the past century, but to say this was without collusion with government would be false.
oh....sure.
The mainstream media has become tabloid journalism. If you want information that matters you must find it yourself.
was Grove attempting to raise the level of discourse in our society by focusing on truly newsworthy subjects?
Well, not really. "The blackout was a really heartfelt attempt on my part," he says, "to get publicity for myself."
I really want to click this link. Stupid work.
"Dermatologist invades small growth on left buttock"
If we're going on an ass theme, Liechtenstein is kind of wedged between Switzerland and Austria. And we all know what is between the cheeks of an ass.
NB. If you don't, please don't ever reproduce.
I would agree to similar incentives in the States, but also I think incentives for doctors to serve at inner-city hospitals like Ben Taub would also be very useful to those communities,
where I personally think they are most needed.
c'mon! let's get that impeachment rolling already!!!!
AP: Here is some news about how we are not going to report news on Paris Hilton.
Although I support the legalization of Marijuana, I note one very detrimental side effect of long term use of Marijuana: I DON'T GIVE FU**-Itis.
This is why I just read nytimes.com (and reddit). nyt is the best source of news. If you want 'balance' just skip the op-eds and read wsj as well.
What do you guys expect from a network that has "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?" on during prime time? They are catering to the exact same audience.
http://www.fox.com/areyousmarter/
For most of the things he mentions, Excel hasn't actually been optimized. However, the Office team, based on input from focus groups, put quite a bit of work into making Excel a To-Do list.
Yeah, I was wondering if rredit was talking about the countrymen of England or being ironic withe language.
Hey, it's good to check once in a while!
please don't ever reproduce.
Too late.
every element of modern market economics has been REMOVED from healthcare by the companies! they don't WANT to compete.
Again, please answer my question, why would a government run system be better?
You then explain why you believe there currently is no profit motive or capitalistic competition in the current system. OK, so you understand that leads to high prices and inefficiencies. You understand it would be even worse with the feds in complete control?
You realize the goal of a company is to dominate and defeat it's competition? Many insurance cos and health care companies have done that in certain regions of the country. Maybe federal monopoly break-ups are on the horizon to improve competition and lower prices.
You must have a cricket bat or something blunt in your house you can salvage that doesn't use expendable ammunition. Jeez man! you can't just write a blog willy-nilly! This is life or un-death we are talking about!
What a stupid waste of reddit screen space. You pitiful sad liberal, whoever you are, get over it. Bush was elected as much as you don't want to believe this, it's a fact.
That's not a fair analogy. Kotaku's job, the core reason for their existence, is to report news. If a friend sees you buying a gift for your spouse, it's not his job to tell people.
Elective C-section? As much as $30,000 more than 'natural' birth, depending on where you are. How about one of those popular gastric bypass operations? Yeah, some people need it, but those that don't are benefitting to the tune of $20,000.
My wife had a non-elective C-section 3 years ago and I think we eventually paid roughly $3k. I recall that the total costs were in the neighborhood of $25k. Fortunately we had good health insurance. I don't recall the exact figures but we paid 20% of the cost up to some max out of pocket, I think. At any rate that's a far cry from a $10 copay.
However, AnarchoCapitalist mentioned a $10 copay on an unneccesary $10k procedure and neither he nor you have given a reference. If you find one, please provide a link, but don't spend all day looking otherwise you might need that eyelid tuck.
"My style is the best! I know sendmail technique, I know rdist technique..."
Heh, that guy in the picture reminds me of the cavemen in Geico's commercials...
hmm.. it's not just drawing lines.
Saudi Arabia's oil fields are very old, some have been producing oil for more than 60 years! Ghawar, the largest oil field in the world is also one of the oldest and many believe that production at current level is not sustainable.
Official reserves are also subject to political manipulations (see the sudden doubling of reserve numbers in the 80s without any new discoveries). Saudi Arabia has no tar sands resources so any comparison with Canada or Venezuela is dubious.
That's undoubtedly true for hunter-gatherer bands 15,000 years ago. Just looking around me, it would appear that humanity has made some progress since then.
That's hardly an argument, Progress != socialized medicine. Hunter/gatherers hardly had any property at all. So couldn't I just as easily make the argument that progress = property rights? And if so, that would fly in the face of your statement.
Note, I'm not making that argument (although I think it probably does have some merits, but it's too broad to have much meaning). I'm merely pointing out how meaningless your argument is.
So, when a child is born with congenitive problems that will in all likelihood prevent that individual from ever contributing to society, what do you think society's response should be?
Your appeal to society, aka an appeal to the common good is a fallacious argument. Society is just a word to describe individual human beings. Now, what should an individual's response be to a child born with congenitive problems? I think it's up to the individual. I know countless individuals who would willingly donate money, time or resources to help a family who had such a child. The beauty of this voluntary system is that it is virtuous. Forced subsidies via taxation are inherently not virtuous or morally good because the taxpayer has no choice but to subsidize the child in need.
As for your last comment, I defer to finnegansfolly's obliging response (thanks FF)
I got laid off from my job last year on 6/6/06.
F A K E
That's great, thank you.
Every mathematical woman needs to show off her Pi.
I stopped reading at
You only missed him going on to furrow his brow at how photoshop-on-ajax could possibly not suck.
What an incredibly apt use of javascript.
Liechtenstein is probably the only country small enough to be invaded accidentally...
Lies, and slander!
Well I guess they oughta know, huh.
I hope it works at keeping her from getting the democratic nomination.
40% of americans polled will not vote for her under any circumstances. She is not electable and will hand the presidency to the republicans if nominated.
The team had found a signal which, in particle physics lingo, had a 2-sigma significance - a 1 in 50 chance of being a random fluctuation. Normally, to merit new particle status a signal must be significant to 5-sigma - where there's only a 1 in 10 million chance of it being a fluctuation.
"People were excited to see this," says Conway. But why was there so much excitement if the signal was statistically insignificant? That's because a supersymmetric Higgs at this mass is extremely plausible.
Wishful thinking.
this thread is listed as having 13 comments currently,
spez has explained this.
borg,
Since I can't back up my hyperbolic statement, I'll retract it. However, you've given a great example for me. You paid merely 12% of the cost of birthing a child. Now, that's a great deal for you, but when you're only bearing a small fraction of the total cost of healthcare, you have little incentive to find the low-cost provider or push for cheaper healthcare. Any system structured so that you recieve large benefits from voluntary actions but only pay a small price of the cost is going to result in poor feedback. Thus, I work at a company with good healthcare and see countless obese coworkers receiving expensive treatments.
The point: marry up costs and benefits and healthcare costs will come down. It's that simple. The U.S. system puts the consumer a couple of times removed from the cost and encourages such consumer to think healthcare is some right divined from above. Such is a recipe for disaster. Nationalizing healthcare will only further exacerbate this problem by moving cost and benefit even farther apart.
White rasins! They kill their selves for dried grapes! Lets just send them a few trillion raisins and ask them to stop the madness.
NSFW. Definitely.
no, both matter.
At least if the reporter wants inside access, and to not have all there stories based on rumors and 3rd party sources.
On one side you got people out to "stick it to the man" rally a mob behind them through sensationalized headlines and unconfirmed stories.
On the other you got people who report what they are told, when they are told, without confirming the stories.
Both are the same, both base there work on what has the most immediate reward. Reporters need a balance between reporting the truth, maintaining the confidence of the reader and keeping themselves trusted by the people they report on, getting access to inside information and being able to verify there stories.
Otherwise its just paparazzi
And you, pitiful sad republican, whoever you are, are sorely mistaken
I hope no one digs up my reddit posts 30 years from now.
What's with the giant camel toe? It looks like they got it off of a larger chick and then reduced it down in Photoshop or something.
I've been looking at cross platform GUI toolkits a lot over the past few weeks.
The one thing I've concluded is that if you want something truly cross-platform (ie, Mac, Windows, Linux), your options are very limited, and most of that comes from the Mac side of things.
GTK+ - ugly ugly on the Mac, even though it seems to have a very clean API and appears to work fine on Windows and Linux
Tk - not native on anything; I'm interested in Tile, but I haven't heard really anyone talk about it, and the few shots I've seen of it don't really look native.
wxWidgets - one of the very few true cross-platform options, but it suffers from the lowest-common-denominator syndrome, which is good and bad. The Mac part of it seems to have the most rough edges. And as others have said the API is icky. I think for most people this is the best option, unfortunately there are a few widgets which aren't that polished (compare text controls in wx to the text controls of Gtk+, Tk even for example - this is where the LCD aspect comes in).
SWT - actually doesn't look like a bad option, but you lose any ability to really script it with Python or another language (Jython doesn't really count being restricted to Python 2.2 and not having access to a lot of the modern libraries). Hope you like big runtimes.
Mono - suffers from the same problem on the Mac that GTK does...the ugly X11 window; probably has the same difficulty being scripted by other languages like Python and Ruby as Java. Same runtime issue as Java, though not sure how much of an 'issue' it really is.
Qt - this is the one I haven't really checked out, but it seems to be the most fully-featured. Seems like there is a major advantage to it costing money, that is the company has incentive to actually improve the toolkit. One worry I have here is that PyQT apparently isn't an 'official' part of the toolkit, so I'm not sure about support with it.
XUL - People always have horror stories about XUL apps. They are big and bloated, and Mac users aren't fond of them because they aren't native. Also seems like scripting them would be relatively hard through PyXPCOM (outside of that you don't have too many options), and the documentation on certain aspects is poor.
Apollo - not an option right now; could be neat in the future. Will never be native, but that might not be as important as simply looking nice.
Browser - really nice when it fits your application, but really only useful for the most basic types of interfaces. The browser due to security restrictions and performance is limited to what it can do.
I'd love to hear corrections on any of my statements or other options. Finding a good cross-platform GUI toolkit that looks native is hard. Some people chose to do all their underlying code in one language and then use a native GUI toolkit for the GUI (Cocoa on the Mac, GTK on Linux/Windows, etc). I don't think this is an optimal solution because you end up managing two code-bases, and GUIs have enough hooks of their own that codebases can become quite different. I know iFolder does this, but for some programs this possibility is limited.
IMO, the only 'true' cross-platform toolkits are SWT, wxWidgets, and Qt, and they all have their weaknesses. Please, if you have experience using a cross-platform toolkit, do tell!
lol. I believe that comment is enough to get you killed in 25% of the planet.
Fine, but they apparently do not have reliable data on vagina size.
I believe he was referring to the idea that any computer with finite storage can be modeled as a finite automaton. When talking about parsing programming languages, no computer can truly parse any string in the language. I'm pretty sure, e.g., any computer we have (today) will choke on a 1 yottabyte C program. It feels like we can parse non-regular languages, but technically we can only recognize a finite subset of any non-regular language (up to some fixed length of string), thus all the languages a physical computer can recognize are regular (the universal lookup table idea).
and the quote:
* autrijus stares at type Eval x = forall r. ContT r (ReaderT x IO) (ReaderT x IO x) and feels very lost
<shapr> Didn't you write that code?
<autrijus> yeah. and it works
<autrijus> I just don't know what it means.
autrijus being the Pugs lead dev makes it twice as funny
hey tubby
By "bought" I think you meant " 'bout"
I think he should look deeper into Mono. If he's tried Beagle or Banshee, he's used Mono and it's not half bad. Sadly, I think the licensing still has a spurious relationship with .Net and Microsoft. If that doesn't worry you, then definitely check it out.
Qt has a lot of drawing weirdness. For example, when you change a layout to reflect new widgets coming into an interaction, there's a flicker of crap.
Python with wxWidgets is dog slow in my experience. It feels like you're interacting through a thick syrup. I wouldn't bother with it.
This is really a great idea.
That was a lot of scrolling for one mathematically perfect woman.
Meh, type looks awful as a tattoo.
hahaha, haha, hahahahaha, hahaha, ha.
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FCUK ORCAH, that fat stupid fugly whale. all she does is sprinkle inanity everywhere as she prattles on vapidly about nothing as she takes every topic and turns it into a blowhard session of talking about her own retarded BORING fat fcuking ass
There no place like home...
Dorothy
Dude.
NO part of me is gonna look awesome when I'm 50. At least this way I might be funny since I'm sure as hell not gonna be beautiful.
Besides; I'm pretty sure 50 year old me is a complete and utter bastard who deserves all the pain I can inflict on him.
Lighten up. ;)
NSFW in normal office environments.
Totally SFW in anything engineering related workplaces.
I wonder if the visual representation of voting patterns
they wouldn't -- you can't distinguish between "(erik@home)$ redditspam -by erik" and "reddit: ooh, I like this one: http://programming.reddit.com/info/17e0y/comments". Morever, insofar as they could, changing the group-voting process is trivially easy. Only reddit.com can analyze votes intelligently.
i'd agree, if it came up while she was running for office, but it would have been odd if the first lady had to defend a decades-old thesis before it had been criticized.
Don't give into mindless NIMBYism!
The guy calls himself a "sucker for technology" and knows how much RAM his video card has. I wouldn't call such a person a normal computer user, personally.
The hard work is getting women into bed. Pretending you are interested in listening to them is harder than it looks, I don't care what color your sister's bridesmaid dresses are.
Sex is the easy part.
I'm guessing he could nail it in static HTML.
I think he was reffering more to his political tactics than his taste for blood..
Hitler: You're like us or not
Bush: You're with us or against us
They are pretty balck or white ideologies which inevitably leads to brutality.
So how many jews has Bush annihilated so far?
Just curious.
Parliamentary horse-trading at its finest.
Yes, in Iran. Or the USA.
Ten seconds of Google searching produced an accidental invasion of Spain
Tk? What are your experiences with it? I know Tile is supposed to offer some level of a native-appearance, but the screenshots that I've seen don't show that very well.
shows an awful lot of ignorance and stupidity on Vonneguts part.
That his stock in trade - or haven't you read his books?
I had an ex whose father was a police officer that wrote a textbook on interrogating criminals, his techniques were nothing like anything here.
Thank goodness for Boston having one "alert city worker" - helping keep the streets safe from danger!
I have not had one real problem on three desktops...
two are 3 years old, one is 2.
Alot of the complainers seem to be either chronic bitchers, dumb shits, or fanbois with "motives".
Hence all the hate I will receive from posting this...
Menopause can be funny. Share your hot flashes and mood swings and get a good laugh. For babyboomers and beyond.
Vonnegut never let annoying things like historical facts get in the way when he's trying to editorialize.
9/11 gave Bush his own Nuremberg Laws - a cowed Congress that rolled over dead and gave him the powers he wanted to launch illegal wars, spy illegally on his own citizens without court oversight, hold suspects indefinitely with no habeas corpus rights, torture prisoners, identify anyone who opposes his agenda as a "terrorist", and engage in pernicious, comprehensive propaganda efforts with both foreign and domestic newsmedia.
How do you explain the success of single-payer systems in every other industrialized country in the world, available with less overhead than the American system.
Thanks, that's what I was looking for...
HAHAHA
That's so true..
this is such an amazing work of brilliance
I didn't say there weren't better uses. There are ALWAYS better uses.
CLEAN YOUR EYES OUT PEOPLE
Python with wxWidgets is dog slow in my experience. It feels like you're interacting through a thick syrup. I wouldn't bother with it.
To be honest I haven't noticed that so much, except for occasional sluggishness on my Mac. I haven't tried it on Linux, though, so I'm not sure.
Is PyQt any better?
and whether the heavenly virgins had anuses.
This phrase almost killed me. Got me almost choking on my coffee.
From Wikipedia:
Godwin's Law does not dispute whether any particular reference or comparison to Hitler or the Nazis might be apt. It is precisely because such a reference or comparison may sometimes be appropriate, Godwin has argued, that overuse of the Hitler/Nazi comparison should be avoided, as it robs the valid comparisons of their impact.
Can you give some examples of each of these categories?
Making stuff up on the spot, I'd say the belief "living organisms did not spontaneously come into existence 4 billion years ago" is unlikely but there is no strong evidence against it. The belief "there exists a non-evolutionary basis to ethical systems" seems believable to me.
Virtually anything to do with the creation of the universe is believable. Arguments along the lines of "the universe just happened with the big bang" are remarkably unconvincing, and notwithstanding the philosophical problems, they don't explain several odd facts about our universe.
In general the belief in a supreme being from our own universe is not particularly far-fetched. If life did emerge from some chemical reactions a few billion years ago, you would expect the same to have happened in many different parts of the universe. Judging by the seemingly exponential increases in technology over the last thousand years, it seems very plausible that we will reach a level of such advanced technology, that it would appear god-like from our current day perspective. 1,000 years is nothing from a cosmological POV, so if there is life elsewhere it seems likely that some of them will have reached this state of supremity.
I think you're a lot closer, ideologically, to Dawkins than perhaps you'd be comfortable with. Certainly, I see little to distinguish your position from Harris'.
Yes, I think in the end we are the same kind of character. The difference is that I care more about being right (or perhaps more relevant to this discussion, not being wrong) than about talking grand rabble-rousing rhetoric. Not to throw myself too many flowers though - I would be incapable of coming up with the vibrant analogies and sound-bites of Dawkins and Harris even if I wanted to.
Savvier by the minute to the power of video sharing and social networking to reach potential voters, most of the presidential candidates had put their videos on the site on their own "channels."
They must not be that savvy if they think the average voter will seek out staid and overproduced political advertisements on Youtube. The endorsement of these videos by the candidates and by Youtube undermines the viral nature of videos the candidates are attempting to leverage.
With politicians' tendency towards hypervigilance in controlling their message, a tendency antithetical to the idea of a social sites, I don't see social sites being the political force some are predicting for this next election cycle.
Downmod me all you want, I can't look at pictures like that at work. So I'm guessing schar shouldn't either. We can't all be programmers who work in their own basements that only come up for food and drink and hiss at the sun as they do.
you have no idea how things work do you?
Another valuable personal skill which you might want to practice to realize when you are a dork and face the fucking music without being a retard about it.
+1 most ironic comment of the week.
No we don't, I'm just trying to identify the philosophy and mindset that would accept inferior care for some 'principled stand' against taxes and the state.
Yeah, you are right.
The only filtering comes from the tag cloud. If you click one of the tag, it shows all news related to it.
Filter is certainly in our roadmap. Hope to get it out as soon as possible.
semantics, I was using his words, but nice call out
If you're not logged in, we just redirect you to the homepage. So you might not be seeing it.
Politicians are a group of people I would categorize underneath rapists. You know they are hypocritical bastards with no moral ground besides how much more money they can make by screwing over someone, plus they will fook you both "literally" and "figuratively".
Nah, the valley's fine. It's the hills that are spooky.
What's a GP? What's a trivial issue? I dunno, I once had a severely swollen gland where it was hard to swallow and I went right in and got checked. Now that I'm a civilian I probably wouldn't have bothered unless it became a real emergency because it's just too much hassle (plus, the out of pocket).
But what if by stating his intentions he's actually hoping to get up voted by use of reverse psychology. But then by knowing we might come to that conclusion...
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Glad I used memcached to cache that SQL query.
Im diggin songbird for its "play the web" features. All around a good music player for me, supporting (almost) everything Im looking for. 0.2.5 has some nice fixes in it, including proper windowing in linux (thank you!)
Insomnia is the disturbance of a normal sleep pattern e.g. when you cannot get to sleep or wake up after only a few hours sleep. ...
I though it was deep too
billary is a repulsive fcuking BITCH. i detest her almost as much as i do bush, and i find very little difference between them.
i want howard dean for president or dennis kucinich, not some ex-walmart board member like that bitch billary
You're making a flawed assumption. It's true that the vast majority of people who leave college do so because they can't hack it, but you can't assume that for everone.
Most highly motivated people are extremely impatient. A flaw in one circumstance is a virtue in another.
"That's so gay."
It's being said among homosexuals as well. Man,, who the hell cares. It's like saying Merry Christmas being a crime.
Exactly what I thought when I read that part of the article. That sort of level of fine tuning is what was necessary to produce the exact universe we live in. If it was only tuned to 1 part in 10^31, then things like gravitational constants might be different, changing the very make-up of the universe.
I did like how the super-symmetry guy is basically willing to accept every finding into his theory. "160 GeV particle? Yep, that'll work. 100 GeV particle? We can squeeze that in somewhere." Legend!
The first line is, "The high readability of Java is probably the single most valuable "feature" of the language."
I couldn't get past that.
I disagree with you being downmodded.
I hate to be "insensitive", but the Quran is fiction.
It hurts my brain to see people expending so much energy wrangling over what some fictional book may or may not say about a fictional place.
Why don't we spend as much energy thinking about the root causes of terrorism and the poverty and human rights abuses that drives people to radicalism?
In other words, brilliant.
I won't pretend to remember basic, so here are my first three programs in sh(1) -- simulated basic.
echo "Hello!"
and then
echo "What is your name?"
read name
echo "$name stinks!"
and then
while :
do echo -n "/"
done
My HP48G programs were much better: one of them, a D&D dice roller, stored subroutines in directory variables as it started and then deleted them before ending, as I didn't have some important clue that I forget the nature of, now. Another, a musical work, I 'compressed' (the HP48 compiles and decompiles UserRPL on the fly) 120 BEEP 1 WAIT 90 BEEP etc by creating B and W words, and then using those instead.
FWIW, I don't like to disparage past selves, any more than I'd like a future self disparaging me. That you improve tomorrow only means that you improve tomorrow. The worst code I ever wrote, however, was horrid for one reason: I called a useless iterator variable something cute like $iteratorian. I realized that this was awful almost immediately, like poking yourself in the eye.
You forgot to mention that he kicks his dog and doesn't return his library books too.
Thanks for contributing your intelligent and witty points to this discussion.
So, she can't call him gay, but he can ask if she has 10 moms because she's Mormon? Isn't that religious persecution?
there's your war "heroes" ... insane brutal rascists
Your reasoning can be extended to the entire universe, which has a finite number of particles. To say that the entire universe is just one finite state machine, which is consistent with a finite sample of some strings from some decidable language, seems a bit silly.
Let's consider relative size. A relatively small pushdown automaton can decide an infinite set of strings. Now, even if you assume that you can only ever test a (large but) finite-sized sample, you should be able to determine that no finite-state automata can possibly be consistent with that sample, and yet be as small as the pushdown automaton.
Take the set of strings { 0^n1^n | n > 0 }. This is a non-regular language. A finite subset of this language could be recognized by a finite-state automaton. But the size of said automaton would have to be proportional to the size of the sample. Whereas a single simple pushdown automaton can be constructed to recognize any subset of the language.
I think that (albeit informally) demonstrates that there are computational devices with different amounts of capability even within a finite universe.
See http://reddit.com/info/17cf8/comments/c17cl4
I'm not a fan of Senator Clinton, but good-god... this is utter tripe.
adult masala is the fastest growing board.
you're probably gay if you wouldn't hit that, regardless.
Just letting you know.
We essentially have universal healthcare - medicaid, medicare, various state programs all are used to give the uninsured "care" when they really need it (and if they know how to work the bureaucracy to get it). It doesn't work well, it's inefficient (because it's not designed to provide universal health care), but it's all there, and we pay a huge cost for it all.
Explosion hits even if this is under water.
Cool Pictures, they look really good.
If That wasn't bad enough, the 2nd largest oilfield in Mexico is also declining. Some say even Russia is 90% depleted.
Some parts of Africa are unable to buy oil and they are suffering as a result.
I think this story is much bigger than we are led to believe.
did they really blow the guy up for standing still?? i can not be reading this right.
im no misogynist. im a misanthrope.
yeah, i did get that from a list on the web somewhere, can't remember when or where.
link doesn't work.
There doesn't have to be a story, in the end. There just has to be enough to get those who want to believe to believe there's something there, even if the story hasn't told us what it is. The story comes down to "there's something there in Clinton's relationship to Alinsky's work which may discredit her, but we're not telling you what it is, and really, we aren't sure that it'll discredit her." Hell of a story there.
But it's enough to make those who want to hate her bite. And they are legion. Don't believe this works? Look at the page history for the Wikipedia page Saul Alinsky over the past few hours.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky
Clinton has been, on and off, over that period, a member of Alinsky's school, the Industrial Areas Foundation Training Institute, usually with a citation of this article. Now, the article never said she was a member of Alinsky's school, but it was vague enough to let others interpret the absence of facts how they will. Success!
Also of note:
"Villain Of The Year: George W Bush"
This is exactly what I come to reddit for - Oprah news!
I used to teach color theory in graduate school (to computer graphics people), and I have to say that this article, while somewhat entertaining, should not in any way be thought of as being accurate or even informative. Some comments start to go into how color vision really works (Tristimulus theory -- the three types of cones in your eye), but even that theory doesn't explain everything (for example, the Land Effect).
I don't have the time or patience to correct everything in this article, but I do want to point out that there are many many colors (hues) that are not spectral colors. The spectrum is just a single line through a three dimensional space of perceived colors, so their claim that Pink is "notable by its absence" is silly. How about brown? Or even gray?
And the entire space of "colors" is way bigger than even three dimensions. The sub-space of colors that map to a single perceived color are called "monomers" -- they look the same to you, but you still have to deal with them in computer graphics because they can reflect or filter differently -- that's why a different sources of white light (incandescent, fluorescent, LED, etc.) that all look the same to you can make colored objects look different.
And finally, this article tries to explain color theory in terms of physics, which just doesn't work. Try this simple (thought) experiment. Take a projection screen. Looks white, right? Now shine a projector onto it showing an image. The dark parts of the image look black, right? But how can this be? The screen is white! But the dark parts look black. This is because your brain processes contrast, not levels. If I measure the color of those black parts, any instrument would say that they are white, but your brain says they are black. The actual physics of an isolated color don't matter.
Prepare yourself for sacrilege. I'm going to say something very anti Web 2.0.
There is no substitute for the comprehension of an individual human. As you imply any moron can Google a subject. The problem with that is that you get the sorts of information that any moron believes in (everything from crack-pot theories, to out-of-date resources, to material so technical that only a professional can understand it). The same is true about Wikipedia (I know... still more anti web2.0 sacrilege). One can filter out all the junk with time and effort, but it takes TIME and EFFORT. Wikipedia and Google make for adequate starting points in research, but a better starting point a single knowledgeable individual.
So when someone, like exobyte, posts a reference to a technical subject, including statistics, this implies that he has already spent the time and effort and cares enough to post about it. A single reference link from such an individual, in such a context, can be worth hours of reading, cross-referencing, and searching.
I recognize that a lot of people believe/hope the wisdom of crowds that will magically make comprehending complex subjects easy and fast. The truth is all that is a bunch of Quasi-Mystical Crap. Comprehension requires context, critical thinking, accurate information, and time. Return to the beginning: There is no substitute for the comprehension of an individual human.
>"though I would have put it a lot less crassly."
Yes, you would have, and so would millions of other PC'ers.. it's pathetic that we cannot speak truthfully anymore.
Hurting someones delicate feelings trumps truth.
Its bullshit.
>"But the point that is the most important, and one you breezed over, is the fact that they shouldn't be shunned or treated badly"
I "breezed" over it because it should be SOP for everyone. I shouldn't have to say it, and you shouldn't have to feel the need to point it out.
It should be natural that we all treat each other as we want to be treated.. equally.
But we have moved SO far beyond that haven't we?
In todays society (USA) a bully calling a gay teen a "fag" is a hate crime punishable by expulsion and possibly criminal charges and most assuredly a cival judgement.
But the same bully calls a fat kid a big fat sack of rolly polly shitballs gets nothing more than a "now now, be nice"
If you ask me, (and I could care less if you do), the "special" classes we have going right now are doing more harm to us.
Today a gay mans life is worth more than a straight man.
Today a gay womans life is worth more than a mother of two.
Why is that? Why do you get 10 years for murder but another 15 if the victim was gay? It doesn't matter if it was a "hate" crime, I would consider anyone murdring someone else a "hate" crime.
I don't have an axe to grind with "gay", its just the special status.
Somebody get me a goddamn oar I have gone off the reservation!!!!
Nice list. I looked at some of these about a year ago and settled on gtk+, primarily because it works well on Linux and Windows and has very good bindings from most languages (seemingly the best cross-language support).
And on Linux gtk+ apps look desktop-native under GNOME or KDE, since you have gtk-qt-engine.
gtk+ seems pretty nice in general, although the List widget is a bit over-complex in my opinion (the perl bindings to gtk+ have a good SimpleList wrapper which helps get your head round it a bit).
I've never done Mac development, so I didn't know that gtk-on-mac was ugly. What's the issue?
But both wxWidgets and Qt look like good contenders. The former seems to have a fairly inflexible approach (requiring inheritance to do anything) and the latter has more limited/less mature language bindings (to perl at least).
You can't use Windows.Forms on mono (for maturity reasons), so you'll end up using Gtk/C# if you go that route. Might as well use gtk+ from a more expressive language. And I'm a bit of a java-phobe, so that's out too.
(edit - and if I were writing in scheme, I'd probably do the drscheme+wxWindows thing, drScheme is a pretty cool environment, which will even build apps to a single exe for deployment).
Best thing to do is just ignore his comment. Do not vote.
No, she doesn't. That's as bad as slandering Muslims as terrorists. But because I did not say ALL Muslims, I am clearly talking about only the Muslims who ARE terrorists...
Castro's had enough of the embargo...soon, we'll see Cthulhu ravaging the Florida coast.
So, out of curiosity, where may this calendar be obtained?
38 years is too long ago, her opinions have most likely changed already.
By the way, political science is not really science, it's just a bunch of opinions and semi-random guesses.
you call that a crack? excuse me while i laugh my fcuking ass off
It's satire.
Boston has made itself joke of the country.
What liability? If you are going to go on about Chernobyl give it a rest, It wasn't anywhere near the disaster that Bhopal was, yet I don't hear cries to shut down the whole chemical process industry everywhere in the world and make it an international crime to build a refinery.
Nuclear power has an enviable safety record. As to the two "disasters:" at Three-Mile Island the containment system worked, and the death toll and health issues from Chernobyl have been far, far less terrible than predicted, and well within the range of other well known industrial accidents of similar magnitude.
I wonder what the costs would be if coal burning power station were forced to pay for the damage they do to the environment? Oh yes, I forgot, they don't have to.
"...we have done more harm than good over the past 2+ years in keeping Olbermann in the public eye at a time when few were watching his show..."
Forgive my internet slang, but LMFAO!!!! Holy inflated ego, Batman! I've never even seen this site before, and they thing they're the reason he's popular?
Ten seconds of reading the article produced the same thing (in the last paragraph).
I think I just vomitted in my mouth.
Frelling awesome
They did, but let's hope this man can fix him.
well said.
like the government has EVER handled ANYTHING efficiently.
on a side note: Just to balance last year's budget (1 year only) each taxpayer would have had to pay an additional $5000 in income tax.
i want a balanced budget. AND i want parasites OFF the table. the stupid don't have money for a reason. they don't deserve one penny of mine to enable their sucker choices...that line the pockets of the xtian/dems snake oil salesmen.
I think it can since our body is mainly made up of water. It won't happen overnight though and frankly, drinking water alone won't make you loss weight. I would prefer to think that it helps the process of losing weight.
Yeah, them evil private sjgoos opressing them poor folk.
I'm merely pointing out how meaningless your argument is.
It was a facetious response to your primative assertion about a right to existence. If you were to empirically define 'progress' in terms of the accomplishments of civilization, certainly human rights and healthcare would be there along with agriculture and industrialization.
Society is just a word to describe individual human beings.
Well, that's part of the definition. But those individuals are further bonded by common ideals and interests.
Now, what should an individual's response be to a child born with congenitive problems? I think it's up to the individual.
That's a cop out. It would be a nice thing if most, or even many, people were giving of themselves and their time to that degree but we both know that although virtue does exist it's nowhere near a universal trait. Why construct a society where a few have to shoulder a big load when it's possible to spread the effort out to an extent that it's unnoticeable.
Forced subsidies via taxation are inherently not virtuous or morally good because the taxpayer has no choice but to subsidize the child in need.
The society as a whole is virtuous, not the individual. Forcing a taxpayer to subsidize the child in need just spreads the responsibility out.
As for your last comment, I defer to finnegansfolly's obliging response
Yeah, I'm still waiting on that.
Maybe this will inspire a new exit strategy in Iraq:
"Sorry about that, we were just wandering through the area on a training mission and accidently crossed your border, toppled your government and fomented a civil war...so sorry. bye bye now."
I love California... tech, hollywood and perhaps most importantly amazing geographical diversity that gives us the most fruitful agricultural industry in the world.. what a triple whammy... no wonder we're the 8th or 10th or whatever biggest economy in the world..
Plus out governor has a smoking tent!
Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't read all the way through, because I had already read one of the other five articles that was posted here on the same subject.
NSFW? Do you work at a monastery? That's the movie poster for Laura Croft.
>"I think you are mentally ill. I think there is something wrong people who identify so strongly with any corporation or product."
That's funny.
Is that the way you attempt to win an argument or get someone on your side?
FYI buttmuncher... I also have 8 Macs in my office and a Linux server along with the Windows desktops.
So kiss it fanboi.
I have to admit, i don't understand what the big deal is about this retarded paper.
I hate Hillary, and I don't think it is a big deal. Hillary attempting to hide the essay is what drew attention to it, which is pretty retarded, given its contents.
I apologize if it seems I am dismissing the Bible out of hand. That was not my intention. The Bible has historical value
My intent was to say that the article was using one "old document" and accepting it as literal, complete truth. It cites no other documents, and rejects the notion that something could have happened during that time period and not be recorded in the Bible.
You did bring up a very good point with regard to the NYPD.
Fox News: the network that hate built.
Eminem isn't rap? His greatest hits was top 10 in sales.
Plus, this doesn't really mean anything if it doesn't take into account Mixtapes and bootlegs.
It's also a band.
Most people, even very beautiful people, feel pretty awkward modeling. Awkward has no correlation to pretty!
It's a SAM (Surface-to-Air Missile) site. I forget what the specific model designation was (SAM5, SAM7, ?) but this is a typical Soviet SAM layout of a certain vintage.
Has everyone forgotten the Cuban missile crisis? This kind of SAM site were emplaced around the nuclear IRBMs that the Soviet Union had given to Cuba which triggered the crisis. The SAM sites themselves weren't the issue per se - legitimate air defense. The published documentation from the Kennedy administration during the crisis had plenty of U2 pictures of exactly the same kind of thing. These combined with launchers, missile containers, etc. were the evidence presented to Congress and the American people to justify the high alert and threat of invasion.
That's how we used to deal with crisis situations and threats of war!
Vonneguts one word..stupid. BTW, Bush actually won (both times)
It's been around for awhile, popular with the same folk who read NewsBusters.com.
BULLSHIT. 'universal' healthcare TAKES money from ME to PAY for the 'therapies' of any piece of shit that doesn't have the money to pay. money that i DON'T use for healthcare should be MINE.
it's just a ploy to KEEP the high price of bullshit therapies. and since the stupid suckers who use them don't have the money. they want to characterize it as 'humane' and mandate the I (a healthy american who doesn' use or need 'welfare' resources) have to foot the difference.
doesn't trample rights? you need to grow a braincell. robbing me to pay a fraud to 'help' vermin isn't my idea of justice.
justice should be a right.
Odd. It says the House Judiciary Committee did this, not "Democrats."
I miss Jesus - he used to spend more time at bbspot... As a matter of fact, Office and Overclocked Jesus got me hooked on bbspot.... does that mean it's a religion?
I nearly crapped myself with laughter when I saw it. It is very clever... and kudos to you for going for it!
not that I dont also thnk she is an idiot, but if you remove all the name calling and stupidity, she has a valid opinion right or wrong.
Nice. The libertarian party: 26 states and counting! hehe :)
Is a decent public health care system a hand up? I'm sure there can be both a public and private health care system.
I understand the desire for people to want their tax dollars to be spent wisely, but people really don't care that much.
The war in Iraq, for example, costs $2 billion a week and, honestly, not that many people are complaining that the money has gone to a war that was started under scrupulous pretenses, has been conducted with egregious oversight, and has probably been a net loss in terms of national security.
My point is not on the merits of the war, but rather how fiscally irresponsible it has been. At the very least we've allowed an incredible amount of money to be spent and we have asked very little in terms of efficiency and oversight. I'm upset about this and I don't even consider myself fiscally conservative.
Don't you think that money would be better spent to at least attempt to do something about poverty or for at least a basic public health care system where, maybe, we wouldn't have so many people who as so happy just to have new rims on their car, or living such reckless lives devoid of any real hope?
And I think this is what they have decided in Europe: that money spent on the least is spent on the country as a whole. I think people are willing to pay more in taxes because they really do benefit from it--more time with their families, less poverty means less crime, etc. If you have a system that takes everyone seriously you have more people who take themselves seriously and it helps out everyone. As they say: a rising tide lifts all boats.
I thought this would be a lot more interesting than it was. It would've been a lot better if you had more interesting graphs such as points vs comments, points vs rank, etc. The x vs time graphs tell us little.
Yeah, that's kinda how it works.
How fucked up is the United States that a college thesis on a radical community organizer like Saul Alinsky would be considered a bad thing? I thought the country was supposed to believe in freedom, democracy, civic engagement, strong communities, and opposition to aristocracy. That's precisely what Alinsky believed in and fought for.
It's heartbreaking that a country founded on progressive principles should have turned so soul-crushingly corporatist, dogmatic and conformist.
If Hillary had an ounce of integrity and conviction, she'd be defending her youthful decision to investigate experiments in community organizing, not trying to distance herself from it. If the "conservative" jingoists and bought priesthood had an ounce of integrity and conviction, they'd recognize Alinsky's lifelong struggle to conserve viable communities and build lasting, decentralized, emergent systems of personal relationships.
What a waste.
Slight difference in interpretation, really. It's like instead of "Thy shall not kill" is "Thy shall not wear a kilt". And the Scottish are going: "Fuck off!"
Imagine some guy blows himself up, goes to the gates of Heaven:
- Where are my bitches? - Here are your raisins.
Or Virgils going: "You got a pretty face!"
Ossama Bin Laden goes to the gates of Heaven, there's George Washington going:
"How dare you defy that what we created" and gets violent on his ass. other members of the Congress start kicking the shit outta him. Ossama: "Where are the virgins?" "Virginians, you asshole!"
--Robin Williams, Live On Broadway
she hates men... that's pretty much why people hate her. Oh, and she is completely disingenuous. I forgot about that.
hitler also had copies of all the voting rolls, and watched people vote (the booths had very small curtains with open sides) and would send people who didnt vote correctly to concentration camps. so ya, its pretty similar.
i'm surprised there's so much commentary against this article - it manages to cover the topic in a surprisingly neutral biographic tone. unlike a lot of other sound bytes on the political candidates, this one actually provides some context to hillary's collegiate life. the author's tone is obviously that the thesis is inconsequential, but that doesn't mean we can't learn something from why it was written. i know a lot more about alinski now at least.
You're right, you're clearly too sophisticated for this place.
Wouldn't you rather be splattering your wingman's chinos with half-digested spicy tuna roll?
I never tell people to use Qt. [USE QT! IT ROX.]
you are beutefel jeg don't no way you are very beutefil
I've never done Mac development, so I didn't know that gtk-on-mac was ugly. What's the issue?
It isn't native. It has to use the X11 windowing system to work and as a result (not exaggerating) looks a bit like a Windows 95 program (not in the actual characteristics, but just in how crude it is.).
Its just not a realistic option on the Mac, unfortunately. Otherwise GTK+ seems to me like it would be the toolkit of choice.
may be an interesting season for a change. if he's superhuman that is.
As a Chicagoan, I dislike her for being an obvious opportunist. Exactly WHAT is her connection to New York? She grew up in Illinois, lived for years in Arkansas, then 8 years in DC, and was suddenly a New Yorker?
Yes, but colonel Klink also had an iron cross fourth class.
That headline sucks, it doesn't describe what's written up in the article.
He's deadly serious and extremely influential. Grover Norquist, Ralph Reed, Jack Abramoff, and Karl Rove -- these guys made George Bush.
Norquist is currently scrambling to find a hard right presidential candidate to challenge the Republican front-runners, who he and the religious right (rightly) consider to be phony panderers.
yeah, but religious persecution is ok... just ask everybody who reads reddit.
Gay-ass athiests.
"You have already said it annoys you I am curious as to why. Why does it matter to you?"
Because when everyone jumps ship after a product doesn't live up to ALL expectations it screws over all the people who don't, not to mention ends up hurting a company who's sin was not creating The Perfect Product.
"I am sure the Microsoft corporation appreciates your support very much. I for one have chosen to support sketcher shoe corporation. I was going to support maytag but I decided that it was not the best corporation to support because they had annoying commercials."
This analogy makes absolutely no sense. Ignoring that Maytag would be Apple in this case because of the annoying ads, shoe companies make tons of shoes and the correlation between such products and operating systems is nearly impossible to figure out. No one gets "shoe upgrades" and no one bought a washing machine knowing that Maytag would release an add-on to give it extra functionality for free.
This is where my problem lies. Calling an OS a failure can become self-fulfilling. If everyone dives out because it isn't the Best Thing Ever right off the bat, MS sees a lack of support. Thus, they may not release the service packs or update packages that WOULD make it perfect, because not enough people appear to have any interest in it.
See, if I buy a pair of Sketchers or a Toyota, it doesn't matter if the company stops making them or updating the line, because the product is static. It's made, we're done. You can buy a car that had a run of 1,000. But an OS requires updates, upgrades, and for software companies to work on compatibility. If everyone bails, then we won't get those and as a result it's "badness" will come true, but WOULDN'T if people had just held out for a little while, taking the terrible inconveniences of one game that didn't have surround sound or something equally asinine.
I agree it shouldn't be that way, but Sony has every right to deny access to a news organization which doesn't respect their requests. Plus Sony isn't "killing" them off they are merely denying access, which is standard practice. If no access equates to the death of a media outlet then why does the Inquirer thrive? Sony isn't obligated to Kotaku in any form or way and by the same token Kotaku isn't obligated to Sony. Kotaku can cover whatever they want and Sony can deny official inside access to whoever they want. The only bullshit here is your unrealistic guarantee of inside access.
English translation: Forcing conservatives to watch Olberman forces their heads to explode because they are simply not used to well-structured arguements and critical thinking.
We've lost about 70 interns this way over the past two years. We are tired of having to mop blood and brain-bits out of the viewing room.
that would be THEIR problem.
Short note to "The Rest of the World" from One Dude In America:
Hi,
We're not all self-centered idiots, I promise. However, we are on a downward spiral of narcissism which seems to be terminal. I wish there were something we could do about that, but those of us who even realize it's happening don't currently have a way to fix this. We have to get our fellow Americans to notice the problem, and that isn't proving to be very simple, or easy.
If you're going to learn anything from the U.S.A., please learn this: Don't let corporations or religions into your politics. Nothing good comes of it.
Good luck trying to stop it, though.
Your friend,
Indigo Shift
P.S.: I really like your cuisine. I could eat it all day.
I married an engineering grad ... any, yes, thank-you, she could have made this calendar (and I'm not just saying that on the off chance she's reading reddit today.)
Great quote from that page: "It's women's god-given right to be both beautiful and competent at solving partial non-linear differential equations."
Scientists at the Forsyth Institute may have moved one step closer to regenerating human spinal cord tissue by artificially inducing a frog tadpole to re-grow its tail at a stage in its development when it is normally impossible.
When do playground insults used every day all over America cross the line into hate speech that must be stamped out?
It isn't the role of schools to judge what's hate speech. When Sikhs are allowed to carry a dull knife with them because it's part of their religion, why are schools allowed to censor people?
(funny aside: it was acceptable to make a joke at the expense of someone's religion, but not sexual orientation)
The thing about freedom of speech is that it's either all OK, or none of it is. Who are authorities to decide what's hate speech and what isn't (provided threats aren't made)? Shouldn't interpreting others be the responsibility of the individual?
hasn't hooked me on the (few) occasions i've used it. i even found a little grape sized bag on the sidewalk a few weeks ago!...still haven't finished it. i gotta be in the mood.
addiction is YOUR problem, not EVERYONE's.
WTF kind of article is that? Hilary's thesis will doom her presidency! Anyone can go read it. But... we won't spend any time talking about the content of the thesis in this article. We'll just tell you that it will knock your socks off. If there's something in there, let us have it!
I hate to be a grammar nazi, but it's really hard to take this advice seriously when there are so many errors
I think these positive thinking guys are hillarious. Their formula is perfect. If you want good things in life just be positive and happy and ask for them. What, you're sad that a new car didn't appear by magic like I said? I guess thats your own fault because you're sad about it. Your grandma died of cancer and you're crying at the same time? Looks like its your fault, better perk up before you kill someone else. You're happy and you got a new TV? Yay! See positive thinking works!
The sad thing is that some will see this as racist when really that's how those people over there talk.
I have no doubts it's a mildly popular site, but for them to think they can take credit for Olbermann's popularity is simply ludicrous. That's like MediaMatters saying they're why Glenn Beck got a deal on CNN, and MM is a much larger site.
Are you implying that Microsoft's monopoly comes from government intervention ?
A-fucking-men.
Thanks for the hint, I hadn't thought of that. I'll look into making scatterplots of those. If anyone else has suggestions to go into the next release, please let me know.
I wasn't disputing that..just adding that I'd read it a few times for my own amusement. Didn't mean to imply they're responsible for "helping."
If the truth makes you foam at the mouth, this is a site you might've read. ;)
Okay, my bad he is an exception...Still you should of seen some of the things that these kids were doing when it was our last semester. Made me want to take my head and just slam it down on the desk cause of the complete lack of common sense
Oh, I thought Google will eat itself.
http://www.gwei.org
Genetically modified organisms or better yet frankenfood is getting scarier by the day. Now the USDA is backing the commercial production of rice that has been genetically altered with HUMAN genes. Is this cannibalism? Even scarier is currently there is no labeling of such unearthly creations so we truly do not know what we are ingesting.
Things to do after you've been COMMITTED TO A PSYCH WARD while waiting for your medication to arrive.
screw the children!
lol...i HAD to say that.
As an American, I envy the Brits if this is the seediest thing in their leader's past.
Hitler did at least that many metric tons of amphetamines tho.
As if one needed to be a Christian to be sceptical about this story. Pathetic.
Israeli archaeologist Amos Kloner, who was among the first to examine the tomb when it was first discovered, said the names marked on the coffins were very common at the time.
"I don't accept the news that it was used by Jesus or his family," he told the BBC News website.
"The documentary filmmakers are using it to sell their film."
how come 'you' can never see their worthlessness till AFTER you've boinked them?
i never agree with repulicunts on anything...... but, if smearing billary gets that bitch out of the presidential race then i'm all for it, cos i consider her to be GOP anyway
My next doormat:
This is why it's better to say "that's queer".
Not only is it generally considered more inflammatory to the Politically Correct crowd, but it's also the correct usage of the word. :)
As a side note, wouldn't this guy just have to find gay people who will testify that they use "that's gay" on a regular basis? I have several gay friends that use it...
Safe for work?
We lie to get something we want, or to spare someone's feelings, but it almost always costs us more in trust than we gain.
Well, if you make a joke about a specific type of sleazy lawyer, then you've just made a joke about a specific type of sleazy lawyer. You didn't envelope all lawyers into that category, as this comic clearly does with Christians.
Your presumption that I am wrong, and that only Christians sensitive to jokes about their religion are the only ones who share this sentiment is a poorly thought out way of dismissing a point. It makes you look as intelligent as the "Christians" in the comic. Good job, keep it up.
they need the cash to pay for their superbowl advert
Ah, well, the thought was genuinely new to me (as far as I can remember at least). I suppose it stands to reason that other people would have thought about it too.
Reality truly is stranger than fiction.
there are pros and their are joes in every field of endeavor.
there's plenty of work for both i think, but they are NOT interchangeable.
however if you 'think' you can master something like relational theory (databases) or object oriented programming without STUDYING it, you are full of it.
acedemia is an opportunity to see what's out there in 'your' field. some dive/drink deep, some don't.
you will never be a world class programmer without mastering some things you, alone would NEVER conceive of on you own. you have to AT LEAST read A LOT of books...which is the same thing as education IMO...only if you don't get the 'ticket' (degree) you ain't gonna see the ducats unless you are very very lucky.
Link is down. =( Anyone have a mirror or want to copy/paste the contents? Thanks.
This thing is like wearing a funny t-shirt with a joke on it. The only difference is that it takes a hell of a lot more effort to take a tattoo off than a shirt.
Either way, it's incredibly tacky.
It's only cool to bash Fox because the give conservatives the time of day (and liberals). But take a look at the websites of all the other news outlets, they are all the same!
Spoken like someone who hates a group on principle. I'm sorry you feel that way. I actually like all of the Christians I know, mainly because I got to know them before I made a judgment.
Holy crap, how did I miss that part of the story. Sorry, I'm an idiot. :(
Holy crap, how did I miss that part of the story. Sorry, I'm an idiot. :(
Hyperbole is absolutley the worst thing ever
I'm modding you up!
yeah, that's what im getting at basically.
web design for mom and pop shops isn't in the same league as writing apps that may cost a life if they fail. or may cost a company (ie bank) it's charter if they fail. AT ALL.
Anybody found an online copy of the thesis yet. I'd like to read the cherry picked quotes in context. I may like her for president after all.
Apparently I prefer the "girls of liberal studies"
I never noticed any skateboard in any slide
Fuck, I'm not offended by it. But it is a law. I'm not happy that I'm not legally allowed to go over 65 miles per hour on a highway, but if I break that law - despite knowing that I'm perfectly safe driving at 75 on a clear day with no traffic - I'll pay the fine instead of being a crytit.
Not true. Hitler was a good public speaker.
You obviously haven't been to Target during December.
Elegant silk wedding flowers for brides on a budget!
So what happens when the ball goes out of the court?
She may be mathematically perfect, but what happens when she starts talking?
bah-dum..ching!
Looking through NewsBusters... it really is just a hit piece on Olbermann. Take a look at this one:
"nd discussed at length allegations of an unsatisfactory tryst in a hotel room with an unhappy female fan that was reported in the New York Post last October."
Oh yes, the New York Post. The tabloid rag run by the guy who owns FOX News, a network that is frequently (and rightly) targeted by Olbermann. So a right-wing radio host, angry at Olbermann for making fun of him, rips into him and discusses "at length" a completely unreliable story in a tabloid run by someone who has every reason to make up sensational stories about Keith.
This is why I do dislike such sites. At least MediaMatters quotes the given commentators at length and carefully explains why they're wrong. This crap is simply venemous attacking.
If the USA REALLY wanted to stop illegal inmigration all they have to do is put in jail and a big fine to anyone hiring them.
No job = No inmigration
/Mexican
FYI - I did link to the Olbermann tag, not all their articles concern him. For whatever that's worth.
Isn't that less inflamatory, though, since there's a perfectly innocuous interpretation?
Unfortunately it seems that things have not changed radically since 2000 see slashdot discussion on this: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/02/025232&mode=thread
Don't make fun of the retards you fag
Do you have some sources for this? (gov. spending reports or whatever)
If this is true, then I have to agree: it makes no sense not to use money that's already earmarked for "healthcare" and is already sufficient to cover a national system FOR a national system.
Watch out. The FBI will be at your door any minute now ;-)
This is not a great explanation of color stuff. I recently did a lot of reading for some work I was doing, and I answered a hell of a lot of questions I'd been asking since I was a kid (like, why three primary colors if everything is just continuous frequencies).
For the start of an accurate picture of color vision, check out Feynman's Lectures on Physics, Vol. 1, Chapter 35. I really got a lot out of it.
Bottom line: we have three types of receptors, light is made up of jillions of frequencies/dimensions, and any combination of frequencies activates the three receptors at a particular level. Monochromatic red light hits mostly the red receptor, ditto for green and blue. But weird combinations of frequencies activate the receptors in different ways. The odd colors of a blacklight or the eerie look of fluorescent lights are perfectly part of the domain of color, they're just an unusual (non bell-curved) particularly odd combination of frequencies.
Tips on making the switch to compact fluorescent lightbulbs easy and stress-free.
uh, april and mirabelle are the same girl. this is clearly faker than a best of craigslist posting!
Like public schools, they use it primarily because they are already paying for it. What that does is depress the value of the services provided that someone will accept before they say "this sucks, I'm doing something else", and depresses it far below what they'd accept if they were voluntarily forking over the money. Additionally, the added cost of buying the service on the market while still paying for it from the government in the form of taxes provides a discincentive to seek it out from a private provider.
Thus people only seek out the private care alternative if a) the price is cheap enough, b) the spender has enough excess cash, c) the public service is abysmal enough or d) various combinations of the three.
I wanted this to be about context-free languages.
featuring a cardboard cutout of President Bush with a knife through his head.
lol! that's hilarious! i wonder if they asked where they could get one. sheesh.
HAHAHA This is so true
Site is down. No google cache either...
and quite frankly I've never understood why there's such hate and vitrol for her.
It's because her last name is Clinton.
If being gay IS okay, then saying "that's so gay" shouldn't be interpreted as being hate speech. Banning the phrase implies that "being gay" is so bad that to even refer to something as being gay is outright criminal. I also like the fact that "freedom of speech" is considered by some to be "freedom of speech as long as it doesn't hurt my feelings"
Vista install in 2 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVbf9tOGwno
why was this downmodded? why are the comments section full of programmer geeks when most of the articles and the website's theme is clearly not restricted to programming.
"whose currency is worth more"
What does that mean? I'm not challenging this, I just don't understand. Are you just saying that 1 EURO > $1? If so, how is that even relevant...?
That first video is absolutely intolerable.
Everyone thinks they're The Onion...
It happens to the best of us - and, um, also to me.
And the smug fuckin' face of Dennis "Will Blow O'Reilly For Quarters" Miller
hey, i thought geraldo was o'liarly's faggoty friend. then again, maybe it's a menage e trois
You just reminded me why I don't like his writing.
The follow-up:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2dDAySUywko
Link is down. Here is an alternative http://www.ubersite.com/m/17812
I actually have a DVD at home that is packed full of WWII propaganda and another that makes fun of native-americans, both starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, the usual lineup. They were on sale for $1, and my kid was 3y/o at the time, so I figured he might enjoy some of the animation. The covers gave the impression that they were just plain old Looney Tune cartoons.
Boy, was I wrong. There's some pretty racially intense stuff in there and violence from beginning to end. Definitely NOT for kids...
It should ideally be 1:1
Good stuff!
That's totally hilarious (in a dark way)
George Bush and his neocon cronies are all about consolidating power and control. Big government at its worst. Yet this dude who claims he wants to drown the government in the bathtub is enabling them to do exactly the opposite.
Wow, hypocrisy in politics. Whodya figured!
Jack Chick's a wacko?
Next thing you'll be telling me is that Gene Ray isn't the Wisest Human.
what's really hard is pretending the fat bitch you're fucking is attractive
I think it's what is technically known as 'a joke'.
You might benefit from visiting this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke
Nicely put. Good post. Thanks.
Of course. Obama IS a black militant pagan. He also kills babies and eats their brains. And he'll nationalize health care. And the factories. In fact, he'll nationalize all businesses and turn us into the Soviet Union. In fact, he's actually Satan.
This is the seventh time today this has been posted.
link is borked for the time being.
Are you on crack? Are you saying you should be allowed to look at naked ladies on your companies time? That is not a resonable use of business hardware in any way. Perhaps in your parrents basement/magical cave of mystery, where you dont have female co workers this may be acceptable, but in the real world people need to keep their porn at home. Even softcore.
Ah yes, another graduate of the School of Tact.
Yeah I mean how could the article not mention that point?
IF CO2 is responsible for global temperature rise... that's because CO2 in the air is absorbing the sun's radiation and turning it into heat (air vibration)... which means that the lightrays that enter the atmosphere and get turned into heat in the air do not hit the ground...
What about guinea pigs? They are cute AND delicious. So you actually enjoy a food that looks good.
You forgot to open that tag.
Yawn
It'd be funnier if these guys didn't have the nuclear launch codes.
Just zoom in a little closer.
Sorry I misunderstood you. I agree that citing a few verses and nothing else adds nothing substantial to the argument.
latest trend? this has been happening sinc MIDI was invented
Clearly, we need a better educational system to get their math skills up to par.
"These facts suggest that, puff for puff, smoking marijuana may be more harmful to the lungs than smoking tobacco."
Wow 20 joints a day "may be" more harmful than smoking tobacco. Yet tobacco is still legal. Shocking!
One study has indicated that an abuser's risk of heart attack more than quadruples in the first hour after smoking marijuana7.
this is NOT a fact. this is the BULLSHIT vicious shit for brains use to destroy others lives.
let's look at the above statement:
'abusers' 'risk' or heart attack more than 'quadruples'.. in the first hour of smoking..
tell me EXACTLY how do dumbass xtian pretards MEASURE a quadruple RISK?
it's obvious the POSTER and the AUTHOR haven't a FUCKING CLUE as to what a FACT in fact IS.
oh knoes! ANOTHER marijuana induced heart attack fatality! o noes!
THIS is PERFECTLY CONCLUSIVE PROOF that the xtian pretards are all about the ABUSE of others, and shoving people around...NOT about FACTS, or 'concern' for others.
You know the sad part? People are falling for it. What kind of a fucking world is this where someone can write a story about the police department of a major US city blowing up an innocent man who was minding his own business... and have people BELIEVE IT?
This speaks for itself:
Quite apart from the pain of having to reinstall XP, I do like Vista.
"...i thot I taw a twatty buurd!"
I didn't see any naked ladies.... only ones with underwear / lingerie on.
Typing comments on reddit is not a "reasonable use of business hardware in any way" and yet here we all are.
Funny! But I never thought that using an IDE or not does affect the knowledge of a particular language ...
Wow, a far-left liberal dissertation about the evils of the Bush administration. Welcome to the Internet!
Is this really newsworthy? These little essays are a dime a dozen. I've seen some that are actually better written, too.
Why am I even wasting my time commenting about this?
I wish I had the link still, but I once saw a video of Bush early in his political career and he was actually quite well spoken. I'm not sure what happened since then.
Are you calling me fat!?
The problem is that (most of) everything you have read is from outspoken bloggers that already have an anti-MS bent and are just looking for things to critisize. If you get all of your news and opinions from reddit, slashdot and digg, you get a very skewed and biased opinion of Vista.
I installed Vista business and had absolutely no problems, so from my personal experience alot of this stuff is overblown.
Are you implying that libraries are havens for geeks?
(Because as a librarian, I might take offence to that ;-)
I joined the team in the middle of December, my foot fits squarely in any door I want to put it in. Are you trying to suggest that my 12+ years of enterprise network management experience is now useless because a bunch of college pukes are in the market? It isn't about what you have done in the past, all that matters is what you can do today. If a company I interview for presses me about a degree or certification I simply get up and walk out. I don't waste my valuable time with an employer who is more concerned about what documents I have hanging on the wall than my IT skills.
Well, to be honest, I would rather see all comics that slander another group go away, but that's just me. I don't expect that to happen, but I'm being honest. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for comics, just not generalized crap like this. I read the funnies every Sunday, with the exception of Doonesbury and Mary Worth, which is only because I don't find them funny, not because they have some liberal slant.
If I posted a comic that showed a man with a Democratic seal on his shirt as an irresponsible spender, you can bet that it would piss off a bunch of the people who say this one is "Just a cartoon".
"I would think that Atheists, claiming to be intellectually superior wouldn't want to be associated with the "Crazy Christian" way of generalized persecution."
I assume you are talking about this sentence. If so, then you are incorrect. I said "Atheists", capitalized, which is my way of differentiating between people who don't believe in the existence of a god(atheists with a lower-case a), and Atheists who claim to be morally and intellectually superior because they don't follow a book written hundreds of years ago, and can't find any logic in believing in something they can't see. But you DO see how it was interpreted as ALL atheists. Just like that comic about "a specific type of Christian".
They will sell plenty now.
Immigration aside, this article is intense - in the last 5 years the drop in available jobs is frightening.
"There are several hundred thousand American engineers who are unemployed and have been for years"
I don't know what to say...
bbspot's been around for a while.
true dat.
I have decided that I will add an EULA to any future replies to LouF:
If the respondent to this post is the reddit user 'LouF', then respondent (hereafter referred to as "monkey-boy") by clicking the reply button associated with this post agrees to the following terms:
1) In responding to this post monkey-boy will not ignore the question asked of him and will not and attempt to drag the conversation into a tangent. In addition, if monkey-boy does attempt to pull the post into a tangent without responding to the question, then monkey-boy agrees that he will follow up with a publicly posted acknowledgment in the thread where this agreement was violated. This acknowledgment must include stating plainly that monkey-boy is a coward and fears reason is a threat to his position.
2) In responding to this post monkey-boy will not resort to name-calling. If monkey-boy does wish to express contempt for the poster that includes this EULA, monkey-boy is required to construct an insult that includes more than ten words, with no repetition of words permitted. The insult must be grammatically correct. If monkey-boy should resort to name-calling he will state plainly in writing an apology including the phrase "you are rubber, I am glue, I made an error insulting you."
3) If monkey-boy should inadvertently engage behavior that he is criticizing others for, when this is pointed out monkey-boy will immediately agree that he was not being consistent. In addition monkey-boy agrees that he will follow up with a publicly posted acknowledgment in the thread where this hypocrisy appeared. The acknowledgment will include the phrase "Yes I am a hypocrite, the type of person that Jesus was most inclined to condemn. I threw the first stone, I judged, I did not turn the other cheek. I have not lived up to the message of Jesus, for I have not applied his teachings to my life, I know nothing of agape. I did unto others that which I would not want done to myself. I hate the poor - ignoring Jesus' message I agreed with others who said that the poor all welfare bums and deserve what they get. Were I present with Christ in my current state of mind I would have cast the first stone."
4) If monkey-boy makes a claim that others believe is outlandish, monkey-boy agrees that he will either provide concrete proof for his assertion or he will admit that he was in error in making his claim. If monkey-boy has already been told that his claim is outlandish, he has not offered any evidence, but continues to assert it, monkey-boy agrees that he will follow up with a publicly posted acknowledgment in the thread where this anti-intellectual behavior appeared. The acknowledgment will include the phrase "Of course I need to make up facts, reality has a well known liberal bias."
5) If monkey-boy should violate any of these terms in more than three occasions the "three strikes" penalty ill be applied. The three strikes penalty is currently defined as monkey-boy agreeing that he will follow up with a publicly posted acknowledgment in the all threads where this agreement was violated. In all threads monkey-boy's acknowledgment will include the phrase "I admit that I am not very good at arguing, I use cheap rhetorical tactics because I am not subtle enough to even understand what you are arguing with me about, let alone come up with a coherent defense. I admit that I must have some kind of mental issue, and will seek professional help."
Go to Arlington and count the stars of David there, then go over to Israel and ask them how their war with Palestine has gone since we pulled out of that whole mess because the entire WH is retarded.
We have a saying around here- "Get used to it, Hitler".
"Which leads me to my big gripe: They know what's best for you."
that's exactly what i hate about the mac too.... and the opposite for why i love linux so much
yeah, chaplin too. i think it looks neat. but as djwhitt pointed out, i don't dare wear my mustache that way.
maybe somebody will 'reclaim' it, so it can be an option again. but i'm not volunteering to be the guy.
The only way to win is not to play.
Yes, I was implying a total restructure of our government instead of a single change to health insurance.
The investment would be the health care to people and families that cannot afford it. In choosing to do this you just may improve their health and well being. This could even gasp lead to higher productivity. Free healthcare could give smaller and even larger businesses a boost by eliminating the need for paid healthcare.
If you can't envision at least one positive outcome then you are exceedingly narrow minded.
She also said sexually curious teens who are watching porn are getting the wrong messages about healthy sexuality and don't distinguish between actors getting paid to perform and real-world sexuality
But it is so easy to tell the difference! Because in real world sex all women have Barbie proportions and disrobe at the drop of a pizza, and all men can compete in size and stamina with horses.
Actually, humans can run longer than horses.
The kind that includes quotes from that which it is critiquing, and is critiquing the song Pinball Wizard by The Who.
I would never vote for her, because I just plain don't like her. I feel she's one of the most insincere, mean-spirited people. She's just soaked in a "negative vibe". That being said, I don't give a crap what she or anybody else wrote 40 years ago when I'm making that sort of voting decision.
Is it Godwin's Law day today? Did I miss the memo?
relatively interesting read
In the forum where this aticle is posted, the difference between decline and deplete is well understood. His title means exactly what you say it should mean and implies nothing about reserves.
I thought that at first. Go to the about section on the website, it makes up stories to satirize the country or something. In other words, it's fake.
Listen here, God is all powerful and and all mighty. He is so mighty, he can create something he already created. God does not need "sequences" or even "events" because he is above human concepts like "things happening."
Freedom of speech, land of the free, where? Stupid whiny babies.
I rarely downvote a comment replying to a comment about upvoting a comment about upvoting an artical. But this just seemed like a good opportunity to act like an ass....
It irritates me that the moon dwellers get the far better view.
I don't know. She's running against some pretty weak republicans. Giuliani is never going to get the pentacostal evangelicals to go out for him like Bush did. Sure the fascist branch will support him, but most evangelicals will not. They don't like McCain cause they think he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Romney is a Mormon, which is just a no play outside of very liberal areas. Mormonism is a unendorsable for pentecostal evangelism. Worse the guys they do like are not pro-business enough for the republican money men.
Can you get the evangelicals to come out against Hillary? No. It's not like abortion where you have passages in the bible. Hillary is only a target because the right wing machine knows the minute she gets into office she's coming after them personally. And the content of the Hillary attacks are pretty thin. She takes more serious blowback from the blogsphere than from the right wing fever swamps.
The democrat bench is very strong this cycle. But I don't think any of them has what it takes to knock Hillary of her perch. Obama is only putting in as much effort as he is because its a win-win for him. And Edwards, who would be the front runner in normal times is going to have trouble even getting the VP nod.
The only thing that can derail Hillary is Gore, and he's not going to run, much as I'd like him too.
HATH KI SAFAAI
that's typical xtian pretard behavior. SOP for them.
But can they count how many times porn has used them?
I've used godaddy.com for about 8 years with no problems. I'm a very satisfied customer.
The Slate continues to deliver beyond expectations.
Argh, no! The last thing reddit needs is a war of hundred-line pastebombs.
the whole article is about whether or not it is a choice. If you believe it is the Saudi's choice, you should take the author up on his $1000 bet.
Cut And Run!
Unfortunately Saudi Arabia does not tell us some critical numbers. There are many possible explanations for this, peak oil is one, and because it is so disastrous, it is the one people are most concerned about. There are others. The problem is we don't have the numbers to know which explanation is correct. Saudi Arabia has those numbers, but they are not telling.
Personally, I use as much ethanol and biodiesel as I can find in my cars. They are not perfect solutions today, but the show promise of advancing to become much better. I want to be driving (preferably in my auto-pilot spaceship...) in 30 years, and it looks like oil will not be there for me. So I choose to invest my transportation money in those fuels, even when they are slightly more expensive than oil.
unnecessarily long article trying to address everything from vista to serving as dummy's guide to hardware upgrade. both format and content is written for your average idiot.
Your definition of "naked" and mine evidently differ by a great deal. Mine actually means "naked", and is not applicable to this link.
Also apparently you think this is porn. Maybe when you move out of "your parrents [sic] basement/magical cave of mystery" you'll be allowed to look at real porn, which I'm guessing yo momma doesn't let you have at this time.
I've had the opposite happen to me: my code doesn't seem particularly good when I'm working on it, because I can see the flaws clearly, but when I dig it up after a few months of not thinking about it, I'm sometimes amazed by how good it is.
This doesn't happen often, mind you.
Yeah. We're going to stop using HTML 4 any day now. Obviously it got us nowhere..
See also:
Fall of the House of Saud
The hate is really from the right wing propaganda machine, and the ditto heads stuck in that matrix. She went after the machine hard as the first lady, once it became apparent they weren't going to stop. As the president he she will destroy them root and branch. The right wing propaganda machine knows this is a life or death struggle for them. Unfortunately for them they are a bunch of one trick ponies. They wasted their load on W and Cheney, and now they are easy pickings.
It's on Internet, therefore it's true!
Seriously - it is very hard for foreign readers to distinguish between satire and reality.
This is the eighth time today this story was posted.
Supercool!
If you watch it once and stop...good for you.
but I don't see why anyone would expect kids not to watch more after they seen it for more than TWICE.
Doesn't Firefox use GTK? Or does its Mac port use a different GUI just for that platform?
http://catandgirl.com/store/chinese.php
Nonsense. The US government could pay for universal health coverage for what it's currently spending on Medicaid and Medicare. Compare US per capita public health expenditure to that of OECD countries that have universal coverage - they're the same.
They have been doing that since the 15th century.
Bill, I'm sick of dealing with my Department of Health appointed doctor.
Straw man. Canada has universal, single-payer coverage, and you're free to go to whichever doctor will see you.
Dumbass.
godaddy = scum, and not just because of this or any other recent article. they've been scum for several years now. how else do you think they are still in business when they offer such low rates?
chicks don't go to valhalla do they?
I've read a few things mentioning GTK in conjunction with Mozilla, but I don't know if that was in the past that they used it or what. I do know that most if not all of Mozilla apps are now driven via XUL (XML, CSS, Javascript). If Firefox uses Gtk in any way, its not for the main part of the GUI.
Save the satire for another website (unluss you mark it so). This was dumb.
Except that it's an amusement park.
Ah, nice abuse of reddit.
Well, they NEED to be said!
i kept reading that as "You are a deutsche." then i started thinking, "well what's wrong with being a german?"
/me smacks herself on the forehead
No, Vietnam was winnable, period. If the folks at home hadn't made it politically infeasible to win, we would have done so.
Feeling safe yet?
Are CEOs many criminals?
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b) However, if the way LouF changes the topic is to specifically refer to this license or its use, further responses to LouF in that thread should be halted, with a single reference to Section 1b being offered to LouF.
2) In responding to the relevant post LouF will be nice.
a) He will not resort to name-calling. If LouF does wish to express contempt in a reply to a post that includes or refers to this EULA, LouF is required to construct an insult that includes more than ten (10) words, with no repetition of words (other than basic particles) permitted. The insult must be grammatically correct. If LouF should resort to name-calling he will state plainly in writing an apology including the phrase, "You are rubber, I am glue, I made an error insulting you." In addition if LouF attempts to insult by using the term, "dumbass," he will add to the apology above, "I am also sorry for being so uncreative that I once again called someone a dumbass. I have a very limited vocabulary. I promise to try to improve my vocabulary, or at least get a Thesaurus."
b) He will not be unfriendly. If he should reply with a surly demeanor he will state plainly in writing an apology including the phrase, "I am sorry for being unfriendly. I will be nice from now on. I don't know what came over me, but I will try to be a nicer person from now on. I am sure that's what Jesus would want." If LouF persists in being unpleasant in multiple sequential posts the following sentence will be assumed as prepended to any responses he makes: "Please forgive me for my harshness, I am feeling bi-polar today, I am off my meds and and still haven't seen my therapist. I hope you can forgive me for acting out."
3) If LouF should inadvertently or intentionally engage in behavior that he is criticizing others for, when this is pointed out, LouF will immediately agree that he was not being consistent. In addition LouF agrees that he will follow up with a publicly posted acknowledgment in the thread where this hypocrisy appeared. The acknowledgment will include the phrase, "Yes I am a hypocrite, the type of person that Jesus was most inclined to condemn. I judged even knowing I would be judged, I did not turn the other cheek. I have not lived up to the message of Jesus, for I have not applied his teachings to my life, I know nothing of Christian notion of agape. I did unto others that which I would not want done to myself. I hate the poor and actively ignore Jesus' message of compassion for the poor, instead I agree with others who say that the poor are all welfare bums who deserve what they get. Were I present with Christ in my current state of mind I would have called Jesus a hippie and cast the first stone."
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5) If LouF should violate any of these terms on more than three occasions the "three strikes" penalty will be applied. The three strikes penalty is currently defined as LouF agreeing that he will follow up with a publicly posted acknowledgment in the all threads where this agreement was violated. In all threads LouF's acknowledgment will include the phrase, "I admit that I am not very good at arguing, I use cheap rhetorical tactics because I am not subtle enough to even understand what you are arguing with me about, let alone come up with a coherent defense. I admit that I must have some kind of mental issue, and should seek professional help."
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LouF knows his own inadequacies all too well.
LouF is fractally wrong.
Feeding trolls is not fruitful.
Any further responses that are made by LouF can correctly be interpreted as semantically equivalent to this phrase: "I admit that I am not very good at arguing, I use cheap rhetorical tactics because I am not subtle enough to even understand what you are arguing with me about, let alone come up with a coherent defense. I admit that I must have some kind of mental issue, and should seek professional help."
I hate web development (I wouldn't mind the backend, and nor small amounts of front end work. However I'm a programmer and I firmly believe web design is a task for artists and/or English (or language in general) majors.
Hear, hear!
(I do web application programming, and I only touch the front-end when I really have to [e.g. client wants AJAX, or other buzzword-du-jour :P]).
here's the link to the report this is based on:
http://www.mbginfosvcs.com/cgi-local/CurrentInfoFrameset_BG.pl?url=http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm&file1=usjobs.pdf&file2=recent-jobs.pdf&link1=BLS&link2=MBG
They spelled it wrong.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ghey
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ghey&redirect=no
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghey#Pejorative_non-sexualized_usage
It was obious from context and her statements that this is the word she meant and not gay.
they lost it around 1776, didn't they?
In what sense is single-payer a "bargaining pool"? Who's bargaining if there's only one buyer?
I imagine some of the larger health care players in the United States (pharmacies like CVS, insurers like Blue Cross, big hospital groups, WalMart) exercise quite a bit of leverage to get good deals.
I don't thing a monoposony is the way to make things more efficient. The military are the only people buying most military hardware, and they don't seem to see great efficiencies.
She did an analysis of a radical agitator. If she did not condemn him the, "obviously" she is a communist. If she did condemn him, "obviously" again, she is a fascist.
THANKS for the lack of NSFW tag on the link. Classy.
Upmod for the b00bz, though.
One of the raddest things about NYC is that anyone can move there and suddenly become a New Yorker.
New Yorkers like her. She likes them. She lives there. You're right. She is an opportunist in that she took advantage of a good opportunity.
Nitwit.
You have WAY too much free time on your hands.
I think that even though the right wing christians won't be happy with any of their choices (so far, unless maybe Newt ofically runs), they will still vote for what they see as the lesser of the 2 evils- anyone running against Hillary.
No one votes as regularly as the right wing of the rebublican party and it'll be hard to get them to stay home if Hillary is on the ticket.
Even if you discount their votes, the country is pretty split in thirds- independents/third parties, democrats and republicans. close to all who identify as republicans won't vote for her, so about 30% (democrats slightly out-number republicans) comes from them. That still means some independents and democrats wouldn't vote for her even if they agree with everything else about her.
For 40% of people to say they will not vote for someone under any circumstances is pretty powerful.
Not many folks naming their kids Adolph or Adolf either.
Not exactly... see depletion implies reserves that are used up... However, as is now being increasingly alleged in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, reserves are declining -- not because they're being depleted, but because they have been artificially inflated to begin with, presumably to wield more power over OPEC in those countries (or something).
Not to mention: on REDDIT people are not experts when it comes to oil lingo... so it was a bad title
Lame,useless joke.
I've solved that problem now. Now there is a link that I can refer to as my EULA.
http://reddit.com/info/17gwu/comments
CEOs who are caught as criminals are, by definition, not masterminds.
god forbid you love yourself for who you are
Do you really define 'self' in terms of breast size? I'd rather define self in terms of personality, and let physical being reflect rather than define that. Your attitude is like claiming that sculptors are assholes because they don't know when to leave marble alone and let it be itself.
More Proof that all environmentalists are idiots
correct
she hates men... that's pretty much why people hate her.
But conservatives hate people, so really she comes out ahead.
a far-left liberal dissertation
Paul Craig Roberts is a conservative.
Why am I even wasting my time
Isn't that pretty much the point?
Don't click!
Link goes to massive collection of horse/dwarf fetish porn.
Easy.
Column A is the version number.
Column B is what changed.
Column C is the person who made the change.
Column D is where you write "Sorry guys. I accidentally placed the version 1.2.47 changes in the 1.2.46 folder. Hope you didn't need that."
Ninth time today this was posted.
The new world order, with america at the top controlling basically the entire world, is trivial? Americas plans are much more grandiose. Just becuase bush is an idiot and cant execute the plan doesnt mean that it wouldnt be worse than the nazis plan, properly executed. Do you really think americas problems will end when bush is deposed? Hes fucked up that country as well as several others for the foreseeable future.
If your looking for institutional racism, try being an arab or black. His wilfull actions pretty much destroyed a major american city, and he didnt even bother to rebuild it, becuase it was a black city. Look at the mostly black prison poulation. How many are just in there for drug offenses?
Just because theres nobody in camps yet (gitmo and the prison industrial complex aside), doesn't mean that america hasnt been directed down the same despotic road. It didnt start with bush, just like german unrest didnt start with hitler, but they both are very polarizing forces.
The reason that they dont want you to understand these things is simple. If the oft quoted, "if you could go back in time would you kill hitler", was followed through to its logical conclusion, you would see many more attempts on the presidents life. That and if your an american, its unfathomable on some level, that someone so bad could remain in power while you sit around posting to reddit and eating your buritos. Yet they are, so americans always try and downplay the similarities.
Hmmm, between those clowns and Skynet, I'd give the launch codes to Skynet. At least Skynet had a better reason to obliterate humanity.
I missed the other 841, can you review them please?
Just dig through the reddit archives, the whole set generally gets posted on any topic even tangentially related to religion.
I've been in that system, Sistema Sac Actun.
In the Yucatan all the rivers are underground. I wouldn't be surprised if they find a longer one.
Here is an account of the dives:
http://www.zenas.gr/site/home/eng_detail.asp?iData=5534
You are an idiot.
Gee, thanks.
Just like here in the UK there would also be private care. No one here forces everyone to use the NHS.
So that's not really a "single payer" system, now is it?
Or did you not read the parent post?
"bigger is better", AMIRITE?
It doesn't add anything to the conversation. If you don't like the article you can downmod it.
Sorry, you lost me at "satanic cult".
It's true, but nicely done anyway.
NSFW!!!!
why does this get downmodded? i'm really losing faith in the judgment of users on this site.
Don't feel bad, it was so poorly written it was difficult to tell whether it was intentional satire or just random deranged rambling.
Just in case you wanted to know! Here's some cool articles relating to the weed
Most people are lousy at observing other people and figuring out how they tick. Time to learn how to do it.
Hmm...
Would you like to place bets on whether these subpoenas would have been issued if the GOP still controlled the House?
EDIT: spelling.
Yeah, I've been looking into Ubuntu, but I'm worried I'd spend a lot of time getting my hardware to work and tracking down the software I need. I'm super lazy.
did they jam? or just have a dance off?
The stats on sex crimes for this cohort of porn-saturated individuals will be interesting to watch.
Should prove once and for all if exposure to porn increases sex crimes, or serves as an alternate form of stimulation for those so inclined.
This looks like a really awesome project, though it appears to require a slightly increased knowledge of electronics
Stop ever seeing articles from douches like this one who're fired because they're irrelevant in the new scheme of things.
downmodding of comments is a mystery to me. perhaps it seemed like a good idea to combat spam, but people seem to treat it as a way to disagree with your opinion instead.
They should just remove the score of comments and still allow modding. if the score hits -100, then an admin is flagged and the comment removed.
Excellent analysis by Stuart, as usual.
im way ahead of you on that. i've been exposed to porn since that age. and have 0 sex crimes to my name.
you see, we aren't all brainwashable sheeple like you, who pretend to know about things you, in fact, know nothing about.
They read Patriot II. This was done with all intention.
if you can't account for your porn consumption, where will it all end? in tears i suspect.
The latest animated movie from Free Range Studios (the makers of The Meatrix series) is hitting the screen in front of you!
we lost it for what... two more years now? That's the great thing about elections. Now unfortunately I've only got two camps to choose from.
Oh they finally have their articles up now?
I upgraded from my p4 3.2 Prescott, mobo, agp graphics card and 2 gigs of corsair xms ddr-400 memory to a Conroe E6600, ATI x1950 pro, P965 chipset mobo, and 2 gigs of corsair xms2 ddr2-800 memory.
My previous system would have run Vista fine, but I wanted to get "the most" out of my experience. My process was simple:
Back up my old system drive
Pull out old hardware
Put in new hardware
Quick Boot up to make sure we get a post. (XP saw everything)
Restart, enter bios and change the boot order to dvd first.
Insert Vista DVD and restart
From there, my experience was almost perfect. First, the vista installer saw my wireless mx1000 mouse. Then I had a choice to either upgrade or install a fresh os. I chose fresh and easily formatted my old system drive.
The load took 20 minutes or less. I couldn't believe how fast it went.
There were a few reboots, and the only thing I wish the installer had told me was when I could remove the DVD from the drive. No biggie, I pulled it out when I saw it was asking if I was trying to repair something again. This cost me an extra reboot and may have confused someone else.
When Vista came up for the first time, it did not recognize my x1950. The card did not have vista drivers on the included CD. Aero did not display. So, I went to the ATI site and downloaded the drivers. (they had been last updated only 2 days before) I installed them and Aero immediatly came on.
My Windows Vista Experience score came to 5.3 out of 5.9. Not bad at all. Since then the OS has been awesome. I am baffled by all of the anger and resentment about this. XP was a work horse for me for many years, but I'm not looking back!
On a final note, the cost was incredibly low for me on this. I bought the OEM version of Vista Small Business from NewEgg for only $149.99. Despite not being able to go to 64 in the future and the hardware change restriction, this is a flippin' bargain as far as I'm concerned.
Thanks.
'wrong' message about 'healthy' sexuality.
PERFECT rendition of pretard 'think' speak. always a fraud. once you learn to pick them out, the rest of your life (not in their presence) is CAKE!
Don't Swiss Army knives have compasses?
No server downtime this time right???????
Who the House Judiciary Committee subpoenas is now determined by Democrats, because Democrats control the House.
Did you pass civics?
Stop. You're making me hot.
Do you think she shaves her pussy?
poor paris. i'll stop ignoring her is she comes to my place and gives my a blowjob.
and will hand the presidency to the republicans if nominated.
Hillary No. 1!
I already held the world hostage for 1 Million dollars, what more money do you need?
I suspect that a modal text editor is best for speech-based editing. If it just asks the user for a 'safe word' that lets you switch from words to literal punctuation to cursor movement to math, you'd be fine.
It doesn't. The article stated the supply drop is weather-caused. The long-standing extreme demand by the exploding wealth of the middle class is what people dwell on though, and the weather exaggerates the problem.
It looks like its working to me.
Yeah, now all they need is a hacked firmware. Isnt technology great! All those random lockups just cause civil unrest. Much better to tame your mind into thinking that you are the odd one out, not supporting the party. See, we can clearly see that bush has won the election here! Why would you contest that? Are you not feeling well citizen? Should we fetch a doctor?
Hey, who gave you permission to invade my website?
Unless this software is removed I will file a complaint with the FBI
puppies aren't computation.
I WIN!
Yes an elaborate hoax.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Bunny_Nips_the_Nips
Though I was incorrect, it was -not- amongst the ones banned
Boner is apparently mis-named. Clearly, we have evidence to the contrary.
Why is there a big secret complex in the middle of a suburb?
This is a no brainer. If it were my domain, I would sue GoDaddy blind.
this doing rock in your basement is tons more popular now than couple years ago. plus, it's growing. i've worked wholesale distribution and mrkting. the thing is getting off the charts.
But... but... but...
...isn't that a GOOD thing?
Silly comic book guy--everyone knows geeks don't have girls they can just slam on a whim. Now, if he were a nerd on the other hand...
i like the 3rd one best...shore with swirling water.
Um, sure you can't. I know I never hear the word "terrorist" in the media, ever. Same for "victory." And "treason" is so off the table it can't be mentioned, much less used as the title for a popular book about politics.
The only ones I haven't heard are the Islam-specific ones, and even then I think LGF only counts them when they're used in LGF-approved ways.
Well I wonder if anybody got any good input from this one!
Two words: SECURE CONNECTIONS
Add one little s to the http:// at the top of the page and presto, nobody's snooping any of your passwords.
Shame on webmail providers for not securing all traffic by default. Yes, Gmail, I'm looking at you too. Don't just secure the login, secure the whole connection.
Over the millennia the substantial amount of rain that falls here has meandered its way towards the sea, turning slightly acidic because of the dissolving rock, and carving out an extraordinary underground labyrinth.
Don't they mean that the slightly acidic rain has dissolved the limestone? The water would then be neutral?
Tulum is beautiful by the way...I've never bothered to go see a cenote or any caves, but once you get down the road far enough towards the bioreserve, it is so quiet and peaceful it feels like one of those Corona commercials...but with Dos Equis instead....
"...consume you it will."
Are you sure of that?
i bookmarked it for later, thanks.
Then why did you even get involved?
I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I like the majority of what the conservatives have done, but everything stupid they've done has been defeated. And yes, they have done a few stupid things -- if you can't see that then I think you're the one with the reality distortion field.
Those girls are definitely hot.
But the slideshow is kind of disrespectful in a couple of ways: it doesn't tell us anything about the girls, what field of engineering they're studying, or anything at all beyond the physical.
They don't even get the names right, for crying out loud. Notice that #16 "April" == #21 "Mirabelle".
Generally you find a series of the same sort of discovery being published at the same time less because of scientific motivations then because of media motivation. Which is to say, the discovery of something like an underground river system in one area being a highly read article leads to media outlets looking for similar stories, and so more on the same topic come out.
It can sometimes be a result of academic processes as well--scientists need recognition for grant money or to maintain research status, so if a topic becomes hot and it's related to what they're doing, they may attempt a peripheral investigation or publish their current findings in order to ride the buzz. It hardly makes them "'toy' scientists."
It's in Appendix D: Rewards for Martyrdom.
i still think they should legalize our friend the green stuff. im waiting for that last article to get posted. AMERICA WAKE UP! YOURE WASTING SO MUCH MONEY ON CRACKING DOWN ON SMALL TIME USERS!!!!
That's just chiffonade technique, followed by some finer chopping. Chiffonade is a good way to prepare basil and lots of other herbs too.
Yeah and a lot of people are put off by New Yorkers and you come off as a terrific example of why. Hillary will go down in flames in the primary. Personally, I like the other Illinois native going for the candidacy.
Submitted to the RIAA. You better take that sh!t down, NOW.
Must be a randomizing site. I got Texas sheep porn.
How did this get to the front page? I just don't understand.
I love reddit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clearly, just like pies, muffins, and creme brulee, the crust is the best part.
But is used much less.
I would actually be more inclined to vote for a militant and/or pagan than I would an [Islamo|Judeao|Christo] and/or [issue|pride|conviction]less canidate which is most democrats.
Not an internal passport. Poster "lied" to make it sound worse than it is.
Ur video is very 2 like practicing sex....
Definitely could've used a NSFW tag...
probably works if all you hand out with is sheeple. always looking to be handed the 'answer' trained to pay through the nose for it.
I've lost track of what we're actually quibbling about now.
As far as I can tell, Dawkins rails against the concept of a personal god. A prayer answering, rules of physics suspending, involved, interventionist god. Nothing you've said indicates that you believe in such a concept. In fact, I think if I'm reading you correctly, you'd demand evidence to believe such a thing.
Each time I've read one of your posts I've become more and more convinced that you're arguing the same things the "new atheists" are. You just might be a more tactful person.
Sure, they'd question you on "there exists a non-evolutionary basis to ethical systems" but I doubt you'd have a problem being grilled on that. You certainly aren't preaching it as gospel, you're identifying an "idea that doesn't immediately sound silly". I can't imagine any of the new atheist brigade having a problem with that. Harris, in particular, might enjoy getting into it with you. He has some beliefs that definitely fall outside the agreed upon atheist talking points (reincarnation to name one).
I'm not sure how to say this without sounding weird, so let's just see how it goes: If the religious people of the world believed what you believe and presented their beliefs in the way you do, there'd be no problem and probably no Dawkins.
Dawkins doesn't know how the universe got here and, by his own admission, you could fill the planet with books about "things Dawkins doesn't know". However, I'll wager all I own that you could have a reasonable discussion with someone like RD about "an ethical system with a non-evolutionary basis". He won't let you anthropomorphize your conjectured entities without evidence. More importantly, from what I've read, I doubt you would let yourself do that.
You could probably have one hell of a discussion about supreme beings from our own universe with any one of the new atheists.
The belief that dying in the fight against infidels will earn you eternal paradise is a problem. It's a clear, present problem for the concerned citizens of this planet. It's that type of belief that is foremost among the concerns of the new atheists. There are many others, but when belief in an unsupported premise crosses the line to start affecting other people's lives, it's a problem. It's a problem I, along with many atheists, want solved.
My final question:
Can you see the diffence between the things you're talking about and the things these angry atheists are talking about? This is important to me because I feel you're lumping yourself in with "the religious" when you're hardly a poster child for the crowd. You're closer to a poster child for the other team.
And yes, I know how that sounds, I'm interested in your response.
And the money shot: a story about a 23-year old teacher arrested for banging a few 14- and 15-year old male students, an act generally known throughout the history of literature and film as "coming of age."
Sounds like Fox News is precisely where this guy belongs.
This kind of satire is just cheap and dumb.
Yeah I dunno Bush isn't that much like Hitler, he doesnt even have a mustache!
and he blames alcohol. it's worth noting that not all drinkers are corrupt.
do tax cheats go to country club prison too?
There is a report that activation keys have already been hacked.
I'm pretty much not going to upgrade to Vista for a long while -- Too many horror stories you know?
Daniels' hospital room is designed so that air flows in, never out, to prevent the bacterium from spreading.
Surely that can't be right. The room would explode.
People pay through the nose to watch Oprah?
Ich bin ein auslander.
i like viewing he video of badjojo....hehehehehe
I feel vaguely like your comment needs some sort of disclosure--it sounds decidedly like a counterculturalist consumer pitch. :-p
I remember seeing Geller bend spoons and forks on TV in close up. Part of the handles would often turn 'plasticy' and very soft and bendy. I have never heard a valid explanation of how he did this - Even from Randi - nor have I ever seen anyone able to repeat it - even Randi -
Well it was up, but now it's down again. Bookmarked it for later, can't read too much of that at work anyway :o
um. i don;t think they're really selling slaves on ebay. or that slaves are sold with extended warranties.
btw, my party - SP-USA, is actively involved in human trafficking awareness and social justice. my state party, particularly, in working with migrant farm laborers who are often held in bondage.
That's almost a given. Organic vegetables have lots more microorganisms because (supposedly) nothing is applied to them that would kill them.
Personally, I think the whole debate about whether marijuana should be legal is stale. It's like both sides are locked to their opinions and there is no give. From what I've read at the article it looks like the basis for which marijuana is illegal is old and flawed. I agree we do waste a lot of money chasing after petty criminals -- which are they really criminals if it's a victimless crime? I guess that depends on who you ask.
because it's 400 pounds of php?
boobs? i wanna see the whole NY funpack.
site was slow as, well, just slow for me.
Yeah, I used to be on DIGG but once I heard all the madness going on their I came to reddit. So far I'm very happy with it.
No, they just won't vote at all. Look at the November 2006 elections. Pentecostals with no options stayed home.
The people who vote the most reliably republican are the elderly, especially when the main plank is tax cuts. And as for 40% against, you need to break down that poll, but it certainly doesn't translate to 40% going to the polls to vote for the other guy. Be specific on your numbers. Where is the poll you're citing? How many people were polled for what type of background.
Let's get into the details of your allegation.
If you believe that for people that live under occupation (as in Palestine, Iraq) need "72 virgin" motivation to sacrifice themselves then you need to explain what motivated the solider it military cemeteries all over the world.
What motivated the Americans in D day to charge the beaches of Normandy while facing Nazi guns? Where the offered promise of Virgins?
If you think an American can be motivated to liberate Europe why do you think it need a promise in heaven to have a young Palestinian living under the daily violence of Israeli occupation to sacrifice himself?
The only way to stop the Hillary nomination is with Gore, once nominated there is no republican in the current field who can beat her.
Sorry, there's no links to the news, I just heard it on his show.
http://www.pennradio.com/
fun fun
They got Texas! I don't agree with the Libertarian platform 100%, but I disagree with them less than I do the Democrats and Republicans.
I think that what would work best for the US is to have both public and private. The poor should be able to have access to quality health care, and not just emergency care. Someone who is sick all the time and can't improve his health until it's too late can't focus on skills improvement and education. Public health care, public education, access to job training and education, daycare - these I'd be willing to pay for. Not a blank check.
I totally agree that our government has been completely misallocating funds. All that we have been doing over there in Iraq is throwing away money and lives, American and Iraqi alike. If we had a smaller government with less power to tax, it would be much harder to commit our forces to boondogles like the Iraq war and would force the government to focus on issues that are more important to Americans at home. It was on these principles that America was founded.
As they also say: waste not, want not ;-)
You characterizing evolution or evolutionary theory as something that acts. Evolution describes a process that happens. Evolutionary theory can be used by scientists to predict, make experiments, and describe that process. To say that evolution tries this, tests that, shows a fundamental misunderstanding of it.
http://reddit.com/info/17e13/comments/c17h7a?context=5
No.
In this situation, for one, it is completely appropriate.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/carr_brothers/index.html
perhaps it will go down that way, 1 possibility in a thousand scenarios....and 'we' will probably never know the truth about the day everything changed (which IS coming BTW).
Upvote for the catchy title, although the word "cuteness" invokes images of Smurfs, the Seven Dwarfs, Vern Troyer, and other small beings, and is therefore inappropriate unless the penis in question is 2" long or thereabouts.
Tim hasn't been bought off yet. He is a good dude and is right. Standards are the key to making software that works and allow small companies to compete on the same platform.
That's what I thought. It's hard to believe this is real.
As I understand it, the "secret" is about goal setting and believing in ones ability to accomplish things.
So If I understand the comments correctly, it is bad to encourage people to be optimistic and make goals. Would you be happier if she told everyone "The world is a complicated and scary place"
The woman came from poverty to become a billionaire. Perhaps she knows something about setting goals, being positive and working hard.
Perhaps when you make your first billion, you can tell us the power if being a cranky know-it-all.
It's being downmodded because it's a long, pointless and ill-conceived flame/rant.
it's a pyramid scheme matter in fact (which is illegal). it implies infinite populaton and/or infinity economic growth, neither of which are possible when there are finite resources available....see how facts work?
Or my trolling from the Yahoo Message Boards days - heavens to mergatroids!
not before he is crushed by the atmospheric pressure... short wait time!
I can so hear Rock's voice in his interview snippet.
Oh, I completely agree. Like I said above, I don't oppose legalization, I just want to encourage some basic level of caution. I could not care less what drugs people do, so long as they don't endanger the safety of others and so long as they are aware of any risks to their own health. But I'm very concerned by disinformation on both sides, which I think impedes people's abilities to make informed decisions about using or not using a drug. So the people who tell me that driving while high is safe, or that smoking pot does no damage to your lungs (less than tobacco, okay, but smoking anything is bad for you)... yeah, they piss me off.
I've noticed the same thing.
I mean, I'm fairly left leaning myself, and I do consider Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/etc the bad guys, but comparisons to the Nazi party or Hitler don't do anything to improve discourse and and seriously de-emphasize what is still one of the greatest tragedies in the world.
For goodness sake, find some other way to say "Bush/Neocons == the badness".
Ich bin ein Berliner
My favorite LouF quote of all time:
If you have some evidence that basketball players saying that they don't like gay people causes murder, then present it. Until then there's not much need to provide "counter-evidence", is there.
If the first sentence read "If you have some evidence god exists .." you'd finally have LouF saying something sensible. Obviously, I can't imagine LouF actually saying that, but at least he gets the principle ..... when it's applied to some other concept that is.
Being at work, I can't do alot of looking into this right now, but I found this poll pretty quickly that's slightly worse than the one I saw.
http://www.maristpoll.marist.edu/
Senator Clinton faces a tougher audience among the general electorate. Only a slim majority of voters will consider supporting a woman for president on the Democratic ticket and 43% say they will definitely not consider voting for her.
You're right that to say that the ~40% who won't vote for her will therefore vote for someone else, but I think it's pretty obvioulsy a bad idea to put someone with that kind of negative image on the ticket.
If this is supposed to be funny well done, this is just like what a bastard libertarian might say ;-)
If on the other hand you're serious - FUCK YOU, you selfish asshole! How dare you describe your fellow humans as "piece of shit" or "vermin" simply for not having enough money to pay for the healthcare they need.
Only if you're a lesbian suicide bomber.
Dude, I'm digging it, well redditing it, I'm getting one too...unless it is ©
i am unable to connect
Yeah, wel, I beat most of 'em.
I'll start a little off topic here. I have nothing but respect for the guys at The Oil Drum. They are very professional about their research and have lots of evidence to back up their claims. Unlike CERA and the news pundits on TV those guys can actually back up their shit with numbers and evidence that is very hard to refute.
I wish we had more reality based websites on the internet like TOD. They are the example of the potential and the power of Web 2.0 and social news sites.
This piece once again, appears to support their claim and the article makes a compelling case given the patchy data we have on Saudi Arabia. I agree with one of the commenters who mentioned that this decline appears much more due to nature as opposed to politics which was behind all previous production cuts in Saudi Arabia.
Right folks--I'm down with the notion of "Neocons == the baddies" but could we please have some new information or relevant discussion?
This article seems to be largely a rehash of well known information and un-backed up attacks. Which hurts the credibility of people making actual points elsewhere.
Unlike boobs, which are legal in NY and Toronto, the whole funpack remains mostly illegal in North America. For full public nudity, you need European sites.
Cute. But downmodded because this has no place on the front page IMO. And yeah, I'm running a web server... it's called the Uniform Server which I use to stage my live sites.
I trust Flash. I trusted Macromedia. But just not sure Adobe can do it. Its been a bit of a cluster since they took it over and all focus is on Flex which is too expensive and will not make it mainstream for that reason.
I don't know about that--certainly the tone is inflammatory, but the comment is raising some valid points.
Ah, but you see, your algorithm is incorrect: the base case is if score > -30 || score < -60 then do nothing else up/downvote (as appropriate). So if we rationally seek to frustrate his prediction, his score will hover at either -29 or -61, depending on the actions of irrational persons.
(Logically, he starts from 1, so every person would downvote him until he reaches -29, at which point people would cease to vote - as the base case for recursion has been reached - unless enough irrational people voted him to -46, at which point the rational voters will keep downvoting him since -61 is closer than -29.)
Ha! You wag!
So instead they reported on how well they didn't report Paris Hilton, including all the things they didn't report about Paris Hilton.
Nice try.
George Bush is saving american lives? I dont see the "defense" in sending troops to Iraq. I do have a positive disposition about numerous things. The football team I coach, the family I raise, the job I do, and the people I know ... all know me as a positive individual. However when politics are concerned there are 10x the negatives in opposition to the positives that a president can produce. The representatives that we elect are more important than the one president that is elected. If we have 80% or greater representation done in a positive way... and a shitty president....they can, and most likely will, overturn the dumb decisions that are made. In regards again to your comparison to Bush vs Clinton..... " savior of american lives... * ha ha" or the " pervert that bangs interns" do you really think that either was better than the other.... are you basically choosing the better of two evils? Do you honestly think that GW has done a good job? Did he not at one point have the lowest damn rating of any president? Until someone deserving runs for president... count me out. They say you cant complain if you dont vote.... i'd rather vote for noone than to elect some asshole to run this country. Until a 3rd party person, without agendas derived from lobbiest, is qualified and runs for presidency... there wont be a good president. Conservative / Liberal... republican / democrat.... its another form of prejudice that we condone today. Its apparent from the " select all republican/democrat options in voting... its apparent from the NRA members that will choose republican every time. Its apparent from the Extreme left wing groups that will chose a democrat president every single time regardless of qualifications.
Its obvious where you stand by defending george bush. You cannot be serious if you think he is a positive role model for america's youth. Unless that american youth is the son of an oil tycoon.
A front-page story in USA Today - "Can Hillary be Elected Commander in Chief?" - explores the issue and features a poll that contains troubling news for Hillary and her supporters.
When respondents were asked if they would rate Clinton highly (4 or 5 on a 5-point scale):
Only 36 percent said she could handle the situation in Iraq if elected president.
Just 38 percent said she would effectively protect the country from terrorist attack.
59 percent thought Clinton is not strong on national security.
42 percent said she would use military force wisely as president.
56 percent doubted she could handle an international crisis.
Only half said she is a strong and decisive leader.
Overall, 37 percent said they "strongly disagree" or "somewhat disagree" with the statement "Hillary Clinton is tough enough to president."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/7/19/110225.shtml
The other post made it sound like mustard was always there and was waiting to be locked out. It's not bloody likely the lactose-tolerance mutation was there for the last 1 billion years. Hence I questioned the ontology of saying "mutations are always there". Always is a long time.
If not reporting on Hilton was so "successful," why start back up again?
Somebody just did something very similar to freedesktop.org Funny stuff.
He is. See for example "How I Became Pro-Life: Remarks on Abortion, Parental Obligation, and the Draft" or "Being Pro-Life Is Necessary to Defend Liberty".
That's a changelog, not a VCS.
Yeah and a lot of people are put off by New Yorkers and you come off as a terrific example of why.
That's weird. Perhaps if I had been there more than once or twice, I would understand what the hell you're talking about.
Hillary will go down in flames in the primary.
I certainly hope so.
It's only a matter of time before the assholes at Webnonsense find this.
Which means mutations aren't always there. Anyhow point mutations (one nucleotide switched here or there) are rarer than copying error type mutations.
The author of the comic has no way to make his meaning on that point clear, so I guess if you want to look at it pessimistically and assume he meant to paint all Christians with the same brush, that's your right. But I think the majority of people probably didn't see it that way.
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National ID, not quite internal passport, but still same issue i guess.
Money.
Ultimately, your kids might grow up and decide to be
religious for whatever reason, but I don't think there are
many religious groups running around abducting children to
make them suddenly religious any more than there are
homosexual groups working to 'turn kids gay'.
They don't have to abduct them. In the UK the state is funding 'faith schools'.
Oh, and by the way, sexual orientation is almost certainly genetically determined. You can't 'turn kids gay'. You can certainly turn them Christian or Muslim though.
That, along with any talk of "oppression", I think, is
more of an individual-basis problem, and probably a
"problem" for either the religious and atheists, depending >on which side is being the biggest dick at any given time.
No, it really isn't an individual problem.
National groups are working to influence politicians. In the UK the established church has influence, and is using that influence oppressively. Here is just one example of religious people trying to influence the law-making process:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6293115.stm
You can try and label both sides as 'dicks', but that is a naive way of avoiding the issue that religious groups have a real and growing influence.
It's posts like this that make me wish I could just keep clicking that upvote button. The world needs this information ... badly.
(stolen from somewhere)
Boston Police: We put the "error" in "terror"
Sure, not explicitly a passport, but it will be REQUIRED for entry onto a plane or a federal courthouse. Sounds pretty far reaching and passport-esque to me.
I hope you're right. I don't know if I'd agree with him on a lot of issues, but I want these so-called-republicans out!
8 was def the best one. The rest... I'm still trying to figure out if I find them attractive and if you have to 'figure' that out --- then they're not. If you're looking at this and getting excited, it's either because of the fact that they are good-looking-for engineering or you've just had tons of BEER.
I read the fine article, and there is no "there" there. The quotes from her thesis are not shocking, and not controversial. Her conclusions seem to be that trying to change to system from the "outside" by protest is not as effective as changing it from the "inside" by politics.
The only damning thing in the article was the way she tried to hide the thesis. I know if I called my alma mater and asked them to hide my senior thesis they would laugh, then hang up. In her case, they passed a special rule which stated that the senior thesis of a president or first lady would not be available. This rule applied to exactly one person, Hillary Clinton.
I think it's the perceived hypocrisy that people dislike, pretending you're common but demanding privilege.
Of course I could be completely wrong, because I am blinded by my insane hatred of her.
Events for kids & families in general. Marin county, March 2007.
ahhh! I'm blind! I'm blind!
OK. The time to panic is... NOW!!!
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Wow. Way to jump off the deep end.
All NoFixedAbode said was that the current youth (and their heavy exposure to pornography) should eventually put an end to the debate on the effects of pornography, one way or the other. He didn't pick a side.
Maybe you should read more carefully.
I've been hearing the comparisons to Hitler for six + years now, and it disappoints me because there are plenty of legitimate complaints about the Bush Administration, but I don't think anyone really listens anymore because people have resorted to name-calling, lies and generalizations about President Bush. Not to mention it really does trivialize the very real evils Hitler did commit.
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I really really didn't need to see that guy's face.
It's way easier to hate someone who is doing atrocious things right now and is still in power, than to hate someone who did even more atrocious things before most of us were born and was already killed for it. It's just plain old human psychology.
I'm not sure who you're referring to as "you", but I don't think NoFixedAbode was suggesting that either of the alternative conclusions as being more likely.
When will Barack Hussein Osama apologize for slavery?
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/for-the-record-obama-descended-from-white-slave-owners/2007/03/02/1172338880761.html
Reparations! Reparations!
A mortgage loan doesn't necessarily have to be turned down if you have bad credit. "Bad Credit" seems to be some sort of swearing word or taboo that means one is neck-deep in the mud and no way out, except for a lucky streak, a lotto or the Fairy Godmother.
You look in a mirror at a mirror to see this and it still makes you laugh? cue All Apologies ~ I wish I was like you
Easily amused ~
Seriously, it's probably a happier life to be endlessly amused by something like this.
"cross the line into hate speech that must be stamped out?"
No speech should ever be "stamped out". There are extreme cases that can be argued against, but this isn't one of them. Anyone should be free to say whatever they wish, and one should be free not to associate with them because of it.
Hopefully this will end the pathetic spectacle of white pundits muttering in knowing tones about how blacks "don't think he's black enough".
Sure, but no one was arguing it. I'm the first one to admit that we're screwed up, but I think it's because the feds are involved in everything. They are heavily involved even in the private sector of health care here.
Not until now, as I moved to bioinformatics.
I'd say that your body is part of your "self". that to love oneself necessitates loving one's body.
--vat
Found this site online. it shows you how you can play dos games online.
I'm not up to date with the Adsense ToS but it's it against them to put your adsense on a domain other than the one you registered it with?
Wow, that's gonna be a real fun household to grow up in.
It's already been proved once and for all, and then again and again, that porn exposure causes a decrease of sex crimes. Including a decrease in child sexual abuse. I don't think one more study will change the mind of a single person intent on keeping their head buried in the sand.
ya no shit, now I definitely see why we're in Iraq.
"he's actually Stalin"?
Wow. Get out your economics textbook and look up "market power" in the glossary. But wait, you didn't actually take economics, did you?
Stop being so gay about things you idiot.
I agree with all your points, but I don't believe that redesigning it to be universal is the best option.
I'd prefer to see medical insurance premiums moved away from employer-paid over to paid the same way mortgages are. If we received our homes through benefits from our employer, all of our industries involved with home ownership would be just as screwed up and the feds would be at least partially involved too.
Then we'd see people demanding universal home provisions.
Why was this posted to the programming subreddit? Hamiltonian graph theory has little to do with practical programming.
i've been using this site for a while now and love it! this new switchfunds idea makes it even sweeter.
check out my profile if you join.
http://www.switchplanet.com/profile/view/2007
I would contend that any perceived government collusion to the benefit of De Beers was in fact the result of state capture. This is not a phenomenon that will fit neatly into your market fundamentalist ideology, and I say that as an economics teacher.
cuz some people felt like downmodding it.
yeah, 'Fux News' - huh huh huh.
Great stuff. Let the learning begin!
There might be a long standing issue involved, but the shortage NOW isn't caused by the exploding middle class.
Even if huge portions of the population switched from being poor to being middle class, it wouldn't immediately and directly result in onion shortages unless the now well off people somehow managed to waste 80% of the onions they buy.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
It's done that way for the collective bargaining - you can buy insurance yourself, but it's ghastly expensive that way. So, no one did, and pretty soon, that only worsened the problem. There's no doubt it'd be better if insurance weren't tied to employment - got any suggestions on how to make that happen? Which insurance company is going to be first to offer cheap insurance to any and all individuals?
Can't copyright HTML dude. I can't stop ya. ;)
Yes, but how many programs of that length will run that long? If there are only comparatively few programs which both terminate and execute one instruction 100 times, that means the experimental error is fairly small. If on the other hand, a large proportion of programs are up around the busy-beaver end of the spectrum, the experiment would have a problem.
This suggests a generalisation of the busy beaver problem -- what is the distribution of running times for terminating programs with a given number of states?
Interestingly, the second paper I posted actually does have some data regarding the nature of how loops were detected as program length varies. As it turns out, as program length increased, they were able to detect the majority of the loops by automatic analysis, with the machine having returned to an earlier state (as far as memory locations read during the loop are concerned), by these graphs, it looks to be somewhere around 70%. Some additional 20-30% of the time, the lowest-order 3 bits of the jump register may also be modified during the loop. The proportion of loops caused by conditional jumps or which are not classified dwindles toward 0 as the program length increases.
Your problem isn't gift cards, it's Apple.
Yes there is http://www.theidealgirl.com/marisa-miller/pics/marisa-miller21.jpg
Ihre Papieren, bitte!
Look for videos of the Texas Governor's debate back when Bush was running for that position. He's articulate and well spoken. It's kind of creepy, esp. considering how terrible a speaker he now is.
Why have a ban on Paris Hilton news, what news is there to report to begin with.
People, meaning Digg users?
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Schools like Wadsworth(G), Kirtland(G), and Copley(B) are good teams at best! The level of competition should always be an issue of debate! Wadsworth Girls ranked #1 in the PD, Kirtland Girls ranked #5th in the state D4 both got SPANKED! There is obviously a void in talent way out in the suburbs or remote rural townships! They play in snowy "Cupcake Leagues". So why should one be surprised when they loose to teams from Akron or Cleveland?? There is some talent out there (1 or 2 per team), however when they go againsts legitimate basketball programs one should not bet the house on teams like those. Case in point Copley Boys are ranked 2 in N.E Ohio per the PD. Having done some research (spoke directly w parents of Copley)I understand that they have 4 good players, but despite that I can't imagine how or why they earned a #2 ranking other than (20-0). Is the Plain Dealer saying that St. Ed's 20-0 is comparable to Copley's?? Get REAL!! Someone needs to stop giving these teams delusions of grandeur, thus setting them up for certain failure. It's just pathetic how the media hype these smaller team up. If the Media would just keep things relative, and actually go to a few games they may get the true picture rather than the distorted one! Kirtland lost to Lutheran East by 19, however at one point they were losing by 30! Don't say that they (Kirtland)just had a bad day either! Special Jennings formerly of East Tech had a field day(28points) and her supporting cast had a picnic last night (3/1).
DCOPS
I almost posted the same comment. I think it was an early Texas governor's debate. He was well spoken and, for a white man, "articulate" ;)
Schools like Wadsworth(G), Kirtland(G), and Copley(B) are good teams at best! The level of competition should always be an issue of debate! Wadsworth Girls ranked #1 in the PD, Kirtland Girls ranked #5th in the state D4 both got SPANKED! There is obviously a void in talent way out in the suburbs or remote rural townships! They play in snowy "Cupcake Leagues". So why should one be surprised when they loose to teams from Akron or Cleveland?? There is some talent out there (1 or 2 per team), however when they go againsts legitimate basketball programs one should not bet the house on teams like those. Case in point Copley Boys are ranked 2 in N.E Ohio per the PD. Having done some research (spoke directly w parents of Copley)I understand that they have 4 good players, but despite that I can't imagine how or why they earned a #2 ranking other than (20-0). Is the Plain Dealer saying that St. Ed's 20-0 is comparable to Copley's?? Get REAL!! Someone needs to stop giving these teams delusions of grandeur, thus setting them up for certain failure. It's just pathetic how the media hype these smaller team up. If the Media would just keep things relative, and actually go to a few games they may get the true picture rather than the distorted one! Kirtland lost to Lutheran East by 19, however at one point they were losing by 30 points! Don't say that they (Kirtland)just had a bad day either! Special Jennings formerly of East Tech had a field day(28points) and her supporting cast had a picnic last night (3/1).
DCOPS
You're, uh...wrong?
I can think of plenty of practical applications for visiting each vertex on a graph only once.
Fox News has to be careful; given a choice between Obama and Clinton, they'd take Obama. The last thing they want to do is help Hillary.
pop scientists?
how sciency is finding and underground river anyway?
it's not like working out how to launch yourself from earth and land on uranus now is it?
Ever since I saw their first advertisement, they have reminded me of a bad porno thumbs gallery. The kind that when you click the thumb, you get sent to another gallery. They suck.
So the Abrahamic religions are bad, but the Dharmic religions are OK?
Works fine for me.
cool
That's funny.
True, and I have no real suggestions on how to fix it.
There are places to buy individual insurance without paying much more than employer based, for the self-employed for example. It's just that if you're not getting it through your employer, it's easier to just ignore health insurance. If you are getting it through your employer, it's easier to just get it.
It may be that it's becoming more available than it used to be. 20 years ago, self-insurance meant only cobra, which was really horrendously expensive.
What also sucks is if you don't take your employer health insurance, you don't get the money that the employer would be paying to the insurer for you.
2nd largest? There's a larger one than Cantarell?
Yes, but OUR government isn't involved. Trust me, if OUR government got involved with those other countries health care systems, it would muck them up big time.
For those curious about this underground river:
http://www.geocities.com/cavedivingx2/SacActun.html
http://speleonet.typepad.com/speleonet/cave_diving/sistemasacactun.grancenote.jpg
Vonnegut is either really old and senile, or stupider than we thought. Hitler was gay, and Bush is not. Hitler was a drunk and Bush is not. Hitler made deals with muslims (Bosnian) terrorists to kill jews. Bush saves muslims and jews. Hitler was a racist pervert. Bush is a color-blind gentleman. Hitler tortured and killed Christians. Bush cheerfully tolerates Christians. Hitler's SS leaders were gay murderers. Bush's leaders are married with gay children.
Obviously Vonnegut is three bricks short of a load.
I agree that this "electability" canard is being trotted out to see if it sticks. It won't. It's way too damn early. Not enough people are really paying attention, except us inside baseball types.
Looking at the marist poll. It is not a large enough sample size to be meaningful and it is over broad. There were only 277 republicans nationwide. That's a ridiculously small number to say anything meaningful. And there's no ID as to what type of republicans were polled, were they evangels or liberarians? Were they all from New York or were they from the South. The study implies that they tried to evenly distribute across each region. That's not very comforting considering how unevenly the population is distributed.
Hillary has yet to make her case publicly on any of the issues polled for in the USA Today article. So it is surprising that USA Today or anyone else could try to make a case without veering over the line into trying to form public opinion.
Hillary's only real problem is her staff's inability to directly challenge the press/web spin against her. Republican spinmeisters typical call up the radio show, television program, directly and out right challenge the study they don't like. Team Hillary has been very touchy feely about this.
The best way to get a sense of how she's doing is to examine the futures market.
Right now Hill has a commanding lead for all dems as the marist poll concedes
https://www.intrade.com/aav2/trading/tradingHTML.jsp?evID=23190&eventSelect=23190&updateList=true&showExpired=false#
And Rudy is only slightly above McCain also similar to marist.
https://www.intrade.com/aav2/trading/tradingHTML.jsp?evID=23190&eventSelect=23190&updateList=true&showExpired=false#
Where as the individual winner is way to split to be meaning ful, but does correspond to Rudy slightly ahead of Hill, and Hill tied with McCain.
https://www.intrade.com/aav2/trading/tradingHTML.jsp?evID=23190&eventSelect=23190&updateList=true&showExpired=false#
I think its still too damn early. And frankly Rudy for example has way way to many vulnerabilities to be safely mass appealed. Bush had an army of handlers doing pre-emptive damage control. Rudy not so much.
I mean we're two years out. And none of the candidates has had any serious media exposure attacking any of the others.
There are public pictures of Rudy Cross Dressing! You really think that evangelicals are going to pick a man in drag over Hillary? What plays in NYC does not play in Springfield.
And then you have to ask yourse;f this? Do you really thing Bill is going to let Hill lose? Ever?
Most places I know of to buy insurance as a self-employed individual at reasonable rates involve the local government and their ability to create an artificial pool of insurance buyers who can then get a decent rate.
But, that's the government stepping in a screwing everything up, right?
I bought it and loved it. He also offers a money back guarantee, but I don't think you will need it.
It's an ugly tattoo, and it's too big and not geeky. Geeky would be LaTeX or zx80 code.
Maybe after you apologize for being a bigoted asshat.
Why not both?
Oh, I'm not saying this is specifically 'sciency' per se. I was commenting more on the phenomenon in general.
Still, measured exploration of natural phenomenon does have a scientific element to it.
Intrade has dems taking the presidency at 55-47. No worries.
Incredible how much money is already being spent on smearing obama and his campaign. I'm sure mr Rush got a handsome check from some bush "ranger" at the end of the day.
Legally it's not yours and if you abscond with it you can be prosecuted for theft.
Of course we all know there is no such thing as morality or honor, so the only reasonable thing to do is try to steal it.
It's nice that you went all the way and included a Wikipedia link, but, have reread the parent and the replies, I'm pretty sure you are what's technically known as "wrong".
Funniest comment I've seen in ages!
Obama will lock up the VP nomination. But he will not unseat Hill. She has already locked up the elite establishment donors market.
nice flick
Hell at that age I wouldn't be able to count the amount of times I've "used" porn in the previous week, let alone all-time.
many of the studies that are listed as sources at the bottom are 10, 20, 30 years old.
Shut yo mouth nigga!
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You can always recognize the truth, because Liberals start calling people names whenever it shows up.
Besides, Barack Hussein Osama is going to be Arkancided by Clinton, Inc. long before November 2008.
You might as well resign yourself to it.
Cannabis opens up the airways and is known to help some people with asthma. Stop spreading misinformation. http://www.google.com/search?q=cannabis+asthma
I find myself with mixed feelings on things like this. On the one hand, I'm strongly opposed to the use of hatespeech and racial slurs.
On the other hand, I'm strongly opposed to censorship, even in largely symbolic forms like this.
When people try to ban a word, it seems like they're trying to ban a thought. And regardless of how bad that thought might be, I don't think it's a path we should go down.
Other opinions?
You left off engineers, CS majors, math majors, and WoW addicts.
An easy and free approach to adding the music you have to your phones ringtones.
It does act. It's presented with an ongoing series of problems, and it solves them. That's the definition of intelligence, is it not? And not just problems of a known kind, where a simple algorithm would suffice, but open-ended ones, new ones. Sometimes it fails, other times it succeeds. It builds on the successes, learning from them (the learned "knowledge" amounts to a large genetic codebase, which it can use to solve other problems).
This does not invalidate evolutionary theory, of course. It's still valid. But it is an intelligence (though certainly an alien one compared to more conventional human or animal intelligences). And that's why I contend that intelligent design is such bullshit... even while they're correct about the intelligence, they're so far off the mark that they can't even claim that victory.
To say that evolution tries this, tests that, shows a fundamental misunderstanding of it.
No, it doesn't. It shows that I understand it very well. When you solve problems by trial and error, how do you think your mind comes up with the various options? Does it or does it not come up with some potential solutions completely at random (and yet others not at random) ? When evolution attempts to make a biology or a species survive, various solutions are attempted. Some fail, others thrive.
I doubt most people unfamiliar with machine intelligence and its implications would realize that this is an intelligent process... because they assume that intelligence equals self-awareness. This is not the case. "Evolution" will never wake up and realize it is there, it won't talk to you. It's almost impossible to even calculate what other intelligence it might be equivalent to, and that's probably even meaningless.
In contrast, the current IDers out there should more properly be called "self-aware/conscious design" advocates, because for them and their limited definition of intelligence, that's the only kind.
Instead of that "Wish you were beer" shirt, the poor fellow really should have been wearing one of these:
http://www.printfection.com/ihatethet/I-am-not-a-bomb/_s_47186
I swear one day I'll write a spam-bot that will write in every "linuxer" story something like: Stop the spam! It's so fucking annoying.
The BBC gets a subsidy from the british taxpayer. To be able to also get advertising revenue seems very unfair.
The Inquirer suggests that "The YouTube deal could, in theory, queer the pitch for continued state handouts as the BBC Worldwide channel which carries advertising will be available over the web in the UK complete with ads"
http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37972
I hope they're right.
I don't know. I think Obama is a great speaker. But its just too soon for a run. The problem with Obama is he speaks too well. His rhetoric promises much much more than he has any intention of delivering. There will be a lash back as this becomes more apparent.
On close inspection Obama comes off a lot like Harry J Lennix in Barbershop 2 too slick for his own good. And that stems directly from the soaring rhetoric without the action. Other famous leaders earned their rhetoric, King delivered on his promises, he didn't back away from the fight. Obama sold the nation down river with his MCA vote. That very political floor speech is enough to see his balloon fizzle. Even he admits, it the hunger for change that brings people to his rhetoric, not his person.
Don't forget that he attended a terrorist madrassa when he was a kid! Be scared!!!
This site barely blips above zero.
Alexa Graph comparing it with newsbusters, alternet, crooksandliars and newshounds.
What's more "you're with us or against us" tactic than comparing a president you don't much like and his ~%50 support base to one of the most deadly & evil entities that ever existed?
Now there, my friend, you are dead-on right. Why is that, is a very interesting question too.
Personally, I don't sit around waiting for a nice guy to beat down my door. I actually found one. This is just some adventures.
"Used". "Ground breaking study". Interesting. I bet most fourteen yr old's grandfathers can't count the number of times they "used" marilyn monroe or even gasp pinup photos.
The source, Sun Media, is a conservative Canadian tabloid publisher.
What's interesting is the constant comparison to Mitt Romney's Mormonism. The right-wing noise machine is trying to suggest that liberals are questioning the appropriateness of Romney's religion when it's actually fundamentalist and evangelical Christians - i.e. a big part of the right-wing base - who are appalled.
News organizations have no right of doing this, If people reads Paris stories instead of learning of middle east issues, its not because you don't put those stories there but I because of people's choice.
Wow. How telling it is that people think this actually happened.
O reddit alien, where do you find these people?
lol, I actually have a pretty well paying job and have zero debt except for student loans.
"Buried as inaccurate"
Where do you think you are?
Paraguay is all the rage these days.
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-4 points 4 months ago by e-pluribus-unum
The GOP has the momentum as the election approaches, which is a very, very, very bad sign for the Democrats.
Heh.
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-6 points 4 months ago by e-pluribus-unum
The Foley "Wag the Fag" manufactured scandal was a Democrat publicity stunt, so we're even.
By the way, "Wag the Fag" blew up in your faces. Instead of suppressing the evangelical vote, it energized it.
-5 points 4 months ago by e-pluribus-unum
November 7th is going to be very difficult for you. Please have the number of your local suicide hotline next to your phone so you don't do something rash.
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-5 points 4 months ago by e-pluribus-unum
Hey, when things aren't going your way, just make up any bullshit that comes to mind.
It's the Democrat way.
your an obviously insecure sort. sound obnoxious too, is that how you 'deal' with your customers? the haughty pretard? i bet it is.
you 'think' college is worthless? you think your TECHINICAL expertise is as deep as say someone with a masters degree emphasizing networks?
you just guess at stuff? use the current 'hot' practice you found on some tech website?
those documents are EVIDENCE of your IT skills numbskull.
one day you will be handed your ass if you don't get certified at least. i GUARANTEE it.
and get off that high horse too. just cause you pat yourself on the back with gusto and disparage those WHO HAVE PROOF of competence...that is NO proof to a REAL professional of your l33t 'skills'. you would be INVITED to walk out, if you got a foot in the door where i work.
in fact, i wonder if your claim is even true.
six figures for a network 'engineer'? i DOUBT it. a management level position? maybe a director? yes. a VP, definately. a sys admin? uh uh.
exactly what are your six figure duties? how many report to you? only been there 3 months? you started as a network engineer at six figures? hmm. how did you get your foot in the door anyway?
where did you work before this job?
badrul is too ashamed to admit the link went to a goatse mirror.
So this a numerical ability issue or a porn saturation issue?
Lame,useless comment.
DONT TAKE PINK AWAY FROM ME. not hearing lalalalala.
You have versions. There is a system. Ok, so there is no control, but is two out of three really that bad?
Joking aside, this is still more than some companies have.
Yeah - and if you were a pre-global warming eskimo, I could sell you ice.
I agree that most suicide bombers live in situations that cause them to be or feel oppressed. It really is 'suicide' bombing, a way to take yourself out of your daily misery while hopefully makeing a statement about the plight of your people. In that sort of circumstance I don't think the promise of virgins, or grapes, or whatever the Koran is promising the worthy who enter heaven, has any bearing on their decision to take this extreme action.
I suspect that the Western media is fixated on this (the 'virgins') in a way that doesn't even enter the conversation in Muslim society. But then it is just one of several cultural gaps that exist and that the current state of things is not helping to bridge.
Not surprised, I was sure this was going to be some doofus that said "NONE GET A MAC!!! LOL!!1 IM CLEVER!" and I was only wrong in that he also suggested Ubuntu, way to jump on that bandwagon.
after stomping, I'd really like to make a deposit there
Well, you see, there are these little arrows to the left of each story, and if a lot more people click on the arrow pointing up than on the arrow pointing down, the story moves closer to the top of the front page.
Sorry, let me re-phrase myself. The 2nd largest oil field in the world is Canterall (Mexico), the largest is Ghawar in Saudi Arabia.
The point is that both of those are declining fast along with quite a few others. There are other oilfields coming on-stream in a few years but those wont be enough to supply the world demand, so the poorer countries like Africa are now having to do with out oil.
This chart show oil prices for the last three years :-
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?c=$wtic,uu[w,a]dalayyay[pb200]
Anyone spot a disturbing trend there ??
What does paganism have to do with the Dharmic religions?
I imagine he just mentioned the Abrahamic religions by name, because they've been the bigger dicks lately. At least... I seldom hear about Hindus and Buddhists doing horrible things in the news.
He also didn't mention Taoic religions... cause what'd be the point?
The article didn't mention that a 1 mile walk into the country would claim a large amount of its territory.
Google maps link
As it stands right now, I'll forgo my usual Libertarian vote in favor of Obama. News like this from the Xian loonies emboldens me. Hell, I'd campaign for the guy personally if he came out as an atheist.
And Obama is a smoker! Please don't stop smoking, Obama.
Of course, I can vote for him only if the Democrats have the guts to put him in the race. They don't, and they won't.
They'll run Hillary, and they'll lose, and we'll hear for the next eight goddamned years how we're a stupid country for electing another Republican.
If the engineer writes his code like he writes his English, it probably is crap.
Which is just evidence that there is something very wrong with the American system of government, and that we would not have the same success of a Canada or a France or a UK if we tried to create a national health care plan. I like the idea of universal health care, but the us gov will make it into a system to sucks money from the poor and gives it to the rich.
Maybe you should add that to Wikipedia
Waterboarding?
to the mainstream of users, flash is still primarily a vehicle for ad delivery.
These days it's much more a video player than an AD delivery platform.
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That's so bhlack.
Of course, if they could just pay for health care themselves, rather than paying higher taxes. What they really want is to increase their taxes by X amount, and get X+Y amount in net benefits. Which really means making someone else foot the bill.
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I think you are correct in your thinking, but took it one step too far with
thus supersymmetry must exist
No one is concluding supersymmetry, they're just saying that given a choice between an island of stability 10^-32 meters wide and one a little wider, they prefer the one that's a little wider. If the data say it's a tiny island, they'll go with it, but there isn't much data (yet). Part of the reason these particular data are interesting is that they support the theory with a wider island.
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No. Thank. You.
These are people who are potentially the leaders of the United States of America. Questioning everything about them is entirely open game, as whether you are on the left or the right or up or down, you should entirely support and encourage this.
Sure, as long as the forum in which it is done is unbiased towards any candidate and stands without own interest in the matter. The problem arises when one set of voices control the media, even some of it. People aren't machines, impervious to influence by loud, repeated, messages. Rather the opposite.
I'm all for scrutinizing all public figures, it's crucial for an open democracy. But truth, honesty and accountability are equally important, and it must be enforced since it does not come naturally to everybody.
Having (what the audience are meant to perceive as) random black dude on Fox News saying Obama's church is a racist cult is with utmost certainty not true, not honest, and the network will almost definitely not be accountable to their viewership.
It's about telling people "Obama doesn't have the black vote secured" enough times until they believe it.
So yes, let's do scrutinize. Everybody. But not as a game, because it isn't one.
Clever and cute, sure. But thanks, I'll keep mine!
Wait - everyone's complaining about rampant political correctness, but nobody's bitching about the litigiousness of the girl's parents?
Maybe you shouldn't be reading reddit at work.
That's much more entertaining, submit a link to reddit.
Good list of european low cost airlines
what's a Dib? :)
Quite beautiful.
Mock as you will, however you avoided the point I was trying to make... as long as they're not harmful what does it matter what anyone believes about the origins of the world and universe?
Even if this study proves to be accurate enough in the long term
What do you need? A century of research? The tobacco companies have long argued that any cancer link is pure correlation and that causation hasn't been proven. Ironic that the pro-cannabis crowd use the same tactic.
I still don't think that cannabis use and abuse can compare in terms of the destruction caused by the use and abuse of a drug like alcohol.
Another false dichotomy.
Nice strawman, "condemn asking legitimate questions".
There's nothing at all suspicious about it. They reported a wide variety of things that were mistaken, unconfirmed, and in many cases untrue, throughout the day. They corrected themselves a bunch of times - sometimes they even "corrected" things that were true, and then reversed the corrections. Lots of reporters were confused.
What's "crazy" is cherry-picking a few bits of the day's confusion and trying really really hard to paint it as "suspicious" in the service of promoting completely impossible conspiracy theories, and trying to defend the practice by innocently calling it "asking legitimate questions".
We're trying, but it takes time. When you have millions of people all trying to push a thousand different and conflicting fixes, it slows it down.
Now we can see why the US doesn't want Iran (or anybody else with oil) to have nukes. How the hell can we steal their oil if they nuke us first ?
Am I getting to cynical ?
Got any proof? Any physiological profiles on Hilary you care to share? Has Bill contacted the battered husbands hot line? Got that on tape? Any record of discrimination against men in hiring practices for her staff? Any shred of evidence at all apart from your own opinion based on pure partisan conjecture?
(Oh, thanks for making my case, there's nothing like verifying just how successful propaganda can be, than an example in the flesh)
Being required to produce ID to board a train in my own country is exactly the same as "Your papers please" in the old soviet block or the third reich.
And any student of history can tell you this comes hand in hand with "Bam bam bam! Open the fucking door!" at 3am.
MORE IMPORTANTLY a national ID system has nothing whatsoever to do with securing the country from acts of terrorism. Either the people pushing this at DHS know this and are up to no good, or are too incompetent to understand the difference between security and control. The latter is more likely of course.
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What would be so amusing about a former SAM site?
You're a loony.
http://bagiart.info/?p=30 - Disgrace for Britney Spears! Ooops! She did it again...
Now I KNOW I'm on the right track. You're going insane!
The Clintons are not to be crossed. People who do cross them live to regret it, if they get to live.
PS - I'm flattered that you care so much. You must have a lot of free time on your paws.
They need to listen to more Dead Prez and Sage Francis.
Why is whale fishing even banned anymore? They aren't ridiculously endangered like they used to be. New age nonsense aside, most whales aren't any smarter than pigs, and we eat those.
I suggest that the proper way to prevent depletion of whale stocks is by making them into property. They're big enough and unambiguously individual enough to be claimed and owned singly or by pod - and farmed.
To be fair, I haven't researched the self-employed insurance providers. I don't know if the local governments are involved or not.
The only ones I remember are from a few years ago when someone at work pointed me to some available online. Since I was getting it insurance at work, I found it easier to just continue getting it from my employer. ;)
That article reads like something from Monthy Python. I can't imagine anybody but John Cleese reading that out loud.
Oh, and Paris Hilton just got paid for them using that photo, so it all works out great.
Next up, not reporting on or from the middle east.
...his home is now eerily silent. Neighbors claim to have seen the man escorted into the back of an unidentified van at 2am, 14 hours after the initial inquiry. Further details are not available at this time...
Feynman wasn't just your run of the mill genius... he was also a very wise man. You should read his words on pretty much any topic - I guarantee you'll come out learning something new.
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what's a fiona
Elusive? Not really, just browse through myspace. You dont even need your binoculars ;)
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Much love,
-Luke
To make an analogy, it's as if you cut off a flap of your skin, but it didn't bleed and a scab didn't form.
The Earth is a zombie!
Note to writer: you don't want your lifes work to be one long rambling rant about Ikea. I know your upset but sharing your opinion to the world isn't going to make it a better place.
I might suggest choosing a few options before heading to the checkout area, I might also suggest asking for a manager or supervisor if you don't get the answer you like.
Then again the writer appears to be the type of customer that employees want to get rid of as quickly as possible.
Well, best comment I've ever seen on reddit.
And any student of history can tell you this comes hand in hand with "Bam bam bam! Open the fucking door!" at 3am.
Ah, you mean like no-knock SWAT raids on mixtape producers, stoners, artists and file sharers?
Note that they never banned news about news about Paris Hilton.
Which is especially funny since the founders dropped out of their graduate programs to found google. Or am I misinformed?
Should be a good one. Love the brother matchups.
The author means hue. Pink is not a hue. First two sentences of wikipedia article on Pink:
Pink is a color often made by mixing red and white. It can be described as a light red, but it is more accurately a bright, undersaturated red.
Yes, it's fine. It's mostly text with a close-up of a guy's face in 'deep thought' at the end.
love this. people not satisfied with windmills.
love this. people not satisfied with windmills.
love this. people not satisfied with windmills.
love this. people not satisfied with windmills.
This is incredibly good news. Maybe in a decade or two it will be as extinct . One can only hope.
totally comical. caption is awesome.
Oh jeez . . . I'm not exactly sure how to tell you this, but . . . you don't have eyes. I'm sorry.
"7:27 am: Devin Green signing off, 03/01/2007 -- Good morning and good luck"
" As today is my last day setting the homepage for The Santa Fe New Mexican I thought I would bid you all farewell. I resigned two weeks ago to better pursue my personal interests. It is to my great amusement however that this day coincides with an astonishing story to share in this blog. There is an uproar rising across the Internet over what is being called yet another blatant, 9/11 smoking gun."
Bush has been fairly indifferent to the queer community. He hasn't done much for same-sex marriage, but he has done nothing to take away rights, and just generally doesn't bring it up, instead, letting congress deal with it.
This could be a reason, Cheney's daughter another, and his gay aide, another.
I'm with you. It's an interesting fact that if Ghawar is indeed in decline, then every oil field that produced > 1 mbpd in the world is in decline. And there are no up-and-coming comparably large oil fields waiting to be drilled.
NASA hasn't heard of HDR?
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Username: Ben
She just hasn't yet discovered the dining set that defines her as a person.
--vat
Yes but were they official Swiss Army Knives?
HTML is funny.
Now php, that would be just sad.
When Bush first started talking about "homeland" I was so creeped out... nobody uses the term "homeland" to talk about America in conversation... it was clearly very contrived. Hitler refered repeatedly to the "fatherland" to stir nationalist emotion.
Bush also paid commentators to support his programs, like that guy Williams getting a quarter of a million to support No Child Left Behind on his talk show. Hitler made propaganda films to get everybody on board with his agenda.
But I agree with hhh333 (do I know you grateful dead fan?), the comparison is the political manipulation tactics, not the horror of the Hitler genocide.
The beauty of those ads is in their conciseness, they're like inspired haiku, I don't think it will translate well to a sitcom. I hope they drop this idea before they pollute the genius of those ads with sitcom drivel.
I mean, look at the economy of those scripts, how much they say in so little time.
"But that wouldn't make sense. Therapists are..."
"Are what, smart?"
"It's my mother. I'll put her on speaker."
Oh man, that kills me every time.
I know it's just advertising. Most of the time it's just ad makers doing their jobs, working by formula, but sometimes you're going to get artistic outbreaks even in advertising. For example http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3733651826588034673 .
Oh really. I thought that happens when I sacrifice a kitten. Oh the poor kittens.
no, that's got to be the Israelis.
Yes, but it should make it blatantly obvious, making it more difficult to evade the reality of porn's effect (or non-effect, rather) on society.
Who cares if Bush is bisexual? I think that'd be refreshing. But aren't there a billion other things more worth mentioning about Bush than where he's put his -.
Sounds to me like you've been exposed to porn for years, but haven't figured out what it's for.
Have a wank and blow off some steam.
There are plenty of studies on this subject already, see for example:
http://reddit.com/goto?id=kssu
1965 - hardcore porn becomes freely available in Denmark, in the following 5 years, the number of sex crimes drops by 50%
I think it is funny that you put quotes around your own lies in your reply.
You said,
Poster "lied"
when you meant, "I disagree with the poster but I will lie by calling him a liar first." I bet that is a habit with you. Lets check your other comments to find out.
You said,
I would like to know what all the libs "actually" think about Nuclear Terrorism.
when you meant, "I don't actually care what liberals think."
You said,
Just because he didn't "buy into" the document doesn't mean it was ignored.
when you meant, "He ignored the document."
You said,
I gave this an "up" rating because it states the liberals point of view so eloquently.
when you meant, "I downvoted this just like every other comment that doesn't agree with my limited and sad worldview."
That was way too easy.
In the NYC / Northern NJ area, he has a hour show every week night on Freefm on 92.3 I dont recall them mentioning he will be ending his show?
The Earth is bigger than the Moon. This means the Earth must appear larger than the Sun on the moon. If NASA must fake there images, please let them fake them without this kind of obvious errors.
DFT,
You don't have to wager monopoly money. You can use real money and participate in the intrade market on the Dem Nominee. In fact I encourage you to do so. And indeed I will be following this closely. Please keep me posted with new information.
So why do they do it ? For the money ? I mean if it isn't for the women...
I would also prefer Gore. And I like Fiengold. Barbershop 2 was pretty funny.
"she also said sexually curious teens who are watching porn"
Go figure, guess teaching abstinence leads teens to seek information from other places.
If educators really want to give students the right messages, they have to start teaching them. Not in a it's evil don't do it cause it will kill you method, but in a honest and non-biased method. Same thing for drugs.
Lieing to students about these things will get them ignored and information searched for in the easiest place to find it, which might not be the most accurate.
But to then sit around scratching our heads about why teenagers get there views on sex from porn, and violence from movies is silly. It's cause those are the only sources that where willing to share any information with them. At least the sort of information they where interested in hearing about.
But, regardless, they are going to watch porn. Kids today, no imagination. I got this funny image of some old guy "Back in my day all we had where sears catalog's and our imagination. You young punks got it easy with your world wide webs, wacking off used to be WORK and took imagination dammit!"
flies too?!
hmm i thought plagues were infestations...it's a twist! an extinction of a bug we need to pollenate our crops.
i still wonder if it were perhaps 'terror' related. some spy bees with AIDS are introduced...flown in at night wearing overcoats and fedoras.
XP was based on the NT 5 kernel (used in 2K), so it was an upgrade over 2000. The 9X line died with ME.
Common Henry don't let me down.
M-I-YAYO Stand UP!!
Good call. Fixed.
Try selling them on eBay. Some people will pay full face value or even more.
It would be cool if you could plug your username in and get some stats graphed...maybe karma over time or something. Not sure if that would be too difficult....
Anyway, I like what you've done; here's my reddit hack. It parses reddit and removes stories I don't care for, mainly politics and religion. I control it with a file that has keywords in it (tags). It's still pretty rough...
Possibly. While we're helping each other with definitions, I'd like to suggest that by 'the support Iran's "Holocaust conference" got from the same people' you meant 'the support Iran's "Holocaust conference" got from other people I've chosen arbitrarily to identify with these people'.
it's ALWAYS passive aggressive at first. with 'illness' merely implied, THEN it takes baby steps towards banning porn everywhere.
YOU should be more vigilant and defensive of your choices.
lol, just exchange the word 'right' for 'left' in your post, and re-read it. Maybe then you'll understand how retarded you sound.
Well, it's harder to manipulate scores on reddit than on Digg. Sacrificing kittens is as effective a tool as we have right now.
But bush hates muslims and arabs, hitler mostly didn't give a fuck about them.
maybe later, in fact im debating giving a couple of chicks a call this evening...or playing fable and drinking scotch. undecided.
I'm glad someone likes the ads - I don't IMHO, but a sitcom?? Would anyone actually watch this?
Early parkinsonian degenerescence?
In real life, my vagina preferences do not relate to size. Scars are cool, though.
Yeah, that essay looked ok when I wrote it yesterday. Now it does look like crap :)
I'd like to thank bender for linking to the webpage and not the jpg. I like reading the explanation.
lol!
That isn't true. Now stop using that excuse.
The victims of new world order will be more along ideological and socio-economic lines.
Those evil Liberals (who are capable of intellectually challenging their new world) and the disgusting poor (who are poor because they are lazy and a drain on society) would be moved to the ghettos or the Halliburton camps being built in the US right now.
I have been seeing this coming for more than two years now although my spouse kept telling me to not say the "f" word... now some of the most respected names are saying it.
We had best take heed.
By upmodding, you are satisfactorily expressing your preferences; there is no reason to express your preference in a comment also. This is the reason you have been downmodded to -3 (ATOR).
so naive.
i bet you argue about the 'correctness' of all sorts of things you've seen and adopted as universal edicts.
I'm totally going to add this to my WordPress blog this weekend.
I have seen these explanations before (bending when no one is looking - pre bending - and pre breaking) and I have seen other magicians use these techniques.
But - from what I remember - I saw people examine spoons - or even offer their own spoons to Geller - He would bend the spoon slowly and in full view in close up.
He must have done this very many times on tv channels all over the world in the seventies - Why have these clips not been used repeatedly to discredit him?
yeay europe!
My post was an attempt at humor: nomis80 is doing exactly what he says he never does, and I tried to play with that (without much success, apparently :)
Having said that, I do use Tk and tile, and I believe they have two big advantages over the rest:
tight integration between language and toolkit
compact, powerful set of widgets
There are some cool screenshots here.
Jobs aren't usually filled through wanted adds at any company, as far as I know. For a particularly famous (in internet terms) example of a non-college graduate who works(ed?) for Google, google ZorbaTHut.
The Second Life Liberation Army (SLLA) was formed as the 'in-world' military wing of a national liberation movement within Second Life. The movement contends that political rights should be established within Second Life immediately. As Linden Labs is functioning as an authoritarian government the only appropriate response is to fight.
Truly that's the ne plus ultra of crack-brained idiocy.
Fuckers, you did not fund it, you did not code it, you don't run it and your loser ass couldn't do any of those things if you tried. The labor of the common man has shit-all to do with SL, it's entirely the labor of Linden Labs. And you... as a paying customer you've a right to expect what you paid for - and no more. You demand shares and "avatar rights"? For what? Or else you'll be a nuisance? What a heap of crap. You're nothing more than pushy, whining, aggressive beggars, and you can take your politics straight to hell.
Good think the guy wasn't wearing this t-shirt: http://store.cottonfactory.com/cf-440.html or this one: http://raplica.com/store/shirts/Adlt_Swim/mooninite
Easy to ignore Paris Hilton when you're maxed out on Anna Nicole Smith.
I don't mind; I figured it would be downmodded. I posted the comment to provide the additional feedback to jtrumonp, not to score karma. I've upmodded several comments today, and clearly not all of them could be the funniest I've seen in ages.
Oh, what the hell: upmods all around!
Liechtenstein is really a part of Switzerland for all practical purposes...except one: Tax haven for Euro-corporations. They use the Swiss Franc for currency, and Switzerland runs their defense and foreign relations.
It doesnt make it any less stupid. Theres enough real unbelievable news that these sites, onion and I guess bbspot, dont have to print lies. Why are made up news stories funny? its completely made up! I have never understood why people like the onion.
Premature optimization is a sin.
Agreed. I was talking about how to optimize when you optimize. That's one of the reasons I advocate writing compilers... it also helps you to know when optimization is worth it.
Yes, it does sound stupid to say that code should be short, until you realise that the largest readership of your source code is probably humans not computers. Humans have poor memories, are slow, and often make mistakes (relative to computers), and they can only take in so much information at once so you need to keep things simple and concise to avoid confusing them.
Yes, but that is precisely why I advocate minimizing operations.
Short source != readable source.
In fact, in golfing, one frequently ends up making source code less readable in order to shorten it, as well as spending more time trying to figure out how to do so.
So she doesn't like Ikea because she's a spoiled idiot.
Only at first. Ultimately, just like Bush, Hitler's delusions of military prowess were greater than reality.
Hitler was finally stopped when Berlin was in ruins. Bush's military push has left our nation in crippling debt that could throw us into economic depression if our debt funders get scared and run. Will Bush be stopped by our economic ruin?
Yes, it turns out I am still an idiot. My bad, comment deleted.
There is a bit of emotion there, yes -- I am annoyed by people who keep doing the same things and wonder why they're stressed out all the time. But my experiences are not few and emotionally charged; I see it in everyone, including myself, all the time, and the emotion is the frustration of having to learn the same damned lesson over and over again.
Human nature is shown in the way humans act and react in all situations, toxic or not. This is not an unnatural world -- humans come from nature and, though we've evolved to build houses, cars, and computers, we're still part of nature. Nature takes the easiest route, no matter whether it's an animal or a person, because it is detrimental to survival to waste energy on harder things when one can get by with easier.
I also disagree that I or the people I usually interact with (from which my views of human laziness come) live in a toxic world -- at least, it's no more toxic than the world humans evolved in.
Yes to mine at Britney that that with a head
You shouldn't read so much into what other people say. Instead of looking for ulterior motives, maybe you should have just accepted NoFixedAbode's comment at face value. If you look for a hidden agenda, you'll always find it, whether it exists or not.
I wasn't referring to the essay, which I enjoyed, but to the sign hanging on the engineer's wall that was cited in the essay.
For what it's worth, just about everything I write looks like crap afterwards. Thanks to the Internet, it often looks like crap within seconds. :)
Then updmod and be quiet. Reddit's rankings are representative of social utility, which is in turn representative of the aggregation of individual's preferences, each with a weighting of one.
If you like something, then upmod it, if not, downmod it. The society is non-exclusive - you (and many others) may not like the opinions of others, but their opinion is (in terms of reddit) absolutely equal to that of yours.
But they do it all the time. Selecting what's news and what's not news is part of the job. There would still be plenty of places to learn about Paris Hilton if all the major news suppliers dropped coverage. That's what "ET!" and "Best Week Ever!" are for!
The rap I've heard consists mainly of rudimentary 2- or 3-note "melodies" and juvenile rhymes about violence. I also hope this is the "beginning of the end" for this particular form of "music".
This story has a lot of holes. Somebody should cut the cheese.
There is a growing mountain of evidence against it...
Who gives a crap what she wrote 38 years ago? Jebus on a pogo stick, people... show some sense of proportion.
I won't vote for her because of what she is saying now.
Admirable, but in order to provide feedback to an individual, you can PM him, no?
So if the girl saw two boys kissing and said "that's so gay" would she have been in trouble? Is it the words or the meaning that we are trying to control?
Great link. Thank you.
Dude, B.I.G. is dead.
The color's stayed where they were for me too. No, I'm not colorblind nor a robot.
Note to self: Get married on an easily remembered date like 7/7.
I don't think the thesis itself says much (after all, it's the work of a 21-year old Hillary). What does speak volumes though is the fact that she went to all that trouble to keep it hidden.
I mean, a rule that all theses are public except those written by the President or First Lady? It's ridiculous and makes people suspicious.
it should be as the realization of immense stupidity sinks in.
Damn, that's so... responsible. First fire the guy you think is at fault, and then fire yourself for letting it get out of hand. What next, honest politicians? CEOs who don't take the golden parachute when they fuck up a corporation?
Well yeah, there could be other motives. We'll see.
We must have different value systems. I think of myself in terms of thought, so as far as I'm concerned a body is a way for my mind to interact with reality, and thus not special or important. If you're identifying yourself in terms of your body, are you claiming that you'd be a substantially different person if (for example) you got a tattoo or had a disfiguring injury?
Consider identifying marks like plastic surgery or tattoos: as far as I know, people get them to be treated as they mentally treat themselves. You're claiming a one to one correspondence between appearance and personality (or suggesting that this is ideal, at least), and I can't see any evidence for this or any reason to want it to be so.
So basically, the "I promise I won't come in your country" excuse. If their leader is a woman you'll have no credibility at all.
Goodwin's law upheld before the comments even started. Nice job!
I hope so.
is not. define 'health'. it's just unsightly if you don't like that sort of thing.
What the hell. Squish
Cocoa. As long as he stays away from Carbon, CF, and some of Cocoa's newer portions, his app should run on GNUStep and AfterStep environments as well.
'No, I got a knife in a piece of cardboard.' Honest yet hilarious, under the circumstances! (Not to mention scary, I'd be dribbling down my leg.)
I'm as left-liberal as they come, and I just don't understand the hubub over this. Don't we all have social security cards already? Don't we pretty much all have either a drivers license or state ID? Wouldn't one uniform national ID that doesn't vary from state to state be a good thing? Or at very least, not a bad thing? What am I missing?
not even funny... /vote down
These are people who are potentially the leaders of the United States of America. Questioning everything about them is entirely open game
A political hit job isn't the same as "questioning". "Questioning" suggests that you're looking for whatever evidence is there to get the real answer.
These political hit jobs are just cherry-picked pseudofacts cleverly presented so as to deceive.
Boobs.
I think the Caspian sea is fairly large but it's nowhere near to offset the declines of the old giants.
The 'Jack' oil field was announced to great fanfare last year because it could yeald up to 15 billion barrels. That sounded great until you realise that amount of oil would only last us 6 months !!!
Those are gimungous!
air compressor? although I agree, it does sound a little strange.
/me looks around a bit. Ah...the imendio folk appear to be doing/have done a native port:
http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx
I've no idea about maturity, but the imendio folk are smart cookies. Might be worth a look.
(I didn't even know that x11 wasn't the native windowing system on the Mac. I kind of assumed that all the gui goodness was layered over that. You learn something every day.)
Geller is either bending spoons using the power of his mind, or he's bending them in the same way that every other non-psychic magician does it. I'll briefly illustrate 2 ways to accomplish the illusion:
Firstly (and I won't go into too much detail as there's the magician's code and all that) you bend a spoon when nobody expects you to. This is known as misdirection, and don't let my trivial explanation put you off. If you're willing to spend a few dollars/pounds in a magic store you can buy videos explaining how this is accomplished.
The second way (and I believe this is what you are actually describing) is to have some preparation beforehand. You need access to the spoon or spoons you are going to "melt" before the performance - or you could bring your own and mix it in with the others. Perform some standing spoon bending tricks first, then for the impressive finale, select a spoon seemingly "at random" (it's actually the spoon you worked on before the show) and let the magic happen.
What do you do to the spoon before the show? You have to bend it backwards and forwards multiple times until the spoon becomes very brittle... it takes a bit of practice to know how far you can go (go too far and it snaps).
When you perform the illusion it is imperative you don't allow anyone to thoroughly examine that particular spoon. Also, be careful how you hold the spoon, preferably keep your finger or thumb over the weakened metal or someone will see the line. It's interesting to note that in any footage of Geller when he melts a spoon, you never see the whole spoon, he always keeps the join hidden. Why is that I wonder?
To perform the melt, all you need to do is to bend the spoon 2 or 3 times, or wobble the spoon to weaken it until it breaks. The rest is presentation - it can look extremely impressive if you don't know the secret.
Hmmm... a site that I never knew existed has closed down. All of the content appears to be taken offline, so I can't even determine what the site USED to be about.
I'm tired of the Hitler / Bush comparisons, as well.
Hitler was elected.
Donald is so sexy
And liberals hate success, so what can we do?
Wait a second, are you saying that most of the world loves the Bush Administration, or that I hate Dennis Kucinich?
This is why companies like gift cards. They can advertise them as "just as good as cash", but in reality, they're limited by whatever the company decides it wants to do.
I don't know why people like gift cards. Why not just ask for and give cash? It's not merchant limited, and it doesn't get slowly drained by account maintenance fees.
Bethlehem. If you happen to have travel money, send it my way.
Nor my Star Trek MUD chat logs in the AOL days.
Why are you attempting to take a personal dispute with a troll onto the home page? Why are YOU being a troll?
This is totally inappropriate conduct.
By your logic, would insulting Nazis constitute political persecution?
When you are no longer able to criticize ideas (religion, philosophy, politics), what good is free speech?
Read it, it was his money.
Sad...
Hitler, Germany and the Nazis are not mentioned anywhere in this article. To everybody complaining about the comparisons to Hitler: you are making the inference and connecting the dots in your head. In fact, I find it interesting that so many commenters are all drawing the same conclusion... that the Bush/Cheney cabal are modern-day equivalents of Hitler and the Nazi regime.
While the article itself is mostly a recap, it's a good recap and it does share an uncommon view of the motivations behind the last five years of warmongering. The article lays out one of the more plausible theories I've heard and, probably correctly, places the blame on the heads of a small group of neoconservatives who worked their way into power.
*Once released from prison, Hitler decided to seize power constitutionally rather than by force of arms. Hitler did not create the revolution in Germany, but he rose to become the figurehead of it. Then he became master of the universe.
Bush and Cheney are being helped to seize power constitutionally via the patriot act, military commissions act, and the new clause allowing Bush to declare martial law easily and take control of local police. Bush did not create the neo-con movement, but he rose to become the figurehead of it. Bush said himself it would be easier to run America if it were a dictatorship, as long as he was the dictator. hahaha.
*Using demagogic oratory, Hitler spoke to scores of mass audiences, calling for the German people to resist the yoke of Jews and Communists, and to create a new empire which would rule the world for 1,000 years.
Using radio talk show hosts across America for 20 years the neo-cons speak to mass audiences, calling on Americans to resist the "yoke" of liberal "socialism" and support the neo-con version of conservativism and global policy (free trade) which is the new world order promised by Bush's dad.
*Hitler's Nazi party captured 18% of the popular vote in the 1930 elections. In 1932, Hitler ran for President and won 30% of the vote, forcing the eventual victor, Paul von Hindenburg, into a runoff election. A political deal was made to make Hitler chancellor in exchange for his political support. He was appointed to that office in January 1933.
Bush took office amid election manipulation, voter purges, and voter intimidation. Bush was challenged by popular vote winner Al Gore, who ultimately dropped out. Bush was "appointed" to office by the Supreme Court.
not only is this a stupid and redundant idea, but it will cost 23 billion???? i mean seriously, if this comes to fruition, it will the the dumbest, ill advised and needlessly expensive thing the government has done (excluding the obvious of course).
Also known as a "Level playing field".
Yes, I had this happen to me, I let them know about it, they didn't do anything, I spent it, and then had to pay it back later, at a time not of my choosing =)
(it was my last paycheck, so it wasn't clear to me if it was a mistake, it was a smaller amount)
Can the very rich live by a different set of values than the rest of us? Kerry's grilling of Faux isn't about payback. Kerry's right - Faux's appearance before the Senate is about citizenship & judgment and whether or not Truth is important in public life. Kerry showed he learned his lessons from 2004. Did the rest of America?
Perhaps, but this seems like too big of a fault to slip by -- there are things in the documentation about touching the kernel configuration to allow larger allocations. I just feel like a lot of details are missing -- even the bright can be mislead when walking into new ground.
"use" porn...makes it sound like a drug. View, perhaps?
ahahahaha, sorry mickey, i found new place where dreams come true
LOL : "The twatting bird is not to be confused with its Eurasian relative, the Euro Trashgull"
Cheap knock-offs from Tijuana.
I hope the same is true for the Evo X versus the IX.
really? I'd love to see that study. It actually decreases sex crimes? If I had concrete evidence to point to, it would come in handy with a lot of the conservatives among my family/friends.
I don't know, heh. I wrote that late at night when I was tired. I think I misinterpreted your comment, sorry. I love Kucinich.
lol wow, i wonder if this decision applies for the USA as well
Lt. General Kiley is still there as interim chief of Water Reed, but I think Gates will be taking care of that soon. It's great seeing some accountability again.
edit: Kiley not Kiler :)
From the Great Games Experiment Press Release:
Social Networking Site for Games, Gamers, and Developers Reaches Open Beta
Eugene, OR, March 2, 2007 -- GreatGamesExperiment.com, a social networking site centered around gaming, is pleased to announce its public beta release.
"Getting games made is only half of the problem. Finding an audience once you have sweat out two or three years of development is extremely difficult," says Great Games Experiment creator Jeff Tunnell. "Getting a lot of 'eyeballs' to look at your game is important, and social networking sites are a method of allowing a community to create its own content and momentum. Having indie games presented side by side with commercial games should get more recognition for the indies."
By providing a free resource for developers to network and promote their own games, users have an opportunity to play games that can not be found on other aggregation sites. Along with indie games, GreatGamesExperiement.com hosts a variety games ranging from free Flash games to old classics and mainstream commercial titles.
With the ability to promote, network, discover, download, and play over 2,800 games (and growing), the Great Games Experiment provides a forum for games from any era or platform.
"GreatGamesExperiment is the first site I've come across that doesn't limit what kinds of games can be added. It isn't just a Flash games site, an indie site, or a site promoting console games: it's a one-stop resource for the entire gaming world. The social aspects of the community allow me to narrow the huge amount of gaming choices by seeing what my friends and other like-minded community members are playing," says GarageGames Marketing Director Eric Fritz.
Ratings, recommendations, and popularity statistics for each game ensures that the cream of the digital crop rises to the top in dynamic fashion. Tags, friendships, and comments supply a more personalized means of distinguishing the exact types of game a user wants to play. The games themselves can be downloaded from their individual game pages, and many are even available to play instantly in your browser. Personalized gamer badges let others know what games users are playing, and can be added to blogs, forums, and social networking sites by embedding the provided html code. All of these features add up to a centralized location for a large audience with a specific focus on the gaming industry.
The Great Games Experiment has already made a positive impact for game developers in its closed beta stage, claims indie developer Adam Bielinski:
"When I made Forces, I definitely did not think it would gain anywhere near the recognition it has received. Only because of site's like... GGE (GreatGamesExperiment.com) has it gotten this popular."
GreatGamesExperiment.com is entirely free, and requires no obligation beyond a valid email address to become a member.
GarageGames: GarageGames, the company behind GreatGamesExperiment.com, is located in Eugene, Oregon and on the web at www.garagegames.com. As the makers of Torque Game Builder, Torque Game Engine, and Torque Game Engine Advanced, they have been providing game development tools and technology at an affordable price since 2000. The Torque Game Engine was the original technology behind the Tribes series of games, and has been used since to develop countless games on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Xbox 360, notable among which is GarageGames' own Marble Blast series of games.
Paella is a dish that has it all - almost literally. A one dish meal that can feed 2 or 200 and has room for anybody's favorite ingredients, even a bad paella is better than a lot of other things you could be eating. Fortunately, making a great paella is pretty easy. And while these touches may not be mentioned in any particular recipe, they will always make your paella better.
Sorry, but I think he's overrated.
That was completely hilarious.
Sean Hannity: "May I suggest that we talk about the American community, instead of Black, the American family, instead of Black, and try to bring us together in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King."
Reverend Wright's eyes bug out a little. It's the only point where he misses a beat.
Did Sean Hannity really tell a black man to shut up about black people already, like Dr. Martin Luther King?
I stopped reading at 'is necessary'.
Fake "everyday guy" act?
I love potpies - turkey or chicken.
Freakin' righteous! On a related note, does anyone know of a good desktop word processor that will do something similar? Putting equations into a Word doc makes you want to stab yourself in the eye.
When you don't have anything factual to add to the conversation rafuzo2, go for personal attacks. It works for Bill O'Reilly!
today, at the university of illinois (same as the university that gave you the girls of engineering calendar), the twatting birds are easy to spot. today they celebrate "unofficial st. patrick's day", where they all dress in green, drink green domestic beer, and stumble around drunk starting at 8 in the morning.
i do not recommend observing from ground level though.
You're welcome dude
Yeah. We'd like the Iraq war better if we weren't succeeding so hard.
Btw, one day later, 1.0.0 is already slightly out of date. 1.0.1 is out with a slightly more convenient interface. The runS function is gone, and the run function is now conveniently polymorphic in result type, as documented here.
how come 'you' can never see their worthlessness till AFTER you've boinked them?
sobriety's a bitch.
oh i should have clarified. i meant that to be a paraphase of what author of the article is saying.
--vat
This argument is bogus. As Sam Harris asked, where are the Tibetan Buddhist suicide bombers?
Millions of people have been in the past and are today living under oppression, much of it a lot worse than Iraq or Palestine. And yet we rarely see suicide bombers outside certain Islamic sects.
The comparison you're making to Normandy is ridiculous. By this logic, all soldiers are suicide bombers. A trained, equipped soldier going to war can have hope of making it home alive. You're comparing that to a brainwashed teenager,who straps some explosives around her and bombs herself in some coffeeshop. She never has any chance of surviving the fight - the one person who's assured to die in the violence is herself.
The truly amazing fact here is that suicide bombing is not some last resort, like the Japanese Kamikaze pilots - it's become the preferred method for people who actually are able to fight in other ways as well. You'll see Islamic leaders totting automatic rifles on your TV every day. They simply send their young to suicide missions because they know that way they do more damage - and that Western apologists like yourself will still defend them, regardless.
Before reading the article, I was going about 60/40 that this was satire and not real life. After reading the article, I'm almost certain it's satire.
I know it will run perfectly on my PC, on the Mac in my backpack, on the Wii in the living room, on any browser or mobile phone that has it.
But not on the DS, PSP, majority of mobile phones, 64-bit Linux, PPC machines, or people who are tired of getting annoyed by flash apps.
She just can't get enough of this...
What in the hell are you people saying? This is all geek to me.
I imagine you mean split in half. Or sliced. "Spliced" would be exactly the opposite.
What am I missing?
The tinfoil hat that is shared by most of the indignant responders (when they are not using it as a makeshift bong...)
we must cause I've never thought of the physical self as separate or divisible from the mental self (or 'soul' if you wish), though my parents' religion would argue it so.
And a tattoo or plastic surgery is not just a physical process, it's also a mental one. many ppl who get plastic surgery come out saying how much better they feel about themselves.
To me that's artificial. An illusion as it were.
--vat
Invest it and return the base sum when asked.
Depends on how they play it. If it's just dumb, then it'll probably sink, but play it smart and even satirical and it might work? Or, in the light of Arrested Development... maybe that's the other way around.
according to the article, they will not be RFID'd.
Cartooncorpse downmodded for intentionally writing "brainwashable sheeple".
Hey, you can always just go with "You are thick" like the other guy! ;)
Seriously, do you claim there are Bush supporters who also support Iran's Holocaust conference? I think these groups are mutually exclusive, pretty much.
I stand way to the left of Bush, but I don't think he's anywhere near Hitler nor do I support Iran in the name of opposing America. I read here every day people who do seem to take both these positions.
For the same reason that Madonna is a genius. :P
How about let him live in the woods with no humans around and a big fat pipe to the net? Drive up in a truck and drop supplies. Problem solved.
DUDE, This woman has a GIGANTIC Vagina! Not cool.
Laurel and Hardy's most prolific period was before Hitler rose to power. Maybe Adolf was emulating Hardy's moustache?
I stopped reading later, when he talked about "web applications":
Rich Internet Applications. They're the future
I laughed and closed the window.
LaTeX itself is far superior to a word processor. If you must use a word processor, try LyX.
Old and not funny? In one word: useless.
What's it called when you take a complete article, written by someone else, and then paste it into your own blog with no commentary or other addition of value?
Oh yeah, I remember now.
Plagiarism.
I've had ink for over 26 years, and it still makes me smile.
It seems that our hope for a true republican candidate in 2008 is going down the crapper! Issues surrounding each of the top runners are questionable to say the least. A few of them are highlighted in the linked NewsMax article.
Interesting list. Lots of Republicans, few Democrats... no surprises there.
Perhaps a more interesting error is the tall tower visible on the top right of the globe and the mountain ranges...
I like Vonnegut's writings from before he lost it and made everything a rant against Bush. That kind of gets old.
Swung on and missed!
It was a facetious response to your primative assertion about a right to existence.
Acknowledged as such.
But those individuals are further bonded by common ideals and interests.
How are we bonded? By contract? By proximity? By all wanting to maximize our own individual lives or the lives of our loved ones and family? By having disparate ways to accomplish such maximazation? I don't find your conjecture very meaningful. I'd like to see the venn diagram by which we're all bonded to each other and how that bonding magically creates some extra-human blob of society. The human race is hardly the borg.
Thankfully.
Alternatively, society is a mass of individuals interacting with each other. Thus, two individuals may voluntarily (or sometimes accidentally and oftentimes involuntarily) become linked to each other temporarily given a set of circumstances. Insomuch as common actions bind individuals to each other, I see society/markets/whatever you want to call it. However, the interactions are not separate from the actors. Thus, there can be no lifeform with rights or human qualities apart from the individual humans.
This is despite what you say:
The society as a whole is virtuous, not the individual.
How could society as a whole be virtuous if none of the individuals in society were virtuous? Again, if society is nothing but the web of interactions weaved by humans, then according to your claim, no individual human is acting virtuous yet the sum total of these virtue-less actions is virtue. This is the glaring flaw of your claim.
If universal healthcare is forced on society, the "virtue" attributed to society would be that those unable to pay for healthcare still receive it. This is all fine and well - until you see that no individual willingly pays for the healthcare of those unable to pay; quite the contrary, their wealth is extracted at the barrell of the taxman's gun. Actions without choice cannot be virtuous. Therefore, your virtuous society has no virtuous individuals, at least not as it pertains to the virtue of bestowing healthcare on the needy.
I suspect it means that the room is kept at a negative relative pressure and the air return from the room is HEPA filtered to remove all bacteria.
Scary thing if it is true !!
Grace from Nigeria
Dear America,
I am Mrs. Grace Lawal (PhD) bank manager of South Africa Reserve Bank in South Africa. I have an urgent and very confidencial business proposition for you. On June 6,1997,a foreign oil consultant/contractor, Mr. Barry Kelly made a numbered time (fixed) deposit for twelve calander months, valued of US$ 25,000000.OO (TWENTY-FIVE MILLION US DOLLARS) in my branc. This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your full names and address, through which my attorney can prepare the necessary documents to put you as the owner for a claim. the money will be moved out for share in ratio of 70%( for me) to 30%(for you) respectively.
Thanks and God Bless. Dr Lawal Grace PhD).
If this were about the stupidity of self-declared "pundit" blogs, I'd be a lot more interested. A wasted minute of obviousisms so that punditpants can allegedly gain cred. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
No it would have been done on purpose - not accidentally.
And why would they do that now that they have the qbomb?
Any discussion of marijuana that mentions only the downsides without even touching on the positive benefits reported by millions of marijuana users is not to be trusted.
Uh, yes they do. I have here the 2005 1040EZ form instructions and after the $8,200 single deduction someone with $24,000 income ($15,800) paid $2,001 in income taxes. Someone who made $19,000 ($10,800) paid $1,259. Income tax (for a single person) was paid on anything above $8,200, so if $9,200 was earned then $101 was taken for income tax, etc.
Finally, a media corporation that makes sense and understand internet!
This is a dupe previously submitted by Galwegian. I thought it was so much fun that maybe it deserves a second look by reddit.
Do you think suicide bombers blow themselves up and murder other people just for the rewards in heaven?
They blow themselves up because they believe it will make a difference in THIS world, that's why.
Nah, hips too small.
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I call BS.
"Haskell's dynamic ball-carrying style and work-rate has led to comparisons with Lawrence Dallaglio."
Exactly my feelings too.
L.
Conclusion, author of paper has never seen a naked woman in RL.
its hot.
I rarely clutter up threads by making useless posts about spelling errors such as "artical".
It's article. GAWD!
GOOD
Don't laugh. You'll recall Scotland Yard almost pulled this off on a London subway a couple of years ago. I say "almost" because they shot him before they could get around to blowing him up.
100,000 Iraqis, 3000+ American soldiers. It ain't over yet.
That's gay?
If you are coming to the Whitsundays this has most of the boats for sailing and diving.
The comparison you're making to Normandy is ridiculous. By this logic, all soldiers are suicide bombers. A trained, equipped soldier going to war can have hope of making it home alive.
Sorry, I can't agree with that. There are any number of historical battles where the odds of surviving for front line soldiers were basically zero - you had to be suicidal to be on the front line for D day, as far as I'm concerned. The comparison between a soldier (at least in the world wars) and a suicide bomber is pretty apt.
The truly amazing fact here is that suicide bombing is not some last resort, like the Japanese Kamikaze pilots - it's become the preferred method for people who actually are able to fight in other ways as well.
It's not so amazing. Lives are cheap.
He clearly is insane.
Best damn anti-impeachment defense a feller could have.
Interesting recommendations for start-ups
The Saudi's like to, as a general rule, pump out as much oil as possible. They often have publicly called for cuts in oil production from OPEC, and other Oil producers, and then cheat like all-get-out at it themselves. So, if they are now producing less, it most likely is not from lack of trying.
Which is why this is worrisome. Cause we are in Iraq over Oil. Most countries don't care about Iraq... China, India, Russia, the EU, Japan were not counting on Iraq for most of their oil. But they do count on the Saudi's for it. They may well be willing to fight us over what's left in the land of Saud. Remember, counties like France, the UK, Germany, Italy, Japan, etc. were able to field huge military forces before WW2. Now, Imagine the big powers of Europe each with large (2+ million man) forces, and think what China or India could field. Indonesia could field large forces too. This is the scary though about what the next 100 years could be like. Cause if everybody starts building large military forces, sooner or later they are going to find reasons to fight one another. And even if they don't come for the US, we could still get caught in the general crossfire.
it was pretty fun. i especially liked being told to get my freak on by the guy because of my unfinished "y"
Isn't that three tricks?
I'm pissed.
Thanks a lot.
Well isn't he one?
There was earlier cave diving in the UK. The earliest known written description of free cave-diving is from 1777 by William Bray, although the diver's name was not recorded.
Hose-fed divers were used in the Severn Railway Tunnel after it flooded in 1880.
The first successful free cave-dive using candles(!) was in 1922 in France by Norbert Casteret, and cave-diving as we know it really started to get going from 1941 led by Bob Leakey at Wookey Hole. Even Jacques Cousteau cave-dived at Fontaine De Vaucluse in 1946, but oddly enough use of the aqualung was only slowly picked-up in cave diving. The early divers using self-contained equipment generally used an assortment of home-made rebreathers.
Sheck Exley probably did most to 'popularise' cave-diving with his book 'Caverns measureless to man'. in which he went around discovering caverns and erm, measuring them. Then he died underwater, poor fellow, as do most cave divers.
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mweh. . . I don't know about 'totally inappropriate'. Sites like reddit accumulate barnacles like LouF who become minor celebrities through their sheer annoyingness.
If you've ever tried to have a logical discussion with LouF, you'll know the frustration that would lead to nemo's post. I'd rather have nemo blow off some steam with his rant and stick around on reddit than throw in the towel alltogether.
the author...
Smart, well-intentioned people can have poor experiences with pretty much any language, depending on the particulars of the project.
He was careful to comment that he wasn't trying to talk anyone else out of liking Python, but that he encountered immense headaches himself.
While I'm not a Pythonista myself, my impression is that the overall incidence of this sort of thing is pretty low with Python. But that doesn't mean it can't happen.
SNL essentially did this way back when: Phil Hartman was (as usual) quite funny as Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.
Allow me to state the obvious... it's funny for few minutes != it should be on TV for 30 min a week.
Yeah, perhaps we'll get a story telling us what Paris Hilton had for breakfast.
One can only hope.
Hey, thanks for that image.
All your blur are belong to us.
My favorite LouF quote:
"The principle of universality" means nothing. Some arrogant academian pulled that out of his ass. We don't know what we don't know. Again, it's fun to extrapolate, but you are making assumptions that cannot be reasonably made.
...we were talking about whether gravity is, indeed, probably responsible for orbital mechanics in far-off galaxies even though we have no way of directly measuring it. He wouldn't even give me a "probably" because he knew his arguments about evolution would totally unravel afterwords.
I hold the same criticism.
hey
Windows. Not relevant.
"Robert England, Maricopa County's tuberculosis control officer, said in court filings that Daniels understands the rules, but "merely refuses to follow them.""
I have no sympathy for him. Also,
"Daniels, who has a wife and child in Russia, said in a telephone interview with The Arizona Republic that he didn't want to confuse people by wearing a mask and that doctors at Russian clinics where he was treated didn't even wear masks."
Go figure, the country where you caught the disease in the first place has lax standards. And it's much better to infect people than confuse them.....
BWAHAHA. No. Linux is an operating system and an environment. The genuh plus Linux thing is mostly a fringe debate that pops up whenever some FSF/GNU member/sympathizer feels that that dead horse hasn't been beaten quite enough yet.
And even if you're hung up on that, I wrote "and floss". In case you're unaware of the acronym, it stands for Free/Libre/Open Source Software. There's certainly more to that than a single kernel.
That's why I get my news from BBC. They do a better job reporting on America than the American media.
I agree with everything you said until the last paragraph, when you announced that it's artificial to broadcast your genuine attributes, and thus honest not to tell the truth about yourself by looking like the kind of person you are. That's paradoxical, to be charitable.
Also, why do you sign your posts?
according to the article, they will not be RFID'd.
One step at a time or people might actually turn off the TV and do something.
He couldn't have done that all at once. He must've taken at least one nap...maybe after 50 stabs?
Man, that's tasteless. Gonna downmod myself now.
So what. He is.
I believe that the new trend in music is swinging back towards heavy metal and decidedly away from hip-hop.
By metal I mean a mix of pure metal and grunge (even though one killed the other) that dominated the 80's-early 90's.
Cool car, but those are some nasty blind spots in the rear.
Nothing really new here except US media actually paying attention for once.
This is like Germany saying that the Holocaust never happened...
Come on folks... why did the Repub majority vote to make it easier for Bush to impose martial law in the last couple months of 2006 before the Dems took over Congress? Why did the Repubs vote to eliminate Habeas Corpus for whoever they want to label "enemy combatant?" Why was Patriot Act, which takes away our privacy rights, pretty much written and passed without Congress even reading the damned thing?
If the Repubs don't intend to use these powers why did they vote to give them to Bush?
Especially the martial law thing... read this:
In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions.
Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."
from Toward Freedom
super
It is never moral to premeditatedly take another's life. We need to draw a line and say that we are better than those we would kill.
What if it is burnt? ;)
Nothing to brag about. You'd think someone that rich could at least afford some decent blowjob lessons.
You're all correct. The only thing superior about the full back one is the magnitude of the mistake.
TB or not TB, that is the question.
Hire some programmers and fix that program where the limitation of 4 cards is hard-coded.
Are they really equivalent?
Not at all. Show me where their is a paid industry of left wing pundits on tv, radio and in various newspapers actively attacking right wing figures. Demanding they be hanged/shot or other wise assassinated?
You can start with this excellent essay to get some background on this.
Or you can buy and read this excellent book Conservatives without Conscience
Or can read the many chapters of this book for free on the Internet.
It should be quite an eyeopener.
You realize you're pretty much committing yourself to the position of dualism, right? Unless you think consciousness is Subtrate Dependent (i.e., there is something special about the physical properties of brain tissue).
Excellent news--I'm gonna jerk off to this right now.
Ever since Coretta died it's been on the right's agenda to seize and own MLK's legacy. If you pay attention to it, you'll notice them invoking him and his actions all the time. Eventually, they'll say something like "he was basically a republican", or "he stood for republican values" or something along those lines.
I'm guessing it's part of the GOP effort to gain african american constituents, just like people like Glenn Beck and Limbaugh babbling all the time about race and "political correctness". It's almost bizarre in its misguided and malign ugliness.
Controlling the collective memory of history is important, so they grab it by the throat and kill it - substituting with their own. Bodysnatcher-style.
where are the Tibetan Buddhist suicide bombers?
Where are the Tibetan Buddhist military cemeteries? Do the have anything like Arlington Cemetery?
The truly amazing fact here is that suicide bombing is not some last resort,
How do you propose a Palestinian should fight the Israelis military?
Lets not forget that this phenomena actauly started by Jews in the occupied Palestine
This is state department's list of Significant Terrorist Incidents between 1961-2003
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/5902.htm
Notice in there:
Hebron Massacre, February 25, 1994: Jewish right-wing extremist and U.S. citizen Baruch Goldstein machine-gunned Moslem worshippers at a mosque in West Bank town of Hebron, killing 29 and wounding about.
Do you see Tibetan Buddhist machine-gunning unarmed people in a Mosque?
Maybe you can help me out here and explain to me how this comic 'clearly' envelopes all Christians.
My 'presumption' was just an opinion on who might get offended by the comic.
My point still stands that it isn't about all Christians, but very obviously about a type that is vocal and apt to squash other's rights in favor of upholding their personal religious beliefs. Nowhere in that comic is it implied that it is about all Christians. Not even subtly.
It clearly presents who it is talking about in the first 4 panels by showing this representative's beliefs and desire to press those on others. Clearly it is established that this doesn't represent all Christians especially some of the ones you can find here on reddit. I've seen comments by some very reasonable Christians on here concerning their beliefs and how they have no desire to force anyone else to share them. I assure you that I, nor any other reasonable person, would think that this comic is in any way about them.
You still haven't established that my comparison to a sleazy lawyer joke is invalid. You only reiterated what I already stated and tacked on your odd opinion to justify your position. If I drew a comic strip that in the first four panels established that the subject in it was in fact a sleazy lawyer and in the fifth panel introduced a character to reveal them for what they were I highly doubt you would be up in arms about it accusing me of insulting every lawyer on the planet.
Bush has been encouraging the violence between Israel and Palestine, not working to broker peace as a real leader would.
She's just a bile filled woman.
There certainly seems to be no evidence to suggest that google are funding this project. I can only conclude that the author does not recognise that code.google.com provides project hosting much like sourceforge.
As a side note, I see ken-cc is also on google project hosting (managed by the same author), must take a look at that.
Here's the XKCD-related Facebook Challenge.
As for the Hamiltonian-Path: I'm guessing that he's referring to the fact that each seating arrangement corresponds to a Hamiltonian path through the graph of relationships. If you sum up the point values of the edges along the path, you have the total score for the configuration. Find the maximum point value, and you have your solution. Incidentally, this is also the same as the Travelling Salesman Problem. Unfortunately, both are NP-hard.
And you're not allowed to use <. The WordPress team are definitely stealing features from reddit.
Bingo. And there you have it.
Every soldier is issued two army knives that look different than the types you can buy (silvery metal covers). As their cleanliness is regularly inspected, these two remain stowed away for inspection purposes while another (privately bought) Swiss army knife is doing duty, eg for disassembling rifles.
Damn those illegal numbers!
I wanted to read it - but the whole white text on black background just hurt the eyes too much. Why can't people just get a clue? - black backgrounds are unreadable, whether the text is white, red, or (atheist-philosopher forbid), blue.
Newspapers and magazines are not, and never have been printed on black backgrounds. Books are not printed on black backgrounds. So, guys, web-developers-with-zero-design-skills, black backgrounds DO NOT WORK!
Some colours really are beter than others. Black on white good. White on black bad.
Indeed. Hate as a tool to further greed.
The obsession some Americans have with gift cards is truly amusing. In any other country, when people want to give the gift of money, guess what they give? MONEY.
I mean, what the hell was the purpose of buying these cards? Because the plastic has colorful pictures on them and looks gift-like? That's some silly superficiality right there.
Next time, just ask for cash. Believe me, it's a lot easier to give a gift of cash than going out and exchanging that cash for a piece of plastic that can then be used as cash in certain situations by specific retailers.
In reality, you know what a gift card really is? It's just a scam. A money-making scheme. Nothing more. Retailers make millions of dollars off of them, mostly because a lot of people receive these cards as gifts and never use them. Free money. Stop buying into this shit.
I had the same reflexion about the homeland/fatherland, pretty creepy indeed.
I don't think you can criticize a fake woman for looking "airbrushed" since that's the whole point. Technically you could criticize her for looking "too real", but that's not the case.
No it's not. He'll be quickly snatched up by Blackwater as soon as he lands back home. He'll be back killing darkies in no time.
The author of the article loses some credibility by the use of color nicknames interspersed with the proper names of primary colors. Additionally, the appearance of a color in the spectrum is not the only proof of its existence. Is brown not a color then?
I know that in Palestine, Hamas provides a monthly living stipend to the dependants of suicide bombers, for the rest of their lives. Thats a major factor in people's willingness to do it. But of course, more and more people are starting to draw funds as a result of this, and their budget can't keep it up forever.
Yeah.. still the article is too long and not that funny :/
Maybe you're screwing it up.
No its gift cards. Its a stupid ploy. It seems like you are doing someone a favor but cash is king. Just give a greeting card saying hope you can use this towards your goal.
I think the term you are looking for is linkjacked. Plagiarism is when you represent someone else's work as your own, which is not the case in this instance.
I started out as a GoDaddy fanboy, then they started spamming up their UI, and everything started looking patched together (Domain Name admin was a different interface than support and hosting interface, etc). Then their CS started to suck. I bailed and went to Namecheap and never looked back.
Omg I have been plagerized!
Not too upset since that was my original goal. bwahaha.
I suspect that the Western media is fixated on this (the 'virgins') in a way that
Fundemetal to the Western arguments is that the people "over there" are different. That is what Orientalism is all about. It is not that they are fighting occupation like you and I do, or our parents did. It that they are some how motivated by mysterious, illogical mind set where there is no common ground to deal with them.
It is not that they want to control their resources, be able to live like normal human beings.... it is that they don't undetrstand our "values" and we surely can't be dealing with someone who is waiting for virgins in heaven.
I honestly assumed that this post would be modded down to 0 quickly. It's still at around 10 right now three hours later, and I never saw it break the front page. I created it so that the next time I had a discussion with LouF I could have some entertainment by invoking the EULA, and to remind LouF of his past transgressions in the hopes that he might one day improve. I had an EULA that I was planning on pasting into comments, but bonkydog pointed out that this would pollute the comments with a big chunk of cruft. Thus I made a story so that I could link to it and keep comments brief.
"My mother told me that I had to leave the family because I would be a bad influence on my brothers and sisters," he says, recalling the incident five years ago.
This appears so typical an experience of people who gave up their religion and disclosed it to their families.
U/S works on digg because the person paying the voters can verify the votes. On redit, they'd have to use the honor system. That doesn't work so well with you're paying someone to do something seen as dishonest.
Funny thing is, in most western militaries, if you expressed something like that - or behaved accordingly, you'd be discharged in no time. No officer worthy of his rank wants killers with such poor judgement under his command.
Ultimately, it's a failure on the part of the higher ranks. The quality of our military is suffering, a very dangerous thing.
But here, have another fucking "snow flake" about cinnamon rolls and bagels. Rumsfeld, best sec of def evah.
So what have I learned:
1) Hillary was president of Young College Republicans.
2) She wrote a senior thesis that was modestly skeptical of some leftist organizer Alinsky, a guy I've never heard of.
I expected to see a collision with a semi or something. One of those little trees did that? Yow.
Pretty funny and great marketing for a line of seemingly ordinary pens.
From what I've seen, the assholishness with which a religion conducts itself is directly proportionate to the emphasis said religion places on proselytizing. Thus, christianity/islam are the biggest dicks, judaism is usually not that bad but can be dickish sometimes, and buddhism, zoroastrianism, etc. hardly even even register. Partially this is due to the size of the religion's practicing community, but I think most of it has to do with the prosetelyzation, because buddhism is a huge 'religion' but due to a significant lack of proselytization, they don't do a lot of bad.
My speculation is clearly an uneducated guess especially without any data corroborating my opinion. If I wasn't able to speculate and voice my opinion on topics that I wasn't 100% informed about I would surely find reddit a boring place limited in scope. However, thanks to this nifty comment system folks like you can educated me because you may have more knowledge about the subject than I. Don't be so inflammatory.
note:
a. the vowels on the corners
b. the placement of the labials
c. the placement of the nasals
a b c d e
f g h i j
k l m n o
p q r s t
u v w x y
z
Stops are bdg and ptk.
Swap k & q and p & v
Swap o & s and t & x
a b c d e
f g h i j
q l m n s
v k r o x
u p w t y
z
Again note the stops: bdg & ptk.
Swap z & w
a b c d e
f g h i j
q l m n s
v k r o x
u p z t y
w
Fold the alphabet array creasing along the qlmns axis.
Note similarities of overlapping letters.
Note the positions of the vowels and semivowels.
This makes for a very useful mnemonic arrangement in phonetics.
Theory: The phonetic map of the neural region that decodes letters in the brain resembles a mouth. Closely located letters may blur or exchange. For instance with the loss of distinction between l and r sound for Japanese. And the similar loss of distinction between b & v for Hispanics (which assumes a fold in the neural cluster). Likewise the exchange use of x & j in words like Javier & Xavier or Texas & Tejas.
The question is how can an ancient people know anything about neural phonetic mapping to provide any order to phoneme arrays?
As for seeing a mouth structure in the pattern, look where the labials are (lips) and the dentals (teeth). The tongue is at "L" position. The nasals of course are not in the mouth, but I suppose they might resonate near the throat.
good collection of his short stories turned into movies and which ones suck. and why.
The London suicide bombers were amazingly oppressed. Life was so difficult that committing suicide was their only way out.
Good job, Ann. You've proven again what "hot shit" you are. Keep opening that mouth of yours. You and Rush and the rest of your crew need to keep on talking all the way up until next year's election... you're the best form of PR the Democrats' money can't buy.
Avery Dennison has come out with a new wizard that lets you add your business logo or any small graphic to many of it's label templates.
What! Someone in the Bush administration actually taking responsibility for something? I smell a rat - there must be some other back story to this.
Of course I could be mis-judging, maybe they are more scared of this story that it might appear. It does have some significant negatives and future campaign TV ad fodder all wrapped up in a neat parcel. It even has a health care angle to it.
It isn't just one study:
http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/online_artcls/pornography/prngrphy_rape_jp.html
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/14/kutchinsky.pdf
It was actually an ambush planned by the Imperials - hence, its not credible.
But that's one fine Rhombic Triacontahedron.
I can't agree with this analogy either. If I applied this to the entire government we wouldn't be taxed for any public services and everything would have to privately provided. I'm not sure, but is that a libertarian point of view?
Oh, the tiresome Hitler meme rears its frail head once again.
gee, and I thought Ann would have more empathy with faggots, being a she-male
Yet another example of life back to normal in the U.S. of A. Keep the pablum coming, CNN and FOX. Mmmm. Pablum, yum.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28129
"A woman would never do this" my ass! My wife does this constantly.
However, instead of bitching about it, I sit back and remind myself of all the reasons why I married her.
Interestingly enough, "Because she FUCKING ROCKS at replacing the toilet paper!" never shows up on that list. Mainly because it's not that important.
Then I take the five seconds to put the roll on the holder, and go about my day.
Reddit and Wired have the same parent company. As a business, the move makes perfect sense.
I ran a celebrity blog for a while. Guess who's name was a sure thing when it came to getting visitors? It didn't matter if I was just commenting on some news that 10,000 other web sites and blogs had beaten to death. The people still came.
Edit: Adding the observation that Hilton can even make front page (58 votes right now) on a site that usually features Lisp and science articles.
Yeah, it's a lot of speculation. Vita Nuova manages the inferno-os project, not Google. I haven't noticed any of the former Plan 9, currently-at-Google people posting on the inferno list in a looong time.
Most of the former Plan 9 people appear to be working on distributed systems for Google's internal apps (Sawzall, etc).
Thank you for worrying so much about my well being
but I can handle it.
/salute
More of an anarcho-capitalist point of view.
But this stealing argument when applied to government essentially dissolves it. I would think in an ideal society that would be nice but if we dissolved the government we'd be taken over by another government in short order. This freedom you desire would not be enjoyed for long in the world we live in.
We are being setup real good. In Iraq, in our fiscal policies, in our new products (debt), in our stretched thin military, in our internal spying, oh man its a work of infamy.
This message says more (and nothing good) about Larry McVoy than it does about RMS. McVoy showed his true colors during the BitKeeper fiasco.
You mean like the Nazi 9/11?
Standards provide a way for even proprietary systems to communicate. Its the foundation of the web from the IETF and RFC system, its slow, its tedious, but in the end it works.
My contributions:
http://freemusic.freeculture.org/media/files/anonymous/39
http://freemusic.freeculture.org/media/files/anonymous/38
http://freemusic.freeculture.org/media/files/anonymous/37
http://freemusic.freeculture.org/media/files/anonymous/36
I couldn't count the number of times by the time I was 14 and that was back in the 1980's. :-)
I am skeptical of the red box thing. It has to prove otherwise.
Put a smile on my face - oh to be six again!
Nice looking women, but I am more shocked to see somebody smiling while working on an engineering degree.
Godwin's law! Godwin's law!
Where's my prize?
I can't argue with the source of governmental power but I will say that there are times when citizens need to be proded into or out of certain activities either through taxation or regulation.
You prod cows, not people.
Congratulations, you get the "Paving the Road to Hell with Good Intentions" award for this thread.
My God, there's a young man who wants to fuck, an epidemic of improperly functioning men, EVERYBODY PANIC!
Just be sure that if your survival plan involves the phrase, "Let's go to the Winchester" in it, you should probably have a Plan B as well.
I have this on good authority.
Okay, while in general Rush came across as being psychotic, isn't what he said basically correct? If someone's web site said they were in favor of white values, the white family, etc., people would be up in arms.
If anyone else is looking for it, it's right here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=united%20states&sourceid=mozilla2&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wl
The correct term is intersexuals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender but I agree with your premise.
Well for one thing, rape has been disappearing but if you want to, you can slog through a whole list of studies on the effects of pornography. Keep in mind that most of them are utter shite for obvious reasons. The ones that aren't shite all just happen, as if by coincidence, to say that pornography decreases sex crimes. Hmmm. Kutchinsky is one of the more reputable researchers and he, she or it, has done a couple of good studies.
Guess you aren't much for satire eh? No sarcasm for this walking corpse.
It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Grammar Nazi!
I'm here to cleanse all the grammar Jews from the land. When using a simile, you're drawing parallels to the previous clause. Check the case of the word following the conjunction.
Another pagan saved!!
I see. Thanks for the link.
Yeah, seriously. This guy gives you something for free, and you're bitching that you can't lock it up into a commercial product?
You don't even explain your antagonism against the GPL, just toss it off in the headline as if it's the usual attitude to the GPL.
A very poor video of a very old animated gif.
It's either the new messiah is coming and his name is Borat, or the world is going to hell (or jahannam, or Gehennom, or naraka).
I agree
Although the alarms over Bush/Hitler point out serious similarities that may go too far, it is the first misconduct to draw your own conclusions upon nonexistent inferences. It misdirects comments from some more important issues laid within the article.
By the way, it was a very well written article, articulate and specific in its historical backgrounds.
All it takes is velocity. So a hurricane, for example, is fully capable of putting a bit of straw through a phone pole.
News about Ann Coulter = News about Paris Hilton, Michael Jackson...
She's nuts - what's the point in further giving her more publicity
This is a stolen rewrite of this earlier story: http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/02/-things-with-a-28.php
It was split in whole
Hear hear! We should ask the AP for a news ban on her.
Is this the Nazi's 9/11?
Gotta love us northeaster liberals...not scared of the mameries.
I agree with her
Actually I'm not sure she's right.. but it'd be darn cool.
Brilliant!
As bizarre as this is, it's an improvement over what I expected. Come on, didn't everyone expect something like "Your overlordship" or "Dark lord of the Sith"?
emphasis on "meant to be"
Breaded cauliflower is one of the best things in the world.
I agree, something's changed.
Normal Bush administration procedure is give guys like this medals and promotions.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I'm not entirely sure which turns me on more: the fact that they're smart and hot, or the fact that they're naked and hot...
No prize, the point still stands if you replace Nazi with any other metaphysical or political claim.
Are you saying something against the Church of Scientology? That's religious persecution! Criticizing the Republican Party is political persecution! Denigrating Hegel is philosophical persecution! Oh oh, refuting flat-earth theory is scientific persecution. The list could go on indefinitely.
I was a little saddened when I read the fine print at the bottom of the page. It was so hard to believe, that I really wanted it to be real.
I guess real life isn't interesting enough.
In before a million downvotes (in part caused by this unnecessary comment, I guess).
Something's fishy here... All cars in the picture are Audis, including the ones that are there for assistance.
This is about to blow up.
+1 for mentioning Smullyan. Everybody loves Raymond.
-1 flamebait
This is not a drill.
Get the word out to WordPress users...
Yeh, and splicing is the act of taking two halves and putting them back together into a whole.
Note to self: Start world domination with ammo-less Swiss army...
Militant atheists? Pfffffffffffffffffft.
Yes, but you're forgetting the history of Blacks in America. They've been denied their rights and faced explicit or implicit discrimination, to some degree, ever since they were brought to the country. The cycle of psychological trauma and financial poverty is not nearly gone for Blacks in America.
So, so what if the church makes a stand to support the Black community? They've been disenfranchised and marginalized more than most. So what if they want to help fellow Blacks as a community? In the history of Blacks in America, until recently, not many others have.
I have to say I can't wait until Ms Hilton is old and boring and not reported on much. Of course she will have been replaced by then by somebody else, equally vacant.
Does anyone know what Hilton thinks about...anything?
But watching a car crash is so much fun!
Is maths teaching that bad in the US now?
I agree, Obama has the likability across political boundaries that few politicians truly have. He seems so real, if he ain't real, he's the best actor anyone's ever seen.
England does have more stringent libel laws, (remember the gay encounter Prince Charles was rumored to have? They couldn't even tell you what the rumor was). Maybe something along those lines, not "UK START POLICE STATE. FERTILITY RATES DROP."
So . . . just because it's McVoy that commented, you think Stallman's hypocritical comments are excused?
Uh oh.
Hello My name is Gabby And I Love School alot? (Not)
I think one of the biggest problems is the one he keeps encountering: people talk to their computers a lot, "thank you", etc. It gets pretty tiring to have to keep correcting that.
Yeah! I fucking HATE IT when people post links! Fuck!
To each their own. I've never seen an attractive woman with healthy skin and thought she'd look better with tattoos. I don't usually find the same joke particularly funny after a few exposures so it's odd for me to imagine the thought process that thinks a sight gag will be funny for one's entire life. I can easily understand how people feel the need to memorialize significant events and losses, but to take one's body so lightly as to pay someone to indelibly ink you with something I'd find annoying forwarded to me more than once in email... I don't even need to ask about people with regrets about tattoos as that's a well known phenomenon. How many peole as they get older say, Damn, wish I'd tattooed that band's name when I was 18 or that joke I thought funny at 20.
Enjoy your tattoos and I'm not hating.
I'd like to have a big tattoo of the word ephemeral. Who wouldn't love the irony of a "permanent" marking declaring that it's fleeting, because a lifetime is not nearly as long as one thinks as an adolescent.
I see where you're coming from though. These pictures of a cuban SAM-2 site (pictures #4 and #5) are quite similar to the amusement park (although they show a hexagram, not a pentagram).
Context is important, much of his program is comedy. He was simply pointing out that while Dina Sansing didn't think nude pictures were a big deal, she wasn't too excited at the idea when it was her reputation on the line. Celeb mags will slander anyone except themselves. When the same spotlight is on themselves it's called harassment.
Yes. They're hot. But can we please stop turning reddit into a place to find the same filth (AKA "news" that's an excuse to show hot teachers that have sex with their students/engineers in calendars/etc.). I come here for some degree of seriousness, or a high level of humor. If I wanted porn, I'd go look for porn.
He's doing it so he can't get pinned on his bulls* later.
Sure it was. The same brilliant tag team that brought you the flawless execution we witness today in Iraq and Afghanistan pulled off the masterpiece that was 9/11.
"Asked about the bill's prospects on the New Mexico State Senate floor, Mr. Brown said, 'If we can get all the Democrats to show up, I think it has a reasonable chance of passing.' He said (at around 1 pm PST) that it should be known 'in a few hours' where the bill will be heard tomorrow. Mr. Brown also provided these points of contact for those ..
You lost me at "Dynstasty".
While I don't know the whole story; maybe she has some sort of genetic disorder that makes her this big, I can't help but consider the parenting that led to this.
Hey mom and dad, how about you stop feeding your kid anything she wants? Think that might help?
Just a thought.
I'll vote for a link with a big image, but not this.
Nothing from Sony?
Steve Terrell's Legislature Blog:
"He believes Senate Joint Resolution 5, which calls for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, will pass the Senate by a party-line vote. Although earlier in the session he said he didn't back the resolution, he said tonight that he'd probably vote for it. His earlier opposition wasn't over the merits...
Hate to be a pedant here, but 400 lb=181 kg.
Pictures included... "Demonstrators supporting Eric Oemig's historic pro-Impeachment resolution in the Washington State legislature staged a rally on the day that hearings began in Senate Committee. We've all heard cliches about patriotism, democracy and citizenship; to me this was the literal expression of those fine words. I heard some exceptional and inspiring..."
About worthless I'd say =]
What about FOX? FXRuby certainly seems to be one of the more mature toolkits for Ruby.
Wasn't there a piece about his young Mexican aide that does some nothing recently?
About his daughters possibly not being his own, well, you can see Bush in one of them at least. Yah, not very credible.
Indeed. We ignore such an impressive record of prescience at our peril.
We must be going insane.
Yeah, the future of western civilization never sounded so safe..
Ummmmm... let's see. CBS, ABC, CNN... what else?
I studied Hamiltonian theory in Physical Chemistry...
(not that I understood it much)
Ihre Papiere, bitte!
Fixed.
Goddam this is bad news and I'm horrified. Or maybe it's good news as it may bring us a little closer to the exposure of this corrupt government.
Obvious for ages that there have been very dodgy dealings in the "cash for honours" scandal. It's testament to the power of the people behind it that they have managed to avoid justice for so long.
By press, the title means military press, not civilian.
All I want for Christmas is a PSP.
You are all soooo fucked.
I still have stupid gibberish from mid-80's USENET posts floating round the intratubes. Anything you say on the net is public forever.
Boiling frogs slowly, you can make them bend to whatever your end goal is. Slowly is the key or else they jump right out.
I understand where you're coming from, but that wasn't what I had intended to say. There are problems that a TM cannot solve, this is known. Can the human mind solve those problems?
Perhaps, "consciousness" was a bad choice of wording, but it seemed to fit the image better.
Also, that comment did take the stance that the human mind was "Subtrate Dependent," in that it ignored any aspects of spirituality.
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Edit:
There are problems that a TM cannot solve, this is known.
Just so I can avoid the rogue comments...
Genetic programming and halting problem by Riccardo Poli and Bill Langdon
Sing it!!
I guess he'd have to take his shirt off for us to tell if he's using tables for layout or not.
"People against decency and normalcy.."
"P.A.G.A.N's"
I knew Edison was involved with the electric chair as a PR tool, but I had no idea he actually fried a goddamn elephant. That's messed up/hard core.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world see!
BUT SHE NEVER ACTUALLY SAID THAT!!!11!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw4Bhmm22xo
That is just a quote, of course it will end up costing a few trillion over time and will be an ongoing financial succubus.
CE is Civil Engineering in some places.
As "good" as something like this may sound or seem, there are ominious repercussions with a common identifier.
The ability to remain relatively anonymous is a cornerstone to American freedom. Think about it. Nobody knows what you buy when you go to a liquor store, or a tobacco store. Or the supermarket. Just think of the windfall opportunity for health insurers to get a list of what you buy - and then raise your premiums because "your not living healthy".
Orwellian, but already taking place. A single, common "identity card" would permit the tracking of individuals in ways that are harder to do right now. With or without RFID chips. With a common-used ID, an industry standard could be easily developed "requiring" identity to make purchases. Not that far fetched at all.
Even worse, however, is the demand to show identity anywhere and everywhere else. Already, the demand to have this is being touted for access to federal buildings and such like. And the "special privilege class" is still being promoted, "States can propose ways to let judges, police officers and victims of domestic violence keep their addresses off the cards. There are no religious exemptions for veils or scarves for photos."
The trend is obvious to those that fight privacy issues - the federal goverment is seeking (and getting) ways to track and monitor every American. This will do nothing to combat the alleged terrorism in America, or prevent abuse of identity, but it will do much to destroy the anonyiminity and freedom of Americans.
Muff? I was hoping for inner flange.
I wonder if the plan will cover head explosions.
Commenti, riflessioni e qualche piccola nota sulle cose della politica, dell'economia e dell'informazione in Italia
I think you mean transsexual. Intersexed individuals are, as the name implies, between sexes (also called hermaphrodites). Transsexuals transition from one sex to the other for gender identity reasons.
The homo- and bisexual communities are related to sexual orientation, while the transsexual/transgender community is related to gender identity. The two are generally grouped into the larger queer community. When self grouped, its' generally for political goals. When grouped by others, it's usually either due to ignorance or a notion of disapproval.
The mantle is missing because of a breach in the space time continuum.
Dr MacLeod's sexy geophysicist grad student assistant accompanies the team, wearing nothing but a form revealing fitted lab coat with a stylish Jackie O collar.
When the team reaches the middle of the Atlantic, maneating legendary sea creatures hideously mutated by the rip in space time swarm the ship.
A giant squid, bigger than the RRS James Cook, tries to put the boat into its gaping razor-toothed mouth, but the brave and gorgeous assistant rips off her lab coat in a moment of selfless heroism. She shoves the coat into the monstrous squid's mouth, recalling a couple of anti-matter stains on the coat from earlier labwork.
The squid chokes on the labcoat and sinks to the bottom of the mysterious mantle-less ocean floor, where the anti-matter stains react with the salt in the seawater, and with lots of bright flashing laser effects, the anti-matter seals the crack in the space time continuum, and the mantle reappears from an alternate dimension.
Always the gentleman, Dr. MacLeod offers his lab coat to his naked, shivering, but victorious heroine. The two lock eyes, and smile knowingly.
Last shot of the B flick... the camera pulls out from Dr. MacLeod and the lovely grad student assistant to show a monstrous Loch Ness monster slithering off the bow of the RRS James Cook.
I have an unshakable, unending faith in the marketplace of ideas, and I think it's finally being borne out. Eventually, bad ideas and intellectually bankrupt ideologies will extinguish themselves, by revealing their own inherent worthlessness. Thank you, Fox News, for bringing about the end of the political right.
Sexist rubbish!
Welcome to the internet! You're not the first to post photos of your stupid baby on the web, but you had to do it, it's original, like everyone else did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoulin_Island
Talk me through
And delivery complications, too.
Yeah, switched to neuroscience, and I swear, there's more women than men.
Then what happens when he dies? Some animals take a bite out of him and drag his infected corpse around.
the title i thought inspired something more "adult"
http://reddit.com/info/uyor/comments
The elephant in the room
Oh, my bad. I forgot that zombie is a viral disease...
Thanks captain obvious! Good to have you about!
No they don't. But they do have planes. And somehow, I doubt that love of flying is his main problem.
In other words, it's fake.
No!?! That's can't be right?!!?!
If you open your mind, you might find that plate tectonics is as much a myth as Noah's flood.
Yeah you're supposed to be WORKING not web surfing because you're bored. Maybe his boss needs to find him more to do.
German for "Sex is rubby"?
brilliant, however, EURO_TRASHgurl is like sooooooo much hotter!
-i lived in switz for years and I miss that probably the most.
(flutter)
Why is that a serious accusation?
There's been cracks and work arounds on Usenet for ages now....this is news? Oh and who really needs Vista anyway? It's over priced junk.
This has been posted already
That's just wrong..
Comment downmodded for working in the wrong place.
They get a perpetual gift card to Victoria's Secret.
Do you guys acknowledge a moral difference between questionable diplomacy and ordering a genocide?
uh huh like this is gonna happen LMAO......tell em to fuck off already.
I wonder what the response of the American people would have been if Bush had appeared on TV in the middle of 2002 and said, 'The consensus at Cheney's Energy Task Force was that peak oil will occur sometime between Jan 06 and Jan 08, after which a gap between supply and demand will open up and it will never close. So what we're going to do is try to kill two birds with one stone. We all know Saddam is a bad guy so we're going to invade Iraq, hang Saddam and make sure that we have access to their oil reserves. The rest of the world is going to have to scramble for their energy needs but we'll be OK for 25 years or so. That's our plan.'
love ya all
at least the rest of his website makes it obvious he deals in fake "funny" news. i can imagine some people would be misled though.
voted it down.
-j
He lives in a 10,000sq ft home, of course he uses more power. These right wingers get their panties in a bunch cause he won the Oscar and their scared he might run for President. How about the fact that Rudy "9/11" Guiliani has divorced 3 times and married his cousin, why isn't this news. Or that Mitt "Multiple Wives" Romney's cult religion? McCain's coddling of extremists right wing fanatical religious leaders?
Is this what they call linkjacking?
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/02/coulter-edwards/
Aren't you special.
Does anyone know of any other country than the USA whose citizens (not kings) believe it's their god-given right to murder people to escape prison for the crime of attempting to murder people?
BRILLIANT, were you on Jetblue?
YAWN and the moon is made of green cheese.
this definitely refutes those stereotypes that engineers are not attention whores.
Nor me.
On 5 March 2007, reddit became the first social bookmarking site to devour itself when curious redditors decided to see if they could game the system. Hoping to score tons of karma for the follow-up blog post titled "How I broke reddit (Amazing pics!)", a group of users calling themselves Post-Modernists for Uroboros decided to upmod the worst link they could find. At the moment their chosen link ("Amazing: Atheists Hate Dick Cheney, America (comic)") hit number one, the entire Web 2.0 network was brought to its knees. Web 2.0, which makes up nearly 90% of the tubes on the internet, is the internet that drives most blogs and social networking sites. At the time of publication, spez couldn't be reached for comment. kn0thing has replaced the famed reddit alien with a picture of a toilet.
OK, I admit: I have bought votes on Reddit, but they all backfired when they voted down.
Again, I'm agreeing. Those are rubbish. Really quite dull.
She sure is a class act. And so funny too.
Yeah. That's only 59,897,000 fewer than died in World War II. All Bush has to do to beat Hitler is keep this up for another 2400 years.
For those of you that want a copy of this calendar, it's for sale here.
The answer to your question is No. I have absolutely no affiliation with the folks behind Girls of Engineering. I'm not that smart.
What a cunt.
/off to rehab...
that's true. don't get me started on the notice on #wikipedia: "post logs of this channel and you'll be banned"
Gonna buy up honey now.....better investment than gold! BTW you know that honey never spoils or goes bad? True.
It is awesome and a very cool movie! Watch when the 5th movie comes out!
I'm guessing you just didn't recognize it?
Yes, I totally agree with you, but... XP was targetted mostly at people who had been using 95. It incorporated much of Windows 2000 because Microsoft finally realized that users needed the same features and relative stability.
It wasn't that XP was in the same coding line, but to whom they were marketing the OS.
Xp wasn't really targetted at 2000 users. Windows 2000 replaced NT 4.0 as a development platform, but XP wasn't really the next replacement for it. It didn't really offer anything 2000 didn't have.
I can't really remember what they were now, but there were features in XP that made me say No Freaking Way, which is why I'm also staying away from Vista.
You make it sound so clinical.
Not quite cynical enough yet, but getting there.
Joined up government
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they're totally going to arrest this guy
some quotes to look forward to:
"What if a terrorist wanted people to think that ATM machines aren't bombs? We can't take those kind of chances in this post-9/11 world."
"Applying the suspicious sticker to ordinary objects constitutes the creation of a hoax device"
I think it's Who Watches The Watchers, season 3 of Next Generation. Federation observers on a pre-warp planet get caught out when their holographic camouflage fails and the indigenous people start hailing Picard as a god.
It's a really good episode.
Contrary to popular belief, New Coke was a huge marketing success. Here's the plan.
Announce New Coke.
Infuriate millions of Coca Cola drinkers.
Get endless news coverage of millions of people who love Coca Cola the way it is and are actually protesting against the change to New Coke.
Revert to "Classic" Coke.
Profit!
Just because you're Godwinned doesn't mean it isn't true.
Science isn't about being hard to do. It's a method for gathering knowledge. The article doesn't mention, but I imagine that mapping tunnels, must take some idea hypothesis, some experiments... you know where I'm going...
The files themselves have even better names than the program. Some of my favorites:
poo.py -- the POO engine
pooparse.py -- command-parsing module
poosock.py -- main program for using POO as a server -- connect via TCP/IP
Looks like we're headed into a bagel.
Exactly, who cares if he's a bundle of sticks. The tin man was made of tin. Your dog sometimes humps your leg.
Your skull is missing its contents.
I believe he actually did mean a hermaphrodite though.
lol shemale funnee
Genius.
We have only ourselves to blame for not encouraging more stringent accounting practices in our children. I hope my son at least uses a spreadsheet like I did.
Welcome to victimology.
Bush wasn't responible for a major war that killed about 100 million people.
...well, be fair, give him time; Hitler was in power for about 12 years to achieve that; if GW got his way with Iran, and keep messing up in Iraq, he might very well beat this record well before starting his third term...
I think what you're referring to is the Halting Problem, and no, you can't solve the Halting Problem either (this is deeply related to Godel's Incompleteness Theorem; no sufficiently strong formal system can 'get around this'). However, you can recognize that you're being presented with the Halting Problem (and 'jump out of the system', as Hofstratder puts it). But this isn't the same as 'solving' the problem.
With respect to the spirituality thing; what makes you so convinced that spirituality (whatever exactly that entails) cannot be a product of a mechanistic formal system? Aside from intuition, naturally.
This really doesn't tell me anything about Coulter that I didn't already know -- she's no more or less than a classless, ignorant attention whore. She'll do or say anything to keep the spotlight on herself.
I feel sorry for the people who buy her books.
It does have a similar tone to it, this brouhaha, doesn't it?
Are many criminals CEOs?
I don't really think about her much. She's a self-generating bogeyman. She's like someone who wants attention for having been bad. My sense is that she's playing a character. I don't need another character. There's one character on my show, and that's me.
--Colbert
Um... on TV? On TV you can't tell what happens when they cut. He could have easily replaced any prop and there would be no way to detect it.
Why didn't he do any tricks on the Johnny Carson show?
I like Douglas Rushkoff's saying of it.
That line caught my attention, too. Only problem is when you have to be around people that speak that way and can't remove yourself from them, like in a school. The school should either remove the insulter or the insulted from the other; but actual punishment isn't necessarily right either. Teachers should chastise them for it, sure, but how ironic is it that the exact civics/social studies courses these students are taking teach them about Constitutional rights such as free speech and yet are surrounded by such an inane and contradictory environment. If the speech gets in the way of learning, do something, but this wasn't one of those cases.
was mocking
meow. sounds like someone lives in their parent's basement.
I think it's mostly natural gas too, which is great, but world distribution is not well equipped to ship natural gas around the globe. Virtually all of our nat. gas comes from north america as a result.
for most gift cards they sell at a percentage. 75%-100%
Um, I think I bought this on DVD a month ago. Were you frozen back in 2003, and only just today thawed and revived due to some medical fluke??
I'm not sure if this calendar can hang with the Women in Waders 2007 Calendar
the chick in slide 2 has huge bombs.
'cept the latter isn't a right. It's a privilege that anyone, male or female, has to be talented and work hard in order to earn.
we could go back and forth like this all day I guess, but I doubt we're telling each anything the other doesn't already know :-)
There are problems that a TM cannot solve, this is known. Can the human mind solve those problems?
I calculated the Busy Beaver function for my mind, and I got 3.
There a problems that the human mind can prove that a TM cannot solve that we can't even describe outside of the context of Turing Machines.
my breath was not taken from me...
1,000 or 12,000 doesn't matter. You
hit the ground at the same speed.
oh come on, that's like knowing the capacity of the engine in your car. It's even on the box in big numbers.
Your evidence?
That may be the case for many developers, but there's no law of nature that requires it. In fact, that perception can even work to your advantage if you are a developer, because the person you're negotiating with may just underestimate you.
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I see it in everyone, including myself
So, if you're lazy just like eveyrone else, why are you not poor and struggling too? Lucky? Circumstantial - ie born in the right place, right time? There but for the grace of god go I and all that? And if you're lazy like the other bums, if things do turn sour for you, does that mean you are worthy of as little sympathy as they are now? You will deserve your suffering as they deserve theirs?
Yeh, well the fucker shouldn't have been so careless as to cause the opening of a dimensional rift through which 1000s of bizarre predatorial aliens arrived and wreaked havoc.
The politicians would love to legalise it I'm sure - if they thought they could sell it to the electorate (not much chance imo). In the UK, the government have been floating the idea in one form or another for years and they downgraded the classification a while back - it was the psychiatric profession which criticised this move.
You must really be suffering, on the internet.
The former ain't a right -- it's accidental to be beautiful and/or competent.
what makes you so convinced that spirituality (whatever exactly that entails) cannot be a product of a mechanistic formal system?
Exactly, I'm not convinced that it cannot. Therefore, when I made the original comment it was under the assumption that there was no aspect to the human mind besides physical properties. That entails brain matter and the way it functions with respect to physical laws.
The way I went about this was by not talking about the brain or tissue and only about "models." I was hoping to avoid a little back and forth match, such as this one.
At any rate, that comment was a side note. I actually wanted to talk about the meaning of the image. Any thoughts?
this site has a ton of useful widgets for your computer or internet...
yes, of course. if you read higher up a couple of us clearly say the similarity is the political tactics used. I would also acknowledge that there is a difference between bad policy and ordering genocide.
Do you acknowledge the thousands who have died as the result of bad Bush policies?
This talking point is simply misleading. You're not
following the science
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/10/global-warming-on-mars/
POLITICAL opinion on the existance of global warming
is simply irrelevant.
Very funny. Ironically, I was using a tul pen to do this.
I'm not sure what your political self identification has to do with this.
Real ID and similar schemes make us less free (Papers Please), and less safe (giant wildly accessible databases of private information == bad) in exchange for... paying more money for said IDs and inconveniencing 19 year olds who want to go to their friends to the bar.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/realid_costs_an.html
among others.
Unless you're in the porn industry; then it's marketing.
I think the implied point is that their economy is strong, despite the extra time off they take.
One euro is worth more than one dollar, but more importantly, the value of the euro has increasing over time relative to the dollar:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=EURUSD=X&t=5y
The implication here is that, at least in the minds of banks and other forex traders, the european economy is growing faster than that of the US.
Wow, those school officials are pretty gay =/
They get a 72-piece kit of dildos, buttplugs and other toys.
We can't?
Makes you wonder how flower shops, clothing stores, restaurants, bars, greengrocers or bakers ever made a penny.
Right... That's that whole "culture of life" thing in action, I suppose.
Every person, however frail or vulnerable, has a place and a purpose in this world. Every person has a special dignity. This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government, because it does not come from government, it comes from the Creator of life.
George W. Bush
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/11/20031105-1.html
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/5933/bushrightswb5.jpg
Of 131 Texas executions studied...
In at least 29 cases, the prosecution presented damaging testimony from a psychiatrist who, based upon a hypothetical question describing the defendant's past, predicted the defendant would commit future violence. In most of these cases, the psychiatrist offered this opinion without ever examining the defendant. Although this kind of testimony is sometimes used in other states, the American Psychiatric Association has condemned it as unethical and untrustworthy.
In 43 cases, a defendant was represented at trial or on initial appeal by an attorney who had been or was later disbarred, suspended or otherwise sanctioned.
[If you can't afford a lawyer, you're fucked, er I mean, one will be appointed for you.]
[witnesses included] a forensic scientist who was temporarily released from a psychiatric ward to provide incriminating testimony in a capital case; a pathologist who has admitted faking autopsies; a psychiatrist, nicknamed "Dr. Death," who was expelled from the American Psychiatric Association; a judge on the state's highest criminal court who has been reprimanded for lying about his background; and a defense attorney infamous for sleeping during trials.
In at least 23 cases, the prosecution's evidence at trial or sentencing included a jailhouse informant, a form of testimony so unreliable that some states warn jurors to view it with skepticism.
In at least 23 cases, the prosecution presented a visual comparison of hairs, a kind of evidence so inexact that it is restricted or barred in some jurisdictions.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-000611dptexas-story,1,6667796.story
God, she's a bitch.
Do you have any evidence for this? The context of the article implies that it was the press corps traveling alongside the VP's Asia trip. I'm pretty sure they're not military (or at least, not exclusively military).
(sorry, I mean "alongside the senior Administration official's Asia trip")
Hate speech doesn't have to be unambiguous slurs, it's about replacing a negative word with a word referring to a minority group. Banning that usage does not imply that the two really are equal, that's nonsense.
That being said, either the school is going to go after every student who calls things gay, or this girl is being unfairly singled out.
me not understan satality
I absolutely agree! I hate gift cards. I still have a few gift cards and certificates around that I could never use, from 10 years ago. One was a xmas gift from an employer, for $50 to a store I never visit. To add insult to this, it was considered part of my income and I had to pay tax on it.
Obama isn't beatable? I like the guy, but anyone is beatable unless they just happen to know how to fix the election.
Besides, I can guarantee that he's going to be hurt by the fact that his foreign policy experience is minimal. Living in Indonesia when you're a kid doesn't count.
What I'd like to see is an Obama/Richardson ticket. Richardson has tons of foreign policy and Washington experience, they're both children of immigrants (gotta love that American Dream crap, even if it didn't work for Dukakis) and neither one is easily labeled as any sort of extremist.
You've nailed it.
bitter much?
Good comparison of Wicket and Spring MVC here!
The big powers of Europe with 2+ million man forces? ss666 indeed. Listen, Europe is dying and they have a hard enough time fielding forces to meet their requirements now and continue to allow the U.S. to serve their security needs (it's a good deal).
why the hell would people want to count THAT
I made a business trip to South America and turned in an expense account for almost $3000. They sent my check to another employee, whose employee number was one digit different from mine. He didn't ask questions, just spent it. The company didn't realize it until I started asking, where's my check? They asked him to reimburse it, and he quit instead. I'm guessing, he figured that the company would not bother getting lawyers involved over that amount.
hardly! Maybe only Muslims also similarly cast people out - for everyone else, it just means some arguments and maybe some distance that goes away, or doesn't.
But I'm surprised it doesn't happen all the time with ultra-orthodox - Jews are smart, I don't understand how they could be satisfied with just what they're taught like that.
-- edit --
While it's true that Ashkenazi Jews on average are way above any other group (again on average) in IQ, it's not nice to talk about people as groups, even positively. So, I somewhat apologize. It's not a full apology because otherwise, how do you reason, knowing something about groups as a whole? It should be allowed. Going from 'Jews' -> 'Ultra Orthodox Jews' (in a probabilistic, Bayesian sense) is a reasonable thing to do.
That's so gay.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Does that mean you're for it?
Or agin it?
Sure. My point is that the comments here lack a sense of proportion. There's a reason why Hitler comparisons tend to ruin discussion.
take 100 $ nubBy (\x y -> y mod x == 0) [2..]
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Hitler was definately not a Christian, and I don't mean that in the sense the he did not act like a Christian or anything like that. Also he abstained from alcohol almost totally.
Yeah, but car crashes are over in a second. She just keeps going and going.
Down voted. Ignore her and she'll go away. She just wants attention. Don't give it to her.
At first I thought SAM site as well ... but they are, typically, in as "star of david" formation.
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&safe=off&q=star+of+david&btnG=Search
I guess I was stretching it on a "Thank god it's Friday!" post. =P
That's just wrong. Perhaps you missed the fact that Coulter said this as a main speaker at one of the largest and most influential annual conservative/Republican conferences.
Other speakers include the Vice President, Senators, Representatives, a former Speaker of the House, and on, and on.
I agree with you in that "what Coulter says" is not important. But that a major conservative/Republican conference has someone who says such things as a speaker? Elevated to the same level as Senators and the Vice President? That is worthy of coverage.
Awesome idea. These guys need a wakeup call. Either that, or they know of a threat to the public that they just arn't telling us about. That's the only other reason I can think of as to why they are being so paranoid.
The thing about it is... well.... standards are a massive problem; the workarounds needed to get javascript working on multiple platforms [...] absorb an enormous amount of energy.
This problem is temporary. Already there are decent platforms for abstracting a lot of the pain away. In the next few years, the pain will be gone.
In the end, the web platform will own the online applications market. The only apps that won't be done with web-only technologies will be the very few oddballs that simply cannot be done with web-only technologies. Flash and its ilk will fight over these few scraps.
Even now, when writing web applications is somewhat painful, the web-only platform's massive, open, ceaseless, unstoppable momentum is crushing out the competition. We see vendors (e.g., flickr) shifting away from Flash and to web-only code. Google Maps and other would-have-been-great-for-Flash apps never used Flash to begin with.
In a few years, if a web app is done in Flash it will be because of one of two reasons: either the problem it solved was one of the isolated few that couldn't be solved with web-only technologies, or the developers simply didn't know any better.
(Update: edits for clarity.)
Should have headlined this: Coulter Calls John Edwards A "Faggot," Conservatives Laugh And Cheer... I can't believe this scary, scarecrow-looking hag is a Deadhead.
She's like a political version of Gene Simmons.
that's an old meme. you need to spend more time on the internet.
There are certainly a lot of americans complaining about this. Please ask yourselves whose responsibility it is. What have you done to show that you against it? What have you done to undo the change?
Still says Vice President quite a few times on his official website whereas the article indicates it does not.
No; it's not the same article.
She's going to catch hell from everybody for this - even the right wing blogs are getting sick of her.
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Today's revelations by volunteer bouncers Casper and Klinkerman showed that the decision to eject the activists "was made at the highest levels of the White House,"
Funny like an appendectomy.
This was my first thought. I can't believe this has evolved into a lawsuit!
one of the sickest sneaker I have seen in a while actually!
Not a good view from teh US, but it should look great from Europe.
Of course, tonight was crystal clear, but tomorrow its going to be raining in my area...
:-<
That's exactly like rain on my wedding day.
Why, what did your analysis say? =)
So who's organizing the pool on how long its going to take for one of these things to trip off a terrorism scare, complete with headlines of 'Bomb Hoax'?
Maybe only Muslims also similarly cast people out
If you're a Muslim, deciding to 'walk out' on your religion makes you an Apostate that deserves to be killed. By law, in many Muslim countries.
I was reading some of the articles in www.conservapedia.com and I can't help but wonder what having facts to the right wing does to make things any better
Here:
~~~PRIZE!~~~
Enjoy.
Again, paranoia is generally because you've been doing it in the wrong place with the wrong people at the wrong time in the wrong frame of mind or in the wrong amounts.
Because we all know that paranoia doesn't come from the herb but from heavy vibes.
momma's got a transparent proxy setup. i bet the poor guy can't even get onto myspace.
Maybe he'd prefer to be "Your Lordship".
Fromkin calls this approach Cheney's effort to "extort from reporters a ridiculous agreement," citing it as a sign of the contempt Cheney has for the press.
That's not the only thing he's showing contempt for.
Um.... some of us have offices or privacy that allows us to sneak a quick look at NSFW stuff occasionally.
One of the great benefits of being a computer geek is that it's trivial to blow an SSH tunnel through the corp. network to an outside proxy server and pretty much surf whatever you want.
maynard, i think seeing a spam-link and erasing it is different than spotting paid-votes. i think DIGG is shit-talking and identified ZERO scammer... otherwise they would simply delete the accounts.
Because, you know, she's a woman with political and intellectual opinions who's taken seriously and who you don't like. I can't stand the woman, but I do hope each day that we're getting closer to the point where someone brings up Ann Coulter and people don't immediately say "not a real woman". That's sinking straight to her level, dude, and that is a low level right there.
No, they just won't vote at all.
Limbaugh, Hannity, Ann Coulter and the rest of the right wing propaganda machine have spent much of the last 10 years making Hillary out to be the antichrist. Having Hillary on the ballot would do more to mobilize the right wing base than having gay marriage and abortion on the ballot at once.
Personally, I don't think she'll even make it that far though. Right now she's riding high on name recognition. Once the campaigning starts she'll start to tumble. She's just got too many marks against her - her gender, Limbaugh's dittoheads, her position on Iraq (and refusal to admit error), her ties to big business, the fact that she comes across as "a bitch" (unfair of a characterizations as that might be). She's about as popular as Lieberman among the "netroots". Despite propaganda painting her as a far left liberal, actual liberals realize that she's a right-of-center moderate.
So the odds that she'll get the nomination over someone like Obama? Slim to none, IMHO.
molt interessant
Triple wow.
That's just plain wonderful.
There might be more to this than the garish headline suggests:
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell told BBC Two's Newsnight that "the attorney general acts in the public interest, and in particular, he's got an interest to ensure that no possible prosecution is prejudiced or that no possible defence to a prosecution is prejudiced"
I'm glad I hardly pay any attention to UK politics now that I've left blighty for NZ. It's seriously depressing
Never wanting to divulge their secrets, Imagineers waved it off as "Disney magic" and "pixie dust." In reality, a live puppeteer who can see and hear everything reacts from afar.
Imagineers? Here I thought fungineering was a ridiculous occupation, but these people take it to a whole new level of inanity.
Dude, my bad.
If someone's website said they were in favor of Jewish values, the Jewish family, etc, would people be up in arms?
Christian values, Christian family, etc?
Mormon values, Mormon family, etc?
Native American values, Native American family, etc?
Not all adjectives are created equal.
Why'd Asimo get hidden behind a screen before they picked him up? That was sorta weird (but very funny).
Sometimes a giant pentagram is simply a giant pentagram...
What about them?
By U.S. law, gift cards can't be counted towards company revenues until they have been redeemed. So, it doesn't do a public company any good to sell gift cards if no one can use them. It is NOT free profit.
This is just a system problem. I'm sure most of the people working on the order hotline have no way around the 4 gift card limit, even supervisors. The only person that this shopper should be mad at is whoever lied and wrote that there was no limit.
I'm still gonna call him "asshole".
It's okay, he's a perfect candidate for the police force. He can find a good, healthy outlet for his lust for brutality and the "no worries, they're just Iraqis/Blacks/Potheads/Protesters" mentality will fit right in.
And as goes reddit's coverage, so goes the world's.
I agree with much of your commentary, but this doesn't make much sense to me:
I'll forgo my usual Libertarian vote in favor of Obama
Democrats may cherish different liberties than Republicans, but certainly that wouldn't sway me from voting what I really want as a Libertarian.
son of conservative commentator
yeah... that's a real unbiased viewpoint for you.
They didn't even bother to do a caricature.
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Half of these aren't even "marketing" related. Are we expected to believe that Tylenol planted cyanide in an effort to boost sales?
Why would I want to use some xml based tag-soup for programming when I could use a real programming language?
Right on Sally, fabulous, unfortunately some companies require you to be "rehired" if you take more than 3 weeks, but I'm talking about low-end corporate, like Radioshack, Jiffy Lube, UPS places that I've shed some skin :)
Yes, they really did. Very messy stuff. Starbucks was quite angry and is suing the city of Boston for clean-up costs and for grossing out the cutomers that were sitting near the window. Really.
Having conned the UN, Congress, and the American people.
They never conned the UN, when it became clear the UN was not going to authorize an invasion - at least not before the weapons inspectors finished, the administration decided to abandon the resolution that would authorize force, and instead pretend to the US/UK audience that one was never needed.
The invasion has always been illegal as far as the UN was concerned (though diplomats wouldn't use those words), but that knowledge was negated inside America by all the pro-war spin the news organisations provided.
(or perhaps he bought the administration line and thought it was just France that was standing in the way?)
ask anyone who's done research on it, or any good pharmacologist and they'll tell you it genuinely isn't
Sadly not true. Psychiatrists and in-depth recent studies concur that it is very dangerous.
radrik, you forgot the xkcd link.
nice post, refreshing.
"No, seriously, they wouldn't mistake a traffic counter for a bomb."
I think all bets are off at this point.
Ann Coulter calls Bill Clinton 'gay'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_YzbODb9To
Government is institutionalized agression (manifest as theft in many cases). Acknowledging that governments steal by nature doesn't diffuse the logic of my argument. Isn't it possible that individuals could live in a government-less society? Seems at least plausible to me.
That's made me want to re-read The Diamond Age.
Exactly.
If every day you tried to go online, you couldn't get on because your ISP sucked, and then for a month the internet in general was slow so that now you couldn't get online AT ALL, which would you go after when asked - the internet, or the ISP?
It's like that. It's the long-standing issue that people hate. India is suffering from its own financial success.
A very cool way of doing things the chefs way
tranny = choice
intersexual = born
Its pretty common. I saw a documentary on it. Forget if it was 1 in a 100 or 1000, but doctors routinely give newborns hormones to turn them one way or the other. Small penis, or large clit? Doctor decides!
She's a horrible person, but I gotta admit... the joke was funny.
When referring to Ann Coulter, no term is too pejorative.
It's not the "ends" I am worked up about (although I am a passionate pessimist), it's the "means".
See The Secret (2006 film)#Criticism.
i challenge anyone to find ONE insult in the history of all insults that hasn't been lobbed at Bush in the last 6-7 years. Not to mention how they've treated every black republican. It's clear to anyone with an ounce of objectivity that liberals are snakes and hypocrites
How many reddit users can count the number of times they've used porn? We shouldn't hold teenagers to higher standards than we hold ourselves.
You read this article, this "last speech for money" of Kurt Vonnegut, and decide the one quote that represents it is "bush = hitler"?
damn, i wish my college's engineering chicks could look like that... check that, i wish my college had that many engineering girls
Is that a joke or are you an idiot?
graphic artist Hana Gartstein offers this composite illustration
The sun would not have to cover the entire area behind Earth to give that effect. The Earth's atmosphere would still be within a few degrees of being directly in front of the sun, close enough for it to be lit up like that.
That pic of Saturn covering the sun with the rings all lit up is a good example of this effect. But then I suppose that pic was also faked...
Awesome poll on picture 15 or whatever it is - "Do you, as someone clearly clicking through this entire album, object to the content of this album?"
Shocking that the poll is nearly all No.
(I voted No.)
This Calendar might be renamed, "Girls who get swamped by requests for dates by Engineers."
How about we ban the term; man-o-woman on stilts.
It's strange to call someone a bundle of sticks but I don't see why people are so upset. (fnord)
wondering where I can buy these All informed Bostonians should be putting these up :P
Whoa... there's a blast from the past! I thought her career evaporated with the Republican majority.
Boing!
I rofled, and that's all that matters to me!
From now on...you shall call me...Betty.
cool
As a matter of fact, I'd be surprised if there weren't a website promoting "Christian values" and the "Christian family." Upmod.
And as I have mentioned before: I doubt that there is a lot of optimization potential for Java Hotspot other ...
Instead of guessing, it might be better to extract the code into a method, and have main loop 10,000 times printing the elapsed times to stderr ...
Predicted snarky GOP reply: "You know, it's not clear to me," said Bush/Cheney. "Why would I be apologizing for someone else's remarks?"
Even their uniforms!? Wow, then you must be right.
rolls eyes
The real situation is absurd and funny already, this lame satire isn't adding anything.
Not when I just looked at his webpage. I saw only one instance of Cheney being referred to as a Senior Administration Official. Everywhere else was VC.
shrugs
I'm no fan of DC, but this article is not true.
Edited to add: I just reread Feldman's entry and I realize that he wasn't asserting that ALL instances of VC were gone -- just the latest entry. My mistake. I guess we'll have to wait and see how the future entries read.
Ann Coulter is a prime example of what I call "the Madonna Effect".
It works like this:
When you get attention by being deliberately outrageous, you can only continue your shtick by getting progressively more and more outrageous, because you have to top your last stunt. This is because having actual content allows infinite variation, but shock value has one one trait, intensity.
So when you hit a point where you can't go any further, when there's nothing left to shock people with, then you sink from the public eye.
So I'm glad to hear about this. It means she has almost nowhere left to go. The only stunt that could provide her with more shock value, without getting her arrested or sued would be to call Barrack Obama a nigger.
If you look at the full-size image, that's actually two separate dots "floating" above the horizon.
Clearly two miles-wide UFOs hovering over India, not a tower.
http://www.cafepress.com/bscare
If you suffer from...Palpitations, a pounding heart, or an accelerated heart rate
Sweating, Trembling or shaking, Shortness of breath, A choking sensation,
Chest pain or discomfort, Nausea or stomach cramps, Derealization
This is like http://www.bombornot.com/
Beer!!
As I see it, the problem is how you effectively define what is responsible smoking. Sure, there's a high chance you can smoke and not get mentally ill, just as there's a high chance you can smoke cigarettes and not get cancer.
I hope that working on the book was why his blog stopped after 6 entries.
Sounds just like high school... hey let's all pick on the smart kid, he's different
This particular example is named Cadaeic Cadenza, and there's more info about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaeic_Cadenza
Daniels claimed he worked at a local McDonalds before he was detained.
Just kidding. I think this guy needs to be jailed for life. People complain about human rights violations. If I had severe TB I'd kill myself or went into seclusion not to infect people. He is a threat (too soft of a word) to public, can cause great damage. The fact he ignored rules imposed to protect others from death gives those others the right to put a bullet in his head right then and there.
I suppose that if you are in a Saturn moon you might be out of breath.
Isn't that an old throwback to an error that Windows NT threw sometimes when starting/stopping services?
First LaTeX on WordPress, and now this! LIFE IS GOOD
Please elaborate; I seem to have missed that one.
I made an IRC bot in CL a while back, it's ugly and probably not very well done, but oh well.
http://mbishop.esoteriq.org/code/testbot.lisp
I never said there was a correlation. can you see the word "but" in my original post? they are not that hot BUT I like how they look awkward (meaning more natural, non profesional). The internet is Babel all over again
About a year ago I saw 20 people all in black clothing breaking the glass windows on the front of a new bank. My first thought was viral advertising as well.
Go check out Hilltop Hoods. I've only heard tracks from "The Hard Road", but it's really good.
If the Swiss had decided to invade and annex Liechtenstein, which has a population of around 34,000, it probably would have been a walkover. Liechtenstein is a quarter the size of the Isle of Man, and does not have an army.
I adore the "probably" there. There is some element of doubt.
I get your point, but how about if we just say she's not human and leave it at that?
no
any hardcore fundamentalist family will disown you for turning your back on religion or doing something they consider very nonreligious. I mean believing and agreeing that your kid should go to hell or booted into the street for the dishonor of wanting an abortion or being gay or being an atheist can come from any religion. hardcore jews, hindus, muslims, mormons, scientologists, regular christians, heck, some families will disown you for not going into the family dentistry business! Let me put it this way, there are a lot of screwed up families out there.
Plus, if your family is a bunch of fundies of any kind, you are better off without them.
Make the ban permanent!
It's pretty obvious that GoDaddy has the worst domain registering services EVER. I just cancelled everything on my account and am now moving my domains and websites to another host.
Sinister Man: He says we must gather up all the faggots and burn them.
Brother Theresa: I'm not sure I like the sound of this!
Cult member: Don't worry, Brother Theresa, he means wood.
:)
In this video we show you how to get a pizza for free. All you need are some Social Engineering (human hacking) skills.
Of course, when the responsible managers fire themselves, you're left with the irresponsible ones.
He gave some vandals a ride.
So, basically, they sent him to prison for having Asperger's Syndrome.
(Oh, but that's okay. Asperger's is a fake disorder! It's just excuse for being a jerk with no social skills! I read it on the Internets!)
.... and therefore gets the publicity she so desparately craves. If we all just ignore her she'll go away.
I wonder if I have to go to rehab if I call her a cunt?
Oh, damn, somebody already posted the same comment.
Still, it's nice to build up pages where "Coulter" and "cunt" appear in close proximity, so I'll leave it.
You just made me snort.
So instead of printing a bunch of stupid fluff pieces they print one big fluff piece. My favorite part of the article is when they start in on "We didn't report about Paris's huge birthday bash, or her other birthday bash, etc., etc., etc." No, you didn't. But you have now.
Wait, why are they demanding that Cheney and the candidates condemn it... aren't they missing the president (Bush i think is his vile name) ?
Or did he already condemn it?
We know it's B.S., just look at the domain: nida.nih.gov, but your little rant is just foolish.
Estimation of risk is a common and well-understood factor in all health studies. A little research would tell you how it's done, and what the standard levels of uncertainty are.
Drug laws have nothing to do with Christianity; the war on drugs is about greed, not morality.
the funny thing is that she looks like a lesbian, if ever i've seen one. i mean, that god-awful voice of hers sound like a donkey being sodomised.
Relax, we can have nukes because we have proven that we will not use them unless it is vital. Iran and N.Korea can't because well... have you heard their dictators lately?
Amazing, the database is only 4GB (there are 6670903752021072936959 SUDOKU solutions.)
The syntax is
$latex \LaTeX maffs on Wordpress, innit?$
Tedious but it works.
Her ever half naked body on TV is just an extension of her armpits.
... Why would you use gift cards as a means of savings? Is it just me, or is that... well... a little dumb, when it'd be a thousand times easier to use, oh I dunno... a bank account?
If I had to take a stab in the dark, I'd say the limit is an anti-fraud protection.
this is a cool site - 43 things you want to do before you die. See how many others want to do the same thing and get ideas for more.
I think the problem is fraud -- the limit is most likely an anti-fraud measure.
I hope the plan for this is to unify eggs, PLT, slib, etc, because it's becoming harder and harder to know what library to pick that you think most people can use.
MMmmmmm.... new species...
Nothing will ever be as hopelessly long as "Once Upon a Time in America" at nearly four hours long.
Coultergeist!
I'm just happy that there are so many different kinds of things that aren't bombs in Boston. It makes me feel safe. I tell you.. I've seen that red box first hand, and now it has that sticker on it, it makes me sleep easier at night.....
Brilliant. Why is it that I find graffiti taking itself on an amazing new direction? From laser graffiti to this. Great stuff.
Oh there will be some market for mass produced herb, but herb more than most anything else people prefer to produce for themselves if possible.
AP is missing the whole point. The problem is that our country is faced with serious issues right now that need public awareness and debate, if only to force the politicians to deal with them. A pending financial crisis due to drastic overcommitments on Healthcare and the retiring of the Baby Boomers, and Healthcare that doesn't actually care for everyone; an ill-advised, failing, destabilizing, expensive war in the Middle East; loss of international prestige and influence; accelerated erosion of rights at home; budget and trade deficits; etc, etc, etc.
The fact that you can find more worthy thinking, and perhaps even hard information, on this topic from reading a decent selection of blogs than you can from reading the AP is the elephant in the room. Over-reporting the antics of Paris Hilton and other celebrities is only a symptom of the problem, not the problem, and banning reporting on them is only a treatment of the symptom, not a resolution to the underlying problem.
If all was right with the main stream media, the situation would be the exact opposite. The MSM provides the data, info, facts, and credibility, with a side of analysis and opinion, while the blogs generally indulge themselves with the antics of idiot celebrities. That would of course be bizarro world, not our current reality.
I was expecting the "most geeky" tattoo to be the Haskell logo. Lambdas, foralls, arrows, it's got everything.
Edwards is a closeted faggot. Applause. Barack is a half-nigger. Applause.
Something seems different from last year...
What a troll. AP should ban her the way they banned Paris Hilton.
None of these compare to these terrible tattoos
http://wallstreetfighter.blogspot.com/2007/01/lifetime-of-embarrassment-worlds.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:EU_location_LUX.png
Notice that Germany is just east of the place where this happened. German is one of the three official languages.
Audis are a German car, made in southern Germany.
Nope, no good reason for there to be a lot of Audis around there, is there?
I hear you... ugh berkeley engineering girls...
The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy had it partly right, but the superior intelligent life form on this planet isn't dolphins, it's the honeybee.
The explanation is that the planet is about to be destroyed to make way for a galactic highway.
Anyone got an electric thumb I can borrow?
No, it was their swift response of introducing the tamper proof lids and the marketing of making hte public think they were safety concious
Even with stencils I bet that took a long time to do, as it's pretty detailed. Very cool.
People take Ann Coulter seriously?
Are you for real with this? Last I checked no one has lobbed faggot at Bush.
Yawn.
startiiiiiing...now!
I thought they'd put banners overlapping "censored" areas.
But what happens to all the money that is not redeemed?
Sexist and anachronistic. Was out-dated 20 years ago. Hasn't anyone got any imagination any more?
No mention of the original creator H. R. Giger. So much for accuracy.
I wonder if she's ever had sex.
Because we actually see similarities between the two(hence, the comparison), and aren't telling you that you're an evil person for liking bush, or anything else. There's a difference.
The people still came.
"Nobody ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the american people"
I don't agree with this tact at all. She's not going anywhere if she's ignored.
She's not an errant 3 year old. She needs to be challenged for this kind of crap and C-SPAN needs to get the idea that they shouldn't be covering her when she appears.
Plus the godless Repubs that she professes to love need to have this shit thrown in their faces when they are running for office. (Are you listening, Mitt??)
No, they're not. Note the emphasis on "this woman" - they aren't saying "this woman is pretty" because that isn't even a real woman, nor is it meant to be.
They're giving an example of what they claim are the body proportions most suitable for women to be found attractive. Since those proportions don't effect things like nipple position and the other stuff people are complaining about, I assume they just didn't spend much time trying to get those right. :-p
A Vermont House resolution calling for the impeachment of George Bush is now waiting action in the Judiciary committee. It will take a flurry of calls and letters to get them to move on it. Unfortunately, Sanders and Leahy both have been putting pressure on the statehouse leadership to not take action. the will of the people only goes so far with these two, apparently. ...
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I happen to like small chests.
What turns me off about her is that she happens to look like a man.
8 grand payroll error in your favour - what would you do?
I would say, fuk, only 8 grand ?
I'll be honest, i only read the title...
It's Art, not Porn! ;)
Reminds me of heavy metal.
In this case, "Americablog" isn't a right-wing blog, it links to the story/video without any extra information... and the layout looks like shit.
The original submission should have hit the front page instead
Can you believe this goes on in the western world in 2007?
Funny.
Since carbon offsets have the utility of skates on a turtle, it makes sense to take money from one pocket and put it in the other.
Funny that Al Gore inadvertently makes sense about something.
That is precisely why I don't believe in astrology: us Virgos are far too logical to believe in that nonsense.
No comment.
I completely agree with you. This is the kind of stunt that cannot be ignored.
I want to see Mitt Romney linked to this like it's his third arm.
I'm so SICK of kid-gloving these loose cannon conservatives.
Hey, at least she didn't call him a personal injury lawyer. Considerable restraint there.
If you find the language interesting then there's an opportunity to explore it further by writing some of the missing Oberon-2 programs for the computer language shootout :-)
Nonsense.
Why the color fink is a pigment of your imagination?
Ann Coulter is much like Godzilla; she does what she wants and nobody seems to be able to stop her.
I remember my parents taking me to see "Grand Prix" when i was a kid. The film started with a musical prelude. Many epic films had these. Then about halfway through the film a musical intermission. That was great for a squirmy kid like me. Plus going back to the snack counter so my mom and dad could catch a smoke and I could replenish my popcorn.
Movie goers today are too TVcentric. They want their entertainment short and sweet. And I think that certain people today would abuse the intermission to it's fullest.
I don't know what theaters think of intermissions for long movies. They want to herd as many people in and out as possible in an evening.
/sometimes miss the old days...
Rules for Radicals, Alinsky's best-known book, may be leftist-Marxist-activist, but it's a really interesting book and a good read, especially if you're in marketing or PR. The central message of the book is "don't just go out and throw rocks at people and yell --- comb your hair, put on nice clothes, and talk to people". Alinsky's thesis in that book is that people are not sheep being led by the wrong (right-wing) shepherds, but participants in democracy with community interests who are tired of being talked down to and manipulated.
I am not a Hillary fan (her refusal to apologize for the Iraq vote is crossing her off my list). What pisses me off about this article is that it caricatures Alinsky, who admittedly went off the rails later in his career, but still is no Yippie.
Old but still humourous.
market fundamentalist ideology
That is cute. As a teacher would you call that an Ad Hominem or a Hasty Generalization? Perhaps Poisoning the Well would be more accurate? I'm not very good at assigning names to peoples fallacies.
Mineowners struggling to make a profit in the early days of the diamond industry sought, however, to undercut the bargaining strength of the Africans on whom they depended for labor. In 1872 Kimberley's white claimsholders persuaded the British colonial administration to introduce a pass law.
I don't really have the time or interest to write you a detailed essay on exactly how, when, where, and why De Beers utilized government collusion to further their ends. They certainly have. Do you have another example? Perhaps one that would hold up under light scrutiny?
That is beyond cool. Dedication.
Obama is different enough that I far prefer him to anyone else who might run at this time, and having that difference in the White House is more important to me (this time) than a largely symbolic (but heartfelt) Libertarian vote.
I hate to be "insensitive", but the Quran is fiction.
Many people feel uneasy about criticizing other people's religions because they feel it is racist. They shouldn't feel that way though, because religions are not races. Islam is not a race. Christianity is not a race. Religions are a set of ideas and practices. Criticism of ideas and practices should never be out of bounds, even at the risk of causing offense.
Windows Vista Ultimate provides gamers with the advance features and tools necessary to experience stunning graphics and superior game-play on a notebook, such as Windows Aero for advance animations and visual feedback for precision and realism enabling vibrant reflections and translucent glass.
What? Did they just say that Aero provides gamers with superior gameplay? I stopped taking the article seriously from that point onwards.
Haha, I said interesting, but not worth learning :P
I don't do systems programming, and I can't stand languages that don't have type inference :)
Couldn't listen to talk. Just kept staring at that adam's apple. Is Coulter gay-baiting Edwards? I think a DNA test will defang this attack pretty quickly. Someone steal a lock of hair!
I think she meant it purely in a derogatory sense, and not necessarily implying that she thought he was homosexual.
Woah! Wait a second:
Why is homosexuality immoral?
WTF?! That was so casually slipped in I barely noticed it in my first pass.
That's because they have had an unusual historic situation. They have taken advantage of it for a while. But if they feel threatened by an outside force, they are, historically, the best fighters on the planet. Don't forget that. All it takes to build a military like the US has is money. They have that, and could build a huge fighting machine in about 10 years.
The psychiatric profession backed by the pharma lobby. Why would they want people to effectively self-medicate with cheap plants they can grow at home?
Awesome. Erlang is probably the best candidate for safe, highly parallel programming.
If the author has no way of making himself clear on the subject who he is talking about, then he is clearly not creative. But I am assuming he did not say that, and that it is your opinion that he cannot make the point clear. In which case, I can think of a few things that would clear up any misinterpretation of the comic being all encompassing. One example would be to draw a label on the shirt of the "Christian" in the comic. The label could say many things, including the popular "Fundies" moniker that seems to be labeled to any person who applies and condones all laws set forth in the Christian bible. If he(or she) were talking about Fundamentalist Christians, that is. Again, that's one example off the top of my head, and I'm clearly not as "creative" as this comic illustrator, so what do I know?
(Bingo. And there you have nothing)
Where, by "internal passport", we apparently mean "standardized, federally-regulated ID". Which, in case you hadn't noticed, we already have, for better and (mostly) worse.
Can't wait for the European redditors to make fun of us for this one.
reminds me of the George Carlin bit, "they nearly missed" ... so what then, did they hit? ...
Just when I thought we had finally escaped...
But he isn't going to be aloud to mess with Iran. And Iraq is a small time little BS war in on the world stage. It's only notable because it involves the most powerful nation-state in the world.
netmon tool
Andy Clark is great, but this is just a call for papers (for October). -1.
Does Cafepress also do posters?
Well, General Weightman was only there 6 months, but he was the only person that manned up and offered his resignation willingly. Harvey was forced to resign.
Apparently the doctors and staff at Walter Reed were very upset that Weightman left, believe that most of the blame for the state of Walter Reed laid upon General Kiley, who briefly replaced Weightman. Now, Kiley was replaced and I'm not sure what his status is right now.
Cheney is slowly being moved to be the fall guy for the Iraq war and slowly being distanced from Bush. You can already see their statements parting ways - that's no accident from an Administration that demands loyalty and operates like clockwork on talking points.
And it really was Cheney's war anyway - Bush is just a douchebag Governor from Texas who needed a foreign policy - Cheney supplied that. Bush was never a member of the PNAC, and I'd doubt he knew Darfur existed when he took office.
Yes, it doubles your chances.
espero que podamos contactarnos
Ay! They be pirates! RUN, ye scurvy nerds...
Nice concept, feeble image.
How is that a blunder?
Looking back, I probably won't have posted that. I think I saw "Air Force Two" and "corps" and put military together.
My bad.
I know Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton is no gentleman.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4305783.stm
The doors should be locked and that building set on fire. Ha,ha that was a joke I tell you, laugh damn it!
You people are so mean with Ann Coulter; always joking about some ambiguous gender appearance. Once and for all Ann is a very handsome man.
Honestly, I'm sick of snow. The cold. I can't wait for winter to end.
As I remember he had no idea who the new military dictator in pakistan was either...
Regardless of what people here think about the military I'm sure what happened at Walter Reed is deeply shameful on a personal level to a lot of Army top brass. They really do care about the troops, and it really doesn't surprise me to see him falling on his sword over it.
There are always going to be a few bad apples, and that leads us to where we are today.
smart AND naked AND hot
I'm talking about NHS-funded psychiatrists and mental health charities. They are concerned about the strain on resources from having to hospitalise people with cannabis-related psychiatric disorders. The pharma lobby will profit from downgrading (if it results in more widespread use of cannabis).
Her neck...it is so long...I can't help thinking of dinosaurs or sock puppets...
From my original post:
In this case however...
Intentionally misunderstanding someone is not the best way to form an argument. I am drawing a distinction between the issue of whether lying is always a bad idea, and this particular use of lying, which I agree is stupid, but for different reasons. The real intention of my post however was questioning the source of your condemnation and pleading. Perhaps you would care to respond to that, rather than some phantom constructed to maintain your sense of consistency.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LjJWw22Is5I
Video of civilians killed with a bomb dropped by US F16 after a 2-second decision:
Pilot: I see numerous individuals on the road, do you want me to take those out?
Controller, 2 seconds later: Take 'em out.
I do. You're all welcome.
EDIT:
This page claims that:
If the court has approved a subpoena under Fed. R. Crim.P. 17(b), the fact witness fee and travel reimbursements are paid by the Office of the United States Marshal.
But don't believe them. It's me.
With any luck Google will modify the Google toolbar so that it integrates with their spreadsheet and so do this automatically... With one hand on your mouse and one hand choking the chicken who has time to fill in spreadsheets???
The "fact" (I don't have a source, so...) that lights are used, in general, far less than 8 hours per day takes into account the fact that you spend lots of time out of your house, at work for example, and that not all your lights are on when you are present.
The annoying thing about the 35W value, is that it is total waste. I agree disconnecting and reconnecting them is quite impractical, but all this wasted energy really adds up and should be addressed to a certain degree. Especially in terms of government regulation and practical technology that reduces it.
And, btw, I live in Canada :)
This homebrew application lets you transfer files from one psps to another using a wi-fi connection.
Probably meant in the locker room sense, like calling her a cunt; ain't nothing there....
Digg shouldn't have made a point of officially stating that it can't be gamed, when everyone already knows it is possible.
I'm sure gaming Reddit is just as easy as Digg; but to my knowledge, no one from Wired has stated that it isn't possible.
"Jews are smart"
Well, thanks, I guess. I think it would be more accurate to say that academics are pushed pretty hard in Jewish traditions. Even a family as secular as mine was stressed school more than anything else.
I've found the perceived effect Wired talks about to be even more pronounced here on Reddit.
However Wired's analysis put my suspicion of something organized to rest. I looked at their top 50 lists and no pattern emerged to me. In my mind it simply represents a few people with a lot of time on their hands that take the time to vote on submissions, which I admit I don't as often as I should. I usually only bother to vote on things I'm passionate about.
Heck yes!! I like how the auther suggests that the Car companies should drop their legal battles and get back to making cars.
In FOX news's defense (yikes am I saying that?) Comes rips into that guy after this part of the interview. He makes him look like a complete idiot for insinuating that Obama is a black separatist. His tirade on this guy is probibly as long as the part posted here. It was really refreshing honestly to actually hear Comes talk on the show. He is the token liberal on the network and I guess he spent all his contracted on-air minutes in this one interview this week.
If you like graphs you will like this site. I don't know much about the creator but he seems to have pulled together quite a number of resources into a single place.
It's interesting in that he is not trying to lay out an argument. He is simply showing the facts and figures. The neat thing is that it is all in one place.
typo - should say part 2
sorry
Republicans do something P.C.? I think not.
It makes sense. Who would want to walk out on a religion of peace?
You incorrectly referred to a Senior Administration Official as the Vice President. Just thought I would point it out.
you totally beat me to the punch on that comment.
The social security card was not supposed to become a means of national ID. Congress and the White House promised that would never be allowed to happen. Officially, you don't have to use it either. But they make not using it so god damned much a pain in the ass that most folks don't even know that they don't have to use it if they don't want too.
Basically, they are lying through their teeth. The Government is supposed to be accountable to the people. Not the people to the government.
That's funny, because I don't care what "most people" want, either; I want you to stay in. So long as I have the ability to resist your infection, I will, no matter what level that force is escalated to. And I bet I'm a better shot than you.
"Market fundamentalist ideology" is not an attack, but a description of the viewpoint you're espousing. You don't have to like it if you don't want to, I suppose, but it doesn't make it untrue.
Perhaps one that would hold up under light scrutiny?
Light scrutiny is something of an overstatement of what you've done. What is described in that passage is indeed government collusion, but that was to gain monopsony (single-buyer) power in a labor market, rather than monopoly (single-seller) power. The two rarely go hand-in-hand, and there's no reason to believe that De Beers would have been any less effective a monopoly.
Since you asked, though, here's a list of partial and near-total monopolies my students came up with earlier this term:
Microsoft
Major League Baseball (also a monopsonist, coincidentally)
University Bookstores (at least until the rise of internet bookstores)
Lighthouses (in fact, any natural monopoly, where average total cost slopes downward for all quantities, will arise without government interference)
I find the perspective that you and other libertarians espouse (that monopolies only arise due to government interference in markets) fascinating. It's highly unorthodox, and not found in any standard economics texts. Do you have the name of an article or book on the theory, or an author who has written on it extensively?
"Markus Amman, an interior ministry spokesman, said nobody in Liechtenstein had even noticed the soldiers."
That's very pragmatic when you don't have an army. Ignore them and hope they go away.
Thanks for the guidance I was really ethically puzzled there for a minute.
Yikes. That moron is lucky to be alive.
Why is it that the asian guy who said he hates blacks gets in so much trouble, but Ann Coulter says similar inflamatory things on purpose, every day, and everybody just says, "Oh, that Ann Coulter, she's so baaaad. She's obviously acting a role, trying to sell books." Like sure she does hate speech for a living, but for some reason since it's her, it's okay and she can keep doing it. ???
have you heard OUR dictator lately?
(answer - they hope to rope him in and beat up on him again.)
I thought it was Glenda?
This simple little book caused quite a stir a few years ago. Anything popular does. While some of the concern was valid, most was manufactured in order to sell opposing books. I think publishing houses look for bandwagons to jump onto or shoot at.
yea, I'd do the same thing as the guy in tfa. Better to actually make sure its yours then keep it and then be forced to give it back, possibly lose your job for theft. A payroll/bank error in your favor doesn't mean that the money is yours. If an ATM gave you 40 instead of the 20 you punched in, be sure that the bank will debit that extra 20 from your account when they realize the error. Your job would probably dock your pay until the books balance or fire your for being dishonest and take you to court, depending on the amount over payed. But hey, good on this guy for taking the "high road" and finding out that it was his money all along!
no idea:) It's not my article! I just offered up a guess!
this story was very good i realy enjoyed it.
I've seen Uri do that version of the spoon bend 'live' on TV before and it looks remarkably like this trick.
Check out the video clip.
You sure about that?
http://www.google.com/search?q=laptop+battery+life
Specifically:
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm
I've read it far more times in far more official places than the comments board of Reddit. Do you have data to show it's not true?
"If used on main power, the battery inside a laptop will only last for 12-18 months."
As a language, this is mostly just Pascal (or Modula, really) with OOP extensions. The interesting part is the user interface, and the fact that development is done in a fully interactive, live fashion. There is no REPL, but you can invoke commands interactively. Commands being procedures with a certain calling convention.
A lot of people are going to freak the hell out.
I don't even respond to ping, among other things. I'm paranoid.
A couple of them are CS majors
But can they code?
AWESOME SITE!!! Absolutely FREE to use, AND your transactions are protected!!! Plus they've evolved into a socially aware operation. You can trade within/between the States and Canada, and they're planning on including more countries in the near future. I've been a member for a year now, and I can't rave enough about it!!!
In fact Hitler made military alliances with muslims in order to kill Jews. He enlisted Bosnian muslims into the SS, and made a bargain with arabs to kill jews for access to oil. It's all in the history books (start with wikipedia). Good reading, but not many people bother.
Right of the coast of R'lyeh...
Interesting, but the article is horribly written and hard to follow.
Mcvoy's done more to move the profession of programming forward than most of us could ever hope to.
And what's wrong with him pointing out the twisted logic of RMS?
"Federal law requires claimants to specify damage amounts, so the $77 billion represents an average individual claim at $170,000 for the city's pre-hurricane population of 455,000, reported CNN."
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/weather/jan-june07/neworleans_03-02.html
I would be offended by that person's words, but i would be more offended by - and put into action against - the person who would deny them the freedom to say that.
Fraud would be nontrivial. I'm having a hard time thinking of ways that you could pull it off.
Maybe if you were a retail cashier. If your coworkers ever left their registers unattended and unlocked, you might infrequently steal and activate a card, and spend it without committing mail, phone, or wire fraud (lest you wind up in a Federal prison).
But this assumes that you're caught on camera at neither the store of origin nor the location at which you use the cards. And that the card can be activated without ringing it up. And that the gift card vendor doesn't bill the store too often. And that you don't do something stupid like buy an iPod and then register it online using your Apple account, or use iTunes gift cards with an Apple account that can be traced to you (I bet store downloads are slow through proxies).
I think that even here most people would agree that the lockup is the best decision when someone will not follow the rules of a quarantine and is a risk to all around them.
My vote goes for transexual rather than hermaphrodite because of her overly dramatic feminine mannerisms. Transexuals (M to F), because they were not raised female, have a hard time getting the feminine cues right and have a tendency to overdo it. Hermaphrodites that have been raised female would have had ample opportunity to live as a female, thus know the appropriate gender cues.
Everytime I see her on TV, it's like she is hitting you over the head with her "femininity," flipping her hair every 10 seconds. Might as well stamp "tranny" on her adam's apple.
The fucked up thing is that the form of TB he has - multi-drug resistant - which is prevalent in Russia - is most likely treatable and curable, but the special antibiotics and health costs to treat it are much more expensive than 'regular' TB. They don't treat multi-drug resistant TB in Russia the same way they don't treat HIV in Africa - 'too expensive.' I'm most curious about what kind of medical care this guy will get.
Translation: I am unabashedly selfish and arrogant in the most extreme senses of the word.
OMG! My computer doesn't have one of those stickers on it! That means it might be a bomb!!! Quick! Call the Boston PD!!!
http://forums.audiworld.com/other/msgs/2478782.phtml
Since those proportions don't effect things like nipple position and the other stuff people are complaining about, I assume they just didn't spend much time trying to get those right.
Yeeeeah, I'm thinking you're wrong.
Ann Coulter lays a few eggs in a few mounds of corpses, and the next thing you know, liberals are saying she's not human. I thought you all were supposed to be the tolerant ones.
Lucky bastard. He hit one of those trees there. There is nothing else there that could cause this kind of damage. Speed kills. Audis are pretty tough in small accidents, this one had to be huge to rip apart the car.
Try Fark.
But they lifted the ban, didn't they?
It was the hand of Rove. (insert suitably scary music at the mention of Rove)
Was Sundance crying on the show?
Well, if you're daft, then I guess I can explain it for you. But if you're just trying to stir up an argument, or if you cannot fathom being wrong for one second, then maybe I should just ignore you.
Assuming you're daft, it "clearly" envelopes all Christians by showing a generic "Christian". There is nothing in the comic which shows any denomination, orientation or interpretation of a branch of Christianity. It shows a little girl, with a halo and a cross. Nothing else. Are you following? Now, the argument could be said that it is attacking only female Christians, but that's a different argument.
Your "presumption" was that "You're presumption that it is an attack on all Christians rather than the ones that have been attacking gays and atheists is wrong and would not be shared by anyone but a Christian sensitive to jokes about their religion and their fellows."
Where in here do you state that it is "...just an opinion.."? I'm pretty sure my copy-and-paste function didn't leave out "I think" or "Might be" or any other words that imply an opinion. You stated that as if it were a fact, and it's not.
No, again, It Does Not Clearly State What It Is About. That is the whole point. Saying that this comic clearly states that it is about one type of Christian, over and over again, does not make it true.
I truly am glad that you don't take this comic to be about ALL Christians. That shows that you are, at the least, intelligent enough to know that generalizations and stereotypes are a horrible way to classify people. Don't get me wrong on that point. But just because you and I and Tom, Dick and Harry know that someone can be a Christian AND a reasonable person doesn't mean that stereotyping people is okay.
I did establish the invalidity of your analogy. If this comic were about a specific type of Christian, like your joke was about a specific type of lawyer, then it would be a proper comparison. You are comparing a non-specific issue with a specific one. I reiterated what you said, because you obviously didn't(or still don't) realize what you said. Here's an idea, take an honest minute to see it from my perspective: A specific-type-of-lawyer joke and a non-specific-Christian comic. Seriously, take a few seconds and try to think about it, you don't even have to admit that you did it. You'll see what you've written doesn't compare to the comic.
Now, if you want to use a different comparison that has bearing on the subject, by all means, I'm open to the possibility of actually having a discussion that doesn't transgress into a pissing match.
As far as the comparison you made for the sleazy lawyer in your last sentence, again I point out that the sleaziness being established is what makes this moot. But, if the lawyers'(notice the plural possessive tense) honesty and integrity were all in question in the comic, and I would, in fact, say what I said in my first paragraph of my first post on this topic. Except I would change Christians to lawyers. But I highly doubt that (a) it would make it onto the reddit hot list and (b) that I would have to endure people who actively don't want to take the time to follow along with me, and who instead just read what I write to find holes to punch through and make their side of the discussion/argument seem correct.
If you still don't see, I have to pretty much give up on you.
Anna Nicole Smith was like that too, and Britney Spears is as well.
If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.
No surprises. Sylvia got the boos as expected he would against "The natural"
unfortunately.
Ignoring her bile for a second - I don't get what she's referencing here (if anything). Did someone go into rehab shortly after some homophobic remarks or something?
You wonder what their reason for not doing it was? Didn't want to spend the (surely small) money for R&D? Or decided to dig their heels in, against being bossed around by the govt?
Why would she get paid for it? She's not the photographer.
If I take a picture of you and sell it to a newspaper, without breaking some law to get the picture, there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
Inner flange? Luxury!
Hmm my feeling is that it's just the opposite. Cheney is going to keep driving the original neocon strategy until his last day in office, and Bush is just a puppet, and will go along with whatever Cheney orders. That's just what it seems like to me, though (no facts) ... I mean c'mon picture Cheney and Bush in bed, who's on top and who's on the receiving end?
Either that or they didn't throw/shoot to begin with.
It's almost surely for click tracking.
Coulter is the man. Oops, I meant a man.
Yeah - Bush is no Hitler. He's a mini-Hitler. Hitler convinced his country, after suffering a crushing defeat, to attack every country in the world. Bush convinced his country, after suffering a minor defeat, to attack a handful of countries in the world.
People have a habit of comparing America's destiny to Rome's and its collapse, but perhaps it's much more analogous to pre-WW2 Germany's. There are an awful lot of people in this country who think invading all sorts of countries they know little about sounds like a very sound idea. There are a lot of Americans who are happy to see people die for being Muslim rather than Jewish in our case.
We better change course soon.
Just like the dogs! Who wants kibble anyway? (extended analogies are dangerous).
And because I don't like the Oakland Raiders, they're similar to Hitler, too!
Yay, hyperbole!
In wikipedia fashion we'll flag that headline for possible non-neutral POV. Foreign to who, if the articles author is from another country then american spellings would be "foreign".
If you rephrase your question, you will find the answer: "How does a society of DEGENERATE people elect and follow a Hitler?"
nostrademons got my point across, but what I was getting at is as follows:
The XKCD problem can be reformulated into a decision problem by asking if there is a seating conviguration which provides a score >= k for some k. This problem is in NP as we can verify affirmative using a polynomial amount of information (i.e., a seating configuration that gives us such a value).
Next we demonstrate that the problem is in NP-hard. We will reduce from Hamiltonian path. Given a graph G = (V, E) the Hamiltonian path problem asks whether there is a valid path which vists every vertex exactly once. The start and end points need not be adjacent. This problem is NP-complete. To reduce this to the XKCD challenge problem we convert the set V into a set of people P. We initialize the set of relationships R such that all members of P are strangers. For every edge (u, v) in E we convert the relationship between the corresponding pair of people in P to an aquaintance relationship. We then ask the following question: is there a seating configuration of the people in P that, based on the relationship matrix R gives a social score greater than or equal to |V| - 1.
If and only if a Hamiltonian path exists in the original graph it should be possible to place every person in P such that they are next to two aquaintances (with the exception of those on the end). Given n people seated next to each other there are n - 1 gaps between them. Thus a score equal to |V| - 1 indicates that we achieved a seating arrangement where all of the gaps were filled by valid edges from the original graph. If no such arrangement is possible then no Hamiltonian path exists.
Therefore the XKCD Facebook Challenge is, in its general form, NP-complete, and thus has no efficient (i.e. polynomial time) solution unless P = NP.
do not mess with trees! they will F you up!
here
Great, now we can hide bombs in plain sight.
This is either tongue in cheek, or idiotic. Wikipedia has no concept of foreign; it's not written in or by any one single country. Further, if you don't like it, change it! Rubbish.
Alright, perhaps I should have rephrased. When were you FIRST hired for this sort of position?
Yes, 12+ years amounts to far more practical knowledge than 4 years spent in school.
Also, you work in IT, not as an engineer in the traditional sense.
I bought the beta PDF today. Yay! I'm learning Erlang!
How does it compare with Mozart and its dev. environment?
The question: "Which Source Code Management (SCM) solution are you using and why? (CVS, Subversion, ClearCase, StarTeam, Perforce, etc)". What follows is an epic thread with over 310 responses from knowledgeble technology experts.
I'm a big fan of the Onion.
I'd never heard of bbspot before.
Now I know they're similar to the Onion (satire).
It took me about 5 seconds to suspect it was satire instead of a real story.
Then another minute or two of reading the comments here to confirm it.
hahaha
This needs to be more clearly marked as sarcasm or a lot of people will believe it. The US has gone batcrap crazy.
Boston would never blow up a suspicious man. If you've never been, visit Boston you'll love it.
"Increasingly?" I didn't see anything in the article that said this was an increasing phenomenon, just that it was a noteworthy one that happens sometimes.
Save one for the ATHF movie poster.
CNN: We ignored AP stories about AP reporting
AP: We ignored CNN stories about ignoring AP stories about AP reporting
...
Riveting.
She's making a mistake by getting a refurbished computer. It sucks that it's taking her so long to get her computer, but maybe she'll change her mind and it will be for the best.
The driver compartment was the only thing left intact. Anyone else in that car would've surely died...
I suppose it's also possible that you didn't understand what I meant by "I was so right there last night." My point with the comment was that while in an intimate situation just last evening I came to an interesting realization regarding a proof I'd be working on.
It wasn't the XKCD-related problem, which I set about proving NP-complete as soon as I read it.
They're bastards for that one.
As dumb as they sound, they're all very true.
This isn't digg. You aren't supposed to use comments as description-substitutes. Your title should say everything that needs to be said.
Linking to the del.icio.us post URL? WTF?
It's got plenty to do with things you can't (likely) efficiently do with a program, though :).
Joost and YouTube are two very different beasts
I didn't actually think she had a case for religious persecution, I was pointing out how idiotic the case against her was. He was throwing low blows on about the same level, yet the only concern is that she used the word 'gay'.
These volunteers seem like a real great group.
Anyone smell fish? Ooohhh... just the giant Cunt in the room again...
Just remember. They hate us for our FREEDOMS. DHS is just making us safer by making them hate us less.
I've read and reread the two sentences quoted there, and I just don't see any inconsistency or hypocrisy. Perhaps you'd be happier if RMS had been more precise, along the lines of
The system we were working on, which we called "GNU" contained a large number of programs, many useful for creating software, including operating system kernels. The early versions of what is generally known as a Linux distribution, a Linux-kernel-based operating system, included many of these programs, and in fact most of the programs on the early Linux systems were these GNU programs. Now, even though we had developed many programs, our system (which you will recall that we were calling "GNU") did include several substantial programs that we did not write, that were not GNU project programs. These non-GNU programs include an X Window System implementation and TeX.
I have to say, I don't see anything at all objectionable about this.
After a time, usually 5 years or so, it winds up going to the state where the business is incorporated. Long story short, in most states, if you don't redeem a gift card within a certain period, you're out the money, the company is out the money, whoever gave you the gift card is out the money, and the government gets a free payday.
IIRC, the legal term is "escheat" - IANAL and it's been several years since I had to deal with it.
I too have been overpaid. At the end of the period/month/year things need to balance and when they don't they will find out why, almost guaranteed. In my case payroll discovered it before I did.
"No. I have a knife in a piece of cardboard." Man I just love that.
He deserves them.
Win or lose, I hope coture at least makes him work.
The 4-card limit was always stated up front for online purchases. It's the phrase "There is no limit to the numbers of cards you can use when making a purchase through 1-800-MY-APPLE" that's causing trouble, and that wording is still in Apple's FAQ.
In the week they ignored Paris hilton, 20 soldiers and hundreds of Iraqis died, the Bush administration wasted a billion of tax payer money (well enriched its cronies)....Stories that are mostly ignored. The difference between Paris Hilton and real news is that AP would not write an article admitting that it is not reporting real news.
Orthodox is a lot different than ultra-orthodox.
You appear to have misread the article. In your defense, it wasn't worded as clearly as it might have been. It doesn't say that all references to VP have been removed; it's saying that up until yesterday, Cheney was always referred to as VP, and that as of yesterday's news release, he's being called something else.
I wish I could upvote you a thousand times!
I am a registered GOPer.
I have a voters card in my pocket that says so.
Ann Coulter can suck the yellow pus out of a dead dogs asshole until it's ribcage collapses.
/that is all.
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What self-centered douche bags! They say, "We wish all of you the best over the next four, painful years." Painful? Is someone forcing them to watch Olbermann? Can't they just switch to another smug douche bag that broadcasts on Fox @ 8:00pm? Even if Olbermann was an "assault on the journalistic standards [they] hold dear" (lol! I vehemently disagree) he is clearly not the worst. Surely these a-clowns could find someone like, I dunno, Hannity, Novak, Coulter, Kristol, etc who more agregiously usurp "journalistic standars".
Obama may be half-black, but he is 0% nigger. He doesn't even smoke menthols.
One on the left eyelid, one on the right...
"Market fundamentalist ideology" is not an attack, but a description of the viewpoint you're espousing.
I don't necessarily think that it was an attack, but it is a fallacy. I am leaning towards poisoning the well because of your clever use of "fundamentalist ideology" as a method for lumping me into a particular group in order to discredit what I might say. I don't really care either way, but it is an interesting way to start a conversation. You approach satanist in a similar fashion below.
that monopolies only arise due to government interference in markets
Sustainable monopolies.
If you can even classify Microsoft as a monopolist, which I would disagree with, it isn't sustainable. You are also not considering patents and other protections provided by the government to corporations.
The only baseball I like to watch is local non-pro, but correct me if I'm wrong in thinking that every major sporting arena in this country is subsidized by government. The structures must be passed and approved, which is a serious barrier to would-be competitors and a clear example of government involvement with this perceived monopoly.
University Bookstores are apparently not a sustainable monopoly even if you were to argue that they once were in fact monopolists.
Lighthouses are often used as examples of services that MUST be provided by government. How else would you get ships to pay if you didn't have soldiers and police threatening violence to do so?
Mises and Rothbard might be an interesting place to start reading scholarly alternatives to your current economics. As a student or critic, reading different ways of viewing the world is a useful endeavor. Good luck.
I get what you're saying-that the manipulation of the news is the news. Except that:
They don't decide what you get to hear about. They decide what they want to report about. If you only get your news from one place, that's a problem of your own making.
I'd probably like AP more if they didn't report about her. That's because I don't give a flying fuck what some irrelevant rich chick did this weekend. They'd have to be in some serious collusion with lots of other people to keep me from hearing about it, though (welcome as that sounds.) Now that would be news.
Make sure you restrict your .history folder to the same permissions as your .bash_history
$ mkdir .history
$ chmod -R og-rwx .history
I was there choice not to invest a dime of those billions in more capacity in the last 20 years.
Shalom
I'm not surprised...
How do you keep perpetual sacrifices in a temple that has been destroyed?
How do you reconcile the numerous contradictions in the Torah. i.e. Murder? Ex 20:13 vs Ex 32:27. Sacrifices? Lev 4:35 vs Jer 7:22-23, etc.
Why did Rabbi Simeon write:
"If a man looks upon the Torah as merely a book presenting narratives and everyday matters, alas for him!
and
"Woe to the sinners who look upon the Torah as simply tales pertaining to things of the world, seeing thus only the outer garment."
And church father Eusebius wrote:
"Many were led astray by reading the allegorical contents of the scriptures literally in the method of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
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Why would a Rabbi be against the creation of the "state" of Israel?!
I am starting to develop with wxPython, maybe because I have a good background on wxWidgets. It looks fine on a Mac, native for the simple stuff I am doing. To generate stand alone applications though it is quite a surprise. For a 50k code the standalone app is more than 70Mb. Maybe that's the price you pay.
I dug around a little and came up with a list of her views and opinions on matters of general importance:
I'm more concerned about those golf balls she used to have in her cheeks.
rofl, look at these liberals argue whether cheney is a puppet or a puppetmaster, they have no clue what's actually going on except that cheney is evil.
PH publicist: hey, we noticed you haven't had any PH stories lately.
AP: That's because she isn't newsworthy.
publicist: Here's some money.
AP: I just got a great idea for a story.
I'm joking. Really.
From a related story referencing Bush's visit yesterday:
"The federal government still knows you exist."
Well, they do now!
i can see your fnord(!), and raise you a golden apple.
Hey, people still use COBOL!
It is high time people stoped using "gay" as a synonym for stupid. If you mean stupid, say stupid.
The media publishes what people want to read. Fluff pieces sell more copies than all those other things.
So whose fault is that?
not actually watch mythbusters.
she could have Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
"People with AIS have typically male chromosomes (XY), along with typically female appearance and genitalia.
Although AIS patients have a vagina, they lack a uterus, cervix of the uterus, and ovaries, and are thereby infertile. The vagina may be shorter than average; in some cases it is nearly absent. Instead of female internal reproductive organs, a patient with AIS has undescended or partially descended testes, of which she may not even be aware.
At puberty, a child with AIS develops breasts and a feminine shape[10]. In normal women, both testosterone and estrogen are present, but since the bodies of AIS women do not recognize testosterone, it is converted to estrogen. Testosterone is responsible for the growth of pubic and axillary hair, so many women with AIS have no hair in these areas, or have only sparse hair. Primary amenorrhea (absence of menstruation) is another sign of AIS. [17]
Except in the case of spontaneous mutation, AIS is an inherited condition. It is possible to diagnose AIS during the ninth to 12th week of pregnancy, using chorionic villus sampling, and it can be detected by ultrasound and amniocentesis by Week 16, although prenatal diagnosis of AIS is not indicated unless a family history of AIS is known.[18]
An AIS female may be unaware of her condition. Symptoms of primary amenorrhea, lack of pubic and axillary hair, and what appears to be a hernia can lead patients and doctors to the discovery of AIS. Individuals with complete AIS identify as female.[17] Nevertheless, surgery and other techniques may be used to make the genital appearance more "typically female.""
A round of applause please, for that incredibly well built, precision engineered, simply indestructible, German made...tree.
Uh, no. Vonnegut knows exactly what he's saying. You're showing tremendous ignorance and stupidity on your part by suggesting he doesn't understand the horrors of WWII. Vonnegut fought in WWII and was captured by the Nazis.
Try to remember that Vonnegut survived the fire-bombing of Dresden.
Vonnegut is implying that what Hitler did to the Jews, Bush is doing to the Arab people in the Middle East and all over the world. He hasn't been allowed to reach the numbers Hitler did, but he's doing his damned best. The only difference is that Hitler had his concentration camps located in western Europe, and Bush has his "extraordinary rendition" and other camps all over the world.
And if all of these camps are uncovered completely, and all their brutality revealed, will all of America follow the line of German citizens after WWII, and say "We didn't know"?
Also, if you're going to disparage one of the greatest living writers, try to use correct grammar, punctuation, and capitalization.
Wow, where are you getting those numbers?
Its not that I don't believe you, I just haven't been keeping track of the downloads (already have Python of course).
I had no clue that was the case.
Edit: Adding them up myself, I see that wxPython is a 7 MB download and Python is a 10 MB download. What is causing that 50+ MB extra size you are talking about?
My family just went there last summer, I had to work though :(
They did mention what is in the title.
Splicing is what they'll have to do later to get it on a used car lot by next weekend.
You've known about Clean for over 4 years now and you still haven't ported Object IO to X windows - shame on you!
Are you really 'rolling on the floor laughing' ?
I know we need them but I can't help but smile at these stories. I hate bees. I hate them so much. But then again I cry like a girl when one flies around me.
The University of Maryland, College Park, located in Adelphi, has some very low crime stats for the town posted.
Dude! An NP-completeness proof in the comments of a front-page link! VIVA REDDIT! You don't find this stuff on Digg, 'ya know...
But the tactics used to subvert the German government by Hitler should be studied and discussed and never forgotten, because "those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." (George Santayana)
"Push the Button is widely thought to be a response to Iran's nuclear ambitions and the Islamic republic's fiery president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6405457.stm
Looked interesting, but I got distracted by the semi-random italics.
Wow indeed. Get out your LOGIC textbook and try to comprehend the section on ad hominem. If RNelb is a relevant example, it's clear that you "economics teachers" are at the root of the problem. I suspected as much in my letter above, nice to see such a speedy bit of evidence that I'm right.
I'm usually really good at upgrading, and would have been caught by this, but I let it slide becaus I'm sick of upgrading wordpress - it's always such a hassle (copy file x,y,z over old ones, but don't copy over a,b,c. If d exists, delete it, but don't delete f...etc).
Has anyone got any experience running it out of svn? Is it safe/stable enough to run wordpress of the development subversion repository?
Mythbusters is a great show, but frankly their track record is pretty bad. I wouldn't take their conclusions as fact.
No... he's talking about Cheney, Bush, America, and democracy. What he means by ROFL is we're all "Really Out of Fucking Luck"
The oddest thing. I'm a different kind of neocon, but not in the Bush/Cheney filth. I'm simpler, but not in the Gold Standard nutjob of Ron Paul ilk. And I have a Brazilian friend who told me he went to a beach in California and knew that Americans weren't as free as he was told back in Brazil. There on the beach he saw a sign that was long and told beachgoers on the public beach what they could and could not do. He knew then that something was not right about America. The America that is happening since the Johnson years has been a complete madhouse.
We need to bring it all home again, focus on the domestic agenda instead of the world agenda, eliminate the corruption, return our liberties somewhat while still protecting us, focus on economic development at all levels and in rural America, remove much of the red tape and taxes for microbusinesses, flatten the tax code, eliminate software patents, fix the healthcare system, fix the election system, reduce the size of our government, reduce our need of foreign oil through alternative fuels and other efficiencies, break up the PACs, and capture the imagination of our young children again.
#1 Internet Rule: DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS
This looks suspiciously like bad viral marketing.
Also, contrary to the news story in that, the Coke formula changed fundamentally when the "sweetener" (cough, cough) changed from sugar to HFCS. The company didn't advertise that change at all. EDIT: Err, reading on, the article mentions HFCS. It doesn't go into the whole "trade barrier" business though.
Coming from a chick with a dick, I wouldn't worry about what "she" calls anyone.
Why would she get paid for it?
Because she almost certainly makes sure her agents secure the rights to as many photos as possible. It's quite common.
Look, I'm the last one to defend the police, but how about we just let the BPD do their job? If they think something is dangerous, I would rather have them do something about it rather than just let it be. They would be chastised to no end if they were to ever let something suspicious looking pass by and it turned out to be a bomb.
Those pics are really good!
First of all, don't call me daft, guy. Name calling is childish. Second of all, I'm not trying to stir up an argument because that would be crying out for attention and this story is getting pretty old. I genuinely disagree with you. I can fathom being wrong, thank you very much and will accept being wrong if I see it.
Let's quote you due to your extensive reply:
There is nothing in the comic which shows any denomination, orientation or interpretation of a branch of Christianity.
Of course not, it's a comic. Like others have said before me, what do you want, a disclaimer for every comic? And like I've said, you (hopefully) wouldn't bat an eye if it was about lawyers, for example, because a sensible person would realize that not all lawyers are scumbags. I'm not sure why you are sensitive to this, are you a Christian?
shows a little girl, with a halo and a cross. Nothing else. Are you following? Now, the argument could be said that it is attacking only female Christians, but that's a different argument.
Yes, that's exactly what it shows. No, it could not be said that it represents female Christians just because the artist chose a sex when they only have 2 to choose from and choosing one or the other when drawing is generally the accepted way of doing things. Things kind of lose their character when they are stick figures. At this point it seems that you have a raging political correctness boner of epic proportions and want a disclaimer and a unisex representation with a sign around their necks displaying their specific affiliation/party/religious sect/beliefs.
Where in here do you state that it is "...just an opinion.."? I'm pretty sure my copy-and-paste function didn't leave out "I think" or "Might be" or any other words that imply an opinion. You stated that as if it were a fact, and it's not.
Now you're are being pedantic. I don't have to say something is my opinion because I'm saying it. Of course it's my opinion.
No, again, It Does Not Clearly State What It Is About. That is the whole point. Saying that this comic clearly states that it is about one type of Christian, over and over again, does not make it true.
And stating that it is about all Christians over and over lends no validity to your claims either. Thankfully I'm able to use logic to support my position.
I truly am glad that you don't take this comic to be about ALL Christians. That shows that you are, at the least, intelligent enough to know that generalizations and stereotypes are a horrible way to classify people. Don't get me wrong on that point. But just because you and I and Tom, Dick and Harry know that someone can be a Christian AND a reasonable person doesn't mean that stereotyping people is okay.
Now we're getting somewhere. That is a reasonable view point with a decent bit of reasoning behind it. I think you're are growing on me chum. I would disagree about the need for stereotyping in a comic strip. It allows the author to deliver a message quickly and painlessly.
Seriously, take a few seconds and try to think about it, you don't even have to admit that you did it. You'll see what you've written doesn't compare to the comic.
Alright, my thinking cap is on. I'm thinking. Okay, done. I still don't agree. Let me try to explain it again, if I may. Please try to read it, you don't even have to admit it. ;) Imagine I made a comic strip (I might just to prove the point, though I fear it would not be very funny) and in it are the same number of cells. The first few cells contain a character in a suit trying to sue anyone and everyone for a bunch of random frivolous things. Chasing ambulances, slippery floor, etc. Now in the second to last panel we have a woman suing the lawyer for a reasonable reason (let's say, embezzlement) and in the last cell we have the lawyer bellowing to the judge about the fact that she is using frivolous litigation to destroy his perfect reputation. Now assume that in the news recently there was a barrage of lawyers suing people frivolously. Would you assume that the comic in question was about all lawyers? I very much doubt it.
Now, if you want to use a different comparison that has bearing on the subject, by all means, I'm open to the possibility of actually having a discussion that doesn't transgress into a pissing match.
What's wrong with an old fashioned pissing match? ;)
As far as the comparison you made for the sleazy lawyer in your last sentence, again I point out that the sleaziness being established is what makes this moot.
Excellent! Now switch sleaziness on the part of the lawyer for disdainful (and also downright sleazy, imho) acts on the part of the Christian woman in the comic strip. Do you see?
But, if the lawyers'(notice the plural possessive tense) honesty and integrity were all in question in the comic, and I would, in fact, say what I said in my first paragraph of my first post on this topic. Except I would change Christians to lawyers.
But where is the leap to that plural illustrated my friend? When does it become about all lawyers and not just the type in the comic?
But I highly doubt that (a) it would make it onto the reddit hot list and (b) that I would have to endure people who actively don't want to take the time to follow along with me, and who instead just read what I write to find holes to punch through and make their side of the discussion/argument seem correct.
Well, "a)" has no bearing and "b)" that's how debating/arguing works pal. You pick holes in my arguments like you've been trying and I pick holes in your arguments.
If you still don't see, I have to pretty much give up on you.
Don't worry buddy, I'll never give up on you. :)
Thats not entirly true. I have a cousin who grew up in an ultra orthodox community infact in a "settlment" where he would study Torah everyday for hours. Anyways a few years ago he pretty much renounced his faith he cut his hair took off the kippa and joined the army but he still lives with his father in the community. It depeneds on the parents some are good some are bad. The kid from the article didn't have the best of parents.
OK. Here we have a situation where the Vice President insists that he not be listed as the person being interviewed, and then mentions his own name and refers to himself in the first person in the opening statement.
What on earth is the logic behind this?
Just for the record, there is no "off the record" record.
Make a record of that.
Here is the reddit headline I want to read instead:
AP: We shot Paris Hilton in the face
Oh my fuck.
Guilderland here. :D I didn't know anyone else around here had ever heard of reddit, let alone posted regularly.
Are you concerned that they might see breasts? Or is there some other issue?
I would like to take this moment to inform all of you that many conservatives (including myself), do not claim Ann Coulter as one of our own. She is an embarrassment to conservatives and Republicans alike.
Yeah, I couldn't really tell if it was serious or not. In some ways, Conservapedia seems to be a parody of itself, which is no mean feat, considering it is only a few months old. A good portion of things outlined in that "bias list" are of the "this was wrong until it was pointed out and fixed" variety.
Agree: Right people are more important than right ideas
It IS ironic that so many champions of tolerance are intolerant themselves.
You can search for jobs posted on major job portals in one query.
Holy crap, Paul Craig Roberts is yet another Republican standing up against the Bush Administration's attempt to subvert our representative democracy!
Who are "these liberals" you always talk in all your posts? They sure seam to be out to get you. You better watch out, I hear they are planning to "sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids".
Teach the test.
This person draws a fairly funny webcomic, although the updates have been rather sporadic lately. Still, the archives are worth a browse.
Yes, my parents are still married and probably the two most in love people I have ever met.
Dude, they reshowed this again last night on TV and it about blew the circuits on my wide-screen HDTV. Thank goodness my wife and kids weren't in there to see my face turn icy white with shock and awe from those things.
It's the TACTICS... same tactics are being used to centralize power in Bush's hands. It's about studying the TACTICS, learning how they were used, and being wary and watchful lest they be used again.
That is the ulitmate respect for the horrific losses of the holocaust. Learning lessons from how it happened so that we can see and recognize and stop another madman's attempt to rise to warmongering dictatorial power.
Just because it's Godwin's Law doesn't mean it isn't true.
Some people will do anything to save face.
Would this just be for show, or would it have some legal effect on Messrs Bush and Cheney?
No, Russian for "I'd love to rub on your boobs!"
Here's your chance Dems. You can stop the war and blame the repubs for not supporting the troops and forcing a withdrawal.
SIGN this petition to help Barack Obama become the next President!
I bet if I knew her, she'd be all over me!
In fact, this page could be a fine way to avoid feeding the trolls. Any time Lou is trolling a short. Notice, this fellow is a troll - please don't reply. For details see http://reddit.com/info/17gwu/comments
My favorite (recent) Lou:
http://reddit.com/info/16k04/comments/c16yoq
Classic!
Must be some pretty fat cards if you had to pay tax on em. Why not give them to someone else to use, jerk?
You can't judge a book by its cover; you can't judge a country by its google map.
I think he did what he had to do for the Army. After Abu Ghraib, a lot of people felt that the Army sold out the low-ranking peons while the brass played "Oh, I'm so shocked."
That can not happen again, from a PR standpoint, and to an administration that is already fighting the perception that they send poor young people to get killed for no good reason. They needed to hit this hard, and hit it immediately from the top. Not fry the poor suckers at the hospital trying to do too much with too little money, but the guys who put them in that situation to begin with.
I'm sure you'll find them ripping into this, very publicly. They're going to vertically audit Walter Reed, that is, look at everything there. Then they're going to look at every other military hospital. Not a happy time to be a hospital administrator.
Because if there are other problems, "finding" them now makes them look tough and maybe they can pin them on the fall guy they already have. If they find them later after claiming to have dealt with this one... oh man.
Busted.
Uh, that was my point with regards to the median being above the mean. The problem was, the article didn't clearly disambiguate whether the average was brought down by 1/3 of the students with really lows scores, as you said, or if it was 2/3 as compared to a larger data set over time.
Moreover, if 1/3 of students have such a low self worth as to so drastically bring down the average, isn't that a bigger problem than having 2/3 of students with a high opinion of themselves?
ingirlfriendo.
This reminds me of the neo-burlesque movement that's making a showing in some places like Madison and Seattle. The gist is that a lot of educated women think it's really fun to be sexy. I went to a Cherry Pop Burlesque show in Madison with my girlfriend, and over half the crowd was female. My girlfriend explains that she thought it was really fun and empowering.
So, what did he do?
In making his ruling, Judge Montalto said that the woman had "suffered a very serious blow to her fundamental rights as a woman to procreate..."
Now that's rich. Evidently, every fat, ugly, shrewish wife has a "fundamental right to procreate".
I wonder if a man could complain that his "fundamental rights" are violated when his wife withholds sex from him.
But for it to be coming from a Reagan Republican puts new weight on the information and discussion.
Yes, and the real responsible guy would stay and fix it. Not that he had the choice. He got about as fired as it gets at that level.
Why was it a mistake?
You just described the Democratic Party platform that I voted for in 2006. The Republican Party was overthrown from the inside and has none of these things at heart any longer.
I really wonder what sort of people work on designs for these nuclear weapons. They are scientists, and thus, clearly men and women of high intelligence. Yet they spend their lives building weapons that threaten our very existence.
When they go home after work and their kids ask how their day went, do you think they ever kneel down and say, "Honey, it went great. I spent the day figuring out how to kill millions of people. I helped bring humanity one step closer to extinction. And I did it for you!"
Um, let's please not ruin programming.reddit the way normal reddit was ruined.
At first, they modded up pictures of landscapes,
but I said nothing, because I was not a landscape.
Then they modded up pictures of funny pets,
but I said nothing, because I was not a funny pet.
Then they modded up pictures of everything,
but it was too late to say anything, because there was nothing they were modding down.
Or something like that.
Just say no to dumbing down programming.reddit!
Did it bother anyone else that some of the girls were sharing underwear for this shoot?
If this is true it shows an arrogant level of disrespect for the office of the vice preident. also by being refered to as a "Senior administration official" he could distance him self from being linked to anything he says. If he does want to be known as the VP he should leave office and go hunt senior Citizens in Florida which is more in keeping with his success'
CNN is in a picckle. They've beeen supporting host Glenn beck, who has been slurring gays for weeks. Now how do they report this?
Crappy News Network!
I'm not sure what you mean by "sustainable", but that's a different term with different implications that "sustained", which is what you said above. Microsoft has had a monopoly on operating systems for some time. De Beers has monopolized the world diamond market for years, and you have yet to show me how any government helped establish its monopoly power.
This is ultimately an empirical question, and your contention can only be proven if there are no examples of monopolies (or sustainable ones, if you like) without government interference in the history of the world. I never denied that a government can interfere in markets to create a monopoly; you are denying that monopolies are possible without government involvement. That is a brash claim, and one that would require mountains of evidence. Unless you have proof that no business in any market in world history was ever a monopolist without government intervention, I don't think that I misapplied the term "market fundamentalist" above. That's what you're espousing - an unquestioned faith in markets.
GOOD
These are incredibly fun... and free!
Mac & PC
1708 burries.
I did and I disagree. This combined with a number of occasions where I've seen someone disagree with you here, they post irrefutable evidence and then you change the subject or ignore the response entirely. Again and again - poor behavior.
It was interesting reading through all this history, but I have better ways to spend my time. Best of luck to you. Tus.
Fine then. It's a pisspoor argument, I can admit that. But what's left, since they obviously have trouble with the good ones, I couldn't think of anything.
Always buy Marvin Gardens
Dear TheNoxx,
Please read both my comment and the comment I was responding to more carefully. We were discussing the difference between Republican and Democratic economics, not the difference between laissez faire economics and Democratic economics.
Is it not possible to support freer (but not wholly unregulated) markets? I support (as I would imagine most conservatives) limited and decentralized, but not nonexistent, government. You confused me with an easy straw-man target.
It should not be difficult for you to understand this concept. I could just as easily interpret YOUR remarks as absolutist (i.e.,socialist), but I doubt you advocate that.
In my opinion, there are virtues in limited government that do not exist in less-than-limited government. One of those virtues is that there is less coercion.
Agreed. Whenever I need to write a lab report, I just fire up my favorite text editor and start typing LaTeX code. Once you learn how to make a document and insert a few common elements like section headings, you can do 90% of what you want. And the math stuff is a good deal faster than any WYSIWYG equation editor I've ever used. You just type it in!
That said, it does have a bit of a learning curve.
This is satire
I can no longer think of Ann Coulter without humming this Isto song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqNs_S0n7P8
In this thread, do I really need to say NSFW? Ok then.
Why do you disagree with "carbon credits"? It certainly sounds like a good idea to me that he should make up for his above-average CO2 emissions with trees.
Dude. In the above case, you have drug resistant TB. You are going to die anyway.
Okay.. think about it this way. If you go out, you will likely cause others a painful, prolonged death.
And think if you spread it not to one person, but to five. And five who spread it to five more, and each spread it to five more after that.
If you're in the middle of the woods, that's one thing. But going out is the equivalent to knowing you have AIDS and going out and raping others.
>Barber insists that the company never intended to mislead customers.
I'm genuinely curious to know what the site (identical to BestBuy.com but with higher prices) was intended for. Maybe it was something really cool I haven't even heard about...
got it :)
Palestinians (or Iraqis) are not the first people in history to fight against a stronger side - and yet they are the only ones using suicide bombing as their main weapon. I don't recall the Viet Kong using suicide bombings.
The reference to Hebron Massacre is meaningless. There have been many cases when Palestinians, other Arabs and Israelis killed each other. And yet neither Israelis nor Arabs, except specific sects of Islam, have used suicide attacks as their main tactics.
This goes beyond just sending suicide bombers, it goes to educating childern from kindergarten age on the merits of suicide bombing, naming your child "Shahid" and ends after the suicide attack, when people congratulating the parents of the suicide bomber on their son/daughters ascent to heaven.
This is clearly a religious matter, which relates to a specific religious belief. I don't recall the Viet Kong or the Algerians who fought France using suicide bombings.
let's call it worst buy!
A public monopoly has no incentive to serve the customer. Soviet grain boards didn't reward administrators based on who produced the most grain, our school boards don't reward teachers who produce the most brains.
Arbitrary, capricious, irresponsible? Yes. They always have been and they always will be.
Asimo falling down the stairs.
WTF?
These no-nothing marketing idiots who can't even conceive of a configuration space, or how degrees of freedom there are in the leg, and they think that "a third grader" could make a robot climb up stairs.
What a bunch of no-talent assclowns. Just because lots of engineers who work on these things are invisible to you doesn't mean this stuff happens by magic, you cretins.
How about this - you stay the FUCK away from anyone else if you get a drug resistant strain of a disease that condemned millions to a painful death in the 20th century alone.
Doesn't look like a conspiracy to me.
Stories full of insults, name calling,
and blatantly false statements are LAME.
Against global warming would be okay if
is was really science, but most of
it is tired old false talking points
So transparent! How bogus they try to "expose" competition and do so with entrapment.
Ohmigod porn! This is such an important milestone, I simply must keep count, as I am fully self-aware of what's going on yet somehow shocked enough to have some reason to keep count.
New Orleans needs teachers so badly right now. And it's always needed science teachers. I hope he'll consider coming here.
Not to nitpick, but the water from the tank isn't used for filling the trench. It is used for the sound suppression system.
"A Sound Suppression Water System has been installed on the pads to protect the orbiter and its payloads from damage by acoustical energy and rocket exhaust reflected from the flame trench and Mobile Launcher Platform during launch. The Shuttle orbiter, with its payloads in the cargo hold, is much closer to the surface of the Mobile Launcher Platform than the Apollo spacecraft was at the top of a Saturn V or Saturn 1B vehicle.
The Sound Suppression System includes an elevated water tank with a capacity of 300,000 gallons (1,135,620 liters). The tank is 290 feet (88 meters) high and is located adjacent to each pad. The water releases just prior to the ignition of the Shuttle engines, and flows through 7-foot-diameter (2.1-meter) pipes for about 20 seconds. Water pours from 16 nozzles atop the flame deflectors and from outlets in the main engines exhaust hole in the Mobile Launcher Platform, starting at T minus 6.6 seconds. By the time the solid rocket boosters ignite, a torrent of water will be flowing onto the Mobile Launcher Platform from six large quench nozzles, or "rainbirds," mounted on its surface.
The rainbirds are 12 feet (3.7 meters) high. The two in the center are 42 inches (107 centimeters) in diameter; the other four have a 30-inch (76-centimeter) diameter.
The peak rate of flow from all sources is 900,000 gallons (3,406,860 liters) of water per minute at 9 seconds after liftoff.
Acoustical levels reach their peak when the Space Shuttle is about 300 feet (91 meters) above the Platform, and cease to be a problem at an altitude of about 1,000 feet (305 meters)."
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/nasafact/count4ssws.htm
She's refer to Isaiah Washington (The guy from Grey's Anatomy) - not that I think it's funny or appropriate, but that's the reference.
Someone with his condition, and intelligence, shouldn't be in there. He didn't kill anybody and probably didn't realize exactly what he was doing.
Nah - that's really what it was intended for - Isn't the first rule of P.R. Deny, deny, deny!?!
The comparison between a soldier (at least in the world wars) and a suicide bomber is pretty apt
And yet, many people did fight in those wars and lived on. No suicide bomber ever lived on after completing their mission. A soldier at least has a chance -varying one - to make it out alive. A suicide bomber does not.
Lives are cheap.
Why are they cheaper in the Middle East than elsewhere? And why in our times rather than 30 years ago? When the Palestinian militants came from mostly secular organizations like the PLO, suicide bombing was not used at all. It's radical Islamic groups like Hamas and Hezbollah that introduced it. Claiming it's the same as other forms of war is simplistic.
New generation of links exchange
Aha, thanks much.
Careful - they might ceznor you here too.....
Is there no chance at all that the letter is a hoax? Sigh.
The effort of trying to keep lies consistent?
This is a good comment to down-mod. A Congress that leans left but is by no stretch of any imagination dominated by the left means that the left isn't SOLELY responsible for everything Congress does? What lunacy!
You fools. All this gnashing of teeth over an accepted kook? Ann Coulter won't kill your candidate -- no, the people who give her a voice do, and they'll do it well enough without her help. They did it to Gore. They did it to Kerry. They're going to do it to your 2008 candidate. The same person who wrote monologues of Al Gore's bald spot has now twice framed Obama as a -white woman- of all inane things. Clinton is being actively framed as 'calculating' and 'ambitious' (this is the person who spent the first half of her life working on someone -else'- ambitions, mind.) Edwards, whatever he gets framed with ('faggot' seems unreasonable enough -- just wait to hear it on TV, from a 'respectable pundit' (how about the one who called Gore a 'tub ring'? Who suggested he'd lick a bathroom floor to become president? This isn't new, people.)) -- and Edwards is already actively sabotaging the 2008 election (we can't lose? We lost -two- impossible-to-lose elections. Even Bush expressed surprise (in foreign media) at winning against Gore: an incumbent vice-president at the end of a wildly successful administration.) by actively making odd, and false, suggestions about Clinton as part of the media's on-going absurd whine that she "won't apologize" for a vote that she's said wouldn't've even ever happened had the administration been forthright (you might say: less dishonest) at the time.
The fact that she's embarrassed about it tells you alot. I think everybody is a leftist when theyre in college, or most people are anyhow, and then you grow up.
I lost a lot of frogs before I figured that one out. But now? Why, fresh frog stew every night. ;)
I agree Cheney's not giving up on the PNAC's plan - but he'll be doing so covertly for his remaining years in office - you can already see evidence of this in the news. Cheney is sure of the PNAC ideology and no conflicting facts or political discontent are going to get in his way. He just has to operate increasingly out of public view.
But publicly Bush is distancing himself from Cheney and his positions, and as long as Iraq is a firestorm issue that gets Republicans thrown out of office, you'll see Bush edging further and further towards "We need to solve the Iraq problem" while Cheney maintains "Iraq is a glorious success" that happened when a unicorn farted out a rainbow of freedom.
I should have said this: In the unlikely event that they weren't straight-up lying to customers for their own benefit, I'm curious to know what the site might have been used for.
By using your logic, we need to amend the title to say "Rich white male democrats issue 1st subpoenas..." because all of those adjectives describe the majority of the House.
Credit card thieves use their stolen cards/numbers and cash them out by buying gift cards, then selling them on eBay.
Shoplifters steal things, then "return" them for store credit and do the same thing.
These add up to billions of dollars for retail companies, which in most cases don't even issue and activate the gift cards themselves, they've outsourced it. So unlike, say, a credit card, where a retailer can call your bank and have you verify information, with a gift card they're basically flying blind, because it's not like their gift-card vendor is settling up with them at 4 p.m. every business day like the NYSE.
Apple sells expensive, easily launderable items, which are also items ($10K servers, $3K laptops) in big demand with your typical card number kiddie. So it takes measures against multiple gift-card use.
It sucks for the honest consumer, but in this day of identity theft and hackers' easy access to credit card numbers by the thousands, shouldn't come as too much of a surprise.
He destroyed & defaced 'dozens of sport utility vehicles,' resulting in $5,000,000 worth in damages. That calls for hard time. He and his fellows painted the slogan of the notorious (and murderous) Earth Liberation Front on the vehicles they damaged.
He has obviously poor impulse control. Besides his crime spree, there's the fact that he misbehaved in court. He's very likely a danger to society in the future (he flew off the handle once, destroying vehicles--next time will it be people?).
How exactly would you punish such a fellow? With a stern talking-to?
I totally disagree with this article. Semicolons are very useful in making your writing less terse.
Craigslist+craigsnumber=A winning team :-)
Joe's writing has always excited me -- I'll definitely get this book. Maybe I'll finally be more comfortable with OTP behaviors than with direct implementations I learned from his earlier book :-)
The only thing worse than comparing people to Hitler in an argument is arguing about the correct usage of "Godwin's Law".
She came pretty close to that already. But I think she chooses her battles--few homosexuals will vote for the GOP but they're desperate for the black vote. If she used any racial slur--in public--to refer to Obama or any black or ethnic person, the GOP would bury her forever. It would be the only way to save themselves.
He did five million dollars' worth of damage. Given that the value of the average life is something between one and two million last I looked...
I imagine that most criminals don't really realise what they're doing: they're unintelligent and unreflective, operating mostly on instinct & reaction. We don't let them off for that reason, and we shouldn't let this young man off either.
From your lips to God's ears, lahuman8.
My record, off the record, clearly shows that I have no off-the-record record, make a record of that!
You mean stories no one wants to read?
You look pretty suspicious. I think we'd better blow you up in a controlled explosion.
Just to be safe, you know?
Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?
Uh, I think he's simply using the nested comment system in most of those cases. Like right now, when it goes without saying that I'm replying to you.
In the rest, he's referring to liberals the same way most redditors refer to conservatives.
Happy to provide my indispensable service!
A lot of World War II pilots became avid motorcycle fans because of the speed and the open air. They formed clubs. Eventually one became the Hells Angels.
He has autism, a mental disorder. It's not the same thing as being stupid.
The way you typed that thought makes you sound like an extremely insane asshole. I hope that you never have any children.
Love to give or receive?
What's your point? I doubt she'd be taken very seriously by her own crowd if she didn't have a man-face and an extra Y chromosome.
In what context is the word "cracker" being used here?
The writer pushed it too long.
And what? A human life is worth less than a piece of property? Are you kidding?
What happens if this resolution passes in New Mexico? What's the next step in the impeachment process? Does that mean they can then present this to Congress?
is just barely programming. we call those power users.
Really, excellent. If I actually believed you it'd be more impressive. Unless of course, "making a window" involves two lines of a toolkit in your shop (note the term).
how much large system/ enterprise development do you do?
4 years. The rest, of 10 (last 4 leadership positions), split between shrinkwrap and technical. Now that I've answered that, your point? Or is this just a "my dick is bigger than yours" contest?
when you say 'shops' what are talking about....small town, help 'harry's bookeeping inc' with his inventory?
Nice try there sparky. If you'd paid attention I mentioned the league of my current and former employers. But if you think I'm going to give you personally identifying info here you're more deluded than I thought.
One more thing: if you had half as much experience and skill as you pretend to, you'd know that "shop" ain't exactly uncommon when referring to organizations where one writes code.
or are you talking about large networked corporate (or other) systems that do everything from front to back (warehousing, billing, order entry, inventory, etc, etc)
all of those things have standards and practices and many are federally regulated. and you are NOT going to (if you're manager is competent) be involved if you aren't a KNOWN quantity regarding those standards and practices.
Bullshit.
What Federal regs are you on about? Unless you're referring to SOX and HIPPA (both relatively new), and if you are, those hardly mandate architecture or coding standards.
certification and degrees are what we call PROOF that you can/have mastered the material and goals put before you.
Again, bullshit.
Unless you're coming from a particular school, with a good reputation or well-regarded faculty, no degree or certification speaks to your abilities.
people who don't trust bonafide credentials (yes i know there are phoney ones too) are either fools, or they are not certified/licensed/degreed themselves and are afraid of getting their ass handed to them.
I could just as easily say that your vociferous and vehement defense of such credentials is solely because you've invested time and/or money to acquire them.
As to fear....hehe....I'll bet dinner at the Steak or Fish house of your choice, including wine, that my chops are equal to or better than yours.
also people who are NOT certified OR degreed OR licensed have NO basis for judging the VALUE of that sort of thing. you haven't even PASSED the test, how could you possibly know it was valueless?
By seeing the skills of those who carry them.
typical pretard 'thinking' IMO. sloppy and self serving.
Methinks thou dost protest too much.
Hitler wanted land, resources, and oil. Bush, at least, wants to remove anyone threatening to use land, resources, and oil as blackmail against the United States. They aren't exactly the same, but they are close. War is always about the control of resources. It's no surprise the political tactics are similar.
Fun to read how silly the NFL is when dealing with young men that like to have a good time.
Are we forgetting that this woman also called Al Gore and Bill Clinton (of all people!) gay? Seriously, why does anyone even pay attention to her anymore? Let's just ignore her like that crazy old uncle at all the family functions who wants you to sit on his lap.
Heh. That's just funny. At least she didn't Lorrina Bobbit him.
You can read more about this in synopsis 06.
Take a black marker and color in the nots.
I know, what a national disgrace. In the States it would all probably happen behind closed doors, or the prosecutor would get fired, and a new one found that would just understand not to pursue it. Hats off to England for facing the shame squarely but, yeah, it would depress me to see my country humiliated like that.
Ignoring her hurts her more.
Why is nobody actually responding to the CONTENT of this post? It seems to be a pretty valid point. Just pretend the "rofl," isn't there and nobody has actually addressed this post yet.
I hope the plan for this is to unify eggs, PLT, slib, etc,
Snow can't lose -- it has the cutest conceivable name, and with its quote makes Scheme look attractive. They only neede to deep-six the 'Scheme Now!' expansion of the name :-)
Perhaps they assume the person who inserted the exploit was white and nerdy?
"The way you typed that thought makes you sound like an extremely insane asshole."
Irony, anyone?
Is anybody else reminded of Dave Chappelle's punchline: "Note the time, NOTE THE TIME!" ?
Clinton got impeached because of "where he put his ~ ."
yeh its Digger rigged
its funny because as an employee i've actually seen this happen - customer's coming in looking for a specific item that they saw for sale online, only to find that the price is different in store... usually i just pull up the external bestbuy site to verify the price and apply the discount figuring it was a glitch.... never thought it was designed that way.....im saddened
Hi Lou,
Thanks for replying to the EULA, and thereby agreeing to its terms.
Under section 4 of the EULA you will find that when making claims that appear outlandish, you are required to either provide concrete proof for your assertion or admit that you were in error in making this claim.
I found your post contained this outlandish statement:
Dude, so I kicked your ass in an argument.
Since you are bound by the terms of this EULA, please offer substantive evidence of your claim. Please also keep in mind the penalties for not abiding by the agreement which you agreed to carry out by clicking the reply button, and which you are now bound by contract to follow.
I can offer as a counter-example to your claim the fact that you did not even try to justify your assertion that Olbermann was defending tyrants, even after I put this in my last post:
If you reply to this and do not address the question of whether Olbermann was defending a dictator, as you haven't for the last eight comments, I won't respond. You'll get in your last word, and can feel good about yourself. But you should also be aware that the reason I will not respond is because if you can't defend your statement but continue arguing you are not a rational person, and I have no time to waste on you. My silence will only be an indicator of your intellectual inadequacy, the depths of which are so great that you can't follow even the simplest thread of an argument...
With respect to this:
You really don't need to stay up all night writing a "EULA" to get even.
The EULA really only took about 10-15 minutes to write, and then a few more minutes to edit. At this point it is basically complete, so there is no need to worry about me staying up all night. But thanks for your concern.
This post is bound by the EULA for any future posts by LouF.
i mean, that god-awful voice of hers sound like a donkey being sodomised.
I can tell you've never sodomized a donkey.
I always felt like Best Buy was trying to stick something in my ass when I shopped there. The sales people that are totally incompetent. How every manufacturer warranty is really a 15 minute deal that doesn't cover anything, but low and behold, you can protect your investment with the BEST BUY WARRANTY SHIELD.
The cute register girls who demand my zip, and when I don't give it, ask for a manager and security.
Then the always muscle bound black dude at security who probably also works the velvet rope in the evening. Playing into racial stereotypes, very nice.
Now this. Fucking douchebags. I hate Best Buy. I wish Ann Coulter would call them 'fags.'
Not because I have a problem with gay people, but fag is now just a general derogative term. Like bitch.
No, he needs to be in a mental hospital, not a prison. I know people with autism, and yes, they have poor impulse control because their brains do not function in the same way of a person making a conscious action.
As for the rest of the group, if they don't suffer from mental disorders, then they should be in prison - depending on the full details, which you can hardly get from 1 article.
Also - "As far as anyone knows, no ELF really exists; its Web site, www.earthliberationfront.com, is no more than a front for Viagra and repo ads"-LAWeekly. So is it a terrorism group or not?
AP isn't a newspaper, it provides news to other news sources, so no it's not just news from one source, it's an organization that controls news to many sources. Paris Hilton is a fairly pointless example, but it's good to think about how media controlled by only a few is ultimately biased to those few - with a need for diversity being the ultimate moral of the story.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
And, since when is the average human life worth less than any property, no matter how much that property is worth??
a lunar eclipse is coming tomorrow to a continent near you.
What gives? I canceled my A380 order last week, and people were like, "Hopper tried to buy an A380?"
Good point, but it'd be a good idea to use the nested comment system the way it was intended, in the future. If you click the "reply" button below urbandy's post, your post will go right under his, instead of creating a new thread.
herbie anyone?
But Jesus Fuck is it spooky!!!!!!!!I am spooked to shit. I will have to drink myself to sleep tonight. Fuck me that's spooky.
Clear enough?
Yep. By the way, have you ever bothered to look up the definition of "sociopath"?
When they eventually do come to lock you up I really hope you follow through on your pledge. It will save us all the expense of a commitment hearing and having to pay to keep you alive in your rubber room...
These were released in theaters. Also, a news reel would be shown prior to the film, relating war news. These were in black and white. I don't have a citation at hand, but do have parents old enough (mid 70s) to remember this. Hope that helps. :-)
Classic! I'd almost forgot about that. Right up there with hot grits.
A human life has a tangible value. This may be hard to come to terms with, but a lot of the modern world you take for granted operates under this assumption.
"You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake..." -Tyler Durden
It was for their soon-to-be-announced web spinoff, NotQuiteAsGoodOfABuy.com
While that is correct, news outlets do not solely get their news from AP. It's conceivable that an AP blackout on Paris Hilton would not prevent a story on her from appearing in any newspaper. They'd hear about it some other way, and print it anyway if they thought it would sell papers. She most likely has a publicist actively sending out press releases like a viagra spammer. (That last part is just speculation, though.)
edit: I agree with you though, that it would take less collusion than most people think to control the news. Still, it's very unlikely.
I think this is what happened to Phil Plait at http://www.badastronomy.com/ . A hacker decided to put lots of invisible porn links on the abuse the sites popularity for his own gain.
How could they think they wouldn't get caught? That every customer who checked the website before coming in would agree that "oh whoops I guess I misread the price" and never notice the real price on the site afterwards? Even for Best Buy, this is insane.
Believe it or not, and sadly, knowing chmod puts this applicant head and shoulders above the rest.
And I didn't know anyone else around here (excluding RPI, of course) actually had a brain in their head.
So we're even.
Nothing personal but graffiti artist have been doing "amazing" stuff like this for decades. The problem with graffiti is it's too esoteric. Now that graffiti has evolved into street art and street art has been adopted by pop-culture. We are starting to see these "amazing" videos with more consistency. But you are right, it is amazing what they are doing. If you like that video check this one out:
http://home.digital.udk-berlin.de/~fredericeyl/moving_canvas/parasite_large.mov
The archdioses of Enron have sent representatives to warn his holiness of "dem varmint eco tear or wrists".
Ah sware thuh image of Mary in mah poetaytoe chip said it wuz troo. Go git um bays!
I am using py2app. The reason mentioned in some forums is that py2app adds all the stuff needed for a universal application what increases a lot the size. Using py2exe in windows generates usually a 10 Mb executable, which is somewhat larger than wxWidgets. Maybe tweaking a little bit setup.py might help decreasing the size of the app.
Quick everybody! Grab the nearest nuke!!
Linkjacked. If you had nothing to add, you should have submitted the original article.
The problem with people who think they're the antichrist is that they keep ending up in mental institutions on antipsychotic medication.
How did you get a scissors on board to do that?
As noted by mhb below, the Modern Orthodox community exists in the reality-based community, while the Haredi ultra-orthodox do not.
OK, you got 8 points and I don't even know what you're talking about! Somebody explain it to me - I must have my dumb hat on.
Pigs. In. SPACE!
Were it not for all the sigils and uppercase, he'd probably do much better. Python probably would have worked for the demo.
As a member of the white race, I am very offended by this racially biased story. The fact that the individual responsible for adding the exploit was white is of no consequence to the severity of the situation!
BITCH!! SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!
Heh. With suspenders and a straw hat. They have a hidden camera photo.
How much does it cost for you to sell the lives of your friends and family?
Dude where have you been? Uber rich crack whores are all the rage!
I stopped reading when I hit: "If the corporate brass at Digg..."
But I'm surprised it doesn't happen all the time with ultra-orthodox - Jews are smart, I don't understand how they could be satisfied with just what they're taught like that.
Did you read the article? He didn't learn any math or science. How are you supposed to see through religious BS without basic math or science?
This is dumb!
Linkjacked, yes, but still very, VERY cool. Keep it up, Land of Enchantment.
(proud to be from the state where the state question is, "Green or red?"
But that has been done: "...the numbers did not change neither under Java and nor under .NET even after running the same stack of puzzles many times in a row."
OK. 'cept I wouldn't want to be one of the millions of organisms that got "solved" right to extinction. By your definition, observing water flowing down hill makes gravity intelligent.
Good luck with that.
You are flat wrong on the first point and display that you're a bigot on the second. Also, you're not smart.
Yeah, perhaps we'll get a story telling us what Paris Hilton had for breakfast.
Blow and semen would be my guess.
Probably even slower, as System.arraycopy() only works on one-dimensional arrays, and the method-call might have more overhead than copying such a little amount of numbers manually. Anyway, runtime optimzation was not the point here.
Teh coke, n teh beers.
The question is: can it deflect .357mag?
I am pro-this web site
Somebody get this guy some fuckin' Mountain Dew!
Can't look at that one... there's a small chance my sister might be in it. shudder
Ditch the cage. Get free.
Yes, but not every funny thing can stretch to a half-hour and still be funny. They're going to try to pull that off, and every week, no less?
It could be done, if done right - they're going to have to make it a commentary on bigotry in general. A half hour of caveman one-liners and sight gags isn't going to work for very long. (Then again, nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the TV-watching public.)
It'll be interesting to see how they do.
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Kallisti? Not coulter!
There is some element of doubt.
There is the small possibility that between now and the invasion they will elect some guy from Texas.
Now if only I'd titled my blog posts "Haskell programming" instead of "Programming Haskell"!
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The Tylenol case is often referred to as the most effective PR effort in the history of modern marketing.
I'll say this for the UK's Labour government - they've been quite instructive. I'm sure political theorists of the future will see them as a blessed goldmine of bad examples and empirical warnings. They've disabused the British public of quite a few entrenched mistaken ideas, and that's all to the good - but I wish I didn't have to live through it.
One stupid mistake in '97. Justice is cruel!
Where exactly are we?
Yes, but not that exciting.
Then the always muscle bound black dude at security who probably also works the velvet rope in the evening. Playing into racial stereotypes, very nice.
You're saying that hiring black people as security is being racist? Oh boy, I can't wait for the NAACP to release a text telling us all exactly what jobs we can and cannot offer to people of color.
The performance royalty rate for terrestrial radio broadcasts?: $0.0000000
Questioning whether you were making a (really) bad joke, or didn't read anything on the page - "Rip out all of the faces from the Skymall Catalog"
Yeah, perfectly clear. You're still a selfish jackass.
Who cares what she says anyway? I doubt anyone can take her seriously. Why is everyone so fixated on what Ann says or thinks? Her whole shtick it is to be obnoxious and controversial to sell her books. It is all marketing. She probably drives a Prius and listens to NPR:-)
This is exactly the type of story that should be on the front page of Drudge. He must have forgotten to post it.
We are here. Where else would we be?
You don't listen to Randi Rhodes enough.
Discussing the tactics of a madman who dragged the world into war and caused massive death and destruction is hardly a frail subject, especially when there are lessons to be learned and warnings to be heeded.
Indeed bring some details to match your claim.
I have already provided 3 very credible sources to mine.
But for arguments sake you can read any number of stories at media matters, showing a clear bias on all those networks to the right.
Go to http://mediamatters.org/
The information is completely verifiable and near bottomless. But maybe you have something to add that media matters has missed?
Corrupt and fascist?!?!
OK, they've been doing pretty stupid stuff lately... but there's a very big distance between stupid and 'corrupt and fascist.'
Did they catch you on a drug bust? ;-P
So changing the subject makes sense? What does bringing up the exploits of the other idiots have to do with Gore?
Gore makes a powerful statement that human-induced climate change is a grave danger to the planet and meanwhile burns through electricity at a rate 12 times the regional average! And this is just for one of his two houses!
As for the carbon-trading credits, their highest uses is for ameliorating unavoidable contributions to our total carbon output. Gore is instead living large and papering it over with money. I'm not impressed.
"Effete Intellectual", and I claim my ten dollars.
It's a bit sad that one guy can be made a scapegoat for something pretty much a whole party was behind.
What is sadder is it usually works.
Joel 2:31
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Acts 2:20
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
Revelation 6:12
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
http://www.biiible.com/searchresults.php?begin=0&instring=moon+blood&ver=KJV&lookin=
An interesting bible story. I love it.
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and other communities beyond the range of visible light
You give Limbaugh and crowd too much credit for effectiveness. They may get them angry, but can they get them to the polls. When pentecostals come out to the polls its a church centric phenomena focused around a religious issue. Abortion, gay marriage, etc. Anger by a listening audience of the right wing machine does not translate to voting or action as the right wing blogs have continued to demonstrate in their inability to organize marches, protests, raise money, or create new ideas.
I personally think the Clinton machine is unstoppable. But if you think differently I encourage you to put you money on a contract at www.intrade.com for Obama or whoever else you think is a more likely candidate. If wishes were ponies I'd want Gore to be the next president, but I don't see anyway to get there from here.
Very accurate. The idea is based on market based predictions. I followed it very closely this November, and while they didn't predict the Webb upset they were pretty close the rest of the way through.
Investigate for yourself. It's a good system, and much better than polling at this point.
We (Americans) have volunteered massive energy to elect new leaders and throw out the Republican majority in the House and Senate so the two houses of Congress had could be a check and balance to Bush. That's what we have done to undo the damage.
Hawking ready to soar.
Common sense? (Sorry, couldn't resist. It's not even true...as the saying goes, "Common sense is what tells you that the earth is flat.")
Hence the controversy ;)
See also: http://science.reddit.com/search?q=hawking+zero-g
This is why I love reddit.
Utterly useless facts (the best kind of facts) and questions which I probably would never have thought to ask, answered without resorting to insults or oneupmanship.
(Is 'oneupmanship' really one word? Spell check (British English) seems to think so)
who gives a hit what Coulter has to say. Her and the rest of her movement are irrelevant at this point.
Except that they wouldn't kill you, they'd be too busy agreeing. ;-P
I do think they are "worse" but the topic of this thread is how ones religion or lack thereof influences my propencity to vote for them.
I would be inclined to vote for someone if they did follow some non-zorastrian religion such as the Dharmic ones.
Partly because a variety of opinions/beliefs is vastly superior to mono-cultures.
Partly because I disagree with the values of Zorastian based religions.
Partly because I tend to support the minority/underdog.
I think you mean "nigga".
Language is usage. It changes, whether you choose to ignore the change or not is irrelevant.
Few people think she meant "a merry, lively mood" because that is a definition of gay that has fallen out of use.
Just as the definition of gay that is a disparengin term for homosexuals has fallen out of use.
Even when I was a high-school student 20 years ago gay meant "lame". When you meant homosexual disparengly you said "fag", "homo" or "dyke".
Today fag and queer have lost most their disparengly elements esp when used within certain cultures. Similar to how nigga/er is used within certain other cultures.
Ah, yeah, and I mean no offense to you in the slightest, but then I'm not in favor of the Democratic "play land" of gay marriage, most NAACP tactics, unions, socialized medicine, unfair free trade agreements, taking donations from the Chinese, love affairs in office, female presidents, abortion (except in cases of the mother's survival), and Equal Employment Opportunity. I'm a fan of borders, language, and culture. This is the neocon that I am.
I would agree with you on the Republican Party being overthrown from the inside. Even the conservative radio talk show hosts are confused on having a consistent point anymore.
Well, I dunno... religion and race have always been closely tied. e.g. Judaism.
Religious conflicts have often been disguised class/race conflicts... like, say, the inquisition.
The only way to avoid feeding the trolls is to ignore them. Otherwise, they get the attention that they crave which encourages further trolling.
Wow. That is fucking sneaky.
So...
What were they like?
But SUVs are so safe!
Except if you take a hard turn at 30MPH, then you can expect to roll it. Other than that!
This is what's more depressing to me. Yes, it's sad to know that there are people out there who are still so unbelievably bigoted. But the fact that BOTH of these people are highly published, well respected authors(honestly, at some point in their career both were/are respected by millions of people).
Why do we have to keep listening to these wackos long after they've stopped providing constructive thought to American society?
Jabba the Hut hungry.....
So let me get this straight... The students loved it, actually learned stuff (I sure didn't learn anything in Chem the teach-to-test-way), but the board "fired" him over a "difference in opinion"? Isn't politics wonderful?
this is awesome, ive spent 23432343 hrs playing this back in the day!
Yes, BBC world service on NPR is the best - both for an outside view of the US and for inside views to countires around the world.
The wine label is fake. NKVD SSSR? The whole thing is staged. Very strange.
Merry Christmas, Mary!
Some people just enjoy a bad headache.
Classy.
The security glass would convince me more if it was real money.
The problem is people afraid that their young relatives aren't mature enough to spend money on the "right things." i.e., they're afraid the kids are going to blow the money on movies and junk food, or more likely drugs (not that I agree).
I still have a stack of gift cards from my wedding from stores that either don't exist in my area, or I just can't think of anything else I would need from them (almost 3 years ago now). I keep getting more of the same stupid gift cards for the same stupid stores too.
fair enough...
Hmm. Turn around the words "Administration Official", and you get "Official Administration".
You gotta love New Yorkers - what's with the attitude that nobody is trying to notice the topless ladies? In Europe they'd all be looking at them like "Aren't you cold?"
My reasoning is that curiosity would make you look at what everyone else is studying.
I think the lady is an idiot but when I watched that clip I shot milk out my nose laughing. It was really funny. Very mean, politically incorrect and low brow, but funny. If the Half Hour News Hour had jokes like that it would be awesome.
So shoot. Who else shuns apostates that thoroughly (Muslims aside)?
Mr. Burns: Smithers I'm thinking about donating some money to the orphanage..when pigs fly!
Hooookay... This is going to be a bit truncated, as we both seem to be long winded...
First, I have to say, it IS nice to see someone who wants to carry on a decent conversation on the internets, it's a refreshing change..
I'm going to bounce around a bit, to make the same point on a few different things. If I lose you, I can clarify later.
1st. Trust me when I say, I am not calling you names. If I was, I certainly could do better than daft. I'd go use political slanders, and speculate on your religious beliefs, if any, because I know that those can't possibly incite me in return. I am not above being childish on the internets, as it seems to be the official language of bulletin boards everywhere. I use daft because I am frustrated with you. Let's not sugar coat anything, you're still almost completely disregarding my logical(or "logical, if you prefer)train of reasoning. Almost, that is. oops, lets get to it, no more delay..
No, as i have said, I don't want a disclaimer on a comic, but a comic with as much to say with such few words needs to be clear on what it is saying. You may not agree with this, but it doesn't take much to incite hate and intolerance, and I am VERY against that. Personally, I found that comic an absurd recycling of a comic made years ago. The only difference between that and this is that the first time I saw it, it was one denomination referring to another. I can't be sure, but I think it was methodists as the "reasonables" and it was a caricature of I think Pat Roberts(I don't know the guys name, don't quote me on it), and have been trying to find it to no avail, to show you(and everyone) what would be more appropriate. Oops, typing too much...
Yes, you pretty much have to say when something is your opinion on the internet, but what you said had no "intonation" of opinion. Cutting out the modifiers, you said, "You're opinion is wrong and would not be shared.." For one, opinion's can't be right or wrong, but again, I digress. Oh what the heck. Opinion is like a preference for food. I like something and you don't. But you did not say that, you went after me like you had the facts, which there aren't enough of in this case. To claim it as an opinion afterwards is almost admitting that the statement was made in error. Bah, I'll stop on that. That's gonna get us nowhere, I'll agree that we have differing opinions on semantics if you will(fancy way of saying agree to disagree)
The comic. It doesn't matter if a sensible person realizes what's up and down, if something is printed out in error, it needs to be addressed. If someone types out "their" when the correct word is "they're", and I understand the true meaning of what they are trying to accomplish doesn't make the word right. That may be a little hard to follow...Apologies if so. Saying that a sensible or reasonable person would know what it means doesn't make it right. Stereotyping can work good and well, but there are many stupid people out there that feed on these kinds of propaganda. Ni=ot just cartoons, but anything that can make another grooup look bad while boosting them. Stereotyping is always a dangerous tool to use in entertainment, but it does happen, and I can't change that. But identifying it shouldn't be shoved aside because it makes some people laugh. It CAN be said that it targets just girls, yes, but I used that not to start another avenue of debate, but to keep it out of this one. I'll agree that we have differing opinions on semantics if you will..
I have seen what you are trying to accomplish with the lawyer thing most of this time, but again, I say, you're not actually seeing what I'm trying to type. Shooting holes in another persons opinion/theory/argument (I'll just call it a "side") is definitely not the way to have a debate/discussion/argument(yeah, dunno yet, maybe "debate"..), as neither person is seeing the entire side of the other person. It is the way to win, possibly, yes I'll agree on that, but this is not about winning, it's about the truth of the matter. And I am most definately not trying to shoot holes in your arguments. I am trying to show you my stance and where you are wrong. If it shoots a hole, it does. If you shoot one through me, then so be it, but it should happen on valid points, not as an objective.
So, here's what I get, that you think the "Crazy"(got a better word?) Christian has been established in the comic, and that your lawyer joke also has that quality. If the lawyer joke does, in fact, establish that it is talking about a particular group and not the whole, then I see nothing wrong with it. But I haven't seen what you would write in the bubbles, I don't know what would differentiate sleazo from the restof the sharks, but I know that the Christian one does not differentiate. You believe it does, so your analogy works for you. I have been saying this whole time that the comparison of the two is invalid because the comic does not do what you would like to do with the lawyer. Do you see? Making a comparison based on the assumption that I also believe that the comic has singled out "Crazies" is invalid because I don't believe that. It becomes specific to a sect only after you mark it as such, the default view is wide and general, the more detail, the more specific. You follow that?
A and B: (a) has bearing because it wouldn't be widely seen(or AS widely seen) and therefore I wouldn't see it, and wouldn't have commented on it; and I wouldn't make AS big of a fuss about it because it aims at a people that, by nature, love to litigate and sue, whereas most of the Christians who I am speaking for have the "turn the other cheek" approach , and these are good people that have done nothing wrong but profess their devotion to a deity(the ones I am defending). It's not fair to them to have to endure hatred. Am I a Christian? If it were in any other context, I would assume you were trying to use that as an intolerance point against me, but I honestly believe that you are curious as to my mindset. So here it is.
If I have to be honest, I'd say yes and no. Mostly no, but I pray when I think I'm getting sick, when I want the day to end quickly, when I snap out of a daydream and find myself going 45 in a 25mph zone with a cop on the side of the road up ahead. At those times I'm a real good Christian. The rest of the time I am the farthest thing from it. But My best friend and most all of my close friends are Christian. They have faults, yes, and they admit it. They say that they are not always good, or even slightly okay, Christians. But they do believe, they say so when asked, they speak up when they for their beliefs, but rarely do they deserve to be treated as psychotic and elitist crybabies. They have been mocked and even attacked for believing in something that they admit they have never seen with their own eyes. And that is why I speak up for them. Like I said, calling be a Christian won't hurt my feelings, I'd be proud to say that I was. Too bad I suck at turning the other cheek.
It seems I haven't given up on you yet, so that must mean that you are showing signs of actually using your grey matter constructively. Keep it up.
There went the theory of keeping it brief.
Can't sleep. Bees will eat me.
The 'I am hacking on this as I use it!' part of this is what I like about Erlang programming. Erlang has an advantage over other languages in that it makes hot-loading very natural, and controllable, and with modules-at-once: so you can hack on the system, load several modules, and then safely transfer your IRC bot -- still running on the old versions of those modules -- to the new code. In early development, I usually just make the central process respond to refresh, and have it distribute that to other processes or restart them as necessary. So, just irc ! refresh.
CL (and Emacs Lisp, and probably some Schemes) have an advantage over other languages in that the debugger and language are always there, so that you can at any time stop the world, load your new code, fix the state, and then start it back up. Morever, with sometimes very little extra effort, you can have a repl available at all times and even do this (functions-at-a-time) without stopping the system.
And without some (easy to set up -- the language tends towards fault-tolerant systems, after all) architecture, a developing Erlang system will just crash on an error: in CL, you'll always get dropped into the debugger, in which you'll have considerable powers. Many languages have some hack of hot-code loading, and many languages have nice debuggers, but I doubt that many have systems as well-constructed as Erlang's, and I doubt that many make the debugger as free and as assumed as CL does. Most have you attach a debugger as a separate step, don't they? Which slows down the program? Which you'll only think to do -after- a possibly killing error happens?
CL systems have shown that you can write very competitive code in the language -- see cl-ppcre, a regex library which says it beats perl5 in perforamance; that you can have a dynamic cake and still riddle it with static type inference and checking and cliche'd metaphors -- see the python (no relation) compiler of SBCL and CMUCL. CL systems have breathtakingly awesome development environments (SLIME) and modern meta-collaborative tools like ASDF and cliki and common-lisp and well-maintained implementations for almost any platform with a good variety of differently-useful systems -- and with CL's huge, standardized language, almost everything you write will port with no effort between them; everything else ports -easily- between them, with good language support for conditional compilation.
And... I think I'll cut this off for now.
Thanks for the code: cl-irc looks like it makes bots easy enough.
So true.
At least we'll catch all those people who in their organization labeled the bomb as "bomb" (you know, so you didn't take wrong bag or something - boy would you look silly)
It's a shame that they can't actually stop the guy with a real bomb and who assembles it in his seat. http://reddit.com/info/fzsg/comments
In other news, white house has decided that only news organization that will be allowed to publish his speeches is the Onion.
Boycott major corporations from April 14-22:
"By holding back on our spending with discipline and resolve and in sympathy for the millions who live in misery because of this administration's policies, we not only show our concern for the pain of others, we also put a little fear in the hearts of those who have profited
from this travesty."
That post reminded me of that sex ed scene from M.Python's "Meaning of Life". Wouldn't that approach completely solve the whole problem?
oh come one... http://i3.tinypic.com/2z3yjp2.jpg
it's OK to joke if no-one was seriously hurt
So they decided to test the most popular social network, not all of them?
And this is news exactly how?
A new version of HTML is in the works, called X/HTML 5.
This may give the impression that the W3C is involved, but a grep of the article comes up blank.
Reading the FAQ linked at the bottom suggests that WHATWG is actual at odds with the W3C, or at least acting on its own.
somebody's art project. i like it!
Not that he did this, but in my high school a chem teacher told other students how to make cocaine. He wasn't the chem teacher the next year.
I'm OK with "Because I use $foo! :-)", but please say more about -why- you use $foo instead of CL.
CL finally has good meta-collaborative tools and an awesome (literally) development environment and lots of open-source, interesting applications like cliki.net and paste.lisp.net. It doesn't have the whole of CPAN, but many of you seem to get along without that anyway. It doesn't have very tiny implementations that you can use for 'hello world' and /bin/false, but it -does- have many large and very large systems that you can use to build a 'hello world' web application. Or that you can use to embed a CL in Nethack in a few minutes, before you move on to try and borg that system into something more hackable... It even has screencasts!
But I think you've probably heard plenty about what CL is capable of, and don't use it anyway.
guess it wasn't a drug test
Originally posted in a comment by arebc:
http://reddit.com/info/17jhm/comments/c17kwu
that's because most (if not all) of the people who insist on a literal interpretation of the Bible haven't actually read it.
as i've admitted before, i'm a master of the obvious. :)
You are rather massive.
Of course you can. Why don't you google for the headline?
http://englishrussia.com/?p=700#more-700
From the Tour de California in pink Giant jerseys.
the purpose of this post is not to explain how I went believer and nonbeliever (but at some point I might write on that subject), but to ask myself if it would be better to believe something that was comforting, even if it were not true.
are you an idiot? evidence, not to mention the arrogence and naivete when questioning someone's faith like that.
People knew in the late 50s that the USSR would fall apart 30 years later?
Yeah, but he could have done it with scissors. Would have been easier too.
Q. Why would he rip then out if it would be easier to cut with scissors.
A. Because he's hiding scissors to use at a later point during the flight.
Take him away, boys
I thought her career evaporated with the Republican majority.
As stupidly as all of America is allowing the press to form powerfully negative frames around each of our major candidates -before we even have a nominee-, you may still have your Democratic majority in 2008 -- with a Republican president.
She gets publicity because editors and pundits give her publicity. Reddit is small fry.
Yeah that's a good plan, punish the people by not buying their stuff and risk hurting the economy by boycotting something that will have no effect on the target of the protest. Idiot.
Here's some news to follow up this story:
http://www.campusbyline.com/2007/02/01/cute-engineers-fark-nerds-college-papers-server/
They get the 42% from using E85, and essentially discarding the proportion of CO2 emissions due to ethanol.
This is reasonable in a sense, since burning ethanol is merely releasing back into the atmosphere the CO2 that was bound by the plants earlier in the year. However, how many E85 outlets are there going to be in California in the near term, and just how much E85 can we really produce without raping the breadbasket?
So good you'll krispy kreme your pants
Palestinians (or Iraqis) are not the first people in history to fight against a stronger side - and yet they are the only ones using suicide bombing as their main weapon. I don't recall the Viet Kong using suicide bombings.
Viet Kong were the North Vietnamese's Army fighting the US and South Vietnam army. There is a world of difference than a society that its citizens gets bulldozed.
I don't recall French forces in Algeria bulldozing peace activist either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie
it goes to educating childern from kindergarten age on the merits of suicide bombing, naming your child "Shahid" and ends after the suicide attack, when people congratulating the parents of the suicide bomber on their son/daughters ascent to heaven.
So education of children is important. Can you tell us what exactly are these children getting educated on?
http://perlustration.blogspot.com/2006/07/sure-sign-of-sick-culture.html
Shahid means martyr. In US people get medals for bravery. Do you know of a society that doesn't honor people that make sacrifice?
I don't support the suicide bombing, nor do I ridicule them. If you are genuinely concern about the problem then you have to empathize with them in the underlying issues and work to solve it.
It's clear to anyone with an ounce of objectivity that liberals are snakes and hypocrites
So, where's our Ann Coulter? Really, is Kurt Vonnegut calling Bush 'Hitler' the worst we have? Nobody with several absurd books against half of America like 'Slander', 'Godless', &c?
And why don't I see our Ann Coulter on TV? Where are his newspaper articles? Why don't I even know his name?
People take Ann Coulter seriously?
Yes, because she appears on TV and gets her articles in the newspaper. Repeatedly. Every time anything of political importance is going on. She gets taken seriously because she is continually presented as something to take seriously.
pawl hawken article in mother jones in 1997
The great thing about religious zealots is that they can lie and insult with such fervor! There was a case in the news recently where a guy in Pakistan left Islam, and was sentenced to death. Only when the US put on a lot of pressure did they relent, and declare him insane, and let him leave the country.
but doctors routinely give newborns hormones to turn them one way or the other.
No, it's too late to 'turn' a gender by the time it is a newborn. Doctors do more disgusting things, with idioms like 'it is easier to dig a hole than to make a pole'.
It's Stain glass expo 2007, Jeez, you guys don't read the news? :P
The guards who are tormenting him obviously have poor impulse control. They're very likely a danger to society in the future. That calls for hard time.
When referring to Ann Coulter, no term is too pejorative.
Kooks are everywhere. Why don't you say pejorative terms to the people who put her on the air on on the newspaper page? Do you even know their names? When you ask them why they give special time to someone with such amazingly debunked books as hers, will you just spew pejorative terms about her to them?
It's not clear that he destroyed anything. It's likely that he defaced at least one of the vehicles, and was pressured into driving his accomplices around.
Could you possibly elaborate?
then who gives a flying firk
She's saying it on TV. This is our national discourse, and it will decide the course of the nation -- and have strong affects on the course of some places in the rest of the world that you might have heard of.
Lack of libraries and difficulty interacting with imperative-style code. Most projects I work on have to work well with state-based systems, such as GUIs or databases. It's difficult to translate these into lisp-style code.
My preferred language is Python, because it allows most of functional-style languages while still allowing easily access to imperative code. If I had to work on code with performance requirements, Haskell would be my choice (followed by C++). Haskell has functional goodness with the ability to break into imperative mode, and C++ gives me direct memory management with a few functional pieces.
thank you for using 'cracker' instead of 'hacker'. it is really annoying how people misuse those two terms.
but anyway, the people and owners need (NEED) to update.
This looks like it was done using modern photographic equipment and then post processed to make it appear vintage.
Downvote me all you want, but check google first.
68 is what my house runs at during winter and summer, and it's the temp the EPA suggests you keep your heater at. What gives?
Do I hear another 9/11 Consipracy? Anyone? Anyone?
It means she has almost nowhere left to go.
I think it is sadly likely that she'll be around to haunt us through the 2008 elections, at the very least. She won't have racist terms for Obama, but she'll have nasty enough terms that will use popular negative narratives about him. For the other candidates? I can't guess at Edward's frames, but the press is already organizing to offer Clinton as 'calculating' and 'ambitious', who 'controls a political machine'. I saw a Wired editor, on TV, say he couldn't stand Clinton -not for a sane reason- but because she gave him 'that cooties' feeling! Oh, Ann Coulter will have so many things to say about Clinton, and you'll see them any time you turn on the TV or open a newspaper.
Because, jwhardcastle, the reason people listen to them in the first place is because what they're saying is so outrageous, people can't get enough of it. People like Ann Coulter legitimize our more selfish human instincts (xenophobia, warfare, greed, coldness), that any ethical system tells us to shy away from, but our ego loves that shit. Anyone who helps to suggest that those selfish instincts aren't so bad in the first place, makes us feel freer to give in to those very selfish insticts. Ann Coulter and her kin do just that.
You find imperative code hard to write in CL, yet you would use Haskell?
I think Haskell is great, but if you must program in an imperative fashion, I think CL wins.
First, CL allows unrestricted side effects. The LOOP macro is more powerful than any iteration facility found in ALGOL-style languages, and the SETF macro and related macros provide "generalized l-values", which must be the ultimate imperative feature of any programming language.
Y'all good conservative type folk should be more tolerant of her being a faggot she-male.
Outside of Rush Limbaugh's fans, who takes Ann Coulter seriously?
does he validate at W3C
Huh? Shady dealings at Best Buy? I am shocked, people. Shocked. But then I must ask yet again:
WHY THE HELL DO ALL YOU PEOPLE KEEP SHOPPING THERE?!?
Space Ghost wants to talk in third person!
I am a PETER PAN historian. Of course I will purchaase this.
What I am pissed off about is the LACK of behind-the-scenes features. We're getting a making-of that was already issued with the 2003 SPECIAL EDITION. We're not getting the FOOTAGE from the live-action animators' "rehearsals." I know they were filmed, I saw a clip of Margaret Kerry standing on top of a huge mirror and looking down at herself. They'll give us photos, but no video.
They also don't have any features about how the stage productions of the story influenced the animated film. They only mention the silent 1924 Betty Bronson film that inspired Walt.
How about a documentary on the character of Tinker Bell and how she came to be an icon for the company?
How about a virtual ride from Peter Pan's Flight at DL/WDW?
Feature on getting the rights to the story from GOSH?
etc etc etc
Or perhaps they are saving these for PETER PAN: YOU CAN FLY! EDITION in 2010.
PS: I am SHOCKED there is no Special Edition of RETURN TO NEVERLAND coinciding with this release. They've done the sequels for other films, such as LION KING and POCAHONTAS. But for the film that actually got a theatrical release, there's nothing. (Which I am fine with since the sequel was god awful, but still I am shocked).
She is an embarrassment to conservatives and Republicans alike.
Tell your media outlets about this. Tell the people who organize conservative rallies and put her on the stage. Write letters to shows that host her and explain why she's an embarassment to conservatives and Republicans, when she continually gets the spotlight and uses it to say the silliest things about people who aren't one or both of those.
I'd always thought Vanilla Sky was the best PKD film, not having anything to do with PKD.
In a position where the people who have been through the horrors war before are not the very first people consulted when enemies are made.
It seems a hell of a lot of top military people, from all over the world were saying 'i dunno, this looks like a bad idea, they wont ever stop fighting us once we're in' (as opposed to all the no blood for oil and not-in-my-name-crap which became the face of opposition to war in Iraq).
GOOD ONE
My, that's a neat one. applauds
That's an interesting article - those are the same photos but it doesn't really explain much more - it says this was an experiment the Russians made prior to Yuri Gagarin's flight. But what is the pig being launched from? It looks like a mortar. How high did the pig go? Why do these photos look so artistic - not like I would expect from documentary photos. Is this really a Russian experiment or scenes from a movie??
This would happen to anyone with any company, this reddit is just another Apple bashing club. For every one complaint against Apple, there are more than a thousand against Dell. Cmon people get real. This person is just a crybaby, waah waah waah...puke.
Great, now you've just shown the terrorists how to win. Thanks!
A lot of these record labels have been very cool in allowing us to listen to whole tracks rather than the 30 second samples found on most artist's pages.
So please buy the stuff you like.....or get a t-shirt or see them live or something, let them know how good last.fm is as a marketing tool and a portal to new music, otherwise everything will end up being reduced to 30 clips because of RIAA/etc controlled 'bigger' artists being annoyed that you didn't pay for every last drop of *.mp3
I'm with you dude; prison time was warranted. But Jesus Christ - seven years?? Is what he did really worse than rape? As for his behavior in court, doesn't his (apparent) mental disorder deserve something other than additional time?
sigh - do we have to pay income tax? Sure - but not because of Article 16, because of Article 1, section 8.
http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec8.html
Some people...
I would be outraged but this is so typical as to be practically expected.
but check google first.
You expected us to naturally search for bush "victor ash"? My, this appeared in a book that appears to feature such plain intelligence as
Bush and Ashe are both members of the satanic cult, "Skull & Bones",
So, where's the YouTube where somebody with a stable voice in the media says these things on TV? Do you have an mp3 of this person saying this on a popular radio broadcast? A newspaper article? Did 'Bush is Gay!' appear above the fold of the NYT in an election season?
No, this assertion about Bush's sexuality wouldn't interest even if it were true -- that it has zero publicity is enough for it not to factor into a national discourse that, right now, allows Ann Coulter to say anything she wants as frequently as she wants, with a spotlight, without rebuke. No, when people complain about Ann Coulter, it only makes the people who put her on the air happier about the attention.
The 'snakes and hypocrites' can't have an Ann Coulter, because anyone who said 'Bush is Gay' on TV would get -hammered- immediately wherever it was said (can you think of even one show where this wouldn't happen?), and then ignored thereafter -- and no 'snake and hypocrite' would defend that person.
No gotta say, I like news and if I happen to get some boobies in my news even better, but not straight porn, I'd like to hide behind news for my boobies and my slightly NSFW content. If it's an accident I'm not misbehaving at work, if its porn....well I'm well aware and deserving of punishment.
Brilliant!
The republicans are trying to smear Hillary in any way possible because they know they don't have a canidate that can come close to standing up to her. So now we're supposed to go back and read a college thesis and apply that to a person 35 years later? That is bullshit.
Hmmm... a toughie
So to sum up, please stop calling people Hitler when you disagree with them. It demeans you, it demeans them, and to be honest, it demeans Hitler. That guy worked too many years too hard to be that evil to have any Tom, Dick or Harry come along and say, "Hey, you're being Hitler." No! You know who was Hitler? Hitler!
-- Jon Stewart
What about all the good things Hitler did?
-- Unknown
Honest communication on project teams is critical.
Good news
Because, you know, she's a woman with political and intellectual opinions who's taken seriously and who you don't like.
So calling someone a faggot is now intellectual?
where someone brings up Ann Coulter and people don't immediately say "not a real woman".
I think the commentor was just noting how manly she looks. Is "handsome" a better word? Probably not, since I wouldn't imagine that hairy adams apples are all that appealing on men either.
/that is all.
No, it isn't. Your party, and people friendly to your party, are giving her a voice at big rallies, on radio, on TV, and in newspapers. It isn't enough to tell reddit that she can suck yellow pus -- tell the editors and pundits who broadcast her message to America, who confuse her with the party and political thought she claims to ascribe to in the minds of people like -- gosh, people like me. Republicans and Conservatives loathe Ann Coulter? They seem to be happy enough, anyway, to benefit from whatever poison she can inject into the their political adversaries.
the thought of actually typing all those damn parens makes me dry heave.
What language do you use that has fewer parens?
People who live in glass houses, shouldn't throw sexually-ambiguous stones.
she called clinton a fag too, whats the big deal? stop giving her press
What language do you use that has fewer parens?
I can think of a few.
Obviously, by virtue of better abstractions, a typical CL program has far fewer syntax tokens, and in particular less ()[]{} than a C++ or Java program.
However, there are languages such as Haskell, Ocaml and Factor which tend to have even fewer occurrences of ()[]{} than CL's (). Not necessarily because of better abstractions, but different evaluation models, different surface syntax, etc.
it's very beautiful
Their line seems to be that it was a "personnel matter" and that procedures were followed. And that's all you'll get out of them.
>Was said by the same person who said:
This isn't about numbers of scientists
Way to take my words out of context. Here's the rest of that sentence:
This isn't about numbers of scientists, it is about percentages.
Of course, I said that when you were claiming that hundreds of scientists disagree and trying to use that to overstate the amount of dissent.
I pointed to 22 scientists who disagree (incidentally, you didn't point to any), then you focused on one. I notice that your numbers seem to be getting smaller.
Of course you "don't have to explain why a scientist from MIT is on the list", but if you are trying to argue against a scientist from the most prestigious scientific school in the country, it might help your case.
I'm not trying to argue against Lindzen or any other scientist, which isn't what you are trying to get me to do anyway.
You are trying to get me to question his credibility. I'm not going to question the credibility of any scientist who argues against global warming, because I know that for every one I point to on your side that was funded by an Oil company, you could probably find one on my side funded by some radical environmentalist group. (If you want to get into that debate, talk to Gorbama. He seems to have some knowledge on that subject.)
I see no point in continuing this discussion, since you continue to ignore my questions:
What constitutes an overwhelming majority to you?
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Do you have any information on How many hundreds and how many thousands of scientists fall into each category?
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>Obviously there are many more than 22 scientists who oppose the consensus.
Do you have any evidence to back up this claim?
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Have I ever made any sort of statements on the quality of scientists who disagree with the consensus?
You seem to only want to continually change the subject and twist my words to fit your aims.
You need to lay off the pipe my friend
its natural to be unsure of the exact structure of evil sects -- secrecy is their #1 creed
You are quite right. I think 3/4'th of the US population just want this presidency to be over with.
I personally despised the guy from the get go but have friends that thought he was OK. Now I don't know anybody that doesn't want to get rid of him.
Wonder if they would welcome someone into their church who is Unashamedly White? Unashamedly Asian?
woman, or black dude raised in muslim school?
they are both unelectable
Okay, forgive my response if it is short, I don't want to give the impression that your reply is unworthy of a lengthy reply in return. I'll try to break down our respective positions:
I think that by default that unless the comic explicitly states the crazy girl is representative of everyone, it represents a specific type of person.
You think that by default the crazy person represents everyone because it does not explicitly state that it is about any one specific group.
Am I right?
Now I think that we are simply looking at it in different ways and therefore we are both 'correct'. Half empty, half full and all that.
The only thing I want to debate is maybe that a comic strip should take the time to 'disclaim' something so that there are no misunderstanding but that is definitely a point of preference and something that I won't say you are strictly 'wrong' about. In fact, in light of your reply, you aren't 'wrong' about anything. I think this is strictly a point of view thing.
So in short, I think it's best that we agree to disagree. What do you think?
Should go get your 100,000.
F'ing sweet!!
Ohh this actually explains a lot (in a strictly juvenile way) of what her deal actually is.
This is a factor that could drive me back to Windows from OS X. Cocoa may be a good toolkit, but I'd rather not write personal applications that most other people can't run. I've used .NET and like it, but I don't want to write a personal application I have to use inside a VM. And the state of cross-platform toolkits is pretty bad.
Must be hard for the Muslims to carry that inferiority complex around wherever they go.
Well it's not really a complex as such in most aspect they are inferior.
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There's also this.
The previous poster said:
Last I checked no one has lobbed faggot at Bush.
That's what I was responding to. Don't move the goalposts.
EDIT: Oh, and also this
This seems like an interesting story sabotaged by a too-young writer.
Some one offered the explanation that this was to test G-forces on the pig because this was before the times of rocket and space.
The A380 is just a big fat ugly airplane anyway, who really cares?
I think that wouldn't work because humans would eventually gravitate towards tyranny due to the evil we are capable of. Kind of like how communism doesn't work out right. Even our country has been slowly declining. Plus if a country like ours dissolved the government and no one else did, they'd just take over.
about biofuel
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I would but I am afraid of being blown up...
woof!
Then the always muscle bound black dude at security who probably also works the velvet rope in the evening. Playing into racial stereotypes, very nice.
In my experience, the security at the door is usually skinheads who enjoy cussing at customers.
intellectuals don't get elected, especially fair & balanced intellectuals
that thesis was probably the last honest work she ever did, becoming aware of the fact that everything she says afterwards is a PR manipulation campaign
Does that count yelling at the computer until it works?
Well, I can imagine why he wouldn't want to be called Vietcong, although venture capitalist isn't that terrible.
For small tattoos, there is only one choice, \f.(\x.f (x x)) (\x.f (x x)). And for bigger tattoos, I'm confident McCarthy's metacircular interpreter for LISP 1.5 would fit on a back. :)
Unfortunately this does nothing to help people's bias about PHP+mysql web apps being insecure garbage.
You only type half of them. The other half are automatically inserted by the editor.
Or are you still using Notepad? Ed?
this is already reality in many states, such as New York State. In NY you are required to carry state ID at all times, and present it at the whim of an officer.
Now you can get the six-minute lesson on stem cell research, how science is threatened by the left AND the right, and why sometimes "mother nature is a real nasty bitch."
The fact that a major news outlet did this as an experiment, is pretty funny and strangely news worthy. Paris Hilton news is of no consequence to the world and they don't try to hide the fact that they know they shouldn't do it. It's fluff and they should CONTINUE to treat it that way. Same goes for all the 20 minute, dumb down, fluff segments out there on the so called news netwroks. It's their job to inform us of the goings on in the world.
Besides, that's why we have VH1!
Funny thing is, WOMEN are more offended by photos like these than MEN are. A WOMAN at work will more likely call HR if they see someone viewing photos on their computer screen than a MAN will. Men like breasts, we like breasts of all sizes and shapes and we KNOW they are just a beautiful thing in this world. So why is it that when a woman sees another woman breast feeding her baby, she gets offended and a man doesn't?
If you talk about peace, you're letting the terrorists win!
WOW thats truely insane ha ha.
What's wrong for using reddit for pr0n? Mebbe there should be a pr0n subreddit.
Imperative, not iterative. I've tried to find some examples of interfacing with GTK+ to show my point, but I can't actually find anything for any of the GTK+ bindings in the CL wiki.
Here's an example in Haskell. Note that is is almost a direct translation from imperative languages such as Python:
import Graphics.UI.Gtk
main = do
initGUI
window <- windowNew
button <- buttonNew
set window [ containerBorderWidth := 10,
containerChild := button ]
set button [ buttonLabel := "Hello World" ]
onClicked button (putStrLn "Hello World")
onDestroy window mainQuit
widgetShowAll window
mainGUI
What is so cool about this video is that it is a collection of segments that were put together based on the questionaire. I haven't seen that before.
A batch of friends who all work for $BORG have fancy thinkpads with fingerprint readers, and a couple of datacenters I've had to visit recently use similar for validating entry.
If you sent out a usb-dongle with fingerprint scanner (it's basicallya fancy optical mouse upside down, el cheapo IOW) and had a good crypto protocol for getting the browser to query the scanner and validate the user sitting in front of the computer...
meh... maybe you could just use x509 client certs and skip the foofarah with hardware.
I think a trusted(reddit|digg) or variant might be an interesting experiment. It could actually be a good model if you took thought leaders and talked them into participating for at least a month at a stretch. Actually a digg-like site with trusted ID could be quite useful as an internal governance thing for mid-sized orgs.
very nice...... watch waht u smoke...
This Taliban leader had a point: if a few countries unite against them [the Taliban] then why couldn't the Taliban and its supporters also unite? Today, the Taliban is back in control... and we went there to do what?
That's how it should look. Your initial response should be "that's stupid looking". Then your natural curiosity takes over and you zoom out once... then you get the slightest buzzing in the back of your head and zoom out again... then it starts to dawn on you what's going on and you zoom out again... then you smile when you fully realize how clever it is!
Clearly.
Or maybe we are just placated.
Or this http://z.about.com/d/tattoo/1/0/R/s/121804b.jpg
(The actual answer is in the comment section)
http://www.mfa.org/calendar/event.asp?eventkey=26210&date=2/4/2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_on_the_Moon
What? Seriously??
Jesus Fucking Christ.
Haha, so you did! Okay, they're not ALL Olbermann, but still. What they do put here is pretty... thin.
This is an attempt at satire having to due with the Valerie Plame leak from a "Senior Administration Official". Not very funny, but this is the second time today I've seen a submitter fall for a bad parody site. Yawn.
It appears the car hit the tree at it's pinch welds. I've seen several cars spilt in half the other way (which is considerably much much harder to do) but never one lengthwise like this.
I imagine the tree worked in between the groove of the hood and fender and worked itself down the pinch welds along the bottom, and also the top, notice the seams along the top door frame. Newer cars, especially a performance car like this Audi, use body panels covering much of the car to increase stiffness. This is greatly beneficial in aggresive driving. It also results in excellent survival rates in frontal imapcts, while not sacrificing the cost of all the weight of an old style steel frame. It's also why most of the car ripped away in that way.
It shows what good engineering can do. It also shows that this guy is lucky as hell to be alive, and even luckier he didn't have a passenger.
I haven't done that since middle school. Of course I'm talking about thinking the word "faggot" was funny.
Although you might be right about comparing America to ancient Rome, I would say its also a mistake to compare it against a destitute and impoverished post-WWI Germany. Hitler was able to take advantage of people's justified hopelessness. Bush, however, has been able to cultivate fear into a free pass to any policy he wants. Hitler was a better speaker, but Bush has a better team around him. Hitler was a bloodthirsty madman, while Bush is just a good 'ol boy with a taste for the good life.
Agreed. As partially passive media consumers (i.e., we don't pick what news gets covered), we have a responsibility not to ignore this kind of cheapening of public discourse.
But if "we all just ignore her" means the media ignores her, then tezmc is exactly right.
To put it another way, we should ignore her, but we can't and shouldn't ignore public endorsement and media coverage of her.
Ideas on prayer from psalm 11
If he did remember to use the word "uppercase" instead of "capitalize", it would have been better too.
Thank God she's back in the news. Now that I found out she was gone I missed her so much.
He destroyed & defaced 'dozens of sport utility vehicles,' resulting in $5,000,000 worth in damages.
How much damage did Charles Keating cause? ($285 million) How much time did he spend in prison? (4 years)
He and his fellows painted the slogan of the notorious (and murderous) Earth Liberation Front
And non-existent. It's just a false flag for disorganized loonies.
He's very likely a danger to society in the future (he flew off the handle once, destroying vehicles--next time will it be people?).
How exactly would you punish such a fellow? With a stern talking-to?
Oh, no! We can't be soft on crime! That loses us votes!
But you see, it's all about context. Calling Al Gore a faggot is funny. Saying the word "faggot" without imputing it to someone as obviously faggy as Gore isn't. Context, people!
There was once a NSFW subreddit but no more. Is there not enough accessible porn online for you to find elsewhere? Or, aren't there enough girls on campus for you ucslug?
I'd love to hear how you assess a teacher's performance in a quantifiable way. I'm fairly sure that anything you can come up with will not be able to offer the best outcomes for both learning and a for a free market.
Well at least we know that this was picked up on and caused some level of outraged. It kind of shows that they can't actively censor issues that are actually important.
A country is not made of land; a country is made of its people.
Reddit would be a nice way of sharing porn links, however those i like most are borderline illegal (copyright-, not contentwise).
What truly bothers me is the original article now puts us (the faithful Reddit community) in the targets of the Digg mob. They do not like to be made to look bad, and I shudder to think what they've got planned in return for Reddit.
(I'm not talking about the Digg mob who mass up/down vote, I'm referring to the militant Digg mob who has organized some very notable DDOS attacks and other mischief in the past.)
There's a saying for writers, "Kill all your babies."
One of my favorite short-stories come to life.
http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html
Creationism sucks.
I understand where you're coming from, but that wasn't what I had intended to say. There are problems that a TM cannot solve, this is known. Can the human mind solve those problems?
There's no evidence that it can. In fact, for the halting problem, there's a proof that it can't.
n fact, the case seems pretty strong that humans do more or less everything using search, so it's merely our capacity to guess-and-check, and to make mistakes, that allows us to do things like program computers.
In nerd circles hacker == good, cracker == bad.
It is handsome of you to say so. My experience has been that most people on Reddit would not. You have my respect.
Baby animals!!!
They should lock that fucker up for years to solve the most pressing problems in the world.
What is wrong with us? Have we no clue of efficiency or long-term human survival? I really hope we change our ways soon. We need to develop an environment that forces us to evolve. Capitalism creates false underlying impulses: To survive as the fittest is to get the highest paying job to buy the most ipods.
because output is a choice..
... unless the fields actually are vanishing
And whether we like to admit it or not, Hitler really was a war-hero. Bush pulled strings to make sure he didn't end up in combat.
People didn't know that Al Gore is a total fag?
What kind of stupid fucking kind of comment is this? Don't put a question mark at the end of something insincere like this, that can't be answered. In fact, don't try to disguise whatever puerile impulse you had as rational thought at all. Just say "OMG GORE = FAG LOLOLOL" and lay bare your level of understanding, here, without illusions.
If she has, she's a hypocrite. If she hasn't, she's a 40+ year old virgin.
That's really a non sequitur. Consider, say, safety equipment on cars. We could indisputably save human lives if we limited all cars sold to a maximum of 50 mph, required tank-like protective shielding, and the like. Sure, it might cost a little money ($50,000 per car), but it would save lives!
There are plenty of other situations where modern society could take some expensive action that would result in saving lives, but the costs of the action have been judged too high. How you as an individual value the lives of your friends and family isn't really relevant.
She also called Al Gore a 'total fag.' Is there no justice for My Pal Al?
I use CL. Lispworks on windows and sbcl on linux.
In other news, I want to take you to a gay bar.
Only stupid people. PHP and MySQL had nothing to do with this exploit; it was caused by a cracker gaining user-level access to the server that the downloadable distribution was hosted on and adding their own backdoor. This could have happened regardless of the language used.
zzzzzzz....
Well, I have used Common Lisp a bit. It's not bad. I could summarise the few gripes I had, but overall the experience was fairly good. I'd generally prefer Scheme if I was going to use a lispish language though.
I found that I had to fight with it a bit to program in a functional style. The distinction between functions and other values often made things awkward. Having to think to quote functions specially when passing them as parameters, and using apply/funcall on the other end is very annoying.
The compiler I happened to be using also complained with a warning whenever I wrote a function that was constant in one of its parameters (e.g. written as a parameter to a higher-order function). Fortunately there was a pragma to turn that off.
I also find in functional programming, curried parameters are a very natural design, since it's quite often that you're specialising one function to pass into another. In Lisp, it's not as natural as it could be to work with them. While it's possible to write macros for defining functions concisely with curried parameters, and curried application, it's not entirely transparent. It's generally simpler just to bite the bullet and write out the requisite lambdas.
The lack of pervasive static type checking made for some rather irritating forms of bugs. Using structures rather than plain cons-trees everywhere tended to help keep things straight. Still, I have very little tolerance for the compiler not statically checking various things. It's a pain to actually have to run your program to find bugs like "this thing somehow ended up being an integer when it's meant to be a list of them", and then have to work out exactly why it came to be this way on your own -- especially painful when it's been carried along through lots of code before something tried to operate directly on it.
It also might have been worth some time to locate a macro library for pattern matching/destructuring in function definitions, since that would generally improve clarity. I know such libraries exist, but it doesn't seem that there's anything for it in the standard library (or if it is, I didn't find it).
Once you get over those things though, it's a pretty nice language to code in. It shows its age in places, but overall hides it far better than some much newer languages. :)
People complain about parens, but they never really bothered me. Use a sensible text editor that highlights matching parens, and lay out your code in a sane way, and it's not really a problem. It's not optimally readable, but it's more than acceptable, and it certainly makes metaprogramming easier.
Wow! Not your usual example apps:
A SHOUTcast server which you can use to stream music to every computer in your house, and
and especially:
a full-text indexing and search engine that can index gigabytes of data and run either on a single computer or collaboratively on a parallel network. The indexing engine is specially written to illustrate how to maximize throughput on a multi-core CPU.
That calls for hard time.
Yes, but 8 1/2 years? Plus, getting thrown in solitary for months at a time?
the notorious (and murderous) Earth Liberation Front
...which has never injured a single person. Ever.
(he flew off the handle once, destroying vehicles--next time will it be people?)
He wasn't "flying off the handle" as though in rage, just vandalizing some stuff to be cool and it got out of hand (admittedly exercising poor poor judgement). I knew him slightly and never saw any signs of a temper.
Well, I mean Hitler not in the genocide sense but in the...well, actually, I do mean it in the genocide sense.
Seriously, the worst thing you can come up with is a playground epithet? Do you actually use the word 'faggot' and think it's not a reference to being homosexual? If someone called you a 'faggot', you'd just think 'This person disapproves of me, but is in no way casting aspersions on my heterosexuality'? In that case, you're a motherfucker. And I'm not saying you fuck your mother. Just in the perjorative sense.
Also, has anyone noticed that her comment makes absolutely no goddamned sense? The people who went to rehab (florida congressman, colorado preacher) didn't call people 'faggots', they had sex (virtual or actual) with men while claiming gay sex is evil and wrong and very, very naughty. So fuck them, and fuck her. She's a lying, pointless hypocrite.
it's racy
Or how about this; by any sane criteria Hitler was obviously a far greater menace to civilization as we know it than is Bush, but, while Hitler is dead and gone, Bush is very much alive. He's the nut we have now to crack. What would be really weird is if we didn't even notice that Dubya is obviously the most incompetent president this country has had in over a century.Fortunately for us, it looks like Bush is a menace not because he is diabolically intelligent and driven like Hitler was, but rather because he's a mediocre intellect and an amateur who is playing in a league that demands superior intellectual and professional skills.
We will get beyond the Bush administration. Our country will get back on track. I am not afraid. You shouldn't be either.
Dude's going nuts and so is Bush. I predict Nancy Pelosi will be sworn in as President in May of 2008.
Samsung's latest update to the venerable i320 packs a serious punch. Just like its predecessor, the i607 BlackJack is slim and light--one of the lightest and flattest smartphones on the market--this time though, it features impressive innovations, like HSDPA 3G high-speed data capabilities, stereo Bluetooth, an advanced music player, and more.
This is a perfect opportunity for the Democrats to grow a spine and reject this guy's nomination. Let's hope they take it.
#lisp
Fear is not the answer.
"Basically what we do in education is show them how to pass a test and then move on to the next chapter."
Ain't that the truth....sad.
Who gives a fuck?
Since the article in question is specifically about the Linux kernel and those to contributed to it, and not about any operating system that uses a Linux kernel or any other open source project, again I question the relevance of your comment.
That map feature is absolutely beautiful - it's worth watching the screencast just for that (fast forward to about two thirds of the way through). For once it's /not/ using Google Maps - instead there's a beautiful custom map thing with heat maps that lets you click to zoom in on a continent or country.
i like it =)
Smithers: Will you be donating that million dollars now, Sir?
Burns: Nooo, I'd still prefer not.
site down?
man when i seen this i almost spit my tea on my computer screen. really funny skit. i would love to know exactly where it came from
Anyone who demolishes SUVs is OK in my book.
This isn't snark, either.
Stop linking to this site, it is too slow to support any traffic whatsoever.
is there another site reporting the story?
Read the quote in the comment I was replying to once again. Notice the "and lots of Open Source software" part? Notice the guy wondering whether Google contributes anything, and framing it so as to make it sound that they aren't contributing anything anywhere? As if the Linux kernel was the only piece of floss that mattered?
The post started out just looking at the latest release of the kernel, and then turned into talking about whether companies contribute to open source in general.
New Zealand stuff.
Nice find. It's in Google Earth too. Looks like that's its shadow there too, and also the shadow of the contrail, so it must be pretty close to local noon.
how do u add it 2 bebo
Good point. Their party was obviously the wrong generalization to make here. Clearly their partisan status has nothing to do with this story. Total red herring.
Ok, ok. I will start tomorrow.
Perfectly readable to me. Inverted colors can be easier to read, especially in the dark, and use less power on CRT monitors.
I don't see any shadows. It looks more like a jet plane to me. The wings on it seem to be a bit too large for a missile. And I see two con trails indicating two engines.
na just bring back the NSFW subreddit
I've written a good amount of CL for a commercial application. It's not a bad language, but I miss static typing very much. At the time I wrote the CL code Haskell was not an option, now I would use Haskell. BTW, I eventually had to rewrite my CL application in C, because the CL implementation was just too slow and buggy. But that's not a language problem.
There was a case in the news recently where a guy in Pakistan left Islam, and was sentenced to death.
Afghanistan, not Pakistan. He converted to Christianity while living in Pakistan.
trippin
Method: Full install on blank HD
Version: 32-Bit Home Premium (Retail)
Hardware: 3200+ Athlon 64 Single Core (Venice), 1 GB RAM.
Didn't work:
Printer
iPod
1/3rd of my game library (Second Life, Quake 4, Darwinia)
Burning Xvid to DVD caused artifacting in menu, and sound problems which were annoying and could not be fixed (audio would vary from extremely soft to extremely loud)
Joost
Quicktime (including Blue Screen of Death)
*CDs and DVDs burned in Windows Vista could not be read in Windows XP machines.
Behaved Strangely or reduced functionality:
Another 1/3rd of my Game Library (World of Warcraft, CounterStrike, HalfLife2)
General Performance (Slower than XP on same hardware)
*Security (Any "security" that does not require me to actually input my password is a joke.)
Improved:
Can now burn to DVD in Windows Movie Maker.
Also - I'm reviewing Vista professionally for a consumer technology Web Site. I still have to go through some hoops but I must say I'm unimpressed so far.
As long as I can remember error code 0 has always been called ERROR_SUCCESS, returned from various system calls indicating success, and that's message you get if you ask the system for the error text. Basically this happens when some system call fails but doesn't set the GetLastError() value, the caller detects that the function failed with a null pointer or something, and blindly reports the "error code" to the user.
I think their motto "radically tailorable software" is very apt.
I remember studying about this in highschool.
I had recalled that the pig's name was Ham, but it turns out that was the monkey's name...
Quotes are not to be used for emphasis! Quote marks mean one of two things:
You are quoting somebody else's statement.
You are casting doubt on the quoted proposition.
For emphasis, surround the proposition with asterisks: lied.
Speaking in the name of god? Which god?
I've wanted to learn Erlang for a while now, but the relative dearth of good tutorials and other resources has held me back. Hopefully this book will fill the bill.
incur discord!
Sorry, I don't see any beauty in this.
According to ancient myths, our lives are played out at the whims of gods and goddesses rolling dice and amusing themselves with our fortunes and disasters. If we succeeded in this world, we were lucky, and if we failed, well, maybe Zeus was just having a bad hair day.
Sounds a little ridiculous, doesn't it?
That's because all of us have had the experience of working diligently, maybe for years, to achieve a goal, and then others congratulate us on our good luck when we know full well that luck had nothing to do with it.
Breaking up is hard to do no matter what anyone says. It is something that is going to change your life and how you love. You have to have the ability to be strong and to face anything that is thrown your way when you are dealing with a break up. You will see that when you are prepared and ready to move on, you will have an easier time getting what you need from your next relationship and loving bigger and even better.
We all go through a break up in some point of our life. It can be rough but keep it simple and with as little pain as possible. Breakups are usually handled differently in every case and you have to make sure that you are following through with the best plan of action for you.
Know what is going on
You should realize what is happening and why you are breaking up. Make it clear to yourself that you are not to blame and that it does actually take two to make a relationship work. Accept the pain that you are feeling and know that you are a good and strong person no matter what.
Allow yourself to have some distance from the breakup and figure out what you need to move on to next. Stay friends with the other person if you would like, but do not have immediate contact with them for a time after the break up. This will help you find some healing time and get your thoughts together.
Think clearly
After a breakup your head my not be on straight. It is very important to make sure that you are giving yourself time to figure out what you want in life. What type of relationship are you looking for and what kind of guy? Think about what you want and deserve and then you will be able to move on to a different kind of love. You will find love again and you have to make sure that you believe this about yourself. It is the only way that you can move on and have a happy life that you so deserve.
Keep your friends close
Your friends are so important after a breakup. You need someone to lean on. You do not want to lean on another guy and go into a relationship right away. You need some time to heal and to think things through. Your friends will be there for you and able to help you with support that is necessary. Use this time to get closer to your friends and to have a little bit of fun. You can explore your options and move onto so much more.
Do not hold on to the past
When you want to move onto another relationship after a break up, you have to be willing to let go of the past. Do not bring up the subject of your old flame. All this will do is scare the other perspective relationship away. You need to think about your future and move past all of the good times that you once had. Avoid anything that may remind you of the other person for as long as you need to. It does not have to be forever but just until you have reached a point where you do not need to be afraid of how you are feeling.
You should never overreact to the situation
Do not panic. Your life is not over just because you are going through a breakup. Chances are you will find love again and it will be bigger and better this time around. You do not have anything to worry about and you will find someone that will make your heart full of love again. There are many emotions that you will have to deal with when you are going through a break up.
Overreacting is only going to make things worse and seem like you are going through so much more than what you really are. Take time out for yourself and find things that you should be doing in your newfound free time.
Find happiness
You can find happiness again. You have to stay positive when you are going through a breakup. You need to focus on the areas of your life that make you happy. You have to spend more time with your friends and family and do things that you love to do. Travel to places that you have always wanted to go, meet new people or sit down with a great book that you have always wanted to read. No matter what you love to do the most, this is your chance to do it.
Let go
There is just no reason to stay heart broken forever. You have to let it go and move on. You can build your next relationship to a bigger and better experience and you can grow stronger in the process. Life is one big lesson and breaking up is just one assignment in your chapter.
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Ten years ago you would have been crazy to stay in school because you could get so much money working.
My point was that some people don't go to school for the increased income potential. They go to learn new and interesting things that they might not otherwise be exposed to, or at a minimum to add formalism to the ad-hoc knowledge they already have. Education for the sake of education and self-improvement.
I'd like to think that life isn't all about one's financial bottom line.
Yeah, they'd give you 100k alright, but then they'd just come around and take it back again, because property is theft, right? These crazy anarchists.
Who are these people?
Theres nothing 'fishy' about it at all. There was a serious accident and the driver had a miraculous escape. Audi's (and volkswagon also) are very common place in Germany, thus explaining their presence at the scene of the accident.
The replies often observed on reddit that say articles are 'fake' or 'photoshoped' spoil the whole reddit experience completely! In most cases the articles are not fake or 'fishy', so get over it- stop looking for some ulterior motive and just enjoy the article. Its this sort of behaviour that is really putting me off reddit; I start reading something interesting and cynically think 'is it fake or photoshoped?' which then spoils the article for me.
Yes, the difference is that in other countries no one thinks otherwise. It's like the young earth creationists in the USA. Sure they're not a majority of the population, but they're non-existent elsewhere.
Brownstone is a psychopath without a shred of human empathy. You can't make a psychopath have empathy. You can't even make them fake it successfully. Legions of psychologists & psychiatrists have tried and they've gotten bupkis.
So you see, the problem is that brownstone doesn't care that he will cause others a painful prolonged death. He doesn't see others as human beings capable of human feeling. To him, they're just objects to be used and discarded. If they're in his way, he'll just kill them.
Hopefully now you know why you are wasting your time. But it's actually worse than this because you're playing into his game, giving him a platform to influence others and giving him the opportunity to manipulate you. You're also making him angry by throwing incomprehensible concepts like "other people" at him.
Oh and when I said that mental health professionals had gotten bupkis? I lied. They actually got burned for merely attempting treatment.
Who finds these things?
More over - HOW are they found?
I wasn't going to do this because it's so obvious and easy, but then I found that I couldn't resist, I mean, c'mon, Ann Coulter fer chrissakes! The woman is a characiture of herself; pretty much a standing joke of a human being. She is a semi-literate caterwauling freak of nature who has long since done away with any pretence of intellectual integrity.
Among my conservative friends she is viewed as a sort of unfortunate albatross 'round the neck; far more a liability than an asset. (We on the left have several "albatrosses" of our own.) She's an easy straw-man(?) target because nothing she says or writes is ever internally coherrent nor outwardly logical. A great friend of the emotionally charged yet factually impoverished non-sequitur, Coulter is a sort of champion eighth-grade debate-team pundit for those of us who lack the intellectual wherewithal to penetrate the membrane-thin hacketry of her syllogisms.
What a crock!
Coulter is a fraud and she would be laughable were it not the unfortunate case that many otherwise well-intentioned Americans are either blinded by partisan politics, or lack the analytical tools to recognize her for what she is.
While you and I can laugh about Coulter, it is the unfortunate truth that many people take her seriously.
That's a shame. I suspect that like Michael Savage, she doesn't believe half of what she says, but has figured out a way to make a good living, and is cynical enough to use prosperity as a moral justification in and of itself.
Rob Pike has been working for Google for a while now. His web page has said so for a while now.
Every day in the USA people buy hybrid cars and trucks. But does what they all hear on the radio / TV or read on websites about hybrids represent facts? The author of the article decided to unmask hybrid car manufacturers and make it all clear.
Is it possible that they needed a separate in-store Web site for some technical reason (e.g. because if the normal Web site went down, they wanted the stores to keep functioning normally), but a bug stopped discounts from showing up? Just throwing an (admittedly improbable) idea out there.
I agree. Two dark swept-back wings.
personally, i'd like to see stickers that say,
"THIS is a BOMB!"
stick that on random things and see how many are destroyed or investigated.
(edit: i hadn't read all the comments.)
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The correct term is 'psychopath'. Sociopathy is a proxy for psychopathy that's popular among mental health professionals because it's infinitely easier to detect. The problem is that sociopathy is an extremely bad proxy because it's saying that non-conformists, political dissidents and iconoclasts are dysfunctional. And this the exact opposite of the truth. Using sociopathy as a proxy also misses out on most psychopaths, which is another reason why it's extremely bad. It's not true that law-abiding psychopaths are mentally healthy anymore than it's true that pedophiles who don't get caught are mentally healthy. So now you know that just because the DSM (III-R) says something doesn't make it true.
You calling me stupid? I swear every time a customer asks me to install some freeware PHP+mysql crud, I hear from them 9 months later that they "got hacked" and need to "fit it ASAP".
You miss my point completely. I do come to reddit for my intellectual fill however I find its contents are swamped with computer articles (and President Bush stuff) these days. While I do have an avid interest in computers and technology, I am not interested in the specific, techy computer articles that there is often so much of on reddit. What about more articles on Natural Sciences, Ancient and Modern History, languages etc. ?
I did not read computer science at university nor am I programmer or computer scientist in anyway. Obviously there must be some scope on reddit for compsci articles for those of you who are interested, which is fine, but at present when I refresh the reddit homepage all I see are the words 'programming' and 'Bush' in a large majority of the article titles. More variety please.
Thank you, but that was a rhetorical question.
Any comments on the content of the post, the image?
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Could we possibly add the line, "France Surrenders." on the end of this one's title? Please?
it was only picked up at all because the ap announced it through their own media channels
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Personally I prefer using Haskell as I like the strong-typing and the use of type-classes and monads.
That being said, a dynamic language-family like LISP does allow for some very powerful things (like modelling different evaluation semantics on top). However at that point I prefer Scheme over CL. I have to admit that the surface-syntax of CL looks a lot more cluttered to me than that of Scheme (when for instance pkhoung would show me his latest cool-code). One thing that attracts me to CL and for which I feel tempted at times to try it out is the fact that a good CL implementation has optional typing, allowing one to get fast code if necessary. Well that and the MOP system (with which I am not very familiar). But otherwise, I prefer the cleanliness of Scheme (yes, mostly subjective).
One might complain that the Scheme std dictates a lot fewer libraries and this is in fact so. But if one takes a look at an implementation like PLT scheme, one will find a plethora of functionality in its std library.
I can't pass up such a bold request. To be honest, the first thing the image brought to mind for me was Virginia Wetherell from Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (NSFW):
http://www.robbscelebs.co.uk/noops696/clockwork_orange_ta0020.jpg
Kubrick had a brilliant visual eye, and I know he put a lot of thought into his casting. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he had a similar mathematical ratio in mind as the one expressed in this article when he was looking for actresses to play Alex's angelic vision of perfection.
uhm, could someone enlighten the dumb guy who doesn't know what "coalgebraic methods" are?
Conservativapedia -- when you'd really rather not have to think.
Good work! She's a contender all right, good photo angle, pity we can't see all of her. Upmodded for your selfless pursuit of the truth. Any other offerings, anyone?
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Shh! don't ruin the catchy phrase!
That's too bad, because it is nifty.
Because it's the Best. It says so right there in the name. Duh!
It's a plane. It's too big to be a missile.
Here is the "missile" adjusted, outlined, and compared to the McDonald Douglas MD-90
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/408498198_feff37fb9e_o.jpg
Also has difficulty being subordinate, and comes accross as arrogant and uncooperative.
That he got 5 years for a $5,000,000 arson spree is no more than could be expected, that he got a further 3.5 years for being a terrorist seems unfair.
Like he himself has emphasised over and over: his case is not special, there are thousands of harshly treated US prisoners suffering from mental disorders. What is different with Cottrell is that he is a well-conected white kid with a lot of high-status defenders ready to give eloquent statements of support on his behalf.
If he had Ebola then you would be right. However, it's not clear from the article how life-threatening the disease is. All we know is it's multiply resistant but that doesn't mean anything. People are locked in this primitive mentality that antibiotics are a magic silver bullet but they aren't. This isn't the mentality which a health professional should have, it's the mentality of an ignorant hick who kills wolves using an assault rifle. Antibiotics are the nuclear weapons of microbiology. They destroy all of the symbiotic bacteria, weakening the person and doing fuck-all to ensure that a healthy symbiotic colony of bacteria gets established. And without those symbiotes you get sick and will get reinfected again.
The correct response to disease is epidemiology protocols. Prevent the disease from spreading thus eradicating it. In the case of multiply-resistant strep, it's possible for a country in an advanced stage (50-80% of all cases) to come back from the brink. Possible? It's been done! So the correct response to this guy is exactly what they're doing to him. Sticking him in a room and making sure he has no contact with anyone.
We are still at the dawn of microbiology. It was only recently that super-carriers (super-infectious people) were identified. And then there are people who get routinely infected no matter what they do. In many cases, like cavities causing tooth decay, they hurt only themselves.
Party affliation has nothing to do with politics, after all. Mentioning party affiliation would be playing politics! And we all know that politicians HATE to play politics!
Not really.
Art is kind of dull to me. Turing Machines and decidablity are exciting. Drawings are just... I dunno... drawings. What's there to say about them?
I can see their point about SUVs damaging the environment, but the extra pollution caused by wasting a perfectly good self-worth enhancer (read: SUV) undermines it.
PostgreSQL does suck for a single user, single task, bulk inserting data. If you need that to fast, PostgreSQL isn't for you.
On the other hand, if you have 5 to 500 users/tasks all inserting data simultaneously, MySQL isn't for you.
thats like saying many red cars are red
Another thing to bear in mind is that when oil producing countries finally accept that they are in a Peal Oil situation they will reduce oil exports to the other countries and keep it for internal use.
Which probably will mean resource wars will break out all over the place - Iraq, Iran, ...
Scary.
I don't wanna sound full of myself or nothing, but I worked for that guy doing programming/sysadmin at Davis, nice fellow. Just creepy as all hell to see his name online.
Whoa, a photo of a plane!! Amazing capture!!!
I think it's time to ditch these idiotic headlines. A missile? Did the submitter even take a second glance at the image?
#lisp
OK, but what about it? I've always found it to be pleasant, and even the random purging of OT discussion doesn't bother me very much. I certainly find fewer people complaining about it than about comp.lang.lisp
Perl sigils ($ & etc) do make for ugly-looking code, on the surface. But the information they convey to the coder and interpreter/compiler is too useful to pass up for that.
Perl is a really interesting language. It's had almost all but one of Paul Graham's lisp differentiators http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html for a long time, combined with a userbase to dwarf any purer lisp-like language. (obviously it lacks the lisp-lack-of-syntax, and to my knowledge, there isn't an explicit symbol type, but a lot of the benefits of the latter are achieved by interning strings used as hash keys).
You might expect lispers to love perl due to the similarities, but the two approaches to syntax (little versus lots) appear to be a bigger divide.
The perl6 features being demo'd in the article seem to primarily show that perl is continuing it's mission of assimilating all the good ideas (with some bad ones mixed in, for spice) from every language and programming community possible.
Sorry, the Hindenberg disaster was not a "marketing blunder".
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I've been seriously considering getting this one for a while. My approach to tattoo's is to have at least a year between an idea's conception and it's execution to see if it still seems like a good idea. Three months in now :p
"Basically what we do in education is show them how to pass a test and then move on to the next chapter."
This is the teacher in question's problem. It's obvious that he didn't teach to the test. He stood up and said that the kids should actually learn something instead of just learning what's on the test.
Unfortunately, this is what our education system has turned into and good teachers, who actually want to teach children to think and to learn, never get the chance to stay. There is a reason why almost eighty percent of teachers quit the profession within five years.
I believe that's from the trailer for Dead or Alive.
If your flight is delayed, how are you going to get on the plane?
"Everyone else", like me, is not so lazy as to make it necessary for other people to support me (some people are, but not to the point I'd say everyone is). I'm just not perfectly hard-working -- sometimes I avoid work because I don't want to do it, even though I should. Everybody does. The problem becomes when you avoid work to the point where other people support you.
I don't expect sympathy for the problems I put on myself. I do deserve what I put myself through.
What did you expect I would say to that?
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He destroyed & defaced 'dozens of sport utility vehicles,' resulting in $5,000,000 worth in damages. That calls for hard time. He and his fellows painted the slogan of the notorious (and murderous) Earth Liberation Front on the vehicles they damaged.
Mr Law and Order, did you read beyond the first page?
,....
My local best buy doesn't have any muscle bound men or bald men. They are just regular employees that spend their time talking to people on their cell phones.
(with some bad ones mixed in, for spice)
While keeping its own flavour, I think. Even some of the 'bad ideas', like supporting a direct equivalent to the following Ruby code, still falls into what Schwern (in his 'Why I Am Not a Java Programmer', already submitted) refers to as %1 features -- features you use %1 of the time, and mostly shouldn't use at all, but which are -really- nice to have when they come up.
The Ruby:
class Array; def rand; self[super length]; end end
I forget the Perl6 -- I haven't dealt with it in a good number of months. But if I can get Haskell and then pugs on my new machine, I'll come back and share it.
Sorry, I don't see any beauty in this.
See, Perl is like a ball of snow. You can add all kinds of snow to it, and it still looks like a ball of snow.
Ah, I think that assertion might already be taken by another language, but I'm sure the difference comes to little. In programming, the familiar is beautiful.
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Then please tell the higher-ups in your party not to invite this woman to conventions any more.
Bad headline. This not the UK Government silencing the BBC. It is the chief lawyer stopping broadcast of information which may influence a potential prosecution. Far from being any kind of cover-up, this indicates that the UK police may well be close to an actual prosecution of corrupt politicians, and want that prosecution to go smoothly.
This kind of thing is important. There have been recent cases in the UK where media reports on a case have caused major problems.
Also, this is not just a Goverment issue. All political parties in the UK are being investigated.
Meanwhile, it's perfectly acceptable for physics teachers to tell their students how to make an A-bomb.
That's the war on drugs for you.
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Lack of libraries or syntax is not a big deal.
In my sitation lack of cheap hosting is a problem. I'm able to deploy my app on for example dreamhost, but only as a CGI or FastCGI scripts. It sucks. CGI/FastCGI sucks for RoR too.
Maybe when RoR & Morgueal becomes more and more popular, there will be cheap hostings capable to run image based languages (ruby, common lisp, java) behind reverse HTTP proxy.
For now, i'm playing with acceptable lisp called ruby ;-)
wasn't this on the frontage of digg a while ago?
Now compare your rephrase with mine of other things Stallman has said:
Because all Linus Torvalds contributed to a free Unix is a kernel, it should be called GNU/Linux at all times. Give GNU first billing, because it uses the GNU toolset.
Now let's imagine what would happen if someone with Stallman's attitude, but a Linux developer rather than a GNU developer, were to be the guy complaining about naming conventions for software -- looking at Stallman's insistence on ignoring any other software (including the Linux kernel) in making reference to the OS as "GNU".
edit: By the way, I'm not that Linux guy. I don't insist on something being called Linux/GNU. I tend to call Debian either "Debian" or "Debian GNU/Linux", depending on context, because those are the terms the Debian project guys use. Similarly, I call RHEL "RHEL" or "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" because that's what Red Hat calls it.
Considering a Linux-based OS can be easily run using almost nothing of GNU origin (by, for instance, replacing the coreutils with BSD utilities and similarly making a conscious decision to make life difficult for yourself), the insistence by Stallman that any system running a Linux kernel should be referred to GNU/Linux is kinda myopic. How does he know whether I've replaced all my GNU tools with BSD tools on, say, a Slackware system?
Vi springs to mind. Anyone cares to try and share the result? (I'd like to myself, but with my terrible accents that's out of the question.)
Isn't everything that society does a type of pyramid scheme? People built the schools that I attended as a child, and I in turn help educate the children today. Yesterday society helped my grandparents when they got too old to do everything for themselves, someday I hope that society does the same for me. The bottom line is that many times we all can not do for ourselves and need the help of other members of society. Humans help each other. That is how we rose to the alpha species position. If we had not learned this trait the lions and bears would dominate today. In the first world we have the technology and wealth to heal and aleviate suffering and our societies are uncomfortable with the idea of people left with no medical treatment. Medical treatment is going to be given, it is just a matter of how we are going to pay for it. Social medicine seems like it could be the most efficient way for that to be done.
C'mon, I thought it was funny...
Tobacco is still something people can choose to use or not. The same should be true for Cannabis.
Let's just take a look at the study you cite. So cannabis use doubles the probability that someone will develop a mental illness. What is the base rate for mental illness. 1 in 1000 people? So cannabis consumption raises that to 2 in 1000 people? It would be interesting to see the actual study.
False dichotomy? I don't know. I have not studied philosophy/law/ethics/etc and the wikipedia explanation doesn't quite fit my statement.
I think it is quite valid to compare a dangerous yet legal drug to a not-as-dangerous-and-maybe-even-beneficial yet illegal drug. Especially with respect to society's acceptance of the negative effects of both drugs.
Oh, I am sooo there! This is a really cool clip. :)
He's a head honcho at Google Australia
Seriously, do you claim there are Bush supporters who also support Iran's Holocaust conference? I think these groups are mutually exclusive, pretty much.
No doubt, but that isn't any kind of evidence that Bush-haters tend to support the Holocaust conference. In particular, I've seen no support of it here on Reddit from the liberal left, and you do yourself a disservice by suggesting otherwise.
fwiw I think comparing Bush to Hitler is almost exactly as fatuous as comparing Ahmadinedjad to Hitler, and I think Vonnegut is disingenuous as well as acute and hysterically funny.
support Iran in the name of opposing America.
Depends what you mean by 'support'. 'Say positive things about Iran', or 'say critical things about America in the context of Iran', yes, but many of those things are objectively true.
'Get seduced into waving the Iranian flag' on the other hand - I guess you often get a fringe of anti-war activists who go that far, but they're never more than a fringe.
Because people were blown up last time...
Edit: Nevermind, I get the reference now.
To me it looked more like he was talking partly to the camera.
Over all, a unique and downright hilarious clip of how a man got into a fight with his computer. My favorite part was when his "print" was recognized as "Print". He paused, and said in a softer tone "print". (And it worked.)
Plan9 and Inferno users do actually exist, in case anyone was wondering, not many but > 0.
We had 30ish people travel to Madrid for the IWP : http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/iwp9/index.html.
Plan9 and Inferno are used commercially in some embedded systems.
9p/Styx is a simple, subtle and powerful protocol. 9p libraries are sneaking in to Lunix with the wmii window manager packages.
You'll be using our features eventually. Vista and Office are losing the menu interface and moving to the "command area". Ours are typable text for maximum flexibility not pretty pictures.
"While some expected Homeland Security to require the licenses to have smart cards or RFID chips, DHS instead proposes a 2D bar code (magnetic stripe) similiar to those used on many licenses. That information will not be encrypted."
These will be RFID'd but are not yet. However, they're unencrypted. Someone needs to explain that. A citizen being required to carry around all this unencrypted information... hell in the short term I would worry about losing that piece of plastic!
Our biggest concerns are encryption, and the possible inclusion of biometric information (fingerprint, iris) and possible use of RFIDs (which are already placed in new Passport-passports). Imagine this lack of even an attempt at encryption, inclusion of biometrics and RFIDs which trust information from any transponder and respond with (admittedly encrypted) this information... all at once! ..ugh!
Ann Coulter has accused John Edwards, Bill Clinton, Hilary Clinton and Al Gore of homosexual tendencies.
I guess to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Absolutely agree. This is an inaccurate, sensationalist headline. It is completely right for Goldsmith, independently of the government and at the advice of the police, to seek an injunction in this matter. This is nothing like the government silencing journalists - more like the police ensuring that over-eager journalists don't prejudice a potential case against the government and ultimately destroy it. So, kind of the exact opposite of the headline.
If I have ever been seduced to believe that maybe communism isn't that bad after all, it's through these pictures. I love it how they treat that pig so humanly; it's funny and beautiful at the same time.
If we ignore her do you think that she will go away?
We only hear one side of the story, so it is difficult to tell why he was actually fired. The reddit headline is completely arbitrary.
Since whaling will be a "make work" project for hunters in Iceland, almost entirely dependent on gov't money, why bother? It is not economically viable. Even Japan can't entice it's citizen's enough to consume even the whales they hunt for "scientific" purposes.
Francis, absolutely nothing. The vote is meaningless.
ASIMO falls down stairs.
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trying to distance himself. i hope we gets impeached and sent to jail and is repeatedly gangbanged.
Europe isn't about to "die." Eastern Asia, ie; China and Indonesia, are not about to wage a vengeful war against The West. Even if their economies were not wholly reliant upon Western consumerism, how could they possibly benefit by destroying potential consumer societies with whom they stand to make a great deal of economic profit through mutual trade?
The way of the future is not an "either/or" option in which one geographic class of humanity triumphs over another in a zero-sum game. Far from it. The reality is that as communications continue to become increasingly rapid, the global economy will continue to erase the differences between individual players such that eventually, a free market of ideas, a moving and changing thing, becomes the medium through which the bulk of the world's financial information moves.
At that point, nationality becomes secondary. No one cares that you are Chinese, what they care about is that you are competent with regard to communicating with your international peers. You either get it, or you don't.
I would eventually like to get into the idea of positing a sphere of civilization that exists globally, throughout all countries, and that the members of which understand, but I will save that for a later post.
this is dangerous. just report the news as they are. don't censor. don't deem what is important to me. i'll read it if i want to.
Sorry, I didn't mean to offend; I thought you were referring to "other people" as thinking this. I don't disagree that there are tons of security vulnerabilities in PHP, but the fact remains that this vulnerability wasn't down to the language used, it was down to the distribution being maliciously altered.
not really. hacker = infiltrator. cracker = code/password/protection breaker.
The great thing about religious zealots is that they can lie and insult with such fervor!
The great thing about atheists is they can lie and insult with such fervor!
What a silly thing to say, you've basically just described a human trait, you comment should read "The great thing about people/humans is ...."
This guy tells it like Anne would.
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Nah. Hacker = programmer of greatness, generally playful, RMS-like.
reddit is not in the top of general popularity list. compared to digg numbers it is nothing.
Come on, that was kind of funny
Except that Ann Coulter didn't say she hates blacks. Order of magnitude and all that. I'm just sayin'.
People didn't know that Gore is a 'total fag'? Call the National Guard!
Uh... What's the point?
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Yes, we certainly aren't poor. But, Hitler used fear of Jews. Bush is using fear of foreigners. Ostensibly these feared foreigners are named "Al Qaeda," but with Passport restrictions rising, Mexican wall debates, etc, it's a fear of anyone not American that he's cultivating to abuse the country's capabilities.
the interior marvells of the great and tall hyatt building in shanghai
Downvote for use of "OMG"
I am convinced that bush and all of his co-conspirators live in opposite world. There cannot be any other explanation.
Seconded. I'd characterize it as "nice, if you use Perl 6". The argument list features are catching up with other languages, not breaking new ground or exhibiting any particular beauty.
No, I think he means they are walking up and down the street holding bundles of wooden rods with an axe head in the center.
utf-8, /proc and unionfs are from Plan9, too.
A short video excerpt from Kurt Vonnegut's "last paid speech" at Ohio State University.
I think 3/4'th of the US population just want this presidency to be over with.
You are probably pretty close. According to a Nesweek poll taken a little over a month ago:
...more than half the country (58 percent) say they wish the Bush presidency were simply over, a sentiment that is almost unanimous among Democrats (86 percent), and is shared by a clear majority (59 percent) of independents and even one in five (21 percent) Republicans.
The numbers are probably even higher now.
I have no source for the assertion in the first sentence. I guess that means it's not true
Eh?
So where are the hordes complaining about linkjacking?
Close the bubble, and look about "50 m" (according to the map scale) toward the north ; I see a similar shape, with a shadowy duplicate contrail running parallel to the main image.
I wonder what the original imaging spectral response is and what post-processing that is done for the image here. I don't know why the shadow image doesn't more obviously look like a shadow. I also don't know whether the relative shading of the plane wings and horizontal stabilizer are true to a usual visual impression. Zooming out, it looks like there is some moderate cloud cover which the plane might be above, which might affect the lighting and shadow formation.
The original link was broken for some hours, so boredzo provided a link to an archived version.
Google funding Plan9 would be too good to be true.
I didn't expect the rhetorical waffling about "perfectly hard-working". If we ignore that BS, what you're saying is you're not lazy, but those other bastards are. Ok.
Or at least, didn't 2 years ago...
Right there is when I quit reading. If the author can try to make 68 degrees sound inhumane, then what credence can I give to all the other alleged mistreatments? None.
I'm in complete agreement with you, trust me. The youth from Ungdomshuset have acted in a completely unacceptable manner. I just wanted to add some background information not in the article. This situation has been frought with stupid immaturity on all three sides (15 year old anarchists, cult, and Copenhagen city government) from the beginning. The city government recently came around and started working for practical solutions, but the other two parties have remained ridiculous. I figured people might find the info interesting.
That would take an increase in energy, but in case you didn't notice, this story is about how our supply of energy is going to start declining instead of increasing.
How about give the kids an oral exam? Ask them if the teachers has excited their interest in the subject matter (In this case they seem to be vouching for him).
I agree, though the picture of the world trade center is cool.
I don't think the fact that they're provoking and tormenting a man with autism, who are known to be relatively emotionally unpredictable, and who is probably smart enough in physics to design a nuclear bomb (most of the hardwork is already done like critical masses). So I really don't see how pissing him off as much as humanly possible is a wise idea when he has to be released because he wasn't arrested under terrorism legislation.
These pictures were taken in 2005.
http://www.1moon.ru/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_on_the_Moon
That site's design looks downright Soviet, from the lettering to the likeness at the top-left who looks like he was lifted from a propaganda poster.
Consumers of the world, unite!
Thanks for the link. Now I know what a crashing ruby webapp looks like :-)
No, they just figure that if they let the big corporations do whatever the hell they want, the stock market will rise and we'll all become rich and that will solve all our problems. The extent of their public policy and economic education comes from listenting to Rush Limbaugh.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0459929/
Reports have indicated that US agents confused Masri with a terror suspect with a similar name who was linked to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Tuttle... Buttle...
What is it going to take before these people working for our "national security" wake up and realize they've brought Brazil to life.
Wrongo. Modulus has it right.
What. A. Bitch.
Too bad all invasions don't end this way.
That's a really cool tattoo, but I downmodded the link for being exactly the frivolous pollutant that I hate in social news.
When I look at old code many times it looks like really crappy, but there are even times when there is something of fresh in it, in the raw way I used to solve some kind of problems. I'm much more happy with my style today of course but still I think that like writers programmers can have different stages and you can find some interesting code in each.
The code I really hate is instead the one written without a real clue by programmers that without a deep understanding of what is going on write stuff that more or less work. Complex conditionals not useful at all, absurd indentation, very bad names for functions and variabiles (I expecially hate non descriptive function names and very long local variable names). Worse then that, the same code repeated multiple times in different places. This kind of code is really bad because the programmer writing it does not need to wait some year to understand there is something of really wrong, but a few seconds of thinking.
5 stages of realizing you've lost billions of dollars: #1 - Denial
Too much hubris gives it away, but the whole thing is surprisingly believable.
I'm using more than one (including Perl) programming language. Maybe nothing is familiar to me.
Poor companies.
Poor, poor companies.
No more cashing in on America's concern for the troops we've sent in harm's way.
It's so unfair!
Sooo, soooo terribly unfair!
breaks down and sobs<
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Sky remove their channels from Virgin Media TV. Subscribers moan, Virgin act childishly, Murdoch rubs his hands.
I don't know if there is a fix for this writing music, but with code I find very useful to try to describe it verbally in the main functionality: if it starts to get harder it's an hint that something is wrong in the design.
The Amish
You wouldn't happen to be Baldrson on k5, would you?
Take it easy on the guy. I thought it was a missile at first glance too. Yes, on closer consideration we realize that it is indeed a nice pic of a MD-90 (nice work lorena) but at first glance....
Anyway, nice find.
7) Calvin Klein's Amateur Porno Jean Commercial
I watched the video and seriously... what the hell?!
If she wasn't in the media all the time, it would be as if she didn't exist.
Indeed. I'd like to be able to defend the guy, but the truth is that we have no idea what's going on behind the scenes. The fact that the students like him does not necessarily mean he was a good teacher.
Anyone who is running a web server is geeky enough to notice the (127.0.0.1) after the link before even clicking.
Those who don't notice won't get the joke anyway.
The ability to remain relatively anonymous is a cornerstone to American
freedom. Think about it. Nobody knows what you buy when you go to a liquor
store, or a tobacco store. Or the supermarket.
I don't know where you're shopping, but in my world, an ID is already required with most purchases. And between my debit card, checking account, and having to show an ID with every non-cash purchase, I'm pretty sure about 99% of what I buy is well-known by whoever wants to find out about them. Unless you're paying with cash for everything, your purchases aren't a secret.
Would Google really photoshop it into their own maps?
(defun main ()
(init-gui)
(let ((window (make-window))
(button (make-button)))
(setf (container-border-width window) 10
(container-child window) button)
(setf (button-label button) "Hello World")
(on-clicked button (lambda () (write-line "Hello World")))
(on-destroy window #'main-quit)
(widget-show-all window)
(main-gui)))
It may be the case that you have a distorted view of what typical Common Lisp code looks like, so I suggest you check out some of the libraries or applications. (By the way, that doesn't look like a very good interface.)
Yay! The first CEO President!
As far as I'm aware these are all still open issues.
Yes, well, as I am aware that it was staged (and could conclude that it was staged propaganda in some way even if it really hade been from that time) it really doesn't change what I said.
My point is in the way the pictures portray the communist ideal: everyone are to be treated with dignity like an equal, even down to a pig. And I must say, in reality too, all the mass-murders and concentration camps aside -- or maybe considering that -- I've always been a bit amazed by the precautions the Soviets took with the whole space business, compared to the Americans. Or so I've heard.
Umm, the scheme for a national ID scheme in the UK is running into the tens of billions, they're recalling police from the street to try and get the sham of a system even developed, and it still hasn't been accepted by the public. It's one of those situations where if the public don't participate the government have no say, there's simply way too many people who don't like this scheme for them to send them to jail for it.
With the more people you have in a country the logistics grow exponentially, so what would cost the UK 10 billion would likely cost the US somewhere near 70 billion to get working.
Thankfully my passport is valid for another 7 years and I'm moving to Canada next summer, so I'm not going to pay the bastards a penny or give over any of my details.
I'm also against the system, but the system is so flawed it will fail. The costs run so large that the government can't afford police officers to do anything about any crimes they uncover with it. I haven't seen a British police officer in years (excluding in their cars) and crime rates have been rising since that time. I remember walking down my street (and this is in a small village) and seeing a pair of them patroling, usually around the time kids were going to school to make sure they were safe. Who's making sure those kids are safe now? A piece of useless paper that no one even has yet.
From a recent poll over 3% of people in the UK were willing to go to jail for refusing to get one. That's a complete collapse of the UK prison system, which is already trying to ship prisoners out as fast as humanly possible. 50% are against it and only 11% trust the government with the information.
Didn't the guy change two files to include remote code? How about PHP changed this behavior by default? This is already possible in the PHP.ini file...
Surely I am not the only one who thought it was funny? I thought reddit laughed a stuff like that? Or are we not allowed to laugh at that here because of the person saying it?
Site down: BusyException
How Ironic, given the subject matter
Right. So because there's no complaints against him, that's sufficient reason to accept that he probably deserves to get fired. Wait a minute, this reasoning process seems strikingly familiar. I get it now, it's the reasoning process of religious fanatics!
Um...Not sure I see the correlation, but pretty much everything winds up exceeding its estimated budget, especially where the government is concerned. Remember when the war we started in Iraq was supposed to cost around $50 to $60 billion (and Lawrence Lindsey got canned for even suggesting that it could be more like $100-200 billion?) Now we're looking at $1 trillion and up. And no, for the record, I'm not "just fine" with that.
Ultimately, though...I'm not even disucssing the costs of an ID program. Some people just seem opposed to it in principle, and even after reading some responses here, I can't figure out why, since most of the things they're worried about ("they'll" know what we purchase) have already happened, with or without the ID.
When you lie down with snakes, you get bitten.
Here's the fix: demand that politicians remove their dirty hands from education.
Now let the egalitarian hand-wringing begin!
SQLite3::BusyException: database is locked:
upmod for successful satire.
Wrong about what, exactly? I don't agree with them that those are the "proportions of beauty" but the image very clearly states that's what they say it is.
Oh yeah, I forgot about all that.
Penguin Cheney: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ehCwns7mGc&eurl
not really, they're still and have always been the first say on what's news and what's not. And I'm sure they're always weighing what's important for the day. Its not censoring they're just doing their job. They probably thought it was funny to mention it in the press to show her how silly she is.
Where do you live that a police officer CAN'T ask you for ID?
The syntax looks hideous...
Funny, I feel the same thing when reading non-Lisp code. (You actually think about typing? I tend to think about reading.)
It's completely different. This is a low level (systems) language. No REPL, but invoke commands (procedures) by clicking them.
You're definitely right.
It's sad, though, I thought we were launching a first strike on Utah..
how can i post a video from youtube.com
That's what I was thinking. In my airport when the plane is delayed I play arcade games, as of my flight three weeks ago I held the top 5 of the top 10 places on crazy taxi.
I also discovered this wonderful thing for on planes, it's called a book. It's like a non-computer version of the internet just, you know, with proper spellings and a point. Not to mention that most flights I'm on are with KLM and have their inbuilt entertainment system, so I end up watching a couple of movies and TV shows on my own mini screen. Incidentally the system is run using Linux, which I found out when it crashed and they had to reboot the system... gotta love that penguin.
HAHAHAHA... that article is HILARIOUS!
So, here's the structure:
Quote easily available statistics, stretch them out with some truthiness, then add what seems to be scientific observations (though misguided) in order to give the appearance of neutrality.
Then repeatedly QUOTE YOURSELF (a George Barna is repeatedly quoted - the website is "The Barna Group") as you interpret the data by making unfounded claims regarding education level, socioeconomic activities, and psychological status.
Then advocate that churches get even more churchy because they can't save the unchurched anyway (might as well retain the brainwashed ones you have).
What a whack job. I love it.
When is someone out there going to just say that church attendance is declining in all youth demographics because we're too smart for our own good. There's just too much information available at the touch of a button, and religion withers in the light of reason.
I don't think, in 2000, that anyone had heard of Darfur yet.
I don't think the fact that they're provoking and tormenting a man with autism, who are known to be relatively emotionally unpredictable, and who is probably smart enough in physics to design a nuclear bomb ...
Do you want to finish that sentance?
A lot of the opposition seems to come from the left.
And from exceedingly paranoid types on the right who think there are microphones in their coffee cups. :-)
I thought it was because she has an adam's apple...
Trop fort le mec!
Who here said he deserved to get fired? They said we only have heard one side of the story so it's hard to know what the reason was.
LOL
Are you stupid? Whereverjustice effectively said the guy is
guilty until proven innocent. And that "we just don't know" means he must be guilty. Meaning, he probably almost certainly deserves to be fired. Not only on no evidence whatsoever but because of a lack of evidence!
So it appears the author of killnine and I were seperated at birth (except he got the vi gene and I got the emacs gene).
This is more than compensated by the increased insurance costs on that class of car leading to fewer people driving it.
read it, if you like it, sign it. Tell the people in the European Parliament what you think.
And this is the real problem. Well done, ayrnieu. It's very similar to John Kerry's (completely valid) argument against Sam Fox, who claims to be "publicly" against the 527 smear groups, but gave $50,000 to the Swift Boat Vets nonetheless even after prominent members of his own party denounced them as liars. If you're against something, don't give it money.
Also (sadly) similar to complaints about people like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson representing Christians even though so many of us can't stand them or their point of view. It's not enough to dislike them, we need to actively speak out against them. (We're trying.) Until we succeed in making them not be the loudest voice, though, they do speak for Christians whether we want them to or not.
If Republicans dislike Ann Coulter, they need to stop letting her speak for them. Because right now, she does so with very little opposition.
People make comments on her gender because she has an Adam's apple, manly hands, and manly facial features. People call her a she-male because of her insulting remarks to just about everyone. The fact that she is a woman with intellectual opinions has nothing to do with it. In fact, to call her an intellectual is an insult to intellectualism.
I would also like to add "uninformed delusional raving bitch with delusions of grandeur" to joseppi's description. She deserves every insult that she gets because of her disrespectful attitude toward everyone who disagrees with her point of view. If she were an Internet personality she would always be down-modded as a troll.
The point is you acknowledge aesthetic value when you recognize it.
The ELF existed. Lots of organizations don't have websites, that doesn't mean they don't exist. And I'll take wikipedia over some dumb newspaper any day. Only half of wikipedia is shite.
You sound like a communist. Only communists believe in universal human rights.
Downmodded because:
1- They are talking about how to compare both articles, how they are related and if they are some kind of MS manipulation... and not the content.
2- Cluelessness (first post to talk about the articles):
Score: 4 (Informative) says:
Under Windows bugs plagued/plague/will plague async I/O and programmers have no choice other then to use threads for sockets and file I/O.
Sorry, stopped reading there.
Yeah, I was trying to make a pithy comment about this article being 2 years old. Probably not pithy enough ;)
The KGB dont shoot people in the midsection. They shoot people in the head!
Shopped! Just kidding. I agree with you entirely.
Is there a prize you win if you identify the most pics, films, and articles as fake?
After all the screaming liberal rants and awful names President Bush and members of his administration have been called and the continuous questioning of their motives, now Ann Coulter is a problem? Get a perspective.
There's rehab for assholes?
This is an imagined lisp/gtk binding api?
What's to explain? ;)
Depends on wich nerd circles, in the breaking security world, emopimpleface has it right. in the Linux programmer world it's joshd's version that's the dominant. And of course it's the topic of many flame wars, since no one seems to be able to understand that a word can mean different things in different contexts.
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Maybe [s]he's part of a plan to show (in the end) how supposedly tolerant people are intolerant toward minorities... or something like that.
Good ruling. There are things about the CIA which shouldn't be made public.
Thomas L. Friedman is not so much a futurist, which he is sometimes called, as a presentist. His aim in The World Is Flat, as in his earlier, influential Lexus and the Olive Tree, is not to give you a speculative preview of the wonders that are sure to come in your lifetime, but rather to get you caught up on the wonders that are already here.
Yes. This is a "transliteration" of jmillikin's example, to demonstrate that you can use the same style in Common Lisp.
Cool site!
BTW, if you don't select any stories you get an error. And hunchentoot-0.6.2 is out.
Happy lisping!
The genre should be far less gangsta and far more hip-hop.
Somebody needs to read the constitution so see the definition of an Impeachable Offense.
In my sitation lack of cheap hosting is a problem.
This is an interesting problem. Have you looked at dedicated hosting? common-lisp.net seems to pay about 100USD/month for everything, which is on the high end -- I found serverpronto after some searching, which seems OK if a bit oddly fee'd. jsnell says that he's had a server from hetzner for 1.5 years with no complaints.
Dedicated or colocated hosting gives you more freedom, spares you from the host changing software underneath your application (a reported-to-reddit problem for a failed PHP webmail app), and seems to be getting pretty reasonable in price -- and is more easily scaled: when your 25USD/mon host with limited RAM gets tight, it's easier for you to pick up your own software and files and dump them on a new host.
Very cool, and and are so fundamental tags that will unlikely change in short time. And anyway who cares? It will be clear what it means for ages, like "Load "*",8.1" (I remember this even if I had a ZX spectrum!).
Oh no, now all my morals are going to disappear because I don't have a constant reminder of god on my money.
Judging by how my generation reacts to things like this, I doubt my children or grand children are even going to care. Maybe by then maybe we'll have moved over to purely plastic for everything. Well... that's if the militant atheists don't destroy our souls before we get the chance.
Pigs and monkeys and whatnot are used to test aircraft and spacecraft because they are cheaper to replace than trained pilots and astronauts. It doesn't matter how nicely they treat the animal, the animal is being sent because it is too dangerous for a human to test initial hardware. This is the exact opposite of equal treatment.
I see this
http://jtra.cz/tmp/arguing-on-internet.jpg
Coulter is a 'Christian,' nominally... doesn't she know not to call people names out of hate?
Well I guess by their fruit you shall know them; thus she gives up claim to a moral high-ground to which she thinks labels entitle her.
The subject? I thought it was the fact that 13% of Americans have never heard of global warming. (Hence the post title.)
And yes, I find it shocking, nay, apalling, that one in eight North Americans think global warming is a natural phenomenon.
And you feel that you can draw conclusions based on the positions of fewer than a thousand scientists you found "on Wikipedia"? That's called clouding the issue.
If that MIT scientist believes that global warming is a natural phenomenon there's probably a reason for that.
I find it interesting that it is "clouding the issue" for me to base my opinion on the work of thousands of scientists, but it is perfectly logical for you to base your opinion on the work of one.
Support the artists, but boycott the RIAA
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/putting-our-money-where-our-mouths-are-boycott-the-riaa-in-march-239281.php
I think you should have linked to the "start" page.
Mod down for misleading reddit title.
I think the idea was to get the pig to leave the earth's atmosphere and then cook nicely on re-entry in time for the barbeque...
Gotcha, thanks.
Link from WWW.W3C.ORG
Nice design!
Did your job go to India? Thanks a teacher's union.
It's Watergate again! Odd how a whole generation of Democrats see everything as one of Vietnam, Watergate or the Nixon administration.
Just because we haven't seen the evidence doesn't mean there is none. Keeping an opened mind goes both ways.
What are you babbling about? I know Americablog isn't a right wing blog.
Also, this topic was submitted about 10 times from 10 sources. Deal with it.
Welcome. I'm Lando Calrissian. I'm the administrator of this facility. and who might you be?
Now, this is just mean.
The statistical problems found are all related to the highly nonspecific -- it even has to be enabled, because it's a .XLA plugin -- multiple regression package -- and, hell, if you have to do multiple regression, do use R.
OTOH, the jab at graphics quality was just cheap and fanboyish. Getting charts to look good in R is enough trouble that I often do all analysis in R (it's somewhat involved econometric analysis that would really not fit Excel) and export data to chart in Excel.
Huh? Are we looking at the same pictures? I see only one (intact) Audi. The other cars I recognize are from VW, Mazda, and Mercedes.
SharePoint blog
are very common place in Germany
This is not in Germany. It's in Luxembourg.
I would be outraged but this is so typical as to be practically expected.
I guess the deciders have won.
For anyone that receives Christ, daily ongoing interaction eclipses the issues of theory, fact, proof, or faith. It would be folly to try to deny the existence of someone you share life with.
Sharing life with the Creator is more profound than anything ever dreamed up by atheists. He's not only creator, but also the Chief Scientist and Chief Programmer. The coded construction of this beta creation is awesome(!) and easily evident, from DNA to high energy physics, to astronomy.
When are you going to wake up and admit that you are spiritually blind and refuse to see the truth because you willingly turn away from God?
That'll do, pig.
That'll do.
Mmmmmm, bacon.
Great, but just when are they going to find the time? Maybe if they droped some failing programs (like Social "in"Security) they could actually get something done.
scary
Jebus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_%28elephant%29
Bush and his cronies basically setup a scare all tactic called terrorism, and as this man is labeled as such by morons who failed to use their brain and determine that this autistic man couldn't figure out or understand the social impact of his crime. For all they know, he could change interests from math to say biochemistry and invent the cure to cancer, but in our society, our judicial system is blind. Our system is like a semi-truck with a driver who is sight-deprived and suddenly hits a crowd of people. The impact of our justice system is the same, that it moves slow and when it runs over you it smashes what it touches into a million little pieces or flattens it like aluminum foil. The point is, everybody is failing to see potential that could be insurmountable. But hey, who cares about people right ? Bush obviously don't, so why should the justice system either eh ?
In all honesty, someone needs to appeal to the entertainment industry, get someone to donate a crap load of money and donate it to the funds of our lovely lobby`ests in the good ole state of California and pressure the justice department to take a new look at this case. How do you think things get done in this country eh ?
Anyways, I'm not a religious person, but i feel sympathy for the guy, just look at the character hands from Boston Legal.
Yeah, let's keep them blackies and women down. Keep em poor and that way we white men can have all the power like our fragile little egos need to feel secure.
Everyone knows gay men only belong hidden in positions of power... like that Congressman Mark Foley, and Karl Rove's buddy Jeff Gannon the male prostitute who got press credentials from the White House to attend press conferences... or that upstanding Reverand Ted Haggard. Not to mention Ann Coulter, the chick with a dick who speaks with the viciousness of testosterone.
Hey, we could keep our women submissive by beating them with sticks if we think they're getting too uppity in public places! Wait, that is the Taliban. Oh well, if it works...
Entertaining.
it's owesome
reddit is leading me to wonder if there have ever been any "pics" that weren't [Amazing].
After all the screaming liberal rants and awful names President Bush and members of his administration have been called and the continuous questioning of their motives, now Ann Coulter is a problem? Get a perspective.
Naturally I wasn't suggesting anything else. What I meant is that although it is a pig, an animal we normally slaughter and eat (and I bet the Soviets did too), it is still treated with "dignity". It's an ideal, and of course I see your point with the contradicting message. But who said communism ever made much sense?
amazing
Republican. That's why.
Yeah, sure.
http://www.space.com/news/mystery_monday_040329.html
Uuuuh, Audi RS6, that one with more than 450 HP...
Actually, for a range of interesting prime sieves, see the primes benchmark, including one cute one by Oleg Kiselyov.
The consumer protection agency is responsible for taking choice away from consumers. I would rather see it do less.
he climbs building like spiderman without any ropes. this time its in abudhabi
In terms of fiscal policy, Bill Clinton was one of the greatest conservative presidents ever.
You mean that's not real?!
There is quite a tinge of fascism in the many politically correct speech codes, hate laws and other similar rules. The way it's supposed to work is you have freedom of speech, others hear and judge you by your speech and through the market place of ideas the best ideas move forward. Placing limits on what now appears to unreasonable speech starts us down the slippery slope.
Uh, why does the government not round them up and expel them? Well, regardless of your political views, the main reason is the sheer impossibility of doing such a thing.
The other reasons are things such as "we like to buy and eat strawberries" and "we like someone to change the sheets in our hotel beds after we sleep in them."
But no, this woman apparently thinks it's because the President hasn't thought of the idea, or because no one realizes what the word "illegal" means.
Some of WarOFF's are merely Fabulous.
I've never wanted to apply physics more...
This doesn't matter. The Hilliary express will roll through all the Democrat primaries. There isn't one state Obama can win. And, the official views of a candidates faith are factors in how the candidate should be evaluated. If he were a crazy Mormon it would be OK to evaluate him in some degree by his religion.
Not in the slightest.
The entire article is bullshit. I quit reading about half way when the author tried to make a 68 degree cell sound inhumane.
I'm an environmentalist and the Hummer mentality pisses me off but burning them is counter-productive and hurts the environmental movement. But if that is what he believes, I could respect his activism, his willingness to commit his life. Instead, he burns them, claims he was forced into it and whines about the justice system. I give no more respect to his claim of his actions being due to autistic intelligence than I would to a Klucker claiming an allergic reaction to the color black caused his racist hate crimes. It's a cop out.
Stand up, be counted, count for something. But if you can't do the time....
I think that wouldn't work because humans would eventually gravitate towards tyranny due to the evil we are capable of.
So governments don't work due to this tyranny but they would work better than not having a government at all? Just checking to make sure I understand what you're saying.
Darn, and I thought it was going to be an article about gecko gloves :-(
People trying to quit report irritability, sleeplessness, and anxiety32. They also display increased aggression on psychological tests, peaking approximately one week after the last use of the drug33
Add chronic headaches to that and you have caffeine withdrawal symptoms. I should know. I cut out coffee from my diet for about a month every year or so.
Nice people. Lots to talk about. Thumbs ^ Up
I always thought this would be true. He is a very powerful man who has been in and out of political circles for years. Having a position like this has one advantage. He doesn't have to explain himself or be questioned anymore to the media.
So, we are all counting on the new congress and senate to do the right thing. Problem solved?
Murderous? Wikipedia claims that no one has been killed (or apparently injured) by an ELF attack. Gov't officials offer explanations along the lines of, "I think we're lucky."
Do you have a source which contradicts this? (And I am inclined to agree that there's always a significant element of chance involved.)
I wouldn't be surprised if such groups were a little off the deep end, but the US is going around the world increasing threats of terrorism, not to mention causing it too. The ELF is nothing in comparison, as far as I can see.
He deserves the sentence. However, he does not deserve the treatment. "Physics Genius Suffers Through Sentence in Unjust Prison" would have been a better title.
You make a good point here. The fault of Ann Coulter's fame lies not only with her but also with the people who give her a forum for her hate-filled rantings.
Blaming a union for poor schools is like blaming an avocado for global warming.
For better or worse, Capitalism is driven by our own desires: make things other people want to get the things that you want.
It is unfortunate that it will not produce things that are valuable but unpopular, and that is where philanthropy and government come into play.
Of course, government also comes into play in designing things like this prison system.
I don't think that's a list of blocked sites -- it's a list of sites that have been queried a lot on greatfirewallofchina.com. If you hover over the names, and have all the relevant dynamic stuff enabled, you should see tested vs. "blocked" result statistics. I don't think those are actually blocked, unless they're blocked every time you check: they're just timing out.
Nice pig, Doc.
makes you smile....they are really cute!!
thanks
Wow, I had no idea they put hallucinogenic drugs in Snickers.
Oh, and I forgot these.
delta CRJ commuter jet
The author of the article attempted to interview both the teacher and the school board. The teacher only made vague comments while the school board refused to comment. Don't blame the article or the headline: the situation itself is not presenting facts for both sides.
Stop using my name in vain!
Nifty, compared to what?
Arguments now can have declared types?
Named arguments?
Optional arguments?
You can curry functions?
Forgive me for having forgotten how brain-damaged Perl 5 might be, but exactly how amazed am I supposed to be?
The only thing missing is someone saying "main screen turn on - someone set us up the bomb"
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seems it hurts some peoples feelings ...
You think?
You must live in a state where avocados don't hand out truck loads on money to close charter schools, stop innovation, prevent accountability, demonize parents, and work to move preschool into the public school system. You must live in a state where something more than publically financed babysitting is provided for above average kids.
Lucky you.
I should remind you, and trigger happy redditers, of the original comment:
Any one who believes in a Christian God, or any other God, is mentally insane.
That Einstein did not believe in a personal God does not exclude him from Echo's charge of insanity.
That Leibniz failed in proving the existence in God is irrelevant to the issue. It doesn't show that he didn't believe in God, and it doesn't show he was insane.
Even the slightest sense of humility would prevent one from declaring the majority of pre-twentieth century scientists, and 7% of current day professional scientists, insane.
Seems rather self explanitory.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I wanted to say. I don't think we've heard any side of the story yet. The only clue we have is that the students were going to bat for him. That would indicate that at the students at least liked what he was doing and there wasn't really a problem until other teacher's came in to observe his class. I'm favoring the teacher right now, but I would love to know how he taught and whether he was too headstrong. That wouldn't be a good excuse to fire him either, but I get the feeling he might have rubbed somebody the wrong way.
But still, a little more to the story would be nice...
I am sorry, but your response breaches section (1) of the EULA. You aren't answering the question, and are instead switching to a tangent ("the argument is weak").
Please follow up this post with an apology, and a response to the original post, otherwise you will be one step on towards the compulsory response: "I admit that I am not very good at arguing, I use cheap rhetorical tactics because I am not subtle enough to even understand what you are arguing with me about, let alone come up with a coherent defense."
Oh god, the mormons have WMD.
Vista support finally!
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These are real boobs. Children are what they're for.
Human life can be, and often is, invested into property. Suppose I spend a net 10 years making or gaining some piece of property. Now someone comes along and destroys it. Depending on the nature of that property, this could translate into 10 lost years. Human life is finite, so the often-heard argument that any lost or destroyed property can "just" be regained is a fallacy: it downplays the expenditure of a non-renewable resource, namely time.
(That was a comment on your argument, not an opinion on the article's subject.)
If you hate polls on reddit, please simply ignore this post (is that so hard)?
Please answer the following: If the presidential election were held today, for which candidate would you vote? (please vote on only one):
Sounds like a scare story to me, the lone comment about the reality is far more thoughtful.
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Hoo haa, another "we so nerdy" comic.
Barack Obama
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The thing is, I am not arguing for or against socialized health care; I'm just pointing out that we would need to gather more information to determine which is better! There's really no way around this - if you are saying that socialized health care is 'better' without actually gathering the information to prove this is actually the case, then you are espousing an opinion which may not be supported by reality.
Health care is a serious topic. The cost of having one system vs. another may be that more people die or suffer, and receive lower quality of care than with some other system. So you can understand why someone would be very concerned about gathering the information which would lead to making the best possible decision about how to provide/pay for health care. Basing decisions on the kind of intuitive arguments that you've presented so far is I think irresponsible and fails to respect the seriousness of the social policy matter which is being considered.
I'm not saying you are a bad person or anything! I'm just saying that you, me, and everyone else has a responsibility to know as much as possible the effectiveness of policies we're in favor of, and to know how this effectiveness compares to alternatives to the policy we're in favor of. And I think you don't actually know these things yet. (Incidentally, I don't either. But I know enough to know I don't know.)
More credible article at Army Times.
I'm skeptical of any site touting itself as "Marxist thought online."
Read how the news surveyed the web for these results without asking a single person...
It seems to me that such a tactic would have been in place and that the technology of counter battery fire (a much written about ability enhanced by computers)from the start.
The American people have been lead down a path of being gulled in the interest of tech dependent warriors that prefer to stand off to kill and destroy. Battle and dominance leading to holding and reforming the greater population of a hostile population is a human function.
The outcome of this aggressive war being waged by a rapacious political class with material and monetary ends merely reflects the long held colonial aspirations of an Anglo-centric, energy dependent ruling class in the West. They have as a class and as merchantilist sought to dominate the riches of a particular region, West Asia, in such a way that is beginning to look like the "Rape of Nanking". These are not the ways of a democracy. Neither are they the ways of a Christian nation. If this is theism in action, then I prefer atheism.
Back to helos. The very idea that that an aggressive adversary would not adapt to the complacency of a military force that is overused, abused, and coerced to participate in an endless conflict smacks of ineptitude and meddling at the highest levels of leadership. And to think that that same leadership is playing fast and loose by clandestinely supporting the designated enemy and running "black ops" by having ringer forces attack "friendlies" is beyond any notions of what is normal and what is insane.
This is not a left/right issue. It is imperial hubris at its worst.
Lantern Bearer
You think it's poor form to question the motives of an administration hell-bent on war, cloaked in secret meetings, covert rendition flights, intelligence manipulation and character assisination?
Tobacco is still something people can choose to use or not. The same should be true for Cannabis.
Tobacco used to be thought harmless but most countries are trying to outlaw tobacco now we know about its harmful effects. It's difficult because it's like trying to get the genie back in the bottle. That's pretty much the essence of the anti-legalisation case, that legalisation would represent a backwards step rather than the progressive thinking its proponents claim.
Having had to deal with a friend who was hospitalised with cannabis psychosis, spending time seeing acute psychiatric wards first-hand, talking with doctors and nurses there about the steady stream of similar cases they see - my view is that the negative aspects are massively under-recognised. I don't think anyone should be put in prison for possession or small-time dealing but that's already the status quo where I live. However, I have a suspicion that the politicians (via tax) and big business are itching get a slice of the pie, and the legalise lobby are just rubes playing right into their hands.
that's scary, to say the least
Yeah, that's the way I always heard it...I found it odd that it was on the list too.
Animal Farm II - After mastering space Snowball the famous, national hero Astropig becomes an overweight, heavy drinking, womanizing boar.
Maybe someone found topless photos of him.
The school has been offered the opportunity to present evidence. They haven't. What do you think that means? It means it would either cause a scandal or be unconvincing to anyone else.
Might have been http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Memory ,sorry.
And the Guardian's reporting of the accidental invasion of Spain was a LOT more entertaining to read than CNN's. It got me laughing a few times.
"Plus, if your family is a bunch of fundies of any kind, you are better off without them."
What a nice, clean, generalized answer!
You don't think he could have harmed/killed someone in the process? And even though he didn't this time, at a later time, if he hadn't been arrested and continued these activities?
Russian Fantastik Cinema
Film
First on the Moon
4:15 pm
Sunday, February 4, 2007
Remis Auditorium
First on the Moon by Alexei Fedorchenko (Pervye na lune, 2005, 76 min.). In Alexei Fedorchenko's unsettling debut film, it wasn't Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin who first set foot on the moon in 1969, but Soviet cosmopilot Ivan Kharlamov in 1938.
Piloting his experimental and highly secretive craft from the moon back to Chile, he undertook an arduous journey across the Pacific, through China and Mongolia, and finally into Mother Russia itself. As an "alternative history," First on the Moon is a touching expression of an unfettered utopian spirit, a sense of the limitless possibilities of human ingenuity and imagination that characterized many people's vision of the Soviet experiment before its grim realities settled in.
I suggest you learn something that took me many years to learn -- math and science ain't everything.
Don't mind richardkulisz, he's just ignorant.
Dumb
Yeah, right.
richardkulisz is not one known to keep an open mind, so don't try reasoning with him. I think the only reason he appears on reddit is to bash other users whose thinking doesn't fit neatly into the same little box he operates from.
Even if they were right, without an income tax how would we be able to afford all those stealth bombers? And then what would they masturbate to?
They're not thinking two steps ahead... ;-)
Not sure but there were 2 or 3 fairly recent studies with similar type of results - you can search the bbc website for them. Or visit your local acute psychatric ward and have a chat with the nurses and doctors about the steady stream of cases they see - you will be very surprised at what you learn.
That's awesome. He gets backed in to a corner and makes the most ridiculous assertions.
It isn't much of a hoax, is it? Woohoo, Russians shot a pig out of a cannon.
But it is very interesting, and with no context, like it is, it's funny.
Great article. Unions used to be beneficial, giving workers benefits and preventing them from being exploited by owners. But nowadays, they've become corrupt organizations as bad as any old boy's club. Unions are useful, but when they start protecting steel workers drunk on the job or teachers who can't teach, something has to change.
High speed water drop photography with how-to advice.
A run-down of the top 20 cock-teasing femme fatales in cinema history.
The Subway project is listed in the summary table, yet is entirely defunct, as far as I know -- and has been for quite a while.
This are shots from the spoof movie "First on the moon". According to this pseudo-documentary, USSR had secret not quite successful Moon program in 1938. It is quite fun, in the same tradition as "Lenin is a mushroom". Quite a lot of people took it seriously.
I wish people who for some reason run on the bike path instead of the pedistrian path would think about where they are before pulling that tight U-turn and heading back uptown.
Hard to think of another such negatively cast style detail... Hardy (in a YouTube clip on the tv show "This Is Your Life") seems to have worn his late into life.
If there is one thing that don't seems to bother little bush is conflicts of interests.
Mace Windu: But which was destroyed, the master or the apprentice?
Good then, it is official. He is qualified to be the president of the United States.
Dunno what you classify as a SUV, but the Audi RS6 is an estate car (station-wagon?) in my book.
all of u who play reddit play runescape too
all of u who play reddit play runescape too
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"To continue, you need to sign in to Blogger with your Google Account.
The new version of Blogger requires a Google Account to access your blog's features."
Figures...I got to sign up for the Apocalypse...
But you'd take someones word on reddit?
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Manual or Automatic submission? Many people would say you should go for manual submission. Why is that?
Well the Linux mob have been trying to reclaim the word "nerd" for quite a while... Frankly I think we should let them have it...
Can't wait for the European redditors to make fun of us for this one.
Don't you see how they're conspicuous by their silence on this thread. That's because most continental European countries already have the equivalent of 'federally-mandated' ID for anyone in their countries..
The fact that his disorder was not allowed to be included in his defense is a huge problem. It can be argued that his disorder played a role in the crime that he committed, so it can be argued that his disorder should play a role in the sentencing.
I agree that he should be punished because he did something wrong. However, his sentence is excessive in length, he should be treated better by the guards and administration (which can probably be said for many inmates), and he should not be labeled a "terrorist"
However, I think the gravest concern is that his trial and sentencing process were unfair to begin with. There is no reason why his disorder should not have been included.
No one said that. However, as of at least the Ford administration, there was a significant rift between the CIA and executive branch over the strength of the Soviet Union.
What is the reason for this article to exist?
In stupidity it equals an "M$ sux" line on IRC.
Same reason Quentin Tarantino got away with using the n-word so much in Pulp Fiction, I guess. I never could figure out why he didn't get in big fat trouble for that. And don't tell me it's because he's talented... 'cause he ain't.
Techers' unions make it difficult/impossible to reward good teachers. They also make it difficult/impossible to fire/not reward bad teachers. The result is that talented people have strong incentives to stay out of teaching, and non-talented people have strong incentives to stay.
Now, that doesn't mean all teachers are bad. It also doesn't mean that teachers' unions have to do this, if they exist (as is often implied by conservative critics). The unions could continue to exist with out doing such damage to the educational system. Currently, however, they do.
pls let see the show
Looks like a lame diversity critique. Next time your flight is delayed, read a good book.
Homeopathic effect - or at least as claimed in the article, talks about leaving an im print on the water molecules.
this is highly plausable, through as yet unexplained quantum vibrations of the melecule, giving insight into its complex moellecular structure.
the so-called imprint is found through diffusing a high concentration of a specific molecular frequency into the water. this effect had been studied briefly by exposing water to high electromagnetic radiation, and then measuring the effect.
I'll take it. I'd get a USB laptop mouse.
On the mouse thing...I have XP at work and I have the mouse acceleration on full. It speeds my production very well. Until I open more than 4-5 applications. Then it sticks and becomes as slow as a snail on sandpaper. I then have to open Control Panel>Mouse>etc...and reset it. Sometimes twice a day.
I have a Mac at home and I notice the difference the reader states. Except within a few seconds I adjust to it. Done.
So, if that laptop is still available...
Edit: "
I called my friend and asked him how to turn off the acceleration. The short answer is: you can't."
ORLY?
The Common Lisp libraries are nowhere deep enough compared with Perl and Python.
Neither do the gross factual inaccuracies.
Both are strong object-oriented languages. That is, everything is an object.
That's news to me and most of the python code I've written.
Both are dynamic languages, lets (sic) you write code that writes code.
OK, you got me on this one.
print "print \"Hello, world\""
Good thing we're dealing with a "dynamic language". I can't imagine the horrors of duplicating that functionality in C.
Yes, like black prisons, extraordinary rendition practices, torture, and assassination.
Licence to operate in secret is granted to give strategic advantage against counter-intelligence, not to allow operation outside of legal and moral boundaries.
reasonable
But we are not the ones trying him. "Believe X until proven the contrary" may be the modus operandi for the justice system, but it is not the way to get the best estimate in general.
I don't know who this guy is, and I never will. What is interesting to me, and probably everyone else here, is whether this story is evidence that the education system is broken in some way.
bosh
I'm confused, are the green ones gay or the red ones?
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It's just a little airborne! It's still good!
Why can't more advertising be like this?
The picture of the CN Tower and its shadow over the clouds is the best one, I think. Perfect mix of composition and the "above the clouds" theme.
No, the Amish shun apostates, but they don't kill them.
I'm not aware of any other religion that has the death penalty for apostates.
That's truly awful, its amazing how they managed to escape blame, all because other governments wanted the knowledge they gained by attaching someones osaphegus to their intestines.
Yeah, let me take a shot at explaining this... quiet down everyone.. quiet down. Ok, here we go: Guys give pig wine, put pig in rocket. Fire rocket it out of big gun. Guy watches rocket go up. Pig ejects from rocket. Pig lands safely. Russian men are very pleased. Elderly Russian men sign petition to launch more pigs into the sky. How's that?
Is U.S. income tax invalid because Ohio wasn't legally a state when the 16th amendment was ratified?
The Straight Dope has the story
He's a butthead for so many reasons, but I find this exchange harmless. "money trumps peace, sometimes" means that people who do business with a country that is due to have sanctions imposed upon it would probably rather be making their money. What he WASN'T saying, is "I love war because it makes me money." Now, maybe he loves war because it makes him money, but he wasn't saying that in this instance.
As a lesbian who doesn't sodomize donkeys, I have to say she doesn't look like one of us, she looks like a tranny. A really ugly tranny.
We already know the education system is broken in many, many, many, many, many, many ways. What do you think is the conditional probability that the system is broken in this one instance when it is known to be broken in nearly all cases? What do you think is the conditional probability of this guy having caused a scandal which they're trying to hush up given his impeccable credentials?
You want to talk about how people actually evaluate evidence? Then this is how. First rule: believe authority. Second rule: believe any story supporting your prejudices. Third rule: eliminate from consideration any fact or theory that violates your worldview's assumptions. Final rule: within the narrow range of "reasonable" (consistent with your worldview and prejudices and authority) average out the beliefs at each end of the range.
This is how people actually form their beliefs. Not through any process of reasoning and logic, something which we have documented evidence most people are incapable of doing anyways, but through the mechanical rearrangement of prejudices. I don't know about you but I hold it in contempt.
party pooper
Republicans do something decent? I think not.
Fixed it!
It's not mean if it's true.
Also don't forget Scsh's SUnet SUrflet server! I've coded Web apps with both and have found the SUnet framework more friendly on the programmer: abstractions over form input fields (e.g. it automatically serialises "values" in menus items, which can be any Scheme value) and the ability to generate additional continuations on the fly (more powerful than send/suspend/dispatch) come to mind.
Damn! I love lastfm just the way it is. I knew the Warner deal was an ominous sign.
Collaps Machines is an Old Skull Hardcore band, listen to this !!!
I think you're being too kind. They aren't deluded. They actively oppose the best interests of the American people.
one reason pthreads are better is that the Windows API prior to Vista does not have a reliable monitor/condition variable function.
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/05/346888.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684914.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684914.aspx
The reason is that Western people (still?) raise against any kind of torture. But let torture become socially acceptable and there will be a few people which will try to bring it to the next level. One learns only what one almost knows.
This was a very distrubing article. It is hard to believe in today's day and age individuals attempt to incite others with such ridiculous beliefs. It is time for all individuals to think for themselves and not be led by obvious stupidity.
This isn't a shadow. It's the typical "blue ghost" seen with almost all moving objects on google maps (better example here).
Here's one explanation of the phenomenon: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/57550/page/0/vc/1
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Hi Lou,
You should call it "The Dumbass EULA".
1) I thought it would be disrespectful to call you a dumbass, but if you want to apply that label to yourself, you can do whatever you want.
2) You have violated section 4 by making an outlandish claim and not backing it up. As you are bound by the EULA, you must now state that you were wrong while using the phrase "Of course I need to make up facts, reality has a well known liberal bias."
3) You have also violated sections 1 and 2. You will need to follow the guidelines for the appropriate penalties for these violations.
4) Having violated sections 1, 2, and 4, the "three strikes" penalty also applies.
This post is bound by the EULA for any future posts by LouF.
Sure looks and sounds like him... I like that guy.
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2008 can't come fast enough.
*assuming it'll be any better then..
We already know the education system is broken in many, many, many, many, many, many ways. ... You want to talk about how people actually evaluate evidence? ... Second rule: believe any story supporting your prejudices.
RK wins "Irony of the Day" award.
I keep trying to find the down arrow on my TV whenever she is on.
Do you have a better definition for intelligence? One that excludes evolution somehow?
The only one that can do that includes self-awareness and consciousness, which is problematic. There's a whole gap of phenomena in between that and unintelligent algorithm.
Even your statement seems to indicate you can't seperate self-awareness from it...
cept I wouldn't want to be one of the millions of organisms that got "solved" right to extinction.
It's not a conscious entity getting rid of you. It has no personality, no grudge.
By your definition, observing water flowing down hill makes gravity intelligent.
This is just stupid. Something returning to its lowest energy state within random bounds is slightly different than shuffling around genes intelligently, to come up with combinations that will solve problems. But I keep forgetting, you don't even understand what intelligence is, except in the fuzzy "I've never thought about it" way.
Little Snitch reports that this page links to h1-u.hrn.ru on port 8081.
That's pretty odd and suspicious.
You say that now, but you'll be calling up your SUV friends the next time you buy a couch on Craigslist.
Oh, and you're evil btw.
68 Kelvin. He is a physicist, you know.
Limbaugh was credited as being a big factor in the 94 Republican takeover of the house. While their effectiveness and influence has waned since then (though it's still not negligible), the one thing they have done successfully in the last 10 years is completely and utterly demonize Hillary. There's a big minority of the population out there that just completely, irrationally hates that woman, and I attribute that to the influence of the right wing propaganda machine. But regardless the source of it, it's a tough thing for any politician to overcome.
Good God, this link finally got an upvote. Who was responsible for this??
There are a couple of CL/GTK bindings, I occasionally see an e-mail about them. I haven't touched them in ages though.
"PIGS IN SPACE" ...
That was one of my favorite segments on the Muppet Show!!!
I've updated the EULA to include a "don't feed the trolls" section. It still gives LouF a chance before it applies, so there is a bit of feeding, but it has a cut-off that comes in pretty quickly.
The title is in the link like this:
But if you can't do the time....
Tell that to MLK and Socrates and Jesus and Gandhi. Mental disorder doesn't excuse his actions. Conscience does.
Arbitrary. You can't (or shouldn't) judge someone based on what they could have done, if that judgement is going to take years away from their life.
If he was put in a mental facility he could be kept from causing any more damage, would have received the help that he needs for his condition, and wouldn't have been abused, as long as he was in a non-abusive facility. There are no such prisons.
No there isn't a light side to everything. I doubt you would see this light side into this human mutilation had the victim been yourself or someone closely related to you.
By ignoring the small amount of good that came out of this atrocity, you are making the victims death even less worthy. And yes, there are two sides to every coin. The world is not 2 colors.
The end doesn't justify the means, though.
Again, arbitrary.
These are arbitrary figures based often on net worth, not the actual value of a human life, which is often why figures are so high.
I'm so happy we nuked Japan.
Well played, sir.
It's true...Jon Stewart is a very typical white-guilt ass kisser.
$5million? That's about the same amount that would get him 6 months in whitecollar resort prison, if he had swindled the money out of little old ladies' retirement accounts.
painted the slogan of the notorious (and murderous) Earth Liberation Front
Which doesn't exist, outside of some asshole hippy college kids' sarcastic remarks. Completely fictitious.
there's the fact that he misbehaved in court
And yet witnesses claimed that never occurred.
He's very likely a danger to society in the future
As far off the mark as you are, your opinion of "likely" doesn't carry much weight.
he flew off the handle once, destroying vehicles
He engaged in petty vandalism, not quite the same thing. Judging from what I know of it, he was at best an accomplice that was surprised at how far the actual criminals went. He's just being held to their account because he's the only one to be caught so far.
next time will it be people?
Dunno, let's let him cook in prison for a few more decades, I'm sure we can increase his psychopathy if we only try.
How exactly would you punish such a fellow?
1-3 years of prison, minimum security. He certainly qualifies for that, if not for the half-assed "terrorist" label. I'd follow it up probation, 5-8 years of it. Conditionally that he doesn't participate in any environmentalist movements. No showing up at protests, being a member of their groups, etc. I'd make him pay hefty restitution, some large fraction of the damage, certainly in the hundreds of thousands. I'd make him attend therapy, with the psychaitrist reporting to the court, so they can catch it if he really is the monster you think he is, dufus.
I mean, he should have just slit someone's throat... he'd get out 2 years earlier than he will.
That's just ridiculous.
Awesome commercial. I feel slightly bad though, for laughing at the violence of it.
That's why they're in prison, dufus. Jeez...
Okay. Like I said you can't get all the facts from 1 article. I'll take Wikipedia over 1 article.
Actually, I think there are two or three good introductory tutorials out of the whole crop of Erlang docs, so getting your feet wet is easy. What tripped me up over several attempt to wrapmy head around Erlang was the gap between these basic tutorials and the more advanced subjects like OTP and mnesia. The fact that most of the available tutorials were also done before list comprehensions were a part of Erlang (or just skipped that subject) did not help matters.
Me too. They were truly evil.
Too bad that we didn't bother stopping Slobodan Milocovic.
No one cares about right and wrong nowadays, just their own self interest. Witness Rwanda, Sudan - also the Killing Fields. Was WWII the last just war?
This article has no useful information. Here I'll summarize it:
Engineer decides to be a science teacher
"Inspires students to think" (no further information)
"Resigns because he made students think" (why? what happened? no information about this)
I don't know why this pisses me off so much but I am really annoyed.
Sounds great but there is one fundamental flaw. People read or watch while scrolling. So if its all with the eye, you would have to read, then look off to teh scroll bar to scroll down, then refind your place. I'll stick with arrow keys and mouse for now...
You answered your own dilemma. "Clicking" is done using the keyboard. Likewise you would juse use the arrow keys on the keyboard to scroll.
Haha.
Democrat or republican, there is absolutely no difference, none whatsoever. I wonder if anyone will ever wake up to that.
As much as the Daily Mail is the intellectual equivalent of monkeys throwing excrement, this is pretty funny.
1-3 years of prison, minimum security. He certainly qualifies for that, if not for the half-assed "terrorist" label. I'd follow it up probation, 5-8 years of it. Conditionally that he doesn't participate in any environmentalist movements. No showing up at protests, being a member of their groups, etc. I'd make him pay hefty restitution, some large fraction of the damage, certainly in the hundreds of thousands. I'd make him attend therapy, with the psychaitrist reporting to the court
This also sounds more reasonable than what he got, though his condition doesn't merit prison.
The only 8081 connection I see is a connection to warlog.info, but it's just hitting an image that appears to be used for gathering page view stats.
By ignoring the small amount of good that came out of this atrocity, you are making the victims death even less worthy
I am absolutely not. On the contrary, that is what you are doing by saying that there was a small amount of good revealing itself from the atrocities committed. Absolutely no good came from these experiments. If you believe that, then you have the same mentality as the people who actually conducted those experiments (to experiment with human bodies in unthinkably gory ways, just for the good of science/medicine) even if you are not evil enough to actually make someone go through the same process. That initself would be more offensive to those victimes than anything else. You seem to think that the victims would have actually agreed to the experimentation had they known what they were being treated to would result in the cure for frostbite ("you are making the victims death even less worthy").
And yes, there are two sides to every coin. The world is not 2 colors.
I realise the world is not black and white, but it's also not as complicated as you would like it to seem. Yes, it is factually correct to say we probably have a better cure for frostbite now. However, to make any human go through what the victims of Unit 731 did for such a scientific gain is preposterous and just not even worthy enough to be deservedly called "good" - especially given the context of the scientific gain.
Anyone know what 'standard eye tracking hardware' is?
I upmodded the post because of the links to the two pthreads/win32-threads articles they're discussing. The comments accompanying those articles are reasonably interesting.
Many reasons.
For me static typing is a necessity. For one thing, it's great documentation, and secondly, it really helps if you refactor things, to discover errors at compile-time.
What I really like are ML variant types, but even Java class hierarchies (with some good design) seem nicer to me than the RTFM nature of Lisp programs. Types and values should tell.
Another reason is tool support: I want code completion (ok, SLIME ain't bad, but not quite there when I tried it a year ago), I want discoverability (take all those features Eclipse and NetBeans give you for Java). I also want all those other features a modern IDE gives me. SLIME isn't it, nor is LispWorks (tell me about an ugly IDE, IMHO).
I also want a good cross-platform GUI, like Swing (yes, it's not bad, really; and I should know, as I've also done a bit of Cocoa development).
So even though I really like Lisp syntax, there are too many things that put me off. But maybe I'm just not a dynamic language person.
Sadly, yes.
The quality I admire most about Republicans is that they are not scared to advocate for what they think is right - no mater how many people it would hurt.
I'm sure I saw an online shop selling t-shirts that said something like "I am not a terrorist" in Arabic.
If this was ever implemented widely, I bet you could make some really evil pop-up ads that exploited it.
It will be an honor, Jonathan. -- David
Surfing pr0n just got a little harder.
I suppose I should have provided links, it's just that I'm reluctant to do so for the same reason I don't argue with creationists - it doesn't matter how much evidence you present, it's all ignored.
Take it easy. I guess you have a chip on your shoulder about this issue for some reason, but I don't think you have any right to accuse me of anything like that.
Being against unions requires so much ignorance of ...
Please do not (again) ignore the following: I am not against unions. I am against some of the current policies of teachers' unions. This has nothing to do with arguments about if the unions should exist.
Now, as for your evidence, I am unconvinced. That is one essay by someone advocating some kind of merit-based system. I agree with the essay, but that does not mean that any merit based system exists. I can easily pull up the salary table for my local school district. What do I see? A grid with number of years on one axis, and education on the other. There is no mention of quality teaching.
Also, you need to address the stick aspect of things. Recall the recent news about how many teachers in new york that were considered not just poor performing, but dangerous to the students. However, the union made it impossible to fire these teachers, so they sat in a room doing nothing for many years. Most bad teachers are just shifted from school to school because principals can't fire them, and instead just try to slide them off on someone else.
Call me crazy, but I don't think you normally see this error. This looks like a development-mode error..
dmehrtash, I think you're trying to avoid discussion of the suicide bombing tactics by turning the discussion to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict itself. Rachel Corrie, Baruch Goldstein or the other baits you're throwing to get me off the real point have nothing to do with this discussion.
It seems your claims is that if other conflicts would be bad as in the Mid East, people would surely turn to suicide bombing. Anyone who ever learned history or just watched the news knows this is bogus claim. There have been in the past and there are right now in the world conflicts who are far more deadly then the Israeli-Palestinian. Last year alone, over 10 times more people were killed in Sudan then in all the Arab Israeli wars put together. Between 1939 and 1945 millions of people were killed and oppressed in Europe and Asia. More recently we have seen attempts of genocide in Serbia.
And yet we do not see suicide bombings used as a tactics anywhere, except by very specific Islamic sects.
The ultimate proof that suicide bombing is motivated by religious belief, not a political situation is that EVEN AMONGST PALESTINIANS THEMSELVES, ONLY SPECIFIC ISLAMIC GROUPS ENGAGE IN SUICIDE BOMBINGS. THERE ARE NO CHRISTIAN OR SECULAR PALESTINIAN SUICIDE BOMBERS. How can you explain that? Are Christian/secular Palestinians less occupied, somehow?
You, and others in the Arab world, might want to contemplate your own situation every now and then, rather than blaming the West on all your problems.
Brooke Shields is reaching out to Britney Spears, who is currently in rehab. "I hope she's fine," Shields, 41, tells TV's Access Hollywood in an interview to air Monday. "I believe she's going to be fine, and she just needs the support and her kids. She's their only mom, and she'll earn that back in her own mind."
Of course it's easier for intelligence agencies to protect the nation if they can do as they please in secret. Of course the police can do their jobs more effectively if they don't have to worry about the rights of the accused. Of course it will be easier to get the bad guys in jail if we can just use military tribunals and forget about due process.
All of this is obvious. But it's not the issue. And I would say that if you think it is the issue, then you don't really understand what the United States of America was supposed to be all about.
Rhetorical, I know. But it usually works like this... A creative team (writer & art director) at an ad agency come up with an awesome idea, while juggling a handful of other projects, all on very tight deadlines. Their boss, a creative director, loves the idea, even though he's looking at marker on index cards, and has the balls to show it to the client (Snickers). The client, in turn, has the vision to acknowledge a cool idea, and is willing to put a multi-million dollar budget at stake (for both production, and the media to run it on). They do it, the post-production company does a mind-blowing job, the spot's cool enough to go viral, and everyone adds it to their reel and goes out for drinks.
The odds of all of this happening -- a killer team, a ballsy CD, a visionary client, and perfect production -- are slim. So good ads are rare.
I'd settle for the ability to connect and simultaneously use two pointing devices, one with each hand. I may be wrong, but it seems to me to be a user interface model with a lot of unexplored possibilities...
Is it really because the object is moving? Seems like it would be more due to the high altitude.
God you people are so fucking stupid. Your stupidity oozes out of your mouths like excrement. What the Japanese did to innocent civilians doesn't justify another country to do the same or worse to them. An eye for an eye is something written a thousand years ago and doesn't apply now. The US dropped the bomb on Japan to try to intimidate Russia. That was the beginning of the Cold War.
Torture doesn't justify more torture. The US should be better than that. I suppose from what you two wrote, you also agree that we were Right to invade Iraq to get revenge for 9/11? You sick fucks.
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A generally mistrust yes, but the public as a whole does still seem to swallow any lie that's thrown at them.
Yours is a good example. Basically the "renaming" feature in the original link is about binding values for implicit variables (if your variables can be global functions).
Your example illustrates nicely that this only works for explicit variables. A function like "fold" or "reduce" will take an explicit function parameter to apply to a list, so you can pass + or * or whatever. But when a function isn't designed with this in mind, there are only two possibilities:
either the function isn't really a good template. In that case you wouldn't rename anything anyway.
Or the function is reusable, in which case you should generalize the function explicitly by turning it into a parameterizable function (like fold), or into a macro or template.
If renaming isn't done explicitly, but every function used inside a definition is implicitly renamable, you get all the nice "features" of dynamic scope, in a way (the new function might not always do what you want).
Fugly your unsubstantiated reply helps make my point, thank-you! It would have been better if you would have included some name calling, but it was a good start. Keep the tin foil handy.
Pass the wasabi. Real wasabi, not the fake stuff.
This would suck for most games. Also, drag-n-drop with my eyes would probably be a unique challenge. Maybe using both would be cool, but it'll be a long time before my mouse goes away.
Worth is put on contributions to society, not the worth of the person themselves.
This is what Reddit has become now? sad
Really it should just remind you of the 70s in Britain.
They operate under the oversight of the Congress. There are members of both parties who have complete access to covert operation procedures and practices as well as current operational data.
"They Are Made Out of Meat" is truly a short story classic. There is too much dialogue left out of the video version of it, though. It's already a short story -- why the fuck did they edit the shit out of it?
The script is so good, I would've given this video less than it got when it won an award at atomfilms.com, simply because of the bullshit editing.
Too smart? Or too individualistic and selfish? Also, it's important to note that youths' beliefs (and actions) have the propensity to change as they mature.
How about PHP changed this behavior by default?
I think they did in PHP5, problem is that no one wants to go through the transition from 4 so they are still stuck with it.
If you have any specific information about the CIA denying the rights of US Citizens please post. It is naive to think all government operations should be made public.
Seven years may be a bit much for his crime true. As a side note, however, rapists should get far more than seven years considering the damage it can do to people.
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How anyone values the lives of their friends and family, and humanity as a whole, is relevant. If human beings continue to devalue human existence, we are in big trouble.
There are unfortunate, tough decisions that need to be made by people everyday. That doesn't mean that they value the human life less than material, non-sentimental objects. Often they just can't do what is necessary. In other cases the decisions are made on misplaced values. When a car company decides that the cost of a recall on a defective vehicle will be more than the amount they will have to pay in wrongful death lawsuits, and therefore decides to say nothing, there is something wrong. When a company fails to implement reasonable, not outlandish, safety precautions in materials that they sell to the public because it may hurt their bottom line in the short run, there is something wrong.
In regards to this case and this thread, eadmund stated that a human life is worth less than $5 million worth of cars and therefore the sentence is justified. That doesn't make sense.
As I increasingly read about such despicable events taking place during the two World Wars wars, I see that all resentment is focused on Germany and/or Japan
America is just as much to blame for human cruelty as the countries shown as the usual aggressors in the war
And, here's the World According to Reddit, once again :) I'd ask if you really think the world after a Nazi victory would be comparable to the world after the Allies victory, but unfortunately I think I know the answer. Europe has obviously learnt nothing, and the current young generation thinks Hitler was just another bad leader, like Bush. Sad times.
PHP+mysql web apps are still insecure garbage, it is just the case that neither of those is responsible for this specific security issue.
The US dropped the bomb on Japan to try to intimidate Russia.
That was only one of the reasons, another was to force an immediate & complete surrender of the Japanese.
When they've got you black-bagged in some foreign prison with electrodes on your nutsack, remind them that YOU were the one that understood.
Asshole.
Just because the great % of humanity doesn't reside on your rocky bit of it doesn't exclude them from protection from egress by secret agencies.
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It amuses me how often this sort of partisan rah-rah comes with a little tag line, like "it's clear". Of course all sensible people believe it, and so do you. Everyone does. Don't you feel wonderfully acknowledged?
Under the sound of the words, there's always this comforting woolly bleating.
Downvoted cause it's from boston and I really can't trust or respect anything from that place these days.
How much easier is it to get access to coca plants? Not very, I'd think.
It's also been posted here multiple times..
http://reddit.com/search?q=13+things+science+sense
sigh..
We do all the time. We put people in jail for drunk driving even if they never harm anyone (because they could have killed someone). We put people in jail for possessing certain explosive materials, even if they hadn't used them yet. You put someone in jail if they shoot a gun at someone and miss (based on the fact that they could have killed the person).
Is it logical to assume that certain actions will eventually result in harm or injury?
(Sorry, no sources.)
I guess I can't trust you then.
Better living through socialism? We all know in general the government doesn't do a good job of running much of anything.
Take it easy. I guess you have a chip on your shoulder about this issue for some reason, but I don't think you have any right to accuse me of anything like that.
You're right. I do. Long story as to why.
And I'm sorry - sometimes I get all riled up when people attack Unions. Still, I shouldn't have been unfair to you.
The supreme court designates the mother as the "natural custodian" of children [1]. In the event of a divorce, even if the mother is slightly less "fit," there's still a strong bias for awarding custody to her.
I guess now we just roll a 2d.
[1] http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=nc&vol=appeals2006/&invol=050378-1
Good - he was like any college kid.
This is Pascal going undercover.
don't overdo it
Copyright trap, maybe?
I don't believe anybody outright, I always try to question the source and adjust my skepticism accordingly. So for the official paper made by and for the military, you can basically be assured that all the news, especially soft news like this story, will be highly slanted towards the military's favor.
Where was the chewbacca defense? It don't make sense.
I guess law is an "art" and not a "science", huh?
Find the hottest one and take 12 pictures of her.
Given. My point is that the licence to secrecy was not meant to protect operatives from the ramifications of operating outside of the law, which is how it's being evoked here.
Do you mean the long list of lefty urban myths about the Bush administration? But they aren't true or substantiated or corroborated or provable.
Is the clock in the second to last cut generated based on the current time? It showed 1:44, and the time was actually 1:47, so maybe I was just lucky.
Are there classes where this happens, and there's no, um, fallout?
I speak from experience - yes. Two separate teachers, both still employed.
Granted, the detonator wasn't mentioned beyond a basic "you need to set off conventional explosives to push the uranium lumps together and form critical mass", but refining the uranium was.
http://www.jokesplace.com/joke/famouspig.html
"... a pig like that, you don't eat 'em all at once!"
It sounds great but eye-tracking is hard to get used to. I tried to use a drawing program that used eye tracking once and all I could create was squiggles. Your eyes are drawn naturally to motion so anything on the screen that blinked or moved caused my eyes to dart. Its hard.
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Gift cards: they're just like real money, only with restrictions on where you can spend it, and an expiration date, and sometimes extra fees.
Why do people give gift cards?
Why does everyone think out of focus black and white pictures look "artsy"?
Ken Blackwell , a failed GOP candidate for Ohio governor last year, agreed that conservatives should at least wait to endorse a presidential candidate. "The Republican Party -- our natural home in a two-party system -- is in disarray," Blackwell lamented.
Oh, that's rich! Mr. Voter Disenfranchisement, co-chair-of-Bush-Campaign-AND-state-election-official-is-not-a-conflict-of-interest-really-I-swear! weighs in and complains that the GOP is too much political chicanery and not enough core principles.
The pot calling the kettle Blackwell.
No thank you. I want something I can control which doesn't hold a body part hostage. I would buy a pointing device like the Wii remote as my replacement.
Neat. Thanks.
If there is intent.
People have their licenses suspended for drunk driving in most states. Whether or not they should be in jail is a different matter.
Possession of explosive materials, directions to build a bomb and plans to a building or something similar may imply intent.
Shooting at someone implies intent - attempted homicide.
But besides that, as I said before, those in the group that didn't have mental disorders should be in prison, how long and what kind depending on the full facts of the case.
All of the scenerios you mention require more facts in an actual case. To put someone away based on circumstantial evidence is not enough. In this case they would have to prove that he intended to do it again. Not just that he could.
I mostly use Scheme when I play around with Lisp. I think that a new Lisp needs to emerge that incorporates the incredible amount of experience and expertise put into CL without the cruft. The focus should first be on developing a lightweight portable implementation with reasonable speed (e.g. a VM optimized using threaded code) and a large set of libraries that would make it capable of achieving some penetration in the current market of programming languages.
I've always hated the word 'hacker'. Too me 'hacker' means 'programmer'. Programmers can use their skills for good or for bad.
Or it might mean that they were following legal advice to not speak about it. Considering how vague the teacher's comments were, maybe it was a personal matter that was best left out of public scrutiny.
Maybe one more repetition will help: That we haven't seen the evidence is indicative of nothing. The point to wrap your brain around here is that you just don't know, and until you do tossing blame at either party is just plain stupid.
Do you seriously think I would have made that argument without having a mountain of irrefutable evidence to back me up?
That you can talk about it doesn't suddenly make it exist. Post it or shut up. (I think we've had this conversation before)
They should have made a "Boys of Engineering" calendar too! There is just as much of a steryotype of them being unattractive. It also upset me a little that a man produced the calendar, but you can't win 'em all..
I always trust the socialists for unbiased, factual, accurate reporting. Just like Pravda!
The financial position of the United States has declined dramatically. The United States is heavily indebted, both government and consumers. The U.S. trade deficit both in absolute size and as a percentage of GDP is unprecedented, reaching more than $800 billion in 2005 and accumulating to $4.5 trillion since 1990. With U.S. job growth falling behind population growth and with no growth in consumer real incomes, the United States economy is driven by expanding consumer debt. Saving rates are low or negative.
The federal budget is deep in the red, adding to America's dependency on debt. The United States cannot even go to war unless foreigners are willing to finance it.
Our biggest bankers are China and Japan, both of whom could cause the United States serious financial problems, if they wished. A country whose financial affairs are in the hands of foreigners is not a superpower.
Yes, but not this particular property. A car, in most cases, is not the same as a home and sentimental material objects. If they had destroyed homes it could be a different story because people would be left homeless. Still the human life is still worth more than a property. Purposely killing someone or killing someone accidentally in an act of vandalism should always carry more punishment than destruction of property. But, again, his condition requires care in a health facility not prison time.
How scary? It's hard to know what to believe, because news reports may be biased to present Muslims in a particularly sinister light.
Do stories such as this one make most Europeans say, "Wow, I can't believe that!", or do they nod their heads and say, "That figures."?
I always thought they needed probable cause first. Also, as far as I knew, one didn't need to always carry around a form of ID.
According to this, I'd get arrested if I forgot my wallet.
I'd love to hear how you assess a teacher's performance in a quantifiable way.
You can't, not without teachers figuring out a way to game the system. Same thing with programmer productivity metrics, or really any productivity metric. I remember gaming the timer that measured how long it took me to serve popcorn at a movie theater when I was sixteen.
It has been here 18 years, more likely one of them was browsing a directory of stolen paintings on their free time and recognized it. My two cents.
I think he told them how to do it using chemicals. I don't really know because I wasn't interested in learning howto make cocaine.
I would like to take a step backwards here, and ask how good and bad teachers are defined, before worrying about how to reward good ones and punish bad ones. Merit system? Sure, tell teachers that good grades = good teaching = higher salary, and watch grades inflate at a cost to the children? Give them an in-class review by an administrator (who ran like hell from the classroom when they were there, and hasn't spent a day in front of students since) who is merely writing his/her opinion of the teacher's style? Something tells me this should be decided first.
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Pop culture is good, and definitely lets the air out of the sanctity balloons a little bit, but religion is a virus. It fights back.
I am an atheist, and I think religious holidays should not be recognized federally. OTOH, we do need more holidays. We just need some good reason to replace the whole anniversary-of-some-imaginary-event thing.
Me too. They were truly evil.
Why does one nation have the right to judge over another?
Look, it's simple. If an OS comes out that is otherwise good aside from a few flaws and everyone suddenly acts like it's the worst thing ever, then we all lose.
WinME was awful. I acknowledged that, we all did. I think Vista has a hell of a lot of promise, and it bothers me that people are bailing on it and calling it an unadulterated failure more out of frustration than genuine evaluation.
I don't know why this pisses me off so much but I am really annoyed.
Because unless you question the article itself you are only left with one conclusion: school board is full of assholes that don't want children to think. Pretty much anyone gets irritated when they are driven to a conclusion.
The man is a hero.
And he will be remembered as such, when the oil runs out and the real "fun" starts.
Teachers unions exist to increase wages, increase benefits, increase job security, decrease work load and decrease the responsibilities of teachers and to reduce free market competition for the government schools. The needs of the students are NOT among their primary goals. Just for fun, look at literacy rates in the late 1800's in comparison to today.
I drink diet soda for the same reasons. I prefer not drinking a sugar blasting soda, I like the taste of the diet soda I drink, and I'd prefer to get my calories from food rather than soda.
Besides, I drink a LOT of diet soda over the course of a day. If it was regular soda, it would definitely mess me up more than diet soda does.
I know diet soda isn't good for me either and tap water would be better, but tap water is boring.
Europe has obviously learnt nothing
Europe has learnt a lot, and very obviously so. I invite you to go to an average German school and find a single student whose curriculum did not have extensive Nazi Germany discussions in at least one subject during the very semester they're in right now, whether they're 5th-graders or 13th-graders. Good luck.
Americans lose every day this criminal defiles the Attorney General's office.
The Belfast homeopathy results (#4) are so debunked: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/homeopathy.shtml
With that headline, I thought it was going to be about Danny Mydlack.
But it's obviously more "Get that for me, would you, Deirdre?"
That's quite laughable since the only difference between the "immediate & complete surrender of the Japanese" and the "conditional surrender of the Japanese" which they had offered was symbolic.
very informative, i like this
The bees are on the what now?
You didn't SAY it was okay. You strongly implied it however. Otherwise you would have said,
People complain about Western countries using torture, [AND] our torturing isn't that bad compared to this.
instead of what you did say.
I think the signals are pretty far from mixed. I think the only way they could be any less mixed would be if the new warhead designs were shaped like a gigantic middle finger.
Dupe.
goddamn I hate liberals, their level of dillusion...is mind-bogoling.
That's a great list. I feel so much better now.
you are making the victims death even less worthy
I hate to say it, but not every victim dies for some worthy laudable goal.
Some people are slaughtered in cold blood for no good reason, and we should not hesitate to acknowledge that unpleasant fact.
I'm after facts, not squishy feel-good platitudes.
The comment link says "5 comments" ... Does that mean something broke? (Or was there a lot of comment retraction?)
if you think that the "symbolic" part of surrender doesn't matter, perhaps you should be paying more attention to unsymbolic surrenders like, say, IRAQ?
Yes, it matters quite a bit.
Sounds like another case of a "Moral Panic" to me, like "Rainbow Parties", "Satanic Child Abuse", and the concerns over D&D in the early 80s. Usually there are one or two actual incidents, and these get blown up by society into a 'plague' of incidents.
Nowhere in the article are actual incidents confirmed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic
In an abstract way, it is interesting. On the other hand, to me this is like trying to learn biology by looking at DNA/RNA sequences less than 20 amino acids long.
It's just all of the interesting stuff happens when there's a little structure, and when things are longer, not when a few (instructions/amino acids) are strung together.
Edit -- I realize now they do work with longer programs, but the point of structure is still there.
... and give them a gun and a little authority and this is what happens.
Following the trail you reach here
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=38%C2%B013%2736.38%22N,+112%C2%B017%2756.59%22W&layer=&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=15&ll=38.145796,-112.274523&spn=0.013433,0.041628&t=k&iwloc=addr
What is it?
Python and Ruby don't really have automatic currying or multi-dispatch, and Python's rather static default parameter values often catch me by surprise.
I've written working Perl 6 OO code that needed nothing more than method signature declarations in a few cases; it's amazing how little code was necessary and how clear that code was.
I realize English is not your first language but try to improve your reading comprehension nonetheless.
I already use a headmouse; whatever. (reflective dot that's tracked by IR sensor)
You cannot kill an enemy only physically when the enemy is unafraid of death. You have to destroy its core - its soul. The nuclear bomb achieved that against Japan. I applaud it. And if your family was brutally experimented on I will wait to see if your reaction is one of measured diplomacy.
I don't even wanna know what a cum farmer's job is like.
(I deserve to be downmodded for this juvenile comment, but I couldn't help myself).
What about coloring shampoos?
Private business competition and the opportunity for profit is a great motivator for most things, but there are exceptions.
It is immoral to privatize health care. To build in a profit margin at the expense of any person's health or life is just plain evil. Military or not.
Privatization lends itself to cutting corners, because those at the top stand to benefit financially from the added profits.
I suppose this is a good business model for retail and industry, but in matters of life and death it is a failure.
Remember Bush bragged in his 1999 campaign that he would be the first CEO president. Guess we got what we paid for with him.
from knowledgeble technology experts.
Really? "Tortoise CVS" is one of the first responses on that thread.
There may be "knowledgeble technology experts" answering, but you'll have to look at he names and titles and decide or yourself.
All we really know is that there are 310+ responses from people who happen to have a linkedin account.
Yea, seriously, and look at the author's name. A total Mick... not to be trusted.
What?
I just can't get comfortable with Emacs. I have a
similar feeling for video games that require
memorizing lots of button combos like Street Fighter.
Bingo. That's a big reason why I don't use CL, too. Here's my advice: use PLT Scheme and the Dr. Scheme editor. It's just a completely 'normal feeling' editor that works really well for Scheme. Don't be put off my the CL people saying that Scheme is too minimal. There's a lot of innovative stuff being built in Scheme right now and you can benefit from it. PLT Scheme (which is free) comes bundled with a powerful continuations-based webserver, for example.
Because ideas, cultures, and people are not equal. If you don't believe in judging people like Hitler that is your right. But the reward you reap is an uglier world than the one America helped to build.
No
Complete and utter bullshit.
References or downmod.
Yep, you're guaranteed to achieve new heights of civility after reading that post. You betcha.
Because I fell in love with Scheme and because of the emacs situation. I'd like to be using emacs, it's just that retraining my hands to do things the emacs way is a project I don't want to be working on while I'm learning other, more interesting things. Like the mysteries of the Scheme cosmos. So I'm using Scheme (PLT Scheme). The editor never makes you think about basic stuff and the language is beautiful.
It's predictable that British Airways would think that this isn't a good deal for the "British people".
The exciting part is that this could be the start of air travel in the US that doesn't make it seem like you're being punished...
They probably caught him when he stopped by the police station to stick his tongue out at them and say "nanny nanny foo foo."
It is of course entirely possible that I'm wrong and you simply don't care about torture. That you meant to say that it doesn't matter.
Assuming I'm not wrong, what you wrote still objectively implied exactly what I said. That's because you used a word which weakened both clauses of your sentence by setting them against each other. Instead of using a functionally identical word which would have intensified both clauses.
With your incompetent command of the English language you managed to say:
People complain about Western countries using torture [though this doesn't matter]. Our torturing isn't that bad compared to this.
Instead of:
People complain about Western countries using torture [of course this greatly matters]. [And] Our torturing isn't [even] that bad compared to this.
Originally you were just a bad writer. Now that you're actively defending your incompetent writing, you're completely wrong about something. Here's a clue: when you're in a hole, don't dig down.
SOP for the GOP.
Republicans hate government. When put in charge, they appoint industry cronies to sabotage it.
Loretta?
From touching his dick to being a dick, what an improvement!
Yeah, really. My despise for Bush is spilling over onto this new Democratic Congress. Impeachment's off the table. They don't issue subpoenas for their "investigations". Nonbinding resolutions that they can't get passed. They're pathetic.
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The story about how to make secure home.
Really cool site!
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As scary as that many Muslim groups openly strive for Islamist states. Although of course as in most groups most Muslims just live their daily lives and don't bother with such politics.
because news reports may be biased to present Muslims in a particularly sinister light.
No, most negative news about Muslims is not reported at all in mainstream media or they are simply called "youths" or other general terms such as with the riots in France. The media in Europe is very left wing and politically correct generally.
OTP is the one that stumped me too.
Wow, nice to see a good deed getting "punished" in the right way.
I'm not sure if this is accurate, but a friend of mine never let his employers deposit his paychecks electronically. He stated, "The form you sign that lets them put money INTO your account also allows them to WITHDRAW money from your account. You have been warned."
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The Left would get more credibility if they didn't share the Right's tactic of endlessly repeating false stories that have been debunked. I stopped reading after the Rolling-Stone 3rd point, 2 was a gross over-simplification as well.
BTW, I voted for the Democrats both times.
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The article mentions that you can scroll the page up when you read to the bottom.
I'm pretty sure that, with some ingenuity, most of the problems people can come up with will be solved. The mouse will be better for some things, but for general use eye-tracking technology isn't automatically going to fail.
Is this more vegan propaganda?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll#Specific_trolling_subcultures
Look no further than the electrical station, where the two youths running from cops died, being setup as a MEMORIAL and the opposition party using it as a photo-op.
Lack of libraries suck. It's not that some stuff isn't there, but it is often in a form less polished than in other options or, you have to build the whole thing for yourself. You have to roll a lot on your own and, if CL per se is a huge time saver, it ends up not compensating because of this lack of libraries, documentation and help. A lot is accomplished "behind the scenes" by contractors, but that stuff never makes it to the general community. Besides, any CL commercial implementation appears to loose to a mature Smalltalk implementation in the "plays nice with others" and "have many goodies" arena, such as VisualWorks.
Some vendor stuff is substandard - for instance, Franz likes to charge a lot, but they won't even give you a decent IDE for Mac OS, and their Linux IDE took a long time. LispWorks' previous version for Mac OS was a damn shame (the thing didn't even start).
Also, the community is, by comparison, not very much productive. There is nothing like the buzz that goes on in the, say, Python community. There aren't that many decent tools. And some stuff is much talked about and so little documented as to render it useless (or just a waste of time, when you can reach for another solution in antoher language). Besides, they are hypercritics. Common Lispers like to say that stuff like continuations is "academic", but we've watched how this "academic" discussion made its way into Real World discussion about web servers.
The language seem to be losing ground. I can't see very well where it's going. Future applications will involve complex and distributed solutions and I don't see Common Lisp heading that way.
I see the ML (MLTon, Alice, OCaml, F# - SML being used for the next EcmaScript specification), Haskell and Scheme camp moving, however. Java and "the sharps" moving (F# ?! Wow!). Is CL moving? At a much slower pace, it seems. The fact that CL is a standard is a double-edged sword. CL doesn't seem to be used for a testbed of programming concepts, as it once was. In the Lisp family, Scheme is still pouring out papers and ideas, but not CL. It just sort of froze. The CL community on Usenet today doesn't seem as sophisticated as it once was.
I see Common Lisp commercial implementations as pretty good, provided you want to invest a huge amount of time in building stuff that you can just reach for in C++ and Java...Is it worth it, these days, to invest a huge amount of time in Common Lisp? Everything is so tied to vendors...Will my vendor be here in 15 years time? Maybe vendors will just linger on, largely tied to the corporations that invested so much in Lisp...Sort of like Cobol and Forth...
On the Scheme camp, on the other hand, I would love to see DrScheme be less "academic", less for "learning languages." There are no usefull Scheme for instance for web servers. For numerical computations (one that would include a cross-platform GUI and that is a spead freak). And the object systems in Scheme are half-baked CLOSes. R5RS isn't ready for prime-time and I'm very hopefull that R6RS will become accepted.
Dylan, oh Dylan, where are you Dylan?...A hard sell in 2007.
There are too many details and so few ready-made solutions...To be frank, thinking non-Java, non-C++, non-Python-Ruby-shit, Smalltalk vendors seem to offer more bang for the money.
I make this out of it: guys make a pig drunk, put it into a straightjacket, and shoot it into the sky. When it got down, it had escaped from the straightjacket! It's all a Houdini act, by a pig!
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From the investment genius's latest annual letter to shareholders.
I was not condoning it in any way, I was simply saying that you can't ignore the scientific achievements because many people died. The same goes for the Nazi camps where they performed similar experiments: it's a horrid atrocity, however, there were advancements in our understanding of the limits of human endurance from these experiments.
I think the Reddit community is overly "touchy feely" about such issues.
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making the victims death even less worthy.
Are you a Utilitarian? It certainly sounds like you are. Here's how you can tell: if you use real numbers to compute what a person's life is worth then you're a Utilitarian. And certainly by saying that you can subtract X number (value of medical research) from Y number (value of a human life) then you're using something that's got most of the properties of real numbers. The problem of course is that Utilitiarianism is a bunch of unjustifiable shite. The alternative to using real numbers is to use transfinite numbers. But if you use transfinite numbers then subtracting aleph(0) (eg, the integers) from aleph(1) (the reals) gets you aleph(1). So subtracting the value of medical research gained from the value of someone's life yields ... someone's life.
They don't make any case at all for it to be impeachable.
Hmm interesting to see that socialist presidential candidate getting political gain from some petty Muslim criminals getting killed from their own stupidity. I hate that kind of left scum in Europe. They are doing all the work for Muslim extremists.
"Read it, it was his money."
Then the title is a lie.
Your mistake is to regard the news biz as different in any fundamental way from the paperback novel biz. Sometimes paperbacks are "inspired by a true story", too. In the end, it has to sell.
what's the point if you still have to use your hand to click the button? Also, someone raised a good point: where your eyes take you and where you're mouse is being used are generally two different things...
So you believe that ideas, cultures and people of a nation is all homogeneous, and that the actions and directions of a tyrant is the will of the people?
No wonder the world hates Americans.
Check out EyeDraw. It provides a nice way of distinguishing between "looking" and "drawing".
He's allowed to keep it because he legally bought it.
Not sure this is correct. Legally buying a stolen good doesn't mean you get to keep it, IIRC. He's only being able to keep it because they haven't figured out who it should go to.
The problem isn't the unions. The problem is precisely the use of unions for simplistic republican-style hot-button flashpoints, and then actively creating an adversarial relationship with teachers and their unions for political ends; and people like you (even if you seem more reasonable sounding than most) who have no experience in the system, and have not been at the target end of this dispicable tactic.
Here is the only soft "evidence" I care to provide: If you blame America's education problem to be due to teacher's unions, check other countries... do they have the same problem to the same extent? Here's a list to get you started in your investigation...
http://www.globaleducation.org/unions.htm
And i can assure you virtually all of the stats on the linked blog entry are bogus or meaningless in reality. Teaching is not like other jobs. You can not compare very meaningfully to industry and business, which is the first classic mistake of so many of these short sighted, history ignorant, never ending critiques. And people seem not to grasp this. Because they don't have the experience. The people with the experience are marginalized, because they grouped in with the "problem" and therefore considered merely self-serving (ie. in the union).
Yeah, my mom's a teacher. And one of the hardest working people I have ever known. So you'll forgive me perhaps when posts like this just make me want to puke.
There are lazy teachers, and bad teachers; but worse than both lazy teachers and bad teachers combined, are outsider idiots from the business and political community that make the problems infinitely worse.
No quote, I see, just lying non-quote.
All you creeps have are lies.
"Ann's Jedi Mind Trick At CPAC"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794646/posts
Downmodded for (poorly written) content.
Yeah, nice how these impoverished multinationals steal ideas again. CocaCola stole from another b3ta.com contributor Joel Veitch, but happily he won his case - and donated the money to charity!
worst article EVAR
Looks like this is their new business model. How many people do they have to extort to make up for low album sales?
Could you elaborate on what you find "hideous" in Perl 6 (or beautiful in Python or Ruby.)
Ann's Jedi Mind Trick At CPAC
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794646/posts
You're implying that Iraq was responsible for 9/11 and thus a deserving target for revenge. It was obviously false then, and it's even more obviously false now.
old
How about submitting that again, direct to the fhm site? (i.e. non-linkjacked version?)
1) Just accept the stuff that would make any sane and compassionate person angry and hateful.
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Reminds me of a stand-up comedian who said "There's nothing ironic about rain on your wedding day... Unless you're marrying a meteorologist and he set the date."
FTA,
Texas police officer Gilmer Hernandez sits in a federal prison in Del Rio County, Texas for the crime of shooting at the rear tires of a van after the driver attempted to run the officer over. The catch is the van was filled with illegal immigrants.
AP heads article: "cartoons Still Costing Denmark"
From article:
"Denmark's exports to Muslim countries fell by more than 11[...]"
"But overall, Danish exports grew by 9 percent last year to $97 billion. Exports to the 57 countries in the Organization of the Islamic Conference represent only 2.5 percent of all Danish exports."
Seems AP is a bit slanted here.
Yeah, that's the ticket!
back to front? absurd!
I want news not hardcore...well maybe some Hardcore Olbermann bashing O'Reilly... thats pretty good.
There are just too many idiots out there who would listen to anything. I don't even want to spend any time to comment on Ann Coulter and her opinions. She is at her last straw of surviving in this circle. Even the worst comment is giving her the credit she does not deserve. It is simply a joke that any credible organization would invite her to speak, and yet the Conservative Political Action Conference invited her as their "keynote speaker". It says so much about the organizing body of this conference and people who attended it: A bunch of idiots.
I drive an SUV. My parents gave it to me when it finally broke down and required more than blue-book to fix. I paid the $1200 and fixed it, because it's still a good car and it gets me around fine. If I could, I would drive a more efficient, earth-friendly car, but this is what I have and I don't have money for another car right now.
I don't have collision, so if some asshole like this prick torches my car so that he can make a political statement, I can't go to work, I can't go to school, I'm basically up shit-creek.
In fact, my SUV was badly vandalized once when I was in Vermont, and I still have the glorious key markings down one side to show for it. So, some asshole keyed my car to make a political statement about something I really had no choice in (since I don't have any money to buy a new car) and I'm stuck with their statement now, which is effectively permanent.
My point is that someone who goes around throwing molitov cocktails at property which does not belong to them is dispicable. If he had done this to me, I would have suffered extraordinary hardship, and some of his victims may be now suffering such hardship. I'm in favor of giving him hard hard time. That means no Science, no Nature, no physics textbooks, no calculus classes--nothing. Additionally, I think that after his release, he should have damages automatically deducted from his pay until he has paid back the 5 million + interest to his victims.
Do the math. 72 virgins per martyr only goes so far. They had to replenish the stocks at some point.
The irony is that DrScheme has mostly the same keybinding as emacs. Just the "simple" ones like copy&paste are changed like in Aquamacs.
coulter has her own issues to work through, clearly.
Ah, a concern troll. How special.
No wonder the world hates Americans.
WW2 Germany or Japan at least had as much popular support as Bush does in America. What does that tell you?
Looks like a nice day in Hawaii. I'm jealous.
This is on the science subreddit?
The red ones are from Mars and the green ones are from Venus.
Indeed he is.
Let's all stop using a statistical approach here, and get down to what the grand*3parent post said: Consider that your parents are some mean bastards, and that they agree I pay them three million dollars in order to torture and kill you. I'll get away with it, no prison time and nothing spent on my part except for the money. Would that be right? Or suppose I didn't pay the parents but instead paid the money to the government or some other entity that your life is spent serving. I don't think that would be right at all, and that considering the value of human life on this level shouldn't be allowed. You can talk about the metaphorical appraisal of human life in terms of lifetime income or amount of money spent on safety to save the lives of x humans. But it is wrong to consider human life or suffering in economical terms when deciding what is interpersonal measures (prison, debt etc.) can be taken. It certainly goes against my notion of ethics. Human life and welfare must be insulated against such appraisals, because it gives far too much power to those who perform well in the capitalist system. It is well and good that not everybody is created equal, but there are some limits to what rights the powerful have.
Yeah, what you "meant to say" required a whole other sentence to explicate. A sentence which you somehow for some inexplicable reason just happened to omit. How stupid are you?
I'm being a pedant because the "one word" really is completely wrong. Kinda like the difference between 'yes' and 'no'.
Oh and I can prove that my interpretation is correct based on the way the human brain acquires language. Can you say the same?
Finally, with a score of -6 at present, it's not "just me" who "misinterpreted" what you meant to say. So you're wrong yet again. Do you ever get tired of digging?
These folks call themselves christian but they are very far from it!
Wow. I guess there is no limit to the reach of Putin's grasp.
The pacing is a tad slow and the sound doesn't make up for it. Needs more energy.
and maybe we could call it nsfw.reddit.com? (:
Good point. Better check and see what The Conservapedia has to say about it.
Oh, nothing apparently. I guess there's no story, then.
Um, this is bad. Really bad.
Like, Putin doesn't even care about being subtle.
He's about as smart as ChenBush.
Very misleading. Right after the quote on the blog:
Mr. Rumsfeld and his aides, who include close adviser Stephen Cambone, are sifting through the thousands of pages of documents generated during his tenure.
The Pentagon official said former secretaries are entitled to a transition office to sort papers, some of which can be taken with them for a library, for archives or to write a book.
Does this give him access to new documents, or any sort of decision-making power or even advisory status? It doesn't sound like it.
Right! We Americans just voted in a new majority in Congress because we wanted Congress to be powerless to stop the Bush Administration from dismantling of our Democracy.
Agreed.. I agree with the sentiment, but it's lacking in real substance.
"A message has been communicated to anyone who wants to speak out against the Kremlin: 'If you do, no matter who you are, where you are, we will find you, and we will silence you -- in the most horrible way possible,' " Joyal said.
Obviously, monumental slander like this couldn't be left without response...
Well, it's my opinion that he agreed to appear on her show just to talk about how sentences should be increased, but he instead used her show to not only retract what he had said earlier, but to make himself look like he is very supportive of abductees and is, in fact, the hero in the story. I bet that the message he gave was pretty different from the Oprah Show thought he was going to give.
There has been backlash from the show's fans, who feel that Oprah shouldn't have let him on her show at all. He had said some terrible things about the Hornbeck kidnapping, and Oprah's viewers don't think it was appropriate for him to appear on her show. So I think the whole O'Reilly appearance was a mis-step for the show.
More hypocrisy, bigotry, and cruelty from the people who brought you Iraq. Why are people even surprised at anything Ann Coulter says? That this woman has such a large audience is part of what makes America look so incredibly frighteningly evil in the eyes of the rest of the world.
Unless they want to make a point...
I'm sure it's just a coincidence...again.
Really. My time would be much better spent hunting down and firing anybody in my department who isn't playing ball and replacing them with political cronies. Come back when I'm done, and my new staff will be more than happy to lose^h^h^h^h do something about your requests.
What I am saying is the mouse and keyboard make actions asynchronous. If you have everything through where you look it is synchronous.
It will take a lot of milk cartons to put all of the pictures of the missing bees on.
Well prisons are run by the bullies in high school that decide they want to make a career of it. In prison they get to escalate the abuse and do so legally.
I agree it sill probably be a good technology and over time will get better but its still a synchronous action. If everythign is with your eye then it puts all tasks on that device. Right now we use computers asynchronously with the keyboard and mouse.
They point out that swine and chicken industry cause more suffering on the animals involved and environmental impacts compared to the beef industry(which also has higher product yield per animal). I hadn't thought about vegetarianism from that aspect. <--- edit - the aspect of animal yield.
edit#2 - Cornell says chicken is more efficient. Yet chickens are inherently more disgusting to me for some reason.
Myself, I'm not a big fan of factory meat as a rule. Range fed tastes better.
BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
After three suspected liberals were expelled from a 2005 Bush event in Denver, then-WH spokesman Scott McClellan blamed the incident on GOP volunteers. This week, witnesses directly contradicted McClellan, saying that removing possible dissenters was WH policy. WH staffers were also investigated for impersonating Secret Service agents, but findings have been suppressed by the Denver U.S. Attorney's office.
It tells me the German people have evolved beyond such blatant insanity and the Americans haven't. The jury's still out on Japan.
Yeah, we don't want the Object Management Group involved.
In otherwords, this isn't about vegetarianism, it is a hairshirt-environmental-activist jeremiad. Just what we need more of. Not.
pop-up screamers would be the most successful popup. If you think about it marketers want this because they want to see what draws your eye, I prefer them not knowing otherwise you will be walking into ads non stop.
How would that come about?
Are you a Utilitarian? It certainly sounds like you are.
No, I just don't think that human life is precious just because it's human life. How long have we held onto this belief that human life is precious? I believe it comes from years and years of religion being the only non-government source ethics and information that people had.
Europe has obviously learnt nothing, and the current young generation thinks Hitler was just another bad leader, like Bush.
You are wrong, the horrors of WW2 made Europe and especially Germany very pacifist.
As briefly mentioned here
What I thought was even more shocking was the hearty applause Ann received after making the comment. Clearly she strikes a chord in the conservative movement.
No miracle about it. It's called neurolingustics.
Lucky he isn't a redhead... somehow, all redheads look exactly alike. To the point of absurdity.
When I was 22, I was working in this godawful furniture factory, no bank account, so on payday I'd drop by the bank the check was against, get it cashed. I walk in, wait in line, and one of the bank associates (or whatever in the hell they're called, one with an office) walks out, and starts harassing me.
"Dave (my name is John), I need to let you know that the check you wrote for blahblahblah was just returned for insufficient funds and that you need to take care of that immediately."
"I'm sorry, do I know you?"
"Yes, you tried to blahblahblah. Listen, it's no big deal, you're already cashing your check..."
(I hold up the check in front of me, shows my name.)
(He looks at me funny, like I'm pulling a scam.)
Finally, after 10 minutes of convincing him, I feel safe that the cops haven't been silently alerted.
And that's one of many stories. It gets so bad that I'm starting to have suspicions that redheads constitute their own anthropological race. I'm damned lucky a redhaired bank robber hasn't ever made the news, I'd be fucked.
This is making the rounds on arms control sites and the thinking amongst most of those guys is that it is a missile.
perhaps this:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/images/slamer01.jpg
http://www.defense-update.com/products/s/slam-er.htm
Hey, I dunno, I'm just quoting the "experts".
No, Japan surrendered to the US because of the huge Russian forces first invading southern Sakhalin, that had once been split between Russia and Japan. It took them four days before the Japanese front was broken and the fight was down hill.
That is the exact reason the history books give, because that is the exact reason Emperor Hirohito gave for surrender. If the US had just asked for the Japanese surrender, once Russia had started invading their own country (Sakhalin, which came after Manchuria, North Korea and all the conqured Japanese lands) they would have accepted it anyway.
Soviet Union and American air forces had been tense for a while before then, and even afterwards Soviet fighters diverted any US military planes even flying near their territory, which all lead into the cold war.
So no, the US dropped the bomb solely to try to intimidate Russia, because Japan would have surrendered to them anyway.
Yeah, I spent most of the time it was on wondering why the red guys had to fight the green guys. Is it just because they're different colours? It came across as weirdly racist to me.
This blogrant is a load of manure.
While Fundie Christians may be (are) frustrating pains in the butt, the writers calls them a terrorist organization, which is a ridiculous and insulting hyper-exaggeration which serves only to try to minimize the perceived threat from REAL terrorists.
Utter dreck.
Tired of commercial ads voted up.
If they were trying to get you to come buy the product in the store, where they hit you with a higher price, it could be a bait and switch. But the way Best Buy uses it is they operate the online site as a separate store. So a lot of times they have lower prices or other deals that are online only, in which case they are actually trying to get you to purchase online, which does not constitute a bait and switch.
Besides, Best Buy's black letter policy is to match BestBuy.com prices, so even if it's cheaper online, you are entitled to the cheaper online price if you buy in-store (barring an "Online only" sale)
Actually the FBI aren't just letting him keep it and the law isn't designed for rich people.
The law is and always has been that the only person with a claim of title better than a direct thief (steal from owner) is the true owner. So even if he stole the painting only the true owner (or their heir) has the right to take painting back. The law is designed so that it's not a free for all once an item is stolen or the true owner can't be found (A steals from B, C then thinks since B is a thief he can steal it without repurcussions). This is the meaning of the saying possession is 9/10ths the law.
Whether Spielburg knew it was stolen has absolutely no legal significance on whether he gets to keep it or not. Your claim to property is only as good as the person you got it from.
Confiscating the property of drug dealers etc. as "evidence" is the exception (often a constitutional questionable one), not the rule.
The law would apply just as much to you as it would to Spielburg.
"I did not follow the brouhaha that erupted following Natalie Maines' statement criticizing George Bush in 2003 because frankly I assumed that most good Texans were embarrassed and ashamed to be from the same state as Bush so I thought it was just one of those self-evident statements, (sky is blue, grass is green, ashamed of Bush.etc), that people would ignore and then move on to controversial matters like should the United States ever invade a country because we believe that they might do us some unknown harm at some later date or would it be better to wait until we have concrete proof of an eminent attack."
Holy run-on sentences, Batman!
this is just coffeehousing
In that spirit:
but doesn't Python have fewer parens
It has fewer braces for that reason -- which nobody seemed to mind having, even if they couldn't agree on where to put them. For parens, however, it has as many as C, minus casting, plus tuple literals.
When I asked that question I thought only of function-calls, where Python and CL clearly do not differ in paren-count, but then you have:
LET and like: for N bound variables and M nil variables, CL has N*2+2+2 extra parens.
Variable assignment, any toplevel declaration that Python would have direct syntax for (importing modules, say): CL has 2 extra parens.
So CL indeed has very many more parens than Python or any of the languages I considered, and morever even an obviously special and well-cared-for type like the list will use these same parens. Likewise, module-management and conditional execution and exception-handling and looping (oh, that ITER thing throws all of LOOP's gains away -- as if they -wanted- more parens!) are more special in Python than in CL.
Perl6 rid IF of parens entirely:
if $a > 5 { say "OK." }
-- and in doing so added a small whitespace-sensitivity which has offended some perlers.
...
So I think you have a classical conservation of magic, here, with s-expressions (note: CL has special syntax for comments!) as the absolute purge of magic from syntax into 'something else' (semantics? jmcantrell's stomach? --there are many elses.) and with other languages progressively pulling more magic from 'something else' and putting it into syntax, so as to annihilate parens.
The first magic-redistribution area looks to be variable assignment: Lisp had (guessing:) SET, and then SETQ, and now SETF -- with its null-magic s-expressions, Lisp easily grew to have friendlier and more powerful kinds of assignment, and -safely-, without having to throw itself down the stairs and give itself a new name.
...
But then, when CL programmers put magic into the syntax -- to add currying, say -- where do they get it from? Is there a magic<->complexity bridge somewhere, that might also explain Perl?
Keep in mind the words "just a dream" and also watch how they "smoke".
OK, so you are one of them "peak oil" apocalyptists. Fine. You may have a point, but energy scarcity hardly addresses my point, ie; we are all in this together, all around the world people are increasingly realizing this, and as such, the time when regionalism or nationalism can be used as a rational basis for conflict, is coming to an end. You may dissagree with that, which is fine --we need pessimists because they keep us on our toes, I choose to be an optimist-- but if you do, instead of changing the subject back to "what the story is about" (like I couldn't figure that out for myself?) why don't you address my argument with counter arguments of your own? Why would it take an increase in energy? Why does increasing energy scarcity have to be a zero-sum game in which national and regional players compete for an all or nothing prize? Answer me! You are obviously one of those Sam Huntington "Clash of Civilizations" adherents. I don't/can't see it that way. I argue that a sphere of intelligent people, an informal global network, exists whose members have more in common with each other in that they eschew violence and direct conflict, then they do with the forces of regionalism or nationalism. These people are the answer. I think we are smart enough to get out of this jam; you think we're not. Don't give me a blanket statement of your version of the facts; tell me why we can't do it! Tell me why we can't evolve!
If nothing else, at least in being hopeful, I have something to work for. But you, you've already made your decision. What's left? Resignation? I'm not going out like that.
I'm calmer than you are and I'm not afraid.
You're only stealing from other customers and shareholders, hardly any of which had anything to do with this.
I personally know two teachers who were fired for pushing students to think. One of them was only kidding at that. The other taught chem. School is about getting good grades, not learning. Duh!
I sincerely hope you're being satirical.
Funny, on the same page was a comic showing two examples of what gives America the right to collect taxes.
http://www.livefreenow.org/images/cartoons/cartoon7.gif
I'm really NOT that prone to conspiracy theory, but there sure seem to be a lot of odd happenings around the Litvenenko case...
Do you realize that outside of the USA religion plays no role in either ethics or morality? And that even inside the USA it plays absolutely no role in any moral philosophy department? Unless maybe at a bible college? You're maybe three centuries behind the times, because even Immanuel Kant writing in the middle of the 18th century didn't use religion to back up his moral arguments.
By the way, kudos on devolving yourself from a Utilitarian to a primitive unenlightened savage. Oh wait, they're the same thing. Never mind.
It never is a language problem with CL. It's always an implementation problem.
Hardly surprising. You don't really expect hippie squatters to have much respect for property rights.
And from what I've heard, police in Scandinavian countries generally treat suspects with kid gloves and their jails are more like country clubs so there's not that much consequence to acting out.
Yeah, Jedi mind trick. It doesn't take much to put thoughts in some people's heads. They quote her. She used "but" and "so." This is not a series of nonsequiturs, it's a single sentence with a couple of conjunctions in it.
It doesn't matter though. I think it's a mistake for people to decry the fact that most of the media aren't talking about this. It's not news when a person who lives off spreading ignorance spreads some more. My cat took a crap this morning. That's not news either.
Well, I prefer Scheme to CL, simply because of how clean Scheme is.
And some people have upped my comment, so there.
There are people here who've defended torture.
And given you have no understanding of how language works, I daresay you don't understand human psychology either.
They are right, but that's not saying much.
Legalize it, tax it, non-issue
Yep, you've covered it. Thanks. Didn't mean to attack your post by the way, I was just getting myself a little too deep into the semantics of my own argument.
I wouldn't doubt it if there's also some sort of parallax effect going on, which might explain why the blue artifact is offset from the direction in which the plane is travelling, however, speed is definitely one of the causes.
Notice in this example the plane has a blue artifact, but its shadow -- which is on ground level -- also has it's own greyish artifact. Also, if you look at the street behind the plane, you'll see red and blue artifacts in front of most of the moving vehicles. What I don't get is why the effect seems inconsistent when it comes to ground vehicles. I can find numerous examples of cars in other places that I know are moving faster than these ones but display no such artifacts.
This reminds me of eroguro.
Wikipedia article-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ero_guro
Encyclopedia Dramatica article-http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Guro (That link is Nsfw, or sanity)
God bless you
structures? molecular vibration.
Nope, I'm quite happy wiht it how it is :p I think I put a period instead of a comma by accident.
Haha, that's awesome. That song drives me nuts.
I'm guessing almost none of these pictures were taken from a mountain. I'm also guessing almost none of these were taken from a commercial airliner. The probability of a typical person getting these kinds of clouds (base lower than a building, top no higher than a building) while being at the appropriate altitude is very low. So yes, there is value for us not lucky enough to see these kinds of scenes whenever we want.
If your measure of image value is primarily based on suitability for desktop wallpaper... well, that's too bad.
Are you sure? Which period are you referring to there?
Why does he call smart code "dumb code?"
Watch as all the local start cheering for the other team and not for the locals.
(Unlikely that non-supporters will travel for the non-local team)
Exactly my point. Each of those you name took action based on conscience, and none of them denied their actions. Am I missing your point?
From now on, I think everyone in the press corps should refer to him as "Senior Administration Official Cheney". I want to hear David Gregory call him that at the next press gaggle with Tony Snow.
I prefer OCaml for a mix of functional and imperative (it even has that dreaded OO :))
let () =
let window = GWindow.window ~title:"Hello" ~border_width:10 () in
window#connect#destroy ~callback:GMain.Main.quit;
let button = GButton.button ~label:"Hello World" ~packing:window#add () in
button#connect#clicked ~callback:window#destroy;
window#show ();
GMain.Main.main ()
Seems we all lost a long time ago... Lost our Constitution, lost our self-respect, lost our standing in the world, lost our budget surplus...
So uh, gee, thanks, Mr. Gonzales, but we don't have much left to lose. Therefore, why don't you just shut your fucking mouth and do what Congress tells you to do, eh?
Sometimes, designers try too hard to couple things together.
Why not have an eye tracker and a mouse? I can see a lot of potential in that. Use the primary hand to push a mouse pointer. Use an eye tracker to direct a second invisible pointer (as described in the article). Use your secondary hand's thumb to issue clicks for the eye tracker from the keyboard (like a laptop's buttons).
This would suck for most games.
I can imagine it being disorientating if eye tracking scrolled the view, like in a first-person shooter, maybe even induce motion sickness.
Actually, I'm not a christian.
And I'm usually the first guy to start castigating extreme or fundamentlist christians for their various fuckwittery.
Nevertheless, to pretend that the minority fundamentalist wing of Christianity that's so vocal and politically powerful in the USA represents all christians in the world is completely fucking ridiculous.
Let's do some maths, shall we? It's common knowledge that the extreme right-wing fundamentalist variety of Christianity is almost exclusively an American problem.
The worldwide population of Christianity is... around 2.1 billion. The population of the USA is around 300 million.
If every person in the USA was a fundamentalist xtian, that would still be only 2,100,000,000,000 / 300,000,000... or one in seven thousand people.
I know it's a problem in the USA, and you have my profound sympathies for the shit you must have to put up with, but to generalise from the tiny, tiny minority of people you interact with to every christian in the world isn't just stupid - it's intellectually dishonest.
You guys are both wrong. The catch is that if the pig doesn't escape from the straitjacket BEFORE he touches down, he gets eaten. The booze was his handicap, because this pig was actually a famous porcine escape artist who had done this several times before, and these guys were tired of losing bets on him.
No, the first rule of P.R. has always been lie, lie, lie or they would never get anything done when they don't have anything to deny.
That's what I told the cop and the judge the last time I got a speeding ticket: I think everyone loses if I spend all my time worrying about fines and jailtime, if I spend all my time appearing to respond in court.
Presumably, because you live in the USA.
More power to parents would be a good start. Many parents are Unversity educated and well placed to assess how their own children are getting on.
pretty good idea lmao
Perl is just great, IMHO, in the abstraction-packing arena. That weird looking code is just chock full of visual cues of abstraction. For me, that's a feature, not a bug. I would speculate that it's probably something Larry Wall borrowed from symbolic/pictorial languages, such as Chinese and Japanese.
People say Perl code is unreadable but, until real studies in language usability are conducted, they can't really claim that. For all we know, those visual abstraction-packed cues may be actually easier on the brain. This is a profound subject that borders on psycholinguistics and cognition studies and, to my knowledge, nothing has been investigated in the sense wrt Perl. Python's "clean" code, maybe we'll find out, puts programmers to sleep, because regularity is boring.
For the last time I do not blame the teachers unions for existing, I blame them for some of their policies! I do not advocate eliminating the unions (as I agree many conservatives do), but fixing the broken policies. The fact that other countries also have unions proves nothing, unless they have the same policies.
I never implied (nor do I believe) that there are not many good teachers in the current system. I just believe that the good teachers are not sufficiently rewarded.
Yeah, my mom's a teacher. And one of the hardest working people I have ever known. So you'll forgive me perhaps when posts like this just make me want to puke.
I will not. How would your mother feel about you responding to my polite appeals to reason with emotional and insulting language?
This isn't a problem with privatization, it's a problem with bad government contracts. If a private company agrees to pay $120 million for crappy service, it clearly has poor management, and probably won't last very long. If the government does, we blame "privatization"?
I'm with you - we live in the real world, and in the real world there exists a need for intelligence agencies, and intelligence agencies can't do their business on an open stage for all to see.
Having said that, it's interesting to me that you explicitly wrote "US citizens". If you're a US citizen (like me), aren't you the slightest bit embarrassed by cases like that of Maher Arar? Besides, the actions of the CIA in particular aren't what I was getting at... It's that these things are happening within the context of a culture that seems to think that "civil liberties" is some sort of dirty, liberal catchphrase for "we love Osama bin Laden".
This is very messed up.
Why do we keep putting the wrong cops in jail?
I know, what is his job, if it isn't first to satisfy Congress?
-- edit --
Yo, this isn't sarcasm, stop downmodding me into oblivion! :)
You should put a [Dvorak] tag in the title to let us know when you post an article by the tech equivalent of Ann Coulter.
Conservatives said they are frustrated and angry, and blamed the GOP's massive losses in the 2006 elections on Republicans who deviated from a hard-line conservative agenda. The mood puts added pressure on a slew of GOP presidential candidates set to speak to the meeting today.
Did you ever notice how whenever a movement falls apart, the reason offered is never that the ideology behind it was simply wrong, but rather because people didn't follow it correctly?
It's not that there's something wrong with conservatism, it's the these people aren't conservative enough. It's not that communism can't work, it's that it's never really been tried. Etc.
Pacific Sunrise sets a new standard in Whitsunday Island cruises definately worth a look if you are thinking of coming to this part of the world.
Probably a field with a circular irrigation system. The arm is at the three o'clock position in the Google photo.
It also has 2 contrails visible so it must have 2 engines like a plane.
Warning: This is a John C. Dvorak article.
Well, someone isn't subtle. I'm not sure that Putin is behind this though. This column is still relevant: http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10228
that' kind of old news, isn't it?
I've never seen the term "illegals" used in a respectable publication. Seems like the anti-PC variety of political correctness.
I don't think pot should be prescribed or even endorsed as a medicine without extensive testing to make sure it's effective and safe.
Nevertheless, it has been extensively studied, and has been found to not be nearly as dangerous to health as alcohol or tobacco.
Do I think something should be endorsed as medical treatment without extensive testing? No.
Do I think kids should be made into criminals for doing nothing morally wrong to anyone? No.
Do I think the extensive tests which have demonstrated cannabis or TCH can have beneficial medical effects should be utterly disregarded because of blind historical prejudices and misinformation in the USA then exported to the rest of the world? No.
And FWIW, alternative medicine is complete fucking shit. People should be able to take what they want, but if they believe it's efficaceous without a single shred of scientific proof, they're idiots. If they want taxpayers to pay for it or dispense it in hospitals, they're fucking idiots. And if the producers want to claim it's efficaceous without scientific proof, they should be locked away for fraud.
ha ha match me on a blunt
One sees similar reports on a regular basis. The surprise factor here is not that a grossly obese woman's weight could mask her pregnancy, but that some man had to have had sex with her to start with.
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Maybe now you'll wake up and see that you only have the two wings of the same party to choose from?
Can you point to the post where jmillikin mentions the problem you are talking about? I was under the impression that jmillikin was talking about "imperative-style" vs. "lisp-style", the difficulty of using the former in Common Lisp, and the difficulty of "translating" his projects to the latter. All I can see in relation to "availability of bindings" is the first conjunct in the first paragraph of the first post (i.e., "Lack of libraries").
When you speak of "Writing such a binding", what do you mean? What is wrong with the current bindings? See, jmillikin couldn't find a specific example, and neither did you, so how am I to know what's wrong with "lisp-style" and right with "imperative-style" as found in the Haskell library?
But really, how do you expect me to write all these libraries for you without telling me what's wrong!? Of course, when I'll find out the difference, I'll throw away the old "lisp-style" and replace it with the shiny new Python-like, Haskell-like "imperative-style", just to make you happy. Will you then give me those cookies? sad puppy face
"talk is cheap, show me the code".
Nah. I think "talk" is all you're going to get. But please work on your reading comprehension before your next post, and maybe try for a less imperative style, too.
Heh. Cannabis isn't solely responsible for paranoia, because many people take cannabis many times without getting paranoid.
But yeah, it can help. Much like alcohol can help cause all sorts of cancers, cirrhosis and death. ;-)
I don't see this replacing the mouse. The motivation behind virtual design is that people interact with the virtual world the same way they interact with the physical one. For eg, to highlight something, hand-eye co-ordination is needed as is with a picking up a physical object. People aren't used to controlling things with their eyes & thus not disciplined enough to work with a system using it (Oh! I glanced at the edge of my screen and the window has scrolled to the bottom of the screen. Remember to keep your eyes fixated! FIXATED!)
Programming Language Frogger?
There was once a competition on German BBS networks: Who can address an e-mail which crosses the most gateways between the incompatible networks? The time of Fido, Z-Netz, Maus, etc.
Who is the next crazy developer who runs FizzBuzz on an interpreter in an interpreter in an interpreter ...?
The link does not seem related to the post
Virginia lawmakers pass slavery apology-?
If you aren't the customer, you won't get service.
In a tax funded school, the government is the customer. You are the product. Your children are byproducts.
WTF...the japanese citizens were just as brutalized as the german citizens...just because a group of evil men committed atrocities, and got a military to go along with it, doesn't mean the civilians (japanese women and children) deserve the horrific effects of a nuclear bomb...after Japan tried to surrender.
No one should ever be happy about the suffering of innocent humans...whether they are chinese, japanese, german, french, iraqi, etc.
snap crap obscures article
And clearly Hirohito can be trusted.
The University of Maryland, College Park, located in Adelphi, has some very low crime stats listed for the town. I'm not crazy about conspiracy theories, but it's a pretty big coincidence in a town with such a low instance of crime.
Surfing porn just got much easier. Something else got harder.
Is that the same thing as qtk-quartz? http://ardour.org/node/730
Old? I think they've had the wedding and a kid already.
I was wondering the same thing. Why are the wings dark, except for two white stubs about where a Tomahawk's stubby wings would be? Here's what a real Tomahawk looks like, by the way.
This was the most amusing thing I've read all day.
Interesting article with a somewhat misleading title. The research cited actually draws between appearance and job market economics.
Correction: the expert was not murdered. He was shot and is in critical condition.
"has developed a novel user interface that is easy to operate."
I didn't realize it was hard to use a mouse.
How sooooo true!!!
Poor guy... You're mistaking bees with wasps/hornets.
Wasps/hornets do fly around ppl, not bees.
Bees dies after one sting, that's why they sting only if they're really threatened contrary to wasps/hornets.
Didn't see that coming.
I can't imagine what editing and nudging nodes in Illustrator or working of Photoshop for that matter.
This is great for disabled people but I'll stick with my tablet and mouse, thank you.
Awesome! Another blog spam site makes it onto the hot page!
They should ad health insurance.
And do you know that same kind of thing happened in France and was probably due to the use of Imidacloprid (an insecticide manufactured by Bayer Cropscience)?
Not in the least, but welcome to the internet. On your right you will find thousands of family oriented websites. On your left, you will find internet porn and white supremacist websites. In the middle you will find a disturbing amalgamation of both - Disney porn.
Actually, the real problem was with the focus group studies they used. The groups reported they liked the flavor of New Coke as a separate beverage. The problem was that the experimenters weren't allowed to ask the simple question "But could it replace Coke?" because that would give away their big secret plan. If "New Coke" had indeed been released separately (as something like "Phat Coke", because it's just Diet coke without the Diet) it would have been successful.
The, she is a pretty good looking she-male.
Why, then, after the war, were nearly all the scientists at Unit 731 freed? Why did Dr Josef Mengele, the Nazi 'Angel of Death' at Auschwitz, have to flee to South America and spend the rest of his life in hiding, while Dr Shiro Ishii died at home of throat cancer aged 67 after a prosperous and untroubled life?
The answer is that the Japanese were allowed to erase Unit 731 from the archives by the American government, which wanted Ishii's biological warfare findings for itself.
The State can always use better methods for killing people.
'Operation Paperclip' accomplished the same with the Germans: preserved their scientific weapons research and secret ops procedures for later use by the armed forces and the CIA.
I sense sarcasm... I didn't mean to imply that he should spend his every waking hour answering to Congress. Simply that it's the role of Congress to oversee the executive branch, and it would be awfully hard for even the most fervent Bush admirer to say that this administration has spent "all their time" answering to Congress.
As far as I can tell, those few who still support Bush seem to be A-OK with him as king. Turns out that's not our system of government.
Do you think the numbers of people getting green cards in the US may have something to do with the US handing them out?
Unlike the president of the US, was'nt Chavez actually elected into office?
This post STINKS!
I'm not sure I'd know where to find some programs, perhaps Wordpad, in part because I don't know what all their file names are. (Did you know that Word's file name is winword.exe?) At least it looks like the Browse dialog box starts you out at the Program Files folder, instead of My Documents, which is where I always seem to have to start from in XP.
A military coup that deposes Chavez and puts the country back on the road to sanity would not necessarily be a bad thing right now.
And this from a site that called 'The Liberty Papers'
How clueless can you get?
Ann Coulter calls John Edwards a "faggot" at biggest conservative conference of the year.
No need for conservatives to denounce a damn thing. Besides, this whole business of conservatives denouncing this and that is really getting to be insulting.
Synthetic cocaine?
it's clever, it's funny, it's well done... what's the problem? i'm starting to think this joint should be renamed "bitchit."
This is called "following a slippery slope." The LiteBrite "bomb" : this :: Britain, 1948 : "1984."
Actually I think the Germans are amongst those who learnt more than others from that war.
But reading the comments in Reddit, like the one I replied to, it's obvious many people here (Europeans is my impression, might be wrong) did NOT learn much: anyone who claims US and the Nazis are comparable, or that Bush is the same as Hitler, clearly knows nothing about the Nazis or Hitler, and thus have learnt nothing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform
However, if Spielberg knew the painting was stolen when he acquired it, then he would be guilty of the crime of receiving stolen property.
So... many... jokes... Must... resist...
Misleading title.
Dvorak's a tranny? OMG!
Just kidding.
Still, I have to wonder why people pay attention to him.
Come on John what is all this mumbo jumbo about God. I istened to everyone of you interviews before Christmas and could not help feeling that I was being conned by each of the official representatives put forward.
The reason why we have this strong affinity being displayed towards religion is that since the advent of Thatcher we have this person centric virew of society. By which I maen that individual wants have prevailed over the needs of all. As Long as we continue to place the individual at the centre of everything we will continue to have a belief in religious ideals that promulgate the desirablility ofself interest.
Only when we cast offf the religious mantra's of the self will we become a caring and better society for all
The article is missing the point of teacher's unions. Public schools exist to provide industry with docile workers who won't question authority. Too much actual education is detrimental to this process. Teacher's unions act as scapegoats, so that unions and administrations can blame each other for any problems, each giving the other an excuse for inaction. This why teacher's unions are still so prevalent, even while private sector unions are in decline. Unions don't make it impossible to fire teachers. The troublesome ones can always be gotten rid of, this example is on the reddit front page right now.
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2007/mar/02/teacher-calls-loss-of-job-a-mystery/
Jaime Escalante and John Taylor Gatto are two other examples. The U.S. education system is very successful at its true mission, it's just that that's different from its advertised mission. Gatto's book on the subject can be read online at
http://johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/
I don't use CL for two reasons: Libraries (as in not enough of) and sockets (as in which rocket scientist left those out of the specification?)
I had finally read enough PG to fork over the money for Practical Common Lisp, but when I realised that the webby stuff was done using proprietary socket libraries and that each commercial CL's proprietary socket library was incompatible with all the others, I said forget it and put the book on my long term storage bookshelf.
ah, ravers. They're so nutty.
but's what's hilarious is the number of weak-minded or sloppy thinkers who are OUTRAGED, OUTRAGED that "Ann Coulter called John Edwards a faggot!!!"
Haha! And now! Adding to that list of weak-minded and sloppy thinkers: Your Republican Presidential candidates Mitt Romney and John McCain! The article's so dumb, it insults itself.
HAML is another option. I think I'll stick with a Ruby/HTML combo. InfoQ had a look at common performance problems with rails, one of which includes excessive usage of Rails helpers. I wonder how Markaby or HAML effects performance?
"you could have had them pulled off in an accident..."
And from what I've heard, police in Scandinavian countries generally treat suspects with kid gloves and their jails are more like country clubs so there's not that much consequence to acting out.
Oh, that would be civilization you're grasping to describe right there.
...and i'm betting said sweat pants were pastel velour.
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I'm rather fond of Ruby, and I figure it's more important that I spend my time truly mastering one language than learning a little about a lot of languages right now.
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FTA:"Possession of a silencer alone carries a life sentence." Wow.
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Come back when you have a position and can defend it. Otherwise you're just spouting nonsense.
We didn't destroy Japan's "soul" - the Emperor - which is the reason Japan surrendered. The Japanese military didn't care about the bomb. The US detonated an atomic bomb in front of Japanese diplomats at Los Alamos. It had no effect. To the Japanese, annihilation was better than surrender. The Emperor stepped in only because MacArthur allowed Japan to keep the Imperial Throne and agreed not to prosecute the Emperor. This is also why Japan continues to whitewash the atrocities they committed during the war.
anyone who claims US and the Nazis are comparable, or that Bush is the same as Hitler, clearly knows nothing about the Nazis or Hitler, and thus have learnt nothing.
Such sweepingly generalizing comparisons are generally flawed, yes. I don't think anyone halfway intelligent and/or worth having a conversation with would make them, however.
"Unlike the president of the US, was'nt Chavez actually elected into office? "
Seems like you've invalidated your own work - have a nice life!
It's things like conservapedia that are pushing me farther away from that kind of thinking, not saying I'm a liberal though either, or maybe that should read democrat.
Really? Emacs doesn't so much use keybindings as... chord progressions, I guess. Can you elaborate?
Also, I really like Dr. Scheme's way of handling matching parens, where it instantly highlights the entire section of code between the paren where you have your cursor and its mate, not just the mate paren itself. With emacs you have to be more sharp-eyed to spot the mate paren when it flashes.
Again, I really should learn to use Emacs, I just haven't yet.
BTW, the highlight, copy, cut and paste stuff can be done in a standard (for Windows users) way in Emacs using cua.el.
No, what I was really looking for was something more like "copyright violation" or "literary theft".
But thanks for the correction.
Here's a couple of links from the fark thread on the same subject. Sorry to spoil the fun.
From lionfish who traced the trajectory back to the phoenix airport:
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/9506/proofny3.jpg
From pjc51, America West Express CRJ 90:
http://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/crj900/images/CRJ900_7.jpg
The real lesson here is:
If you are supposedly a brilliant mind, why stoop to using the tools of a common street vandal? Five or six guys like him could likely smash the economy, destabilize governments worldwide, etc. using no weapon more formidable than a computer (perhaps hooked to a DNA synthesizer) without breaking a sweat.
To our Democratic "leadership": You should find this insulting. It's meant to be insulting. This is why the Constitution gives you the power to issue subpoenas. Start using it.
At this point, I'm blaming you, the Democratic Congress, not Gonzales or Bush or anybody in the GOP. If I were in their shoes, and you were sending me politely worded letters instead of issuing subpoenas, then I'd also be telling you to fuck off.
Mmm. I take stock calling the rich assholes in any country the "productive class." Stinks of bias.
Even Dvorak is right sometimes. He's not Enderle, after all.
Seems to me congress is a helluva lot closer to the pulse of the American people than you Alberty, since unlike you they are elected.
In other words, who the fuck are you to guess at what is best for us, the American people?
Well... duh. That's been obvious for a long time now.
Delicious production!
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FTA:
"Lots of people truly hate school. They find it insufferably boring, pointless, and pompous."
That's funny, I find economists boring, pointless, and pompous.
Imagine if in modern reunified Germany there was no mention of the holocaust. Imagine if there were never any formal apologies or material compensation made to the victims of the Nazi's atrocities. Imagine if nationalist forces intimidated silenced any veteran from the conflict, who would dare to publicly speak about their participation in these atrocities.
Such a scenario describes Japan today and the world is complicit with their revisionist history.
A killswitch that incinerates the house?
um, what about when you have eye fatigue? I don't stare at my monitor enough...
Also, some people have other issues with that.
Great site. I was able to purchase all of my business and personal magazines at a substantial discount. I will be ordering more soon.
Patti
I think Randi Rhodes speaks closer to the truth than Ann Coulter ever does when she claims that the Republican Party is filled with self-loathing gays. I think she steps over the line when she insinuates that Jeff Gannon was visiting the White House to service Dubya.
I can't listen to Lionel any more. He's gone off the deep end with the 9/11 conspiracy theory stuff.
Quite likely, the experiments which yielded militarily useful knowledge (how to properly prepare black plague bombs, etc.) are still secret.
You've blown the surprise with that title... anyway I had a good laugh, thanks for the link!
Your rabid anti-SUV fetish shows you to be an easily-manipulated tool of the hair-shirt eco-mongers and a likely tool for eco-terror recruitment.
Snark?
I'm not under any illusions, but I'm still somewhat hopeful the investigations will lead us places that will put impeachment back on the table. But hope is fading.
If they keep being ineffective, I'm also a bit hopeful it could propel Obama or somebody who isn't owned by the lobbyists, corporations, and military industrial complex into the oval in '08. It seems unlikely the ineffective Congress could cause that kind of backlash, but I don't think anybody saw a '06 Democratic takeover of both the House and Senate either.
Awareness is high and people are fed up.
If I had drug-resistant TB, I'd be a psychopath too.
Surprise: rich people dislike socialism.
wait for it, wait for it... "If you investigate me, the terrorists have won."
B5 is so AMAZING I REALLY THANX MS.BREEDING 4 BRINGIN THEM INTO THIS WORLD BUT LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO WANNA SEE B5 HERE THINK ITS IMPOSSIBLE AND THInK IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN BUT IF YALL BRING B5 HERE TO THE ZOO MAN IT'LL BE CRAZY THEY'LL BE NEW DISCOVERIES FOR THE FEW WHO DONT KNO AND THERE WILL BE SO MANY PEOPLE AT THERE CONCERT IT WILL JUST BE CRAZY SO PLZ PWEEZ!!!!!............BRING B5 TO THE ZOO!!PEOPLE WILL GO CRAZII AND IT'LL BE EXCITING
B5 is so AMAZING I REALLY THANX MS.BREEDING 4 BRINGIN THEM INTO THIS WORLD BUT LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO WANNA SEE B5 HERE THINK ITS IMPOSSIBLE AND THInK IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN BUT IF YALL BRING B5 HERE TO THE ZOO MAN IT'LL BE CRAZY THEY'LL BE NEW DISCOVERIES FOR THE FEW WHO DONT KNO AND THERE WILL BE SO MANY PEOPLE AT THERE CONCERT IT WILL JUST BE CRAZY SO PLZ PWEEZ!!!!!............BRING B5 TO THE ZOO!!PEOPLE WILL GO CRAZII AND IT'LL BE EXCITING
B5 is so AMAZING I REALLY THANX MS.BREEDING 4 BRINGIN THEM INTO THIS WORLD BUT LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO WANNA SEE B5 HERE THINK ITS IMPOSSIBLE AND THInK IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN BUT IF YALL BRING B5 HERE TO THE ZOO MAN IT'LL BE CRAZY THEY'LL BE NEW DISCOVERIES FOR THE FEW WHO DONT KNO AND THERE WILL BE SO MANY PEOPLE AT THERE CONCERT IT WILL JUST BE CRAZY SO PLZ PWEEZ!!!!!............BRING B5 TO THE ZOO!!PEOPLE WILL GO CRAZII AND IT'LL BE EXCITING
$5million in damages.
"He engaged in petty vandalism" is a lie.
7 yrs is not enough.
"Poor impulse control?" That is NOT a valid defense.
That is nothing. I've been ignoring her for years. I'll let you know how the experiments ends.
Sure. And the "sifting through the thousands of pages of documents generated during his tenure" are probably going in three destinations:
File away
Censor
Shred
Socialism is a failed system which hurts the poorest the most. Read Milton Friedman's Free to Choose to gain some basic understanding.
My property is worth more than your life.
My life is worth more than your property.
What can I say, I'm human.
I think, being members of an elite secretive and higly dangerous organization such as the KGB, the two men involved in shooting this man would have shot him several times in the head, not once in the groin!
nice recipes
hmm, are there any alternatives for lastfm?
I'm not interested in the the radio part but in the audioscrobbler/social networking part.
No, not sarcasm from me - like you I understand that Congress has ultimate oversight, and it's not Gonzales' place to choose whether to respond or not. You detected sarcasm probably because I said it intensely - well, officials trying to set themselves up as little tin gods, with nests of power safe from oversight in a democracy, really gets me.
Oh yes it does. The CIA does not have to offer any rights to non-United States citizens at all.
Please mod parent way the hell up.
Then for their sakes, lets hope they'll fare better than the civilizations that faced their viking ancestors centuries ago. In a historical context, being nice invariably loses to barbarians who don't play by the rules.
"If there is intent."
Wrong.
"Reckless disregard" is frequently used to sentence for "might've" non-occurrences.
Post-WWI Germany sucked. People were burning money to stay warm because it was cheaper than burning wood. The allies assigned total blame to Germany for the war and demanded crushing reparations (totally ignoring Woodrow Wilson, who argued for mercy). Hitler gave the Germans back their dignity. He also substantially improved the economic situation. Germany was thriving again. But this came at a price - which the Germans willfully ignored (or didn't know about?) The Germans essentially sold their soul to the devil. They realized this once the full scope of the horrors committed by the Nazis came to light, and the German people have thoroughly repented.
Japan is another story. But then again, they were never forced to do the soul searching that Germany did after the war.
So you really were talking about bindings being available? Strange, it seems to me that you were (and still are) talking about examples of and documentation for existing bindings.
So now it's the "no examples/documentation to show the difficulty interacting with imperative-style code in Common Lisp" problem, a.k.a. the "availability of bindings" problem. I see.
"just vandalizing some stuff to be cool"
Oh, that makes it okay. Not!
And if you make your enemy inhuman, it's easier to kill them, right? You're talking about Japanese people as if they were inhuman. You think USA are good guys? Think again. Go back and study history more. US isn't any better than other countries, there were atrocities done by US troops too, did you know that?
Who is advocating more torture?
Why are you so vulgar? Do you have any friends? I bet you don't treat them like this when you disagree with them.
It is rather that they call it out to benefit from it or preventing the harm by their association with the republican party. What does it matter to call out Ann Coulter? It's obvious that she is at the end of her career. Romney was the one in the conference to introduce Ann Coulter and said "it is a good thing" to have Ann Coulter as the keynote speaker. People cheered and applauded for her comments. That's what needs to be called out.
The problem is that there are enough plants in Ukraine which need investment for modernization and reconstruction
There are some people who take risks in the investment search and necessary papers preparation but they are not serious to bring the procedure to the final end.
It's important to remember that Japan was run by radicals, the civilians didn't think the same way and didn't want war any more than the US citizens want war in Iraq now. To speak of The Japanese as a whole, you need to realize this.
A good portion of the public has cell phones that can go on the Net, but these people have no clue how to do so. When asked, they will likely say their cell phone doesn't have the capability, even though it does.
So which phones can make a Wi-Fi connection? How can I tell if mine can do it? (Mine's less than a year old, so I should be on good ground.)
I did but only because it is quicker to type 'winword' in the run dialog than it is to find it in the start bar
"Bush and his cronies"
I quit reading right there.
If you want to reach beyond your own circle, jerk (that comma is optional BTW) you should avoid opening with that sort of phrase.
Here are my complaints:
There are very few bindings or libraries available for Common Lisp
Of the bindings/libraries available, very few have any real documentation
Even for the rare binding that is in sync with the core code, it is often more difficult to match the underlying paradigm of the library with Common Lisp than other languages, such as Haskell or Python.
In your example, you made up a binding to prove your point. The code I posted is real - you can copy it into a text file and compile it right now and it will run correctly. Your example, although pretty looking, is completely meaningless.
This is unwise in the most extreme way, foolish does not begin to describe it.
That $5 million was inflated by insurance, and though it must surely still be in the millions of dollars, it's impact in real terms is maybe half of that. It was not all in one place either, he didn't ruin $5 million worth of something belonging to one family, ruining them. He didn't ruin $5 million worth of factory, meaning layoffs for 300 people, ruining their lives. It's easy to see that even $100,000 worth of Enron's ripoff caused more real damage to people, than this kid's $5 million, so easy in fact that you are either just a troll or impossibly stupid.
And yes, he did engage in petty vandalism... what more could you call putting bumper stickers on SUVs? It wasn't proven that he committed arson, just that he was an accomplice. Quite possibly unwilling, by the time he had learned of their plans.
But let's assume I'm wrong about every single bit of this. Let's say he decided months before to torch the goddamned cars. Just for the sake of the argument.
7 years is as much as some get for murder. He is thusly a worse offender than someone that takes a life. It is far more than most get for rape, and he is thusly more of a danger to people than a rapist. Now, I know you're not suggesting that those are the case, so what you're really saying is that you want them locked up longer too. Something we simply can't afford, politicians are all too willing to be "tough on crime" for camera time, so the only possible explanation is that a prosecutor knows that he can't afford to take every single one to trial, and the judge knows that he can't sentence everyone to the longest terms because we're running out of space.
So, once we give this guy 10 years (15? 25? How much is enough, you only said more than 7), and once we readjust sentences for all the even worse crimes, and we're spending 45% of our GNP on locking up all these horrid criminals, do you think that it will cost us less than insurance eating a $5 million that was already accounted for by actuarials?
Next time a stupid thought enters your shriveled little brain, please do us all a favor and squash it before it tries to compel you to touch the keyboard.
What is a terrorist? A person who uses violence to create fear for a political, economic or social purpose. The KKK was created as a terrorist organization - to intimidate freed slaves and keep them oppressed. The burning of a cross may not have injured anyone, but the threat was intended to cause fear. Anti-abortionists who bomb abortion clinics are not just removing the clinic but doing it to create fear among physicians, nurses and women who seek abortions - terrorism.
No one was injured, but the burning of these Hummers was an act of terrorism. When paint is thrown on a fur coat, the violence is minimal, but it is act of violent intimidation and thus terrorism.
One person standing in front of a Hummer, or 50 people passively surrounding it, and refusing to move to allow it to pass - that is non-violent confrontation, not terrorism.
What kind of society do we want? Is terrorism ok when we agree with the goal? Is terrorism ok as long as no blood flows? I believe that violence begets violence, and that little terrorisms beget larger terrorisms. There are better ways.
Your post kind of pisses me off. For instance, you suggest I do not possess a basic understanding of socialism or other ideologies. Also, you seem to suggest I'm a proponent of socialism, when that is not the case. How you could come to these conclusions by reading my comment, I do not understand.
Thanks for the book tip though.
Molecular vibration is not 'structures'.
An easy to understand Photoshop tutorial that shows you how to remove the backgrounds from photos and replace it with a single color. Very useful for people who want to create product shots for eBay.
You're absolutely right. That's the trouble with generalizing ;-) The attitude of the Japanese people as a whole is interesting though. For the most part, they felt resigned to their fate, and went on with their lives as best as they could. But, is this true of all civilians?
...later, after a thorough checkup, doctors confirmed that this was possible because the subject had contracted "hotdog down a freeway" syndrome.
Clearly it is too difficult for him to worry about upholding the law or to think about justice being that he is the U.S. Attorney General. He has more important things to do. Didn't he say the same thing about the wire taps, something to the effect of he couldn't be bothered to follow the law because it takes too long?
Umm, you realalize that the people in Pulp Fiction aren't real, right? They're characters.
Meanwhile, Ann Coulter is an actual person. Someone other people (apparently) listen to.
fifteen pages?
Ah. I had never noticed her "manly hands".
If we only ever talked about things that were 100%-pure programming, we'd have run out of interesting discussion a long time ago. The reason I read about programming is to learn new things, and incorporate them into my work. I don't know about you.
In a tax funded school, the government is the customer.
What if it is a tax funded school, but the parents have the ability to choose what school their child (along with the money) is directed to?
Oh, for cryin' out loud, that's really pushing it.
Einstein never torched $5million of other people's property.
Being smart/retarded is NOT a get-out-of-jail card.
I really can't believe some of the crap people are spewing here.
The significant fraction of America that you try to dismiss because what they think and say makes you angry.
Embarrassed no of course not. This is not a perfect world and occasionally stupid errors will be made. But, there is no evidence US security or intelligence services have any institutionalized bias to systematically make such errors. And in this particular case I have to ask if they don't have any real concerns about Arar, what is the up side to continue to keep Arar on its watch list in the face of potential Senate hearings?
See http://programming.reddit.com/info/17l64/comments for context.
Yes, look at US citizens now. Despite the Iraq war, seen by many as illegal from the outset, becoming another Viet Nam, where are the million+ people protests in front of the capitol building in Washington DC?
Yes, the goals of education are quite different than those of private sector; never mind that pay for performance in the private sector doesn't work very well either. For more info on the follies of merit pay, check out http://alfiekohn.org/articles.htm > "The Folly of Merit Pay", and Alfie Kohn's other articles and books (particularly Punished By Rewards. Additionally, check out the work of W. Edward Deming (www.deming.org).
While the business world can undoubtedly offer some good advice to educators, the arrogance of some in the business community, like this blogger from M$, can be staggering. Check out \t
EDUCATION, INC.: Turning Learning into a Business for some critical views of corporate involvement in schools.
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this: say "{ newton(8, \&f,
(omitted the default args).
the => arrow also is one dumb symbol (?). I wish they took a page from ObjectiveC book, and used, say, ":" symbol for denoting named arguments.
Though ruby uses it ( => arrows) for their hash table syntax, I wish they didn't.
Ruby is moving to using : symbol, (http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/Rite) - see "keyword args" and "hash literals" in Rite.
Java did really well then they threw out idiotic -> operator from C. And used uniform "." operator for member access.
Note that Object Pascal used "." for member access. If you wanted to dereference pointer, you would use "^" after the pointer identifier. Pascal object method invocation code looked like this: pObject^.call_method()
And it was logical. -> and => are abomination.
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Yeah, well, I don't want you siting any of those Zombie conversion centers in my backyard either.
the civilians didn't think the same way
My ex-girlfriend's Japanese mother respectfully disagrees. She and I have talked quite extensively on this subject and it is her opinion, as a Japanese civilian during WWII, that she and the other civilians would have fought America to the death rather than surrender.
Of course, she was only there at the time facing the actual possible decision so what does she know?
The reddit headline is far more accurate than the BBC's - so you really don't want to downmod it.
Let's see if they let my own cathartic little list through moderation.
We're not angry that people suffer from hunger... I mean "very low food security"... despite more than enough wealth to feed the world.
We're not angry that unemployment means that idle hands aren't given work, despite the desire to work and the pressing need for it.
We're not angry that we're supposed to pull a lever for our king and lords, and the next day go to work under a boss's command.
We're not angry about living in a nation which jails its own citizenry at the world's highest known rate, as if we're the most criminal people in existence.
We're not angry when we fall into the easy temptation of focussing solely on one side of the political aisle, when the other guys are only marginally better. These are deep institutional problems, not just a couple guys somehow blundering their way into power.
B.S.
He did it, and now he's whining about being oppressed. Some heroic econaut you've got there!
And - it he really had autism to the point where it needed to be taken into account, he would NOT be able to drive.
REAL autism is a severe handicap, not a convenient excuse.
You know, this administration's policies have never changed. They have always been about big government, profligate spending, centralizing power in the executive, huge payoffs to corporate patrons, and so forth.
All these so-called conservatives were the most enthusiastic of their cheerleaders until they became unpopular. Then all of a sudden it's "boo hoo, we feel so betrayed".
Bullshit.
This is not about conservative "values"; if these people and groups had any values, any consistent core ideology, they'd have been dead-set against this administration from the beginning. It's nothing but a cynical attempt to save their own skins, to prevent themselves from going down the drain with their leaders.
I'm adding to my collection of synonyms for poop. Here's a great song and dance number from a recent episode of Scrubs.
Francis: According to the rules of the House of Representatives, the resolution will HAVE to be considered by the congress of the U.S.
This is a big deal.
I don't know, but one of the comments on that blog post says "This is based on the Gtk+ for Mac OS X project which has been merged into the official Gtk+ tree."
Which all seems to suggest that native gtk-on-mac is on its way.
Individualistic? Selfish? You say those things like there is a connection between them and being a churchgoer. Please point to the study that says non-churchgoers are either of those things. It seems Mr Barna makes those wide ranging assumptions without any evidence, as you have just done.
I've been an athiest for about 2 years now, after being regular churchgoer, then a christmas&easter christian, then realizing it's all a pile of steaming mythological BS. Our Gods are no more real than those of the Athenians or the Romans - and yet we look upon those belief systems with mild amusement at how wrong they were.
And yet, I am not a criminal, I am in the upper middle class, I donate my time to charities, I carry on many friendships, etc. Just because someone believes in a magic sky monster doesn't give them ownership over morality.
Way NSFW
Sorry, but you aren't getting anywhere. All you are doing is repeatedly saying 'there is no evidence' and 'you are wrong'. That does not count as an argument.
Robinson certainly does count as 'people in the industry'. Certainly more than you. Please could you explain your qualifications to speak on behalf of anyone in sport in general, or basketball in particular....
There is no evidence to suggest that Hardaway exercising
his free speech will lead to "acts of violence". None.
Throwing out "this is an appropriate time to mention the
name Matthew Shephard" to see if it will stick is not the > same as having a decent argument. It's a dumb argument.
The way all this works is very well understood (although not by you). An increased atmosphere of hatred, and a legitimisation of hatred by people like Hardaway, leads to a gradual dehumanisation of those hated. Dehumanisation legitimises violence. This has been an established pattern of human behaviour for millenia. Gays have been one of those subject to this process.
You can rant 'wrong', 'dumb argument', and 'no evidence' all you like, but the more you do, the more you look like someone with a Flat Earth understanding of life.
(Well, that is the charitable view. The less charitable view would be that you agree with Hardaway and want to defend what he said).
If I were of a criminal bent, trying to intimidate a group of people by shooting one of them, I would shoot them in the groin too. It's far more brutal than simply killing the man as there is a psychological component.
An even more brutal attack would be to commit some vicious assault against a loved one of his and leave the message recipient unharmed to think about it.
As far as the title of the article is concerned: "U.S. Expert in Litvinenko's death SHOT in his driveway", I've never heard of the groin being referred to as a "driveway"! :-)
goodbye carpal tunnel...hello eye strain.
after being allowed to be there for so long, what would one expect.
I enjoyed the city when i visited. I hope this remains isolated, and doesn't do harm to the city's and country's reputation as a place to visit.
Actually what the article failed to mention was that the police cut of part of the street the house was on so those that lived there couldnt enter or exit their houses - afther they had used specially trained antiterror officers to take over the house.
And earlier today they arrested part of the defence team for those who had been arrested.
Yeah, some random book by some random Joe getting released in July, and the submitter gets excited like a 14 yo girl. WTF?
Witness Okinawa, where ordinary civilians actually jumped off of cliffs rather than surrender to the Americans. Of course, the Japanese government told them that the Americans were bloodthirsty savages who would rape and kill them. Such is the power of propaganda.
Japan is a hierarchical society, people tend to do what they are told, so of course many thought that way. But they did it because they were told to, just as many Germans followed the Nazi party. It doesn't mean people came up with these ideas by themselves. I am married to a Japanese and her family are just as disgusted with Bush as I am. Japanese people are not by nature a violent warmongering people. If you study Japanese society, you'll see that they are much more humane to criminals than their counterparts in the US.
Overall, I think this article is fairly good as a high-level comparison of programming paradigms. That said, I wasn't terribly happy, given the brief reference to declarative programming, that the author failed to note that functional languages often encourage a declarative approach. Indeed, this is quite natural, since, as the author states, functional programming is very much about chaining together simple, modular data transformations.
I think that the American people lose if he spends all his time firing attorneys.
Reading the comments from that link is like stepping into a right wing Twilight Zone.
So why didn't they just shoot Litvinenko several times in the head? You are still NOT getting the message.
I do.
That is because we have grown up since then - but mostly because there is so few nuns left in England.
Notice the headline specifies Christian fundamentalists, but the article itself only refers to them as a Christian group. Does mjk think all Christians are fundamentalists, or does he/she apply labels without all of the facts?
I don't know about that. The Japanese prison system is a horrible place to be:
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engASA220041998
There is already an excellent solution to this issue. The problem is that it is not universally implemented.
You can get desktop keyboards with a TrackPoint.
as for curry, I find it dubious to call this technique in name of some person who may or may not invented it.
passing a reference to some function as argument (or returning said reference) and then invoking the passed function probably is useful technique, but there are better names: delegates, partials, blocks, proc objects, function pointers, ...
Taking a page from OJ Simpson, maybe the "real killers" of Litvinenko shot him in the groin to make it look like Putin was behind it.
Because I do not agree with this "lifestyle" and have
pointed out that it is his decision to carry through with
the change, and that his decisions will effect him the rest
of his life, I am wrong. If this is the case, how do you
know that your position is right?
Because this is a well established medical condition, and easily recognised. I assume you are not medically qualified. If not, why are you assuming the right to diagnose someone, and disapprove of the treatment?
What have I missed? Where have I assigned blame?
You keep (for whatever personal motives) trying to label a medical condition as a 'lifestyle'.
For the third time, can I point you at Tourettes. This is a medical condition that imposes behaviour. I ask you yet again - I challenge you to answer - would you claim that someone with Tourettes was making a personal choice to express their twitches and tics? Would you claim that because of their 'twitching lifestyle', it was their responsibility if they were sacked because of it?
Also, you need to learn more about the condition. It is NOT to do with sexual feelings! It is about feelings of personal identity - it is far, far deeper.
We're not angry that unemployment means that idle hands aren't given work, despite the desire to work and the pressing need for it.
That's not quite accurate. Nobody's withholding jobs from anyone. There are plenty of low-wage jobs out there - its just that the market has decided that those skills (flipping burgers, working a cash register etc) are not worth a 'living wage'. What the government's responsibility is in this situation is what is up for debate.
We're not angry that we're supposed to pull a lever for our king and lords, and the next day go to work under a boss's command.
Do you object to the pulling a lever part (democracy) or the going to work under a boss part (every society since the industrial revolution)?
Agree with the other 3 items on your list.
From your first post, it seemed to me that you were mostly concerned about your third problem, only in a more general way (i.e. no mention of GTK bindings). The first problem was mentioned in the first conjunct and the second one occurred when you looked for means to demonstrate the third one.
Since you made the distinction of "imperative-style" and "lisp-style", and showed how Haskell supports this Python-like "imperative-style", I thought it would be instructive to show that Common Lisp, too, can support this kind of style. To me it seemed you were talking about languages and their support for programming styles.
You still didn't elaborate on the perceived difficulty in the third problem. Maybe it's time to drop the subject.
Cars breaking in half is not that rare. It happened here in Sunnyvale (Silicon Valley) last November. The two pieces landed 100+ feet apart. For info and pictures:
http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_321105859.html
http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2006-11-18-sv-car-crash
http://www.nbc11.com/traffic/10343367/detail.html
Socialism doesn't work. Except where it does.
Yeah, it is! I noticed that when I first saw Cash Cab. I was like, "that's the made out of meat guy!"
then later I saw he has a Comedy Central half hour special. He's a comedian. Who knew.
Well I don't know if Putin's behind this (and if he is he doesn't care about being subtle indeed), but don't go thinking he's as stupid as chenbush for a second, the guy's very smart. Clever, even. That's part of what makes him actually dangerous.
The real reason these people are leaving is because for the first time they have to pay taxes like the rest of society.
It isn't the productive class that are leaving, it's just the tax cheats.
GO ODSTUFF
I think this falls under the category of "rtfm..."
I don't use CL because:
It has a horrible learning curve. There's 978 symbols and they're all in the same namespace. Good luck looking something up.
Many commonly used symbols have completely incomprehensible names (e.g., mapcar, placa, rplaca). Additionally, many don't follow a common naming style (e.g., make-array vs. macroexpand.)
Sometimes half a dozen versions of the same symbol exist, and there's little clue as to their differences without looking them up. Here's some examples: eq, eql, =, and equal; prog, prog*, prog1, prog2, progn, and progv; set, setf, setq, pset, psetf, and psetq; subst and substitute; y-or-n-p and yes-or-no-p. God, it made me feel like I was back in the 80's learning C again.
I hate that a symbol can be bound to multiple values simultaneously. So it's a variable that acts like a list. Well, you can use a list, vector, or array instead, so why would you do that? I don't know! I can only assume it's in there for backward compatibility.
Did I mention that a symbol can also simultaneously have multiple named properties? Yes, not only can it emulate a list, it can also emulate a dictionary/hash at the same time.
I hate needing to specify the maximum length of an array when it's created. Then before pushing something onto it, I need to make sure that it's not full, and if it is then I need to expand its length. Finally, after all that, I can push something onto it.
Every page on the web about CL (that I experienced) had that ugly, 1995-style of default blue links on grey backgrounds. These people haven't even discovered stylesheets, and I'm supposed to trust that their database libraries work with the latest version of MySQL?
It wasn't all bad though. Macros, reader macros, and prefix notation are all fucking great. I can't believe that modern languages don't have these features.
This has been posted at least twice before. Sorry
I agree. Why has this managed to happen in United States' territory? The manner in which the shooting and the FBI's reaction is described seems to be dismissive, especially in the fact that the suspects' apprehension seems to be a secondary point to that of establishing that the murder proves a Putin/Russia connection. During this whole Litvinenko issue, many things have not seemed to make sense, at least in terms of the conclusions offered by the media in terms of motive, etc.
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"It's okay people, nothing worry about. The bomb squad has informed me that the device is labeled 'not a bomb.' You can all now go about your business."
Part of it is due to the conservative house and senate though.
Bi-partite systems are only good when you actually use both at the same time, they suck when you only use them alternatively.
Doy.
Gonzales is correct, his primary job is to run the Justice Department. Of course, the congress can tie him up with subpoenas and hearing if they choose. They have oversight and are free to. But, that doesn't mean they are right in that choice.
That's the opposite of what I said.
If the steady creeping of America towards totalitarianism causes you concern, you should vote Libertarian.
cool art.. but, yawn.
Well, of course there are the perennially popular reasons: lack of good libraries, incompatible implementations, etc. But the real reason is that it just takes more time. That is to say, I can typically write almost any given program much faster in a language like Python than in Scheme. Scheme's relative verbosity, minimalism, lack of syntactic sugar are all by design, and while these properties make it a great teaching language, they make for a poor language when you just want to get some work done.
It sure is scary to watch the conservatives showing their true, evil face.
I just want to put more emphasis on what I said about libraries with an example: Java 3D provides a high-level API for modeling and rendering 3D graphics scenes, for instance. CL has none. Look at LispWork's graphics-port http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/CAPRM/html/capiref-414.htm#pgfId-888276, or Franz's Common Graphics
http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/8.0/doc/contents.htm#cg/cg-drawing
In this day and age, this stuff is bellow standard. You would expect a vendor to do better.
I googled for "illegals" and an article at Business Week was the first result. Business Week is definitely a respectable publication.
Why anyone would trust AG Gonzalez to hire an "impartial" investigator is beyond me. This is why the MSM is so deplorable. They (at least) offer some insight into scandals, but propose only the most asinine solutions that they should know full-well will offer no further sense of redemption and satisfaction that the citizens' interests are being well-served
Because that's what they made us use in school? I don't use any programming language I had to learn in school: BASIC, Pascal, Fortran, C, Assembly, J, CLOS or Scheme. I don't know why, but surely it's not a coincidence.
What does Ann Coulter's stupidity have to do with conservatives?
By the way, kudos on devolving yourself from a Utilitarian to a primitive unenlightened savage.
Typical Reddit response. If Digg is run (via the community) by idiots, Reddit is run by a bunch of push-over liberals. It's because of inability to look at hard issues rationally that Democrats are perceived to be "squishy".
Isn't your argument cynical?
Niiiicce
Unsubstantiated? What's unsubstantiated?
hell-bent on war
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/september11/main520830.shtml
cloaked in secret meetings
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501842.html
covert rendition flights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition#Usage_by_the_Bush_Administration
intelligence manipulation
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/leopold.php?articleid=1914
character assasination
Take your pick: plamegate or the "black child" push polling against McCain in '00
The difference is I'd never call bush a "faggot" or his wife a "cunt." Unqualified or bloodthristy, sure, but there's mountains of evidence to support it.
I like this and I'm happy that it comes up periodically. Brilliant work!
The Republicans are conservative? That's news to me :-O
I think this particular incident is a clear cut case of where shooting was justified.
Time to invest in Honey futures
There's two main types of ads in this world -- activation marketing and brand marketing. Activation marketing is the kind of ad where you are told (either subtly or not so subtly) to go and do something with the advertisers product. Brand marketing is the kind that Nike uses, where the brand is so famous that all they have to do is remind you about it.
Most companies' brands are not famous enough to do a brand campaign, but they think they are, so they end up making what amounts to a useless ad.
Bill Clementson (known lisp guy) once said PLT SCheme was the best open source lisp.
http://bc.tech.coop/blog/040111.html
Better solution: put shortcuts to often used programs in the SendTo folder. Rightclick on a file a choose from the shortcuts listed in "sendto" in which program to open it.
mr. keynes dropped by with some good commentary/criticism, too. check it out.
It's fair to say that SQLAlchemy and related Python projects are at least in part inspired by the success and expressiveness of ActiveRecord for Rails.
I really, really wish people would quit acting like DHH invented the Active Record design pattern.
Can't we just use the controller from Duck Hunt?
"Perl Programmer: Their punctuation keys (all of them) are worn out."
This is incorrect. Perl doesn't use the other punctuation keys much more than other languages. Yes, it uses a lot of semicolons, to terminate the sentences, but other languages do the same.
My "shift" and "4" keys (used to type "$") are much more worn out than punctuation keys.
I am lookin for the website that shows how corporations and CEOs are linked together. e.g. some board of director of this corporation is on the board of that corporation. It is similar to http://mike-love.net/ . It was some sort of Java thing (I think) that showed the network of influence.
Thanks (I don't know where else to ask -- it was on Reddit - or maybe just in one of the comments)
so wonderfully awesome. when do we get to see it on display?
Damn New Jersey.
Why doesn't David Bonior and the Edwards camp use this opportunity to raise money for anti-homophobic organizations. I feel like every injustice in the political arena nowadays is used as an opportunity to further political campaigns instead of fighting the injustice itself. If i felt the money would be used to counter the cause of Coulter's ignorance I would be more than willing to drop 100 bucks. Whatever happened to the grass roots Democrats.
I'm not convinced. One obvious distortion of the facts was dealing with memory allocation, where he just makes the blanket statement: Java is faster. What he really needs to say is "allocation on the heap [is probably] faster."
The fact is, in most situations where performance matters, you're doing little if no allocation on the heap; you do it on the stack, and that's considerably faster then even a top-of-the-line gc system. (And yes I know (vaguely) of escape analysis, and that some objects will then be put on the stack, but that's beside the point).
The point is he makes a willful distortion of the facts, which makes it hard for me to trust too much of what he says. Given the fact that his title is 'Sun Evangelist' I guess I shouldn't expect a particularly critical view of Java from him...
[For the record, I work more in the embedded domain, where JVMs are a few generations behind those for PCs, so a lot of the 'myths' of poor Java performance are alive and well]
that's interesting. i wonder how premature it was when this happened.
But without backgrounds, how else am I gonna sneak naked shots of my wife onto eBay?
You can choose Govt School A or Govt School B. In either place your child will be indocrinated as the government wants (and as the controlling corporations want). Your child will become an obedient worker. If your goal is that your child become a more well-rounded human being, then you should be considering other options.
The article and these comments are arguing about which way to whitewash the sepulcher. That is, the 150-year schooling experiment has failed the children.
I see that Formosus made similar comments and a similar link to the following...
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm
The fact that she was "the most anticipated speaker" at the "biggest conservative conference" I guess allows one to make a transitive conclusion...
...Especially because of the rousing applause as she walks off the stage.
It would seem to me that she's a "conservative spokesperson."
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There will be a "National Security Crisis" that will put an indefinate hold on the '08 elections.
this is weird: why is the story not being reported anywhere else? as of right now, i can't find it on cnn, bbc, huffington post, even drudge. what's going on? reddit is so ahead of the pack.
Are there any actual inaccuracies in the article? Or are you just distressed that Marxists might be right?
I tend to think that, these days when programmer has to wrap his head around so many languages, that it's best that these languages have a small core of syntax. Everything else would be libraries. Common Lisp (and Perl, to some extent - and much more so Perl6) take the opposite approach.
It seems to me that moving syntax to libraries, where it can be mapped to certain functions of a specific domain, burdens the beginner programmer much less than having to become fluent in a large body of syntax, in order to understand code that is thrown at him. This problem gets compiled in a language with macros.
However, having said that, I can't purport to have any evidence backing that. It might just be that, once a programmer gets beyond a certain proficiency-level in the huge-syntax language, he actually becomes more productive, because he has more tools at his disposal. The evidence I would point to is that the "dominant" languages (C, Java, Python, etc.) seem to have a small syntax core and then expand that with libraries. Maybe this makes it easier to pick up a language.
If the cops can get away with doing this to the poor people of skid row then they can get away with doing it to you!
Note that the nearly 100% literacy rates of the 1800s were not only before teacher's unions (as you suggest), but before public schooling started. See books by John Taylor Gatto and his end-note references.
Since when have liberty and revolution been mutually exclusive? Dictators tend to be jealous of their power, so generally some sort of armed rebellion or coup is necessary to remove them.
Whether the revolutionaries actually establish a free society afterwards is another story...
One of the worst logos ever.
Tip of cursor in eye. Yuck.
"Lack of good libraries" is a myth. Choose an implementation like PLT Scheme or Chichen, and you get all the libraries you could possibly want.
artes visuales en la cultura de las devociones populares
Randi Rhodes has a 3 hour national radio program that beats Rush in some markets, so I'd say the answer to your question is "yes."
Ann Coulter was not "on a major news channel" when she made this statement, so again, stop moving the goalposts.
Let's see what happens to the nation's productivity when the 'rich assholes' leave.
Judging from the brain-drain that historically occurs when socialists begin destroying their country, it will plummet.
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okay, so it's local to washington post's maryland metro. why isn't this being more widely reported?
This is called capital flight, and is similar to the behavior you exhibit when you get a shitty deal from a service oriented company: you take your business elsewhere.
If capital flight were this easy for everyone on the planet, we might have governments that actually performed as well as private companies.
Friedman's book is a good one if you take it with a graint of salt. He says that free market is good always, not matter what. Maybe reality is a little bit more complex, and maybe a little bit of a failed system is not always poison...
... further investigation proved it was just a large turd.
Your ignorance of history and current events is breathtaking.
There is a lot to learn, but the learning curve is definitely not horrible (i.e. you can use a small subset of the language, expanding as you go). Looking something up is easy.
There is no symbol PLACA in the Common Lisp package. The symbol RPLACA is not commonly used, as far as I can tell. MAPCAR is not completely incomprehensible (MAP and CAR; once you get CAR it makes sense); what about all the other symbols, yeah, those damn comprehensible ones like MAKE-ARRAY or MACROEXPAND. How do other languages compare here? I agree that there are some naming inconsistencies, and that it would be nice if they weren't there, but it's no big deal for me.
I assume you're talking about different but similar symbols for different but similar operations. The clue comes after a while of working with the language. There is no symbol PSET in the Common Lisp package.
I have no idea what you're talking about here.
Then use adjustable arrays and VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND.
Irrelevant.
Depends how it's done.
A free choice of schools, nothing else. The few good schools are quickly oversubscribed and must allot places by picking good pupils, or, worse, by lottery. Politics still calls all the tunes. All that parents can choose is the musician, and it ends up being mostly luck anyhow.
Vouchers. Looks like money, spends like politics. No matter how they start, vested interests will immediately pile in with strings to attach. Ends up almost as above, they call the tune, you pick the musician. At least there's an incentive now to start schools, although the government is still the real customer.
Pure, simple cash in hand. Thus much per kid per month, no questions asked. Now we're talking - unlike static targets like schools, it's hard to make parents jump hoops with their money. Strings will be resisted. Every special interest group shrieks in agony, and fights to convert to a voucher system (falsely claiming that parents will drink their edu-cash). Only under this system, and in a free market with no handouts, are the parents the real customers.
Why didn't you just click on 'reply'?
Would you say they are as mmature as in, say, Python or Java? I don't think you wold claim that.
Why didn't you just click on 'reply'?
Command-economy communism is what failed.
I'm waiting for the US remake.
Scheme needs to move to R6RS. Scheme is getting better. Scheme needs a web server. And to fix those things that are R6RS. Then, libraries, of which we are seeing more and more. And also work on speed.
But really, for me, OCaml is looking very interesting and kind of stealing my attention.
Please, anyone (like the article writer) moderating their comments: Allow through all constructive comments--or just turn the comments off. Nothing is worse than watching a one-sided "argument".
The Conservative Political Action Conference represents conservatives just as much as the People's Republic of China represents the people ;-)
This is true. If you want to see how scary in the UK, check out Channel 4's undercover documentary on what goes on in UK mosques:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
In Soviet Russia real men drink vodka before they go into space.
I absolutely agree with you.
That doesn't change the fact that a comic (Yes, even the mighty XKCD - which I love as much as the next guy) about graphy theory doesn't really belong in the programming subreddit.
You could use the exact same argument to show that the free market works in every country in the world. Watch:
"The free market works in every country in the world. Show me a country that doesn't have private business and enterprise. See! You can't."
Your logic is a completely useless for showing or proving anything, as there is no country and probably never has been that has operated completely purely under the rules of a political philosophy.
It can be useful to compare the results from nations that have more free or less free political systems. And in these cases, societies based on free markets come out ahead on nearly every metric you can apply to them.
Forget about the nuts' questions at the end, but hit the link for the full presentation.
Very interesting.
How can one eliminate private property and force individuals into collectives without a group of people with absolute command over the economy and society?
He changed his mind since then:
http://bc.tech.coop/blog/060403.html
After looking into this, I think you're right, the situation is definitely vastly improved. I based that comment on my experience from a few years ago. Still, there's no comparison to Python's standard library and the wide variety of third-party libraries. Perl, of course, has even more still with CPAN.
I liked it until it became a commercial.
I give up.
Your sound effects have rendered all of my logic useless.
So when lesbians meet rich men, stink lines come out of their heads?
Digg is burying this
Anybody with half an ounce of brain is distancing themselves from the G.O.P. right now.
This is brilliant. Im using at the moment and it is flawless.
Ikea sells the home furnishing equivalent of fast food. Their furniture is an imitation of real furniture. But I do believe their meatballs are the real thing.
Hong Kong isn't, technically, a country.
Yeah, it was a cheap shot making fun of your username. Truly immature and non-productive.
Sorry.
I would think about changing it though, as it's just too tempting a target.
I thought there was going to be something more challenging about it. It only took me 1:20.
hot
This submission took a wrong turn on it's way to fark.com
"fark.com - for when you want the highest quality commentary on not-news."
nice
You are wrong, Europe used to be a Libertarian paradise under feudalism. Everything was privatized back then, and you could only get social services by sucking up to a land-owner.
So there.
It is probable that I wrote my comment poorly that you, and maybe some others, could not get my point, or.....? You may read it again slowly and carefully think what exactly I was tring to say. Maybe other redditors can help out here?
I don't know of any cell phones that provide a WiFi network, but I wouldn't be surprised if some exist. However, most phones that provide a data connection also provide easy access to that connection to external devices, such as your laptop. Most data capable phones will act as a simple modem to most external devices. I have found with most cell phones I can simply plug them into my Linux desktop and dial it with AT commands, run ppp and I'm on line in a snap. Same for Windows. The Novatel UB720 is the perfect example of carriers pushing portable high speed connections. It's a usb cell modem that will push over 2mb/s on a good network. Cellular to WiFi 3rd party devices are also available, and will be much cheaper and portable this year. These give you the ability to create a WiFi hotspot any were you have cell data access.
I know this crap because I build 3rd party network devices for data enabled cell phones. The carries do want to squash WiFi so you'll buy there data instead.
And don't forget, cell networks do not provide network neutrality. They have been tiered from the get go.
Vouchers. Looks like money, spends like politics. No matter how they start, vested interests will immediately pile in with strings to attach. Ends up almost as above, they call the tune, you pick the musician.
I don't see why you say this. What is the difference between a voucher and cash in hand, other than that the parent doesn't have the option of spending cash in hand on something else? It supposedly works for Belgium:
http://www.reason.com/news/show/33014.html
That response is, technically, nit-picking.
The idea is that by using a balanced rotating solid 1/2 cylinder in a
tube, there in minimal energy input in moving the displacer (versus a
reciprocating displacer) and direct heating/cooling of a large surface
of the displacer is possible.
The thing with this sort of application, that developers seldom seem to get, is that they have to be open. That's the dirty little serrcret about Excel. I read a chapter on financial engineering types souping up Excel with a Neural Net for stock trade analysis and the I see why Excel just rules. Everything else is just the rest.
As to Dabble, it did look like something made with a lot of intellligence. I specially like the "autogenerated" graphs. Free Commons license is sexy.
You know, perhaps the short story is better, but I think it misses the point. Maybe it was only me, but I thought it was obvious they were simply disguised; hence why they looked so uncomfortable and their mannerisms were so strange. In that light, it makes more sense.
Even so, don't ignore the production values. The music, cinematagraphy and acting were all very good.
I think it's a very good rendition. It may not resonate with everyone, especially if you had a strong mental image from the short story, but I think it stands up very well.
YMMV, of course.
My Perl may be a bit rusty, but I'm pretty sure Perl has uses for '!', '@', '#', '$', '&', '*', '(', and ')'.
'%' and '$' most of all, no?
No, you can't really call UMCP and its surroundings a low crime area. It's an urban setting, not far from some fairly high crime areas.
That corner of it might be considered a nice neighborhood, but it wouldn't be immune to break-ins and stick-ups.
Dictatorship. And that's why Communism sucks.
ON EDIT: Socialism isn't about eliminating private property. You'd know this if you did some research.
... Europe used to be a Libertarian paradise under feudalism.
Could you explain how you came to this conclusion? I'm curious to know if it stems from a total ignorance of libertarianism or a total ignorance of feudalism, or both.
Seriously; it's over. Most programmers suck. Move on.
Yeah right. This happens to girls way more than guys, and the guy isn't even doing anything in the video.
I think of the subreddits more as contexts in which to discuss a subject; a sort of critical perspective on the posted articles. Post something about golf on Reddit.com, you'll get people discussing the game; post it on programming.reddit, and you'll get people discussing implementing the game in Haskell. From this perspective, nothing "doesn't belong" on any subreddit.
Yah, do the numbers, consider it. Ask around. Some people claim that they can do their apps in half the time with Qt, lets say that might be for them, but not me and I will only save 25%. Then say it would take my team a year with WxWidgets. This is a commercial product so we are paying three guys who can develop it 25% faster, thats $75,000 in savings. Save 75K and pay a few grand. Not much of a question for commercial products.
Not good enough? How about we get cheap (but not good?) programmers for only 50K, and only save 10% off a year, that is still 15K
It's also, technically, correct.
At least he's better than John Ash... oh wait, damnit, no he isn't.
::slams head on desk::
Didn't someone already try this a few years back? A failed coup attempt in 2002 that was greeted with pleased silence by the Bush administration even though Chavez was the democratically elected leader of the country.
I don't know why they need such high taxes there anyway - if the govt just used the oil money to fund the major socialist planks (education, etc) and then left the free market system in place to encourage people to make lots of money, and then keep investing the excess tax dollars every year so that you'd have a massive social-net endowment once the oil ran out, Venezuela could have its cake and eat it too.
Magnificent 3 masted Mediterranean Schooner based in the Whitsunday Islands Australia.
There should be something called The Excel Law of Spreadsheets, which would read: "Either your spreadsheet plays nice with Excel or you're dead."
Because no matter what the cl-hangers-on say, Common Lisp is not THE ONE LANGUAGE, and does have problems of it's own. Sure, I could list some problems, but you'd just say "Well there's blah blah blah" and sidestep the issue.
Because syntax is good thing.
Because the only unique thing in lisp that hasn't shown up in other languages is S-Expressions, and I don't really care for them that much.
Because the "Common" in common lisp caused the language to stagnate; how many cutting-edge papers are about lisp instead of say haskell.
Because SBCL is still beta on 80% of the world's PCs.
Full picture at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/uk_politics_enl_1172779548/html/1.stm
No, asshole. Your president loses. You confuse your role as the attorney general as the advocate for George W. Bush, as opposed to the attorney for the American people. Take your muppet coif and go back to Texas, you tokenist Uncle Tomas monkey.
Wow, that's so alanic, I was just listening to Alanis Morrisette's song!
WHAT? Japanese diplomats at Los Alamos? I demand you back this up, because I know you can't. It is unmitigated horseshit.
Why would anyone want Vista?
Why would anyone want to pretend to like Vista?
"Use porn to save the forest!"
This is an idea whos time has come. What COULDN'T we use porn for?
Use porn to pay down the deficit
Use porn to fund universal healthcare
Agreed :)
Of course, Martin Fowler also didn't invent it, but at least ought to be credited with writing it down...
The Attorney General is, more or less, the top prosecutor representing the entire people. He is held accountable by the representative body of the entire people -- much in the same way a county government displeased with its district attorney might threaten the funding of the D.A.'s office as a means to bring in him or her for hearings, testimony, or any other explanation of accountability. Gonzales assumes that as the attorney general he is in fact the solicitor general -- the White House's official lawyer, having hire-and-fire oversight of the justice department. Congress' attempts to hold him accountable -- Arlen Specter's harrumphing from 2005 to 2006 notwithstanding -- are legitimate and grounded in the tradition of checks and balances. This tokenist monkey can choose to serve his White House master or fulfill the mandate of his job. Plainly, he choses the former.
I want one, but I haven't eaten yet today...
If this was a gaming attempt the article would have been posted when it came out - this is OLD.
$I->$believe $your %thoughts @are $wrong.
I really like the young Laurel and Hardy shot in the 2nd to last picture.
It's pretty self-explanatory.
Under a feudal system everything is privatized except the courts; just like the Libertarians like it. There are no social services outside of what a benevolent employer (a.k.a. Lord) provides.
SS#'s were not required by schools until very recently. I didn't get one until I was an adult. I'm only in my 30's. So, that's super recent. It was done to make things easy for school districts, not for the kids.
It was orginally to be used only by employeers for contributing to Social Security for you. Nothing else. You can get an IRS taxpayer number that is not alligned to your SS#. But they make it such a pain to even try, that most people don't both.
See my comment above.
Yes. You're right. I known about VPS and dedicated hostings.
But since I use Ruby,lisp,etc only in my hobby projects, i'm looking for cheap hosting.
Thanks for hetzner.de.
"QT. No thanks. I don't like metacompilers."
That sounds like a cop out if I ever heard one. More like: I didn't really bother checking it out so this is something I overheard. There are many people who have done some cool things with the moc system in Qt.
"I don't like proprietary."
Yah for shame that they dual license it with the GPL and give you the full source code. And this is not just on Linux, but on OS X and Windows too. How evil of them.
"I don't like the license."
Going back to your first sentence where you say you are a CS student and "I intend to write a small simulator for myself." you are not intending to sell the application so there is no reason to get a commercial license so you must be referring to the GPL. And because this is just for yourself and you wont be releasing it... ugg
You're thinking of closures, not currying.
I'm so happy to see that there are children's camps that offer more than games. Camps like this can really shape the future of our children's generation.
Um, why are the menus in the windows? In OS X menus never belong in the windows. I know Qt gets this basic thing right.
The new multiplayer online game was released on 17th February. In fact, it is one of the easiest games on the net. Players buy and sell stocks and receive dividents to increase their profit. Of course, this game is suitable only for beginners because many functions are not included. Developers said that professional version will be available later.
Proper spelling, a point, and a body of text that has been inflated greatly to reach typical "book" proportions so the publisher is happy.
Books are verbose.
"The key may be for researchers to work closer and check one another's results." The major problem may be "a lack of coordination by researchers and biases." It seems believable. And how many university departments house lone wolves?
You know, people were saying that trade was going to fix all the problems and major wars were never going to happen against, at least between the big world powers of the day once before. That happened right before everybody choose up sides and killed each other off in WW-One.
I think you are very much underestimating the pull the old boggyman of Nationalism has on people and nations. The time we have been (probably since the end of WW-Two) has been a strange one in human history. It isn't anything close to being the norm. History has a way of dragging itself back to the norm after a bit... And I think we are starting to see that happen.
I really do hope your right, and that I'm wrong on this. But I think these upcoming years are going to be very scary ones.
What matters is who pays cash. Either that's the parents, or it's the government. With vouchers, the government pays cash, and they get the first veto. If they don't like the school, the voucher won't spend.
In a voucher system, every special interest would pile in to set veto conditions. Heck, I bet the teachers union would force the parents to choose amongst "closed shop" unionized schools, and we're right back where we started.
In fact, I worry that voucher systems would end up being worse than the status quo, because they would end up dragging every school into their ambit. Private schools that didn't obey would be at a terrible commercial disadvantage. No money-minded investor would start one, or fund it.
Assumimg you are correct, which non-socialist countries would people be leaving for THAT WOULD TAKE THEM? I'd like to know because I might want to leave.
This wouldn't happen in Boston.
/great ad
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He is talking like a merchant, everything what he says is true, but there are things which aren't told. (I mean yep, it's expensive to allocate memory in C, but you can use a pool if it is needed, it's not that hard, you just have to do it on the right place [he is talking about the right place thing in the optimization section].)
It seems to me that now would be an excellent opportunity for someone with actual conservative values, name recognition and charisma to start a viable third party.
Is there such a person, I don't know. Unless you count Stephen Colbert.
Romney was strongly FOR Coulter before he became strongly AGAINST her!
I mention this from some research I did 5 years ago for a college paper. It is entirely possible I am misremembering some details :-)
Yes, if you look at the other posts on the site, you can see that it must indeed be satire.
yeah, i'm sorry my comment. didn't think it through... what I think I meant was that she doesn't exhibit very feminine traits (especially in behavior) and I didn't mean to say that ugly/non-feminine == lesbian. :)
Eh. Front to back. That's all the info you need to know. The clincher is that I learned H2WYA by my high school gym teacher. No. Not what you think. He spent an hour dicussing the subject with the whole class one day.
/that is all
In FPS you can pick up your mouse to "reset" center. Would you have to close your eyes to do the same here?
First picture of tonights Eclipse from the UK.
he's right
Couldn't we start with Kansas, first?
got em all by 6:39, not as good as you!
Speaking for myself,I am not as "peak oil" apocalptist. There would be ways out of it, but look at recent history. We just wasted at least $2 Tillion on Iraq for oil, when we could have spent it on energy independence. Nuclear, Hydro, Wind Farms, Solar, Geothermal, etc. Could have taken a few $100 million and tried for some werid SF research into almost free energy... Something like orbital microwave energy collectors.
But instead we blew it all on crap, and lessing American power in the world. So, I think being depressed about the future makes me a realist in this discussion. War is the natural state of man... We get off on it. So, we're going to fight.
I don't see any of the conflicts as East vs. West. I can just as easiliy see the US fighting Western Eruope, or Japan and China renewing their old conflict, or India going after Central Asia and Russia. It's ain't "Clash of Civilizations", but the normal state of man.
I obviously went to the wrong school. Damn!
Idiotic headline, I have to say.
I'm not quite sure if Obama is deliberately being the nice guy all the time solely for the sake of political posturing or if he is genuine in his comments. Or maybe it just seems too good to be true.
Surely it's the left that's angry and hateful, not the party represented by a media commentator who calls political opponents of the GOP "faggots".
Yeah, for sure!
Profit!
goldrosy
except, that's not "Famous Blue Raincoat". Anybody identify the track?
Anyone know how this compares to cscope?
L, O, L.
FUNNY!!!!
In a totally free society, all human interactions are voluntary trade. So I guess a decent metric of freedom would be the ratio of freely made transactions vs. those that are forced.
Literacy rate, infant mortality, and life expectancy all seem like pretty good criteria. It might also be valuable to compare military spending, technology patents, GDP, etc.
Also, since the effects of such broad social trends such as the ratio of socialism/capitalism take decades or generations to manifest themselves, we should limit ourselves to countries that have had at least a few decades of predominantly socialist/capitalist approaches to organizing society.
You're going to start off way behind, because the predominantly socialist states of China, Russia, and WWII Germany are responsible for the deaths and repression of tens if not hundreds of millions - which would probably wipe out any gains that you might get from the northern European socialist states.
here here, I agree. Because the real truth is that she looks like a horse, not a man.
now here's a slogan: "a vote for a republican is a vote for ann coulter". I'd sure love that one to become popular.
Based on the scale bar at the bottom, the object looks to be about 80 feet long. I'm sure nothing that large is launched from a fighter aircraft.
Ah. Ignorance of both Libertarianism and feudalism then.
Er... I forgot Indiana, Mississippi and New Hampshire. (Insert sheepish expression here)
Der Online-Ratgeber zum Geld-Verdienen und Geld-Sparen
Looking at history, gun-toting revolutions have a terrible track record. America is almost the only success story. The eastern European "color" revolution seems to be a better technology.
The AG like all other cabinet officers serves at the discretion of and under the direction of the President. If the AG doesn't follow the direction of the President he can be dismissed by the President. And by the way, the AG through the authority of the President has hiring and firing power of Presidentially appointed Justice Department officials. In another words the President runs the Justice Department, not congress.
They don't seem to be able to lose the hate.
I LUV THIS SONG SO MUCH B/C SOMETIMES I WANNA ACT LIKE A BOY AND SOMEONE MITE CALL ME GAY OR SOMETHIN'!!
I'm a communist, not a right-wing liberal. As for looking at issues rationally, I think we've established I have a boatload more knowledge and rationality on the subject of moral philosophy (or frankly, any subject) than you do. But then, I'm not stupid enough to mistake callousness and indifference for rationality.
"it's like saying that tautologies are tautological" - priceless!
the example of two friends visiting each other's cities, only to find that the friend has gone to the other city, looks ironic to me. Each friend is expecting to see the other friend that weekend, but because both made plans to see the other, they actually can't see each other!
Batch:
@echo off
set _i=1
:loop
set /a _return=%_i% %% 15
if /i "%_return%" EQU "0" (
echo FizzBuzz
goto :doloop)
set /a _return=%_i% %% 5
if /i "%_return%" EQU "0" (
echo Buzz
goto :doloop)
set /a _return=%_i% %% 3
if /i "%_return%" EQU "0" (
echo Fizz
goto :doloop)
echo %_i%
:doloop
set _return=
set /a _i += 1
if /i "%_i%" EQU "101" goto :eof
goto :loop
:eof
Yes. Or you are one?
I never thought the key to becoming President would be: "Don't act like a sniveling jerk"
Yeah.
Generally people most prone to libertarian type politics just want to be left alone. It is usually the power-hungry that go around slaughtering each other for the chance to control other people.
The establishment of a society largely based on the right to life and property was a very rare occurrence. And unfortunately we've managed to burn that accomplishment to the ground.
When people lose their internal motivation for morality, thanks to religion's big daddy in the sky punishing you for doing bad, they become dependent on religion to provide a third-rate substitute for morality. And I'll take third-rate morality over the psychopathy demonstrated by brownstone just yesterday.
Makes sense that research should be open access. After all, that would only allow scientists to learn more from each other. I imagine that $$$$ will have somtehing to do with why some will not support this. Vote here if you support: http://www.doaj.org
I got 46 of them, but that's only because I thought I'd already typed Montana, but I apparently had not. I forgot New Jersey, Iowa, and Missouri.
I'm glad there was no one to see me sitting here in front of my computer with my eyes closed, gesturing around in the air to figure out which states were next to which ones. I rely far too much on kinesthetics.
Are all Python libraries mature?
Tell that to the millions of old farts who always receive their Social Security checks and/or direct deposits on the first of the month, every month.
Butbutbut privatization makes EVERYTHING better!
Heh. Actually, he was shot in front of his house:
Joyal said two men accosted Joyal as he stood in the driveway of his home, then shot him once in the groin.
His sounds effects are just the beginning - challenge his narrowminded dogmatism for a few more messages and you'll see him exploding with highly amusing curses like "republitard" or explain how various parts of your anatomy are made of/full of human waste. And as you can see, his multiple personalities are already busy upmodding his inane messages ;)
Sweet high-rated malcontent, so far you simply decided that stuff like "free education" means a nation is socialist, and from that you brilliantly deduce that every nation in the world is socialist. How about we decide that different levels of earning or inequal distribution of wealth are signs of capitalism, and then even the USSR of old becomes a capitalist nation?
As far as I know, the only communities who successfully manage to create a long-lasting economic equality are the Kibbutz communes, alas made up of Israeli Jews, whom you so passionately hate. How ironic!
From the article on Global warming:
It should be noted that these scientists are motivated by a need for grant money in their field of climatology. Therefore, their work can not be considered unbiased, though no more than any scientist in any other field. Also, these scientists are mostly liberal athiests, untroubled by the hubris that man can destroy the Earth which God gave him.
BURNAIIZ BURNAIIZ.. :]
Well, it's pretty self-explanatory...
You going to chain him inside too?
That's a good response, and I see her point about asking people to "find a way not to sit silent in acceptance." However, I really believe that the thing to do with someone like Coulter (unless and until her calls for violence can be tied to an actual crime) is to refuse to rise to her bait.
None of those, other than the exclamation point and the parentheses, are punctuation.
Neither pure socialism nor pure capitalism works well.
Without a balance (fair regulation) on capitalism it will damage the social structure of society because it is based on nothing more than financial gain for the few at the top without concern for the rest of society.
Without a balance (private business) socialism will damage the economy because workers will not be motivated as there is no reward for achievement.
With vouchers, the government pays cash, and they get the first veto.
Not necessarily, they don't. The government could certainly give themselves a veto in a cash-based system, too. What's the difference?
If you read the article, you'll note that it compares Hong Kong, which up until recently is probably our best example of a free-market based society, with several other predominantly socialist societies.
The position you are trying to prove is that socialist societies are better than free market based societies. This article addresses that exact issue.
unexplained quantum vibrations of the melecule
diffusing a high concentration of a specific molecular frequency
You're so full of shit. You really think you can just make up sciency-sounding rubbish and not have anyone call you on it? Truthiness doesn't count in science.
This effect is highly im-plausible, and unsurprisingly has been demonstrated to be false in every reputable clinical trial.
why?
Actually, feudal systems are quite interesting. They're far from libertarian, because not only is there a system of private physical property (and quite a good, libertarian one as far as it goes), but they also treat rulership and various sorts of official duties as property. The serfs and villeins and the right to dispense low justice and collect taxes come included with the manor. The courts are "private", and often run by a lord, a church, or a guild. The reciprocal obligations of kingship and fealty are quite reminiscent of rent.
It's a curiously self-consistent system, but libertarian it isn't.
The PLT Scheme standard library is rather large too:
http://download.plt-scheme.org/doc/360/html/mzlib/
CPAN is huge, granted. The PLT Scheme equivalent is http://planet.plt-scheme.org/ .
Downloading (and caching) of the various libraries are automatic elimininating the dependency problem.
Example:
(require (planet "digest.ss" ("soegaard" "digest.plt" 1 1)))
(md2 #"Hello World")
"27454d000b8f9aaa97da6de8b394d986"
(sha1 #"Hello World")
"0a4d55a8d778e5022fab701977c5d840bbc486d0"
Recent versions feature the ability to open shared libraries/dll-files and call the library functions dynamically. Thus you can embed C-libraries into Scheme without ever needing a C-compiler. It's a stroke of pure genious.
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I'm so happy that the log home is becoming popular again! What a great way to have our home lives reflect the peace and serinity that we crave.
What you said, bonkydog. Only 22 months left of these bizarros.
The fallacy in your post is the phrase, "Until there are facts..."
there WON'T be any facts. All we'll ever have for the next 500 years is either
a) Speculation
b) Coverup story
We're either going to get a coverup story or speculation. Don't expect any facts with evidence to show up. They never do.
My guess on who ordered this specific hit? Agents with close ties to the US government, who also are tied to the Russian government, who are all linked together in some shadow op designed to create a clamour for war in the 1st world.
Two suggestions:
The server should keep track of people's results, so it can announce "The Most Forgotten State", as well as the least forgotten, and, heck, maybe all 50 sorted by how often people remember them.
The server should sneakily forget to decrement the counter at one point, leaving people tearing their hair out wondering what they could have missed.
Like I said, it's much harder to make parents jump hoops when they are holding the cash, than to simply refuse to pay for any non hoop-jumping school.
his other stuff isn't as funny: http://www.standupeconomist.com/clips/
Which is NOWHERE.
"Scheme needs a web server."
Huh? PLT Scheme, Chicken, SCSH, and more all come with web servers included.
But what is wrong with Apache?
See "Implementation and Use of the PLT Scheme Web Server" also:
http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/khmgpf-impl-use-plt-web-server-journal/
I have no idea what you're talking about here.
Given that he mentioned property lists separately, he must be talking about function and variable namespaces: (list list)
Bah! I missed 3! Forgot about Iowa, Louisiana, and Maryland.
Every one but Nebraska, but who cares about Nebraska anyways?
It's not nonsense that there was a simulation of planes crashing into the two towers on 9/11...
It's coincidence.
No you wouldn't. You might become psychotic though. Or claim to. The only ways to become psychopathic is to be born a psychopath, grow up fundamentally damaged, become shell-shocked and inured to depravity, hang around psychopaths. If you want to become a psychopath, go into management and hang around white collar criminals. And even then it will only be temporary.
This problem gets compiled in a language with macros
So to speak? :)
I'd tell you, but you'd think i cheated. Then again, i also know how to pronounce Iqaluit.
menstruation happens in healthy women, and if you're unhealthy (such as being grossly obese) you may have irregular periods anyway.
B.C., Yukon, Ontario, Alberta, Quebec, New Foundland, Manitoba, NW Territories?
I think I got all the important ones :p
So, just a few people are lazy enough to "require support from others". Most people have lazy impulses, but not so's they need any help from others to get by. You'll have to excuse me if I just view that as a highly negative way of saying what I've been saying (that no one wants to be lazy).
The article states...
An estimated 51 million people have been killed in wars between 1945 and 2000.
That many are killed by abortion world wide each year.
Who in all of human history has more blood on their hands than the parents and supporters of those that practice abortion?
What can save them from the consequences of their actions?
LouF said:
You are rubber, I am glue, I made an error insulting you. Of course I need to make up facts, reality has a well known liberal bias. I admit that I am not very good at arguing, I use cheap rhetorical tactics because I am not subtle enough to even understand what you are arguing with me about, let alone come up with a coherent defense. I admit that I must have some kind of mental issue, and should seek professional help.
(see section 6)
I am glad we can agree, you seem to have grown a sense of humor lately. Note that this will be my last reply in this thread, given that as per section 6, feeding trolls is not fruitful.
This post is bound by the EULA for any future posts by LouF.
I find it fascinating that you're arguing that nobody listens to progressive radio in order to bolster your point. You sound just like a freeper.
This is the kind of crap that focuses our attention off the important (and probably more seemingly boring) stuff - "boring" details like watching our rights get siphoned off by Attorney Gen Gonzales or more pre-emptive Iran attack revelations.
We already all know that Ann Coulter is crazy. It's nothing new. This is like another story on how Paris Hilton is a slutty whore.
This is about going after the greater evil. This story is almost at the same level as the Anna Nicole Smith crap
What you guys are doing is essentially the same thing that churches do for Marilynn Manson; free publicity
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Sigh. One more and then, once again, I'm done with you. I think you're just following me around at this point. For that matter I don't think I'm going to keep entertaining someone named "malcontent" with this oh so enlightening "debate" you love engaging me in.
This all started because I think people are giving Vista a very bad rap over some very minor issues and are bailing on it when it's a damn good OS in need of a few fixes. People are acting like installing it makes your computer explode and gives you herpes, and THAT's my problem.
It's got some issues, it sure does. But the nature of an OS (or most software) is that you install it, report bugs, and then the patches come. If your problem with Vista is that it has a few bugs, report errors and the patches will come. If, however, you despise the system, then go ahead and bail.
It would be like if you stopped buying Hondas because the seat belt sits on you funny or stopped buying Diet Coke because the opening of the can isn't the right size. That's all I'm getting at. Damn.
Finished with 04:22 remaining. "Nebraska" and "Wyoming" were hard to think of, and "Wisconsin" and "Massachusetts" were hard to spell.
You'll have to excuse me if I'm not understanding what you mean. Why would she have any rights to the photographs? She didn't take them.
Why would it take an increase in energy?
You sound like Friedman describing his "flat earth" ideas. Their fine ideas, but global trade requires a lot of energy to transport all those goods around. The more internationalized the economies become, the more energy is used shipping the goods. "What the story is about" is not changing the subject, it's entirely central to the idea that globalism will bring us closer together and will make us all realize how much we have in common and therefore we'll stop killing each other. You can't have that level of globalism with the energy to make the world smaller.
The world is about to get bigger, and no, it's not a zero-sum game. It's about to become a game of about a shrinking pie. And as the pie shrinks, those with power are going to do all they can to seize what's left. It's already happening.
I'm calmer than you are
Not sure what that has to do with anything. It's highly unlikely to be true, but even if it is, so what?
I'm not afraid.
You should be.
If you are going to make the claim that Hardaway's speech > "encourages fear and hatred that can lead some people even > to acts of violence" then, yes, you need to back up your
claim so that people don't think you are talking out your > ass. What is your evidence of that?
No. It is well established that broadcasting hate encourages hate and encourages acts of violence. My evidence include law. An example is that Section 13 of the Criminal Human Rights Act makes it a criminal offense to wilfully promote hatred on the basis of sexual orientation.
If you want some academic research that hate speech has a link to violence, I would like to point you at the Journal of Applied Philosophy, especially papers by Johnson.
So, it is now up to you to provide evidence that hate speech does not encourage evidence.
I eagerly await such evidence.
What industry?
Basketball, obviously.
(By the way, you really aren't going to win this. I have been debating with people like you for decades, and I know your tricks and methods).
Whenever a politician or bureaucrat starts blathering about 'the will of the American people', check your wallet and listen for the thud of jackboots.
I don't know if he's changed his mind since then, but if so, it's not on that page, which is about "The Best Open Source CL Implementation". He doesn't exactly retract his earlier statement, though he does kind of talk about it in terms that indicate it may be deprecated. :)
I got the first 48 in two minutes. It took me seven minutes and 40 seconds to remember the existence of Vermont and New Hampshire.
Finished in 1 minute, 27 seconds (8:33 remaining). I know all the states and how to spell them. I just don't type that fast. I can SAY them all in <20 seconds.
Do they have one for Presidents?
Only missed Minnesota...
Russia just attacked an American on American soil in a post 9/11 world and no one is reporting this? Shouldn't we be at level RED right now?
Oh, that's right, it's only terroism if the perpetrator is from a country of brown people who have lots of oil and are threatening to sell it in Euros instead of dollars.
British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. (No, I didn't look at the other solutions.)
lol sounds like a plan to me
Fetuses aren't people.
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The American people lost the day his parents met.
You have quite the sense of humor if you find this hilarious.
I work in games so performance and lack of total control factor in heavily. Could be used as a script language I suppose but it'd scare both the other coders (C hackers to the core most of them) and the designers.
I do greatly admire Scheme though and might use it more for home projects if it suites what I'm doing.
Thanks for the thoughtful analysis; and I certainly agree there are important differences between a Libertarian and feudal society.
But there are too many similarities between the two systems to ignore. For example, as you pointed out, everything and every office in a feudal system is somebodies property; and protecting those property rights to the exclusion of everything else is paramount.
Furthermore, the poor are wholly dependent on charities or the church for social services like health care or education.
Having said this, there is one important difference between Libertarian and feudalism that I should point out.
Ideally in feudalism, the ruling classes were supposed to have a sense of noblesse oblige - that it was their responsibility to work for justice within the constraints of the system.
Libertarians have no such ideal. It's all dog-eat-dog.
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GID is purely, as far as we know know, a psycological
condition without a biochemical or genetic component.
Sorry, wrong. There is good evidence that there is a substantial biochemical component, to the extent where brain structures are 'feminised'.
More similar to GID, I would say, would be the phenomenon
known as "cutting."
What you say is irrelevant, as you have no expertise.
Saying "I am a boy trapped in a girl's body" is no
different than saying "I am a gopher trapped in a girl's
body," it's slightly more socially acceptable, but not a
bit less crazy.
This shows how little you understand biology. A hormonal change in the womb can feminise a male brain, but it can't 'goperhise' a brain. For goodness sake, if you are going to comment on medical matters and don't want to look like an idiot with posts like this, do some research first!
My point is, these people are batshit insane, so why
should we be forced to accept them or employ them? They're > crazy, if there were enough institutions to lock them up
in, I would be more comfortable putting them there than
having them roam the streets.
Interesting. Please could you list your psychiatric qualifications that enable you to make the diagnosis of insanity? And what harm do you expect them to do if the 'roam the streets'?
If you are uncomfortable with transgendered people wandering the streets, it suggests that you have a problem.
A quick and insightful look at a few NHL trades that didn't make the headlines. These might not involve some of the bigger names in hockey, but they might become the trades that make or make a few Stanley Cup Playoff dreams.
Fake.
This is some sort of viral advert. It just seems really contrived, and the beeping of the swearing(?) is somehow really corporate (and too loud).
Maybe, but I don't see it. Than can easily de-liscence any school that they don't like anyway. I definitely see your concern that in a voucher system lobbyists would swarm to control where those voucher dollars could go, but I think that the same thing would happen for a cash in hand system. I mean, even now private schools have to meet certain conditions to be allowed to operate. (At least in the states I am familiar with- maybe not in some?)
On the other hand, the political difficulties that you point out (concern that people would drink their 'edu-dollars') make going for a cash system much more difficult.
Say what you like, but it's certainly original. What more could you possibly ask for from Reddit? - stuff you read on every other news site? stuff you and everyone you know agrees with? articles you can comfortably recommend to your 100 year old grandmother? pictures of snow flakes and naked women with a ridiculous [NSFW] tag?
In all my years browsing the internet, I'd never come across a post about how different people wipe their asses.
I am t3h lam3. I got to 41 and ran out of steam. It was frustrating because I even knew what part of the country I was gapping on (the northern midwest and the west...)
Not only does that depend on where you are in the world, but it also depends on what time in history we're talking about.
Of course, Almighty God, the God of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus Christ considers them "people" even before birth. The prophecies anticipating Christ are the clearest example.
Like it or not, you could be put in jail in many countries in the world for abortion. A major regime change in the US and the same could happen there too.
Like it or not -- abortion damns you to hell. And should! Who else has destroyed more innocents by any other practice?
There is no place in the coming new creation for those that cut off their own children, and the children through continuing generations that would have come from them.
Unless you repent from your support and practice of abortion -- and accept the death of Christ as payment for your sin -- you shall surely burn forever. And truly deserve it!
If people think that "free market" and business models should apply to education, perhaps we should just hand over the reigns of education to Walmart and see what happens.
This is only a good idea as long as the people having sex are attractive.
If I have to watch ugly people having sex in a forest, I will start chain-sawing the place myself.
The sanest comment on this whole issue has been modded down to -2. Good job Reddit.
No, it is now up to you to provide evidence that hate speech does not encourage evidence, and I have pointed you at people stating that it does.
All you have to do is refer to some journal articles. Is that so hard? What is your problem?
I have no idea what the "Criminal Human Rights Act" is,
and neither does Google.
I apologise. It should have been the 'Canadian Human Rights Act'. I hope you can find it now.
Maybe if the Hindu & Sikh families weren't so willing to abandon their daughters at the slightest fear of "dishonor", this wouldn't be such a big deal...
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Old, but still classic.
Old.
Forgot Rhode Island.
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That's not what's claimed in the article. The article claims that something happened in the research that is interesting enough that we should look again. Maybe it was the placebo affect - but even then we need to research why the placebo affect works.
LIghten up.
IS ANY ONE THERE CAUSE IM TALKING TO A PEACE OF WHITE TRASH
Actually, "private property" (to the extent that someone can own your region's water supply, natural resources, or scarce "means of production") requires significant violence to defend ownership rights. Police or military. Adam Smith claimed:
Till there be property there can be no government, the very end of which is to secure wealth, and to defend the rich from the poor.
As for top-down governance and management... it's unfortunate that many of us have a difficult time conceiving of a bottom-up society where there isn't some boss, president or other authority figure to keep us in line.
Literacy rate, infant mortality, and life expectancy all seem like pretty good criteria. It might also be valuable to compare military spending, technology patents, GDP, etc.
Don't use those stats to support libertarianism. The Scando states have some of the best stats for those fields. Instead, let's mention how Washington DC has strict gun laws and has a high homicide rate but some town in Florida allows concealed weapons and has a low homicide rate. Almost as low as Stockholm! This is the only way to convince those stupid socialists!
Yukon and North West Territories aren't provinces.
Give me a break. All of those slaves in the 1800's were literate, all of those immigrants in the 1800's were literate?
Yeah, if only every country in the world were run like Ford or GM. Or Halliburton. Enron. The RIAA. Microsoft.
What a paradise that'd be...
There's a big difference between science writing and scientific writing. That difference nearly bit me on the ass at the last meeting I attended.
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I'm a little confused. It seems like even with paren-matching, you do have to type the closing parens, in order to specify which parens you want to close, right?
I am not sure the other stuff is him.
Yes, it's ironic that the example given of alany is actually ironic. Makes the whole thing kinda meta-ironic :)
There are a whole bunch of new "smart-phones" that have WiFi. Most of the Nokia E and N series phones have built-in WiFi, as well as the newer Samsung phones. You probably aren't going to find a phone that doesn't run on either Symbian or Windows Mobile that has WiFi.
What's your phone? Unfortunately, this really does come under RTFM, but check the specs on the website.
To be honest, you'd probably know if you had WiFi on your phone--either you paid a lot for the phone, or it would have been pretty strongly advertised.
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I also think the article was referring to Internet access via the cellular network, as opposed to a WiFi network.
What are you even responding to?
Hm, I was using wxPython on Mac.
Maine and Wisconsin. Strange seeing as I love both maple syrup and cheddar cheese.
I live with three. It sucks.
What's that got to do with anything? It's a pretty fair article--may make a few leaps but for the most part, it's well written and has a good idea behind it.
I figured she'd get eaten, but not like that. Good stuff.
This Brazilian got 33
Man, they're starting young! "Laughter is heard throughout the tape."
That's because you can't redirect to an anchor.
I got all but ten of them in the first four minutes, then very very slowly managed to remember all but Colorado, Illinois, and Utah.
And I was just talking to someone in Colorado yesterday.
You forgot:Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Minnesota,
Nebraska, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee,
Wyoming
It would be interesting to find out what state is forgotten the most...
He's a law enforcement officer who recklessly shot at a vehicle he already knew had several innocent people in it besides the driver (innocent of attempting to run him over, innocent of anything except for the wish to immigrate even if it is illegal). If it was a vehicle full of American citizens there would be no question of the inappropriateness of his firing on it. Lethal force is simply not acceptable in apprehending illegal immigrants, and this guy should go to jail for it - but he won't.
Operation Memory Hole, his last great endeavor...
I actually wanted to hear about what stesch's problem with #lisp was, and I think so did ayrnieu.
without Nebraska you wouldn't have Johnny Carson or kool-aid.
Looks better now.
Point taken, but I'm not sure it's the originally intended one.
Blimey. I wouldn't fancy having to climb back out again.
We have pre-screens, they just aren't used. See the article 'separating programming goats from sheep' on coding horror. Which also explains why programming is in no way comparable to arithmetic. To calculus maybe, not arithmetic.
No, I had no idea! I thought Pulp Fiction was a documentary. THank you so much for clearing that one up.
Dupe - this was posted couple of days ago.
I think your missing a (nsfw) on the end there.
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You're right. Clearly Ann Coulter doesn't get much "good" publicity . . . she THRIVES on bad publicity. The best thing to do is ignore the bitch.
Also, I'm not sure I agree with Mrs. Edwards assesment of "the courageous 9-11 widows." No matter how you slice it they are a bunch of spoiled, rich hens.
Piercing blue, brown-eyed girls, lashy lookers, wrinkled around the edges -- these celebs' eyes come in all different shapes, sizes, colors, and states of botox ... Can you guess which peepers belong to which peeps?
Yet again I have to point out the genius of Alanis Morisette: the fact that a song called "Isn't It Ironic?" is not about irony is, in fact, ironic.
Crafty Canadians...
I remembered Tennessee with 15 seconds to spare, but I failed in the spelling of the state. I'll call it performance anxiety to make me feel better.
I also missed Wisconsin and Minnesota.
In other news, Obama pays Coulter to call him a "nigger" to boost campaign contributions.
I was expecting her to relate a story about the deep dicking he gives her every night.
Wisconsin got me too....
or Malcom X, Warren Buffett, Bob Gibson, Fred Astaire, President Ford, or Henry Fonda
Evolution is a miracle.
I agree. This horse has been killed, beaten, drawn, and quartered. It's enough, let's talk about something which is actually interesting, like actual techniques for programming!
Some people would prefer to see the real film, not a shitty 700 meg rip of it
Chenbush is not stupid, there is no way they could have pulled off what they did if they were stupid. Devious, yes, stupid, no.
I entered panic and fear but it didn't get it.
"I'm in favor of giving him hard hard time. That means no Science, no Nature, no physics textbooks, no calculus classes--nothing."
What is your reasoning for this? You seem to imply that the reason he should do hard time is because he forced such hardships upon innocent others. Are you saying this "hard time" is revenge? Punishment? What is the point, exactly? I agree that, in some cases, severe punishment is needed, not so much to punish the guilty, but to discourage others from committing the same crime. In this case, though, doesn't 7 years of hard time (no books, no classes, etc) seems excessive? It produces two results, both of which seem rather pointless: It provides the victim with a sense of fulfilled revenge, and it has a negative effect on the perpetrator...he is not being rehabilitated. Instead, he is becoming angry. He is going to want some revenge for this. When he gets out, maybe he will try to get that revenge. Sound familiar?
My point is that you can't use revenge as a reason for "hard time". It benefits no one.
I thought the government had unleashed a massive war on illegal downloading...guess it is going as well as all the other wars they find themselves entrenched in.
She's what you call a diversion. She's called out when the news cycle is focusing too much on Bush or Cheney. SHe is a tool and probably still has her tool. THe best thing you can do is just ignore Coulter and she no longer has a market.
8 Providinces without reference:
I will:
Ontario
Manitoba
Alberta
Sasskatuan (sic)
Newfoundland
Yukon
Northwest Territories
Quebec
It does that sometimes.
It is not up to me to disprove your made up claims. If you
make a claim, then you have to prove it.
Oh, you have it wrong. You are giving me far too much influence. I did not make the claim. You flatter me. One of those who make this claim, as I posted, was the Executive Director of the NBJC, who said "Hatred leads to violence".
I assume that someone who is head of a civil rights group has far more experience of such issues than you or I. I can hardly think of anyone more qualified to just the influence and effects of hatred. Can you?
Please, put forward your arguments as if you were trying to convice him, with his years of experience, that hate speech does not generate violence....
It just looks like ordinary theism to me.
All organised religion entails threats.
The warning that the cartoon is "a little disturbing for most."
I don't know why they need such high taxes there anyway
A little thing called capital investment? Oh wait, reality doesn't exist for idiots masquerading as know-nothing pundits.
left the free market system in place to encourage people to make lots of money
Right. Just "leave alone" desperately poor, illiterate and sick people so they can "make lots of money". Are you psychotic?
and then keep investing the excess tax dollars every year
Yeah, the excess tax dollars that are supposed to materialize without any capital investments and without collecting any taxes.
The Russians may have been better prepared for a collapse than US, however, the US is more capable of rapidly transforming itself to deal with the end of cheap oil. 23 states have adopted Renewable Portfolio Standards. These states are developing energy sources that will remain even with a collapse. They may not represent an even exchange, carbon for renewable, however, they will offer a foundation for redevelopment.
The problem with technology like this is it has to be everywhere before making the air travel system more secure. One vulnerable airport (foreign or domestic) is all it takes. If you've ever gone to smaller airports you'll know security is pretty much a joke.
50 out of 50 but it did take me 7:03 to type them all in.
James 1:26
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Ya, business as usual.
There are still bomb craters in the countryside of much of Europe. There are still many daily reminders of the horrors of war and that war is a very bad thing. Many Americans make light of war and think that bombing another country is great.
Ok I admit I don't get it, what's funny about the label?
Yes, indeed.
When was the last time a private corporation nuked a city, busted down your door in the middle of the night, stole 40% of your paycheck, listened in on your phone conversations, started a war, or tortured and executed a prisoner?
The world would be a much better place if governments, like corporations, had to advertise their services and beg for our business.
In the free market, trainwrecks like Enron rapidly go out of business and cease to have a negative effect on the marketplace. However, government continues to waste billions of dollars and thousands of lives with corrupt and inefficient practices - and often the very people responsible are not punished or kicked out, but promoted.
Incidentally, Halliburton isn't a very good example of a private corporation, as the vast majority of their contracts are with the US government. Ford and GM run like clockwork compared to most any government on the planet. RIAA isn't a corporation - they are a lobbying group which seeks to use the power of government to protect their business model. And I fail to see how Microsoft is an example of a badly run or harmful corporation.
You forgot:Minnesota, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin
Probably only because I'm still in school. Kind of sad, because I live in Maryland :P
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Going by the actual record of the past few decades in Venezuela, the rich assholes' leaving only increases Venezuela's productivity. When they were pampered, Venezuela's economy stagnated. Now they aren't pampered, it boomed.
Hey- don't downmod him just because he's LouF! He does raise an interesting question once in a while...
What does it says about American politics that the best way to send a message to Miss Coulter seems to be a hefty donation?
Sigh. I hate this whole thing. I'm pretty sure people heard that one comic commenting upon it and then picked it up and propagated the joke so that they could seem smart. Yes, Alanis Morrisette's song with ironic examples were in fact ironic. Sure, it was not literary irony or particularly witty, but her examples do fall into the definition of irony being that they were unexpected occurences. See the dictionary definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony
Also, I'm not sure I agree with Mrs. Edwards assesment of "the courageous 9-11 widows." No matter how you slice it they are a bunch of spoiled, rich hens.
You're right of course, because they should sit around passively after their husbands have died in a national tragedy instead of trying to make a difference in the government that might prevent something like that happening in the future.
I've used a prototype gaze tracker (BlueEyes) and I have to say that there was a lot of jitter and very little spatial resolution. The resolution can be improved but I think the saccades your eye makes will probably have to be filtered to get rid of the jitter. There are other devices like Jeff Han's work that are probably much better candidates for mouse replacement:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/
like saying "Bye Bye Steering wheel" not going to happen. Touch screen and 3d navigation will be in it, but it;s easier to use one finger, eh i'm getting tired having to use these fingers to type, back to the trackpad
If you're level designers have any architecture backgrounds then they likely know Autocad and hence Autolisp and hence Scheme shouldn't scare them.
I thought it would be instructive to show that Common Lisp, too, can support this kind of style. To me it seemed you were talking about languages and their support for programming styles.
It probably seemed that way because that was exactly what he did
"Renewable Portfolio Standards"? Do you seriously believe that such phrases stand for anything more than smoke and mirrors?
The demolition of the suburbs and rebuilding of public transportation should have begun a decade ago. Don't want to change the fundamentals of your way of life? Too bad. You'll have to do it anyway when the plug gets pulled.
So what am I supposed to to with my right hand? Wank off?
There is ACL-COMPAT-SOCKET.
That is what Portable Aserve (the library used for the "webby stuff" in Practical Common Lisp) is using.
The article is slow and boring with occasional bits of interesting information.
It's exactly how I imagine the described job to be.
Has Science discovered the Real Book of Life?
It is especially hard to get a company to green light a commercial that seemingly has nothing to do with the actual product (unless it's the pharmaceutical industry), but this was an excellent piece of work and the fact that we are talking about it means it was a good gamble.
If you need an example of why teachers unions aren't the problem look no farther than Texas. I've been in Texas going to school for four years now. Teachers unions are illegal here (no state employee can unionize) and the schools really couldn't be much worse.
More evidence that the major power brokers in the world are just criminal gangs.
Republicans vs. the green party, clearly.
I totally agree - and yet there's so many of them here...
It's a reflection of the complete and total lack of trust young people have with governments.
Adventures in Writing, Rewriting, and being a young freelance writer.
How could you remember Vermont but forget New Hampshire?
Haha, suck it communism.
I'm surprised that banjo.com was available to register as late as 2003.
As if any of us have ever even seen pure capitalism in any form to know whether it is good or bad. We have only experienced differing degrees of socialism.
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What? No FizzBuzz?
Thank God I learned this song in grade school.
Ann Coulter is great. She really plays you libs into a mouth foaming frenzy. It really is funny to watch
Forget Friedman's tripe and read what's happening in Venezuela on the ground. It's classic Keynesian economics. And it works. As for Friedman's wet dream? It's what Venezuela had before, the miserable excuse for an economy which didn't work.
But the nations whose economies are only partially state managed are on the way out, too. It's only a matter of time.
I should first say I like Scheme's continuations. I cringe whenever I hear some advocate hawking "continuations" which turn out to be nowhere as convenient.
That said, I tried Scheme a while back and reverted to Python. I just felt (SICP) Scheme's emphasis on functional programming was a stylistic straitjacket, not to mention Python's superiority then in libraries. Of course, the situation may now be different, but I'm not aware of a compelling enough reason to use Scheme. Perhaps my loss.
Now my tool of choice tends to be Common Lisp.
No. Just, no.
12 states remain,
I could not spell Tennessee
I got most of the periphery, hard to remember those boring middle states. I found it easier to work geographically rather than alphabetically.
WTF with this people? A fallacy-filled Wikipedia by design?
I'll admit I missed 6 :O although I am drunk...
The 6 I missed are not real states anyways
But its not like they didn't pay into that. Social Security is really worse than a retirement fund because its not guaranteed and rarely do people every get back what they put in. The old farts of today put that in on every check.
I agree though socialism is not a solution. The people that work for socialized medicine will be less driven, less reactive and less profitable and probably do alot less overall.
Socialism is a dream of Utopia that will not happen, people dont' work that way, its santa claus. Social security needs to be tapered off and people need to manage their own retirement.
Lisp is strong and dynamically typed. I think you're confusing strong and static typing here. Lisp is not statically typed and Haskell is.
He's typically KGB - he has no limits in his mind and thinks he can get away with anything. Foreign governments won't say anything as long as they are buying oil and gas from him.
I totally agree with you. It is delusional to expect that this administration is going to change and do anything right. I don't know what the democrats are waiting for. How much worse does it have to get? How much more does this nation need to suffer from these crooks? Stop lecturing! Do something!
This is easy...conservatives dislike Republicans because they are acting like Democrats. BUT, voting for turncoat Republicans is
still is a smarter choice than voting for a Dem.
No, I'm not affiliated with old spice in any way, I just thought this was funny.. You can skip the video and go straight to the test. The results are pretty funny.
One of the comments links to http://ml-implode.com/ a site that tracks US Mortgage Lender News/Status. Pretty damn scary.
Onista is Online community where people can buy or sell anything to each other without having to worry about paying any listing fees or commission to anybody. It also is a place where people can socialize and create new friends.
I think what Dvorak is trying to say is that there is no technical hurdle for PDA/phone devices to use "free" (free to you) wi-fi networks to make calls instead of the more expensive cell phone network.
We could kill the telecoms by going grass roots--make every public wi-fi network be able to route calls. The concept of usage minutes is completely artificial and tacked on by MBAs, it has no technical reality anymore. The cell phone plans are enormously confusing and complicated--ON PURPOSE because people don't realize the innovations that have taken place.
One of the problems I see is that certain sites make the main page over and over again, but many people have just subscribed to the RSS feed. This unfortunately leads to people who don't feel like discussing or even seeing that article/comic again getting annoyed and either downvoting or adding bad comments.
I propose that there is a spot to filter out certain URLs for main page filtering. All submissions should still show up on the "new" view, and perhaps the "super-hot" (colored red) topics should show up on the main page too.
I think this would solve the majority of the complaints. What does everyone else think?
if i want to see retarded videos i can go to youtube myself. post articles.
I think Greenspun's Law applies to Scheme.
At least after using Common Lisp and then Scheme, I found myself wishing for familiar Common Lisp functions.
Scheme can be a good choice for an application extension language and is probably the best teaching language I've seen. That's it (and a worthy niche that is).
Peak Oil is a myth to drive up prices.
Well I, for one, welcome our new Russian Gov/mobster overlords.
That was my point in its entirety, but some people didn't realize that I was being sarcastic and saying that the shemale joke ISN'T funny.
smakusdod,
Wow! Very nice two insults! Goody on you. Very classy.
2nd. Dan Rather? is this a code phrase? Do you argue by code phrase or do you have a coherent position to go with that. What is your claim about Dan Rather?
3rd. Newsbusters is a child organization of Media Research online. Both of which are Brent Bozell web properties.
Newsbusters was formed in Aug 2005, more than likely in response to the increasing effectiveness of Media Matters which was established May 2004. However MRC was founded in Oct, 1987. Making it over 20 years old.
Now, with just a surface level examination one could think that there was some kind equivalence between a 3 year old organization, and the 2 year old child organization of a 20 year old parent. This is could not be farther from the truth.
Media Matters has a clearly listed staff who regularly publish articles on media bias, and only media bias.
Newsbusters does not have a news analysis staff instead clearly relying on MRC for news analysis! Note that main thing newsbusters is supposed to be doing is apparently being outsourced. Nice. But we do get the occasional piece of "added value". Like the current top newsbusters top story which is a "captionfest". Newsbusters so unprofessional produced I can't even find a permalink to this blog entry.
If we look at MRC we find that the "news analysis division" seems to consist of Brent Baker, Tim Graham, and Rich Noyce. Who all by their own admission made their reputation in the Get Clinton industry of the mid and late 90's. Unsurprisingly with no Clinton in the White House, nothing "new" has been accomplished by these paragons of integrity.
Looking at Media Matters we see that the CEO is actually David Brock, who also came from the Get Clinton industry, but interestingly who came out of the closet and wrote several books about the experience including
The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy.
Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative
So a guy who makes his reputation on the right, gets to a point where he can't take the lies anymore and then spends the next part of his life working to expose those lies.
If we move onto the Media Matters staff we find tons of well qualified people.
Now the gargaro link. Is of course all 90's era stuff. It serves as a cache to a "media bias" site that doesn't even exist anymore. So we have another Get Clinton industry group.
Then we have the Groseclose/Milyo study which surprsingly finds that Matt Drudge is a left wing news site! Amazing.
This paper has been analyzed in its short comings
here
The problems with the Groseclose/Milyo study of media bias
and here
'Liberal Media' Myth Goes 'Scientific'
If you want to have a thorough discussion on media bias, we can do this, however the actual topic was the existence of and inability of the modern right-wing machine to effectively attack Hillary. A claim which you have not disputed or have even attempted to address yet.
Rather you posited an equivalence between current left media bias tracking which is a very very new internet based phenomena, and the right-wing version of such which is 20 years old and serves as much as a propaganda outlet at this point as "bias" analysis service. Interesting as this is its way off topic.
If you want to continue this conversation please come to this new thread dedicated to this topic.
And the people who did the torturing weren't the ones who got the wrong end of a nuke.
This thread has been started based on a side discussion with smakusdod. I await his first statement.
Well duh!
Well duh!
So what's new?
not funny. the guy laughing at every "joke" got really annoying.
Probably Nebraska. What the hell is in Nebraska?
Edit: I missed Colorado, Utah, Kentucky, and Oklahoma.
49 - Freaking Iowa.
Hi Lou,
I hate to butt in here, but you are making an outlandish claim (hate speech does not encourage violence) without presenting any evidence. decaff has thoughtfully presented you with evidence which you have not responded to.
Technically your posts were not covered by the EULA, since there was no specific invocation of the license (though it might just be that I have missed it), so while what you are doing is inappropriate, it is technically not necessarily in violation of the license. It's a sticky question as to whether the license applies when not invoked, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here, since I am a nice person and don't want to upset you.
But to make things more clear with respect to the agreement's jurisdiction, I hereby state that all posts by LouF replying to any comments in this story thread are now retroactively covered by the EULA for any future posts by LouF. I will offer a grace period where you can make amends and correct your errors, but if you refuse to do so or ignore this request, you will be faced with stiff penalties.
This post is bound by the EULA for any future posts by LouF.
You're a cranky, obsessive, ingrown little bigot and the most hateful homophobic closet case I've ever encountered.
You're disgusting and pathetic.
Vonnegut's a good writer, but an asshole.
Most of the commenters here seem to be assholes too.
I generally don't agree with LouF either, but it was the first thing I thought when I read that bit about the money. Honestly, its a fair question.
I know plenty of expat Russians who originally voted for Putin. None of them have any doubt that he is behind this.
I tend to think about reading.
Actually, sexp readability is where I have a problem. Too regular for me - I've got nothing to lock on to.
I was being pithy.
2007 Nude Car Show calendar
Sort of like the presidents response to 9/11: Spend money! The terrorists hate it when you go shopping.
Surprise: depressions hurt the rich more.
Duh!!
The fallacy is that you made a presupposition that facts would emerge.
No facts will emerge. Therefore you support never speculating since there are no facts and never will be.
Circumstancial evidence is the only kind of evidence that the population will ever get against their rulers.
I forgot: Alabama, Connecticut, Minnesota.
I generally suck at geography though...
Dude, that video was awesome. Imagine if everyone had one of those things in their home, connected to the internet. Surfing the web would be completely different - instead of webpages, there would be a "desktop", which would consist of any of the things you saw in the video. The only problem I can see with this interface is lack of tactile feedback and pressure. Maybe you could fix this by placing a layer of something transparent and malleable between the user and the screen. There would be some electronics embedded in this layer to sense touch, but these would have to be minimal (so that it wouldn't obscure the screen.)
A true Marylander would have forgotten Delaware.
who cares about new hampshire? and i'm a geography teacher!
http://reddit.com/info/sljc/details
Yes.
"This includes coverage from ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, and CNN. Efforts are underway to gather that additional archive footage so that a more comprehensive picture can be presented of what really happened that day."
I remember watching MSNBC airing live interviews when behind them the WTC 7 building collapsed. Remember the reporter, interviewee and the rest of the crowd freaking out when the dust cloud started to blow towards them. Luckily, they were far enough away. I remember that. Its the only one I have never found online.
Until I see that and when the time stamp can be revealed this theory is baseless.
Warren Buffet.
Honestly, what can we do to get our country back? Do we have to hit the streets? Burn shit down? What?
If you think I'm watching a twelve-minute video to figure out what you're talking about, you've got another thing coming.
digg reddit del.icio.us scrolling
Perhaps they bought it from a squatter.
So when you think things like that, does actual smoke come out of your ears, or is it only metaphoric?
The only reason she gets all this mileage is because she's hot. Imagine a fat ugly hag saying the same things ? Nobody would give a rats ass let alone put her on TV...
Annapolis, Lansing, Salem, Jackson.... ah, screw it.
Mr A was also a heavy cannabis user, and when he was encouraged to decrease his use, his paranoia and hallucinations disappeared and his anxiety abated. But his memory and concentration problems remained, leading the doctors to suspect that these may be permanent disabilities.
duh.. Weed makes everything more intense and interesting. Paranoia is a form of interesting.
She should have said to Coulter, "He's more of a man than you'll ever be."
You forgot:Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Maine,
Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire,
Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, West Virginia,
Wyoming,
I'm Canadian too.
*EDIT: I did get Nebraska, for the record.
Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Utah,
Wyoming
"no [Texas] state employee can unionize"
You are incorrect:
http://www.cwa-tseu.org/
Represents 9500 state workers in fifty-three state agencies, twenty-four university locations, and workers in local MHMR authorities, local and county ...
Teachers' unions are bullshit, though.
Of course not. I was describing his motivation: he thought he was pulling off something like a college prank, not "flying off the handle" in the grip of a murderous, angry impulse. Therefore it's unlikely he would directly go after people next time, as eadmund suggests.
Well, this article making it to rank 31 makes it official, reddit has jumped the shark.
50 out of 50--but it took me a couple of minutes to remember I could Google the answer.
Improvement in student scores on standardized tests = Good Teacher.
Modula-2:
MODULE FizzBuzz;
FORM InOut IMPORT
WriteLine, WriteInt;
VAR
i,m15,m5,m3 : INTEGER;
BEGIN
FOR i := 1 to 100 DO
m15 := i MOD 15;
m5 := i MOD 5;
m3 := i MOD 3;
IF m15 = 0 THEN
WriteLine ( 'FizzBuzz' );
ELSEIF m5 = 0 THEN
WriteLine ( 'Buzz' );
ELSEIF m3 = 0 THEN
WriteLine ( 'Fizz' );
ELSE
WriteInt( i ); WriteLine
END
END
END FizzBuzz.
ADA:
with TEXT_IO;
package int_io is new TEXT_IO.INTEGER_IO( INTEGER);
with TEXT_IO,int_io; use TEXT_IO,int_io;
procudure fizzbuzz is
i,m15,m5,m3 : INTEGER;
begin
for i in INTEGER range 1 .. 100 loop
m15 := i mod 15;
m5 := i mod 5;
m3 := i mod 3;
if m15 = 0 then
PUT ( "FizzBuzz" ); NEW_LINE;
elseif m5 = 0 then
PUT ( "Buzz" ); NEW_LINE;
elseif m2 = 0 then
PUT ( "Fizz" ); NEW_LINE;
else
PUT ( i ); NEW_LINE;
end if;
end loop;
end fizzbuzz;
I don't think religion is the wrong problem. As Sam Harris says, people can be highly educated, yet still believe in religious dogma and be extremists.
I use CL (and Erlang, sometimes c++) almost exclusively now for couple years. Mostly because of macros, but many other things in CL are great. I really like the "baroque" feeling sometimes, it's funny but those cryptic names never bothered me. Why should any stupid understand immediately what I wrote ;)
I love CLOS is designed, other object systems are just crap comparing to that. I like the speed I can get from SBCL when I invest a little time.
Wow, there really is a porno niche for everyone.
I can only imagine the members area as being extremely hairy.
Hi Lou,
Under section 4 of the EULA you will find that when making claims that appear outlandish, you are required to either provide concrete proof for your assertion or will admit that you were in error in making his claim. So far you haven't provided that. In addition you make the outlandish claim that you kicked my ass in argument, when any objective party can plainly see that this is not the case. In fact you went down pathetically in a ball of flaming wreckage. Therefore, you are now required to post an acknowledgment will include the phrase "Of course I need to make up facts, reality has a well known liberal bias."
You also used the term "pathetic loser," which is a violation of section 2 of the agreement. You are now required to state plainly in writing an apology including the phrase "you are rubber, I am glue, I made an error insulting you."
In addition you have in the past complained about others engaging in name-calling. But here you called me a "pathetic loser." That is hypocritical, and thus a violation of section 3 of the EULA. You are now required to plainly state that you were hypocritical in this thread including the phrase, "Yes I am a hypocrite, the type of person that Jesus was most inclined to condemn. I threw the first stone, I judged, I did not turn the other cheek. I have not lived up to the message of Jesus, for I have not applied his teachings to my life, I know nothing of agape. I did unto others that which I would not want done to myself. I hate the poor. I actively ignore Jesus' message of compassion for the poor, instead I agree with others who say that the poor all welfare bums who deserve what they get. Were I present with Christ in my current state of mind I would have cast the first stone." I have to say that this really is my favorite penalty, so while I should not enjoy seeing you abuse yourself, I still have to thank you.
Finally, while it boggles the mind, you have already hit the "three strikes" rule. That was fast. As a result you are now required to post this phrase: "I admit that I am not very good at arguing, I use cheap rhetorical tactics because I am not subtle enough to even understand what you are arguing with me about, let alone come up with a coherent defense. I admit that I must have some kind of mental issue, and should seek professional help."
Please also note that if you do not comply you will suffer the even more serious penalty of having your posts all regarded as semantically equivalent to this: "I admit that I am not very good at arguing, I use cheap rhetorical tactics because I am not subtle enough to even understand what you are arguing with me about, let alone come up with a coherent defense. I admit that I must have some kind of mental issue, and should seek professional help."
You don't want that Lou. As an anonymous internet friend and general nice guy, I am trying to help here. I think it's time to take things a little more seriously, and admit the errors of your ways.
Finally the EULA did not really take very long to write, but I already see that the time spent is paying off, as it is endlessly amusing to cite it. Also it's not about revenge, for I have nothing to get even with you over. Sorry if that upsets you. If you choose to be a better internet citizen perhaps we could work together to improve things. But the first step is to admit you have a problem. Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
This post is bound by the EULA for any future posts by LouF.
Some of observations:
1) The talking heads have been going gangbusters trying to reassure the public that nothing is wrong. Yet the bad loans are all still out there and nothing can change that. It remains to be seen how bad the situation will get, but at the peak, something like 80% of mortgages in California alone were deemed "risky."
2) The fed stopped reporting M3 because they have lost control of credit creation and want to conceal that fact.
3) The sale and re-packaging of bad mortgages mentioned in the article spreads the risk around more, but who buys this garbage and why? I am not all that educated about the alchemy of hedge funds and how those operate, but they appear to me as the next S&Ls. In fact, if the massive bonus payouts in 2006 is any indication, I'd say the hedge fund business is probably headed over a cliff pretty soon since those companies didn't make money per se, they just performed a crapload of transactions.
3) All these private equity deals seem to be part of the overall scheme--taking companies that are publicly traded back private in order to remove them from stock exchanges so that they can expire in a more controlled fashion. Maybe this is what the Plunge Protection Team has been up to?
Yuck ! How disgusting !
Not even one mentioned damp tissue. Have you ever
tried cleaning dirty dishes with just dry paper ?
right clic, view source dumbass
Regardless of the argument, what's scary is how this "game" has progressed. See http://attendingtheworld.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/the-games-they-play/
or Suddenly Dirty: http://attendingtheworld.wordpress.com/2006/12/06/suddenly-dirty/
All sorts of fabrications have been presented to bury the truth. Yet all we do is read and debate. Is there anything that can be done about these lies? Yes! Instead of writing here, we could also write the papers and the media... one day someone, somewhere will heed to the pressure.
No. You need to learn to feel your own feelings instead of projecting them onto others.
You don't have to keep suffering your "terribly empty feeling" -- you've chosen to live a lie.
You can quit any time. But you should probably do it with the help of a trained counselor.
I never knew that Steve Jobs or M$ tech people were experts on education. If they know something about business and computers then of course they know how to run schools as well.
Because the goal was not to kill him, but to discourage others from speaking ill of the Putin regime. If he dies, he's burried, if hes in a wheelchair for the next 40 years of his life, hes a long lasting symbol of what happens when you talk.
This kind of thing used to be called Terrorism.
As a non-US citizen, I found myself relying on famous songs, movies, etc. Ray Charles song "Georgia", the movie "My Own Private Idaho", "Sweet Home Alabama", the band "Utah Saints", "Kentucky Fried Chicken", Tennessee Whiskey. Illinois as made famous by the Blues Brothers. I got 30 states this way (also a lot of mistakes from what I guess are cities not states).
LOL... it's crazy to think that Putin is behind this. As if Putin gives a sh*t what some nobody says in some speech that nobody will hear.
It's crazy to think that Putin was behind Litvinenko's assassination. As if Putin gives a sh*t about what some low level KGB tool says about him. But that polonium did come from somewhere, didn't it?
Paul Joyal also had his fingers in a few Russian pots:
[WaPost] He ... established joint ventures in telecommunications and air transportation in Russia and Georgia, according to the company's Web site.
He is well-known for his expertise on intelligence and terrorism and for his network of friends in the former Soviet Union, and he published a daily intelligence newsletter for 10 years that offered information on the former Soviet Union. In 1998, he was a lobbyist for the Georgian government in Washington.
Georgians not friendly with Russians. This is a touchy issue for Russia.
sick
Kids today!
In the immortal words of Bobby Lee:
"I have joke for you...knock knock"
"Who's there, dad?"
"YOU NOT FUNNY!"
Seriously. Enough with the crappy liberal comics. If you're going to bash conservatives, at least do so humorously.
He should have used Linux ;-)
...and it only took me a couple of seconds to realize you are a know-it-all asshole who didn't get the joke. Go masturbate some more.
That was a good one. xD
how do you survive on a day to day basis.
Yeah, you are right. If the screen scrolls when you are looking close to the edge, that means you can only look straight ahead so it doesn't scroll. And that, I think we all can agree on, is not a good thing. You want to be able to view the entire screen, look at all the objects.
Aside from games, sometimes I want to do one thing with my eyes and another with my mouse. Not often, but sometimes. So... I would rather not mix these two things. I am all for new devices...but please leave my eyes to serve their original purpose.
What evidence do you have for your god and hell ideas?
Yes. 1929.
I do apologise. it was a spelling mistake.
Obviously hatred doesn't always lead to violence.
Ah. Chink in the armour of your argumens. Hatred doesn't always lead to violence... but at least you finally admit it can.
I hate child molesters and Nazis, but I don't go out and
shoot them. It's an incredibly dumb argument.
What a wonderful argument. Hardaway expressed hatred against gay people. You express hatred against child molesters and Nazis. I think a lot of your psychology is revealed by the fact that you thought this was a suitable analogy. I am glad we have had this debate, as you have revealed so much.
Awesome! Another blog spam site makes it onto the hot page!
if i want to see retarded videos i can go to youtube myself. post articles.
actually, it was to this sort of shite. sorry, i should have been more specific... punched "comment" instead of "reply..." thirty self-administered lashes with a wet noodle.
That corner of it might be considered a nice neighborhood, but it wouldn't be immune to break-ins and stick-ups.
Then these breakins and stickups should show up in the crime stats, no? That's what low crime stats means. That you don't get many people randomly getting shot in the groin in their own driveway.
Can you provide a reference that provides details on this simulation? Preferably something reputable...
Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, British Columbia, Ottawa, Edmonton, The NorthWest Terriers, SouthWest Terriers, Alaska...damn, I forget the last one.
It's not my fault your life is lame.
And it's only partially your fault. You didn't get this way without receiving abuse and hate.
But fault doesn't matter. It's your job to fix your life. No one else can do it for you.
You can get help, but help won't do your work.
You're wasting a lot of attention on being a bigoted asshole. If you give it a rest, maybe you'll find courage you didn't know you had.
every cycle starts with tasking out and estimating what you're working on.
Sure. But how does it end? With party hats and beer showers for getting the estimate right on the money, or with weeping and sorrow for forgetting how bad things went the last time a large project for bid at a fixed price?
Agile estimates do not offer a fixed price for the whole shebang, unless there is an agreement that features get dropped or changed as needed to stay within time & budget.
Hmmm, maybe the "experts" should look at lorena's post
What a dumb idea.
"The area of the screen that's being looked at becomes magnified. Then, the person pinpoints her focus within the magnified region and releases the hot key"
Obviously too complicated (inversing the "click" action is a bad idea) but they explain the worst thing about this bad idea in the article!
"Previous studies have shown that it is distracting to a person when she is aware of her gaze because she consciously tries to control its location."
You mean aware of it like a giant magnifying glass on the screen? Dumb dumb dumb.
Eye-tracking is cool but this idea is stupid. The mouse stays. The mouse at a desktop is a good control interface - if that arrangement were to change the best thing to change would be the keyboard, replacing it with a cell phone style keyboard small enough to let you leave one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse at all times. If the keyboard additionally could change the key markings per-application:
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/
Where for example holding Ctrl causes the C key to turn into a Copy icon and the V key to turn into a Paste icon, THEN you've improved the desktop standard interface.
For portable devices the mouse is in the way. For this touchscreen technology with multitouch is probably your best bet - a Tablet PC form factor where you're using one giant screen and, if you need to type - that little keyboard mentioned above slides out.
In any case I don't know who's paying this Manu guy, but he's wasting their money.
Some smartphones/PDAs can. I know the Blackberry 7270 supported WiFi. Only the 802.11b standard though. That's the only WiFi device RIM has released to date though. Not so sure about other manufactures
LouF:
I admit that I am not very good at arguing, I use cheap rhetorical tactics because I am not subtle enough to even understand what you are arguing with me about, let alone come up with a coherent defense. I admit that I must have some kind of mental issue, and should seek professional help.
I really tried to give you a chance, but you blew it again. At least we are in agreement now. By the way, you might want to review section 6 a bit more carefully.
This post is bound by the EULA for any future posts by LouF.
Well, if you are going to be pedantic about it ... :)
Surely they meant something like
"Perl Programmer: All of the keys corresponding to non-alphanumeric printable symbols are worn out."
But that isn't as funny because the over-precision is incompatible with the hyperbolic nature of the joke.
Fantastic
You have evidence, I presume?
or Bruce Springsteen's best album
Kind of a loaded question, isn't it?
Well, it does go a long way...
I forgot Massachusetts, though I knew I had forgotten the state in between Maryland and Michigan
They have a timetable for when they will shoot my area. Highest resolution - 250m equals 1px. This means I need to get a lot of friends and their cars together. And pray for it to be a sunny day.
You seriously believe that in 50-70 years we have used all the oil in the Earth? It also regenerates over time. Peak Oil is not not being able to find and produce it, its peak in that production is not keeping up with demand. This happens when the oil industry owns all exploration and production and funds environmental groups against offshore and refineries. It drives up the price and they are cartels.
New techniques invented in the last 10 years using ELF waves is finding oil all over, the GUlf of Mexico, Cuba, Siberia, in the pacific etc. Its a ponzi just like the Oil Embargo of the 70's, People didn't start using oil heavily until the 40s-50s and you think we have used it all up in 70 years.
I have a bridge to sell you....
BTW fuel worked just fine before petroleum (which was morec cost effective). Teh entire auto industry ran off of hemp and ethanol up until the 40s. The Model A got 25 MPH Ethanol.
If we have used up all the oil in the Earth we need not worry about Peak Oil as the Earth will eject our asses as oil is part of the geological process of the earth.
We use alot of salt, from many generations. Is there peak salt? Is there peak gold? We sometimes think our lives will have major events but to the earth our lives are but a flicker barely noticable.
Peak Oil in the sense that its a ponzi and its a price fix for supply, that exists. Running out of oil... That won't happen before the end of humans.
to nemo: I am new here, and it seems you are a well-established antagonist of LouF. I am not familiar with the protocols of reddit, and I apologise if my persistence in continuing a discussion with LouF to this extent is considered tedious, but I am fascinated with the psychology of such people, and I have to say, the debate has been illuminating (especially the last entry, with the implied connection between Gay and child-molester and Nazi).
to Lou: For goodness sake, try and be original.
Reddit Post Downmodded For Provocative But Information-Free Title
You forgot:Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Minnesota, Ohio,
Vermont
The wings look very stubby for it to be a jet plane. And it sure looks like a Tomahawk to me.
That is one ignorant dictionary site. It's ironic to say "Nice weather" when it's raining?
Just as long as we're throwing around our credentials, the OP is my mother and I'm a member of AFT. Mom can post her own credentials, but trust me that she's not some outsider idiot.
I think you're equating socialism with communism. There are many countries that by any reasonable definition can be considered socialist and to a large degree they function just fine as countries/political systems go. Arguably the US is not a country thats seems amenable to that sort of system.
Social Security doesn't "need" to be tapered off, there are minor adjustments to the systems that can handle the expected difficulties without much headache or massive tax increase.
On the other hand a system that allows individuals more control is something to look at if the math can be made to work and some sort of phased transition implemented.
You're too scared to do either.
http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/planes/defense/sfgate_exercise_082102.html
This one says the simulation wasn't for crashing into the WTC, just some other building. Apparently the WTC crashing simulation happened earlier in the year actually, so not on 9-11. But there seem to be conflicting reports.
In any case, it's well established that NORAD was dealing with a war game where planes would be hijacked while the 9-11 hijacks happened.
The coincidence seemed to have helped NORAD to respond, since they were all already in the proper positions. But they still failed I guess.
You forgot:Indiana, Wisconsin
No i didn't forget, i just don't consider those states.
Solway Lass has an amazing history and is available for you to experience on a Whitsunday Island Sailing trip. With a pirate theme this is one fun trip departing from Airlie Beach in Queensland Australia.
Why do broadcast radio stations get free use of music while internet radio has to pay?
Or, why does the RIAA love broadcast and hate internet?
bah. 41. not bad for a canucker, i suppose. i've been to all the ones i missed, too. bah.
Thank God! I can't wait until it all comes tumbling down.
Then the socialist revolution will finally begin.
and the NWT is now called Nunavut.
Using something like paredit.el for emacs, you hit the "(" key and a pair of parentheses will be inserted, with the cursor between them. Then you type what you want and hit the ")" key, which doesn't insert anything, it just moves the cursor out of the innermost closed parenthesis. It's as many keystrokes, but you don't have to think about balancing at all.
Likewise, the other editing commands usually do the "right" thing, so you can't mess up the balance by backspacing or killing a line or something.
I have done ecstasy, it's fun but there is no way I would want to be on it constantly for 9 years.
I would imagine he took a lot at one time instead of one every 1.3149 hours. Especially since if he used ecstasy that often his tolerance would be incredibly high.
Hopefully.
Socialism and communism are on the same spectrum, eventually socialism becomes closer to communism.
People in America do not care for one another at their core, it will never work here. Our culture is be #1 not teamwork, I wish this were different but it is not. Its nature at its finest, its the system we live in.
Social Security needs to be put more in the hands of the people who pay it. I agree it was a good investment and since its forward paid it is not a free ride, however its disconcerning that it will keep ramping up during the baby boomer retirement boom. Meaning you and I probably won't see that money we paid.
Its also a huge pain on small business to pay disproportionally to the large companies in terms of the balance of what is paid to profit. It is a higher tax for the poor essentially.
Personal retirement is the only way. Allow people to invest it. Not Bush's plan where its fascist and the government chooses where you invest and then takes the gains but where you can invest it and essentially own a large percentage of it.
Don't get me wrong its a good program that takes care of old people, people who were disadvantaged etc and its more of an investment however it has been shown that it will fail and apparantly government wont' allow that money to be owned by the people paying in. Somehow 15% extra on top of fed taxes (you pay 7% employer pays the rest) is not enough to support it. Something is wrong, that should be plenty yet its still failing? Politicians use it way too much for budgetary issues there is probably nothing in it.
I think it does need to be phased into a new direction. Because the government is not good at investing it (it loses to inflation every year) I think people should get the right to do this with their own money.
But if you are counting on it you are dreaming. I hope you have other retirement options and account accruing now.
meh. To short to be boring.
The jaunty honky-tonk makes it funny!
Yeah, Lou and I have squabbled on and off for a long time. His irrationality is fascinating for a while, so I encourage you to discuss things with him. It's almost like being an anthropologist visiting a strange land where the principles of logic and rational discourse are just not practiced.
The EULA amuses me since it turns the table on Lou. Rather than me arguing with someone whose bizarre rules governing discourse are capriciously applied, instead Lou gets to see what arguing with someone with a capricious set of rules governing discourse is like.
My, you're a vicious little bugger aren't you?
idiots masquerading as know-nothing pundits.
This, as a put down, doesn't even make sense. Why would someone masquerade as a know-nothing?
A little thing called capital investment?
In the context you used it I'm going to assume your little brain was thinking of infrastructure improvements
Just "leave alone" desperately poor, illiterate and sick people so they can "make lots of money"
Isn't that exactly what the people who are leaving Venezuela are doing? I'm not suggesting return things to a free-for all, just that keeping property rights stable will keep the economic incentive in place required to prevent the crippling brain drain.
without collecting any taxes.
I never suggested not to collect taxes, just not to collect high taxes.
As it stands today oil revenues count for half of all goverment revenue. If half of Australia's revenue came from oil think how easy it would be for them to lower their tax rates while simultaneously improving their schools, infrastructure, whatever.
As a matter of fact it turns out Venezuela's tax rates aren't that high after all.
That one wasn't worth the thirty seconds it took to figure out the punch line.
well, at least geeks will now pursue careers in airline security...
Nebraska was the one I forgot. I narrowly remembered Iowa.
Sure, Bush-isms are entertaining. But so are the idioms my foreign wife happens to come up with...
New oil in Cuba
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14095881/
I'm connected to Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit. In other words I live with Him, day in, and day out.
If you want to know more, answer this: What evidence is used to convict people in a Court of Law?
Russia Siberian lines will supply half of world's oil in a decade.
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1885258,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1
i wonder if he has glow-stick flashbacks?
Caspian Sea just getting started:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0319/p01s04-wosc.html
Oil in Gulf of Mexico:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14678206/
Huge new discovery in Brazil:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4563896.stm
Oil Shales in Israel:
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul2006/gb20060705_516609.htm?campaign_id=alerts
Forgot California. But seriously that hardly counts as a state. :X
jk
Nigerian oil discoveries happen frequently:
http://www.chevron.com/news/press/2002/2002-08-19.asp
sometimes i run into something that makes me realize i am an idiot. this game is one such thing. bleagh.
The sad part is, given this:
http://reddit.com/info/168up/details
Those might actually be better for you...
"John was singled out for a personal attack because the Republican establishment knows he poses the greatest threat to their power."
I think the Edwards campaign is giving themselves an awful lot of credit with that claim... sounds like a contentious attempt to declare a front runner in a primary that is still ten months away.
Actually, this has quite good modularity with comparison with the variant I played around with, though my version didn't require any extra punctuation. Even in this style, I wouldn't use ($) for everything though, (.) has much better properties. You only need a "$ id" at the end.
For the record, here's the version I was playing around with before. Sorry that it's a little mangled with the admittedly confusing quoting operations I was playing around with -- this is the state I just happened to leave it in.
start k = k ()
end (x,_) = x
push s x k = k (x,s)
pop (_,s) k = k s
dup (x,s) k = k (x, (x, s))
exch (a,(b,s)) k = k (b,(a,s))
app (f,(x,s)) k = k (f x, s)
quote = flip
infixl 5 !
x ! y = quote x y
app1 f = quote push f ! app
app2 f = quote push f ! app ! app
cons = app2 (flip (,))
decons ((a,b),s) k = k (b,(a,s))
proj1 = app1 fst
proj2 = app1 snd
add = app2 (+)
mul = app2 (*)
len = app1 length
square = quote dup mul
It can be used like this:
*Forthish> start push 7 push 4 push 20 mul add end
87
The two hardest for me were Michigan and Nebraska. Damn Nebraska.
Where do I get in line?
And then ratted out the boss.
FIRED
Chevron memo to oil industry about lessening refineries to up oil margins:
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/fs/5103.pdf
"A senior energy analyst at the recent API convention warned that if the US petroleum industry doesn't reduce its refining capacity it will never see any substantial increase in refinery margins."
Other oil companies saying the same thing.
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/fs/
The problem is the industry is controlled by price fixing cartels because there are no alternatives. They also are responsible for all the companies that make the refineries. Any possibility or do you deny that they wil take advantage of this position? Blaming it on environmentalists which they also fund.
WSJ on how the oil companies target certain areas for more supply fixing, price fixing:
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_wsj-oil_oil.htm
Swede here that only got 24....but its 0500 at night here and i couldnt spell at all.
Damn. I'm both glad to know this, and pissed to find it out.
While I'm generally anti-union, I do feel that they are sometimes necessary.
Thanks for the link.
Wisconsin did it for me, also...
Then again, its not like I'm ever going to Milwaukee :)
I predict the next bizarros will be even more bizarre.
That's easy: Alabama State Capitol, Alaska State Capitol, Arizona State Capitol, Arkansas State Capitol, California State Capitol, Colorado State Capitol, Cowboy State Capitol (oops, I mean Texas State Capital), Connecticut State Capitol...
The price of oil remains high only because the cost of oil remains so low. We remain dependent on oil from the Mideast not because the planet is running out of buried hydrocarbons, but because extracting oil from the deserts of the Persian Gulf is so easy and cheap that it's risky to invest capital to extract somewhat more stubborn oil from far larger deposits in Alberta
In the words of Andrew Jackson....HOARD GOLD!
/jon stewart
They have hated each other forever but our fearless Decider II will solve centuries old hatred.
That didn't fall into the ocean yet? Hmmm.. I missed 47.. I didn't know there was more than New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Yeah, Manhatten Institute. Check out their Board of Directors:
Chairman of the Board Dietrich Weismann \t
Vice Chairman Byron R. Wien
\t \t
Chairman Emeritus Roger Hertog
Chairman Emeritus Charles H. Brunie
\t \t
Chairman Emeritus Richard Gilder*
\t \t
President Lawrence Mone
I'd like a half-objective opinion on important subjects.. I highly doubt these guys give me an unbiased opinion.
Rails envy. (It's never pretty.)
The media is owned by the same peeps that make the bombs and the energy. Hrm what did you expect.
http://reddit.com/info/17qqs/comments
Richard Kulisz giggles at genocide. Ignore him.
I have been expecting this to happen for the last year, my main regret is that I didn't get a chance to visit, my second regret is that I'm not there fighting with them. Just where did the government expect their city's youth to focus their anger?
What religion is that?
He's got the southern vote now! He can't lose!
This Canadian forgot: ndiana, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee,
West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
Woo level 13!
Fun little game. I definitely did not expect to get that far.
Key West Hotels - where to stay in Paradise:-)
"wine plays a central role in the holiday, with the sages exhorting Jews to drink until they can no longer distinguish between the hero Mordechai and the villainous Haman"
In general, it is a bad idea to overload reception and user input in such a manner.
China, don't worry, Cheney's got about as much credibility here as someone explaining to their boss why they are photocopying their ass on the copymachine at work.
Build a city below sea level and get hit by a hurricane.
Sue the Army for letting it happen.
Profit!
sighs Yet more proof of America's obsession with suing.
Yup. Then everyone will have a plot of land, donkey, wooden
hoe and some burlap sackcloth.
Are you ready?
I wasn't agreeing with the "belief in god" == "mental insanity" bit, just pointing out they were probably bad candidates to use as examples.
I thought that Echo's post was a joke coming from the ilyag - neilplatform1 exchange, and thought the "the only person you're insulting is yourself" was a little rich coming from someone who picked such poor examples, so I posted some links.
In the context you used it I'm going to assume your little brain was thinking of infrastructure improvements.
Well let's see: roads, at least one bridge, trains, a television station, hospitals, universities, schools, more schools, stores, and medical centers. Just to start off since now they're also acquiring a phone company.
Isn't that exactly what the people who are leaving Venezuela are doing?
That's not even comprehensible. Your sentence doesn't even parse. Unless you're suggesting that rich Venezuelans are making money by leaving a country where the aggregate bank deposits tripled in the last few years.
just that keeping property rights stable will keep the economic incentive in place required to prevent the crippling brain drain.
Crippling brain drain?! What the fuck are you even talking about? Venezuela is educating more brains than the rich assholes can cobble together. It can afford the "brain drain" of corrupt lazy motherfuckers. What it can't afford is letting rich fucks sit on their capital so they can speculate while poor people starve to death. Oh and property "rights" are stable in Venezuela! Stop drinking that kool-aid.
I never suggested not to collect taxes, just not to collect high taxes.
No, you suggested not collecting more taxes. Also known as, the past-due taxes which the rich owe the Venezuelan government. Because goodness knows rich people can't afford to pay taxes! Besides, "high" taxes is a bunch of crap. How the hell do you expect to provide a high degree of services without collecting high taxes? Oh right, just magic money out of thin air. Funny, the USA does that and it's described as the precursor to economic meltdown.
If half of Australia's revenue came from oil think how easy it would be for them to lower their tax rates
And this would be good, why? And in any case, it hardly matters what some bumfuck retarded country that can't get its shit together to produce its own paper from the its own trees which it harvests itself. A country that refuses to build nuclear power plants to replace its coal plants. A country that refuses to build a uranium processing plant to double the number of jobs in the industry. That's right, I'm talking about Australia with its colonial third-world economy. If you think anyone should take advice from what Australia "would" do then you're out to lunch.
As a matter of fact it turns out Venezuela's tax rates aren't that high after all.
And heaven knows, low taxes are the be-all and end-all of good public policy! Not you know, bridges, trains, factories, blah de blah. I'm betting you've got some delusional scheme about how Venezuela should "invest" (really non-invest) its oil revenue into some kind of trust. Which would conveniently get ripped off by notoriously corrupt politicians. Or hey, it should lower taxes to enable more capital flight.
I wouldn't give Coultergeist that much credit. Paris, at least, doesn't talk about anything she doesn't understand.
I think the anthropology comparison is a good one. I don't find his techniques that surprising. I have been arguing with people like him for a very long time (decades). I have to say that Lou is one of the simpler people I have dealt with, as (at least in this topic) he is so transparent and inept.
I have to say, I find your EULA most amusing.
6:46 for all fifty. Would have been quicker, but I forgot that Louisiana is spelled with one n...
Thank God I didn't have to put them all on a map.
korn
korn
Get off my lawn!
este video es mui chido
este video es mui chido
Words can have different meanings as demonstrated in this humorus little joke.
Goodness knows it's so much better to commit genocide. Cause genocide is a serious business!
Very effective, unfortunately.
I have no idea what the KUBARK interrogation manual is.
Because he believes the country would be better off without him?
"Python Programmer: Their tab key is worn out."
don't thinks so, my 'tab' key is still flashing.
You might want to check out tech.coop as well. They are a lisp-savvy group that will set you up with an inexpensive service.
I drove through Nebraska some years ago, on my way to a job in Wyoming, in a $250 orange Volkswagen bug with my worldly possessions in the back seat.
It was glorious. Western Nebraska was long stretches of breathtaking scenery, inspiring bluffs, and miles and miles without civilization.
That's what's in Nebraska.
You can check out the Better Business Bureau (BBB), but professional scam artists know how to get by the rules. Check out these guidelines to help you find someone you can trust.
The first two on the right column are. They're about bumper stickers. If you want a real laugh though, go for Doug Zonker's "Chicken Chicken Chicken" on that page. It's hilarious. Zonker takes a really funny gag and extends it for 5 minutes.
I was thinking Rhode Island might be the most forgotten.
NO
where's the etch-a-sketch?
Sorry Eloi, but you damned well that if the passengers were U.S. citizens, they would all be sitting in prison on charges of Accessory to Attempted Murder.
ever were.
This is basically it for me. Writing programs in Python is very fast, and there's not much Scheme offers over it for practical programming. And when I want a language for brain-stretching, I prefer Haskell nowadays.
Shut up about telling people to shut up about things. Fuck, there was no point at which the topic became 'dead': as soon as it appeared, there then appeared a split between people who don't walk around with spiky rods up their ass, and then people who -- omigosh! -- couldn't stand that people were implementing the problem! What are they, showing off!? Is this some kind of EGOTISM!? These damn programmers -- always programming!
Go back to throwing rocks at little girls -- those damned girls! Always playing their own -stuupid- games.
You mean the Bush tax cuts didn't create an economic boom?
Historically, no. See
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/02/19/INGMQH9TVM1.DTL&type=printable
and
http://www.iranian.com/AbbasMilani/2006/February/Black/index.html
I only missed Minnesota, and I see many others did, too. What did they ever give us, again?
These guys didn't write it its a Wall Street Journal article. The guy who did is still biased but they are in the business and know the price of oil. Do socialists know the oil business? Maybe Chavez that is it. Cheap petrol in Saudia Arabia was a deal we struck back before WWII and it ended Ethanol production.
See this: oil prices are fixed and rigged, peak oil a myth:
Chevron memo to oil industry about lessening refineries to up oil margins: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/fs/5103.pdf
"A senior energy analyst at the recent API convention warned that if the US petroleum industry doesn't reduce its refining capacity it will never see any substantial increase in refinery margins."
Other oil companies saying the same thing.
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/fs/
The problem is the industry is controlled by price fixing cartels because there are no alternatives. They also are responsible for all the companies that make the refineries. Any possibility or do you deny that they wil take advantage of this position? Blaming it on environmentalists which they also fund.
Forgot Arkansas ... spent the last 2min trying to remember it....
Damn I had a brain freeze and only got 42! Oh well.
But remember, after the conservatives led our nation into the 1929 collapse, the "evil" liberals took over and fixed what they broke.
Where Rep President Hoover did nothing to help middle class who had lost their homes and were living in cardboard boxes nicknamed "Hoover Hotels," the Dem President Roosevelt invented the WPA and jobs so people had money for food and housing.
Where Rep President Hoover did nothing while the banking industry ruined itself, Dem President Roosevelt invented the FDIC and saved banks from themselves. It was so bad the banks had even begged Roosevelt to take them over and nationalize the banking industry before he came up with the FDIC and saved capitalism for America.
Where Americans lost everything and Rep President Hoover was unmoved to act, Dem President Roosevelt invented Social Security as a safety net to make sure no hard working American would have naught in their old age.
Where conservatives are again leading our nation down a path of corruption, greed, and financial ruin, liberals are preparing themselves to deal with the reality of what lies ahead.
Its easy to claim Peak Oil when you control the refinery systems, the exploration systems, the policies and the US Government. Its also very easy to fund anti-nuclear, anti-ethanol, and anti-refinery environmental groups and then blame a strawman. Please dont' fall for Peak Oil it will lead us to madness.
You forgot the step about winning the suit.
Here's another way to look at it.
The very concept of vouchers is restriction. If you didn't want restriction, you'd just give cash. Initially that restriction is "only for use at a school" - that's no small thing! What if the parents want to teach their own child at home, or to use a system of "unschooling" where the child is helped to follow their own curiosity?
That's only one restriction, but vouchers put the architecture in place for adding others. They're designed, by their very nature, to make it easy.
You could say, vouchers are like DRM for money.
There should be a similar game where you name states in the Coalition of the Willing. Don't forget Poland!
I got 47 in the first three minutes, trying to mentally scan the map in my mind from the west coast to the east coast... Then I had to sit around thinking and waiting, finally came up with the missing three at the last minute: Nevada, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.
What makes this especially embarrassing: I was doing this while sitting in a hotel in Las Vegas.
The first thing I do when I get ahold of a Windows machine is put shortcuts to all the programs I care about in the "SendTo" folder. That way opening a file in the program of my choice is as simple as a right-click and a sub-menu navigation.
Easiest method for getting the programs there is to right-click on the Start button and Explore. Pick them up one at a time from the folders under "Start Menu\Programs" and copy the respective shortcuts into "SendTo".
I am not even going to try. I'm terrible at world geography. Actually I just know I can't guess Africa.
edit: i tried. I got 65. guess which country I'm from?
idk
Crazy impossible. 10 min for US states was too much time, 10 min for world countries is not nearly enough. And who can remember all those little island countries anyway?
I repeat myself when under stress.
no comment
I'm probably not the only one who saw that coming the moment he saw the nest.
Actually, WWII is what pulled our country out of the depression. It had little to do with Roosevelt.
NWT still exists, but it was split to create Nunavut
How we can all stop being angry and hateful is to boycott political parties altogether.
And artifact-filled JPEG ones, at that!
What's not to like?
One question for you: who was in office when the internet bubble burst?...
The tax cuts helped. It's not the government's fault that people got into housing they couldn't afford. Doesn't the ultimate responsibility for the housing mess lie on those who signed on the bottom line of mortgages they had no hope of affording?
It sucks to get a job then actually have to do it, poor Alberto.
40,000 x $10 = $400,000
$10 figure assumes costco bulk discount?
The market pulled itself out of the depression, despite Hoover and FDR's best efforts at making it difficult. Hoover was no conservative, at least by any modern definition of the word.
http://www.mises.org/rothbard/agd/contents.asp
Why don't ya just dig yerself a hole and buy yerself ah gun?
It is especially hard to get a company to green light a commercial...
Intentional?
Great concept; shut it off when the fighting began. Boring.
It would be cool to see a map with the states color coded by which I remembered and which I didn't.
Strangely I forgot Alaska (among many others) despite having lived there a year.
What's chickenscratch gibberish for "eat me"?
Here's a better question: has Jim Kunstler ever not predicted a complete financial collapse? I read his blog every month or so and I swear that the range of prophecy ranges from "We're dooooomed!" to "We're doomed sooooooon!"
I thought the gas prices under the pressure from peak oil were supposed to tank us last winter, right Jim? Or was it the winter before that? I forget. It was probably both.
That's not to say that Kunstler isn't a smart guy or that his commentary is without merit -- in fact, it's occasionally insightful -- but if the sky is really falling, I'd expect it to hit eventually. It's hard for me to take him seriously.
Haha I've got Firefox's spell checker. ;)
Now, I'm no pharmacologist, but I would have thought that taking that much MDMA at small intervals would deplete your serotonin levels to the degree that the drug would have little or no effect.
what the hell is delaware?
i also forgot nebraska, nevada, iowa, missouri and west virginia
But he still engages in business dealings with Russia and Georgia, and has a "network of friends" in Russia - this last bit, a high level gossip network, seems to have been Litvinenko's crime.
Joyal seems to have been meddling about the nexus of Russian government, industry, and intelligence. He wouldn't be the first American businessman to have his ass capped by Russians. The only difference is the other ones were in Moscow.
i imagine he didn't either. addiction is a terrible thing.
Stupidity.
So, you don't think he'd ever attempt other violent "protests?" You're saying that the odds of him blowing up more SUVs are the same as those of someone who hasn't before?
You cannot be serious. You would place a teacher's pay packet in the hands of their students?
This idea of kids rating teachers has recently be raised with regards to Australian public schools. SOme private schools are doing it already, and by all accounts the kids don't take it seriously. They even try to threaten the teachers with a bad review. How hard do you think teachers will push kids to succeed if the kids can get back at them.
I had some teachers push incredibly hard in high school. At the time I hated it, but in the end I got great grades and achieved stuff I would not have if the teachers had been lenient.
The thing is that good teachers teach because they want to help kids, not for the money. The incentives offered by a free market don't apply here. Would a teacher choose to work with under-privileged kids for less money or with rich brats for a higher pay check?
There is no logic behind encouraging unlawful activity, especially when it is not beneficial to either party.
Unfortunately, it is beneficial to both parties. The US economy benefits greatly from the huge workforce that works for less than minimum wage. Remember when the Californian crops rotted last fall because of a shortage of labour caused by increased control of illegal immigration? It's just not that simple to say shut down the borders and send everyone home. Doing so would damage both economies. This article presents a simplistic view of the problem.
Actually an internal memo was leaked.
Or it could just be that when oil prices or production are low, Venezuela's economy stagnates. When oil prices are high, it booms.
"Market information is valuable, and if you knew that a 100+ point disparity existed between the listed Dow price and the actual Dow price you could have made a killing."
Those in the know probably did.
I am a hindu and I totally agree. If muslim men do all this, what stops the hindu and sikh men from protecting themselves, their women or going to the authorities?
got em all in 2:36
Japan has less people per capita in prison than the US, also in Japan people in prison learn a trade so when they get out they have a chance to make a living. Prison should not be a pleasant experience, it should be a punishment, but should also offer a chance to better oneself.
This is because politicians never actually implement ideology, they implement politics. The only reason politicians ever suppot an ideology is because they see a bunch of suckers who will vote for them if they give that ideology lip service.
Bush certainly doesn't follow a typical conservative ideology, just like Bush1 and Reagan didn't. Clinton didn't follow liberal ideology either. They are all just politicians picking whatever special interest they think will get them elected, and once elected just do whatever will get them the most power and money.
Actually, the mortgage industry crumbling hurts those investors who purchased worthless bundles of mortgages. They are the ones who got too greedy buying crap.
Yes, those borrowers who bought even though they couldn't afford to, will be hurt. I don't think any of this spells the end of the middle class.
So this is what happens when you run a site that left right wingers and right right wingers get together with center right wingers to discuss things. Reminds me of the Gaza strip.
how are you supposed to play? i see a flash thing with a rectangle in the middle and a '0' above it and below it. then nothing happens. doesn't respond to clicking or the keyboard...
It should accept common names like North Korea and South Korea rather than official names like Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
LOL! You have a very selective memory. The bubble began to burst in March of 2000 (that's when the NASDAQ reached it's all-time high). The internet bubble was huge and then we experienced 911. You're going to blame that on Bush? Come on!
Yeah all the normal conspiracy stuff. This is all so what stuff. War plans to attack Iraq after 9-11, of course and we currently have and are updating war plans to attack all our potential adversaries, believe it or not! Cheney met with oil company executives to get their expert knowledge of the energy market and the problem is? Antiwar.com is not a reliable source, nor is Wikipedia. So you believe all the conspiracy myths hey? So tell me who blew up the World Trade Center and the adjacent buildings and what about the plane which was flown into the Pentagon?
Canadian here: 32/50
The Haskell one assumes that the programmer writes most of his code with do-notation. I find that the keys I use most in Haskell are $()>=. Basically, the function call, composition, and monadic bind operators. = also gets heavy use in where clauses.
I find that Haskell wears my keyboard more evenly than many other languages, though. There're more alphabetic characters than most other languages, even including Python.
A lot of those mortgages were bundled up and sold to investors. The banks were just the middle men.
Yes, many people will be in big trouble.
Who's to blame?
Oh my, a Freudian slip? :-))
Theory can be silly sometimes, especially when some of its tools are applied to problems to which they weren't intended to be applied. Polynomial-time many-one reductions are kind of useless at distinguishing between different classes that are subsets of P, e.g. Using one tool --- theoretical equivalence --- yes, everything is a FSM. And surely, theoretical equivalence does not by a long shot say anything about practical efficiency.
This was one of the "passages" I had to write about on the English AP a few years ago. It was the best test ever.
CLINTON was in office when things started heading south. Bush took over in January, 2001 after the mess had already been created.
UPDATE: Why is this comment being downgraded? Is it not the truth?
Oh ya, Canada is the new Iraq.
She shouldn't have said anything. Coulter's remarks don't need any reply, they're stupid. And few will have any trouble figuring that out.
Reading comprehension problems? Exhilarating Lisp newbies' hard-on?
"At the time, I indicated that I thought that PLT Scheme was the Lisp implemenation that best met those criteria. Today, PLT Scheme is still a very nice open source Lisp implementation, but it is a Scheme, not a CL."
How many people got jobs because of WWII? LOTS of people. Men went off to war and women went to work. War was over and the men came home and started having families, buying houses, buying cars,... These kinds of activities pull a country out of a recession.
I hear mexico has a labor shortage.
Won't this increase the demand for independent artists who want Internet radio stations to broadcast their work free of charge?
Wouldn't that increased exposure make those artists less reliant in the future on organizations like the RIAA and the rest of the existing industry structure?
Won't these new rates decrease the exposure on the Internet of second tier and lower artists who are already hogtied by existing contracts?
So, isn't the RIAA cutting off their supply of future artists in order to milk their existing artists dry?
I was going to say no pun intended but maybe there was :)
That is a particular mechanism. I don't think its existence should have great bearing on whether jail time should be possible punishment for destroying property. That was the question I was trying to address.
Why does this say "MIKE"?
"Everything is MUSIC!"
From the Stripes page you linked:
"Stars and Stripes operates as a First Amendment newspaper, free of control and censorship."
Or Marlin Perkins. Or Bright Eyes.
donno wht 2 se
Good video, bad blogspam.
Actually the article says he was shot by two men, yet he only had one bullet in him. The question here obviously isn't about why they shot him, but how they managed to get two halves of a bullet, rotating a dozen or so times a second, could reform in mid air before entering his body.
One of Hong Kong's unique attractions is a half-mile long escalator system that makes life easier for residents and tourists alike.
Interesting math trick to entertain your friends with.
SOMETHING WE CAN AGREE ON!
You are dead-on! People spend TOO MUCH TIME picking out cell phones and no time learning about anything that has to do with their money.
Poor financial knowledge = poor financial decision-making.
I also agree about the mortgage brokers. I don't know how they could sleep at night knowing what they were helping people get into.
It's sad that cars are status symbols but 401k balances are not.
That "You don't ... do you?" pattern always manages to confuse me a little. (And I was even born and raised in the US...)
Saw it a few weeks ago, but the translation's new to me. Disturbing and hilarious at the same time. More so once you see the ... device they're trying to sell with this.
I couldn't spell Connecticut or Massachusetts, and I somehow forgot to type Oregon and Minnesota (really- when I ran them through my head, I had those crossed off as "don't bother to check")
You should start a personal finance blog. I would link to it. I have been blogging about personal finance for 2 1/2 years. The problem is, the people who are reading my blog aren't the same people who got suckered into bad loans.
4:19 left on the clock. bitches.
It's essentially going to turn all online radio stations into an actual radio for bands previously/currently promoting themselves through myspace. The only difference is that these stations already have a fanbase for certain types of music, so it won't be a matter of "I hope people hear my music and like it" it'll be a question of "I hope they like it" and the only difference with the latter is that those that go to the studios never find out if people like it before they get a deal.
And people generally assume politicians are corrupt. Finding out that, ohhh, Enron is corrupt is a little more revealing.
If enough of the "rich assholes" leave who is left to pay the taxes? No taxes, what do you pay the employees - who would all be working for the state - IF they are working?
Ohhh right, OIL. Doubt we'll be seeing $22/barrel anytime again, however, according to the "consensus" we are running out - whats the number they keep quoting? 20yrs? After that, Zimbabwe is a good example of what happens after a braindrain and financial wealth has left and there are no readily exploitable resources.
Sorry. It's hard to tell tone from print. I understand what you are saying now and I agree with you.
What an insane thing to say.
Indiana, Iowa, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin
/am canadian
//am fark refugee
///are slashes allowed?
It's the nanobots the government has following us around recording what we look at.
more stories about bush, less about lame videos, kthx
I learnt and use emacs just for lisp. It's worth it. I still use vim for everything else, and I tend to use emacs like a vim user -- few buffers, quitting completely and clearing my buffer list every now and then, etc.
So... by reading that headline you guessed the ending? Impressive.
Hm, I don't have a study that claims that. Do you have a study that claims non-churchgoers are these things? I'm not sure how useful such a study would be. It's hard to pour abstract things like caring and empathy into a beaker to measure it. Moreover, I'm in the camp that thinks going to church and having faith is not necessarily a symmetric relation.
The problem with atheism is that it's nothing but a lack of belief. It's empty. Everyone on planet Earth needs and wants purpose, inevitably asking "Why am I here?" Instead of focusing on the spiritual world for fulfillment of these, atheism shifts the focus onto the material world. Where we "do things" and "get stuff" to fill the void.
I claimed the atheist label for 6 years (most of high school, all of college, and most of grad school). My conclusion? Material stuff is insufficient. Sure, it might work for a while. But there was always this feeling that I was missing something from life, that things weren't quite right. For me, faith in Christ filled that gap.
The difference between Zeus and Jesus is that there's multitudes of evidence supporting Jesus' existence, life, and works. There's a ton of evidence in support of Christianity, for those who seek. To fill in some parts, yes, there's faith. But it's far from blind faith.
Now you are changing your argument. For the record, I absolutely agree that he should not be in a normal prison.
Working out a fair theory of justice is a difficult philosophical and practical problem. But I think you are oversimplifying if you truly think that human life is always worth more than property. In that case you would never consider jail time a fair punishment for destruction of property, for jail time robs a person of part of his life, and human life is always more important than property.
I got to level 10. The trick is to vary the timings of the enemy (yourself) blocks. At around level 6 I started playing not with my mind but with my reactions, and subsequently made level 10 impossible. A good way to increase the longevity of the game would be to increase the width or height of the map every few levels.
It should look like my screenshot in my other comment on this page. You operate it with the arrow keys.
I want to be a pants man!
pretty good, runs a little slow but it's damn well made to be flash.
Exactly. You have to kinda make a lot of pauses in your moves to help yourself later on. The only reason why I got to level 13 is because I found tiny split second gaps in between the blocks due to some pauses I had made earlier. I had to stop at 13 though since I eventually kept running into an inevitable wall of blocks.
Disturbing is putting it lightly. :)
Some people have way too much time on their hands.
Forgot: Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska
On the whole, can't say I'm displeased.
SOMETHING WE CAN DISAGREE ON! LOL!
Ask any retiree who retired with a "pension" from a company like Ford or GM or Delphi how secure his retirement is. They're the ones who are screwed. Most of these people saved little to nothing because they thought that the company was going to take care of them. They weren't counting on Toyota and Honda ruining their retirement.
When companies set up these pension plans, people retired at 65 and died by age 70. They weren't planning on paying out benefits for 20 - 30 years! This is why the 401k was created.
It's the LACK of 401(k) funding that is the problem. People HAVE to start taking responsibility for themselves.
They probably wouldn't need to, in the UK you can get squatters kicked from their domain if they aren't running a legitimate site.
Are you not aware of how many people inimical to Putin's regime have been murdered? Besides, this is not a conspiracy, this is just a goddamn Russian head of state doing what Russian heads of state have done for centuries.
A simplistic view? Do you realize how much more illegal immigration hurts our economy? A simplistic view would be to say that we should allow this to continue because of rotting crops. There is much more to this problem we have than a supposed shortage of workers. It would be very simple to ignore what's happening and pass this problem off to the next generation...you know, the same thing that happened with our last generation. I suppose it's just too tough a problem to deal with, so better to not deal with it at all. That seems very logical to me.
4pron is a community run imageboard, where it is basically, take a penny, leave a penny. And who can turn down free porn??
Presidents can affect things; for instance, going to war in the middle east has been known to increase oil prices.
Putin == Rasputin?
I says that Congress "has the power to".
It doesn't state the tax law itself.
At this point, I cannot fail to be unable to prevent myself from posting a Douglas Adams quote.
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
-- Marvin, the Paranoid Android
I actually live in Nebraska at the moment, it's pretty much like you say. I managed to get every state except Missouri in the first five minutes. And damn, Massachusetts is really hard to spell.
While it's possible to write macros for defining functions concisely with curried parameters
My favorite for this is (define (((f x) y) z) ...), since the definition syntax mirrors use. But yeah, transparent currying really isn't the Lisp or Scheme way.
Seen today on the "new" page:
18. It's Clear: Even Conservatives Hate Republicans Now
19. They're Made Out Of Meat
Just thought I would share that.
I've heard "pit stop" a lot and I live in California. Isn't that much of a stretch to pit spot.
You forgot: Poland
Then again, it could be understood in this way:
"You don't want any more coffee. Do you?"; A statement followed by a question.
An appropriate response would be either, "Yes, I do (want more coffee)" or "No, I do not (want more coffee)". This would be answering the question part.
I think no matter how you slice it, there's a tradeoff between cost and human life here.
When you say "reasonable, not outlandish" security precautions, what exactly are you talking about? I think a reasonable answer is "safety precautions for which the cost justifies the reward" -- i.e. fewer people dying. Seatbelts are a reasonable safety precaution (low cost, many lives saved), mandatory tank-like armor on cars is not (high cost, relatively few lives saved). Now, we can argue about which point on the life vs. cost continuum is the right one to pick, but my point is that there will be some actions which would save lives, but that are just too expensive to be sensible. The view that "human life is priceless" is intuitively reasonable, but on closer inspection it is inapplicable to any practical society.
Eep, got to 15.
Anyone beat me?
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s126/wow_jbleau/15.jpg
edit: oh. someone did :( boo on them!
I've seen it before, it's very good.
I don't know about Chicken or SCSH.
So, should people quit using Apache, right now, you say?
How do you dampen the...
Never mind.
Dude, you can't be so naive to think that they aren't totally biased. The entire newspaper exists purely due to the listed directive of the DOD. If the newspaper didn't print things only favorable to the military then the DOD would revoke the directive, which means the paper would cease to exist and everyone would be fired.
So on the most surface level there's no completely direct oversight control of the newspaper by the DOD, but obviously their control really is complete because if the paper didn't please the DOD then they'd just shut it down.
I for one welcome our new canine overlords
I find that answering with 'correct' in place of 'yes' (as in 'yes, that statement is true') alerts the questioner to the possible confusion.
the relentless pace of change shines.
Who cares? Why the hell aren't Internet radio stations playing independent non-RIAA music? What independent artist would refuse having their music heard (and purchased by new fans)?
Pull together an independent music guide oriented toward Internet and broadcast radio stations that want to easily browse and then stream/air non-royalty music. RIAA-controlled music represents 1/10th of the music on the market.
I'll probably get voted down but anyway -
Don't lump me in as a cheerleader for anyside 'until they became unpopular'. I have had the right to vote for 17yrs now and aside from my local elections and my House Rep., I have never voted FOR a candidate (ok, I voted FOR a senator candidate once - he lost). Instead I have voted AGAINST candidates by choosing the one I disliked least.
Before I die, I would love to be glad to vote FOR someone running for the executive branch.
Predictable but still kinda funny.
Java 3D is so terrible that I don't know anyone who uses it for serious work. Everyone seems to use OpenGL bindings. I'm sure there are good GL bindings for CL.
Woot. Got all 50 in 6 minutes. The only one that gave me trouble was Massachusetts.
You know that entire article can basically be summed up by saying: When the good people do nothing, evil prevails...
it works guys, i tested it myself :P
Lmfao that definitely put a smirk on my face.
Go to this site its pretty good.
Python programmers don't use the tab key, cause their editor auto-indents. Their 'S', 'E', 'L' and 'F' keys on the other hand...
Half of Chenbush could be stupid though. I would wager on the second half.
Anyone know if this will affect college radio also?
I think the Democrats will need a super-majority for that to happen. They just don't have enough votes yet.
Of course, with our increasingly tarnished reputation, it's gonna be pretty hard for the US to make a hardline admonishment of Japan.
Damn! I got 42 states in the first 4 minutes, then it took a minute to get two more, then I gradually dredged them up to Rhode Island in the last minute, but there was one "I" state missing. What was it?
IOWA!
CRAP!
Markdown has defeated you. :(
British Columbia, Quebec, Ontario, Yukon Territory, New Foundland, Victoria(?), Alberta...
That's not too bad, for an ignorant yank.
Hey! Paul Graham! Buy Symbolics and free the code!
Even if this collapse comes, (I am still agnostic as to whether it will happen, and if/when it does, whether it will be a sudden crash or a long decline) I think there will be greater room for maneuvering than was possible in the collapsing Soviet Union.
The states, for one. Institutionally, they're older than the federal government (the ones on the east coast, anyway) and, if anybody's still paying attention to that poor old abused Constitution of 1787 when/if this collapse hits, in the event that the federal government is incapable of functioning, power would devolve to the fifty state governors. They are already leading the way in areas like renewable energy and healthcare. Regional arrangements (like the several overlapping interstate compacts in the Northeast, e.g. the dairy compact and electricity grids) are likely to replace a failed federal government. A (hyper)inflating dollar won't be worth the paper it's printed on, providing local currencies (for instance Ithaca time-dollars or BerkShares) an opportunity to flourish and encourage locally-oriented economic redevelopment.
Perhaps biodiesel could cushion the blow? Screw corn ethanol...burning a food product is just so wrong, morally, economically, and practically. I am not a chemist, but perhaps legalization of hemp cultivation could provide a renewable energy resource.
One immediately visible downside would be that, for the past sixty or so years, it has been de facto policy to convert large tracts of arable land (e.g. Long Island, northern New Jersey, and suburban Albany are my immediate frame of reference, results may vary in your locale) into houses surrounded by pretty, manicured, chemically-treated, useless grass (unless people are suddenly inspired to start keeping livestock for grazing). Given that most food stocks are kept in distant warehouse complexes and shipped to supermarkets utilizing just-in-time inventory systems, a shock to the energy system would cause some immediate disruptions to food supplies.
Damnit, topics like these just get me thinking so many things in so many directions that it's impossible to focus on any one thing. But the article's suggestion of just throwing our hands up in the air and welcoming the collapse, being neutral on a moving train to borrow a phrase, just strikes me as ultimately pointless, and wasting time that would be better spent preparing alternative systems that will cushion the body blow the international economy may/will take.
Vikings?
I actually think this is a good idea. What's more intimidating, walking through a metal detector or having an officer who's roughly twice the size of you (although some not in muscle mass) take you aside and use one of those wand things on you?
As the airport I usually fly from is a smaller one, the majority of flights are transfers to Amsterdam, I know security is beyond a joke. Last week I got called over for the double check, a man with grey hair in his 50's and less well built than me asked to see my passport. My first thought was, if I was a criminal I could just punch him in the face, run and no one would stop me before I'm in one of the taxis waiting outside and headed for the local train station 15 minutes away.
I handed the guy my passport, he looked at it and then back at me, "Where have you been?" "Canada" "Business or pleasure?" I'm not sure what visiting the girlfriends parents would usually class under, even if they're fun, "Pleasure" ... now came the harsh treatment, "Could you remove your hat for one moment?" I removed my cap, "That's great ta, 'ave a good'en."
That's the great British security. There was one police officer there, and one up the hall where you enter, who incidentally greets just about everyone with cliche nothern greetings. It's just hilarious to go through.
Generally people most prone to libertarian type politics just want to be left alone.
Libertarians don't want to be left alone so much as not be coerced into contracts they would not otherwise enter. They are also less willing to force others into contracts by threatening violence (even by proxy).
Fails to mention that the Merrill Lynch logo happens to contain a small penis and huge scrotum.
No shit, sherlock?
Paradox is a warez/demo group that cracks games and software. It's certainly not surprising they've cracked Vista.
And work too hard to find 'gayness'.
Does it really matter? At least he didn't call McCain 'a bundle of sticks'. This is a great improvement over what we've been seeing these past few years, irregardless of how insincere it may be.
So you're saying you'd rather not donate to someone who's liberal and likely to enforce the rights of gays, and happily let Republican homophobes into the US office of president. I mean yeah, that shit makes a lot of sense. I mean with the way it's been going for the pro-choice groups since the Republicans came in I mean the homosexuals are going to get great support, aren't they?!
How about she call you a moron and then everyone can donate money to fix your head because your system of logic seriously isn't working right.
You forgot:Vermont,
http://reddit.com/info/17ppi/comments
Yep, I've won a lot of bar-bets with that song.
"I can say all fifty states in less than one minute."
"Wait a minute, saying the words 'all fifty states' doesn't count."
"No really I can, I'll bet you fifty bucks."
"You're on!"
And I would always win, because I had memorized this song in grade school. It's amazing how when you're really drunk you can still slur your way through a memorized song.
Never had to spell them though, until now. Isn't it Connecticuit ? Apparently not. Won't be betting on spelling while in a bar any time soon :-)
yeah
First one in the list.
It's classic Keynesian economics. And it works.
Thanks for the chuckle.
Dumbass never heard of Mercury or Hermes?
We are made of MEAT!
Fight Club was not a Brad Pitt vehicle. Edward Norton was the main character.
Socialism, as least in a manageable sense, requires the illusion of private property. Don't pay some taxes and see what happens to your "private property". Everything is owned by the State, with citizens granted title.
"... if this is what is happening to very heavy users, it might be an indication that daily use of ecstasy over a long period of time can lead to irreversible memory problems and other cognitive deficits."
Of course this would be the official conclusion. I'm sure 25 pills of Aspirin a day would have detrimental health effects, so let's conclude that Aspirin should be put on the list of controlled substances.
How about 25 shots of Vodka a day? You surely be dead after a few years.
I never used Ecstasy or other drugs, but I cannot help noticing the arbitrary distinction between legal and illegal drugs and the obvious bias of some research.
I'm sure there are plenty out there... I for one don't want to go looking for them.. but feel free and be sure to post what you want provided you leave out Goatse and Tubgirl.
Agreed that most popular conspiracy theories are utterly retarded (9/11, UFOs, moon landing, etc.)
However, in this case, Occam's Razor actually does seem to point to papa bear Putin: people speak out, people get killed. A lot of smart and sober observers of Russian affairs think so (see last month's New Yorker). Indeed, the conspiracy-minded now tend to claim he didn't do it (that his government is being framed, for example).
In other words, you wanted Haskell?
apparently my Canadian geography skills are about par with my Yank score. thanks for not beating me down for that one.
91 here, wasted so much time typing out DPRK and PRC, and how was I supposed to know its called The Gambia?.
that's kind of the point though, isn't it? i've never heard him say that we're not on the edge. so if he doesn't provide us with any useful guidance about where the edge actually is, except to say "oh trust me, it's out there... waiting..." i'm inclined to yawn and move on.
Just checking things out...
he does have a flair for the dramatic though.
heck, the title of his blog alone is worth the price of admission, figuratively speaking.
edit: sometimes i imagine him writing, "in the world i see, you'll wear leather clothes that'll last you the rest of your life; climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the sears tower; watch people laying strips of venison on the ramp of some abandoned superhighway..." --or something to that effect.
This guy was a theater major in college and then a reporter.
Sounds like a recipe for hype.
Something interesting seems to be happening in Afghanistan...
I'm connected to the Flying Spaghetti Monster. In other words, I live with It, day in, and day out.
If you want to know more, visit this:
http://www.venganza.org/
How huge is this!
This article boggles the mind. Smalltalk, which coined object-oriented programming, is perhaps the father of "everything is an object." Instead, the author rants against the C-family, which are notorious for not adhering to this idea, trading it for performance, ease of implementation, and happiness.
And templates? That's a completely different paradigm. In fact, the author cites STL, whose containers (at least) are equally notorious for not being OOP due to non-virtual destructors.
What's being attacked here? A magical unicorn with pretty eyes and long, flowing hair?
Go up one side, then go in up 4 the middle, then go up the side when it's clear. Repeat for other side. Limited by key pressing speed and time.
Wait, did people seriously not figure that out?
I'd do her.
This is so funny!
I got the first 45 states in the first minute, all spelled correctly the first time. I filled in 4 of the remaining five in the next couple of minutes, by tracing the map in my mind - I've driven cross country and back ten times by different routes, so I just filled in all the routes in my head. And then I was at 49, and I had a mental block.
How could I forget a whole state? It didn't make sense. I know them all. I've been to almost all of them more than once, and I knew I'd already named the four I hadn't been to. I squeezed my memory but nothing came 'til the timer ran out.
New Jersey. I forgot New Jersey.
I live in Massachusetts, and I have friends in New York and Philly and DC and I drive down there every couple of months. I've been to New Jersey more times than I can remember to count. But I must admit, it is not the most memorable of states.
The only way this could've been funnier is if it had been Connecticut - a state nearer to me, that I've been through more often (though to less often), and that is even more forgettable :)
So is this for the non-metal guns everybody is carrying these days? (Sarcasm)
Seriously, I recently flew to South Africa via Germany. Leaving the US came with all the paranoia that we are so used to these days.
Leaving Germany for South Africa, though, and coming back via Germany was a different experience. Yes, they still have metal scanners, they still check you, but there no taking-of-the-shoes, or no-liquids-allowed, or other nonsense checks.
Reentering the realm of color coded security threats, the hassling starting in Germany already. There was a special stop for US passengers where they checked papers, then at the gate there was another check, then again when entering the plane, then at the plane door when exiting the plane, and then of course the usual passport check when entering the US, then the duty checks, etc, etc.
It made me realize: I am not afraid of terrorists, I am afraid of the US airport personal. Some idiot may decide to seize my laptop (and keep it for no reason), or do other random searches, or lock me up because I do not look right.
Doesn't anybody smell the toast? These paranoid security checks are only needed to keep us all in line and accept the erosion of our civil rights. It's a farce and most of us know it.
Anyway... Sorry for the rant.
The problem with technology like this is that it is completely insane. If we are so paranoid (and we are not*) then airports would simply require that everyone wear short pants and t-shirts when flying. They obviously aren't going to do that, nor would they exempt people with such dress from strip searches because...they wouldn't get to strip search them then.
(*) The purpose of airport security, from a high level is twofold:
To prevent events that are minor with respect to statistics (number killed, etc), but major with respect to media attention. Thus: 9/11 has caused two pointless wars and endless civil liberty deprivations, but ordinary crime, far far worse than 9/11, doesn't have the effect of embarrassing politians.
To familiarize the citizenry with the habits of a humiliated and fearful population. The current ruling class (like all of them) desperately wants internal passports, control over trafficking of [fill in the blank] materials, etc, and this is part of that.
got all 50 in a total of 4:32 (5:28 remaining.) I got them all in alphabetical order too :) ... memorized it as a kid, lol
ZaTelnet Professional is a Telnet / SSH / SSH1 / SSH2 client for devices supporting Microsoft Compact Framework 1.0 or 2.0. It also emulates terminal VT100. ZaTelnet Professional supports SSH2 authorizationby "plain password", "private key file" and "keyboard interactive".
It's reaching pretty far to call that irony. There's certainly no layered or double meaning. A broader concept of irony is that it postulates a double audience. You could, I suppose, imagine an omniscient observer who knows about both friends' plans and realizes the contradiction, and once you do that, you have an opportunity for some irony within this context - for example, if one of the friends says to the other "see you soon!" But the context itself is not irony.
Who is Dmitry Orlov and why should we trust what he says???
Come on, someone just start a site where you make your own ten minute quizzes already. Here's an idea, name all the sports teams in your favorite league in five minutes. Go ahead. I'm busy tonight.
I got 90...damn near impossible.
Hell yes! Randy Couture is my hero.
What, is this the guy? A software engineer who writes. Huh.
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/
Meaning #5 in that dictionary is the one that's a problem. It's in the dictionary because people have been using the word that way, and normally, I'm very much a fan of descriptive rather than prescriptive language. However, in this case, the original meaning of irony, from drama, is valuable to preserve. In order to preserve it, we need to popularize a different word that can capture meaning #5, since there's legitimate demand for it and if no other word is available, that meaning will continue. I thank Alanis Morissette for donating the seed of this new coinage, and I hope to perpetuate it in an effort to restore the word "irony" that I wish we still had in the language, and that I think we could have.
P.S. I have no idea what "that one comic" you're referring to is. I got "Alany" from my friend Nathan, in the mid-90s sometime. He came up with it himself (though I wouldn't be too surprised if others had done so independently), and I've been spreading it ever since.
dammit, not again
Can't they just move their stream hosts outside the USA?
You can get a beta PDF version right now. It has more than 230 pages. It's the best Erlang material I've ever seen. Absolutely great! Very timely! I guess 2007 will be the year will see functional going mainstream, eh?
I like the "politically correct" remark in the parenthesis.
Faggots. They fuck in the ass, they perform fellatio on each other, they lick each other's assholes and also sometimes cover themselves in shit (aka scat) or fistfuck the "bottoms", up to the elbow. They also experience love like heterosexual couples, and parade to prove a point.
There, I said it.
I got 98.
Yep, and there's good reason to distinguish the NWT and Nunavut from a political and historical standpoint. It basically comes down to NWT being Athabaskan territory and Nunavut being Inuit territory. There's territorial overlap, certainly, but Athabaskan and Inuit peoples have been more opponents than comrades, historically, so it's a meaningful distinction, not just an arbitrary line on the map.
I should also add that that's one of the purposes of this word: to cover some of those things which are almost irony, but not really or not quite.
this is what I see: http://thraxil.org/images/road.png
the arrow keys do nothing.
I'm thinking about replacing my cell phone with a Sony Mylo. That device looks cool.
What level did you reach?
Shh... everyone who tells redditors what they want to hear is a prophet and a genius. Don't spoil the fun!
i got 91
a better test i think would be to see how long it takes you to name all of them.
But what about all the type signatures?
Might you be using an old version of Flash?
he said "light side," not "good." (although this may not be the point he was trying to make, and it was made poorly if at all) however, your argument is likewise facile -- the respectful thing to do is not to pretend that none of this happened, but to bring the records to light as much as possible, for two reasons:
first, in the face of such an atrocity, we should try to wring as much good out of it as we can. both in this case and in germany, the experiments were already long over by the time we found out; therefore, the least we can do is to try to turn that knowledge toward at least some good. i see that as doing what we can to ensure that those sacrifices weren't completely in vain. furthermore, at least some of these experiments aren't conductable simply because of the fact that they're so grossly unethical, so the information could, in fact, be uniquely precious for saving lives.
there's little we can do now for those who suffered, but at least that's something.
second: this is, as mentioned upthread, the sort of thing that might otherwise be swept under the carpet. as with the nazi doctors, it's imperative for us to meditate on how exactly regular people (not all of them sadists) could be brought to do such things under the pretext of "following orders." writing it off as evil, and as worthless in all respects, is an all-too-convenient way of distancing ourselves from something that perhaps hits too close to home.
and really, there's the rub. one distinction that we make repeat over and over here is that these experiments often weren't carried out in a scientific fashion (nor were the experiments conducted by the nazis) -- the factor that's overlooked in all this, it seems to me, is the way the rhetoric of "science" was and is used to somehow overlook the deliberately sadistic way in which the experiments were carried out, and how many of the experiments were scientifically valueless on-face.
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Unfortunately for Venezuela, a lot of the people fleeing the country are the skilled workers who managed to keep the oil flowing...
You actually declare your types?
Umm, you can see it's full wings. It's a plane.
Right, exactly. I'm just defending the root poster's assertion.
This is Boston's worest nightmare
Sure, the level of radiation is completely harmless. And Vioxx is safe. We would NEVER approve anything that could possibly harm you -- we're the government!
And don't worry about the images -- even though we have your name, address, birthdate, and scans of you naked, there is no way the information will be mishandled, like we did with the No-Fly list redress website.
You'll never have to worry that -- despite down-rezzed pictures being examined at the airport -- we store the originals and even enhanced versions for datamining purposes, to help "tune" the software later.
After all, the "details-removed" version isn't perfect, and it removes concealed items if they are lined up with clothing seams (edges). So really we are irradiating you to soften you up some more as sheeple, and to compile information on what medical devices or prosthetics you wear, your breast size, and/or the size of your "package". I see you're wearing a maxi pad -- here's a 30-second commercial for our preferred brand you can watch while your turn around and we scan your ass! J-Lo flew through here last week, you outta check out the butt on that. Here's the scan!
You're maybe three centuries behind the times, because even Immanuel Kant writing in the middle of the 18th century didn't use religion to back up his moral arguments.
Kant was areligious? Are you out of your goddamn mind?
Forgot Ohio... damn you Ohio... I had 6minutes to spare and couldn't come up with Ohio.
I did the exact opposite and went up the middle 4, then up the side when it was clear. It seems to me that it'd be more fair for the time limit to increase in higher levels since your fingers can only go so fast. I guess that would make it too easy though.
There are diet plans and then there are some diet plans. Some will throw medical mumbo-jumbo at consumers, some will fake research, some take a leap of faith to conclusions, and some just ride on the coat tail of real research.
Of all these, I found the following diets the worst and some crazy ideas as a diet. Call them fads, call them snake oils, call them whatever you want - there is someone who made money on these diets, and it came from your pocket and mine.
Should insanity take over your mind, and have tried any of these diets, or found an even nuttier one, please let me know how it went.
i've never heard him say that we're not on the edge.
Far as I know, he's only been very publically on this Long Emergency End-times for cheap fuel kick for less than 10 years. When predicting an economic phase transition for a situation that's been over a century in the making, +/- 10 years is a reasonable margin of error.
Frankly, I think he's too gloomy and underestimates human resilience and capacity for invention and adaptation. But he's got a good schtick, and he seems to be intellectually honest, if a bit myopic, so I like reading his stuff.
She says pit spot, not pit stop.
with a score of -6 at present
... because Reddit karma is the ultimate arbiter of any argument regarding ethics.
Here's something for chart geeks, a 30 year chart analysis of the Dow and S&P500. The causality is remarkable -- the Dow and S&P 500 historical outcomes based on similar chart events to this year are composed of 75%-76% bullish trends moving forward.
charts are here
Poking at credentials is silly, when there's a well articulated argument on the table. Argue the thesis, not the man, please.
Many people have developed expertise and great accomplishment in fields they did not pursue in college.
Are you a Utilitarian?
You keep using that word. I do not think that it means what you think it means.
From the comment you quote:
The end doesn't justify the means, though.
Perhaps you would care to look up "consequentialism" before you speak so vehemently about concepts which you do not understand, grasshopper.
[bows in an appropriately ironic fashion]
Apparently, McMinnville, Oregon is just fubared. When it comes to sexual assault on middle school girls, the police want a monopoly. (Link goes to a blurb; there were many articles on the subject.)
Check out this cool video about Multi-Touch, the wave of the future.
http://www.senseofhumour.com
yep but they are the 1st ones to do a full working crack that even allows updates ;)
I think we've established I have a boatload more knowledge and rationality on the subject of moral philosophy (or frankly, any subject) than you do.
Based on what, your nonsensical understanding of Kant and utilitarianism? Your notion that outside the USA religion has no significant relationship to morality? I can hear the Vatican and most of the Middle East laughing at you from here.
Prince, Prairie Home Companion, deep-fried cheese curds, Bob Dylan, Summit Beer...
"The claims allege poor design and negligence by the corps led to the failure of flood walls and levees"
Your first step needs to include ", be told by the US Army Corp of Engineers that the levees they built with US tax dollars will protect city from flooding"
But reality and truth are nearly as funny as the stuff you can make up in your head. Oh wait the stuff you made up wasn't funny either.
The more I think about it, the economy is like religion,
here we have 3 different faiths, all of which arrive at
the same conclusion (coming out of the depression) and
all of which have their own savior.
Plus, the market is invisible just like god
(invisible hand anyone?)
That is an excellent question. Clearly, I was feeling the pressure.
Your wife sounds nice, you are lucky :)
The coffee thing reminds me of working at Mcdonald's
(Please don't make your kids work fast food by the way)
I'd say, "Would you like this for here or to go?"
Customer answers: "Yes."
Maybe it's a missle aiming for the other missle about to hit it! Damn google maps strikes again!
You guys got it all wrong, you just have to use a simple pattern and then it's easy.
1) on all passes, immediately move one space forward
2) move right
3) move to the other end and move one square over to the goal
4) repeat all steps but this time move to the left instead of the right on step 2
Keep staggering left and right passes and move as soon as the last blocker has moved through the lane, i.e. don't wait for both side's blockers, just the one that'll block your side's lane. Just remember that when you're going left, wait for the number that's one less then the current level, and when you're going right just wait for the last red blocker to clear the right lane.
I got to level 20 and then stopped because it was too easy to just keep going and going with that method.
Touche good sir/madam, just as you cannot produce evidence that religion has a monopoly on ethics/morals (paraphrasing, I guess it could be "insert topic here") I cannot produce evidence in support of my assertion that those things are present in absence of faith.
I can however dispute your assertion that athiesm is nothing but a lack of belief. For many years Atheists have been searching for a better term for themselves. Labelling yourself an A-theist by definition validates a supreme being. In general, it's not that we have a lack of belief, it's that there is no need for that belief in the first place.
There are a couple of very simple human emotions that necessitate the continuous existance of God(s).
1)By nature we are afraid of being alone - we are social animals, moments of aloneness are moments of vulnerability. What better way to never be alone than to have an omniscient friend.
2)We are afraid of what we don't know. Simple enough, if there is an answer for everything, no matter how outrageous, the simple minded will be quelled in their fear. 'Death? Oh, don't worry, if you follow the moral code derived from thousands of generations of sapiens, along with putting water on your body in the form of a cross etc, you'll be rewarded for eternity.' Does that make any sense?
On the topic of "evidence" supporting the life and times of Christ v. Zeus. Consider if you will David Koresh, who claimed to be a prophet if not messiah. Had the scenario at Waco played out in which Koresh was captured, prosecuted and put to death. If his followers survived, they could evangelize to their hearts content, add 2000 years and there you have Jesus Christ Jr.
To evidence - evidence in the eye of the faithful is a trifle. Anything can be made to fit the will or history of God. Look at the image of Mary on toast - PROOF!
I wouldn't say Jesus never existed. I would say it's possible he did, and if he did he was a pretty forward thinking rabbi (and one of the most important social thinkers in history) AND his deeds probably grew over time, and merged with tribal lore.
People living in a non-heliocentric world where demons and witches were normal and running water wasn't could not possibly be a solid foundation for ascertaining godliness. Shit, if I travel back 2000 years with a Bic lighter and a mirror I'm a God.
Really?
Look, I love Scheme, I use PLT Scheme, and I agree that it has a surprising number of libraries and a great system for getting them. But no way does it have even close to as many amazing packages as Python, let along Java or Perl.
Maybe we put their pictures on honey containers.
"... not for a bunch of beered-up, over-aggressive football-playing douche bags on steroids."
Voted up for this quote alone.
It has in real terms.
Can we say they FUCKED Microsoft? Nwahahahaha
But with all the violence and guns in America, surely we too can have violent street gangs that become the rich.
This doesn't appear:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana
I wonder what it thinks the name is. It is technically a part of France ???, but then Greenland is part of Denmark.
Isn't colo server bandwidth still pretty expensive outside the US?
So, should people quit using Apache, right now, you say?
He very clearly did not say this.
"Tumbling down"
Not happening...
Smart man. I've become extremely angry at the Democratic majority, and I don't think the rest of the country is too far behind me. Despite all the happy crappy speculation about voter motivations in '06, there was one main reason for the Democrat landslide: We are tired of Bush, Iraq and the constant fearmongering.
So the Democrats better step up and get serious before we get much closer to the next election. We want them to put impeachment back on the table, start issuing subpoenas, and restore our civil liberties. To steal a phrase, "if they're not with us, they're against us." If they don't put a stop to Bush's bullshit, we're going to assume they approve of it.
Delaware. Fuck Delaware.
A friend who is a japanese language teacher calls these 'negative questions'. They are an endless source of confusion but you can have some fun with them as well: "You dont wanna go back to my place for some crazy/wild sex do you?"
Another source of confusion is with he/she eg. 'My brother? she is a doctor'
Also fun is sounds that aren't used in japanese; try getting your japanese friends to 'roll their rs' (Rolls-Royce is always fun) or make a buzzing mosquito sound.
How bout believing in and relying on yourself instead of following what lame websites tell you?
lol quite
1 Yukon Territory
2 Nunavut
3 Northwest Territories
4 British Columbia
5 Alberta
6 Saskatchewan (took me THREE tries to spell now)
7 Manitoba
8 Ontario
9 Quebec
10 New Brunswick
11 Nova Scotia
12 Prince Edward's Island
13 Newfoundland.
I count thirteen. I can understand forgetting Nunavut - it seems to be relatively recent, but what were the other two you forgot???
I get caught up on questions like those and I am a native English speaker.
I got 115. I wasted more time than I should have trying to remember (and type!) the official names of the Congos, the Koreas, and the Chinas, and was still typing up until the end.
The test was invalid anyway, in my opinion, because it requires many political subdivisions that are not countries, such as Puerto Rico, the Falkland Islands, and Kosovo, among others.
Cheat sheet: http://youtube.com/watch?v=IDtdQ8bTvRc
Thank you, Yakko.
somebody get me a link to the online versions of these mags
Reddit should use NoFollow on all links regardless of karma. It's not Reddit's job to tell Google what is important, but it is Reddit's job to deter spam links. Let Google figure out a better way to rank web sites.
The problem with a 401k is they have consistently underperformed pensions. Pensions are run by experts. The state I live in had a pension manager for the state retirement system that was able to deliver, even in the last recession, a performance that beat the market by 4%. 401ks expect everyone to be an expert in picking stocks. Or they are given a set of 5-8 funds that themselves are shitty. People simply don't know how to invest, nor should they. Why should the individual worker be expected to be an expert at picking stocks? That's what a pension does. But people think a 401k gives them Control. Hopeless. It's foolish to expect to be experts at stock picking to retire. I think its absurd.
You are correct in that the AG works for the President. Article II, Section 2 of the US Constitution states:
...[the President] shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for...
But the House also has the power to fire the AG (Article I, Section 2):
The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Article II, Section 3:
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
I found 49, and was flabbergasted afterwards to realize that I forgot Colorado, which you wouldn't think was that forgettable.. in fact a lot of people seem to have forgotten Colorado. If I had decided to think of the Rocky Mountains obviously it would have come to me. But I was walking a mental map of the US geographically, and it's very easy to forget Colorado - You take the East Coast, then along the Mississippi, then all of the states above Texas. And then I just jumped over to Washington/Oregon/Wyoming/Montana, and just kind of followed around the outside with California, New Mexico, etc, and Colorado gets left out.
Their 'S', 'E', 'L' and 'F' keys on the other hand...
Yep, mine are just about as worn as the underscore.
Fargo ..(movie) even tho technically not in MN the movie was ...also umm Mystery science theatre 3000 .. umm judy garland ....john madden jassica lange ...F scott Fistgerald etc etc
Just be aware that while this will work great right now the party will be over in 30 days or so. Because the crack is dependent upon a special driver to emulate the system BIOS, MS will be able to easily spot it during an update and flag your system as non-genuine.
Of course if you actually have hardware from one of the OEM manufacturers listed you might be able to get it to work without the driver, in which case you are probably free and clear.
The thought of a 12-year-old boy insisting, "It wasn't sexual at all" is sickening.
Its a Seinfeld joke, idiot
Encourage your friends to pirate music as civil disobedience. Normally, I would hesitate since this also punishes the artists but for the most part they have been ignoring the RIAA's deplorable tactics (this type of crap has been going on for years now) so fuck 'em.
[edit] Or buy used CDs or only listen to non-RIAA labels or whatever. Just don't hand over any more of your money to these crooks.
Except that's along the same lines, isn't it. "Fag." "Tranny." Now kiss and make up.
Look upthread. Who mentioned the Democratic Party? Cluestick: Democrats != Liberals.
Your problem is, you can neither read nor string two coherent thoughts together.
Here is what I'm responding to. I don't know why I'm bothering to paste it in, because you have the reading comprehension of a brain-damaged goat:
Are you for real with this? Last I checked no one has lobbed faggot at Bush.
Randi Rhodes, the thirteenth most important radio talk show host in 2007 definitely counts as somebody.
As to your other egregiously off-topic points, you obviously don't listen to Randi Rhodes, and you obviously hold the DLC in too high a regard.
For a second I thought this said Bruce Lee.
One day it goes up other is comes down. One day economy booming bankers are good, other office is corrupted country is doomed.
Its market guys, its unpredictable. It never crashes with hint of gloom.
I'd hate to ask him:
Q: Why did my girlfriend just dump me?
A: Because of the fiat money system.
...
I guess I'm just lazy but I'm having a hard time connecting the dots here. The link goes to a list of articles and memos and I can't make heads or tails of them.
Maybe my tinfoil hat isn't on right, but could somebody please sum up what we're looking at here?
Damn you Maryland and New Jersey! WHY must you be SO unnotable!
Oops, you shouldn't have said that! Expect a group of FBI agents to bust into your computer room in 3... 2... 1...
After 18 years it's an adult and he loses interest.
http://www.tasklist.org/attachlist/index.html
AttachList is a list of email attachment files that viruses usually send in email. It contains the attached file names, typical subjects and messages, the name of the viruses that send them, and instruction on how to remove these viruses.
To rephrase: A 420-pound woman is getting more action than me.
You hear people say that, but care to say why?
Who is the next crazy developer who runs FizzBuzz on an interpreter in an interpreter in an interpreter ...?
I say the next one should do it the other way around and have Ruby generate and run Prolog that generates and runs Lisp ...
His argument is not well articulated. The only data he references is an article about Saudi Arabia's oil decline, and he mainly relies on intuitions and vague references to connections that may or may not exist in our economy.
Economics is not intuitive. I'm sorry, but it's not... any belief that it is remains entirely unfounded.
Exactly my point, the question can be interpreted multiple ways because of its poor structure. "Do you want more coffee?" is so much less ambiguous and easier to say.
Philosophy is entirely relevant to business... despite what you think about the field, it prepares one well for law and business through building critical thinking skills.
A Philosophy major would know how to disconnect themselves emotionally from a decision, and make better business decisions because of that.
Just two as far as I can tell. Everyone hates Hoover, just for disparate reasons.
That was the strategy I used. I was able to get to level 34 doing it that way. You could probably get it up a couple more levels if your timing is perfect. I haven't been able to figure out a strategy that will work better than this up to this point.
Python programmers don't use the tab key, cause their editor auto-indents.
Indeed, they instead use the backspace key very often, to revert to outer blocks.
I was not condoning it in any way, I was simply saying that you can't ignore the scientific achievements because many people died.
Let's get this assumption out of the way: What scientific achievements can be attributed to experiments done in Unit 731? No recorded ones. The fact that the American government was involved in concealing this event and confiscating the data, and that they kept it all a secret uptil now would indicate that whatever information that was collected was hidden from public eyes - and therefore there is no validity to the claim that there even is a "better cure for frostbite" due to this event since it was evidently kept a secret.
The same goes for the Nazi camps where they performed similar experiments: it's a horrid atrocity, however, there were advancements in our understanding of the limits of human endurance from these experiments.
Understanding of human endurance from these experiments? Just what kind of scientific achievement is that? It doesn't take a genius to know no human can endure the atrocities committed against the victims of the Nazis. It was horrible pain inflicted for no reason, and with absolutely no reedemable element to it.
singbulli darjeeling tea - first flush
I've been trying to find a source that can verify what you've said about Category 3 vs. Category 5 for the past half hour. I remember (having lived in Houston at the time, and during Rita a few weeks later) hearing that statement repeatedly prior to the storm.
Honestly, I can never blame the Army Corps of Engineers. Even if they did screw up, driving the foundation 10 feet in some places instead of 17 in others, they take on all the jobs that nobody else will take on. More often than not they do them quickly, with highly limited budgets, and all the while facing roadblocks (and sometimes enemy fire). Hats off to those brave men and women.
It should be noted that Katrina was the fifth strongest Atlantic storm in history.
Psssst. Want to see Susan Hallowell naked?
I can't tell you how much I didn't.
Peak Oil = production can't keep up with demand
Documents = memos containing effort to reduce refining compacity to create false inflating pricing due to false supply shortage (price gouge)
Do you understand Supply and Demand and its effect on pricing? If so would less available refined oil mean higher prices? Gee simple enough for you?
Peak Oil is a creation of getting higher margins from oil by tightening supply at the refinery level.
No, it is really harmless when compared to a flight. You get a lot of radiation from flying; that's why pilots are more likely to get cancer and their hours are limited.
Australian here - got them all with a minute and six seconds to spare. Phew!
Got them all, didn't anyone sing the song "Fifty Nifty" in elementary school ;)
I'm actually more comfortable with a pat-down, even when the guy found my nipple piercing. I find the sniffers and x-ray machines to be creepy, and for some reason, more of a violation of my 4th Amendment rights.
Then again, I'm not in prison.
Superficial yes, but impossible to deny. I'm just glad someone finally said it.
Abkhazia? Akrotiri? British Virgin Islands? I only got 60, but not really because of having proper names, I just couldn't think of them, and I couldn't spell some of the "stan's". Bit embarrassing that I didn't think of Greece, though. Or Belgium. Or Vietnam.
It considers those countries?!
I'm going to skip this one. I don't want to miss out on points for technicalities.
outrage is wasted emotion, focus on what is to be done
I would blame Nagin and the city administrators first before looking towards the Federal level.
Stupid to be sure, but just set the thing to forward email to another account and boom, yer done. Besides, webmail makes a hell of a lot more sense than downloading to a client.
A big, resounding, "YES" to the breakdown you stated. This is where I was trying to make my point about the lawyer, with the "default positions" perspectives. Admit it, you were just pulling my leg, you knew what I was saying the whole time, didn't you? You cheeky devil, you... And here I was slapping my forehead in frustration, trying to think of why I wasn't getting anything across to you..
Okay, seriously now, since it's obvious that we have exhausted ourselves on the "It's against ALL Christians/It's against SPECIFIC Crazies" debate, I'd say, yes, we agree that it's disagreed. This calls for a drink, I think.
As far as "disclaiming" comics, I think what I'm looking for is a little more attention to detail, something like "artist's responsibility"... I definitely don't think that there should be a disclaimer, no. There are too many of those in the world now. Like Preparation H's famous "Do not administer by mouth" type of disclaimer, or an automotive fan belt's "do not install while engine is running" type of disclaimer. Disclaimers point out the blatantly obvious. I'm just asking the Authors of political/religious/whatever media and entertainment be more responsible with their work. There are people out there who write/draw/create inflammatory pieces with the purpose of inciting hate and intolerance. I think that does an injustice to every good Christian, but it also muddies the waters of every legitimate claim that every decent atheist has against the true Crazies, by creating only two groups, the Atheists and the Christians, and pitting them against each other.
I know that it's just a comic, but it's the snowball theory, and I'm not on a one-man crusade against atheist comics, it just seems like it in this comment section.
Way to make ridiculous assumptions.
I'd ask if you really think the world after a Nazi victory would be comparable to the world after the Allies victory, but unfortunately I think I know the answer.
No, you don't know the answer. And acting smug about is won't make you any more knowledgable of my opinions on the matter either.
Europe has obviously learnt nothing, and the current young generation thinks Hitler was just another bad leader, like Bush. Sad times.
Where are you getting this from?
I never said or implied that. You are only making foolish assumptions and thinking you have my opinions figured. No you do not.
To clarify my point, America is usually portrayed as a liberator in WW2. THE country that brought peace to the world. Yes it did bring peace during that time. There's no question in my mind that WW2 without America's involvement would have taken a turn for the worse to say the least. But on one side America is liberating countries facing Nazi oppression, on the other we have them making deals with the Japanese to obtain information that they gained by conducting highly inhumane experiements, for their own gain. The article says that germ warfare was being researched there, and America essentially wanted the same information as the Japanese did when researching at Unit 731. It would not be inaccurate to say America is like the police catching robbers (the Japanese) red-handed in a bank robbery, but making a deal with them and letting them go free while taking the stolen cash all the while concealing the whole thing and freeing the robbers of the their deed. And the real situation is really worse since that analogy doesn't even taken into account that innocent human lives were involved, and the cruel acts against them covered up by the "police". America is the partner in crime too. This is my point.
Private companies do not actually control that much of the total world oil supply, I believe.
I couldn't find a quick source from a google search, I'm a bit busy to look it up. (I shouldn't be on reddit........)
Anna Nicole Smith, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears are more interesting to most people.
Unlike cscope it doesn't have its own parser; it just eats tags files generated by other programs. Looking at the source code, it's basically just a tags server and a few clients, allowing for typical tags queries.
It doesn't seem very useful for browsing live, changing code bases. I've been trying to bend Semantic/CEDET/ECB to my will for this purpose, but its code is rather baroque (the author even hacked up a CLOS-like object system for Emacs Lisp!) and its control flow quite confusing.
I often try some of these; they don't help me. I know my fears are irrational, and that's why I'm unable to circumvent them with logic. I often try and psych myself up by saying "There are worse things than rejection" or whatever, it doesn't work. I know almost all of my actions are futile, that in 50, 60 years I'll be dead and little will remain to remind the world I once existed. "Of what consequence are these temporary embarrassments in the great scheme of things," I'll ask. What can I say, fear of failure is too potent an inhibitor.
I feel proud that as a Canadian I got all 50.
Slightly less proud since I clicked on the handy little "view source" button when I had 10 left (and 7 minutes left), but still somewhat proud.
Good job. I had all but one or two in about 5 minutes, but didn't remember Minnesota until 02:44.
I've never seen them here before. If you're going to use them, at least get your Markdown right.
BTW, Fark cliches don't travel well to here, or anywhere else for that matter.
clicks on View Source /
types as fast as he can /
can't finish in time
Marketing blog
Please. That's absurd, for the reasons already outlined.
In regards to the study cited in the first item on the list... Your body releases natural opiods when you are in pain. Naloxone reverses endogenous opiods, too. Hence, greater pain than just plan saline. That doesn't seem like much of a "mystery" to me.
Yes, I remember hearing that on the newscasts before the hurricane hit, and wondering why they weren't evacuating people the moment the learned that the hurricanes intensity surpassed the levees ratings.
I haven't found a story on it yet, either...
wow you're a real douchebag. What's it like ? The title was genius fuckface get a clue.
Except instead of getting it all over the course of a few hours, you get it over the course of a few seconds. That makes a big difference.
And somehow I don't think you have tested the machine, verified the dosage, and can confirm it's actually harmless.
Not necessarily, but most jurisdictions outside the US are even more restrictive about content, usage, privacy (EU esp.) and ownership.
You can get some pretty good deals in Canada.
But if you're concerned about the legal implications of what you're hosting be careful. Get a lawyer who is knowledgeable about the issues of concern or you will be stepping in the shit one way or another, and most courts do not like attempts to obfuscate jurisdictionial issues (think of the Yahoo nazi memorabilia case that got everyone into filtering by country of origin); so if you're hosting in another jurisdiction specifically to evade regulation where you operate or where your customers are, then you probably don't have as much leverage as you'd think in a legal dispute, especially with either of the sovereign powers involved.
Well, but you can read, can't you?
I'm going to call your bluff here. The other day, I decided to extend my 9-year-old daughter's Lisp training with a little sound generation. What I needed was a function like (play-tone frequency volume duration), or even better a (start-tone frequency volume) and a (delay milliseconds). Simple stuff, easy to implement, surely... but none of the Schemes or Lisps available for Windows could do it. I've since upgraded my XP Home to Ubuntu Edgy Eft, and I haven't re-searched for this function. If you know of a free-as-in-beer Scheme (or Lisp) that has this simple feature, either out of the box or else via ASDF or whatever it's called, please let me know!
soegaard (sibling comment to this) makes a good point. Python's handling of XSLT, to take one poignant recent example, borders on the pitiful.
This looks related to http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8753934454816686947
God heavens when we take advice from people like you who have absolutely no credentials.
The pattern is not the implementation
The best solution looks like it needs a safe zone, alternating between columns, and being able to move rapidly. The only expansion of your strategy seems to somehow utilize all 3 columns instead of just 2, but I don't see how it can be done so far.
didn't work for me on safari/flash9 but worked fine with firefox and the same version of flash
You do realize that the scale indicates the length of objects on the ground, don't you?
Probably the only thing able to save western culture is to ban Islam, take the passports away from those who won't denounce it and close the mosques, but I don't see that happening unfortunately.
It's Easier
has always seemed subtly easier to use
seem slightly more difficult
FUD.
In Linux, mouse responsiveness is controlled
No, Linux is a kernel, it doesn't know what a mouse is.
A couple of quick searches took me to a Microsoft publication from 2002
Woooo, a Microsoft publication we can't verify with source code?
This is amazingly cool engineering
Of course it's cool, it's an advertisement.
drawkbox, you sound like a oil industry shill, seeding doubt into our minds contrary to what economists and experts in the field say. The tremendous majority of experts in the relevant field, people who have studied this exact question and critically examined it intensely, agree that peak oil is absolutely real and will happen soon (the disagreement is on is the peak in about now or by around 2020).
And oil does not regenerate, except over millions of years. It'll be largely gone before the 22nd century.
You, my friend, are a fucking lunatic. Yes, people like to believe the end of the world is near and that catostrophe awaits us -- I agree with you that its part of the psychology of many humans. But concepts like peak oil and globabl warming are not created by those same forces -- they are deduced from hard, scientific data and logical reasoning. Peak oil is not like the Y2K scare, which was generated by scare-mongers and paranoids that the media took hold of and exxagerated. Instead, 'peak oil' are things that almost all of the renowned, educated, and expert personell in the field virtually ALL agree on. Don't confuse it with the hysteria of the masses, even though it has some things in common with that (at face value).
I understand that you likely believe what you're saying, but do you really consider yourself more knowledgable about peak oil than the EXPERTS who get paid hard cash to study this and report on it? Think about that for a second.
People like you would've said the atomic bomb was just a silly theory that couldn't exist. Scientists know what the fuck their talking about. Their job is to be accurate.
Btw, just to throw something else into the mix -- Condaleeze Rice herself admitted that US foreign policy is warped by the power of petroleum. That is to say, petroleum is relatively scarce in comparison to demand, and that disparity will continue to grow over the years, driving prices up tremendously. That's not to say there is no way out of this. There are other sources of energy that can and should be expanded, and new ways of harnessing energy will undoubtedly come forward in the future. That doesn't negate the fact that oil is an important commodity, which is corrupting our foreign policy agenda in order to keep economic progress strong. We end up supporting dictators simply 'cause they keep the oil flowin'...
But that's ok, we have people like living in fantasyland telling us how peak oil isn't gonna happen. That'll make things all better.
I hope future generations analyze the psychology of this era and come to learn more about the how arrogance and ignorance among the masses warp a nation's policies.
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That would have been great advice two years ago, but it's too late now for most of them. They've done so much 'standing behind the president' and 'supporting the troops' that they can't back down. They voted in the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act and the Real ID Act without even a filibuster. They stood still for Abu Grhaib and Guantanamo. They let Bush's 'war on terror' bullshit go unchallenged for so long that now they're stuck with it. Sure, they'll tinker around the edges. They'll subpoena fired US Attorneys and hold hearings on Walter Reed Hospital but they won't attack the war directly. They can't. They already own it, it's just a minority share.
You have a seriously distorded view of what coding is if you believe it's "working yourself to death." Coders can apply all the advice you gave on your previous message you know?
This little dude do it in less than two.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/37181/yakkos_world/
What's weird is that what Coulter said is what passes for humor within the "conservative" community. You probably think Ann Coulter is way wittier than Jon Stewart. Think again. On second thought, don't , you might hurt yourself.
P.S.: I put quotes around "conservative" because a real conservative like Barry Goldwater would give someone like Ann Coulter a swift kick in the ass if he were still alive.
And if a person called an African American a n*, would you tell him, "please, just be quiet"? Of course not. People need to understand what she said was not okay, and the only way to do it is to speak out and make sure the country knows what she said.
I got 6:33 by using that same song. I'm normally forgetful but I've managed to remember every word to that song for decades.
Why is he a bad person because he's a millionaire? I've met John Edwards and he is a very sincere and caring guy. If you read Elizabeth's full statement, she asks for a donation from supporters if they can spare it, and if they choose not to or cannot, asks them to speak out to friends or on the Internet. Nothing wrong with that.
Assume we understand the key concepts, and just quote the relevant paragraph or two from the article that backs up your claim. Not just the part about reducing capacity, but the part that shows that they're doing it to increase demand.
1 3 4 5 6 8 seem to be just malapropism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism#Examples
Yet.
Total panopticon shill job.
I got interested in the country after meeting an iranian girl who grew up there. This documentary helps me put her stories into context. Very nice!
I have to do that to one of my friends repeatedly as she uses the same question pattern a lot.
She still gets mysteriously annoyed at me for replying "That's (in)correct." to each one.
Women!
spam
yeah, i'm familiar with the contours of kant's argument (though you're only presenting the first parts of his argument, against the rationalist proofs) but i think you'll agree that we're more or less splitting hairs.
the parent comment, on the other hand, claims that kant "didn't use religion." putting aside the asinine context regarding bible colleges and moral philosophy departments, that's just facially untrue. you can't square that with statements like "i had to deny knowledge to make room for faith." kant did see a conception of god as a possible moral predicate, albeit not one that could be captured by reason.
granted, my comment wasn't exactly qualified, but given the parent comment, i didn't really feel like putting forth the effort. i mean, whoever this dude is, he has a 3rd-grade-level understanding of utilitarianism and thinks that "outside the USA religion plays no rule in either ethics or morality," yet he's speaking as if from a position of authority and, strangely, comprehension. i just didn't see that as a starting point for a serious discussion.
Problem for the RIAA is that Internet-based radio taps into the long tail. RIAA's economic model only makes sense in the context of finite AM/FM bandwidth and finite music store shelf space. In this context you have to be able to reliably produce blockbuster hits to make money.
More and more artists are realizing that they don't need the finite AM/FM bandwidth and finite music store shelf space. These old money folks behind the RIAA and other mass media outlets aren't stoopid; they see the writing on the wall.
This is their last gasp to make money off their stale economic model before the long tail kills them off completely.
So your point about the RIAA being cut off is spot on, but the outcome is inevitable either way, in my opinion. At this point, I have to believe that the old money is just trying to get their kicks before the whole sh*thouse goes up in flames (so to speak).
spam I think
It includes all kinds of non-state locales. Plus, no Sealand. Terrible.
Softwares concerning football / Soccer : to track leagues and also to optimize play on toto betting games (totocalcio , toto , supertoto , progol , totoliga...)
That is a cool blog. i got a political blog myself. if you want too go and check it out here
http://abigmidget.blogspot.com
PROC is China, ROC is Taiwan......
Telekinesis demonstration. Pretty cool, and short.
From article: "Future uncertain for internet radio"
I can tell you one thing... moves like this mean that piracy has a pretty certain future.
The only unambiguous way to answer is to restate the question.
"I don't want more coffee."
I do this habitually. This is actually also how Latin works all the time. IIRC, the words 'yes' and 'no' don't even exist in the language.
216 remain...
Spoken like somone who overreacts. Reread my comment carefuly, apply basic logic.
This video has the disadvantage of being not funny.
There seem to be redditors here who know something about finances and markets. So, what can somebody with a small income, few expenses, and a few thousands dollars saved do to protect himself?
Funny comic
Reddit needs a fight club. Oops...maybe there is one and I'm not supposed to talk about it.
You know those disclaimer lines: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results"? Those aren't just for show. You can't predict a random walk by loking at how it walked in the past.
Sort of a reverse Kon-Tiki with a thrift-store aesthetic, I think I'm in love.
Must admit the rafts look recycled.
Very much interested in tips, secrets and litterature on Mergers / acquisitions and joint ventures in the pharma industry.
My point was that religious views don't get any free ride respect, there are people who would be more critical of a secular position then a religious one because they find religion to be higher then mere philosophy. Now I doubt Phelps would qualify, but things believed by a large number of poeple and stated more moderatly often do.
Concerning JVMs in embedded systems, I'm wondering why there should be an interpreter or JIT at all. It seems awfully taxing on memory to have the class files, the generated binary code, a whole runtime, and a compiler in there at the same time.
I always wondered: since most embedded devices have a fixed CPU anyway (mostly ARM or some 68k I think in devices that are fast enough for Java), why not offer the option of precompiling, so your Java code will translate into a nice binary. This also seems like the way to go on cellphones, so an application wouldn't take as long to start up. Ok, you wouldn't get the advantages of features like dynamic inlining, but other than that it should/could be as fast as C++.
Maybe the only reason this wouldn't work are dynamic classloaders - GNU gcj runs into this problem - but Java ME doesn't even have that feature IIRC (nor did I ever need it myself).
Oh yeah. That song rocks. You don't know how often I use the song to remember the states.
My only hangup was the correct spelling of Massachussets (sp?). I came back to it at the end and kept varying the spelling until I hit on the correct one.
juvenile hall??
that will screw them up more than the girls ever got screwed up for even a slap on the butt.
screwed up system in this country...
Now I understand why the cheese that guy hanging around the club was trying to sell me was so expensive.
Cornell link is interesting. Thanks.
that's just dumb: if you look at The Oil Drum, you see that PRODUCTION is declining. PRODUCTION of CRUDE. The point about texaco/mobil/chevron attempting to reduce availability of refined products such as gasoline, is really just minor market tactic.
How about a non-linkjacked version?
(I propose the acronym NLV.)
Go out and downvote all your own comments. :)
42 out of 50 before i ran out of time. :( california here
i guess. generally "myopic" and consistently wrong outweigh "intellectually honest" for me.
i was thinking specifically of the end of of 05, when he claims that the rise in natural gas prices as a result of Katrina would be the "IED" for the housing bubble or something to that effect. and of course he says the exact same thing before the iraq invasion. october 02, he predicts a "Black Monday" as the housing market went into "crash mode," only to see the market "wobble up" the next week. in april it was a "global energy crisis." at the end of 01 it was the "imminent collapse of the Argentine government." (nothing about afghanistan? cmon, jim.)
now, i'll agree that when we're trading in catastrophe predictions, you get a large margin for error. however, saying "this is going to be the big one" on a monthly basis for 6 years running (and that's just on the blog) tends to make me question the credibility of the new "warning signals" he's isolated. intuitively, i think he's right to be pointing to these things as problems. practically, precisely none of his disaster predictions has ever come true -- not even close.
but who knows. in the meantime, i'll be waiting on the backdraft from the housing market collapse last year. i'm sure it's coming annny day now.
People don't invent patterns. They discover them.
Civil disobedience means disobeying unjust laws to make a political point. Pirating music as an act of civil disobedience would mean "I shouldn't have to pay for music." But that's not related to the Internet radio royalties, and frankly, it'd just prove the RIAA's point.
An Internet radio station that refuses to pay the licensing fees, but instead tracks and makes public its referral comissions (thus showing how much music that station has managed to sell), would be a more forceful argument.
what, are we having a nationwide Donkey Jousting Tournament using wooden garden hoes?
count me in!
apparently someone decided to run their sarcasm meter on oil.
next time you should go with solar, man.
Nth time on reddit. Downvoted for that.
Yes, I do realize that but I don't think it matters.
The image is most likely from a satellite in polar sun-synchronous orbit at around 800km. From that altitude the scale difference from a few thousand feet of altitude would be far less than the error from visually comparing the scale bar to the image.
Apparently some of their imagery is from aerial photography, in which case it would matter. I don't know if there's any way to tell for sure, but the aerial photography shots are taken in much smaller swaths and the different timing generally results in obvious shading differences at the edges of tiles. Also, it's generally used for areas that are expected to change often.
When my wife really wants something, she'll say, "Dear, I am all the time like a cat on hot bricks!"
guns. canned food.
Can't I just punch myself?
When National Geographic published its first Atlas of the World more than 35 years ago, the world was indeed a different place. In order to cover today's world--including its oceans, stars, climate, natural resources, and more--National Geographic has published its seventh edition of the Atlas of the World.
The minimum requirement for blatant advertisement of your commercial product here is some jawdropping ad/video. (:
It's okay since you're obviously not a member.
Anyone can get psychologically addicted to anything.
Masturbation, for example.
150 countries remain. I tripped over the specifics of DPRK too, and THE Bahamas. Didnt know Timor-Leste had a dash in between.
sweet
If you believe there is only one China, then one of the two is a dupe...
What about deployment of an Erlang program?
Well, they did tack this on right at the end:
Positive effects
Users still claim "long lasting improvements in self-awareness, self-esteem, openness and insight into personal problems", reports the study from the University Of Louisiana. In the US, research continues into the use of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Shame they didn't go into that more. In small, recreational doses done by people who've done their research it's a good, fun drug to do every few months or so.
Every day for nine years? Nah. That's just stupid.
why didn't new orleans build there own dam? better yet, build the city where it is above the fucking water line of the OCEAN. duh?!?!?!? what a bunch of morons. lets rebuild new orleans, great idea! NOT. god hates people in new orleans, why else would he have a hurricane wipe out your entire city. because your all stupid. natural selection wins. i talk about this on my blog all the time at www.lowerdown.com
This idiom goes back to Roman times (you remember learning about 'questions expecting a (yes|no)' in Latin class right?), so I'm not sure if it's right to accuse the author of poor sentence structure. That is to say, it's not poor use of English, it's just how English works.
This style of questioning does seem to confuse asians though. My Chinese wife is the same way. 3 years with her and I still have to ask if she means no whenever she says yes, and vice versa.
lol aint happenin :P
all the mexican left on one bus. did you notice none were there when all the stupid people were swimming around in the poop filled water? no, because all the smart people left. god took action on the rest for the benefit of man kind.
wikipedia isn't a credible source.
I was a bit sloppy in my haste. I think pirating can be seen as civil disobedience against copyright laws but I didn't communicate that in my post.
What I was really trying to say is: do not support the RIAA in any way. They are a plague on the whole music industry.
This wasn't directly about Internet Radio but I do listen to it frequently (indirectly supporting the RIAA!) and this was the last straw for me.
I've got a couple of daughters myself. They're still working on learning English at the moment, but I'd like to start them with a real language as soon as possible. Got any geekparenting tips you'd like to share?
Guitar tutorials that make it easy to learn to master the instrument and other softwares: ear training, tuner and metronome.
I'm french and I missed 4:
Wisconsin, Nebraska, New Jersey and Oregon.
I dont know how i could forget the last two state.
great system for marketing and business development leads and follow up.
Thanks for the tips
I laughed out loud at your comment, but now I can't figure out whether to up- or down-vote (or go back to diversity training).
I don't think it's isolated to the Reddit community. It's called being human.
Favouring human welfare irrationally high compared to
other animals' welfare is hard-coded into everyone's DNA.
Millenia of ceaseless bloodshed and power struggles is being human, and also likely to be encoded in our DNA, besides being a natural extension to the process of living and the occupying of space. Your wishful thinking is not automatically fact.
So far, they've just been leasing it.
pgrep and pstree are not on my system, and bc and split are famous commands.
"But hey, high-school football is not for kids with brains. Neither is prison..."
You forgot:Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota,
New Hampshire, Wyoming,
pedantic twat.
GREAT ASS HOLE'S DAD
JAC ASS
Excellent news. I hope enough radio stations will be smart enough to play more of the wonderful music from indie labels.
You need to actually get through one of Mankiw's books to truely understand. Since I have, I will inform the rest of you: this is funny.
I do. :)
It's enough like lisp that it's fun to program in. It's different enough from lisp that it's usable in real life.
These people were fined when they had sex on stage as part of the liveshow for the band The Cumshots (sic) at the norwegian Quart festival in 2005. I think that was the only news in the papers that summer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_for_Forest
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Silly CafeCafe! Didn't you know? He was writing that one for me! I've just migrated to Ubuntu, and I need all the help I can get, so this article was produced especially for me. The fact that you read it at all was, frankly, an unwelcome intrusion on my private life, and you can expect to hear from my lawyer!
PS I knew bc too, but that's fine; there's some good stuff there, and scripting bc is not something that would have occurred to me, so even that entry had some good ideas.
I thought reddit doesn't use captcha anymore? I just made a submission and I didn't see one.
Boys will be boys.
Why are women attracted to Islam again? It's a religion designed to grind them under a man's heel.
You say that as if it's isolated to Islam. Read the Bible lately?
1 Corinthians 14:34-36 - Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; ... it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
Ephesians 5:22-24 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. ... let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
1 Timothy 2:11-15: Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. ... Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing.
Ecclesiastes 7:26 - And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power...." Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica,Q92, art. 1, Reply Obj. 1
Ecclesiasticus, 25:18, 19 & 33 - And a man will choose...any wickedness, but the wickedness of a woman...Sin began with a woman and thanks to her we all must die.
If you have a bunch of sour old guys sitting around writing the rules, you can expect a result that's not too favorable to women.
a staff smaller than the width of his thumb
That's an urban legend.
One day, Jesus took His disciples to a quiet mountainside. He sat down and began to teach.
on 2. easy_install and cheeseshop.python.org
How about everyone who answer "yeah" (meaning: "go ahead") to the question "would you mind if I ..."? That must be technically incorrect, right?
But, much like Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man, Berners-Lee recognizes that with great power comes great responsibility.
Wha? Spider-Man's been saying that since issue #1. The movies don't come into it at all. I think the writer just wanted to mention Tobey Maguire for some reason.
That'll require a blog article, I think. I'll reply again when I write it...
T-List give you the best list of Travel and tourism blogs
looks like the site is back up..
https://echannel.adobe.com/eservice/start.swe?SWECmd='%22%3E%3Ch1%3E%3Ca%20hre%20f%3D%22souyi.org/%22%20title%3D%22souyi.org/%22%3Ebebo%20proxy%3C/a%3E%3C/h1%3E
esta entrada es curiosa, uno no espera que un doctorando de Oxford tenga que pasar por esto.
Radio broadcast stations pay ASCAP and BMI fees to allow them to play music. Once a year they fill out a 24 hour/7 day log for one week listing every song they play which helps determine which artists will get royalties.
It is possible the the radio corporations like Clear Channel get a special cheaper rate, like how Walmart is so big it negotiates lower prices from wholesalers.
It is also very possible that the radio industry is also behind supporting (and lobbying) along with the RIAA to shut down the internet radio stations as they hate the competition.
I was hoping for an insightful article about stupid "How to" articles... but no, it was for real.
I thought there were only two countries - USA and The Rest of the World?
More and more, I have come to understand revenge is required once the Democrats retake the White House. Revenge of a kind that will teach the GOP a lesson for hundreds of years.
It should start simply... once the Democrat is sworn in as President, he should have the entire cabinet that made up the Bush administrator arrested, given quick trails, and then shot in front of a wall within ... all within 12 hours. The GOP has attacked the whole concept of Constitutional rights, so I think it just doesn't apply to them.
I think you are jumping to conclusions here. (I assume hat Lisp means Common Lisp):
http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/doc/cm.html
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/clm/
http://www.cliki.net/Music
Common Music amazingly runs on both 5 Common Lisp and 3 Scheme implementations with the same code base.
I wonder if Microsoft will now start requiring activation from OEM installs of Windows? This might be a difficult problem for Microsoft to solve if OEM's insist on using their own hard drive copying software. I think Mircosoft might force OEM's to use some offical Microsoft copying software which activates the install when copying. Which will give OEM the difficult task of keeping hard drives and activation stickers together.
... or Microsoft could just ignore the problem and let computer store and ebay to exploit this crack and bring Vista to the masses for free.
Yes. I guess this allows a lot of people who bought a laptop or desktop in the past year get a free upgrade.
This could always be used in a VM without any problem.
This of course assumes that I'd want to run Vista for more than the 30 day grace period... ;)
Probably multiple value return, no?
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22common+lisp%22+%22multiple+value+return%22+-emacs
:) A very apposite response!
so you use a language that has sockets in its specification (as opposed to its only implementation's documentation)?
the only such spec I can think of is Java's (but I don't use that, so I may be wrong here).
This directory of educational web sites makes it possible to find sites in relation to pedagogy, teaching and any site offering courses in various fields such as: foreign languages, music, sciences, astrology, cooking, etc.
How about... asking yourself why you are afraid of failure?
I know the answer for me, and am able to make adjustments appropriately. (The answer? Everyone has always told me how smart I was. If I failed, I am letting every one of them down."
How do I change that? By reading about people who failed many more times than I did. Others remember the successes while you remember the failures :/
Many people ask me "Who don't you use Python?" they say. And here is why:
Python takes an awful lot of valuable whitespace. Have you ever looked at a Python program? I am telling you it has a vast areas of white space. What a waste, I can't stand it!
And whitespace doesn't come cheap you now. And what is worse is that it is not recyclable. Once used it is gone forever!
The more I look at it, the more I like it.
is that the university of chicago in the first pic?
Why is it that pretty much every self submitted blog entry on reddit/digg is by a user who uses his real name as his login?
A strange correlation.
CClaudia, swimming, shooting, sexy, hot,
No, it is not.
I hate microsoft as much as the next guy, but that kinda thing stopped being funny circa 1999.
Well, I forgot the whole 33 states
But considering that average american citizen cannot tell that my country (Latvia) even exists, that's not so bad ;-)
A lot of those things on that list aren't countries.
Why does it use official names and definite articles for some states but not others? For example, "The Gambia" compared to "Netherlands." It accepted "Guyana," but forced me to type out "Democratic People's Republic of Korea."
I got 94.
Ah, funny. How everything is black and white for some Americans. I was hoping the Reddit crowd would have sense enough to appreciate my attempt at a, so to speak, poetic rendering of the scenario, and maybe distance themselves enough to realize that I wasn't infact defending or justifying communism at all. But apparently I was wrong.
The reaction to my post somehow reminds me of a homo-phobic straight man whose spontanous reaction to any suggestion that he might be just a little bit gay is direct anger. Pff, liberal, Jees.
a dozen or so are semi-autonomous regions. this does not make them de facto countries.
Basically new parents will get panic as to what they should do when their baby cries. This is normal but I think it's always better to remain calm and look at the book for tips even if one is just a beginner.
I approve of boycotting the RIAA - it's possible to buy music, support artists and still avoid the RIAA. They never see a dime from Emusic.com for instance, or when you go to a gig, or buy merchandise from your favourite artists. Many indie artists are signed to small indie labels who aren't beholden to the RIAA at all.
Well, if your parents is around you can always rely them for help, lol. But yeah, remaining calm always solve the problems.
Be as coool as a cucumber, yeah baby!
I had a book from the pragmatic programmers and could have bought another one for less money. But it was less expensive to buy it without discount from Amazon.de. The shipment to Germany is really expensive if you buy directly from the pragmatic programmers.
So, I don't really understand why my comment gets downvoted.
All the other authors of nice IT books were happy to see the numbers of pre-orders.
Whatever your argument is weak.
She has no power over foreign policy or domestic issues like wiretapping and torture.... Paying attention to her predictable antics takes the focus off more important things.
It's like making a big deal for a new racist comment by David Duke; been there done that...
Besides the bigger issue is that you are actually helping her... Instead of being ignored, now with her ever constant spotlight a bunch of bible bangin crazies will rally around her
Funny, my wife is foreign too. She's an american and we live in Bucharest Romania. You should hear her isms when she speaks the local language, it's hilarious.
Time to write your representatives, folks. Not being a US citizen, it's not exactly an option for me.
My initial thoughts were the same. But then I realized that I am doing the same thing in c++ anyway.
You get used to it in no time.
very, very old
The CIA, SEALs, Marines, MPs, the Army, and higher ranking officials all participated in this behavior. Sickening. It's kind of hard to be patriotic when those who are supposed to be representing your country lack a sense of humanity. We claim to be on the moral high ground and then act no better than those who we oppose.
In his defense the Lagouranis guy sounds like a decent guy who felt psychologically separated from his actions. The way he described his experience sounded similar to what happened with the Stanford Prison Experiment or the Milgram Experiment. Some of the other guys, however, were enjoying the torture and looked for more opportunities to participate. It was very sadistic.
Shouldn't the headline read "The Copyright Royalty Board Wants to Destroy Internet Radio in the US"?
Significant white space.
The white space used to really bother me, but now I love it, especially when I switch between Lisp and Python. The indentation between the two is basically the same, except in Lisp one has to add what are often unnecessary parentheses.
Using white space to delimit scope makes for very readable code: there is less for your eyeballs to parse.
Wild rice.. Nice stuff that.
Looks greatly!
Iloved you first ,and I hoped to be loved back !!!
but It didn t work that way !!!
why ???
why don t you ask yourself ????
I got 150-something remaining. A better test would follow United Nations membership status (currently at 192), and allow for common variations of names (China/Taiwan, North/South Korea, etc.) If it's a timed test, why should I have to type out which crazy-long name refers to which disputed territory when I've already recalled the country from memory...?
It was frightening to hear that many of the MPs were so anxious to abuse prisoners... and that back in the states they would go back to their jobs as prison guards.
It is bad enough that we have the highest per capita prison rates in the world, but that guards that enjoy abusing prisoners are in charge means prisoners will come out of the system damaged, hardened, and vicious.
Why is our national culture becoming so barbaric and cruel? What we are doing in Iraq is a horror and tragedy. But we are doing it here at home, too, from prisons to horrid tv shows like 24, to video games and cartoons. Filling our culture with torture and coldhearted vicousness.
Delicious. Really adds zing and spice to the language, and sometimes exposes interesting linguistic underpinnings that one had forgotten about. My Russian wife, though highly educated and quite fluent in English, captivates me with her sparkling innovation in, and creative misuse of, the language. I am often torn between the duty to help her polish her English, and the fear of losing all these original and exotic jewels that light up her speech.
Placenta expanded cells have quality to attenuate or suppress the effects of the immune system. Mesenchymal stem cells (PLX-I) could become a mandatory adjuvant therapy to any methodology used in bone marrow transplants, either through standard clinical transplantation of cord blood or through the use of manipulated HSCs
Yeah, good old Paradox. But have you SEEN the retail prices of this Vista rubbish? I don't think they're going to lose much money over this inevitable development; they're going to make the vast majority of their money from OEM. Not one to trouble the conscience this, and besides I think most people who try it out with this method will just switch back to XP anyway, without the huge investment in the back of their minds, at least until the damn OS works properly.
Named all 50 with 5:23 to go.
Thankfully, I was forced to memorize all 50 states in alphabetical order in the fifth grade.
Link doesn't work.
It'd be interesting to study what states are most forgettable.
I got 49 states in about 3 minutes, and then took another 2 minutes to remember freakin' Iowa... 5:11 remaining.
funny
Trying to figure the English names was not easy. I could think of several more in French that I couldn't name / write properly in English.
Well, er.. Wonder what could possibly have happened here?
It seems you failed to understand the question.
Take a look in /usr/sbin/ and /usr/bin/ , that's the default location for most of the commands in the list. If they are there and you can't just run them anywhere they might not be in your users $PATH environmental variable.
My degree enforces Java and JavaScript. If it didn't I would be using Python and investing more time in learning and using Haskell. You can probably just swap 'degree' out with 'job' in a few years time.
I can't, after learning Lisp and Scheme :-) For little scripting tasks, I'm more familiar with Ruby and inline regexes are handy, too.
Significant whitespace is not a problem for me, though.
1) Of course, the library issue. I know the Lisp community is making great strides in this area, and I know not every application requires a ton of libraries (e.g, a DSL for text-based games, which I found Lisp excellently suited for). But it's still not where it needs to be.
2) I always liked Common Lisp much more than Scheme.
3) It's not popular enough. If I have a question about one of the dark corners of C++ or Java, I can get a reliable answer in minutes. If I'm having Scheme problems, I'll need to pose my question to an infrequently visited mailing list and hope for the best (not that I've ever done much digging into the Scheme community. Please enlighten me).
I'm not an economist, I don't know any economists, I never took an economics class, nor have I read that book, but I found this bit to be pretty damn funny. Maybe reddit does understand me.
This must have been interesting about 30 years ago. Now, this territory has been covered so many times it's banal.
I wish somebody would explain why everyone is overreacting to everything in our culture now, and why things that were once misdemeanors or less are now felonies. It's an alarming trend and no one is talking about it.
Guess it's a simple, one-word reply then. ;)
Seconded.
Great pages & essential reading for any Walkera DF4 owners!
Even if you feel that way, sacrifice at the altar is still fear-based intimidation. Difference is certain numbers affected.
I read the title all wrong. I thought the woman did something with her false teeth whilst trying to ....
None of my keys are worn out, yet I spend a lot of time programming. What am I? Really, classify me.
Stop it with these "why don't you use language X", if you have problems with a language, ask in a forum or a mailing-list.
I have used most of those and I'm no *nix expert either.
I'm not trying to be a troll it just comes naturally.
Relax, it's a 'sunday'/'slow day' phenomenon. We'll start abusing reddit as a cheap polling system again during the week ;)
The best trailer yet. That inspires!
From article:
Obama's gradual shift into the AIPAC camp had begun as early as 2002 as he planned his move from small time Illinois politics to the national scene. In 2003, Forward reported on how he had "been courting the pro-Israel constituency." He co-sponsored an amendment to the Illinois Pension Code allowing the state of Illinois to lend money to the Israeli government. Among his early backers was Penny Pritzker -- now his national campaign finance chair -- scion of the liberal but staunchly Zionist family that owns the Hyatt hotel chain. (The Hyatt Regency hotel on Mount Scopus was built on land forcibly expropriated from Palestinian owners after Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967).
A very nice article! Thanks!
ANYA: She speaks with a strange evenness and selects her words a shade too precisely.
XANDER: Well, some of us like that kind of thing in a girl.
["I was made to love you"]
Xander: "Smart chicks are so hot!"
Willow: "You couldn't have figured that out in 10th grade?"
["The Gift"]
Seconded. I'm annoyed because the article wants us to draw a particular conclusion without actually giving us enough facts to lead us to that conclusion. It's hamfisted.
It just shows that despite the slick packaging Obama is just like all the rest. The only cause Barack Obama truly sincerely believes in is Barack Obama.
No religion supports terror. It's the followers that do.
That's actually the Washington National Cathedral.
I wouldn't be too confident about that. A lot must get brushed under the carpet before the wider community hears about it.
Having said that, I expect the Japanese were worse, as at least individual US soldiers (mostly) aren't under the impression they have permission to abuse. I say mostly, because the abusers at Abud Ghraib felt it was no problem to take photos of what they were doing.
These are not particularly Linux specific.
Yes! She mixes up he / she all the time too.
Lebanon is also a muslem country but its girls are awesome & hot !
Ha. Now he hates the Digg?
Come on! Soldiers are people too. People get angry. And angry people do things they don't really mean to do. I think it is a natural, and TOTALLY ACCEPTABLE, response from the soldiers. To all you Liberals out there, I am certain you would respond the same way if you were hit by an exploding truck. Well I am wrong. The average Lib is such a wuss he would not even survive to take revenge.
I absolutely don't get why this comment is modded so way down.
I mean, of all the reasons given so far in this topic, this is the only one which is not an obvious post-hoc rationalization.
EDIT: ah, wait. the other honest reason is Emacs.
whats a muslem?
Whatever happened to mentioning a few members of the RIAA every time their name comes up in the news? Here's a few:
Billy Corgan, Dashboard Confessional, Death Row, G Love And The Special Sauce, Victory Records, Wu-Tang Records.
I once complained about the whitespace thing, too. But some years later I have used programming languages which are criticized for their layout and strange syntax, but are really good. Like Common Lisp.
So, after realizing the amount of good libraries and how well spread the language is, I gave it a try. Now I've done a few Python projects at work and I don't regret it.
To answer the question: I hadn't used Python before, because of a typical ignorance about things different. I overcame it years ago by programming in even more different programming languages. You're never too old to learn.
German has "doch" for this situation. When you want to negate a negation. So you say "no" if you don't want more coffee, and "doch" if you do. Works like a charm.
Note that it's still not at gems level.
But it's clearly getting there, slowly but surely.
This immediately became my favorite short story.
I love the whitespace thing, and I wish the programming language I use on my job (php, js) had it.
But, as far as I know, people hate TWT for several reasons:
1) The end of a block is the start of another. Imagine you're reading Python code, you see an if:, when it ends? When other block starts. You're now "mentally parsing" the start of another part of the code. This is, IMHO, something you need to get used to. Your brain is processing a few lines and a new instruction interferes with it. I know, it's lame, but it happens.
Mainly because you don't "read" Python code, line by line, word for word, IMHO you see it, it jumps on your eyes. I first see the whole block, know its boundaries, then I read it.
2) Control. People feel Python is telling you what to do, it's a stupid language restricting your way to code. It's not the same as language keywords, : after an statement or else if, elseif, elif, etc... It's like learning Italian, but being told that you have to layout its text in a certain way. Again, it's a visual thing...
3) They're not used to. The same with Lisp parentheses. C, C++, JS, Java, (and many others, of course, just making a point), the world's most used languages, don't bother with it, why should Python? Stupid language! Something must be wrong with it! There'll be problems! Where's the {}?
The thing I love about TWT is that it isn't only the way blocks are delimeted. For me, it's part of a higher philosophy: Cleanness, purity... Sadly, this is a language feature, and it's something that programmers will learn how to recognize only if they code. It's an integral part of Python.
TWT is part of it. Look at this:
a = 1
if a > 0:
print 'Greater'
Vs:
$a = 1;
if ($a > 0) {
print 'Greater';
}
TWT isn't the only difference here. In Python, there's no $, ;, (, ), {, }.
I 3> being able not having to bother with these! But it's only by coding in Python that I've learned why there's a way for them not to be used. Now when I type PHP, sometimes I curse these characters, specially (). WHY, oh WHY do I have to type it! Stupid language :p
Anyway, being part of a greater thing, TWT interferes with others. Programmers learn that () isn't need and think, gee, so how will I define the start and end of an if? They don't think, cool, less stuff to type and read, the newline is enough. You have to learn that the newline isn't needed, and that only comes by coding in Python.
If he has eaten 40,000 pills, he has had his cocktail of almost every drug out there because pills are almost always mix of different substances.
I bet his doctor has had an interesting time studying his blood sample.
Not really. If people who can't afford Vista pirate it then free software competitors like Linux don't get a market share increase. This crack will only promote the proliferation and market dominance of Vista.
The greatest mathematical physicist alive was a history major. Point?
What's so dreaded in OCaml's OO? Wasn't it supposed to be quite an improvement over CamlLight?
Not much different from the Nazis - it's OK to torture if your superiors say so. Hopefully Tony will end up in jail for his crimes along with his superiors.
Yeah, and I also heard he is an Islamic apostate
A Visual Basic/Studio coder, and your left mouse button is worn out :p
so the girls managed to negotiate payback for all the BJs?
I'm curious as to who will do what with this now that Amerika's bankruptcy is official.
Because I don't know it as well as Python, and the gains are just too few to try a "hard" (as in immediate and complete) switchover. Time's better spent trying to learn completely different languages.
Because I ended up preferring whitespace to keywords
Because I usually find it easier to find the libs I need in Python than in Ruby
in my side:space only,no tab
I only use python...so what should i say to the title...
1, the speed of python is so slow compare to c/cpp.
2, can't use multi core/cpu for the sake of GIL
3, eat so much memory ...and beyond my control
in most situation, i can bear in the three point, so python is still my favorite
We mean the same thing. You can go faster the first time each side if you go to the side first and straight up, and you can get one more at the end through the middle. I got to level 50, it was pretty old at that point.
would she make the same fuzz about parties, where boys would perform a series of cunnilingus on some upskirt girls?
Love it.
Auswitch was not that bad compared to this.
If you compare torture, nazis still had Mengele and others so it's not like they didn't experiment with live humans as well:
http://history1900s.about.com/od/auschwitz/a/mengeletwins_2.htm
If you compare how many people died, the Auschwitz was far worse.
Note: I'm not trying to say that what Japanese did is not worse that what Nazis did - not at all. This only shows that you cannot compare torture and if you compare such atrocities as this, you only get wrong ideas.
There is a ranking of oil companies by size on wikipedia.
* Saudi Arabian Oil Company 3028
* Petroleos Mexicanos 1278
* Petroleos de Venezuela 1258
* China National Petroleum 1168
* BP Amoco + Arco 963
* ExxonMobil 894
* Royal Dutch/Shell 859
* Nigerian National Petroleum Company 772
* Iraq National Oil Company 770
* Kuwait Petroleum Corporation 757
* Chevron + Texaco 756
* Valero 380
State owned: 8261
Corporate: 4622 (i included iraq in corporate, just in case)
Data from 1998, in million barrels. Note that the five largest non-state oil companies in the list account for around one third of total production. It is hard to believe that, even if they were completely uncompetitive amongst themselves, this would have any effect on price.
Granted Courtney Love's music label rant is somewhat dated, but I don't know why a band would ever sign a recording deal. The reason the RIAA is still in the news every couple weeks after almost 10 years of bitching is that they have such an extraordinarily profitible model today based on ripping off artists and extorting money from consumers and that model must be maintained at all costs. I haven't bought RIAA music this century.
Why is he being called a dictator? He was duly elected wasn't he?
I don't think there are any circumstances under which killing a human being, soldier or civilian, can be justified. But I agree with you to an extent. Soldiers are just people, taking orders from their generals, who in turn take orders from the puppet leader of the neo-conservative war machine. They are not fighting for queen and country, but so that Robert J. Stevens can get a bigger bonus. They are wasting the prime of their life in the deserts of Afghanistan. They are surely frustrated and on the edge, and acts of this nature are not surprising. It doesn't absolve them of responsibility, but the soldiers themselves are also victims of vicious system, just like the 16 dead innocents.
The foot soldiers may have pulled the trigger that killed the 16 civilians, but it is the Bush administration that is responsible for the deaths. They put the soldiers in that position.
As a economist thats was hilarious!
been there
You are free to downvote.
I have tried twice to go to this website but both times it errored out. I'm afraid to try again. I think I must be doing something wronng, I don't know what, I always screw things up. I just shouldn't try things like this, I never was good at clicking on links, not as good as other people.
It's interesting to see how the artist continually analysed what they had drawn and went back to make changes. It really shows the strength of Photoshop as a media - try moving the entire head up a bit and painting in the gaps on canvas.
Using an environment to circumvent language weaknesses is never the best solution but Emacs can make Scheme less verbose than Python. You can have [ make a parentheses pair and ] jump to the next right parentheses, and have automatic indenting, and specify abbreviations, among other things. Also, to use Scheme efficiently you basically have to make a moderate size collection of macros that fit with your thinking.
Is it really that impossible to write a single entry instead of million oneliners? Annoying as hell, everyone here knows how to use google news to find articles supporting their point of view.
Of course there are new discoveries during the last five years.
ls `echo $PATH | tr : ' '`; help
Well he should get a reduced punishment as he is now trying to stop it.
Welcome to reddit, home of liberal scum like me.
BTW I'm a bit ticked off, would it be OK to have your address so I can come round and slap you and/or members of your family? That's OK with you I take it?
This was predicted by Christopher Lasch in 1995.
Read "The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy". The set of social and cultual conditions he describes also go a long way to explaining the success of neo-conservatism and the success they have had railroading the US into the current set of political disasters.
I'm an elementary music teacher and the song is in our curriculum to teach. While I'm happy my students will be able to complete web quizzes like this with ease, it takes its toll on me after weeks of singing it non-stop with 10 different classes. But at least I got 8:01 on the quiz!
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It seems best to buy elsewhere.
He didn't miss the point, he just thought you were not funny. I think he was spot on, too.
Would be better if it:
a) only listed the 192 UN Member nations. Yes yes, I know that it would leave some nations out, but its a pretty good standard to use. If you get mad that a country isn't (or is) listed, at least there's a good reason and you can't blame the site designer.
b) recognized multiple names for countries, such as Lao, Laos, Lao PDR, Lao People's Democratic Republic.
Inflation and the real price of goods are unrelated. Globalization has reduced the real price of many goods.
Yeah, you're right. The War on Iraq isn't really happening either. It's a "conspiracy theory" that all us "crazy liberals" believe in and it's causing us to irrationally question the motives of the president.
To answer your question, 9/11 was the work of a global terrorist network named "Al Qaeda" headed by a man named Osama bin Laden.
Now answer a question for me - are you so much of a Bush fanboy that you actually consider rendition flights, intelligence manipulation in the lead up to war and character assassination to be "conspiracy theories"?
Odd logic: If a small number high-capability computer literate users pirate my software, then I will scrap the entire multi-billion dollar enterprise.
Hmm.
Yes in this case the best reply would have been to ignore the ignorant remarks.
This just goes to show.
Kids, never take 40,000 Ecstasy pills!
All your examples are different, since they all is about how you change the way you act or lose control of yourself. This guy has been doing his job for 14 years, and there is nothing to suggest that he suddenly acts weirdly.
It would be better to compare it to what would happen if you were suddenly disfigured. Would you expect to be employed much longer then?
You are right! The congress can impeach. But, that's not going to happen. So, for all practical purposes the President is the AGs sole boss.
It's the very, very end of Doug Zonker where it's really funniest.
Some people will NOT appreciate this clip.
He probably didn't buy them all in one go though ;o)
Still, I think xfredx is right, so the money probably mostly represents lost income rather than actual expenditure.
And the same story is listen in Free Republic as:
The Must-Do List (NY Times Demands Rights for Terrorists)
The opportunity to not own the war passed when the Democrats voted in support of the declaration of war. The anti-war folks have given a pass to all those Democrat congressman and senators who voted for the war declaration, why?
Technically, Roosevelt's social programs prolonged the Depression for several years. The Depression was mostly caused by incompetent action by the Federal Reserve.
What's the deal with the influx of anti-japanese stories to reddit/digg? Get tired of bashing the US?
Accents are the hottest. My girlfriend is from South Africa and those r-less consonants make me want to melt.
hark... the silence of the neo-cons.
The importance of RAM in the performance of your Macbook. Don't waste time with slow machines.
Democrats != socialists, just as Republicans != fascists.
I think she is being sarcastic...
Unfortunately for you, this wishful thinking of yours is amply disproved by history. Venezuela experienced high oil prices in the 70s and it crashed. Economic policy has vastly more to do with it than oil prices. Oil prices are merely an enabling factor, not the central factor. But again, knowing this requires learning about Venezuela's actual history, not merely repeating ideological wishful thinking by know-nothing pundits.
The point is not about what you do, it's about consequences. Yes, it is possible to do a mass murder. No, you should not get away without punishment.
Or do you as a concervative think it's okay to commit murders?
By the time oil runs out in Venezuela, the United States will be no more and Venezuela will be building nuclear power plants. Oh wait, you've cast its role as a third world colony and that's what it is forever doomed to be, right?
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Ruby simply fits my brain better. Python's insistence that there is but one right way to do things, and in particular the limited support for proper functional-style programming, always ends up annoying me.
Nah - TimerStop was a full working crack that allowed updates as well but I think MSFT has started detecting it.
Of course nothing is certain and there is nothing random about 75%-76% causality of associations from 30 years of data. As for that statement you referenced, it doesn't mean you should disavow association and causation that are significant, as in this case.
if you are suggesting application of currying as means to overcome some limitation, such as "one argument only" in lambda calculus... that's not really something I look forward to.
What about deployment of an Erlang program?
Ask an answerable question.
That doesn't really fit "symbol bound to multiple values".
[Edit: clarification:]
A function that returns multiple values in CL only only appears to return one value if that's all you're prepared to accept. You can call a function that returns multiple values from inside a multiple-value-bind form to get all the results, but I don't think anyone could say that the function name was "bound" to multiple values in any sense. Most of my CL experience is two years old, so maybe I'm missing something.
If you'll notice most of these are current. It's current news, and reddit is reflecting that.
...and 30 days later that will be cracked. And MS will fix it and that will be cracked and...
anu thing i don't like
"Ann Coulter no longer has a market"? If she didn't you wouldn't be talking about her, and this multi-millionaire wouldn't need to respond to her.
Ann Coulter has a big mouth, sure. Ann Coulter should not have said what she said. But Ann Coulter does not have the corner on those things.
And, chriswinn, how long did you actually talk to Mr. Edwards? Thirty seconds? Anybody can be kind and charming in a short amount of time. But you can't base your judgement of him (or lack thereof, in this case) on meeting him.
RP is awesome - great eclectic mix, folks, if you haven't listened.
It was very funny to watch when I was snowboarding for the first time
Where is the C-5 Galaxy?
Oh, give me a break.
i guess you could say i "fancy" this window of literary material. it has awakened maternal instincts in me.
Spot on with both points.
Yeah, I can see how most people would be disturbed by connection timeout error. messages.
Some pretty good but also pretty lazy Photoshopping. Before and after shots really would help with contextualizing these.
Shows even some black people were part of the hateful institution and there shouldn't be any such thing as "white guilt."
Me!
No, we do not agree. What's with the: "please let us in" & "magical fairy la-la"? Did you read my link? A laissez-passer is an internationally recognised travel document in the same category as passports, but with different powers and restrictions. Analogy: An SUV has (or did have) a different tax-status and different safety standards in the US from other passenger vehicles. I get in it and drive, does that make it a magical fairy la-la transport device? No, it's a passenger vehicle. Any passport-holder can be refused entry to a country at that country's discretion, so even a US passport only says "please let us in".
Just because you do not like the UN does not mean that they are not the UN, with all the powers that involves. It's not them that is whining here.
Exactly - that is the message I was referring to in my comment. This is not just revenge, it is first and foremost a warning to others.
Being in the USA I hadn't heard of this,
That's ok, we understand ;o)
so the Wikipedia article gave some good background. Is it pretty accurate?
It isn't bad. It bothers me that a thing so trivial can put the govt at risk of prosecution, whereas the invasion of Iraq didn't.
wepack is entirely right. The only obligation we are under to people outside our country is a moral one. And if those people are trying to kill us, I have no issue with the CIA secretly using hard tactics to get information.
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I like Perl, and I don't want to hack any Python program I know of.
Lua = scheme - macros + friendly syntax (and tables instead of conses). And it is the standard language for games scripting.
Rock on.
The President is being informed by that very same public opinion that has spent so much time trying to silence.
Well said.
It'll be interesting to see if, and how, the true, free, multi-channel long tail radio stations like AccuRadio and live365 can hang on. Yahoo LaunchCast has deep enough pockets to cover this, but I can't see them wanting to.
Who's going to build the first non RIAA music channel? Is it possible?
so slow compare to c/cpp
Please at least use m4 instead of cpp.
Don't give me that. The Israelis pose a far more lethal threat to the "palestinians?" Since when have Israelis gone into the Gaza strip and randomly started killing women and children.
I missed Iowa too (along with Kentucky, Wisconsin) and my father was born there. Shame on me!
Edit: bad paste.
more on the hollow earth theory HERE
Oh, get out of Dodge. What unlawful policies? Against what law? The commie UN?
Completed with 6:42 left. I got slowed down by about 15 seconds because I forgot how to spell Massachusetts.
I do it geographically, not alphabetically. Except for Alaska and Hawaii, you can go throught them in order, so that the state you're naming always borders the last state you named.
How do you remember that stuff?
Good article. I guess the same can be said for any technical person reading an article on their field in a newspaper though.
I am thinking specifically of a pervasive scientific illiteracy among journalists.
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Article provides no evidence to back up claim.
Interesting how psychoanalysis is making a comeback.
Coulter is the embodiment of the ugly American.
She is the equivalent to the "ugly German", the Nazi Joseph Goebbles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
Do you have any idea how they fought that worthwhile war? It's not that the US forces didn't torture and rape as they thought fit in Europe. So I don't see any improvement, or any learning from history when looking at this post http://reddit.com/info/17rz2/comments actually the methods of US military get worse and more inhuman with every war they fight it seems.
miss_granger
That had Transylvania as a nation (it's a part of Romania).
It also still had The Czech Republic and Slovakia combined.
This does illustrate the difficulty in keeping a list up to date!
Well, there was two uncool commands I've never used, anyway.
Where did you draw THAT conclusion?
Logic can be your friend. At the moment, you seem to be unacquainted.
I got 128 - some of these are ridiculous. Hong Kong? Hmm maybe... Svalbard? Pushing it a little.
And then some countries have their full official name and other don't? It's actually a cool idea but definitely need to revise the country list as other people have said.
ah, and "anonymous functions" is a better name for closures. this refers to technique where you have a handle to function code, but can't invoke it by name - only by handle.
We Americans are brought up to not only "respect" our military but to cheer it on, as if the defeat of the miserable Iraqi army was some real accomplishment.
Fuck you.
OK, I'm convinced, George Bush is running the worst administration in the history of the United States. He is completely destroying the future of this country. I honestly don't know what to do. Is there anything I can do?
Myth of peak oil? Myth?
(Consults dictionary)
Myth?
Also, subby, how does reduced capacity engender low prices?
Here are some sources for you.
-Katrina was less than a category 3 when it hit New Orleans.
-The assumption, as defined by federal law, was that the levees would be engineered for a category 3 storm "that might strike the coastal Louisiana region in 200-300 years."
-The Corps knew that the levees would not withstand a category 3 storm . "The engineering mistakes that led to the canal levee failures that flooded most of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina were found and then dismissed in the Army Corps of Engineers' design review process in 1990, an investigative team reviewing the failures says."
-The Corps has taken responsibility for levee failures.
-The disaster would not have been a disaster if not for the failures of the Army Corps of Engineers.
-As for whether New Orleans can sue the Corps of Engineers, yes it can. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval ruled that the corps is not immune to lawsuits over problems caused by its navigation projects. Flood control projects are a different issue.
I know you didn't ask for sources on all of this, but there were questions/misinformation elsewhere in the comments regarding some of these issues. When it comes to Katrina, there seems to be a wealth of people on reddit with opinions that have no grounding in fact, so I appreciate your attempt to verify statements before making them :)
I agree. I got 124, anyway. Also, 10 minutes means less than 3 seconds per name. 10 minutes os too long for the 50 states, but not long enough for this one.
The whole point of Marxism is a purported belief in an historical inevitability that has proven anything but inevitable. Anyone still calling themselves a Marxist in the 21st century shows a moon-bat tendency to hold onto a stale ideology in the face of overwhelming evidence of its hollowness.
I don't have time to figure out if any particular group of nutters gets the facts right on their blog, especially if I can refer to a source that at least has the day-to-day experience to know how an institution like Walter Reed is actually run.
You would have probably done the same thing. Psychologist have been studying the effect of authority on behaviour for a long time and the influence is extreme. Most people will simply follow without question the orders given by those in power -- our minds simply shut-down and become proxies for the authority. It is scary, unbelievable stuff.
Pray.
pgrep may be useful in other circumstances, but the example he gave is equivalent to "ps -o pid -u userid". ps also takes other useful filters and output formatters (e.g. --ppid).
Exactly. The goal is control. The method is fear and suppression of thinking.
The Slate article said, "Thanks to terrorism, the rest of us now face the same choice." Not quite. Let me suggest a more honest wording: "Thanks to government's total lack of perspective, the rest of us face the same treatment as prisoners."
They just constantly over apply microeconomics concepts that really only hold in very controlled, rigid, defined environments. Not at the fucking coffee shop.
So only eight people have commented here? EIGHT? I fear for my country. Denial is very bad.
This is prison.
Karl Marx was right. Eventually the world will be owned by one big corporation.
er...
AP and BBC reported the same thing.
I don't know, I usually use SHIFT+TAB to unintend (cause I want to unindent, not delete space)
Do you know, I was hoping you'd say that :)
There aren't that many type signatures, at best you'll declare the type signatures of your toplevel functions, not quite the bulk of the code.
Agreed - the reasoning is something like:
*Assert sleeping naked is more comfortable
*Assert being comfortable gives health benefits
*Therefore, sleeping naked gives health benefits
Pretty circular reasoning unless you add something else there - like some kind of backup to the assertions.
I also can't quite believe that someone felt it necessary to put together a site extolling the virtues of sleeping naked...
(FWIW, I can't understand why any adult does not sleep naked, but jebus I don't feel the need to go out and win converts to some nude-sleeping movement.)
[EDIT: As many people below have pointed out, this is not circular, and I am an ass for saying it is. It is just potentially unsound.]
By the same token you would not believe physicists because their results only hold in rigidly controlled experimental conditions.
It's hard to separate the cause and effect of different incentives acting on people in the real world because the real world is rich and chaotic. Similarly, it's hard to separate out the cause and effect of different physical forces on objects in the real world. I challenge you to find me a physicist who can predict the path of a falling leaf.
However, this doesn't mean that the theoretical framework of microeconomics is useless, as you seem to imply.
The physicist could still tell you that the leaf would tend to fall downward (unless the wind was sufficiently powerful enough to keep it in the air, "sufficiently" being determined by its surface geometry). An economist can tell you that as prices rise, people tend to buy less of the item (assuming that their valuation of it remains the same, which it tends to do mostly, except for during a panic or something) or that a monopoly has incentive to reduce production and raise prices (although Wal-mart is the only retailer in some areas and they don't do this because of other incentives acting on it) or that for-profit competitive entities are more incented to serve the customer than public monopolies. Valuable information, even with the caveats.
"It made me realize: I am not afraid of terrorists, I am afraid of the US airport personnel."
This pretty much sums up the whole situation. And if the author of this post is American, think what a non-American, who could randomly be locked up in a INS prison for months, would feel. I think an increasing number of people feel that way. As a Brit that worked in the US, with a proper work visa, during the Clinton years, I don't even want to go on holiday to the US now. Going through immigration was hardly fun even then. Probably I'll never go to the US again ever, since I don't see them changing their attitude even in the medium term. You can visit and/or work in other countries that have terrorism problems, without them treating all visitors like criminals. Its just not worth the hassle. This has been said many times before, but what will happen to the US when all the foreign PHd students and great minds collectively think "its not worth the hassle" ? I suppose thats the rest of the world's gain and the US loss. It all seems incredibly self-defeating behaviour on the part of the USA though.
Maybe the "smart" car knew there was a dumb driver inside.
Additionally, article author is clearly from somewhere warm.
Guards abusing prisoners in USA prisons is not quite the worst problem we have there.
Leaving aside the absurdly high prison rates themselves, the worst problem is the culture of violence, abuse and rape in the US prison system. Whatever the guards do to you isn't as bad as what the other prisoners do to you. There was at least one recent article on Reddit covering this.
Is => any worse than Python's foo(*args, **kwargs) syntax? ;-)
I am all for downloading music to see if I like it. If I like it, I buy it!
No such thing as a good billboard.
I've done this type of thing before offline for a bet, and at that point I forgot Minnesota. This time I got them all within 5 minutes except two; it took me another 90 seconds to remember Illinois and Indiana. D'oh!
So... 6:30.
Exactly. Not to mention that those psychological tests happened in environments where people could 'bail'. In the army, you're stuck where you are.
Include the fact that the guy is not a treat to society, and punishment becomes rather pointless.
I live near a FAG......the company that is.
No; closures are neither anonymous (they often have names) nor plain functions (they're a specific kind of function/procedure).
This is very clever.
Well, it may not be as good as Verizon's messaging plan, but I'll take what I can get!
True or not.......I still need to show my wife this!
Could someone explain why he has a retractable mast on his car?
That's rather odd.
Interesting........but is it real?
People, let's look beyond the politics into common human decency. There is no excuse for calling anyone a "faggot" under any circumstances. Ignoring John Edwards, the key is to boycott Ann Coulter's advertisers. Write them a letter. Let them know what their money is funding. Take pride in America. We do have the power to make a difference.
I'm with you, enough about the slur. Jesus, nobody was surprised this language came from Ann Cuntler.
The officials are probably looking at it in a Jack Bauwer kind of way: the end justifies the means. That doesn't justify the behavior, but they are exceptionally hard calls to make - the world is not as black and white as we sometimes want it to be.
War is ugly. In wars people get tortured, rules get broken. Not just here, in all wars. Civilians get bombed for political reasons. Businesses try to make a profit from the inhumane circumstances. It's brutal, but it's part of war.
The officials should never have been forced to make the decisions in the first place. The war should never have happened. But don't be so eager to condemn the actions of others.
I agree with Docman that the title was idiotic -- too long and the wrong place for a dumb gag.
I'll go one further and say that your comment was laughably juvenile. Why not ask a parent or adult guardian to screen your comments before you hit the REPLY button? Might save you some humiliation in the future.
Too late this time, obviously.
Nah, the true Lisp programmer has his '[' and ']' key worn out because he remapped his keyboard so he could type parentheses without the shift key.
The ancients have remapped their caps lock to be rubout.
Like so.
ObPointless: The article's pipe operator can be defined as (~>) = flip id.
Just like Biblical times. It's what happens when you tell people they're God's elect and treat them that way.
People who use pirated copies of Windows, they don't have to stay with Windows
Doesn't make me want to buy a Mars bar, though.
Not sure what I want to do.
Wince, maybe.
the effect is dependant on the structure
Pit stop is quite common in the southeast US, too. Pit spot, not so much. :)
Can I have some cookies?
Yes. However, I will not give you any.
Outrageous.
It's like there's a concerted effort on behalf of the United States government to make the lives of American citizens suck.
I mean fuck, is this the kind of shit you would do if you were running the place? I know the government is made up of a bunch of megalomaniacal thugs, but have they no sense of fun?
It's one thing to have no health insurance, no job, and to see all of your tax dollars going to build bombs. But they're going to take away the music too???
The best thing to come out of the times-dispatch ever...
I think she is being sarcastic...
OMG I THINK THAT TEKI POSSIBLY WAS ALSO BEING SARCASTIC
HAHA NO ACTUALLY NOT. SEE, NO RIGHT-MINDED PERSON USES
'SARCASM'. IF YOU THINK YOU SEE IT IN THE ONE COMMENT,
AND THEN THINK YOU DO NOT SEE IT IN THE REPLY, PROBABLY
YOU ARE JUST SEEING THINGS TO BEGIN WITH. LIFE ISN'T
ALL ABOUT PHLOGISTON AND TAKING THINGS SO SERIOUSLY THAT
YOU BAFFLE WHEN SOMEONE SERIOUSLY TAKES SOMETHING UNSER-
IOUSLY OR POSSIBLY THE OTHER WAY AROUND. IN ANY CASE, I
THANK YOU FOR YOUR OBSERVATION. I ONLY HOPE THAT TEKI
CAN APPRECIATE MORE THAN I WOULD. -- I WOULD CURSE YOU.
How do you remember that stuff?
It's a fun show. And I don't have to remember it in all detail. Only enough to find the passages in the transcripts.
It doesn't look like $200 of work to me.
The RIAA has gotten out of control. This comic is hilarious!
Surprise! It's a great big world out there!
Lua = scheme - macros
I haven't looked at this yet, as the tarball contains some kind of radioactive goo or possibly files derived from !unix, but metalua may interest you anyway
My almost-ex-wife is Romanian. My favourite wife-ism is 'hang-coater'. She also used to send me to the supermarket for 'salad' by which she means 'lettuce'. Asking her what kind of salad she wanted was not useful, as to her it was like 'what kind of lettuce do you want?'.
Hab SoSlI' Quch!
Most of them have internet streams, so I guess they won't be playing any RIAA music on most public or college radio stations. That just leaves the corporate stations, which don't play much new music anyway.
By making sure their artists get virtually no airplay the individual labels will have to distance themselves from the RIAA if they want to stay in business.
Yeah, okay... I'm sure oil prices have NOTHING to do with China and India increasing their demand.
Yeah, you're right. I wish we could return to the time when I could choose to buy a lemon that the dealer had rolled back the odometer on and have absolutely no recourse. Those were good times, weren't they?
Also, I really miss not having the choice about not knowing what interest rates my credit card company would charge me.
An interesting article about how Hollywood always casts Chinese actors as Japanese characters.
I wished for familiar ruby methods in Haskell. :-)
But for most users, the incentive to move away from Windows is gone once they don't have to pay.
Expecting facts to emerge maybe be incorrect in this case, but it's not a fallacy. Here is some more information on fallacies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_fallacy
If you know the problem and the guy skip first half of the interview. The second half is most interesting.
And it forgot Gambia!
This reminds me of the movie "Primer." For about an hour all they do is avoid themselves.
I love my new Honda!
Why is that funny? It's just completely and pointlessly offensive.
RTFA
When I was a rabid lisper: mostly lack of the libraries I needed or was familiar with compared to common lisp. Though I preferred scheme's design in almost every way, and the community was better (though that doesn't mean much when the common-lisp "community" is what's being compared against).
Now: haskell seems to me to make both scheme and lisp in general rather obsolete. Haskell:
supports the functional paradigm in a much more powerful way (purity, partial evaluation, default laziness)
has other powerful features (monads with generalised syntax, type classes, static typing with inference, algebraic data types) that macros wouldn't be able to match short of greenspun-10th-ing to an embedded haskell interpreter
has a syntax which even my s-expr loving self was loathe to admit is much more pleasant to work with
thanks to monads can provide continuations as a simple library with no special new syntax. I mean... WOW. Try building continuations into lisp when they're not already built into the language. You just get abominations like the @define macros in Paul Graham's "On Lisp" or Guy Steele's @eval macros.
I don't know, I usually use SHIFT+TAB to unintend
So, your editor lets you backspace into impossible places? And yet it has this S-TAB binding? For shame.
(a) I'm not sure you can say "the anti-war folks have given a pass". Note the case of Lieberman: lost the primary cuz of the anti-war folks, won the election when the middle-of-the-stream voters had more influence.
(b) As an anti-war dem, I give a lot of the party leaders a "free pass" because they voted for the war based on lies and propoganda the Bush administration told them. I don't believe you can hold someone totally responsible when their decisions were manipulated by an intentional campaign of deception.
That said, pure-politicians like Lieberman and Hillary who still don't seem to "get it" will never get my vote.
the rap song 'In OBH' (Old boys hostel) tells in general a hostel life. made on In Da Club instrumental
I hope the US' inevitable economic and military collapse is close enough to avoid them spreading more insane laws to other countries. The US government is like someone with a highly contagious disease called lobbyists.
They complain that for them the cost works out to 125% of their income, but later down they mention that they have no commercials and no subscriptions. I'm sorry, but if you want to play licensed music, then you need a better business model for your radio station than donations.
These are not particularly Linux specific.
Oh, shut up. The last thing anyone needs or wants is another (yes: another) extended whine about yuuuunix, from people so very odd that they ascribe to some manner of Unix and then get -personally affronted- when someone other Unix person describes things from their perspective, or writes to the co-perspected. Oh, all these darned unix-alikes, using their own terms! -- how dare they! I always use bash on linux and somehow always use !bash on !linux, but if you call bash a 'linux program' I'll your claw your eyes out -- because I've lost exactly enough perspective about where my peer-ground ends!
So you're saying a faulty levee system that gave people a false sense of security is better than none at all?
Don't downmod that comment!
Ecstasy != MDMA
Sure, I'll stop believing in Peak Oil if you can tell me in which year after 1970 did the US produce more than in 1970? Which year?
Oh that's right, there was no such year because the US had its own Peak Oil in 1970 and oil production has declined ever since, even though there have been dramatic advances in technology in both field discovery and extraction techniques.
So now your theory has to cover a 30 year conspiracy involving businesses that weren't even in existence when the supposed conspiracy started!
Oil companies suck, on that we agree. They will and do engage in anti-competitive behavior. But Peak Oil is a scientific theory, well founded in historical oil extraction of over 50 of the top 60 oil producers. Arguing against Peak Oil is like arguing you can suck an infinite amount of water out of a straw. The straw (or well) has limits that humans can reach.
Why would US producers shut down refineries? Maybe to screw the little guy some, but that would backfire if your oil stream just went over to your competitor for refining. (Which is what the oil companies said in the documents you linked.) It is hard to store oil and most drillers want to sell to a refiner IMMEDIATELY. That's the simple economic truth.
The reason a company shuts down refineries, and the reason you see in the documents linked above, is because of declining production. You see they wanted to ship the parts of the refinery off to other places that have oil to refine. The supply from that refinery was not needed as they could have other refineries "pump all out" as they say in the document.
In the Texaco document, they say.
The most critical factor facing the refinery industry on the West Coast is the surplus refining capacity. Supply exceeds demand year-round.
What business can run excess spare capacity and profit (especially when it costs so much to store fuel after refining)?
Oil companies are evil contraptions that would club baby seals to death if it thought it could get oil out of them. But they are not omnipotent deities. The basic fact is that geology has taken over a large swath of our energy system. And if we don't get our act together soon by reducing energy usage, we will hit some hard times.
Or alternatively you can stick your head in the sand and claim some grand conspiracy controls your fate.
popemustdie - amen man. No true American would bump this article...
Well, first of all that article dates back to 2003, so I'm not sure how Gtk and Qt stack up today in terms of productivity or lines of code for something.
Secondly, the author is talking about a ficticious project that will take ten developers two whole years working with Qt. Ummm, it's a GUI toolkit. What kind of GUI takes 20 man-years to build?
So let's say the GUI part of an application takes three guys half a year, plus a graphics designer for the icons and polishing. Interestingly, this means that overall the Qt license is even cheaper, since most people in your company very likely are working on business logic (whatever), not on the GUI.
OTOH you could be working on a very small low-budget low-price product. In that case the overall coding time would be rather small, and the GUI would be a tiny part of it. Yet it costs $3k.
So the decision is up to you. Calculate (and be sure that you like that toolkit and that it will help you).
Joining a fight club seems like an interesting idea until the first time you get punched in the nose.
You can get some pretty good deals in Canada.
Well, for this purpose (and for colo costs, I would think) Canada might as well be in the US. :) I should have said, "Isn't colo server bandwidth still very expensive in places where someone might be able to legally operate a streaming music server, such as Russia?"
"I often see things like $@ in shell scripts (breaks if a parameter has a space in it)."
"$@" doesn't break like this.
(For what it's worth, this and the remaining problems mentioned in the post don't occur/apply in shells like zsh.)
Squeak Smalltalk would seem to be ideal for this, if you're willing to consider introducing another language. (Apologies if I'm stating the obvious here.)
Hey, I'm not arguing that point at all. I was just joking around that I hate when my economist housemates bring up unnecessary theories in regards to allocating who has to take out the trash.
Also, no offense, but it doesn't take an economist to understand supply/demand and how they relate to monopolies.
It's really quite naive to think some atrocities will not occur in a war environment. And the degree of incompetence in the military is unfortunately not all that surprising. The 'critical' paperwork 'getting lost' is not all that surprising.
Another detail that does not surprise me is the emphasis on medals for worthless reports. MEDALS for WORTHLESS meaningless REPORTS! What brings that poignancy is that it is the same criticism I frequently hear about our school system. Doesn't matter if a kid is improving, just that there is all the paperwork in order. Abu Ghraib or MLK inner-city deten^H^H^HHschools, it's the facade that counts.
Original source is here
People who read blogs at work play in a different league? Yeah, cause they're not working then, while others are.
No, just kidding. Nothing like a short break to clear up the mind, and to get a cup of coffee.
The Panasonic SV-AV10 is one of the many new convergence devices on the market today. This particular device captures digital stills, shoots MPEG-4 movies, acts as a voice recorder, and plays back MP3 and AAC files.
Thanks, I was about to add that. Lengthy animation is full of additional info, but the contrast is a most dramatic effect.
Yale on $0 a Day! Top Universities Post Lectures And Other Course Materials On Web, Free and Open to All Literature of Crisis on Your iPod. Read on.
The test doesn't provide an adequate payoff at the end. An adequate payoff would have been the list of countries you missed subdivided by continent, or perhaps coloured on a world map, a total score of % of the world's population you missed out (who really cares if you missed 1%?) and the same for land area. If you can name 95% of the world's countries by land area and the same for the world's population, you're good.
I think it's slightly ironic that the comic itself is a flash file. The only reason I can think of to do that (note that it has no controls or programs, simply shows the file) is to make it harder to download.
Whatever. Clever comic all the same.
Yes, the Python XML experience is far from It Just Works. There also seems to be nothing to replace javax.net.ssl.SSLServerSocket unless you have the time to drink deep of the Twisted kool-aid.
I found some good advice here
Good thing they deleted the film material. Without pictures, it never happened.
George Soros attributes his success to Karl Popper. He was so taken in by the whole falsification idea that he made it the central plank of his investment strategies. He assumed that all of his strategies were flawed in some way, and would not use them until he understood precisely how they were flawed. The idea being that he would know exactly when to quit.
Having a well grounded understanding of the scientific method can be more useful than knowing some particular scientific facts.
This has to be sarcasm.... surely?
You forgot:Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming
I remembered the carolinas just in time!
Since 1967.
Don't leave me hanging, man. What happens next?
The retail prices are fair I would say, especially the Home Premium upgrade for $160. Isn't that inline with the OS X upgrade pricing and XP to Vista Premium is quite a huge jump.
CONDENSED VERSION: Great developers are maximally employed. In fizzbuzz implementations, I saw the soul of the software developer, which turns out to be: insecure, defensive, and escapist. In a bunch of personal implementations across languages, I see: a need to one-up, to leave a legacy, to preen. Missing the point of fizzbuzz, I intend to filter out people who don't write code that a hopelessly clueless person can immediately understand -- instead of people who can't correctly write trivial code.
agree that peak oil is absolutely real and will happen soon
No it won't. It happened. Past tense. May of 2005. Almost two years ago.
That is to say, petroleum is relatively scarce in comparison to demand, and that disparity will continue to grow over the years, driving prices up tremendously.
This is exceedingly unlikely. I mean yes, for a short period of time oil prices will be driven up. But at some point the USA will collapse and will no longer be importing 10 mbpd (1/8th) of the world's supply. At that point prices will collapse back down again and it will take a whole three years for them to go back up. Think about it: 3 years! That's an eternity it surely is!
Shouldn't this also fall under 'terror'? Both stories picked from today's BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6412453.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6367773.stm
Unicycle.com an interesting kind of site. Proof that beautiful web2.0 sites arent necessarily what it takes to be commercially successful. Not that its hideously ugly, just a bit basic and not particularly designerly.
It reminds me of some research that was posted a while back that suggests that a certain amount of 'ugliness' can help your business beacuse it suggests you are down to earth, trustworthy and not interested in image over substance.
No it doesn't, it's just that I find more logical to unintend (S-Tab) than to remove extraneous space (backspace), even though the end result is the same.
biscuitgirl,
why not just directly link to the AP story?
these days if i see earth anywhere i assume it's something from google earth :-/
While I agree with you, it's not Foxtrot that decides that. It's GoComics. Besides, for all that effort, all the user has to do is hit print screen. =P
Saw it on Press Esc first, plus AP story at first didn't confirm that the soldiers had killed the civilians.
Awww this woman is adorable.
The decision made by the CRB was highly influenced byt the the "per play" rate proposal put forth by SoundExchange(a digital music fee collection body created by the RIAA.
Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut are territories, not provinces.
If I want to use a dynamic language, Common Lisp still has some of the best compilers available (oddly enough, several are based on an original compiler named Python, part of CMUCL, which predates Guido's language). Python's (the language) C implementation is a joke, comparatively. Also, I don't really have any reason to use Python.
The story of how the funny ecard "Our First Date" came about on the ecard site UncomfortableSituations.com
woooow this is amazing
Not listen to stuff you read on the Internet. ;-)
all the time. A couple f5s usually bring it back.
Usually when searching, or trying to look at someone's user profile - although the whole site became unusable for a few minutes, once, because of it.
I was even having trouble trying to submit this, I kept getting a funny CAPTCHA error.
good thing they have a staff..
Right on! We need to show these Afghans who's in charge. Destroy a few villages here and there, and fear will keep the rest in line. We need to make them fear us more than the Taliban. I only fear that we're not being brutal enough. The Taliban body count is still way higher than what we're racking up. We need to catch up!
EDIT: The OTHER war
Nope.
I do a lot of typing, it's just that none of my keys are worn out. Maybe I just have a high quality keyboard?
Well, yeah, I was thinking of making a comment about that. A lot of what I find awkward about Lisp has been fixed in ML and Haskell. This is only natural, as the ideas in these languages often arose out of things Lisp programmers had been doing for a while, or problems that they'd had. They're genuinely newer languages, in that their content is actually based in part on insights taken from programming in Lisp.
Reality check:
World oil consumption in 2003: 80 million barrels. Per day. http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/oil.html
'Huge' field: 700 million barells.
Number of days it satisfies the world consumption: 9
Number of such 'huge' fields needed to satisfy world consuption for a single year: 40.
Article date: "Last Updated: Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 12:12 GMT"
The world needs another 39 such 'huge' discoveries to cover the year that passed since. Where are they?
Get it out of here. Send the porn to del.icio.us.
Makes sense. Sound is a form of energy. Reduce the amount of sound generated, and you should expect increased efficiencies.
I would support your position if they had killed their superiors or a visiting Dick Cheney or someone like that but these were civilians.
Above we see THE reason against 'TWT': The Python code is broken while the PHP-code is still working. Consider a bigger example where it's not as obvious as above what is meant.
I've tried Python too, but I wanted to use it for scripting where I have to use different editors, have to copy&paste a lot etc. Result: TWT is crap. Unusable. If you use the right editor all the time - and don't even thing to use tabs, than TWT may work. But I simply don't see the big advantage.
BTW: I prefer a syntax like this:
a = 1
if a > 0
print "greater"
end
Easy to read, not much to type, indestructible and symmetric.
Since most Lisp programmers are also probably using Emacs, there's a good chance that they've broken the 'ctrl' key and remapped its function to 'caps lock', which is already feeling spongy.
Indeed. Not sure what's going on.
Outrage can be a potent motivator for doing what needs to be done.
Yeah, constantly hitting refresh to see the pages.
Indent your code blocks by an additional 4 spaces on reddit or they'll be treated as plain text and their indentation will get destroyed.
Incidentally, I like Haskell's approach to whitespace dependence, basically, allow whitespace to translate into braces and semicolons, and if the user includes braces and semicolons, ignore the whitespace. You can also include just the semicolons, which is useful if you're writing code on IRC, and need to pack things on to one line, but don't need complicated block structure.
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Meh, I started out remembering the names by singing one of those little 50-state songs in my head XD No way was I gonna miss Delaware!
What unlawful policies?
Yeah, you would have had to, you know, click the link to find out. But that could expose you to an opinion different than your current opinion. Better to not take the chance.
But Aruba is listed as one of their valid countries. Sounds like there's not much rhyme or reason to their list.
Debates, discussions, it's words with a D this time.
When I coded my command line toolkit in PHP I wasn't sure if I'd call it "Command LIne Framework" or "Command LIne Toolkit".
I obviously chose framework (CLIF).
Every second click.
Anyone else try "Sealand", just to see if it would work?
Linkjack, and ignorant editorial ranting. Donwmodded.
Upmodded original source material here: http://reddit.com/info/17rhy/comments
EDIT: Unbelievably, 650 idiots have responded to that post at LGF, as of 11:35AM ET.
Why? I'm from Norway and always sleep naked.
68
But then it wouldn't count china, south and north korea, philippenes and czech and colombia because I couldn't spell them, UAE, zaire. So more like 75 ;)
This should be renamed to "spell all the proper names of my personal list of 245 countries in ten minutes." It would be a much better test if it was a bit kinder with spelling. Just because I can't spell phillipenes doesn't mean I don't know its not a country.
Generally I spontaneously answer "no" to such a question, which is the correct answer but confuses the asker most of the time. I could never take the habit of answering "no I don't mind" or "yes you can".
Come on, you were so close to a haiku!
I clicked on View Source
I typed as fast as i could
Still not done in time
This only makes me the more determined not to buy music.
And French has "si".
Does anyone have the actual quote?
Or is reddit just an echo chamber for idiots?
Yet another argument against those little econoboxen...
duck
I just got it when trying to enter this comment.
Haskell wears out my lambda key.
About every second click, and only since this morning (Sunday).
Couldn't spell Massachusetts in time (and boy did I attempt a few), couldn't remember Minnesota.
I hadn't got it until I logged in to vote this down. Now I vote it up.
more info at the project's site
This is so stupid. You can write HTTP clients with curl, wget or a thousand other libraries (http.rb with Ruby?) and you want a lame bash script instead? I thought that good programmers used the right tool for the right job?
88
I was not aware that Hong Kong is a country.
Looks like it's based directly off of this one: http://novelconcepts.co.uk/FlashElementTD/
which I personally find more enjoyable.
It seems I did. Common Lisp and Scheme are generally thought of as powerful, wizardly languages, but not many people use them in real life. Thus asking why people don't use them actually kind of makes sense.
On the other hand, plenty of people use Python in real life. If you like Python, you use Python, so the question doesn't quite make sense to me.
US military officials asked media personnel not to report that it was the American soldiers who shot and killed the innocent civilians citing such news reporting could cause rioting in other towns and cities across Afghanistan exacerbating an already deteriorating security situation there.
CNN listens: Ambush in Afghanistan leaves 16 dead
BBC doesn't: US troops kill Afghan civilians
Not too much, but I am getting them
That's what I keep telling my neighbor across the street who doesn't shut her blinds, but she just won't listen.
These are stupid. At least, the first six are.
Or to download Flash...
I got about 5 while trying to open this link!
Yes I am getting them for every 2 out of 3 clicks :-(. Is this a scalability problem or misconfiguration or something else ?
This seems to show that the limits of airplane size efficiency have been reached for some time.
This seems to show that the limits of airplane size efficiency have been reached for some time.
I don't believe this report. Too many people (including US Senators) want to smear the US military.
Just like they want to smear Israel.
I don't believe the hype.
every times.
Many times.
Reasonable Doubt - The level of certainty a juror must have to find a defendant guilty of a crime. A real doubt, based upon reason and common sense after careful and impartial consideration of all the evidence, or lack of evidence, in a case.
Proof beyond a reasonable doubt, therefore, is proof of such a convincing character that you would be willing to rely and act upon it without hesitation in the most important of your own affairs. However, it does not mean an absolute certainty.
Certainly, it's completely acceptable. Once you acknowledge that those soldiers are the occupation forces of a fascist regime subduing democratic (albeit radical) regimes for profit and maintaining its dominance. The soldiers are not all well trained, are tired and stressed, raping a country while their government led by corporatist mobsters uses doublespeak to present it as liberation. It's all TOTALLY ACCEPTABLE, just as their suicide bombers and them burning American flags is TOTALLY ACCEPTABLE. It's all gone to shit now, and everything is TOTALLY ACCEPTABLE.
This article is typical public education in Indiana. Saying public education in this state is worthless is too good, because it implies that it's lack of value is somewhat harmless.
The guy obviously had a personality conflict with the administration. It's a pathological condition here: don't rock the boat...play nice...keep saying yes all the time and please fold yourself into this nice little pigeonhole we've made for you...If I had to guess, in this case it was, "Teach the ISTEP. We have to follow Glorious President's guidelines on No Child Left Behind." Newsflash, idiots: Teaching and coaching are often mutually exclusive.
Of course there are a few exceptions that you can point to anywhere, but this is just another example of what's wrong with this place. The governor is selling off the lottery so they can create life sciences incubators and scholarships to stop the brain drain. Ha! You can't throw money at people to live in a cultural and intellectual swamp.
Explaining that if someone goes to college and learns to think independently and critically, they are repulsed and horrified to live here with this sick culture. The only people who stay are the ones that can stomach it so they can exploit the massive ignorance and nice-nellism that allows everyone to live in a time vortex that drags us along 10 years behind the times.
The hicks want to put an amendment to the state constitution to ban gay marriage, you can't buy booze on Sunday, and the good ol' boy system is alive and well because that's how it's been and we turn into a bunch of bonobos trapped in a closet with a fireworks finale rack whenever anyone suggests change or straying even a degree from "tradition."
All you have to do is read John Gatto's book on what education is really for in this country, times it by a thousand, and that's Indiana public education. If you want your kids to leave high school able to think abstractly and critically (and not afraid to debate openly and honestly), DO NOT MOVE HERE. MOVE THEM SOMEWHERE ELSE IMMEDIATELY. Even private school won't really help, because the cultural impediment is so strong, you're going to have to about homeschool the kids to get them up to par with any kind of genuine intellect.
Stay if all you want your kids to do is know every Christian prayer, how glorious the Republicans have made this place, the pledge of allegiance, and enough reading and math skills to be a manager (eventually) in some service sector job (janitorial, fast food, carwash, car part sales, etc.) where their lives are so miserable all they can think to do is listen to AM radio and dittohead, "the illegal aliens did this to me, the libruls did this to me, the irs did this to me. Jeebus will save me from this misery..."
Oh, and my current personal favorite, "The homos are ruining my marriage."
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he become a monster in his turn."
The Silent Aircraft Initiative was just a design project, and there are still many outstanding questions about whether such a plane would be practical.
Such as?
I appreciate the need to make these developments sound as exciting as possible in order to draw in the audience, but as an engineer, I'm much more interested in the specific problems left to be solved. You can do almost anything with enough design freedom and resources.
These research group PR pieces are a leading cause of "So where's my flying car?" syndrome. If you haven't thought about or can't explain the problems your great idea could run up against, it's probably not that great an idea. I'm sure this research team has thought about them, and I wish the journalist would spend at least a few paragraphs on them.
On every second request.
I bought it yesterday and started sending erratas. Very very good!
I got one for these comments.
FUCK USA
(i know, it's rather obvious, but i cannot resist :))
Voted down for hyperbole.
"US' inevitable economic and military collapse"
riiight...
Google plans to hire "thousands of people" for its Beijing development center to create services for China's more than 137 million Internet users.
Dang, beat me by about 15 seconds. Canuck here, too. Found this one very easy after trying the 245 country one earlier.
Dude, where's my comment?
Yes, and it is getting increasingly frustrating
I blame angry Digg users.
Me too. I thought it was a joke. Though I had encountered it before.
I generally prefer it that people don't comment unless they actually have something to add to the conversation. For example, to me, your comment is completely worthless. I ready "Torture and Truth" over two years ago. I still recommend it for anyone actually interested in investigating this topic further.
If I like it, I just listen to it.
But if I really like it then I might go to concerts and buy a t-shirt. Speaking of, doesn't it seem like t-shirts have emerged as the most viable business model for turning art into money via the Internet? Not just for bands, but for webcomics, content sites, etc.
I heard this on the Beeb this morning when I was enjoying my breakfast and I just thought; "Fuck, we unleashed this."
I got it when I first opened the site a second ago. Yesterday, I got the "Reddit broke" image.
Because speed is essential for what I'm writing, so I'm using SBCL. Also I know CL much better than Scheme and would prefer it anyway.
Well, yes, you're right, it's "expression bound to multiple values", rather than a symbol.
But he also compares it to using a list, array or vector (but is not a list), which didn't seem to fit with the function/variable distinction.
I don't know. Perhaps we could ask him (or we could continue to interpret the sacred word of bluetrust each in our own special ways. "Follow the gourd" or "No, let us gather shoes together." etc.)
I use Ctrl-Shift-C Shift-> to indent and Ctrl-Shift-C Shift-< to outdent. Emacs, python-mode, and CUA-mode.
If I were a little less lazy, I'd probably remap those to Tab and Shift-Tab though. I tend to indent blocks of code by one level much more than I auto-indent lines, and I don't think Shift-Tab is bound to anything...
I think you are being sarcastic too...
Cheers for reminding me about that little grey button.
Yes, just when I was trying to load these comments. After hitting reload 4 times, it worked.
This also happened two or three days before, but was fine 'till today.
When a bomb goes off and manages to kill no one but American soldiers, it's usually because the "civilians" in the neighborhood either knew about the bomb beforehand or were involved in its placing. That's why in these guerilla warfare situations soldiers can become angry at even "civilians." Remember none of the enemy wears a uniform. It does not excuse becoming unprofessional and taking revenge indiscriminately, but it's worth trying to understand the situation over there before condemning it.
I clicked a link and the page loaded properly, but there was an error in the Reddit Toolbar. Weird. Screenshot.
i'd like to file a bug report. should i send it directly to "not a bug"? :)
Pansy.
Did you read the article?
yup.. quite often at the moment
According to Nature, it is pretty damn close.
Besides, for that particular table there are numerous other [sources] (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/309/5741/1656).
I'm not saying that Wikipedia is always right, but it's a good place to start, and a convenient place to reference.
yea, every now and then when browsing multi page things
good for you
I just want to point out that this article disproves the hollow earth theory. The hollow earth theory states that there is no subduction and the water the article refers to is actually from subducting crust that is hydrated through metamorphic processes. Read the article. Hollow earth theory is bullshit anyway.
Wow, the whackjobs are out in force today...
I've always wanted to read stories that were like real life: where there weren't any "good guys" or "bad guys", where the characters sometimes had to go to the bathroom, and where things didn't always end happily ever after. Thanks for submitting this.
Looks like one of the servers in the cluster's been having errors. The probability of getting them would probably tell you how many servers there are in the cluster, unless more than one's failing...
Well kiss my grits, we have someone who knows what God is thinking. While you're here, mind answering all the important questions like "What's the meaning of life?" or does God only call you up to remind you that he hates people in NOLA?
f'in constantly! Arg!
I think one of the issues around flying wing passenger aircraft has always been perceived problems with passenger acceptance, a bit like with rearwards facing seats. The cabin will be more like a room than a bus/train/airliner and I have read (sorry, can't remember source) that this could freak some people. There is also the question of distance to emergency exits. Solvable with time I would hope, we're due something that looks proper 21st century instead of the endless iterations of tube 'n' wing.
Edit: Here's their list:
These include market viability, financing, societal acceptance, aircraft certification, as well as the technical challenges of the propulsion system / airframe integration, structural analysis and manufacturability of non-circular pressure vessel, the mechanical design of thrust vectoring and variable area nozzle, and detailed assessment of the low speed aerodynamic performance.
Geez, you forget already?
You completely dismissed psychology as well, remember?
"I love the fact that you think there has been none."
There's been more experimentation in economics and psychology than in global warming, retardo.
"If you think that those are the choices then you are really lost in this conversation. Once again I invite you learn how to read so you can understand.
It doesn't has to do with the nature of the methodology used to arrive at a conclusion. Quacks don't do rigorous study, experimentation and peer review they state the way they think the universe ought to work and accept it as fact."
It's doesn't HAS to do? Learn to write before criticize my reading. There IS no experimentation in global warming. The extent of experimentation is to study what might happen in closed systems when certain situations are created, which is pretty much the same freaking thing that is done in both economics and psychology.
There's also only so much that can be done in rigorous study of global warming, since getting global measurements is extremely difficult and you really need hundreds of years of data since change is relatively slow compared to economics and psychology.
EVERY freaking argument you make about economics and psychology being non-scientific can be made against global warming research, only more so. You just can't get that through your skull.
You also don't understand that science IS about the methodology. It's called the freaking Scientific Method, moron. You can't simply just gather random facts and state a theory on them and stop there. That's not science. That's idealogy.
You are so freaking idealogical. You'll go to just about any idiotic argument just so you don't have to admit to yourself that tax cuts will positively affect the economy.
The biggest problem is probably that it's slow. Bigger wings produce a lot more drag at high speed. It's the big wings that give you the low approach speed.
And what, exactly, did GWB pull off? Worst approval ratings ever? To be known forever as a US president who completely fucked everything up - foreign policy, trade balance, inequality. To destroy the republican power base?
Common Lisp Music
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/clm/
-or-
A language specifically designed for audio (Supercollider):
http://www.audiosynth.com/
I think Supercollider would be very good for teaching with and it's quite powerful.
-dustin
There are no people who know markets because markets are arbitrary definitions and parsings of underlying dynamics that are always in motion and too complex for any kind of analysis to permits to be interpreted comprehensibly on any level. This does not, however, stop people believing otherwise, hence we have all these nice people giving us explanations that can be nicely told as stories, as they can be told as nicely packaged stories, and the soothsayings become self-fulfilling prophesies. So it isn't really about markets at all, but about stories. My tip would be to invest your cash into yourself and human capital and relations in general.
Actually, I appreciate being corrected. The articles I was reading were all written shortly after the time of the storm and mentioned that it was Category 4 when it made landfall. I was unaware it had been retroactively downgraded.
I recognize that the Corps has taken responsiblity. The faults that I mentioned came directly from their own report, and are corroborated by the ASCE. Perhaps what I should have said was that I empathize with and respect the Corps.
As liitle as three months before the storm, the Corps' New Orleans branch saw a $71 million cut in funding. Everyone agrees this would not have made the difference for Katrina, but it's the pattern I'm pointing to, no the act itself.
Thanks for the sources.
True.
Actually most substances taken in considerable amount on a daily basis over a long period isn't going to do any good.
But it's still fascinating to see what a human body can tolerate.
I've been getting 500 errors on and off since Thursday night. I was trying to post a story and the damn CAPTCHA wouldn't take. I tried at least 200 times, from two or three different machines. I nearly had an aneurysm.
Obviously BISEXUAL right?
Obviously BISEXUAL right?
The vibe I get is that of someone trying to create site traffic which can ultimately be commercialized. No harm in that, but IMHO it's a bit early to start promoting the site when it's only got two pages of content.
How about speaking ENGLISH!
The sports complex near the approach into New York's LaGuardia Airport can be so affected that one mayor actually ordered planes to be diverted in order not to disturb the tennis matches during the U.S. Open.
Indeed, you can often see the players delaying a serve while an airplane is overhead. Same goes for pitches during matches at Shea stadium, which is even closer to LaGuardia than the Arthur Ashe stadium.
Well they give a projected cruising speed of Mach 0.8. New Boeing Dreamliner is 'up to 0.85'.
Yes
f5 after voting to make sure your vote really counted. Sometimes my votes aren't sticking.
Good for Bill Amend. I knew I always liked his comic for a reason.
yes, just started today. Happens every other click on Reddit
yes, just started today. Happens every other click on Reddit
thanks...coming from a guy who ex girlfriend LEFT him for another Girl...yes its true!
Clearly their fault.
You forgot:Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin,
I'm canadian too.. I misspelled virgina, rhode islan, can't beleive I forgot most of the other .. except Delaware ?
Mmmm, is it more pointlessly homophobic or more pointlessly misogynistic? the mind boggles....
Yes, too often. Reload fixes it so far.
Funny, short article about drug-taking in Japan
Talk to me in 10 years.
Not so much part of the problem. If no cracks existed and people couldn't pirate it, Ballmer and the other suits would claim drm a success. Because of the cracks, drm mostly adversely impacts the paying customers instead, making it a general failure.
Why is trailing a bunch of "end" statements everywhere considered friendly? I hate doing that, it's incredibly ugly.
It's the kind of thing you require when you are writing a crummy parser for an undergraduate prog lang class.
I'll tell you why we don't produce more oil here, its cheaper and the margins are higher from mid-east oil. Talk to me in 10 years, we'll laugh about this silly Peak Oil.
these critics can fuck themselves in the ass with one of those giant book it pins. yeah, you heard me. oh noes!!@!! teh childs might be readin$!
if you think kids eating 5 tiny pizzas a semester is going to make them fat, you should see what they put in school lunches, and stop whining about a corporation that at least encourages something educational.
No evidence is clearly false, did you read the page? Not much evidence would be more accurate:
http://sleepnaked.org/research/
There are also consistency issues: for some countries short forms are used (e.g. United States), but for others long forms; some countries are missing the definite article from their names (e.g. Republic of Congo) whereas others have it (e.g. 'The Gambia';) etc. It can't seem to make its mind up on which political subdivisions to include and which to exclude - it has listed about half of the Australian external territories, for example, when they all share a very similar legal and political status.
There's also the fact that their definition of 'country' is wrong - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all countries within the state called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but are all rolled into 'United Kingdom' in this.
i hope not they suck
factoid: ed norton's character in fight club does not have a name
Sorry for the hassle, folks. We're aware of the problem and will hopefully have things running normally again shortly.
I've definitely been punishing my "apple key" this morning with all the reloads.
Nano-mario wants his amazing RIAA photos!
God heavens when people take advice from you that constantly fall for appeal to authority and fall for energy propaganda. Do you realize energy industries spend on marketing? Its not TV ads either its false studies, environmental groups, policy, US politician buy offs. Talk to me in 10 years about "Peak Oil".
Greenwald nails it and comes to the correct conclusions. If Congress wants to be a check and balance on the executive branch, they need to get aggressive. Extremely aggressive.
Congress, stop being nice and do your jobs! Nobody said it would be easy.
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And remember kids. If there isn't pictures or video it didn't happen.
It isn't just technology and science though. The New York Times refers to Kasparov as a former chess grandmaster today.
I was going to laugh at you, then I realized headfake had already done it.
I have a boatload more knowledge and rationality on the subject of moral philosophy (or frankly, any subject)
Aye, because we've discussed every subject, in person, at length. You're a god damn idiot.
nope none
"Amazing", "digg", "revealed": Top 422 digg.com attention grabbing words
The complete list of words that (when used in a story title) get more than 500 diggs per story on average.
How it was developed? We analyzed 17,713 article titles and extracted individual words. Those words that were used in less than 30 article titles or got less than 500 diggs per article were removed.
Answers to your questions:
all words from the following list were found in at least 30 story titles on digg.com;
there are no words that were used in only a few story titles, there are only words that were used in at least 30 article titles;
there are words like "a", "the", "those", and we will not remove them in order to keep the research clean;
numbers in the right column are "diggs per story": if a word were used in 100 story titles with 100000 diggs total, its "diggs per story" will be 100000/100=1000;
all words are in the lowercase - this way it's easier to build statistics, however we can change letter cases on request (like we did with iPod);
Here is an experiment (more funny, than real): Nano-mario wants his amazing RIAA photos! got:
7 diggs in 10 minutes;
10 diggs in 20 minutes;
15 diggs in 30 minutes;
21 diggs in 40 minutes;
30 diggs in 50 minutes;
58 diggs in 1 hour;
This story is on the front page of digg.com now!
157 diggs in 1 hour and 10 minutes;
208 diggs in 1 hour and 20 minutes;
260 diggs in 1 hour and 30 minutes;
300 diggs in 1 hour and 40 minutes;
Removed from the front page because its title doesn't match its content;
330 diggs in 1 hour and 50 minutes;
350 diggs in 2 hours;
400 diggs in 2 hours and 10 minutes;
440 diggs in 2 hours and 20 minutes;
470 diggs in 2 hours and 30 minutes;
Hit 500 in 2 hours and 37 minutes!
509 diggs in 2 hours and 40 minutes;
533 diggs in 2 hours and 50 minutes;
553 diggs in 3 hours;
570 diggs in 3 hours and 20 minutes;
590 diggs in 3 hours and 30 minutes;
610 diggs in 3 hours and 40 minutes;
620 diggs in 3 hours and 50 minutes;
640 diggs in 4 hours and 20 minutes;
664 diggs in 4 hours and 40 minutes;
678 diggs in 5 hours;
685 diggs in 5 hours and 10 minutes;
700 diggs in 5 hours and 30 minutes;
707 diggs in 5 hours and 50 minutes;
718 diggs in 6 hours and 10 minutes;
765 diggs in 10 hours;
771 diggs in 10 hours and 30 minutes;
It's not us who posted it - somebody else decided to start an experiment. We have already stopped to track stats and this page will no longer be updated.
Here is a report with the detailed stats and conclusions.
It seems to us that every 5th new story on digg.com uses these words now. People, please don't write crazy titles! It's humans who will read them, not robots. Digg.com moderators, sorry and thank you for your hard work.
He has a large body of published essays, articles, books, as well as the blog. I was referring to the larger collection, not the one single blog entry.
Did I say something about about intuition?
I can think of a few now, I'm guessing a majority of the SomaFM stations use non-RIAA music. Its also worth using tools like RIAA Radar if you're interested in what artists you like don't support the RIAA.
Do you understand who funds these studies? Almost all the studies are funded by the energy industry. They want you to believe that there is Peak Oil so you will pay more for gas and put up with wars aroudn the world for cheaper oil. It appears they hook, line and sinkered you.
Peak Oil is NOT runnig out of oil, that is not what Peak Oil is. Its simply the people that control production are not doing it as quickly to drive up demand by tightening supply. Its a pretty old supply and demand trick.
Enjoy fantasy land yourself there where you are believing the energy industries own studies that they fund. usually when you fund a study, you expect a result. The ones that dont' get the result you want you bury, the ones that do you market to people like you.
Newsflash, every group of people that has lived on the earth always thinks these things will happen: the end of the world, some diety coming bac kto save them, some major tragedy, etc. Your really not that special and if you think we have used all the Earth's oil in 60 years then well wanna buy a bridge?
I genuinely believe that after Bush has gone that the American people will slowly (too slowly, alas) learn just how truly un-American he and his controllers were.
It will also become apparent that the "terrorist threat" so often used as a political cudgel by the Bush adminisration will prove to be largely fictional.
: )
without religion, would be have discussions of ethics or morality? Personally, I was under the impression that discussions of morality were about the closest discussions you could to religion, without talking about religion. Seriously, to suggest that ethics are morality are separated from religion is just asinine. Like it or not (I don't), neither would exist in it's present form without religion.
....and the small shall lead the large into the brave new world!
Never seen such a thing on Reddit, it's always been stable.
Let's clarify, Peak Oil != running out of oil.
It simply means the people that are getting oil aren't doing it as fast or fast enough and if the collude on this to up margins that is price gouging and very easy to do when you only have controllable price fixing systems like OPEC. We get oil from the middle east not because we have to, but because its cheaper for them. Oil Execs own memos state this.
In mandarin (putong hua), you repeat the verb. You say "want" instead of yes...
In fact when you ask "do you want coffee?" You really say "want not-want coffee?" so you either say want(xiao) or not-want (pu xiao)
It will also become apparent that the "terrorist threat" so often used as a political cudgel by the Bush adminisration will prove to be largely fictional.
Terrorism is the new communism, you see. Before, anything that you didn't like, you just called it 'communist', and instantly it was the enemy. Anything was allowed to defeat the dangerous communist threat. Now, we have a new word.
"Oh no, the sky is falling, the sky is falling!" -- Chicken Little
What about the efficiency of an invisible plane, like the one Wonder Woman piloted in Super Freinds? Would that be more efficient?
I need inverted control for this to be useful for me.
Hello apple, I'm a PC, and I use f5 to troubleshoot my networking problems. You think you're so cool with your "apple key..."
It's working again for me btw. ty for the update.
I think at some base level the problem is reporting without questioning. While true journalism should strive toward objectivity, that doesn't mean taking what is said at face value and calling it 'news'.
It's fixed now; it was a bug related to one of our startup scripts. Thanks for all chiming in...
Therapies that use bioactive materials as replacement extracellular matrices may hold the potential to mitigate the inhibition of regeneration observed after central nervous system trauma. Hyaluronic acid (HA), a nonsulfated glycosaminoglycan ubiquitous in all tissues, was investigated as a potential neural tissue engineering matrix.
The guy presents no numbers. What percentage of GMAC's mortgages are non performing? What criterion does he use to say a mortgage is non-performing? Sorbix's point is correct - lots of hand waving with no data to back it up.
This kind of article comes around every few years. Anyone old enough to remember Howard Ruff's "How to protect yourself in the coming depression?"
Northern Cyprus isn't a country. Turkey are illegally occupying the Northern half of Cyprus, but it's not recognised by anybody other than Turkey. It's one of the things that's preventing Turkey from joining the EU.
More info on Wikipedia.
I did it to back up my points in a AK-47 type of way. Long entries people tune out.
I can.
In fairness, as you only got 80% correct, you should be asking us for 8 of the 10 Canadian provinces.
Is your ostensible point "Canadians are more concerned with America than Americans are concerned with Canada"?
Seriously. Eat shit and die.
The Times should recommend impeachment. Why does the media tiptoe around this obvious conclusion?
We will be going to war with Iran... it is just a matter of time.
Knowledge, skills, tools, reference materials.
Nope. Don't remember. When was the peso ever a major world currency?
No his techniques were nothing like that, he's a police officer not some torturer.
A theist faith dying out? How terrible!
Edit: I apologise for the offence caused my flippancy here. Of course I don't believe anyone should be raped or killed. However, I would remind folk that there is unfortunately nothing unusual about theist on theist violence. At least as an atheist I am not threatening these people with supernatural punishment for their (lack of) faith. Those theists who would allow the Mandaeans to keep their own faith, are presumably condemning them to an eternity of suffering (or equivalent).
For failing to put the floodwalls deep enough into the ground?
Either it's faked or the kid is on something. If it's real, that kid is seriously disturbed.
forget a crack to get it for free, i would not install vista if microsoft offered it as a freeware download from their site. and no i'm not necessarily an anti-microsoft person. for the average windows user, i'd say keep xp.
no closures =/
LouF:
I admit that I am not very good at arguing, I use cheap rhetorical tactics because I am not subtle enough to even understand what you are arguing with me about, let alone come up with a coherent defense. I admit that I must have some kind of mental issue, and should seek professional help.
Why do you keep repeating yourself?
This post is bound by the EULA for any future posts by LouF.
The RIAA has got an innovative new business model and it involves suing everyone in America. The path to a $9 billion dollar business is clear the the RIAA is leading the charge to claim it.
Yep.
Some people who criticize Putin get killed.
Some people who do not criticize Putin get killed (and there are a lot of them).
Some people who criticize Putin do not get killed (also quite a lot).
Some people who do not criticize Putin do not get killed (the most).
However only first kind of stories make good headlines. So they are reported with a great fanfare.
And so readers see a nice pattern, get righteously indignant, which makes headlines for first kind of stories even better ad sellers.
They already have, though an appeal could be in order:
Judge: Corps can be sued over flood
Residents of the three areas flooded worst by Hurricane Katrina can sue the Army Corps of Engineers over claims that a poorly designed navigation channel caused catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Katrina, a federal judge ruled Friday.
The corps and federal government had argued they were immune from claims that the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet caused the damage to the Lower 9th Ward, eastern New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish.
But U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval refused to throw out a suit claiming that floods in those areas were caused by defects the corps had known about for decades.
Corps Faults Itself For Levee Breaks In New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, June 1 -- A contrite U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took responsibility Thursday for the flooding of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and said the levees failed because they were built in a disjointed fashion using outdated data.
"This is the first time that the Corps has had to stand up and say, 'We've had a catastrophic failure,' " Lt. Gen. Carl A. Strock, the Corps chief, said as the agency issued a 6,000-page report on the disaster on the first day of the new hurricane season.
Am I the only one who finds sleeping naked incredibly uncomfortable?
Bandwidth is pretty cheap in Sweden. And with Pirate Bay being legal, I doubt streaming music would be illegal.
Guaranteed with that drivel I will NEVER visit your blog.
I'll mention your opinion to the people who founded the city in 1718 next time i run into them.
US military officials asked media personnel not to report that it was the American soldiers who shot and killed the innocent civilians citing such news reporting could cause rioting in other towns and cities across Afghanistan exacerbating an already deteriorating security situation there.
Maybe, just maybe, it isn't the news reporting, but the killing of innocent civilians that deteriorates the security situation?
wow, that's effing neato - now I want a tag cloud version - trippy!
I got 132, and wasted lots of time attempting to spell Kyrgystan (sp?).
And look people, before complaining "It missed Country X!" or whatever, take 2 seconds to look it up on Wikipedia to find out if you are in fact wrong.
Ummm ... care to elaborate?
It's as if I have to move a magnifying glass over each word to read it. Definitely not effective design.
i'm 3.7 environmental. hm. what on earth does that mean?
Another reason the flood happened: Loss of wetlands from 1932 to 2005 (picture):
http://flickr.com/photos/john-p/409989922/
And I would like to crack Vista in order to use it? Why would I want to do that in the first place!?
Significant white space.
Back when I was first learning Python it seemed really wrong to me too. But once you actually start writing Python, all the objections seem to melt away and it seems really natural. From what I see, this is typical. Don't put off learning Python because of the whitespace thing, because it's not the big problem everybody assumes it is.
Yeah. It isn't exactly a major discovery. Anyone knowing some simple physics should be able to tell you the same thing.
It's like saying building a quiet and cool engine is building an efficient one.
hopefully he gets killed soon
If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it fall, does it make a sound?
According to the data in Wiktionary, the first 20 words in English account for approximately 28% of our printed communications. You actually have to get to 32 words to reach 33%.
He had a what on the top of his car?
*off to register alwaysputmustardonyourhamsandwich.org*
Was it always blacked out, or did I miss it?
There are 5,000 left in Iraq. The US has offered places for 7,000 (10% of the world total). And yet it says the West isn't making room for large numbers of them?
I agree that we unleashed this, though. Everyone knows that Islamic extremism, like AIDS, is a product of secret CIA experiments.
Every time someone does a neat visual trick, and applies to to a user interface, someone has to go point out how badly it sucks.
Maybe the author should've used endless pop-down menus! Yes! AJAX pop down menus! Oh man, I'm getting all turned on now.
I got your damn New Jersey right here, pal. Why don't you come and pick it up?
Maybe you're not used to it. Try it for a week, and then report back.
And we've always been at war with Eastasia.
When did Jason upgrade his iFruit to the newer model?
You sir are a giant cocksucker. Its a group of pacifists being killed for no good reason.
Did you read the article? It's referring to his ancestors on the maternal side, who were white.
If no one is there to hear the sound, the entire forest will be gone soon.
The "War on Terrorism" is the best Cold War replacement the U.S. can come up with. So today it's terrorism rather than Communism that's used to justify open-ended defense spending and meddling in weaker nations' politics and economies.
Of course the terrorists aren't frightening enough on their own. So the U.S. government shrouds everything terrorist in "Cold War Plus" levels of hyper-secrecy. Interesting, isn't it, that this is "necessary" despite the fact that the terrorists have no real army, no air force, no navy, and no formal intelligence gathering and processing capabilities?
Well, to be fair there was an article on "how to wipe your ass" recently on the front page!
115 remaining but...
OK, so he has 'countries' like:
Christmas Island
Cook Islands
Kosovo
Abkhazia
etc.
Is he redrawing the map of the world here? Looks like a glaring mistake, especially combined with things like Czechoslovakia.
Someone needs to take another look at the array containing the countries
I made one for the countries in Europe. It's amazing how often one forgets Malta and San Marino.
http://gozkino.com/euro
That was more of a political move than anything.
They could have upgraded the levees, but that takes money, and New Orleans wasn't ready to pay that much.
That is true. But this is a war for minds. We shouldn't be pulling stunts like this. You'd think vietnam would have beatten this into our heads by now.
Tell your browser to claim that it is running on Linux (via the ever-useful User-Agent header). Then it gives you a GIF instead.
OmniWeb has a very nice feature for this: It lets me configure that per-site, so for gocomics.com only, my User-Agent is: ELinks/0.10.4-7ubuntu1-debian (textmode; Linux 2.6.12-10-k7-smp i686; 80x24-2) (I don't know where I got that, but it works.)
Do you think it doesn't count if the people doing the killing are wearing military uniforms?
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
If the Lisp community doesn't care about putting any time into marketing its technology, why should I care about it?
firstly, there is no Lisp community. secondly, you shouldn't care.
this topic, as far as I understand it, is an informal poll, not a sales pitch. which basically makes your pathos rather misplaced.
If Lispers want to be taken seriously, work on integrating with the real world.
what is this "real world" you speak about?
Haven't got one for the last 20 mins (yes I am an addicted obsessive redditor). Touch wood.
And linux on the desktop, right?
Here's the latest spew from Ann Coulter:
"Liberals have always had a thing about eliminating humans. Stalin wanted to eliminate the kulaks and Ukranians, vegetarian atheist Adolf Hitler wanted to eliminate the Jews, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger wanted to eliminate poor blacks, DDT opponent Rachel Carson wanted to eliminate Africans (introduction to her book "Silent Spring" written by ... Al Gore!), and population-control guru Paul Ehrlich wants to eliminate all humans."
Rest of it is here:
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=172
If in fact there is a "significant fraction of America" applauds this kind thing... then fine, you go stand with them.
What i find really cool about this is the following:
Bring your mouse to the upper-left boxy-link-thing
Put your finger on the screen where the mouse pointer is
Bring your mouse to the lower-right boxy-link-thing
Note how small a distance it is from your finger
In other words, you barely have to move the mouse a few dozen pixels in order to access ten different menu options. This might be useful for devices with tiny screens. Sure, not in its current form, but perhaps something yet-to-be-invented that will be inspired by this.
When he took power, Nikita Kruschev's biggest job was the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union. It's likely to be that way for the next US president (assuming it's not a Bush clone) -- they'll have their hands full undoing all of the terrible things this administration has done, and it's going to be very easy for their political enemies to attack them, as they'll be raising taxes, attempting to pay off at least some of the national debt, spending billions on infrastructure and domestic security, and restoring civil rights.
It's going to be a mess.
I found many of them to be valid technical arguments.
If there are constraint that you must satisfy (cross platform, big-O, schedule, binary-size) and your approach cannot satisfy that constraint then it is appropriate to turn that down.
New Ireland portal - Go Map Ireland - Maps of Ireland plus accommodation, weather and travel guides. www.gomapireland.com
There's a .gif at http://foxtrot.com
dupe
She does not.
or you could do something that might actually make a difference. maybe volunteer for amnesty international or the red cross - even if you do it locally, you're helping them to continue their work globally.
Come over here, buddy. I'll give you something you'll note.
I think I'll shut off my computer and go outside now.
I agree. The 423rd "chicken" is the best.
terrible usability.
Being the cynical person that I am, IMO Microsoft is actually encouraging this (cracking) to get more people to use Vista seeing that its adoption is so far below expectations.
They will then turn the screws tighter once enough people are hooked into it.
Most annoying - No usability atal
Some of these are just impressions I get from looking at it from the outside, so all is IMHO (of course).
It's far less readable.
I already know Python, and Ruby doesn't have any compelling advantage over Python — it's not even different enough to make learning it for the sake of it worthwhile.
The Ruby community is far less friendly than the Python community — specifically, there's a worse zealot:clue ratio.
The general attitude Ruby developers have seems to be directed towards more short-term thinking - i.e. immediate results from a flawed design are favoured over doing it right. For example, unsafe GETs seem to have been prevalent and were fixed grudgingly in the Ruby community when GWA showed up. It's like they didn't want to admit to a poor design and blamed it on Google instead. "It was working until your edge case blew my code up!"
ok, but I would prefer the sentiment 'human beings being hassled and killed'.
A faith disappearing, or becoming rarer is a good thing, whatever faith it is.
Edit : I will qualify that; I don't think replacing one faith with another is a good thing, especially one as aggressive as Islam. It would be far better if they could all give it up and get down the disco.
Or I'll shoot you in the groin!
He could take me. I have no bad habits to unlearn.
Great website for free HDTV related information and comparisons
Sexual benefits
No good reason to do good things unless Big Daddy is watchin...LOL
Invisible doesn't mean lack of noise?
No, for failing to take responsibility for and act in the city's best interests. I've known for a while (before Katrina) that New Orleans is close to the gulf, mostly below sea level, and in a place where hurricanes hit. The New Orleans leaders probably knew this too; they should have known what the levees were able to protect against and planned ahead.
In the Bay Area, they're replacing the Bay Bridge in preparation for the next earthquake. After the Loma Pieta earthquake, earthquake readiness became more important, but people didn't look to the federal government to help, even though the Bay Bridge is part of I-80.
Local leaders need to take more responsibility.
(backslash-escape those *s)
Worst hyperbole ever.
I'm with you.
On the other hand, they are moderates dying out at the hands of fundamentalists, and it's a symptom of a major decrease in secularism.
He was dragged off the street by armed men and forcibly circumcised - a practice not allowed in the Mandaean religion.
Then there is Enhar, raped by a gang of masked men in front of her husband - because she would not wear a veil.
Mandaean elders use words like annihilation and genocide - they believe Islamic militants, both Sunni and Shia, offer them two choices - convert or die.
He believes they are a litmus test for modern Iraq - in a secular state these doctors, engineers and jewellers would thrive.
I was actually referring to OO in general, most people (including myself), are quite critical of it.
Amazing? Not really.
Used to be that I couldn't point your country out, but now I'm dating a Lithuanian. (horrible phonetic approximation ahead:) Om Svegatu!
Which is based directly off the Warcraft 3 custom map...
That's good to hear.
"The industry says that 'until you show us a direct link to human mortality from the use of these drugs in animals, we don't think you should preclude their use,"
By that logic, the only drugs that will be denied approval are those that pathogenic bacteria have already evolved to tolerate.
I almost got stuck on Alaska and Hawaii because of that very strategy, but finished in about the same time as you.
In this case, a moderate and pacifistic religion is being stamped out my Muslim fundamentalists in a convert-or-die effort.
Maybe they should have made something readable? Or at least have a help/panic button somewhere to explain how to use it?
The Chinese have a saying... 'Hao Kan Bu Hao Yong'
'Looks good but not useful.'
Applies perfectly here.
The Press Esc story characterizes the incident as a "Revenge attack", where the AP story characterizes the U.S. military as returning fire on militant gunmen after they attacked a U.S. convoy and fired on U.S. troops.
The Press Esc states flatly that U.S. soldiers opened fire on innocent civilians, where the AP story states that the casualties could be the result of innocents being caught in the firefight. The AP article does mention U.S. forces firing on cars and pedestrians as they left the scene.
Both articles claim that an AP photographer and cameraman were forced to delete photos and video, but the AP article states that the AP reporters did not witness the bombing or gunfight, and was later allowed to record the scene. The AP does state that the journalists were threatened by U.S. forces.
One article seems like reporting, the other seems like sensationalism.
EDIT: I now realize that Press Esc is basically just a blog thinly disguised as a news site. Another big win for "citizen journalism"!
Its fair unless you're a power user
There's no standard implementation. By that I mean that there isn't a run-everywhere solution like Perl and Python. PLT Scheme is good, but it's a non-standard niche implementation.
I find I'm more productive in a language that comes with more out of the box. I could it build all that extra stuff in Scheme, sure, but I don't want to.
We're not talking about a few isolated cases of Japanese troops doing something foolish. We're talking about systemic problems, things like insisting that new officers behead a POW to prove they are worthy of leadership. Institutionalized torture in the name of science, etc.
Whether Hiroshima was necessary or not, you absolutely can not excuse the behavior of the Japanese military by saying oh well everyone is bad. They really set the bar for atrocity.
nice
I got it a while back. Around October-ish. I specifically remember doing a red "survey" of the sort in my English II PreAP/GT class and turning it in. It asked me about my first and last name, age, GPA (no one in our grade knew their GPA until the beginning of the second semester), and your most influential teachers of your Freshman year. I had no idea they'd send me something like this. I was told it would help get my name out there for scholarships. I haven't gotten anything since that was scholarship related, just 5 or 6 of the same huge NHR packages telling me it was my last chance. I don't even think they choose you by your grades. The reason I think this is because everyone who had an English II PreAP/GT
teacher in my grade got the package. And no one else. This leads me to believe that they sent their surveys to my school, and asked them to hand them out to the English II PreAP/GT classes.
They must have disregarded that some kids do fail that class.
Oh well.
Can you cite sources, please? The sources cited in other comments are contrary to what you are saying, so I would definitely be curious to know where you got this information.
It looks nice, I'll give it that. But in terms of usability, it falls flat. I would never incorporate this design into a website.
i'm sorry, do you read the business pages? if China and Saudi Arabia by their lonesomes decided to invoke an embargo (or even just pulled their money out of American business) the dollar would lose up to 60% of its valuation overnight, many trillions of dollars of assets would be frozen, and the US has been letting its manufacturing capacity slide to such a point that countless types of goods would disappear from the shelves once purchased. with the volume of inflation stemming from that scenario, there would be insufficient capital to get the manufacturing ball rolling again. suddenly, the US would become Cuba but with no Soviet Union to bankroll a production conversion. welcome to the third world - of course, 40% of the US population lives there already...
They can probably just google for 'china engineer'.
It doesn't sound like you have a real handle on what "speed" means for your application, other than you want it fast. First, there are a number of high-performance Scheme options. Second, if performance is really your number one uber-goal (as in "the engine explodes if I'm off by 50 microseconds"), then Scheme or Lisp is probably the wrong way to go.
Ctrl-R doesn't require you to leave the home row...
that's why he took so much of it
That doesnt need to be flash.
There's a point to using menus and Ajax. What's the point of this? It's irredeemably bad in every way I can think of.
Male or female?
One 'p' in 'sniper'.
That is totally different, the person being asked the question here is answering incorrectly, there is no other way to interpret this question like the example given in the article.
Thanks... finding other, similar games was part of my motive to post this, because I knew you redditors would dig em up. :)
*edit: it looks like the maker of the element one is looking to make a new game that incorporates some of the handdrawn one's features: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU4KOT9J4ck
it's not real. it's made up. consider it a parody.
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Angry_German_Kid
Sensationalism!!!!!!!!!
Gets information from Amazon and iTunes to generate an RSS feed of new releases from your favorite artists
Is it an impressive trick? Yes.
Is it a neat showcase for the skills of the page author? Yes.
Does it solve any problems with existing UIs? No.
Is in fact less functional than a standard approach? Yes.
Does it warrant the adjective "amazing"? No.
These are my reasons for pointing out that, while it is interesting on a technical level, it is something that I never ever want to see inflicted on anybody else ever again in this form.
Why? It fits the military doctrine of preemptive strike.
I've read about these people. This is such a shame; I remember reading a while back the Muslims didn't want them to do their baptism thing in the river because they "dirtied it."
Everyone post your "It looks nice, but it's not very practical" comments under this thread. It's more organized than having everyone post the exact same thoughts over and over in separate threads.
usability grognards should step aside. the arguments are moot. the intention of this site is to present generative images, not sell you cheaper shoes or make the next social networking trend. the interface is pretty inspiring, only the moreso because it doesn't follow the textbook usability gospel. it only takes a little bit of imagination to figure out, and suits the nature of the site precisely.
In 1569, an Antwerp physician and naturalist named Johannes Goropius Becanus published a book arguing that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden must have been Flemish -- or more specifically, the Flemish of Antwerp -- and that all other languages could be derived from that tongue.
Idiot. Everyone who's read their midrash knows that Adam and Chaya (not Eve, as the stupid translators call her) spoke Ancient Hebrew. Not this Modern or Talmudic/Classical crap, debased with French, English and Aramaic, but the real-deal original.
That language was then "confused" during the whole Tower of Babel incident. However, Abraham was a righteous man, and thus kept the original tongue. The people descended from him spoke that tongue.
This has been your Public Service Announcement by the Coalition for Mythological Accuracy.
Also, I always knew that gender thing was bunk. I talk way too fucking much.
Wow. I figured everyone already slept naked. You'd get all tangled up in your clothes otherwise, surely.
In my company we use CFEngine, which works great for us. Puppet looks like a really cool piece of software. I'm surprised the use of automatic management systems aren't more widespread.
The article talks about the problem with integrating the engines and fuselage. There are airflow issues that need to be addressed.
There's also fatigue issues that have to be addressed. BOAC flew the ill-fated Comet, a sexy looking airplane, which kept falling apart.
Burt Rutan's Starship looked great on paper but failed to deliver on performance when it was actually built.
You're talking about gambling millions of dollars to bring a new aircraft to market and those kind of issues have to be resolved before anyone is going to put a dime on the table. Yes, you can do almost anything, given design freedom and resources. But if the design doesn't pay back the invested resources and those resources are significant, you won't get the resources.
impeachment is out of the question; Dick Cheney is VEEP
That's actually a good point. There's a case to be made for this kind of "daisywheel" ui to be investigated for touchscreen handlheld devices to expand the number of options available on a single screen. I made the point above that this UI doesn't solve any problems but in a more usable form running in a restricted screensize environment maybe it could.
I thought this was going to be circumcision pictures.
Why is it uncomfortable? Maybe higher thread count sheets and blankets?
Which one?
I forgot Massachusetts, Maryland. oops!
It's not circular at all. The reasoning is perfectly valid, just potentially unsound.
Violence is the answer!
Hmmm... a few minor typos. Otherwise, what's the point?
Great story: Mobile phones that can predict your requests? A 3-D Internet? Health care from a doctor half a world away? These things might become everyday occurrences sooner than you might imagine.
Remove Cheney from office.
The really ruthless Huffmanisation would be to swap ( and ) with j and k respectively. How often does anyone need a j or k anyway? :)
SUCKER!!!
A religion being killed off. Redditors should feel happy!
OK, seriously, how are we going to save these people?
Terry Bisson rules!
she is the sexiest food host i have ever seen.
There is an interesting discussion in there.
Some brahmins are seeking a separate nation.
It's Web 3.0
seriously, is there anyone more evil than atheists?
This briton got 31
You forgot:Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana,
Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada,
New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina,
South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin,
Better spelling would have got me m-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i
Given that I live in Hampshire, missing 'New Hampshire' is doubly embarrassing.
hi
Looks like a glaring mistake, especially combined with things like Czechoslovakia.
What do you mean? Czechoslovakia isn't in there, and he has the Czech Republic and Slovakia. That's correct, isn't it?
Me thinks that this is a better user interface for lisp IDE programming at the parse tree level. Paul are you looking?
Another easy Saint Patrick's Day craft project.
500 Demands will Bring Travi$B. To Your City
How original, a 4 year old article about how cool Mac's are. yawn.
When Macs take over the universe with their built in cool factor, I'll start counting the Mac viruses.
Nikon sales rep gets his cousin into sales rep meeting. Cousin spreads announcement of new Nikon D3 to the rest of the world 2 days early. Oops!
Erm...who is using Al Gore's energy usage as proof of a lack of "climate change." I'll bet this guy has read a few articles from sources that already have qualms about it, and can't reason enough to figure it out.
He even mentions Gore's shady carbon credit purchases.
Always. Every time. And sarcasm. I like that as well.
Disclaimer: I work at The Tech Co-op.
You're probably not going to find a host that is more Lisp-savvy. We host common-lisp.net, cliki.net, paste.lisp.org and most other lisp-based sites as well. We also host Bill Clementson's blog, and employ some lisp programmers. We have discounts available for Lisp programmers as well.
Thanks for the shout out trichey!
Probably not any worse for them than inhaling a little campfire smoke.
Yeah poor soldiers. They are good ole boys, just following orders.
They had no choice. Befehl ist Befeh.
Pissant apologists like you make me sick. These people should hang. But they wont becauase they are americans, and all americans have GOOD INTENTIONS, dontcha know.
Sito di ricette in stile web 2.0.
Learn about the most cost-effective type of life insurance. Make informed financial decisions. (No agents will call).
Political sociology being a small interest of mine, I have a theory as to why, at least relating to social welfare, rural voters tend to be Republican, and city voters tend to be Democrat.
Maybe that's because neat visual tricks don't often make great user interfaces. If I'm looking for something, I don't want to mouse over everything in a search for it.
mooli responded well. It looks pretty, but I wouldn't want to browse the web like that.
The Corps of Engineers is tasked with this responsibility, and local leaders do not have authority over these projects. They can't simply take the project away from the Corps and say "Your work here is done and we are taking care of these levees now. Thanks, its been fun." The Corps has been granted full authority over these projects by the federal government.
As a result of Katrina, the Corps did an assessment of levees throughout the US and put out a list of levees at risk of failing. 42 of those levees are in California, way more than any other state. The second highest is Oregon with 14. Louisiana has 6.
Clearly, having 42 levees at risk of failing is "taking responsibility"
Of course the UK is a country. Just because the UK has constituent countries, it doesn't mean that it isn't a country itself.
wt
It's from 2002, there's been dupes of dupes of dupes all over the net a billion times. And besides, it's a junk article with a sensationalist headline which is debunked by another opinion in the article itself.
It depends :D.
On the mobile phones I worked on, the Java code was pre-compiled (which of course couldn't be done with downloaded programs). But they were just J2ME (no reflection, KNI).
On other systems they don't tend to pre-compile, which is robably an unnecessary sacrifice at the altar of flexibility,
You're right, it is terrible! We're losing a unique philosophy from the marketplace of ideas, diminishing us as humanity.
Or has blankets.
I use Ruby all the time.
Oh! Oh! I know that one!
Theists.
It's brutal, but it's part of war.
Just like sept 11th right?
I assume you would have no problem with raddicals nuking an american city then becuase, hey, its part of war.
A practical approach towards successful data research for product and business insights.
Relocation is stressful. Make it easier on yourself by using the power of the Internet to your advantage. Inform yourself for one of the biggest decisions you'll make.
Makes me glad I don't drink milk.
Oooh ooh, I have a better answer! Those who think that one group is more evil and less deserving of existance than another!
cool
Discount for lispers? Nice. I think I should abaddon ruby and back to lisp for "night" projects :-)
Unfortunately, someone that won't admit that the earth revolves around the sun is probably not going to accept this as proof. They will probably just insist that the sun doesn't revolve around the earth exactly the same way every day.
They might even try to use the image as counter-proof somehow. Never underestimate the power of idealogy over facts.
Nobody ever claimed he did. DHH just made a killer implementation of it. And it's all about the implementation.
Skip lists?
I'm guessing Jersey Parking Authority or something like it.
But nice image.
This wasn't merely a few exposures to a substance proven to affect learning and memory. These toddlers got a twisted behavioral lesson on what the people they look up to are doing. It's going to take some doing to straighten them out, assuming anyone cares enough to bother.
check it, citizen. http://imdb.com/title/tt0137523/
He's never referred to by name in the movie (because he is actually tyler durden), and in the credits he is referred to as "The Narrator."
So, yes, Ed Norton's character did not have a name.
Is this a deliberate attempt at giving a detailed description of REST without using the name "REST"?
Nifty.
"Usability" is very important for a site where information needs to be presented in an effective way, with a minimum of effort needed by the user/viewer.
But there's something to be said for making the user explore a novel environment/interface in some cases. If the user doesn't get sick of trying to figure it out and leave, then the discovered information may be perceived as something of a reward.
For a site where the author is primarily showing off his artwork, I find this sort of interface to be more compelling than a highly "usable" but bland list. A bit of a game draws the user in and helps develop some interest.
It might seem like a digression, but is the "Cold War Plus" level of secrecy the Bush administration wraps around its War on Terror necessary to fight terrorists, or is it instead necessary to maintain the illusion of an adversary?
Terrorists by definition don't have an army, and air force, a navy, or an intelligence gathering and coordination capability. Yet the Bush administration tells us that fighting terrorism requires more secrecy than was used to combat the former Soviet Union.
This is relevant to the U.S.'s use of torture insofar as the Bush administration has created and today sustains the illusion that torture is "necessary" to get information about a notional adversary that for the most part doesn't exist.
After Bush and his cronies have left the White House the truth will slowly (too slowly!) come out. What the world will then learn will be that the U.S. committed some of the most shamefully inhumane acts in history, and in doing so irreparably soiled America's honor forevermore.
damn it! i found 'parking' but not jersey ;)
Same thing as this, only that one links to Slate (the original site of the article) rather than to the Washington Post.
Ironic, considering the source.
aren't you assuming too much?
I mean, if you'd like to go the armchair psychoanalisys way, you are already in hot water, since your original comment was nothing but defensive. wanna talk about it?
It's a place you might want to check out some time
oh dear god. how old are you, Mr. Ass-You-Ming?
I missed four. Arkansas, Iowa, Utah, Wyoming.
Connelly: People do not purposely make "bad" artifacts without thinking that by doing so they are making something good within a system that accomodates, justifies and elevates the so-called "bad". Bad art is being made because people think it is good. What we (I am an artist) have to rebel against, is, as always, the bad art. I, too, disagree that art's purpose is to interest its audience. Interesting the audience is merely a primary step. But the examples you give lose the point by talking about art that isn't seen. Whether or not it is seen has nothing to do with its purpose, only with whether the purpose is fulfilled. I am only guessing but I would say that Graham is interested in startups because it is a very interesting thing to do right now. money is simply the measure of success. Art is, as you say, a "relativistic mishmash". It isn't fun any more. I think startups probably are. As for "what should we do", I think he has said and implied that we should do what interests us. You decide by trying things out. Are they "worth doing"? Who knows.
From the website of TerrorFreeTomorrow, the group that made the survey
http://www.terrorfreetomorrow.org/upimagestft/Final%20Mercy%20Poll%20Report.pdf
5% of Indonesians surveyed now believe suicide terrorist attacks are justified, up slightly from 2% in January 2006 but down from a high of 27% after 9/11, and 9% in January 2005.
It would seem these studies give highly variable results, and probably are not to be trusted.
EDIT: Or maybe it actually means they changed their minds. Who knows?
You don't need to trust him, but let me tell you first-hand that the "left" side of his presentation is pretty much spot-on. I don't have as much experience with the "right" one, but wherever I could compare notes -- it matches well my impressions and conclusions.
That said, he may certainly be wrong. But one thing that's been proven over the last 3000 years is that epires don't last.
i totally agree with you - ooooomph
But they're Afghan civilians, they matter less than Americans (except the debt-ridden food-insecure Americans, they don't matter much either).
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."
No wonder China, and Russia, and Iran, and on, find us hypocrites. We don't hold true that all men are created equal, as evidenced by what we do. Our government has fully absorbed the morals of capitalism -- namely, 'every man for himself' and 'I got mine, now go get yours', as well as, 'Power and wealth are a means to themselves'.
The wealthy of this country would never have been wealthy had they happen to have born in Sudan or Laos or Afghanistan. The very wealthy that largely run the country tend to think that their wealth gives them a moral mandate to enrich themselves even further.
So Paris Hilton smashes her lamborghini without care, while children go severely hungry in countries as wealthy as the United States.
Doesn't history repeatedly teach us to learn from it? Isn't it time for people like us -- who actually tend to understand history and see the current global politics for what it is -- to make a stand?. When smart people everywhere don't care enough (as is often the case), the world is in trouble.
...I now feel purged...
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Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nunavut, Quebec, British Columbia and I am screwed on the last one.
What about Mexican states?
Britney Spears tried to hang herself with a bedsheet after screaming "I am the anti-christ" to frightened staff. She made the demonic cry after scrawling the devil's number "666" across her head. Spears's manic behaviour has concerned relatives who once again fear for her safety, and has staff at the Promises Clinic in Malibu, California struggling to cope.
Only guessing on the Jersey. It was the only city name starting with JE I could think of, but the parking seems likely anyway.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss?
Complete crap. Recessive genes are statistically impossible to remove from a large population, even when there is strong selective pressure against them. These 'experts' don't understand elementary genetics.
I concur with IMesh's assessment of you, brainburger. Your cocksuckerness has attained hitherto unknown proportions. It's not about the religion. It's about the people. So, shut up and go to hell, please. Thanks!
It happened several times this morning and afternoon as well.
Slow mystery-meat navigation.
So, uh, what's the bad news?
I understand your point, and I think it is totally valid. I tend to think of this as a federal problem rather than a problem specific to the Corps.
In order to show that this disaster was the result of federal mismanagement, it helps to be able to point to the Corps specifically, but I certainly recognize that the people tasked with the duty of maintaining the levees are running a rather thankless operation.
When the congress passes legislation, the administration acts on the legislation and the courts rule the legislation is constitutional and properly applied by the executive branch, it is LEGAL.
Democrats in Congress need to realize right now that the administration will not produce or disclose any meaningful evidence unless and until they are truly forced to do so, and forcing them to disclose meaningful information is going to require a willingness to fight hard.
This is so idiotic. How about a survey of actual terror acts in the last 50 years? You'll find most of them are committed by Muslims.
I think a lot of Muslims are just lying when asked about supporting terrorism in Surveys. They don't want to reinforce the association between Muslim and terror, so they tune down their response. Americans on the other hand, when asked about support for terror, think about 9/11 and give more angered response.
I bet you if America fly a few airplanes (remoted controlled, of course) into buildings in Muslim countries, Muslim support for terror would skyrocket.
Sarcasm aside, there is no doubt that past US policy has fostered the growth of Mulim fundamentalism, even though you can't say they created it, not by any stretch of the imagination. But we aided the overthrow of the government of Iran decades ago when it suited our purposes in the Middle East, then funded Saddam when it was convenient to do so during his war against Iran, then funded Osama when it served our purposes in Afghanistan... when will it stop?
Don't call me "Dude." That makes you sound like a stoner.
One thing I'm not totally clear on here... if their religion is older than Christianity, then how come they worship John the Baptist?
Does anyone know who screenvader is? Their music is pretty aweseome.. is the album available?
kul
Agreed. See the Flood Control Act of 1965.
"In the Flood Control Act of 1965, passed shortly after Hurricane Betsy pummeled New Orleans, Congress appropriated funds to increase the height of the levees around the northern side of the city, where Lake Pontchartrain ominously abuts what used to be swampland but today is suburbia. With help from a meteorologist from the National Weather Service, Corps engineers determined a wind speed and pressure that they felt closely characterized Hurricane Betsy. The work was done before the development of the Saffir-Simpson scale, which today is used to categorize hurricanes. At the time Corps engineers called their approximation a standard project hurricane (SPH), equivalent to what today would be called a fast-moving category 3 storm."
I beg to differ. Down ye go.
I'm Canadian too....
You forgot:Connecticut, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia,
West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming,
"America need only look beyond its navel to recognize its fortune and, therefore, its responsibilities."
What responsibilities? Responsibilities externally? Responsibilities internally? For every specific responsibility claimed, there will be someone who objects to it, usually with valid points.
oh i have a great idea...why dont we put the best way to crack vista on the front page of digg and reddit so that M$ can easily find it and fix it!!!!
For those who say that Internet radio stations should just start playing non-RIAA music:
An Internet radio station in the U.S. can't just start playing non-RIAA music and be free from this decision. ANY music released in the U.S. falls under the license this article is talking about, whether the artist is somehow part of the RIAA or not.
The only way for an Internet Radio Station to legally play music and not be under this license would be to get a legal agreement from the labels whose music they're playing. Four years ago, Internet Radio was in a very similar position: virtually no labels stepped up and offered their catalogs then, and it doesn't seem as if they feel it's in their interest to do so now.
It's also worth noting: this decision is retroactive through 2006. That means that ANY Internet radio station that was on the air in 2006 will automatically owe a year's worth of royalty payments: they will be bankrupted almost immediately, and none of them will get a chance to start playing "non-RIAA" music.
This is going to descend into pendantry I can tell...
Let me rephrase as:
Sleeping naked is more comfortable -> Greater comfort improves health -> Improved health is a result of sleeping naked.
Looks like a circle to me, and a shaky one at that. Perhaps drawn freehand, in crayon.
Iraq was far better off with Saddam in power. This is not a talking point, it is a fact plain as day to anyone except for muslim extremists and neocons.
This is a brillant website for science homework! :) :) :)
where the AP story states that the casualties could be the result of innocents being caught in the firefight. ...
Um, the AP story says More than a half dozen Afghans recuperating from bullet wounds told The Associated Press that the U.S. forces fired indiscriminately along at least a six-mile stretch of one of eastern Afghanistan's busiest highways - a route often filled not only with cars and trucks but Afghans on foot and bicycles.
"They were firing everywhere, and they even opened fire on 14 to 15 vehicles passing on the highway," said Tur Gul, 38, who was standing on the roadside by a gas station and was shot twice in his right hand. "They opened fire on everybody, the ones inside the vehicles and the ones on foot."
edit: and NYT says: Afghan witnesses and some authorities blaming the Americans for indiscriminately shooting at civilian vehicles in anger after the explosion.
I am sure it's all a part of cancer-curing remedy. Bonus points for using pgrep and pstree...
Then again -- there's that HTTP server in PostScript :) http://www.pugo.org/?page=pshttpd
Of course, when linguists finally reconstruct Nostratic, they'll find that, by a freak coincidence, it's actually identical to 16th-century Flemish. We'll see who's laughing then!
Is this what our country stands for?
The editorial does refer to "the unwise and lawless policies of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney," and one definition of "lawless" is "against the law". If you accuse them of crimes, you're at least implying they should be held to account for those crimes. So they're almost calling for impeachment. You're right though. They should just come out and say it. They certainly wouldn't be alone.
But they'd have to get rid of Cheney first or try them both together. I was hoping that all the bad press and maybe the Libby trial would get Cheney to resign, but no luck yet.
Ups, my bad. True.
I feel it's the drama of the gangs "at the top" of different countries. The world citizens tend to want nothing to do with it, the exceptions being the unfortunates that have succumbed to the propaganda. Nobody on my block hates anyone living on some block in Iran. The citizenry gets along fine, on the whole. It's these greedy ticks that are the problem. That, and the occasional strategy addict that's more interested in battle specifics than the folly of a war.
At least, that's the way I'm seeing it these days. Women being snickered at for watching soap operas by people who consume their drama on an even larger scale, believing life lacks vitality without this sort of conflict.
Sorry. A short rant took me.
I find it ironic that a site whose members seem to spare no opportunity to decry the "prudish" nature of American society are now all up in arms over the thought that some wage slave might potentially see a glimpse of the outline of their penis...
I'm not using an AS/400 anymore. Back then I'd really liked to use COBOL instead of RPG/400.
Interesting. I knew the carbon offset practice of planting trees was about all we could do, but until this reddit article I hadn't realized that planting trees isn't all that useful. According to wikipedia, growing trees store carbon but release it and use up oxygen when they decay.
I hadn't realized that the carbon credit purchases Gore made were simply to himself either.
This is how the American economy has (d)evolved in the past few decades - the picture tells a thousand words.
Okay, now you've devolved into personal attacks, the surest sign that a person knows they're wrong. I'm done with this conversation.
Then I call upon this team to design and build Wonder Woman's Jet to test your hypothesis. It seemed pretty quiet on Super Freinds is all I'm sayin.
Dude, the AP article clearly states that the soldiers fired randomly into pedestrian vehicles and those on foot. They were pissed and angry and whatnot, but the fact is that is what happened.
I'm glad we don't really consider them humans though, you know, with brothers and fathers and children and wives and families and so forth. They just scum, like the homeless, eh? No biggie if a few dozen are shot the fuck up and murdered.
I'm not calling the soliders monsters, many people likely would've reacted in the same way, given the stresses involved. They deserve the benefit of the doubt when judging them. I can't say what I would've done in their situation. But they nevertheless clearly murdered civilians and should be held responsible for it. Inner city folk back home, some who've faced stresses not too dissimilar from those the soldiers must've faced, have been sentenced to death for lesser actions.
There's PHP security for you...
Someone with a good keyboard. I have an oldish IBM keyboard, roughly 1995 vintage, and it's still going strong. It's also 2 or 3 times heavier than most other keyboards.
Ah, but the script refers to him as Jack:
http://www.hundland.com/scripts/Fight-Club_third.htm
In talking about the production, the filmmakers often referred to him as Jack. If you read the novel, you learn that his name is neither Jack (Jack is never mentioned at all, the novel is all about Joe's Raging Bile Duct or Joe's Wasted Life) nor Tyler Durden... his real name is a mystery. So true, Edward Norton's character is not precisely named in the movie, but for ease of reference, most people call him Jack.
I talked to someone who was doing his thesis on the Mandaeans. He started his work before the invasion, and commented on the incredibly horrible abuses that occurred after Saddam fell. They were officially protected previously and while they were a small minority they were generally well off, many worked as jewelers. As soon as the invasion began the robberies, rape, executions, and forced conversions started. Since many were relatively wealthy they were an easy target.
virgina
Is that what they call those down there?
World of information on stocks, investment and economy
BBC Headline, as you said: US troops kill Afghan civilians
Circular reasoning is when you assert the conclusion and use it to prove itself. In this case, the conclusion is that sleeping naked is good for your health, which is not one of the assertions.
It's no different from saying: all birds fly, a puffin is a bird, therefore puffins fly. Whether or not the assertions are true doesn't make the reasoning any less valid.
It's on Khyber Pass road, Auckland, New Zealand. I pass it daily. Weird seeing it on Reddit.
kinda funny. the music industry allows radio to play their "product" for free. people pay for something coming free over their radios. weird industry.
Brilliant!
I'd stake my kid's life on a 25% chance.
Who wouldn't?
Good example of bad reporting.
People in the comments are saying these photos are fake. Just so you know.
This is going to descend into "pendantry" as long as you insist on being wrong. I think the argument is more like a slippery slope where he asks you to believe several tenuous (but minor) statements (like sleeping naked is always more comfortable and being comfortable certainly is healthy) and then he gathers those statements to form a "logical" conclusion.
Given the first two assertions, it's perfectly rational to conclude the third.
Circular reasoning is when your primary cause is derived to be an effect of something else in your logic:
For this example we need to assume "healthy people sleep naked (unhealthy people don't)", which gives us.
Sleeping naked is comfortable therefore healthy because healthy people choose to sleep naked.
He is lying. What is the up side for the US military to routinely torture prisoners? Do you think they're sadistic? Do you think they are inhumane? Do you think they want to be court marshaled and imprisoned?
That's a pretty short list.
I remember being upset with the very first thing they did--killing what was to be a new standard for workers' comp and RSI injury prevention--long before 9-11 happened and everybody turned into blind, scared sheep bleating their support.
I don't even have wrist trouble, and that made me angry.
Even if we do somehow manage to make the repairs the NYT lists, I wonder how long it will take to get to the "little" things. Like enabling programmers to make their employers foot the bill for halfway decent keyboards and chairs.
Oh, and every other stupid thing he's said and done since then. Can we get a nice clear 'cvs diff -D 11-7-2000' on the country?
Investment rule #1: NEVER take investment advice from someone who spells 'ideas' with a 'z'.
Male. And we have good-quality linen. I just like everything strapped down rather than rolling around. But I just can't ever imagine it being comfortable.
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For this comic to make sense the name on the account with their internet provider would have to be that of the lizard. Which I doubt it is, funny idea, but doesn't make sense.
Echo chamber for idiots would be correct captain! Where the hell is that roll of Reynolds Wrap?
yay foreign girlfriends! (and wives)
Too bad it can be decompiled. And if it's stored in vector format (more typical of "webcomics"), the decompile will include all the vector data which you can edit to pirated taste.
Let's clarify, you == retarded, present situation == already tight demand, peak oil == fucked.
Oh hey retard, did you ever figure out how come there wasn't any "price gouging" worth shit in the past but suddenly now that peak oil has happened then it's ALL the fault of price gouging! Yeah right.
As for getting your oil from the middle east, sorry to tell you, imbecile, but you DO have to. And technically, you don't even get it from the middle east. But it doesn't matter where you get it from because ALL oil supplies EVERYWHERE are past peak.
I clicked "easy" and then Firefox spontaneously closed with no warning... odd.
[edit] It worked the second time
Right. As it is now, it's a (cool) solution in search of a problem.
But I'm sure there are problems that this will solve. It's just not something to apply to standard web site navigation.
Thumbs up for coolness. I'd like to see other places this could be applied.
@keithobambertman, Typical brainwashed response from a conservative...
There is a new Roth 401k that is tax-free. But it's brand-new, so essentially you're correct.
naked?
No, that's NOT circular reasoning. Circular reasoning would be more like:
Sleeping naked is more comfortable. Why is it more comfortable?
It's more comfortable because it's healthier. Why is it more healthy?
It's healthier because it's more comfortable.
That's circular reasoning.
The original argument has two premises:
1. Sleeping naked is more comfortable
2. Any increase in comfort improves health
And then draws the valid conclusion that sleeping naked must therefore be healthier.
A valid argument is one where if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true; a sound argument requires not only validity but also true premises. The original argument is clearly valid, if unsound.
Yay for Philosophy 1, which I took last winter... or so...
Oy. Romney is in more trouble...
Yeah I agree. I find that the more I fail, the more afraid of failure I become. I think this is because I've got more of a taste of how bad the consequences of failure are. It's kind of like beginner's luck, when you get really far in a video game but then you die, and that death ruins your momentum causing you to not get very much further in the game.
you guys need to stop being such predictable, binary, if-then statement dorks all the time and just appreciate it for what it is. IT'S BEAUTIFUL. he's not trying to make the most usable, functional site EVER! he's an artist and he's making his ideas work.
.. now if you excuse me.. i have to go work on my MVC app :)
Spot-on.
The terrorists explained that they were striking at American financial interests and symbols of wealth. Shopping may have sounded silly in the wake of such destruction, but it was a response that helped ameliorate the downturn in the wake.
Immanuel Kant writing in the middle of the 18th century didn't use religion to back up his moral arguments.
Yet of course you want to try to squirm out of it by butchering what I wrote and passing it off as mine. Whatever authority I have, it's vastly more than yours, you intellectually dishonest sewer rat.
Well said. If anything, that comment defines your life and all your accomplishments. You sir, are a hero. If you're lucky, they'll engrave it on your headstone.
Thanks to all that modded it up; need to make sure everybody sees that incisive piece of hate-filled rhetoric.
4:41 left... :^p Took me a while to realize I'd forgotten Minnesota. Plus I was doing something else when the clock started (despite the warning).
that comment wasn't towards you so stop overreacting. I hate cons who start labelling people conformist, apologist etc.
Actually pretty smart if you think about it. Go for the kids first since they have limited rights already. A horrible idea, but a pretty smart implementation.
A very good working example of why NOT to use such an interface.
I liked this book myself
When you control the courts and the congress, everything becomes legal. The one thing you are forgetting is the Constitution.
yeah
So you think they're stupid and easily fooled. Yeah that's the ticket that clever rascally brainiac George Bush fooled 'em! Why they should impeach him then! Or maybe he's too smart for 'em. Really, just review what the Dems said at the time. So they were all tricked?
Odd though Hilliary had access to all those Clinton administration leaders and she says she got their advice before she voted to authorize and they agreed with the intelligence. Odd all those other Democrat senators and congressman knew and were friendly with the same folks and no one disagreed with the available intelligence data. Do you think Bush forced Albright and company to lie?
No argument that involves only the two bodies is going to be convincing evidence for either hypothesis. If the Earth and Sun were the only objects in the universe than there's no reason you couldn't say that the Sun revolves around the Earth. It would just be a matter of what reference point you chose. It's only once you introduce the motion of the other planets that geocentrism stops making sense.
Sounds pretty easy to me.
Best comment evar!
In all the anti-Gore articles I've read about it, point 5 is "Therefore, Al Gore is a hypocrite", not "Therefore, we need not worry about global warming."
Well, whatever you say, the fact is that you can develop a whole solution involving visualization with Java which, by the way, is increasingly being used for scientific computing (as judged by the number of new books). Yes, Franz has bindings for OpenGL. I just think it's lame for a vendor that you're expected to pay up a hefty price and then, increasingly, your solutions for anything current like databases, performance, and visualization are developed with outside tools. Then, why not use Python? Or Java? Or C++? Which, by the way, is what people do...By the way, Java is really portable, and that is why banking, financial and medical institutions rely on Java for their software.
Clarification: mostly cpython the implementation, not python the language.
Nice pix, shame you have to register
Theeeerofore:
User: Johhny_Cash
Password: reddit
So?
That's quite cool, I knew someone else must've had a similar idea. There seems to be a general awareness that function composition is suspiciously Forthish. Were you able to define a loop?
dons, you beat me to submitting my own blog post. Enjoy the karma ;-)
Yeah, 'cuz 5 seems like too short of a list for the language.
mwahahahahaha
I thought you were kidding until I found this.
It's both nice and horrifying to see the left stoop to the level of the right.
A service in NYC where you're encouraged to NOT leave a tip!?!?! It probably costs about $300/day.
You want me to find it for you in the archives or what?
These always prove to be more pain than they're worth... just wait until you get a new computer which will have Vista OEM anyway, otherwise don't bother upgrading.
Let's have a Reddit-administered Andy Award, named for Dr. James Anderson of "nullity" fame.
Uh. The water is in the rocks and you'd have to take a rock to a lab to find it. It's not like it's a real "hollow" ocean thing.
I see also sometimes some creepy message :
Can't submit story: You are submitting too fast...
Me for god sake for first 3 month I submitted may be 10 stories... Is it too fast? :)
Actually, it worked for me.
If it wasn't for the tongue I would've looked at it and thought "oh, Mars bar, who cares?" But then when I looked at it I saw that it was advertising a new [presumably] ice cream Mars bar: soemthing I'd never heard of before and now want to try.
The other submission was from eight months ago, when Reddit's userbase was a tiny fraction of what it is today. The Reddiquette FAQ provides details on why it's okay to resubmit old stories.
You are of course right and I see your point now. Much obliged. Contrary to the evidence I do know what circular reasoning is, honest. I just for some reason decided to write nonsense and make a tit of myself in a public forum.
Yes I'm really sick of those sort of titles.
Very, and I mean very good stuff. Higly recommended. Not connected to any Python framework. Exellent.
If you untar the wordpress installation file it will overwrite the old files, so I think you don't have to worry about deleting some files first: http://www.fduran.com/wordpress/updating-wordpress-from-the-linux-command-line/
and instead - boring pics of ppl about to get killed :(
alright, tell me if this makes sense, but the lady needs to have big boobs for it to really feel right.
To show a process tree with pids, uids, and command line arguments, and avoid truncating long lines, you can use:
pstree -paul
To use line-drawing characters instead of pipes and dashes:
pstree -paulG
For some reason, I seem to be able to remember these flags particularly well.
It's not a position. The next sentence suggests empathy with Edwards for having been called "faggot" similarly. The suggestion is that people with shared experiences understand each other better. Having been correctly or incorrectly so-termed by a bigot suggests nothing in the way of political agreement or non-agreement.
March 24 is Shutdown Day. Here's a list of 7 things an internet addict needs to prepare to survive that personal experiment.
Yeah, you're right, I don't know what I was thinking. I think I'd mentally turned the "and" between the premises into a "therefore" and went off on one. Yay for the boundless opportunities the internet affords me to be completely wrong.
Yup. I agree. Knustler is someone who wants to see it 'all come down' but I he and others of his ilk are too optimistic or naive if they think it will lead to anything other than a lot of very angry people and a generally much poorer society that tries to look for scapegoats.
My biggest problem with Knustler? He doesnt tell you how to profit off this whole thing.
He's dooming people who read him to be in the 98% of the population that's going to get screwed.
scroll to the bottom for the poem rant
Yeah, I'll end the pedantry right here and say I was totally wrong and everyone else knew what they were talking about. I blame it on a (hopefully temporary) lapse of brain function. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
Great list, I was amazed to find some of my favorites books there :-)
"I didn't say it won't effect it, I said the effect will be unpredictable. Again learn to read."
You learn to read, dipshit.
Your basic premise has been that tax cuts won't always positively impact the economy. I never said you claimed it wouldn't affect it. I said you claimed it won't positively affect it. By implication, there's an always in there. Retard. So if you read it with at least the comprehension of a 12 year old, you'd read it this way:
You are so freaking idealogical. You'll go to just about any idiotic argument just so you don't have to admit to yourself that tax cuts will ALWAYS positively affect the economy.
Again, I repeat, the ALWAYS wasn't required because it was implied, but you're incapable of understanding even that little. Tax cuts will positively affect the economy, fucktard.
"Apparently you are unaware of the thousands of years of temprature readings we have through ice cores and such."
Yes, and we have global ice ALL OVER the fucking world, moron. This is STILL not experimentation, dipshit, and only limited in use in validation claims that we're experiencing global warming in the last 30 years.
Geez your so fucking stupid. Thousands of years of temp readings at the poles and a handful of decades of temp readings worldwide is supposed to be more data the economists have available?
Are you STILL denying that psychology is a science? You claimed it wasn't before but you now seem to be saying it is. Make up your little mind.
Remember? You claimed psychology wasn't a science? Remember? Twit.
"The theory of global warming is based on our understanding of physics, chemistry, mathematics, geology, and meteorology. There is lots of experimentation sorry."
Nope. There hasn't. All we have is temp readings. Give me one example of experimentation in global warming research, dipshit. Considering that global temperature changes takes DECADES to happen, there's no way to even do experimentation. All people can do is create theories and take readings. A single experiment would take 30 years to perform.
Looks like if Michael and the guy who plays Dr Cox on Scrubs managed to have an offspring.
Anyways, the parody (linked beneath the video) is way better:
Numa Numa Guy vs Angry German Kid (http://blog.pcnews.ro/2006/08/12/numa-numa-guy-vs-angry-german-kid/)
It will happen. The imbalances in the US economy and world economy are SEVERE. For this to unwind without massive pain for large numbers of people is almost out of the question.
Tumble it will. It's who will pick up the peices after the tumble that matter.
Dons,
You should seriously advocate the use of such a pipe operator rather than dots and dollar signs. I can tell you, as a newbie, life would be a lot easier for us if we didn't have to read haskell expressions left to right and right to left in the same expression. F# does this well with '|>'
Obviously any one can define such an operator and use it, but the point is, such an operator should be used for haskell tutorials!
If as the Demos claim, Bush manipulated the intelligence data to trick congress into declaring war then he should be impeached. The dems have easily more than enough votes in the house to impeach and if tricking the congress to declare war on false information isn't a high crime (treason?) what is? Get the house to impeach now. Then we can have a full airing of the tricks, lies and data manipulation used by Bush to illegally get us into a war. WHY WON'T THE DEMOCRATS IMPEACH BUSH AND FORCE HIM TO REVEAL WHAT HE DID?
Exactly. Bravo. Digital art sites do not need to follow usability guidelines. It's art!
Why does anyone give any credence to anything that Ann Coulter says? Liberals getting outraged and frothing at the mouth at her use of a pejorative is exactly what she wants. She's made a career out of ruffling the Left's feathers, and while almost everyone acknowledges this, almost everyone continues to fall for it.
I hardly think calling on a program's advertisers to express dismay over content they support is to be ashamed of.
How is that possible? It's not possible to have warm houses in Norway!
lousy art, funny concept. i especially like "mo".
I think the subprocess module is awesome. Perhaps it requires a little studying to use, but it sure beats Popen23.popen49 and friends.
The only subprocess interface that I've been more impressed with than Python's is the one in scsh. It also requires a bit of studying to use. But let's face it: interacting with programs is complicated.
Islam: The Religion of Peace.
Although they appear solid, the composition of some ocean floor rocks is up to 15 percent water.
Which is why you don't use sandstone to contain your camp fires. Funny stuff.
Unfortunately, this person is going way too far. All that has been shown (and argued for the most part) is Gore is a typical rich tree hugger type. By this I mean, "we" should all cut back to save the world where "we" is everyone but me.
Try setting slime up with vim and see how easy that is.
Interesting but mixed bag. Instead of pstree the 'f' option of ps in many implementations do the same, for intance: ps auxf|less
Other commandds are not something that you'd use frequently (bc?). And of course lsof, a page about it made it to the top/first pages of reddit like twice.
Are you saying the courts are controlled by President Bush and rule against the constitution as he directs? And does this include democrat appointed judges?
PS: Now that the democrats control both houses of congress why don't you get them to simply change the laws you don't like?
Yes, good ads are rare. Usually we just get pointless junk like this Snickers commercial.
But boycotting a country's products because they gave a certain religion the finger is overreacting?
That is true, I like to believe the universe revolves around the earth, and the earth is anchored at my feet.
Do you really think Bush got into power without knowing how to manipulate people? What could democrats do with a Republican majority and Republican president?
This polarized view of war is disturbing. If you vote pro for one war it does not automatically mean you vote pro for all wars. Typical polarized view of conservatives, but then its a lot easier to label and consolidate situations into simple little categories instead of objectively analyzing each situation.
It all goes to show the lack of critical thinking involved with conservative thinking.
No YOU leave skid marks on the sheets.
I never have.
lol religion
Very true. But the greater point in all of this is that if somebody in the year 2007 honestly believes that the sun revolves around the earth, the cheese has slid so far off of their cracker that no photo would ever help to get them back to being balanced. They need drugs or counseling, or both...
Python has closures, in the form of both nested functions and lambdas. Lambdas are rather crippled, but that's a different complaint.
LouF, is that you?
So you think they're stupid and easily fooled.
I don't think there was anything "easy" about it. The neocons spent nearly two full years building a case for the war, manipulating intelligence, sending Powell before the UN, scaring the American public into believing that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11, etc.
They were masterful. They were relentless. And they dragged the country into an unnecessary and terribly executed war.
And - for the record - I don't think Bush was an integral part of the brain trust that pulled this great crime off. He was more like an obedient wooden puppet manipulated by Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, et. al.
This is all off-topic, however...
If you oppose the idea that new oversight and leadership of the war is needed (vis a vis the article), then you continue to support the execution of the war by the same cabal that's gotten us into the catastrofuck we find ourselves in now.
And that, sir, is madness.
COBOL is a common business oriented language (or THE ... language?).
I don't use it, because I don't want to feel common.
Oh, please. You expect the BBC to report anything correctly in a scientific context? Though I do applaud them for presenting a named researcher with a valid counterpoint.
Blondness has been recessive for millennia. Besides, as a recessive gene it can always pop back up (one sister and a brother are the only blond kids in my family, and no jokes about marital infidelity please).
Before entering stall (easier at home): Take paper towel
from dispenser. Fold into a pad. Soak under tap. Then do your job. Wrap soaked pad with TP. Wipe back to front, front to back, sideways - whatever. Then take another wad of dry TP. Wipe dry.
Just use ubuntu. I'm using it here. Switched a few months ago and I'm quite pleased with it.
John the Baptist predated Christianity and was never a Christian. (Neither, of course, was Jesus)
In my opinion they should get whats coming to them, being that they elected the idiot. You would think that people would eventually realize what always happens when you nationalize industry and impose price controls...
It's unfair to say it was a 'revenge attack'. These were guys who saw a minivan explode near their convoy. Undoubtedly they were PARANOID. They were probably terrified that every car driving past was going to blow up.
Because the dumb code that appears to be slow at first sight, but still follows common object oriented principles will get compiled down to a performant version by the JVM. Contrast that with 'smart' code for which the JVM will find less possible optimizations.
The perspective to keep in mind when quoting him on this is that the dynamic compiler is a large pattern matching engine, write exotic 'smart' code, and there will be less patterns that match, and less optimizations that can be done for you.
No no no they voted to authorize war against IRAQ not any war. The majority of the Democrat Senators voted for war against IRAQ. In fact, they insisted on a second vote so they could be sure to get on record (this of course was a political calculation on the part of the dems). It was unquestionable they were voting to authorize war against IRAQ, don't know of one dem who makes your argument. Also the democrat controlled congress voted a bill authorizing the use of force to remove Saddam from power when President Clinton was in office.
American Idol Antonella Barba Pics. All the candids and nude bj shots.
Radical Muslims forcibly converting Mandeans
Isn't this exactly the same topic as the NY Times article by Damon Darlin published one day earlier?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/technology/03money.html
agreed, I found the interface mainly annoying.
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How about when the administration just goes ahead and does something despite the law? Like, say, directly violate both the spirit and letter of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act? Would that also be legal?
If as the Demos claim, Bush manipulated the intelligence data to trick congress into declaring war then he should be impeached. The dems have easily more than enough votes in the house to impeach and if tricking the congress to declare war on false information isn't a high crime (treason?) what is? Get the house to impeach now. Then we can have a full airing of the tricks, lies and data manipulation used by Bush to illegally get us into a war. WHY WON'T THE DEMOCRATS IMPEACH BUSH AND FORCE HIM TO REVEAL WHAT HE DID?
Yeah, you're right. We really would like to see a mass impeachment of this administration. The war in Iraq is certainly more of a high crime and misdemeanor than lying about a blowjob.
Unfortunately,
(a) I don't think there would be enough votes; we'd need 66 senators to convict, and that ain't gonna happen, so a simple majority impeachment in the House would be just symbolic
(b) starting impeachment proceedings while American troops are actively in a combat zone is political suicide
What is a "load balancer" in this context? Software or hardware? Any recommendations?
I wasn't speaking against the actions of democrats. I was commenting on the idea that the anti-war folks that ignored the Iraq issue no longer have a credible vote against the potential Iran war or future wars.
Nice. Do you have some kind of personal axe to grid? Or do you just hate americans because of their freedom?
Yet it's pretty much common for the rest of the people.. at least in my experience.
What?! A Japanese tractor for one of wife's kidney? Man you western types are cold. I wouldn't have settled less than an SUV.
Yeah, I guess I didn't grasp what you where getting at because I learned to WIPE MY ASS at age 2.
Jesus christ, skidmarks on the sheets, teh intertubes never cease to amaze me.
Wasn't the problem with the Comet that it was designed before stress concentration and crack propagation were well understood - it had square windows on the top :-o
The fuselage of current airliners are a fairly nice shape for a pressure vessel, could be tricky making different shape fuselages? (Perhaps two cylinders side by side?)
I've come to the conclusion that Ann Coulter is a fucking idiot.
fs
He did do some comparisons with PGDATA on a RAM drive. That should eliminate drive controller issues doncha think?
"The person who was ordering all this stuff, the chief warrant officer, he never saw these prisoners, so there was no way for him to understand what was going on."
That is exactly the same mechanism used by the Nazis when killing the Jews: The administration was separate from the people executing orders -- J. Eichman once visited a concentration camp and said he couldn't stand it and wouldn't go again. So the people giving the orders could trick themselves into not feeling responsible for what they did ("the guys who exercise the orders are responsible") and the guys at the bottom could trick themselves into not feeling responsible either ("i'm just executing orders").
It is a totally appalling but effective system.
It's either laughable or very sad, I don't know which.
I'm beginning to put a fence around religion and religious people nowadays because I find it (and some aspects of them) to be batshit crazy and if I think about it too long my head wants to explode.
I've heard enough religious stories involving gross acts of stupidity and dumbness to last a lifetime. Fark has a Florida tag to explain away dumb stories and in future I'm just going to hold up a religious tag and say "Nothing shocks me any more in relation to this subject".
Ok well not literally.
If you'd read what I wrote, you'd have noticed that I object to war in the first place. Wars are barbaric and should be avoided if at all possible.
It's like complaining about getting kicked in the nuts in a street fight. Of course people don't fight fair - it's a fight. It's about winning, with as few losses possible on your side and with as little damage done to your image. If you don't lower yourself to the tactics of your opponent you're putting yourself at a disadvantage.
And in case you're short of memory, by who did the cities in Japan get bombed again to put an end to WW2? But of course, you don't call THOSE radical nukes. They're only radical when they're being dropped by the other side. Right...
baits you're throwing to get me off the real point have nothing to do with this discussion.
I am not throwing you baits, you said:
educating childern from kindergarten age
I show you what Israelis are getting educated on.
http://perlustration.blogspot.com/2006/07/sure-sign-of-sick-culture.html
Is that a bait or just basically what you are saying here:
might want to contemplate your own situation every now and then, rather than blaming the West on all your problems.
The real problem you have is that "me generation" has never understood the price the previous generations has paid for their freedom.
Wow. His friends are so hawt!
If anyone thinks that the exfiltration of war time scientists from Japan is a one time deal, make sure to look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
Of the more notable, we have Wernher von Braun, inventer of the V-1 and V-2 rockets (That terrorized many a British Citizen) and one of the most notable Directors of NASA (he was the leading forces that got the US to the moon).
"Our Germans are better than their Germans." - The Right Stuff
If these innocent civilians didn't want to get killed, they shoulda thought about that before they decided to be terrsts.
I heard a quote recently attributed to Einstein, although I suspect it was a gag:
"Excuse me, madam, but what time does San Francisco stop at this train?".
This will not only have the theoretical asset of protecting you from Velociraptor, it will have the pragmatic asset of protecting you from thirst.
Now this made me laugh out loud.
I put the PGDATA on a ramdisk and PostgreSQL's INSERT INTO are still slower on a big server iron than MySQL running on my laptop.
Think sync vs async matters to a ramdisk?
Open any key lock without damaging or tampering with the lock. Lock bumping made easier!
Taking responsibility can also mean not building in swampland that will get flooded in the next 100 years.
I refuse to make a don't talk about fight club joke
accidentally reported.
No, they have been out of control for years, they are getting worse though. It's that damn DMCA that's really to blame, but that was only passed do to incompetent legislators and RIAA and MPAA lobbying.
yeah, this is a cheap knockoff.
Unfortunately, you can't avoid the damage by not drinking milk. The issue is that they are using antibiotics on many cows. This means that bacteria will have lots of chances to become immune to it. So, when you get an infection, and the bacteria is immune the all the antibiotics humanity has, you are still screwed.
Has this actually been used for a real project? Or is it just a "to show it could be done" hack?
today for first time
Less stories about Bush, less lame videos. KTHXBAI.
She has a wikipedia page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Kwiatkowski
I think that's just a generic phrase. The more commonly used saying is "Xiu Hua Zhen Tou" 'embroidered pillow'.
Bingo! As city editor at a metropolitan daily, I railed about reporters and copy editors who absolved themselves of factual responsibility by attributing a statement.
"The world is flat," he said.
... and then there was the medical reporter who wrote about a patient who died when the attending emergency room physician did not provide an anecdote. I guess when medicine fails, we should at least die entertained.
People in the comments always they "these photos are fake." :P
Thanks anyway.
You only need a simple majority in the house and the dems easily have it. And impeachment by the house is in no way symbolic. It will force a senate trial of Bush. In the trial the senate can force Bush and all his cronies to testify in a senate hearing under oath. This would force an airing of all the lies, tricks and manipulations. Once aired it is unimaginable enough republicans wouldn't vote to convict in face of overwhelming evidence.
And an airing of the facts will crush the Republican party for years to come and would in no way hurt the demos.
The reason the democrats won't impeach is an airing of the facts will reveal their lie for what it is.
I've yet to see a good use of fish eye view other than OS X's dock.
Do I get extra points for getting this comment in first?
F U AMERIKKKA, you are nothing but a bunch of pretarded xtians!!!1 Why don't you drive your humvee over to MacDonalds for another burger fatty!
Hey chillout mate. I didn't even downmod you. :)
Slow doesn't bother me. That's why I happily use Perl and Erlang and Python and other interpreted languages (yes, I know there are native compilers for all of those).
But Ruby gives new depth to the term "slow." Python is typically 2-4 times slower than Perl and Erlang. Ruby can be just as slow in comparison with Python.
Additionally, the packaging for the Windows version of Ruby isn't as clean and simple as with, say, Python.
Yeah, so why have so few upvotes been registered? >:-[
It's art, it doesn't have to be funtional
I have a feeling this is something similar to the digg prank http://reddit.com/info/176of/comments This site is a joke. Why is it on the front page?
What the fuck are "snippers"? Oh, he means jarheads with guns. Well, wee.
Even Vincent Flanders, who originated WebPagesThatSuck, feels that there is a place for artistic, not-as-usable sites. If you don't like it, close your eyes. Or use that there Back button.
It blew my mind that Connecticut is spelled the way it is. Shit. How did I manage to go through life without knowing how to spell Connecticut?
Wait until people start making websites for the Wiimote...
putting aside all of the other patently ridiculous stuff you've said in this subthread, i'll repeat what i just said: your claim is incorrect. kant very definitely used religion to back up his moral arguments, insofar as he suggested that god was a valid moral predicate, precisely because god is not a rational predicate. maybe you're talking about his arguments against the rationalist proofs of god, but frankly, your statement gives such short shrift to the topic that it's practically meaningless.
in short, i hereby amend my comment to include the second half of your sentence, and conclude that you still have absolutely no fucking clue what you're talking about.
also, please feel free to back up your claim that "outside the USA religion plays no rule in either ethics or morality" any time you feel like it, dipshit.
You venture wrong and should stop doing it from now on.
"Wow," says Leslie Stewart, 63, who works in a paint factory six days a week and gives 10 per cent of his income to the church. "I never heard of anything like that. But if I release my tithe and they misuse it, they have to face God."
Reminds me of a story I read in this book:
When Ho Chi Zen decided to take students, he put a bowl for donations just inside the door. Over the small brass container was a sign that read: If you wish to donate, do so before class.
Habitually, Ho Chi Zen stood where he could see which student donated and which student did not as they entered. Asked why he did so, Ho explained, "Any student who contributes three times in a row is dismissed for excessive gullibility."
No, sadly. Not an ice cream Mars bar at all. Just a regular old Mars bar. In the freezer. Innovative!
I was quite surprised to see that it changed position not only vertically, but horisontally as well.
I have always thought that the sun was at the same horisontal position at the same hour of the day all year, and only the height changed.
An interesting view, I think, of the recent Iran/Saudi dialog...
Anne Coulter's purpose is little more than to distract liberal types from meaningful political discourse. If some conservatives want to consider her an astute social commenter or comedienne, let them. She is nothing but a real-life troll, full of weak arguments and personal attacks. Attacking her is an easy/pointless exercise. So please, ignore her, as well as the boring, by-the-book liberals at D-Kos. . .
Starts well but felt it jumped to conclusions early like "Run Python web server" and nginx.
With straight Apache + mod_python, even without reverse HTTP proxy, you should be able to serve similar loads to the 3 iteration in this presentation at least. The flip side of caching is the longer you don't need it, the longer things stay simple.
Meanwhile I'd expect Apache to do rather better at surviving mal-formed / malicious requests than a marginal / less-tested reverse proxy or HTTP server.
And nginx? Is that really the best choice? What about pound or perlbal - any kind of comparisons out there?
Meanwhile FastCGI? Should that really be presented as a sensible option? Worth reading this.
That's an interpretation of the law. There are times when there can be differences in interpretations and the executive branch has to act based on their best judgment. When the implementation of the law came into question, the Bush administration worked with congress and the special court to reach an agreement on how the law should be applied. Nothing illegal here. By the way most applications of law do not require adherence to the literal "letter of the law" and the spirit of the law is frequently a judgment call.
do you live in Florida?
looks like a bio-dome.
An intersting article. I'd not been following these events.
Class.
Praise the Lord and pass the plate!
These "carbon credits" are nonsense. The people who "purchase" them are doing nothing to reduce their "carbon footprint". They are simply using energy that other people wouldn't otherwise use. So actually, they are contributing more to the so-called destruction of the planet by using so much energy. They are nothing more than hypocrites...and complete idiots to boot. It makes you wonder about the people who really buy into this garbage. Al Gore has done nothing to offset his "carbon use". He has simply made complete fools of the people who believe him.
And as far as "the truth of climate science" is concerned...has there been even one experiment that proves any of these hypotheses about humans causing a climate change? Here's the answer: NO. So, let's be careful about what we're calling "truth" here.
Nazi Satanist child molesting terrorists?
I'm not much of a python user, or advocate, however, as an occasional user, I find the special method foo decoration horribly hideous for an otherwise good-looking language.
He was talking about scaling on a single web server using a software load balancer, primarily to avoid the Global Interpreter Lock (which restricts a single Python application server to only running on one core). The example load balancer he used was nginx, which is also a high performance web server in its own right.
The AP article lays out the case for civilians being injured and killed in a crossfire, and being hit by U.S. forces at they left the scene. I also stated this in my comment above. My point was merely that the article linked in the story was cherry picking details to the point of being highly inaccurate.
I'm not sure who is unconcerned about the loss of life, but it surely isn't me. I think you are attempting to pour meaning into my comment which clearly does not exist. My point was simply that the original article was poor.
I find it interesting that you have apparently already concluded that the U.S. troops murdered civilians based solely on the contents of this article. If this is the standard we apply then we should also have no problem with the hundreds or thousands of "enemy combatants" U.S. forces have scooped up using similar flimsy evidence.
"Hey, if you work with us in Iraq and allow us to gain control of the oil fields that are mainly in the Shiite Iraqi regions, we can tell the Americans to stand down about that nuclear thing."
There's plenty of downside, but not a whole lot of upside.
Upside: justice served, historical confirmation of worst-president-ever status throughout history
Downside: unlimited exposure to calls of "treason" from the right, potentially demoralizing to the troops, etc.
Besides,
The Republican party is already in dire straits for years to come
There's less than 2 years left of this administration
Who would take the place of an impeached Bush (assuming Cheney also got the axe?)
We don't need an impeachment trail to "know what Bush did." It's taken 5 years, but the breadth and depth of his administration's duplicity is coming to light.
The reason the democrats won't impeach is an airing of the facts will reveal their lie for what it is
What lie, exactly?
Most of them have already left Iraq and are refugees in other countries.
We've come a long way. I was saying this three years ago, but if there had been reddit comments back then, I would have been modded to -75. Now you're at 4 points.
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Interesting story of a woman who was estranged from her birth family and who advertised for and found a new family to adopt her.
I am a pythonista, and I'll defend the __foo__ syntax by saying that it shows you, without any doubt, that foo is a magic variable. There is no thinking required.
Also, if you're typing too many _'s, you're probably doing something wrong.
There is lot of useful engineering information in this blog. It is especially helpful to mold deigners and moldmakers, although many of the topics are of a general mechanical engineering nature.
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To be honest, I think thats a great example of incredibly bad UI design.
Yes. This is precisely the example Wikipedia gives for verbal irony. This is a magical moment.
Nit: Dictionary.com just copies Random House. (Random House is not full of ignorant idiots.)
Way to not read my comment and just cut & paste comments across posts.
If you're not at all interested in having an honest debate with people, why do you spend so much time on reddit?
No; you forgot "The".
Hey fucking doofus, as soon as you name-call you admit you lost or are not sure of your point. Learn how to argue with real facts and not just name-calling, its a sign of failure.
Save this message and then remind yourself who the retard and imbecile is in 20-30 years.
Do you really think if oil was running out that people would be able to buy SUVs and use up the fuel we need for our military? Would there be record profits of oil if there wasn't tightening for margins, do you even know what that means?
btw, you should go by dick not richard. Let's see some facts to back up your assumptions based on what you were told, which is appeal to authority and something that will keep you on your knees your entire life.
It is an advertisement for a mortgage broker.
There should be sloppy journalism awards. The worse in journalism in every category should get some kind of prize. Maybe the fear of public shaming would make some of them pay more attention? If not, the ceremony would still feel great.
The next sentence in my comment (after the one you quoted) is "The AP article does mention U.S. forces firing on cars and pedestrians as they left the scene." The article was clear and I believe my comment was clear.
My point was merely that the original article linked was poor, the AP was much more informative. I find it unlikely anyone would attempt to refute this.
I sound like a "shill" by exposing a price fixing system of the oil industry? The logic is well thought out from your side of the argument I see.
Fantasy.
The basic thing to notice about all of this is that each selection is always in the same spot on the page.
The trick could be applied as an overlay to more static interface, to just art up traditional UI.
To what are you referring? Specifically.
These people should hang.
No, you know what, I think we should just torture them. Jesus, people like you are the reason these policies get instituted in the first place.
Like chocolate, too much makes you sick
Tiger Woods wants his ball back.
I never said there isn't tight demand. I said that it is tight because oil companies who control the refineries, teh exploration and the reserves all have colluded to keep margins high and profit levels high through tightening supply.
If you made money on a product, would you rather get 10% profit, or 20% profit? If you had the ability to control supply to make it 20% profit or more would you? This is the fundamental problem with a single fuel energy market.
Peak Oil scare tactics and the war on terror has alot to do with high oil prices, not lack of oil.
Dont' base your decisions in fear, they will be wrong.
Warm blankets, good insulation and electrical heating = no problem.
Do you think they're sadistic? Do you think they are inhumane?
Yes.
It's really quite naive to think some atrocities will not occur in a war environment
No, a well-disciplined army can and should do whatever it can to keep cases like this down to a minimum. The decisions on what type of torture is allowed was taken fairly high up (possibly by Rumsfelt or with his blessing) and the practice of arresting a large number of mostly innocent Iraqis and detaining and interrogating them for long periods of time must have been taken on a fairly high level, too. There is nothing inevitable about either decision and some of the senior military staff been more concientious and not as lazy, then none of this would have happened. The UK army manages to administer a section of Iraq without the same level of wreckless torture.
Either people are too gullible or has lost all hope.
Can we all agree that Godwin's Law doesn't apply here?
Another stupid game without instructions.
/somebody get a Russian translator
Yeah, and that will happen. I don't think so.
Avatar offers high speed sailing trips of the Whitsunday Islands in Queensland Australia. Their motto is Go Fast or Go Home.
LGF hate Islam, Arabs, and Iranians, and never really have anything new to say about the ME. It's all just variations on the "Islam is bad" theme.
FYI. Many times these "EXPERTS" are funded by oil companies. When they get the study results they want, they advertise it, when they dont' they suppress it. You have a lot to learn young padawan. Its the same with the drug companies, energy companies or any industry. Its a form of advertising through studies. I am not saying these are wrong I am saying the only ones that get through are the ones they want you to see. The only one in fantasy land is you to think that humans could use up all the oil on earth in 50 years. Jemsus man get a hold of yourself and your points that are only told to you to echo.
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I repeat "Markets never crashes with a warning". This hoopla will vanish within few days and all news sources will be barking flourishing economy.
And you will see majority buying again at higher prices.
Unfortunately, you know what will happen with that approach, right? Microsoft will upgrade MS Office and make it fail to work as best as possible on XP, or make Internet Exploder 8 and not release it for XP. If the stats go bad enough against them, they'll change the playing field again.
That's why I stick with Ubuntu Linux and GnomeOffice. That way, I don't have to fear any FBI agents raiding my house because I cracked Vista.
No, Linux is a kernel, it doesn't know what a mouse is.
Read the footnote. The author later elaborates he's talking about X Window. Even if you disagree with the author's diction, it's obvious from context that he's not talking about Linux the kernel. This argument as an attack on the author's opinions is pedantic and just passive-aggressive BS.
Woooo, a Microsoft publication we can't verify with source code?
This is ridiculous. Why don't we ignore all MSDN and Microsoft.com documentation and assume the worst since, after all, we can't verify it with code?
FUD.
Of course it's cool, it's an advertisement.
The author is pointing out a neat software feature he would like to have (he mentions Linux patching). He's not marketing anything, since pointer velocity is just absolutely fascinating. Indeed, he's a Linux user and programmer.
The "blur" in normal vision can only be considered a flaw of the human eye (and similar devices). I wonder why they would devote so many (probably billions) of CPU cycles to replicating it in a 3D interface.
HAH! Back in my day we used VRML and that's the way I likes it!
no pic no care.
Dunno, if it takes me more than 2 hours...
I wonder if the documentary takes direct quotes from An Inconvenient Truth? I wonder if Al Gore will try to back up his movie's facts if this other documentary gains traction?
Surprise, rich are more prepared wiht investing globally. Many times depressions or attacks like 9/11 offer better opportunities to buy for rich or private equity. Just ask Carlyle who bought Dr. Pepper, Lowes, Lowes theatres, Dunkin Donuts, many many defense companies when the price was really low. The poor always lose the most percentage-wise.
I'm the author of metalua actually :)
And I have to agree that the currently available alpha is really ugly; it's been put online for a couple of language geeks, and is still not easily usable. I haven't announced it on reddit, and I wish nobody had before the next version. There's a much improved version almost ready, but I need my day job to become a bit quieter to finish the doc and release it.
Finally, for the record, the ugly dependent stuff in 0.2 would be OSX-dependent.
Harder to install than Debian? Please! Take for instance this:
Install Ubuntu Server but don't connect it to the Internet.
It won't get updates and will install everything from CD.
Within about 15 minutes you can reboot to a usable command-line Linux OS.
Now connect it to the Internet with the Ethernet cable.
From command-line, do 'sudo apt-get update'.
Now do 'sudo apt-get upgrade'.
Now do 'sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop'.
Within minutes this is the fastest way to get an Ubuntu desktop going or an Ubuntu server going. There's even an easy doc to follow on the Internet that can help you convert Ubuntu back to Debian again.
I agree absolutely. Great service. Nice group of members. Try it out!
I don't buy it. Take a look at the extra clauses in the Ultimate section of the EULA:
USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system on the licensed device. If you do so, you may not play or access content or use applications protected by any Microsoft digital,
information or enterprise rights management technology or other Microsoft rights management services or use BitLocker.
These are extra clauses about DRM specifically for Vista running in a virtual machine. If the Home license allowed running in a virtual machine, then it would also have these DRM clauses.
Trying to read "installed on the licensed device" as "installed on a virtual machine" when "licensed device" is defined as a "physical hardware system" is just wishful thinking.
Knockoff or not, it's still very fun. The title is very appropriate.
Yes Yes you are so RIGHT, it will just take awhile.
I don't like that Python's assignment statements aren't valid expressions. This problem blocks lambdas from being able to assign values.
I don't like all the underscores required for manipulating classes.
I don't like how the interpreter treats indentation differently from actual text files. For example, the following code will work fine in a file, but not when copy-pasted into the interpreter:
if True:
print 'True'
else:
print 'False'
I don't like how the DB-API doesn't standardize certain features, such as the name of the "last inserted row ID" attribute or what Cursor.execute() is supposed to return.
I don't like name mangling of class methods in general. It's an ugly solution to a non-problem, and causes odd exceptions to the rules. For example, methods that also end in two underscores are un-mangled.
I couldn't actually read the text in the video, but after a quick search apparently it says: "So Good You'll Suck Dick"
No one mentions in any of these articles that congress is responsible for funding. What would the situation be if there was inadequate funding? Pretty much what you got.
You can do some fun stuff with balanced trees. I once wrote a newsreader that kept the article threads in an AA-tree (sorted by subject or date), and each node of the tree also kept the display height, which would be updated (in log(N) time) when you expanded or collapsed a thread.
we're slaving away at mtv. weekends. we're starting to buzz on these photos, whoever's doing them. who are you burbia? send more. very sick subtle. yea.
People who hold one member of a group as an example of how the whole group acts and thinks.
The fact this stream of consciousness has as many points as the "Why aren't you using Python?" reddit is awesome on so many levels.
The cult of John the Baptist predates Christianity. In fact the whole baptism of Jesus scene in the synoptic gospels was probably planted there in order to win converts to Christianity from Baptist's cult.
Finally, something hilarious from xkcd on reddit that I wouldn't have seen through the comic's RSS feed.
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"It took the Mississippi River 6,000 years to build the Louisiana coast...It took man (and natural disasters) 75 years to destroy it....Experts agree we have 10 years to act before the problem is too big to solve."
Dude, you messed up. You should have made the title say, "How To Fix A Marriage In Two Steps". 1. Click the link. 2. A couple can probably easily figure out what to do for step # 2.
Fuck yeah it is! BLAME CANADA! WHOOOOOOOO
The picture you posted is almost unreadably small. It wasn't at all clear what I was supposed to be looking at, and I happen to know what the general geography of the area is.
How could anyone know? The origin of Dow price information is that glitched system. If it don't know, nobody knows.
Read More about the $16 billion and a 10 percent rate of return, Larry Ellison would need to spend more than $30 million a week simply to keep from accumulating more money than he already has, to say nothing of trying to spend down the $16 billion itself.
raldi, I like your idea, but I'm not sure it's very practical.
I thought this is a joke... until I tried :-)
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Try this: http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=409989922&size=l
Flickr demands in Terms of Svc that you link to the main photo page.
Hey, this is pretty good.
But don't you think its an amazing pic? Perhaps the best evar?
Does anyone know any good nano violin teachers? Failing that, the zither is "firm" favorite!
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Atheism is so misunderstood.
I also tend to prefer significant indentation, but I don't think it should be considered as friendly:
It seems to be extremely confusing to some people. Not only beginners and non-developers, but also some really good hackers. OTOH, virtually all of those who prefer significant indentation and are able to write interesting code can put up with explicit block markers.
In a theoretical, ideal world, there should be no issue with spaces vs. tabs, editors taking "creative" decisions, html/wiki parsers mangling spaces, etc. In the real world, there are plenty of daily tools which handle spaces poorly if you don't take extra care. Until all these tools are rewritten, and people's mind are fixed as well, semantically loaded spaces are literally unfriendly: they don't behave nicely with fellow development tools.
This is not generalizable, but I happen to work on stuff which involve a lot of parsing, and for these, not having to deal with significant indentation is worth much more than getting rid of a couple of end statements.
If they really bug you, it's not difficult to make emacs hide them for you. It might also be doable with Vi, but that's not my side of the sterile editors religious war :)
The honesty of the election is in question.
He fails to mention that the reason why the USSR failed in the end was that the secretive State was in control and individuals had no idea how to recreate an economy. His do's and don'ts will lead to tribal America. Even the Great Depression in America was only a 40% drop. Yes that is alot but the people who bought right back in were hundreds-times richer. Since 1933 and the SEC creation teh public signals are much better and look at the dow since 1933, even through 9/11.
The fact is America is more entreprenuerial and small business based, this will be our skills to rebuild after any drop and even if there is one it will be recovcerable within 10 years as the Depression, the 87 crash (which was stil an way up year aunnually), the bubble of 2000 (which was a knee jerk reaction to Y2K another fake crisis), and many other blips and bumps.
You people have no faith in private industry which is just individuals like you and I. Why is it better for elites in a Communist system like the USSR to be more prepared? Were they used to living with less? People who run governments are just humans and a percantage is always corrupt (think of your work or school, corrupt idiotic people there?). These are the people you want CYAing and plannig your future. Leave it up to services for individuals, that is teh true freedom and I say we are 1000s of times more prepared to rebuild an economy. This dude who wrote this is a communist and doesn't understand private and individual success. Its sad really...
He even says the US is more transparent (for now) and that leads others to see crashes and handle them, corrections will happen. When you have a communist system running your country nothing is real market value, so it will crash hard one day and your people will look to you reather than themselves to make do. They have been trained to rely on state for guidance rather than the market, what people actually want and what they will pay for.
Re your first point: is this just a problem with the lambdas for you, or do you also experience it in general? I think I like the fact that statements aren't expressions in a general sense (e.g. it prevents if a = 3: problems, which kind of suck). The fact that lambda only accepts expressions, not statements, is a different choice, I think, which is indeed debatable.
Man do I suck:
You forgot:Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Maine, Maryland, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia,
I could have sworn I typed Arizona, Delaware, and Idaho, but oh well
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There's a point to using menus and Ajax.
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Not to mention we've already got Posilac which is illegal in virtually every developed country with the exception of the United States.
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People that can't use their apostrophes correctly.
"It's" and "its" are different, folks, and only one is possessive.
Ooooh, I get it now.
Well, shit, we've already done almost irreparable damage to everything else essential to our survival, why not fuck up the food AND our immune systems in one go?
No, it doesn't. But it has everything to do with the typical liberal willingness to demand that the world make sacrifices that they, themselves, are unwilling to make.
Re 1: this is also an oft-heard complaint. However, I think the people who came up with "Explicit is better than implicit.", were on to something, being explicit about these things saves some brain cycles from having to think where some variable came from.
Re 3: yes, we have these now.
Re 4: coming from PHP's PCRE, I had no problems with Python's regexes whatsoever. Seems mostly functional equivalent to me.
Seriously? Why even advertise that? Sadly, the add would probably of worked on me still: after giving up on finding a mars ice-cream bar, I would probably just by a normal one.
That's much clearer. That's a stupid rule, and poor design to boot - most image hosts let you see a full-size image by just clicking the thumbnail. Maybe you shouldn't host this thing on Flickr.
I hate the "Amazing" adjective on this Reddit post but the interface is cool. I love the blur effect - looks like Pixel Shaders although I don't think Flash can do that so I'm quite curious as to how exactly this was implemented. Not how it's possible just what implementation route was taken.
As for whether this is good UI, I don't think it's a general approach to be repeated - it's an artistic way to do the guy's homepage. A fine choice.
However, 3D interfaces certainly are helpful when the user is to deal with data that is by its nature "focused," where they want more information about data closely related to an item they're working with but still want an overall context. 3D nicely pans the relevant stuff towards the user and enlarges it and puts the less relevant stuff into the background as strictly contextual UI.
Yes, it sure is, and who's to say that our English teachers aren't quacks, not adapting to needs of the modern times?
Sometimes ending with a preposition is just what works out naturally and sounds right.
We English speakers have to keep saying, "Did you mean right as in correct, or right as in turn right?" Do you realize how many car wrecks this causes?
When doing a lot of programming, and sharing commands with other programmers in emails, you DON'T want punctuation to be inside the quotes, and you often do not want technical terms in technical documentation to have this punctuation either. Therefore, you put it outside the quotes, but this is incorrect when you look at the Chicago Book of Style.
What do you do when you already are writing something inside parentheses and need to express something else in parentheses, and so on? Keep adding parentheses?
Sometimes we get stuck with double words when speaking, such as saying "this this".
The comma rules are messed up when daisy-chaining adjectives. Sometimes it makes sense to put a comma between each one, and sometimes it is not.
I don't think there are any hard and fast rules for capitalization of titles that makes sense. For instance, is it "A Book for a Good Day", "A Book For A Good Day", or "A Book for A Good Day"? I can never figure that one out.
Too often when writing proper English, our phrases become long and sound stiff, too formal, and unpleasant compared to the way we speak. It's not like Italian, where you can make everything sound like a passionate song. (I've got the fix for that, though. Get more seriously hot Italian women to move to English-speaking countries to help change our language. Ha!)
Okay, I don't really understand why people keep harping on "limited support for proper [sic!] functional-style programming". Sure, lambda may be limited in the sense that you can only use an expression and no statements, but it seems to me that the major part of "proper" functional-style programming is first-order functions, which you can pass around.
well, how about it? Got any data for your assertion?
I agree that there is a large percentage of terrorism that has been committed by Muslims, but "most"? Over the last 50 Years?
I'm not so sure about that. What about the IRA, Baeder Meinhoff, Red Brigades, ERA, SDS, never mind the vast multitude of splinter groups, right & left wing death squads in countries too numerous to mention. Our own little rat's nest of Tim McVeigh and his ilk? Top it off with the terrorist acts of various governments over the years.
No, I'd be quite surprised if were so.
So Joe, are any Mandaeans going to heaven?
What an idiot. How about I take revenge on YOU asswipe? Send me your name and address, or better yet, just post it here and the next time one of us gets angry or bent out of shape, we'll show up at your door and wipe out YOUR FAMILY.
Dickwad. What a fucking fool you are.
Actually, the "blag" has a feed, too, which you might like.
I was hoping the title would be continued as "By Breaking Her Harpy Jaw And Stomping Her Face In Her Own Cancerous Excretions".
Satanists are theists. They are nazis (with a small n) by default ;o)
I completely agree.
Mmm last time I checked, if the burden of the proof is not met then the assertion is considered false:
If I tell you that I have a magical dragon behind my house, until I've proven it, it seems logical that you believe I have no magical dragon behind my house.
If I tell you that I can make a puppy's blood boil just by looking at it, until I've proven it and boiled a puppy alive without using water, fire or any source of heat it seems logical that you believe I can't boil puppy's blood just by lookit at it.
If I tell you that I have four arms, until I've proven the existence of my fourth arm it seems logical that you believe I've got the standard arms-count of two.
If I claim to have discovered that the earth was in fact a hollow ball inside of which we live, rotating around a sun the size of a strawberry, until I've proven the reality of my claim it seems logical that you consider me to be a complete wacko.
But if I tell you that there's an invisible, all-powerful, all-knowing entity that you have no way to detect that talks to me in my mind, even if I don't prove anything about my invisible friend it somehow doesn't seem logical for you to believe that there's no invisible entity that talks to me in my mind and that I'm somewhat deluded if not slightly unhinged?
If one of your friend told you "there's an invisible magical pink unicorn in my bathtub" you'd really tell him "well I can't prove nor disprove the existence of your invisible magtical pink unicorn so although I don't believe there is one I won't disbelieve there is one either"?
Or would you just call him out on his bullshit and laugh at him, because until he proves that his unicorn exist there's no damn single reason for you to even remotely believe there is one?
The article is bullshit by the way:
For instance, a Christian, Muslim, or atheist who assert the others do not have the right to practice their beliefs, or that they should and will be punished for what they believe are in the "explicit" category.
An atheist who asserts that others don't have the right to practice their beliefs or that they should and will be punished? Give me a break... Atheists will at worst laugh at your belief in invisible friends (I'm probably in the "the worst" category if you haven't realized it), but I don't know of one who'd somehow try to forbid you to believe in whatever stupidity you want to believe in.
Unless your beliefs may harm other people that is.
And even then, they'll only try to stop you from harming other people.
false story, stop spreading bullshit around
i think you mean 'adorn', dumbass
I don't believe in Hell. Say, are any Mandeaens going to heaven, or do they go to hell in your belief system?
Interesting, not amazing.
pro-israel agenda? anti-semitic bitch
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Not even the Hooters billboards?
what a missed opportunity ... the panda!
What the fuck does that mean?
Eh, they're just taking a line from the Catholic church. If I recall correctly, the entire reason why the Catholic church made it so that priests couldn't marry was so that all of the belongings and life accumulations of a priest on the payroll of the Church would go back to them, instead of any children.
I agree. It is a pity to lose ideas. It is often a pity to lose cultural details too. It is important to collect and study history. I would not think it best to keep oppressive ideas alive just for the sake of diversity though.
I'm not sure if that article has been changed since you posted it, but it refers to him as a former champion, which is correct, and makes no reference to him being a grandmaster.
It attracts lightning and powers the flux capacitor.
Free to any boys under the age of 14?
Actually, I second that grandparent post. I also live in Norway (born and bred), and it is impossible to get anything here hot enough. Perhaps I am a bastard or something. I like the stormy weather, but the cold really gets me.
My roommate at the boarding school last year always slept with the window open, even in the middle of winter. Oh, the memories... ;)
He's an officer. The President is ultimately his superior. You don't get to freely say disparaging things about your superiors while on duty in the military.
It will, however, work if you remove the extraneous space inbetween print 'True' and else:. The interpreter stops reading when it hits two newlines in a row. That's why you have to hit enter an extra time whenever you type in a multi-line statement.
He missed "Use the right tool for the right job", which I particularly hate.
Fools and their money.
Not really, I haven't found a good short translation. For example:
q: I'm heading off, I guess you're not coming tonight?
a: Doch!
Or:
q: What, you don't like reddit?
a: Doch!
The same in norwegian btw, where yes is ja, and doch is jo. We like it short and sweet :)
I miss it in English, but as someone else pointed out "that's right" often works, though I do end up repeating back the sentence a lot. "That's right, I've had enough coffee". Purely hypothetical of course, one can never have enough coffee.
DSADSA
Poor Leslie, she is giving her retirement away to a non-existant dream. If she put that towards her own retirement she could live well in THIS life not have to focus on some hope of the next life. What if the next life does not exist? Will you be happy with the way you lived this life?
Wasn't the "War on Drugs" the middle-war that they used to put soldiers in South America to protect oil pipelines and other projects not funded directly?
Even Nixon knew the Cold War was ending before he left office, although they dragged it out publicly as long as they could.
Why else have they failed to stop all those drug cartels after 20+ years and how many billions of dollars, and US drug use and the illegal drug industry are as widespread as ever?
Our "War on Drugs" has also provided a convenient way to put 1 out of every 5 african-american men in prison (stat from memory might be off a little).
Careful about attacking her guys...
She is likely to bomb this site and kill its leaders and convert us all to Christianity!
Happens alot, easy to do, big gullible ass market.
Sounds are taken from Lemmings, which this game is sort of the opposite of.
Extra special challenge: Set things up so that the sound effects make a drum beat.
And then we'll get another bunch... what happened to the old American custom of tarring and feathering?
Exactly. Everybody here on Reddit seems to think that sites are submitted here so that they can rated for their usability. Yeah, the site isn't as functional as a Toyota Camry, but that doesn't mean we can't have Porches in the world.
You're a moron, but you're also the perfect example of the false patriot: the dimwitted, frustrated and angry that never could pay attention in Civics class, but somehow feel they can "guess" how Constitutional law works just because of their "feeling" and how "patriotic" they feel supporting criminals and bigots.
"unlawful" spying on Americans continues
It is illegal, why would Bush have pushed through an unconstitutional measure making what he did retroactively legal if it weren't? I'm just going to assume that you know what an ex post facto law is and where it's forbidden in the constitution. I'm probably wrong.
Did you not see Arlen Specter's look of disbelief in front of Gonzalez trying to claim that "Uh, the Constitution doesn't guarantee Habeas Corpus. Just says you can't take it away"?
The ACLU, the editorial board of the NYT, Moveon.org, Antiwar or maybe the UN?
Nice, half-witted Republican grouping of things: "What do one of the oldest and most respected civil liberties groups in the world, a journalistic tradition in America, a co-operative organization gathering hundreds of nations from around the world, and some hippies on their computers all have in common?? These all go together because they don't like me! HURR!"
Lastly, don't you dare take on that dopey act that Republicans do when confronted by logic and anger of "Hey! Stop being so crazy and mean! What did I do?!"
After all this, that's like walking into a Vietnamese bar and getting the shit kicked out of you for saying something completely out of line, and then acting all hurt and saying "What? You guys are crazy! All I said was that the My Lai Massacre was a really good party!"
The mentally unstable flock to religion.
took me 9 minutes but i did it without cheating ... jeez, that's tougher than I thought.
I'm utterly terrified there will be another "9/11" and Bush will use that martial law clause they just slipped through for him in October. It's this awful gut feeling of dread and fear that I can't make go away.
There isn't much time for him to do it if the Dems cut funding for the Bush wars, so I suppose if it's going to happen it will be pretty soon. Please, tell me it will never happen. Tell me I'm just a wacko and everything will go back to normal really soon!
"Much as lab rats respond to drugs like humans..."
Now THAT made me laugh.
He tells you how to best survive it, in his opinion. "profiting" off the collapse of civilization would probably strike Kunstler as a mite distasteful. That said, I'm not sure his plan to survive it is all that well fleshed out or correct. I'm a doomer myself, but I don't there will ever be a sudden collapse of civilization. It's more likely we're gonna boil like frogs.
Already we are getting our oil at $60/barrel and outbidding Africa for it. Many nations in Africa are undergoing severe energy shortages as a result of not being able to afford oil at these prices (in addition to internal political strife, but then, these things go hand in hand usually). Soon, we'll have to outbid other places in the world like Asia, South America, and Latin America. That's when things will start to suck as in severe economic recession and possibly depression. When the bidding is between the US and Europe, that's when we'll lose and start burning our coal 24/7. Which again is why there will be no civilizational collapse - it's just going to get ugly, poorer, and very very very dirty. Probably bloody too, but most of that will happen elsewhere.
Ah so that's what those things were in Jurassic Park. If only they had this advice then!
Beautiful and intelligent.
Consider yourself warned.
No.
Oh me godz! they steal me karma.
No I don't care, but seriously, I find it interesting how is it that sometimes a story gets noticed and sometimes it doesn't. Is it the title?, the day of the week? the time of submission? The internet has some really interesting sociological stuff.
I'll tell you why we don't produce more oil here, its cheaper and the margins are higher from mid-east oil.
That is EXACTLY what we mean by Peak Oil. Maximum production capacity has been reached so getting it from elsewhere becomes cheaper.
Listen, it isn't for lack of trying that oil companies don't do more in the US. The US has almost 1/2 of the oil fields ever drilled on planet Earth. We, like the Saudi's, pump huge volumes of oil into the ground to get production from wells with a 98% water cut. We invented a vast percentage of the technologies used to extract oil. If we cannot do it, no one can.
Like I said before, over 50 countries are now in terminal decline. So your conspiracy not only has cover oil companies, it has to cover state actors as well. It is far simpler and more reasonable to believe that a natural statistical artifact called Hubbert's Peak is the cause rather than some grand conspiracy.
It is simple, actually. Oil fields ramp up production, hit a maximum output, then tail off in their later lives. Thus they look like squashed normal distributions. What happens when you take a bunch of squashed normal-like distributions and add them up? You get a big normal distribution! You can use that big distribution to predict peaking dates. Hubbert did it for the US in 1956 predicting the Peak of US Output in 1970. Everyone else thought the sky was the limit. He was right. If you do the same thing for the world, you find that we will be hitting the Peak... soon.
That's the science. It works, bitches.
it seems like the memos are all related to refining capacity which has nothing to do with peak oil.
If there is a more direct link implying big oil is exaggerating peak oil, that would be helpful. It would be surprising to me that they were, because they have easy means to get mainstream media fearmongering program drumming peak oil into the sheep, which is not happening.
Only a fool tries to time the market. If you know the market will turn, then you get out. This market will turn based on non-cyclical fundamentals (ie, peak oil is not a cyclical phenomenon, there is not going to be a "turn-around" in the business cycle after it gets through with us). Both Kunstler and his critics are fools for trying to predict the top (Kunstlers says in 3 months for 10 years running, and his critics say he's been wrong for 10 years running, therefore he'll remain wrong forever). Ignore the silliness from this particular predictor, and pay attention to the extremely serious level-headed info coming from those from whom Kunstler gets his info.
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Hmmm, maybe we should at least cease to shout down anyone who suggests we need further consideration of this global warming thing before we enforce radical changes and restrictions on our society?
Then call it art, not interface design.
I think pirating can be seen as civil disobedience against copyright laws
There is nothing wrong with copyright. It's the RIAA greed machine that's the problem.
The solution, protest if you will, is not to pirate music, but to buy more music. Independent music from publishers and labels that aren't RIAA members.
RIAA Radar is a great resource for awareness.
I like the concept, but unfortunately the results leave a lot to hope for. Among the results that were based on my last.fm account, there were bands whose names were merely similar to my favorites, and a lot of really old albums had been marked as new.
Jurassic Park depicted Utah Raptors, despite using the name of their smaller cousins.
How could it be uncomfortable? I've been sleeping naked since I was about 20, and now whenever I feel I have to wear something while sleeping it's just nuts. Everything gets bunched up when I turn, it's very uncomfortable.
I've just started a new project that I was very very close to implementing with Scheme - a DSL for defining school/college timetables, so that I can 'unit-test' a timetable, plus a compiler to transform it to the appropriate format to import to MIS databases.
I wanted to go with a Lisp/Haskell type language (as opposed to Python, which is my usual prototyping language of choice). I don't know enough Haskell yet to be able to handle a project like this, so went with lisp.
In the end, I settled on CL over Scheme, because it seemed to offer a little bit more out of the box that might be relevant to my project. Admittedly, in this respect, Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp was a big deciding factor (there's a couple of chapters on DSLs, plus a decent introduction to macros and CLOS).
Less relevant, but still a factor, is that I have a fairly low tolerance for faffing about getting technology to work. For example, the lisp-in-a-box package was a lot easier than working out why chicken-scheme wasn't cooperating with the terminal on my powerbook (and even now I have it going as intended, it still acts weird now and then).
Hm, interesting. You seem to imply that atheists as a group have a common set of shared values surrounding their lack of belief in any deity. What are some of these? And how universally are they held within whatever community is formed?
I can provide convincing answers to these questions about Christianity (even with all its different sects & varying theology), but providing answers for these about "theism" would be a hard task. Dare I say impossible -- it's too general and nebulous a category. I'm curious how this problem is addressed when flipped around to deal with atheism.
You mention several observations about human behavior which seem to indicate how the notion of God is a fantasy. That, if somehow, we just addressed these problems head on, these needs and desires would go away. Again, this isn't scientific, but it's been my personal experience that how-so-ever much I try to fill these needs by myself, using worldly means, that it's always insufficient. The transformation of my own life is evidence enough.
There's this idea that the coming of Christ fulfilled, in a very precise way, prophecies about him written hundreds of years before. So one doesn't have to rely on the assessment of individuals, but rather there's a bar against which we can measure whether one would be the Messiah or not. Correspondingly, for the 2nd coming of Christ, there are ways to test that as well. And being that suffering persists in this world, Koresh obviously wasn't it.
There's an essay by Richard Feynman that I enjoy quite a bit, talking all about the relation between religion and science. He states that the problem with the two is that to be a scientist, you have to be skeptical by nature, only accepting that which passes multitudes of repeatable tests. Faith is the opposite of skepticism, believing something to be true, even when you might not be quite sure. But just because you have faith, doesn't mean you have to abandon rationality. I view Christianity to be a particular model with a certain set of assumptions about reality. How good our understanding of this model is -- gets tested with our life experiences.
One small nitpick: Sony, Warner Bros, et al, watch, and go after, uploaders, not downloaders. (Of course, on P2P, that usually amounts to the same thing.)
And what's the "programming" part of it?
I had 49 states picked after about 4 or 5 minutes and then it took me another 2 1/2 minutes to think of Minnesota. I had to go region by region and figure out what I forgot.
I had no trouble spelling Massachusetts, but when you grow up there it is a bit easier....
I think bash seems to do just fine
Digg's problem exposed
Damn, that's gross. I sleep naked and I never get skid marks on my sheets. People need to have some hygiene!
Or just don't drink milk.
Save this message and then remind yourself who the retard and imbecile is in 20-30 years.
Are you going to be living in the USA? Please say yes because I want to see you die in the chaos that will ensue.
Do you really think if oil was running out that people would be able to buy SUVs
Yes. Ever heard of a stock market bubble? Do you really think that if there was a stock market bubble people would be buying stock? Oh right, if people wouldn't be buying stock then there wouldn't be a bubble. But since bubbles exist then it follows that people are STUPID.
Let's see some facts to back up your assumptions based on what you were told, which is appeal to authority
That is so fucking funny. You the guy who quotes the "letter from some no-name CEO" is telling me about not believing authority figures!
"But"?
I know, but I don't like that. Whitespace is good, the more the better, and I separate sections of code by empty lines. However, that means that if I want to copy code from a file into the interpreter for testing, I have to remove all the empty lines - a major pain.
I don't like that Python's assignment statements aren't valid expressions. This problem blocks lambdas from being able to assign values.
Even if assignments were expressions, assigning inside lambdas would bind a local name ... and having used up your single expression, you wouldn't be able to make any use of the binding, which would immediately disappear, having had no effect on anything outside of the lambda.
I wouldn't have done any of this shit and I would have told this to anyone in the world, but I fear the psychologists are unfortunately right in general. My teenage instincts must have carried over into adulthood since I still relish telling authority to shove it (when applicable), and I'm told this is a bad thing. If a person tells me to shock another person I have two responses: "Are you out of your mind?" or "This experiment is about psychology isn't it?"
Look. It's not my fault if you can't handle remembering that we're being wiretapped if someone points out to you that the biggest annual Republican convention is headlining someone like Coulter.
What a moron. Downmodded. The article said absolutely nothing about the difference between democracy and liberty.
Coming from an attorney, this is no surprise. Expecting a straight answer or commentary from a "trained legal mind" is pointless.
Oh, hey dipshit. Count me among one of your enemies, because I'm a Chavez supporter. Hope that's a straight enough answer for you unlike that bullshit you posted.
It's not obvious that she and her management are fabricating interesting PR stunts anymore.
Every Imam on the planet will tell you there is no such thing as "secular" Islam. Deal.
They ought to bring in Charles Manson to do some counseling.
Christ almighty xkcd sucks ass...
This is what everyone's saying. Every person you meet sees this as a 'buying opportunity'.
Can everyone be right?
Not a chance.
Some Gentle Giant please, thank you.
California has introduced a bill to make open document format (ODF) a mandatory requirement for agencies when acquiring software, turning up the heat on Microsoft. The bill follows similar legislation in Texas and Minnesota and adds further to the pressure on Microsoft which is pushing its own proprietary Office Open XML (OOXML) document format in the recently released Office 2007. Oh boy, is Microsoft losing its grip?
For God's sake already, SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Here's a clue you doofus. Oil companies have been colluding to keep prices up for ... oh more than a century now. They've been doing it ever since Standard Oil. You can't blame oil companies for the current high prices anymore than you can place the blame for forest fires on oxygen! Oh wait even better, forest fires are caused by wood, right? Wait, I got a much better one; drowning is caused by water!! See now here's some friendly advice, since water causes drowning, I advise you strongly to never, ever drink any water, ever. In fact, avoid all liquids. Sodas, fruit juices, wine, beer, the whole shebang. Because liquids cause drowning.
I ain't never seen the sun do that.
I would like to be able to perform assignments in lambdas specifically. However, being unable to do so often swells a simple one-liner into a complicated mess involving nested functions.
aaaargh... MY SUNDAY.. I just lost 5h of my spare time. And now I need to go to bed :-(
lambda a, b: a.foo = b.bar
In a total war, there are no civilians
Nope. Not dreaming, at age 47 I am 99.95% sure I will see my SS checks just fine. The 0.05% is there just to cover asteroids, world epidemics, alien attack and the such. For the short to medium time frame, say 20-40 years, SS is and will be just fine, after that thinks do get a smidge trickier, but even then baring a complete financial collapse of the US economy, SS will be fine with only minor adjustments and phased in changes of the retirment age brackets.
Don't conflate your dislike of SS on the basis of the tax question with attacking the system on its financial merits. There are plenty of well researched and well reasoned discussions of this topic online, this one:
http://www.socsec.org/publications.asp?pubid=507
is only one of many.
I am not saying that the science doesn't work. They paid for the science with their funds to prove Peak Oil. Its a form of advertising. The thing is it IS a conspiracy to make more money, anyone in the oil industry is NOT against this. Its why there have been congressional hearings on this.
Yes oil fields lose their oil, but they also have been shown to replenish slowly AND new techniques to get deeper and even convert oil shale. Oil is in almost everything in the Earth, its just not as easy as pumping. That is where the issue comes in. Cheap pumping oil may be on decline but oil is here for many more centuries at least and I will bet you right now that when we are ninety there will be some other enregy "sky is falling" type marketing campaign. Hubbert's Peak was also used to help push oil production to other countries and justify invasions etc to do so. THIS IS BECAUSE IT IS CHEAPER AND EASIER TO PRODUCE, there is more benefit in profit. The cheap easy to produce oil still have largely untapped areas in Russia, China, Sudan, Cuba, Alaska, Pacific, Indonesia, Nigeria etc. Its just the exploration is also controlled by cartels. We'll see in time who is right...
Or you could have a decent 20-year retirement, run yourself out of money, and then kill yourself at 80. I'd prefer that to living it up now and then being on the street at 60.
Sort of. One thing sh never really did very well, and bash doesn't do much better, is let you run programs while doing iron-clad error checking. If you want to detect and react to an error in any program, anywhere in a pipeline, it's not that easy.
One of the really nice things about Python is that almost everywhere, it fails safely. Any I/O error, for example, throws an exception. If you don't catch it, the whole program exits with a stacktrace. Excellent. The main exception to this is, unfortunately, the treatment of status values from subprograms. You have to check these manually, a la C.
What the fuck are you even saying, you just proved my point that Peak Oil is probably a scam to help tighten supply and increase profits.
Well the traditional argument was that the sun went around the Earth once a day. With Foucault's pendulum in hand, you don't have to really invoke the other planets.
The problem today is that the disclosure isn't clear; you can say you won't drink milk but there could be milk byproducts (and thus killer bacteria) in a lot of foods or drinks.
Most likely, the outcome of clear disclosure is going to be that they don't even use the antibiotic if most users won't buy drugged milk. As it stands today, the milk producers can just say their practices have the approval of the US FDA.
What I'm saying is that you're stupid. And if you STILL don't understand why that is then you're beyond stupid, you're an idiot. And you should probably learn to shut the fuck up so you don't annoy your betters.
Your wishing death on me becasue you want to be right? You obviously are wrong if you are doing that and have fun in your angry life of wanting to be right. In 30 years please remember this so you can kick your own ass for not paying attention.
Website owners have no control over how their sites are submitted to Reddit.
Man. "real life troll"....fucking dead on with that shit.
It's a shame to people react to anything that woman says. She's not anything, has no credentials (aside from an extremely tall face) and nothing that she says deserves anyone's attention.
I sleep naked but do we really need a website? Are we now going to have Naked Sleeper Community and Naked Sleeper Support Groups, a Naked Sleeper Agenda, a Naked Sleeper Lobby? Will Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh begin trying to smear Democratic presidential candidates with the taint of naked sleeping.
"I was going to have a few comments about John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you talk about 'naked sleepers'..."
I think you have me wrong, I support social security as its an insurance and investment to a braoder economy. I just think its a forced payment for retirement that coudl to better in individuals hands. You sure have alot of faith there in your government. I really hope that you are saving for retiremetn other ways though, please start if you aren't you have time left to.
I'm wishing your death because you're stupid and stupid people need to die.
As an aside, is there a builtin wrapper that defaults stdin,stdout=[subprocess.PIPE]*2 ? (I hate the subprocess documentation too)
Ignoring the law is not an interpretation of it, no matter how dumb you are.
By the way most applications of law do not require adherence to the literal "letter of the law" and the spirit of the law is frequently a judgment call.
Not "frequently", and not in any cases of merit, especially not ones concerning the illegal surveillance of millions. In that case the "letter of the law" is looked over and interpreted very carefully.
Stupid people argue by calling others stupid. You have no point, you have no base of thought (only repeating what you have been told) and you lose the instant you name-call. It seems you are VERY unsure of yourself.
NOw that we have resorted to caveman debating skills we shall end this eh, whattayahsay DICK!
Oh really. Would you say carpet bombing of Tokyo was not an atrocity? Did you know that there were so many bombs dropped on Tokyo that they created a firestorm? The fires were so great they blew through the city and incinerated everything in their path. They killed hundreds of thousands, possibly even millions of people this way. Is this any better than what Japan did? Look, this was a war, all sides are guilty of doing fucked-up stuff to the other side. There are no winners in a war, everyone loses. Japan was no worse than the USA.
Stupid people can only resort to calling others stupid, its called projection.
Nothing really new, but a solid and very good summary.
I mainly code ruby, and some C#/C++ so am comparing it to those.
Surprisingly, TWT wasn't a problem for me, it just was different, I could take it or leave it.
1) name == 'main' and other underscore rubbish is just UGLY in a visual sense.
2) passing self to methods gets in the way. I want to see what's important, and the implicit 'self' is not.
3) single statement lambda REALLY kills me. Even C# 2.0 where you can pass delegate(){ } to functions kicks it's ass.
4) Extra colons at the end of if statements etc. These are ugly too.
An 11-year-old blog entry. Really up to date here.
On habeas the US Court of Appeals agreed with President Bush. Last week, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed the habeas corpus petitions of aliens detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. The court in Boumediene v. Bush unanimously found that the Military Commissions Act (MCA) of 2006 eliminated federal court jurisdiction to entertain habeas petitions or other federal lawsuits for such detainees. By a 2-1 vote, the panel also held that Congress had not violated the Constitution in eliminating habeas for Guantanamo Bay detainees. This ruling will stand congress passed legislation to modify the law to accommodate the concerns the Supreme Court had in two previous ruling they will not hear an appeal on this application of habeas.
This is the same man who claimed that babies were raped in the Superdome when they weren't.
blasphemy x2
Slim, attractive, and highly functional, the Olympus WS-300M digital voice recorder packs 256 MB of internal flash memory into its lightweight housing, letting you record up to 68 hours of high-quality audio in WMA format.
What on earth do you people do while sleeping? I mean... I've done complete 180-flips in bed (waking up with your feet on the pillow), and never had a problem with getting tangled in clothing. I can see it happening with nightdresses, but never been a problem with pyjamas...
Edit: Hell, I've woken up with my feet on the pillow, and my head nearly touching the floor, having re-arranged myself into some strange L-shape. Apparently I sleep-Tetris.
If he is not free to disparage his commanding officer by criticising some of his actions, he is incapable of defending his client (fulfilling the official responsibilities of his job). To do that he needs to point out that the actions of that superior officer were unjust and illegal in placing his client in detention. So he is trapped. He either needs to break regulations by disparaging his superior officers or be derelict in his duty by not defending his client properly. And Mori is held up to us as evidence that the military tribunals are fair and just?
LOL. That ain't gonna do you a thang.
is it me or does this concept look a lot like Boeing's sonic cruiser concept?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Cruiser
Like yours? Religion is inescapable, my friend.
That is annoying, not amazing.
Ann Coulter advocates the forced conversion to Christianty. Those that don't convert, according to Coulter, should be killed.
So what's the big deal here?
There is a Mars Ice-cream bar already though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Bar#Spinoff_products
Actually the same percentage of religious people are mentally unstable as are "non-religious" (!) people.
BTW, unless you're an M.D., you really aren't qualifed to diagnose mental instability anyway.
"Wow," says Leslie Stewart, 63, who works in a paint factory six days a week and gives 10 per cent of his income to the church. "I never heard of anything like that. But if I release my tithe and they misuse it, they have to face God."
Comments like this reenforce my belief that Christianity is a slave religion, specifically and cynically designed from the start to indoctrinate, expand and never undergo revolution.
This is why I think there's such a difference between the active political face of christianity and the lovely, generous, forgiving christians you often meet in real life. They turn humans into really nice sheep, but bizarro mutant sheep that can turn into wolves when they get scared.
That's neat, although totally un-funny.
anyone know where I can get samples of the IRE or other sounds mentioned in these postings?
lol religion
14 upvotes to date on this brilliant comment. You, sir, are a genius. I grovel at your feet. You've left the prototypical reddit comment regarding any form of faith: completely uninformed.
This is corporate welfare at its most blatant!
That's a pretty big chicken.
Yes, thank you for illustrating the destruction of the Constitution. We know Bush's chums have had a grand ol' time pissing all over basic civil liberties. We know he's appointed the corrupt and easily manipulated, and pushed everyone else to the side.
Imagine that, a 2006 law just happened to apply to the "recent" troubles of Guantanamo, and never mind that that's another violation of the ex post facto provision of the Constitution. Oh, wait, wasn't that law specifically drafted because of the Supreme Court decision Hamdan vs Rumsfeld that found Guantanamo in violation of the Geneva conventions? Wasn't it rushed through the corrupt rubber-stamp Republican infestation in Congress before November 2006?
In fact, I remember that the Military Commissions Act was a pretty big "fuck you" to the Supreme Court, as they'd just ruled that Gauntanamo violated the Geneva conventions, so the Bush people stuck this in there:
In General- No person may invoke the Geneva Conventions or any protocols thereto in any habeas corpus or other civil action or proceeding to which the United States, or a current or former officer, employee, member of the Armed Forces, or other agent of the United States is a party as a source of rights in any court of the United States or its States or territories. [Act sec. 5(a)]
So, Bush just wanted to tell the world "What? I violated international law?! I don't care! That doesn't apply to me! I'm a special boy! I can torture and imprison anyone I want, and don't have to tell them shit! Hell, they's just arabs! See? Now I got my Congress to say that I don't have to do a damn thing Geneva says! Heh!"
agreed, he has no apparent name in either the novel (which is not relevant in discussing Norton's film persona)
I don't understand. Why is source material irrelevant when discussing a film? I'm not suggesting that source material is a perfect guide to understanding an adaptation, but I think it can provide insight. Some people assume that the narrator's true name is Tyler Durden. The book doesn't make this assumption and clearly suggests otherwise, so I guess what I'm suggesting is that the film, in trying to keep with the spirit of the novel, doesn't really make that assumption either.
Technically, not 3d since you're on the same (albeit sphereic) plane the whole time. Basically, you're still nly moving up, down, left, and right, never forward or backward. But, for shortening the amount of movement you have to make to get to anywhere on the page, it gets a plus :D
Please. Is it possible to talk about one's political views about the U.S.'s support for Israel without being labeled as anti-semitic or anti-arab?
Ho hum, nothing new here.
If every citizen watched these videos, what would change?
NOTHING
Are people that come up with new religions unstable? So you are saying that Muslims, Scientologists, Mormons, Christians, all those people believe in invisible people designing and taking care of them. Your telling me that is not a major complex of some sort? If I told you there was a dragon you couldn't see or observe in my garage would I be mentally stable or unstable?
Under the criteria for good art, it appears that modern comic books qualify. There's been an amazing renaissance since the 1980s.
indoctrinate, expand and never undergo revolution
Perhaps you should read a little Church history before popping off and sounding like a moron. There was this little thing during the 16th century called the Protestant Reformation. It involved revolution--national, political, and religious revolution which was partially motivated by non-religious means (Gutenburg and the printing press, and a new middle class that could afford to buy books).
Please understand that Christianity is made up of numerous sects which differ from each other in major and minor ways. It's quite unimpressing to read wide-brush, stupid, and general comments like these that don't really reflect the nature of the situation.
Yeah right. That would be why priests have 4 times the rate of schizophrenia as the general population.
"Looping Housewives Duties" is pretty great, the second box from the right on the top row of the left set of boxes (way to go, unlinkable flash interface). It would be better if you could disable the text overlay.
There are some good ideas here, but they're crippled by unfriendly UI design. The 3D thing might work with, say, photo thumbnails from Flickr, but not as the main page of a site.
Do you actually have some data on the subject? It sounds like you're making the same kind of judgment as the parent while criticizing the very same.
Poor Leslie, she is giving her retirement away to a non-existant dream. If she put that towards her own retirement she could live well in THIS life not have to focus on some hope of the next life.
What would it matter? People who put their hope on things in this life constantly end up disappointed, and even when they get what they want, we always end up wanting more. I don't see how the person who hopes for this life or the next is any better off.
What if the next life does not exist? Will you be happy with the way you lived this life?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if a next life doesn't exist, I don't think you'll have any ability to be sad or happy about how you lived your life. It really doesn't matter. You could be the wealthiest person in the world or the poorest, but in the end it just doesn't matter if there isn't a life after this one.
But now we are getting into Pascal's Wager territory.
Religion worked for kings and queens to control their people in servitude, the more outlandish and fearful of death the better.
The preachers might actually believe in God, because if you stood up every sunday and just collected bank from depressed/self-help needing people you too may feel like God is real sitting in your sweet pad, cars, educated children etc.
It means that every religion has false converts and scammers. Got it now?
Religion and Pascal's Wager is a fallacy and appeal to authority.
I agree if it makes them feel better so be it, I personally think its sad to sell someone snake oil and take their retirement money that they work hard for, then living their life in servitude for nothing.
That's one of the oldest and most tired straw-man arguments around.
Atheism is a religion like "not collecting stamps" is a hobby.
Proof? And which priests? Not all Christian sects have priests like the Orthodox, Anglican, and Roman Catholic churches do. Please get a clue, Rich.
I never said I thought it was perfectly successful at it, merely that it was designed to be that way. Thanks for the insult though.
First, Muslims, Scientologists, and Mormons are by their own definition not Christian.
Second, if I told you the sun was going to rise on your little piece of earth tomorrow without providing empirical evidence not related to probability, would you diagnose me as insane based on my prediction?
Looks a bit similar to the "piece table" approach used in Xerox PARC's old Bravo text editor:
Good performance in a small machine comes from
the representation of edits to the text and of formatting information, and from the method for updating
the screen. The text is stored as a table of pieces,
each of which is a descriptor for a substring of an
immutable string stored in a file. Initially the entire
document is a single piece, pointing to the entire file
from which it was read. After a word is replaced,
there are three pieces: one for the text before the
word, one for the new characters, which are written
on a scratch file as they are typed, and one for the text after the word. Since binary search is used to access the piece array, the speed is logarithmic in the number of edits. This scheme was independently invented by Jay Moore [35].
From Personal Distributed Computing:The Alto and Ethernet Software (Citeseer) by Butler Lampson.
She do is a "real life troll" and we do need to "real life mod here down", in other words, go for her wallet through advertising revenues. I don't believe that ignoring her will make her vanish.
Forget what people find 'distasteful' - 98% of the population is going to get screwed. And that's exactly what he's saying. Unless you're offering some alternative course of action, to just say that is to make people feel powerless against this Tsunami.
Puts in the banking sector are not pricing in the coming credit crunch.
Ugh, I remember thinking I was so far ahead of the curve because I used VRML for my homepage. I can't believe I just admitted that.
No it's not art. It's badly designed. The 3D screws up when you go high(1), the inputs are reversed like in those stupid airplane simulators, the objects are mapped on the outside of a sphere instead of on the inside, oh yeah and they're difficult to pick out. 7 out of 10 for insight, 2 out of 10 for execution.
Edit: 1: because instead of doing the sensible thing of fixing the objects onto the sphere and then rotating the sphere as a whole, the author chose to rotate the objects on the sphere. Took a while to figure out, at first I wasn't sure it was even a sphere.
hillarious article about getting a job in action sports.
I think we need to find an alternative to the war on drugs that does not include the warehousing millions of human beings who are non-violent felons, costs the U.S. billions of dollars annually; and based on the work of Gary Webb, the senate hearings of John Kerry, Michael Ruppert, and others has illuminated that the illicit sales of drugs is being used to fund clandestine activities (Iran Contra scandal).
And yet, Atheism requires belief that there is no God.
So, "straw-man argumentum" away, if you wish. Secularists have their own religious methodology of defining what constitutes "proof" and what constitutes "evidence." See scientist Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Bottle-blondes like Ann Widdecombe may be to blame
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38280000/jpg/_38280457_widders150.jpg
If you look at the picture you will see why this is funny.
I agree with you about novel environments, but it's just blank rectangles that move in 3D. It's Atari's Battlezone with blur effects. As far as artsy flash interfaces go this is pretty mediocre.
little Europe
Europe has a larger landmass, population, and economy than the United States.
so what? can we please stop talking about religion?
Menus allow you to fit access to many functions into a small amount of space.
Ajax allows you to act on information from the server without preloading it and send information to the server without breaking context.
C++: Ugly syntax, DLL hell
The[gives]; << me < < a >, toothache >. Lack of STL standardization means you can't use STL in binary-only library APIs. Icky DLL hell problems on Windows.
Ruby: Sucky interpreters/VMs
All the interpreters suck arse right now. No native thread support?!? Anything without native thread support is a toy. Also: Windows support sucks, which means you can't ship a cross-platform app with it.
Other than that, it's by far the most beautiful ultra-HLL in existence... by a huge margin. I am drooling over real VMs for it! Go Ruby!
Java: Overengineering, starting to C++
Plain Java is a nice language, and the JVM is mature and genuinely runs on lots of different platforms. But what sucks? Swing sucks. The Java C API (JNI) is horrible. Last but not least, J2EE is a giant over-engineered pile of dookie. Over-engineering is what's wrong with Swing too. A lot of stuff on the Java platform is over-engineered.
Python: Why?
Don't see the advantage over Ruby, though the VMs are more mature. Also: whitespace being meaningful is a bad idea.
Languages I refuse to use because they suck so bad: Perl (syntax? Perl has a syntax?), Visual Basic (no comment).
I don't have anything against Gore and I have no clue who I will vote for even if I do.
I just think that this mentality of 'Gore is gonna change everything', 'Gore is so different' is laughable.
He's still a politician. After 4 years of Gore you'll have people complaining about him, too. Maybe this is a sad thing to say, but people need to stop putting so much hope in politicians. They never live up to expectations (but that's people in general, right?).
Because you really think there's a fundamental difference between a Reverend and a Priest? Oh please.
By the way, you've got no evidence whatsoever and I've got a vague recollection of something I read maybe 15 years ago. My weak evidence trumps your non-evidence.
First, Muslims, Scientologists, and Mormons are by their own definition not Christian.
Doesn't matter, its all snake oil, and self-help programs for the weak.
Second, if I told you the sun was going to rise on your little piece of earth tomorrow without providing empirical evidence not related to probability, would you diagnose me as insane based on my prediction?
Yes I would say you are nuts because the probability of that happening during our lives is almost 0. See humans think they are special, but in actuality they are but a spec of dust to the Universe and the life of the Earth. Anyone who says any grand event will happen during your life is lying and well quite narcissistic/egoist. The fact is that these religions will all die off, over time they always do, and there will always be a certain percentage of people who are stupid and will fall for this everytime. What if Zeus was the true God? muahahahah
Religion and Pascal's Wager is a fallacy and appeal to authority.
I never said Pascal's Wager was valid, I said that's where this discussion is leading.
I agree if it makes them feel better so be it, I personally think its sad to sell someone snake oil and take their retirement money that they work hard for, then living their life in servitude for nothing.
It is just as sad when people save their money up for retirement during 40 years of working and then die at 65 because of a heart attack.
Its not so much that I have faith in government(s) per se, its probably more that I have faith in the various banking, insurance and securities institutions, rules & regulations that form the framework and foundation that allow modern day economies to function over significant spans of time and multiple governments of various flavors.
I do of course have other investments, to me SS is just a basic minimum level of coverage for retirement - food, no frills shelter and Medicare for my health needs - the rest will have to come from other sources, although I would note I have quite a healthy sum in my SS "balance" at this point
I can tell we're not going to agree, but come back in 20 years or so and I'll be more than happy to show you my genuine, US minted SS checks. Any scenario that would portend anything otherwise would surely mean my 401K would be equally worthless - so its kind of moot.
For extra credit: Do you completely disagree with the above web sites points? If so, what counterpoints do you have and what data/research is out there to support them?
"home row"? God forbid you might have to move your fingers a half-inch.
I could NOT look at these without looking up "Kindan no Panse" XD You won't get that if you're never seen the opening for Silent Mobius.
Here's an aerial view of the "spaceship-shaped church":
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=toronto+ontario+canada&layer=&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&z=17&ll=43.751908,-79.533484&spn=0.003898,0.010664&iwloc=addr
I can hear Michael Cricton furiously typing ideas for Jurassic Park IV.
Personally, although this guy knows his shit, there's going to be a real tense moment right after the Raptor is hit with grape juice and before you know whether it works or not.
Ok point taken but 10% of your money is alot, that is many things you could buy for yourself and your family. False products that take that away seem a bit devious to me.
And religion is simply fearful people falling to an age old appeal to authority that helped kings be "divine" or other normal humans to some sort of height above the human condition for gain.
Anyone who says any grand event will happen during your life is lying and well quite narcissistic/egoist.
Do you see the contrast between that statement and every other claim you just made? How do you know better than anyone else what will happen or isn't true?
There are two explanations for what's happened to our media.
All of them are stupid toad lackies of the establishment.
They're been threatened, or frightened, or shut-out into silence.
Probably both apply. What can we do to help?
"Tough On Crime" + "Family Values" = Children in Prison
The permalink, parent and report options are almost never used, while reply is used all the time. They should move report forward and let reply keep the special spot at the end of the list.
Doesn't matter, its all snake oil, and self-help programs for the weak.
Your opinion. You're entitled to it, but other opinions differ, especially in the USA. It's this thing you may have heard of called freedom of religion.
Your second paragraph was a total non-sequitur.
Could you enlighten us with some facts, instead of the obvious?
undelete on memory cards is easy
From the article:
"Wow," says Leslie Stewart, 63, who works in a paint factory six days a week and gives 10 per cent of his income to the church. "I never heard of anything like that. But if I release my tithe and they misuse it, they have to face God."
No, no, no. If you stupidly give money to people that evil, the sin is on you. Supposing there is a god, it is unimaginable that he would let you get away with being that stupid.
Unbelievable.
exactly. This is why we shouldn't just write off these 'art projects' as unusable, as the currently impractical ideas artists throw around might turn out to be the inspiration behind a revolution in interface design.
It's simple evolution really, with a big pool of mutants to pick from, we'll evolve much faster. limit the mutations, and you slow down the rate of evolution. Even the some of the bad mutants should rate a days exposure on reddit, as you never know what will inspire someone else to make a really great varient.
Well, I didn't say that there was a fundamental difference. But there is a difference there: "priest" (Old Eng. preost) has mediatorial theological and social overtones, while a Protestant "Reverend" does not...the word is merely an honorarium.
Thanks for playing.
just click on your mouse to make him turn left. one button game. Simple. You retard.
I live in Tampa and this story has been all over the news. Insane in this day and age to fire someone because of sexual orientation. I'm hoping he sues.
Ok point taken but 10% of your money is alot, that is many things you could buy for yourself and your family. False products that take that away seem a bit devious to me.
It seems like people spend a lot of money on false products anyway. '$300 and this TV will give you so much enjoyment!'. 'For $200 you can buy a Nintendo Wii and have hours and hours of fun!'
I just don't think it matters. The person who spends thousands of dollars on electronics vs the person who spends that same amount of money in tithing really are no different. Who says that the person giving their money over to a church isn't more content than the person giving it to something else? And the fact of the matter is, this story isn't the general case with most churches. I know for a fact that the church I attend spends a ton of money on the poor, so I don't have a problem with giving it money.
And religion is simply fearful people falling to an age old appeal to authority that helped kings be "divine" or other normal humans to some sort of height above the human condition for gain.
Well that is a pretty big generalization and I'd say you are free to feel that way if you want.
Downvoted not because of a dupe, but because of the headline abuse. This is particularly heinous. Hi bonkydog.
Neither Ctrl nor R are on the home row.
Try this:
Every 3rd FizzBuzz post, downmod it. Every seventh, upmod it. Every FizzBuzz post that's a multiple of both three and seven should get a snarky comment like this.
That's a fuckin enormous chicken. Closer to a Cassowary.
Being replaced by your car radio, that must really do wonders for your self-esteem....
I'm glad to see constructive discussion is being upmodded at Reddit.
Hate to be a stickler but "Washington State University in St. Louis" is not right.
Washington State University is in Pullman Washington.
Washington University is in St. Louis
but discredit the messenger and you can't help but discredit the message a bit eh....
There are 5,000 left in Iraq. The US has offered places for 7,000 (10% of the world total).
And you have problems comprehending?
The USA has offered places for 7,000 Iraqis. Meanwhile, Syria and Jordan have accepted upwards of a million refugees.
Well I too believe in our economic system and really since 1933 (SEC) almost all financial systems (even social security) run at the expectations of fair commerce and competitive commerce. This is why I have faith in private industry.
Here's an important thing to note:
- governmetns dont' really care about you
- private industry doesn't really care about you
The SAME people that woudl run a government program, might also run a private program. Usualy private programs are more efficietn but sometimes the profit motive makes for bad service but private industry is alot more open to scrutiny in terms of customers as long as its not supported by a beaurocratic government agency (ala Halliburton, no-bid contracts make for very poor service)
As long as its fair commerce, where competition exists in the Dutch way then it actually provides better towards the individual and not the government. Private industry not tied to government (which is fascism) is always more efficient and more about the customer which is YOU and ME.
I am not saying the financial systems will fal but I have a feeling that business and indiduals wil eventually drive social security under due to the lack of personal control of it and that its so unsure anymore. People want IRAs, 401ks, roths that they can actively control and gain much more than 2% per year which is not even keeping up with inflation (SS). SS over time has been more of a poor tax and a tax on small companies and prevents more American Dreams with its current structure. It needs to be a system that individuals control and that small businesses dont' have to pay for some time or less. This will lead to more entrepreneurship in the US and more people willing to not feel entitled, but more as go-getters.
If your 401k and SS will both be worthelss if a collapse (which is really not true) but you could earn about 2% on average more with 401K over time which one woudl you choose?
Is this really a surprise?
Yeah, I got everything but Minnesota with about 5 minutes left. It never came to me. Stupid Minnesota; shouldn't even be a state.
You did imply there was a relevant difference. Relevant not with respect to theology but psychology. And now with your attempt at diversion you've just provided evidence there isn't.
Should have done it the mom and pop computer way. Why would I pay 5 times as much for something that I could get at some mom and pop shop. And I might even find a good deal on a used part. In fact, just bought a 21 inch monitor for $60. And, I might consider best buy if they have a good deal; but comp usa, no way.
You mean this thing? Discovered about a dozen years after the movie was released?
Judging by events in the past. One ateroid hit to clear the Dinosaurs. One Christian human deity in 2000 years suposedly etc. Mostly, over time and history, events do not happen in individuals lives and I am sorry but we are a mere speck in time.
That was interesting to me as well. What's also neat is that the sun is always on the move, it's chugging around at 220km/s. Everything is on the move.
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=96
economy [x]
population [x]
landmass [ ]
2/3 though not bad but you still failed.
Who doesn't "believe in" religion? I don't think anybody doubts religion exists... rather they disagree over whether it's a valid belief system.
Well you admitted you give. I also give to charities but do you feel more "divine" for giving becasue you feel special over others? Do you thnk that the poor anyways are going to burn in hell when they die? What's the point right?
I bet if you saw your church balance sheet you would be surprised how much goes to the poor compared to what you think. For instance the Mormon church only puts a small percentage into charity with most going to investments.
Would it also include not building along a major faultline?
Mooli has no perspective. It's entirely possible to turn this 'neat visual trick' into a useful user interface. Even into a great user interface. It just happens that whoever wrote this one up sucked at human interface design.
Yes this example is utter shite and exceedingly annoying to boot. Yes using this exact interface would feel as good as being skinned alive. No this does not mean that this general technique is bunk.
"Our "War on Drugs" has also provided a convenient way to put 1 out of every 5 african-american men in prison (stat from memory might be off a little)."
Where, interestingly enough, they can still acquire illegal drugs. (And, not incidentally, where it costs more each year to keep them incarcerated than it would to pay for their college educations...)
So, and as you point out, the concept seems to be that while we have yet to successfully interdict uneducated drug dealers (or for that matter illegal immigrants), we're somehow interdicting professionally trained and equipped terrorists willing to die while carrying out their missions.
Ahem -- what's wrong with that picture?
If I saw a chicken like that, I would run.
True, you are free to do waht you want I never said anthing against that. I said I feel sorry for them in this trap, mental block, but if it works for them then let them. I am not against religion is was a platform people used to get along, but nowadays it is saturated with business and is many times just a 30% more profit business (no taxes).
Ok you got me there but I bet you think some big divine event will happen in your life right? Guess what so did the people a century ago, then a century before that, and before that, etc etc on and on...
This is really bad, but, for whatever the perspective is worth: this family chose an overtly criminal path to re-enter Canada, after being deported by Canada years earlier. Their plane made an unscheduled stop in US territory, whereupon it was discovered that they were traveling on entirely forged documentation.
You want conditions in the Hutto center to be vastly better for these people, and in particular for the little boy, but the father and mother are in fact technically criminals.
Haskell:
The fail function being in Monad, and MonadZero being gone. I'd like Haskell 1.4's translation of do-syntax back, which created a MonadZero dependency whenever you used a refutable pattern on the left side of a binding arrow.
The Num class requires Show and Eq, and includes abs and signum, which would be better off in another class. This makes it impossible to write many useful Num instances.
In a related issue to the first point, it would be nice to have the MonadPlus class split up as described here.
Class contexts in data declarations don't mean what they ought to, what everyone expects that they'll mean. Thankfully, there is a fix for this in GHC head, hopefully the semantics defined there will go into Haskell' and get picked up by the other implementations.
The functions map, fmap, liftM, liftA, and (.) (yes, function composition) are really instances of the same thing (fmap), and yet we have that many separate definitions. It would be nice if instances of Functor and Monad for ((->) e) were in the Prelude, and those operations at least somewhat unified. My approach would be to have map and (.) be synonyms for each other, both having type (Functor f) => (a -> b) -> (f a -> f b), since the infix and prefix syntax are nice in different places, get rid of fmap, have Monad be a subclass of Functor, and keep liftM and liftA, but only as easy ways to define the Functor instance.
btw if you dont' think TV is a religion nowadays well...
I would probably join a Nintendo Wii religion :)
A similar thing happened in Superman III.
No more!
what does the auhor mean by "shadow module import optimization"?
Voted down.
Resubmit a non-linkjacked version.
I use Python and I did some learning in Ruby. It came down to what others have already said -- it didn't offer me any more than Python already has. Even less, because Python has some great libraries now (though Ruby will probably catch up).
Ruby has great marketing and some great momentum now. But I still haven't seen anything that it offers that makes it trump Python in my mind.
Franz has bindings for OpenGL. I find it kind of odd how you're always tied to a particular vendor in Common Lisp. One vendor is always inovating (Franz), but its solutions aren't for Common Lisp, they're for Allegro. Yet, they are not very good in providing decent cross platform Lisp (no IDEs for Linux for a long time, no IDE for Mac OS yet). They charge you runtime fees based on your revenue, that is, they want to be your business partners. The other vendor, LispWorks, provides good cross-platform tool, no run-time fees, but is not very inovative and not very good at plays-nice-with-others arena (like databases). Years go by and you don't see anything really state-of-the-art. All solutions are vendor-specific. There are other vendors, but they are largely niche-markets (such as Corman). Community solutions aren't very many, and many are badly documented, largely abandoned (like PLOB) or untested in the Real World (like Elephant, or Araneira web server). You are then expected to use free tools, such as OpenGL, Tcl/TK and SQL databases. You have to learn a huge body of syntax and choose a vendor - and stick with it. The vendor will provide support, which is a good thing, of course. The vendor has tools (basically, an IDE, but they don't have that much else either, less than Python, Perl or Java can offer). You are free to roll your own web server, for instance, or build your own from-scratch library for scientific visualization. You are free to use a foreign-function interface for numerical computations. What is it, exactly, that a Lisp vendor will get you? A quicker development time? How so, if you have to roll your own web stuff? Or develop a graphics library? There is no lisp community...There are only developers tied to vendors. And there's a history of restrictive licenses (e.g., PLOB) or vendor-only code (Linj, CLPython come to mind). I think Common Lisp vendors are very good for certain types of applications, but not by a great margin. There is a substantial investment in time to be made. So, you are either rolling your own stuff, or using free tools: OpenGL, a SQL database, the Apache server, Tcl/TK, Emacs (yes, Franz recommends Emacs for Mac OS !) Wanna do numerical computations? Write it in C, bind it to Lisp (I'll just remind you that, in the Java/C++/C# you can just buy numerical libraries). What is the point, exactly, of having a vendor? The nice IDE? Ok, I understand that, because the free lisp are so behind the curve in the tools arena. All the free Common Lisps look very bad when compared to Scheme implementations (such as Bigloo, or DrScheme). The compiler, for sure, there's a reason ! But let's take Real World uses...Take Orbitz, for instance: yes, they use Common Lisp. But they also use C++ and they had to hack their Lisp implementation's garbage collector, because it wouldn't satisfy their real-time requirements. Naughty Dog used Common Lisp for a video game, but a developer wrote on Slashdot (message erased since then) that they spent so much time on Common Lisp optimization that it would have been better if they had written everything in C++. How's that productive? you see, the probable reason some Lisp programmers are so good (and some are really good) is because they have to keep rolling a lot of stuff on their own. They'll tell you XML is piece of shit, SQL databases suck, etc. This, of course, from a purely theoretical point of view. They're sort of like heroes of their own private (or corporate) world. Yes, lispers extend the language. Welcome to badly documented macro hell. Does Common Lisp win in development time? It depends on what you're talking about (see above) Does it win in performance? Nope. Real-time? No can do. Is Common Lisp portable? No, not really; code is heavily dependent on what implementation you're using (like loop). Graphics/Visualization? Nope. Databases? It depends (large, complex, OO, yeah, maybe, if you use Franz - otherwise, no, must use SQL). Concurrency? No can do, wasn't designed for that. The more I think about it, the more I think Common Lisp vendors and community - and I don't think there is one - have serious soul-searching to do. But you know what? It won't happen. Common Lisp will become sort of like COBOL, Forth and ADA. Dead, but still around (there's gotta be some ADA code in the DOD, right?) The more I think about it, the more I tend to agree with the Schemers' philosophy (which, coincidently, is the same as Python's, Perl's, Java's, Eiffel's, C's, etc.): a small syntax core. Everything else is libraries. Nimble, moving with the times...Like R6RS, termite (Gambiit-C), etc. With the exception that, in the ML os Scheme community, they move on a real formal, solid basis (instead of Guido having "insights", or whatever). Could it be that the sheer size of Common Lisp makes it very hard to hack it (how many new Common Lisp implementations are there)? Common Lisp is design-by-committee, but the committee never got together again. They're all vendors now, what do they care. Or theiir doing something else, like Aspect-Oriented Programming with Java (CLOS' Kizkales, right?). Remember: you are expcted to use use free tools (and they haven't even helped much in that area - Cincom Smalltalk appears much better in that respect). But pay up. Like COBOL, they'll just linger on...selling their products for corporations and rich research institutes, with too much cash on their hands. Can I afford LispWorks? Yes. Do I want to? I don't know. Getting a kick out of OCaml these days... And Java works fine, too. Unix stuff? Perl. Do I want to justify Franz for my research institution (and keep renewing runtime fees)? No. So, really, I would like to see some serious argument pro-Common Lisp. I guess the only justfiable argument is: "because I like it, because I want to use it". Which is a respectable answer. But it borders more on a preference for painting or sculpture than on any analysis.
So let me get this straight.
You support a man who has expropriated private property and violated the rights of those who oppose him.
Okay, I think I understand where you're coming from.
Yes and no. That is only half the reason. The problem was that the Catholic Church was incredibly corrupt at the time. And instead of the land going to family, it went back to the Church, so it cold be, you know, a church.
Should we take a leaf out of China's book in dealing with terrorists?
Religions are very non apt to change eventually and die off, history tells us this (sup Zeus). When you revert to name-calling you yourself realize this.
Dont' base your decisions in fear they will be wrong
Right now you have a fear of death and afterlife making you think this.
Should we take a leaf out of China's book in dealing with terrorists?
Should we take a leaf out of China's book in dealing with terrorists?
Yeah, I'm thinking it has to be a troll. I don't want to believe anybody could make that "argument" and be serious.
I'm still not sure what the hell this has to do with Catholicism.
For those (like me) who didn't know: GHC is the Glasgow Haskell Compiler:
I respect most of your points, except the notion it doesn't matter when struggling poor people are duped into giving money to charlatans. If that's true for churches like this, it's true for any kind of charlatan: snake-oil salesmen, fake charity scams, Nigerian spammers. Shouldn't the pastors responsible be held to at least as high a moral standard as those scammers, instead of getting a free pass? If nothing else, saying it doesn't matter cheapens the efforts of the many more churches that do spend their money helping the poor.
I wouldn't blame the artist who created this -- he wasn't trying to make something that would be usable on a day-to-day basis or to navigate some spreadsheets or whatever.. he just wanted to make something cool and unique, and i think he succeeded tremendously.
I agree with everything else you said, though -- it's entirely possible that someone could take this and create The Next Big Thing. After all, imagine what kind of crappy art projects the Xerox GUI drew its ideas from.
Because it isn't that great. It isn't really original. And it has some very icky design flaws. And I just hate watching Guido learn how to design a language (with no creativity) - No, sir - I'd rather watch Larry Wall go crazy on language design (Perl6, by the way, is much more advanced than Python ever will be, it seems).
But I can see why people would use it (easy fit in OO programmer's mind, free, batteries included, multiplatform, etc.)
Replace "global warming" with "evolution" and this essay could just as easily have been written in defense of intelligent design.
What a hack.
Agreed. Alphabetical order be damned!
If one has nothing substantive to offer on the issues -- and the Brownshirt-controlled Republican party clearly doesn't -- then resort to flinging irrelevant Rovian mud.
Amazing shitty broken flash!
It's an interface to an art website. You sound like someone complaining that a Picasso is hard to intuitively understand, or that all the wavy lines in Starry Night create a busy background that leads to eye strain over long periods of time, and that a flat beige background would be more effective.
More than 51% of federal judges now seated were appointed by Republicans so Repubicans do control the courts. The rightwingers whine about liberal activist judges but it's just another lie. Now Bush is removing even Republican prosecutors who were doing their jobs (and doing them well according to their job reviews) investigating Republican corruption.
Asymmetrical Warfare for Dummies:
The purpose of these attacks is to provoke overreaction.
When occupation forces massacre civilians iresultn response to attacks by insurgents, the insurgents win legitimacy in the eyes of the occupied population.
These soldiers did the enemy's work.
When soldiers are placed in a untenable situation: under-trained, under-equipped, outnumbered, with no realistic political objectives and no exit plan, breakdowns in discipline will happen.
We have created the conditions which cause this sort of atrocity. This is how occupations fail.
There's new book called Beginning Lua Programming, by Wrox press. I looked at it, and Lua looks pretty cool and powerful. Seems you can bend it any which way, and it won't break.
There is nothing "green" about a gigantic five bedroom house with $85,000 worth of photovoltic panels on the roof.
The incessant demand to continue the "good life" but paint it with a whitewash of green isn't the least bit sustainable and only fools those who don't understand what sustainable means.
This is still "living on the excess", something that cannot last forever and should not be advocated especially by the so-called "environmentally conscious".
Yep, they have. But don't rain on the netroot parade by Kos, or get him confused by the facts.
How to tell if fear marketing works on you:
If you were to take away the fear of fiery death for all eternity in teh afterlife of Hell for not being in your religion:
How long would you still be in that religion?
How long would you still give 10% without seeing where exactly that money goes.
Wouldn't you just be better off giving 10% out yourself? or to a charity or choic that you know? Or to one of your child's college funds? Or a project for you and your kids?
What? A relatively short New Yorker article? Impossible!
You got it. If this followed Jakob Nielsen's guidelines to the letter, it would be a boring site like every other one. Which means we wouldn't all be talking about it right now.
"Boring" is what you want when you're using a site eight hours a day, or just trying to buy some socks, or trying to look something up, but artistic sites have a different purpose.
Not surprising at all. The dumber parts of America are almost completely defined by enthusiasm through ignorance: Love their America, but can't tell you a damn thing about the Constitution; love their religion, but don't actually study it. One would expect that to truly love something, one would also have to know it deeply... well, only if you want to consider yourself completely sentient and not a mass of half-organized drooling urges that you can barely articulate, let alone create a cohesive argument from.
Google would show you some of the millions of previous iterations of this argument (see here or here for example), but okay...
So you consider belief to be the primary requirement for a religion? Not only belief in something but belief in it's non-existence?
I fervently believe that there is no Santa, no Easter Bunny, no Tooth Fairy, and no Zeus. What does that make me? Would you seriously call me an A-santa-ist? This comes back to the provability of a negative assertion, and the fact that those making a positive assertion are the ones who need to prove their position.
Also, you're misrepresenting my position. "Believe" generally means to accept without proof. Certainly there is no proof in this matter (or any matter, really) but that's not how science works. There is no absolute proof of anything, only probability. Based on my observations, I put the probability that there is a God so astronomically low as to be effectively identical to the probability that there are leprechauns and trolls. That is, low enough to be discarded as a real, practical possibility just like thousands of other mythical concepts.
Thus I "believe" there is no God the same way I "believe" that gravity will continue to work if I drop something, etc..
Yes, science has it's own definitions of evidence and proof. Those definitions have served us very well, leading to everything you see around you that's been developed since the middle ages. The alternative methods, of which there are many, have all proven to be of no use whatsoever for discovering "truth."
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions essentially portrays all of science as those individuals who resist each major shift. Sure, there were plenty of scientists who argued against Einsteinian relativity, but most of these are won over with simple demonstrations that defy the old forms. Nobody was burned at the stake about the orbit of Mercury.
Karl Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery is a much more enlightening read. It describes in detail how to differentiate application of the scientific method from the non-science that is the subject of most of SSR.
Shouldn't the pastors responsible be held to at least as high a moral standard as those scammers, instead of getting a free pass?
I don't think they should get a free pass. What they did was wrong and perhaps there should be a way for it to be tried in court, and hopefully as the woman said the ultimate justice will come from God.
My main point was that as sad as it is that this woman was duped, when it gets down to it she's not in much worse of a situation than the person who saves up money for years and then dies before spending a dollar of it. In the end we all die. That's the necessary realization you have to come to if you have the belief that there is nothing after this life.
Cmd-shift-4, spacebar, click -- that captures just the window.
Why would I want to participate in a stupid web boycott, as if that is going to put any pressure at all on those advertisers? Hello: the reason they advertise with Coulter is because they want access to her market and readers, not necessarily everyone who agrees with her political views or diatribes.
Besides, I thought everybody knew that Al Gore is a 'total fag', so this is about as alarming as cornflakes for breakfast.
You sound like someone complaining that a Picasso is hard to intuitively understand, or that all the wavy lines in Starry Night create a busy background that leads to eye strain over long periods of time.
Actually I like neither Picasso nor Van Gogh, but that's just me. I think their art is, well, bad, so if that was meant as criticism, it doesn't work.
"Does it solve any problems with existing UIs? No."
Actually, yes, it does. Existing UIs are boring. Not only that, they don't neatly correspond to the problem of choosing from a set of options. This was interesting. I enjoyed exploring it. It might get boring, but it's good to explore the options.
Ideas such as this will lead to the next generation UIs.
has no credentials
She's a law school graduate with honours.
What. The. F.... Yeah, go to her web site and click "reload" a bunch of times. That'll sure drive her value down in the eyes of her advertisers. Nothing good for her can possibly come from giving her more ad impressions per page view.
(sigh)
Now confirmed: Brits like it up the ass, all the way.
I really honestly was amazed when i first saw this. However, "amazing" has become a loaded word on Reddit, and is often used to mean "not amazing" .. so i really had no choice.
Anyway, if everyone were to do what you said, then that would become its own karma whoring technique.
If sound can induce out-of-body experience, then I don't see any reason it can't give you orgasms too.
Yeah, but by judging from some discussions on the PLT list, I was under the impression that the PLT Web Server wasn't really mature - and this is something one of the developers said.
So, when he says that, it seems rhetorical. But they did put some new documentation up 2 or 3 days ago, so who knows?
Do you have anything to comment on the PLT web server? Is it something ready for production? Back then, the developers clearly stated it was designed for investigating web programming, that it was their focus (they being academics).
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.htm
If you believe a dude came back from the dead (its a story of every religion) then you pretty much just watch things and consume them, think from the hip, they always hated the "intellectual". Big picture views are just not as exciting as a fucking explosion woo hoo!
What's the difference between an analemma and an ecliptic? I read both Wikipedia articles, but i don't really get it.
I've never used Jython, but a browse over their FAQ says that Jython doesn't support any Python features implemented in CPython 2.2 or later, where so much of the good stuff is. Not just yield, but list comprehensions, generators, and new style classes among others.
I've never been a big Java fan because I've held the beliefe that the main advantage Java has over other languages is it's huge standard library. I like Python's libraries quite well, and purely as a language it beats Java hands down, so for someone like me who doesn't have any legacy Java code that I have to regularly deal with I can't see much advantage to Jython.
There were more than one type of raptor. Deinonychus are much larger (fossils discovered in the 60's) and would be quite capable of ruining your day.
Dowmodded for being both ancient and linkjacked.
Bonkydog! Cut these headlines way way down!
This can be cool for games/portfolio but wasting people's time for a service is no good.
The UI design should be good enough not to scare you away but should fade into the back as your content/service/function comes to the front.
What's interesting is the slant the article takes. If he is taken off the case, then his client will likely be demanded back (FINALLY!!!) by our government, and so the lawyer will have won. Michael Mori is a great, brave man for so vocally criticising his superiors. He's stood up and done the job assigned to him.
I've heard him speak on radio plenty of times here in Australia, and he is (understandably!) very contemptuous of the system.
David Hicks has been in jail... no he's been in Guantanamo which is WORSE than jail... for five years now, and he's now charged with a retrospective offence, which an American government wouldn't do to an American, nor would an Australian government do to an Australian.
What, there's no magic sound that turns men on?
Women get to have all the fun.
"I will not withdraw, even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me." --George W. Bush
Yeah, they're amusing themselves with the economic excess of the country.
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It only seems shorter because the printables version with the hideously long lines was posted. If you resize your browser to make the lines twelve words long, like they're supposed to be, you will have to scroll down many times, and it will be closer to what you are used to from the New Yorker.
It is a bait, dmehrtash, because you're trying to steer the discussion into which side is more evil. We can debate that forever, but the case is in point is whether suicide bombing is a product of religious belief or a situation.
It is a fact, as I demonstrated, that suicide bombers come almost exclusively from specific Islamic sects. There are no Christian Palestinian suicide bombers, even though Christian Palestinian are at exactly the same situation as Islamic Palestinian. You can't deny this simple fact - so instead you're throwing unrelated links like this one.
One day we can discuss which side educates for hate more, and that would be a very interesting argument in itself, since to this one bogus link there are hundreds of links of prime time TV shows and required school material in the Islamic world that pretty much follows the Nazi curriculum with regard to Jews. The funny part is the "sure sign of sick culture" title - unlike Islamic culture, who contributes so much to contemporary science, art and technology? How lucky you are to have Israel, or you'd have to actually look into yourself and ask how come there isn't a single modern democracy amongst all Arab nations, for all your oil money.
Americans don't care about much at all. Isn't that obvious?
We blow up other nations because we want something they've got, so we decide to simply take it, using the corporations strongman army to do it. Or we just like to test out our new toys on other nations before they get used here on the civilian population.
The prison industry is an extension of failed American policies. Do we care? Hell no. To say otherwise is to simply lie. Why else would we permit slave labor? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/us/04prisoners.html?_r=2&th&oref=slogin
If Americans really cared about all the shit going down in this country, including our corrupt and evil prison systems, they'd put a stop to it. But our apathy and indifference is so great and so deep we'd all just rather sit on our asses and watch football or drink beer or get entertained by the idiot box with a favorite show.
Things like this show how there is no longer a conception of the common good. Everything is about greed and profiteering.
yes, try to smuggle yourself into the country and get pissed when you get caught, dumb kid.
Agreed. Stop headline abuse; downmod headline bloat relentlessly.
I believe the pertinent question is whether these two characteristics apply to the same set of people.
Also, is it at all surprising that something embodying 'blind faith' causes people to be blind to other points of view?
Won't somebody please ask "Why don't you use BASIC?"
but they're so cute!
I think what you just wrote would qualify as the prototypical huge-psychologically-imposing-chunk-of-text. I hope you don't actually expect anyone to read that?
(its a story of every religion)
So... which religions other than Christianity feature a guy coming back from the dead as their primary story?
Here you go, Nancy Pelosi. Your task list and action items have been assigned, in order of priority. I expect regular updates of forward movement.
That's right. I don't indent the code I write in perl -e and I resent python insisting I go through unproductive contortions in order to solve problems.
It's a Talk of the Town piece... not a feature.
That those 3 pastors are in a position to potentially exploit their congregation, which they obviously have. It is wrong for them to do that, we know and so do they, but what tends to happen in evangelical "mega churches" is that the congregation sees no evil in their pastor because they trust him for his position and celebrity status, rather than his works.
This article will either cement the congregation's loyalty to these three men, or open their eyes to their wrongs, most likely the former.
She's too slim to qualify for that.
available for you to listen to and share with others.
What the hell was that? No offense, but that was one of the most incoherent blog posts I've ever seen.
Stock stuff
Actually it was kind of funny. Also, since when is Al Gore being perceived as a 'total fag' news? In truth, many Americans have considered Gore a total fag for years.
Yup, lots of talk, but no samples. There was one synth patch you could kind-of-copy, but would it be worth the effort?
Don't you mean "bringeded"?
Awesome!
it's meant to be a headline, not an overview....
Wow. Just how many atheists are merely pissed off at Christianity and won't admit it?
Not all religions have a hell to which to go.
I have a vet friend that was wounded in Gulf War I. He was treated at Walter Reed and says that it was already like that when he was there.
In spite of all the support the troops patriotism, America has never thought much of its Military people after it was done with them, but then neither has any other country.
Too much to read. What is the summary? Can I play a sound and make a girl have an orgasm?
They need a union.
Perhaps not surprising, but certainly interesting.
"I don't know much about any of these systems and I haven't really used any of them."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMiAwe6TAYM
9:00 minutes in for the MTV version.
Also
"Centuries before the time of Christ the nations annually celebrated the death and resurrection of Osiris, Tammuz, Attis, Mithra, and other gods" [1]. A cyclic dying-and-rising god motif was prevalent throughout ancient Mesopotamian and classical literature and practice (eg in Syrian and Greek worship of Adonis; Egyptian worship of Osiris; the Babylonian story of Tammuz; rural religious belief in the Corn King).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-death-rebirth_deity
Proposed life-death-rebirth deities
Aboriginal mythology
Julunggul
Wawalag
Akkadian mythology
Tammuz
Ishtar
Arabian mythology
Phoenix
Aztec mythology
Quetzalcoatl
Xipe Totec
Celtic mythology
Cernunnos
King Arthur
Christian mythology
Jesus
Dacian mythology
Zalmoxis
Egyptian mythology
Isis
Osiris
Etruscan mythology
Atunis
Greek mythology
Adonis
Cronus
Cybele
Dionysus
Orpheus
Persephone
Hindu mythology
Trimurti
Brahma
Vishnu
Siva
Khoikhoi mythology
Heitsi
Norse mythology
Balder
Gullveig
Persian mythology
Mithras
Phrygian mythology
Attis
Roman mythology
Aeneas
Bacchus
Proserpina
Slavic mythology
Veles
Jarilo
Sumerian mythology
Damuzi
Inanna
Enjoy!
This is a rule of law country. If the congress, the president and courts agree then it is law. So are you saying President Bush, the United States Congress and the US Supreme and Appeals Courts are acting in unison to violate the constitution?
the original pic:
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/%7Edeg28/homegirls1.jpg
Ditto. I had a co-worker from Iran who said "this isn't about us... we're the good people." Rather amazing statement.
Why, again, do we need the political class? Why don't we just fire all these assholes? Or just let Bush, Ahmagonnakillajew, etc. just fight it out in a ring to the death.
that incisive piece of hate-filled rhetoric
Even as sarcasm, this is too complimentary.
Let em get this straight - it's counting down until the trailer comes out? Are you fucking kidding me? Don't even get me started about paying $600 for one of these overrated nextgen consoles to play the game. You don't have to, because you already pissed me off by making me watch a countdown to a trailer.
The thing I like most about my language is that it's not Perl
"you can say you won't drink milk but there could be milk byproducts (and thus killer bacteria) in a lot of foods or drinks."
Food labels indicate whether or not milk is in any given product. The same goes for soy and wheat.
Anyway, I do agree that the FDA needs to pay attention to what it allows. As it stands, a lot of stuff is put into foods and drinks that shouldn't be.
. . . even if he has to be hypocritical to do it.
You may deny the relevance of what I said to reality all you like, but the strident whining over the years about calling any Linux distribution "GNU/Linux" all the time, under any circumstances, coupled with the tendency to call anything that uses GNU tools as part of the process of completing a complete unix implementation as simply "GNU" is annoyingly self-contradictory in principle.
Yes, I'm sure the reason he does it is related to furthering the practical goals of the FSF rather than petty fame. That doesn't change the action itself.
. . . and the practical goals of the FSF are clearly either not exactly what are openly claimed or, possibly, are being pursued by at least short-term counterproductive methods. The fact that the GPL, in the FSF's use of it as a weapon against proprietary software vendors, actually violates the third of the FSF's four freedoms in application kind of makes that an unavoidable fact of life.
edit: I forgot to mention . . . all credit going to GNU rather than Linux would be an excellent tool toward fostering the ideas being pushed as part of the GNU effort. The fact that credit isn't the ultimate goal doesn't change the fact that it would be naive at best to believe that credit isn't a goal.
Jules Verne was on to something. I hope there are live dinosaurs down there two.
Your analogy is inappropriate and affirms your moniker.
Pretty much any given Porsche is just as functional as a Toyota Camry, insofar as it is a car, and operates pretty much like all other cars on the road. Unless you consider high prices detrimental to functionality, I'd say that a Porsche is probably widely considered more functional than your average Toyota. I'm not a car person, but I suspect that one of the reasons that an individual would choose to pay for a Porsche, in addition to the brand's cachet or an eye for a sleek design, is for that added functionality (higher quality parts, better handling, et cetera).
In keeping with your metaphor, this interface is more like a giant chrome marble with a one foot square windshield that you navigate by throwing your body against the inner walls. Sure, it's not as functional as a Camry, but damned if it's not pretty!
Universal human rights? Not causing human extinction? How about simple self-preservation? But go ahead, I really want to hear those "valid objections" to these things.
You sound like a guest on Bill Mahar's show: "what people don't understand..." "what people should do..." "we all just sit on our asses...."
Bah. I don't care and neither do you - you just pretend that you care. I would rather sit in front of the tv.
See this:
http://www.newamericancentury.org
New player freeroll
Translation:
I am an angry Digg user. Please kick me hard on my behind.
yes yes, you hate America, we get it already!
So... basically just the Mesopotamians. Your argument that All Religions feature resurrection as their primary story is based on an inductive sample of Christianity and Ancient Mesopotamian Paganism.
Wow, you're totally and completely wrong.
Edit: I have to read that new list you edited in, but they're still all basically dead Pagan religions or Christianity. My point stands.
Mentally unstable? Go read up on A.W. Tozer or Eric Liddell, and then ask yourself what you've done with your life. That is, besides spouting ignorance about people who willingly lay down their lives for complete strangers.
Of course, what am I thinking? Charity, generosity, and self-sacrifice are all signs of mental-instability. If you do happen to think like that, you're more like those three pastors than you think.
Also: whitespace being meaningful is a bad idea.
This has perhaps been beaten to death, but it is considered good C/C++/Java/C# style to always use braces around if's and else's. It's also considered good style to always indent the associated code block. Further, it's also considered good practice to standardize on a set level of indentation in either tabs or spaces. It's not hard to see that in this case the curly braces are completely redundant.
Python just acknowledges that, forcing good style in the process.
All agrarian societies have a death and rebirth mythology.
Jesus is fertilizer.
Ok I can say most religions. There are alot more than just Mesopotamians and Christians that believe this. See above message.
Sorry if I am hitting at your belief system I should stop I could destroy your world view. I don't mean to squash your beliefs I am just stating that it seems pattern like and just as snake oil to me.
I worked in bioinformatics for a while, and there was Herl everywhere. I really learned to despise that language. It looks like what's supposed to come out of the other end of a compiler, not something that human beings are supposed to write.
The good news is that Perl 6 is here. It's called Ruby.
This article has already been posted on reddit...
I'm not even going to read this article- I RARELY bother reading anything this pathetic exhibitionist writes. Her screeds were grotesquely fascinating when she first rose to the national spotlight (like fat from a rendered possum...)
But now that the Neocon feeding frenzy is drawing to a close, she's become like the party guest who won't leave.
Of course, part of the problem with the Coulter phenomenon are the liberals who she enjoys baiting so much. Just STOP caring what she says. She's an idiot. Why bother even acknowledging her presence? Stop allowing yourselves to be baited by an moron.
She's obviously going to go to ANY length to get press. Her calling Edwards a "faggot" is the final proof of that. A NEW LOW for political commentary? Well, calling her rants "political commentary" is being unnessarily kind. But this kind of public name calling is helping to drag US politics down to Pro Wrestling standards. Clearly, she must be punished, but how?
The worst thing one can do to an attention whore is...to NOT pay attention. Exhibitionists thrive on attention, so... I've got a great idea...how about we all JUST IGNORE HER...
Soon she'll be reduced to flashing commuters on the DC Metro...where she belongs- intstead of in national political discourse.
"Click here to download plugin."
I don't get it.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=39538&in_page_id=2
This is going to make my life so much easier
You can accurately say most dead religions. Christianity's the only live one on your list.
You said "the story of every religion". Now you've backpedaled to "most religions", and have to admit you really mean "most dead religions". Just admit that even where your restricted statement is technically correct, it's inapplicable to the modern world.
No thank you.
Its got electrolytes!
I love Ann Coulter. She is fun in an insane way.
Love the domain. I should try to register the domain "Holysh" in Italy.
Too low-res to read.
self.__foo is my biggest beef with Python and the source of most of my underscores. I wish there were a more compact way to indicate encapsulation, akin to Ruby's @foo.
That said, Python is by far my favorite language.
I have a suspicion that a deep knowledge of religion harms its acceptance. The "exposed surface area" in contact with reality increases.
...which has a particular role for us, and that included the topping of Saddam Hussein
Well they certainly did top him, but they weren't that upfront about it being the objective ;)
Did I say anything bad about charity. I think many times today people think they are givng to charity through religion but it doesn't end up that way. Just give your 10% to charity as YOU see fit.
Your twisting my argument to some strawman that I never even said. I am for charity and give myself, I like to know exactly where my charity is going to not to the pastors Beamer or gold plated gate. Many religions are led by Dominionists, look that up.
This is a great porn title.
'Sex and the Brain' (published 1984) said exactly the same thing about the hardwiring of the male and female brains explaining their 'inherent' differences.
I don't know about it being a controversial thesis, but it's certainly an old one.
Bumping is old news. If this had been posted 2 years ago, you might have had something.
Yay for the boundless opportunities the internet affords me to be completely wrong.
I think we all know about those... definitely me too. (-:
But it takes a wise person to admit when he is wrong.
Next time just mention that as the first post.
eg
Here's a story from 8 months ago that I still find relevant today. (link to initial reddit submission)
Reddit needs an official mechanism for covering long tail effects like this. For example you could have added that original link at any time in this sub conversation.
I haven't seen one point among your many about doing what is best for the country. Only how things will play out politically for the democrats. So for the good of the country why don't the Democrats impeach President Bush? There was no duplicity, the intelligence data was the same seen by the President, though the Congress saw toned down data which was LESS compelling for war. Now that the war is going badly and the anti-war left is putting some real heat on them, the Democrat cover lie is something like "we didn't see the real intelligence data we were tricked". With a solid obedient majorities in both houses why would President Bush spend any time fooling democrats? He didn't need a single democrat vote for the declaration of war against Iraq.
A short observation of our dependence on technology, as well as some questions to get the discussion rolling. The internet is about expression and making our voices heard, so here's our chance.
Sorry if I am hitting at your belief system I should stop I could destroy your world view. I don't mean to squash your beliefs I am just stating that it seems pattern like and just as snake oil to me.
I'm neither Christian nor Pagan. This new message should notify you of that.
xkcd is a very good example on how easy is it to buy points in reddit.
Stupid cartoons, which always make it to the front page.
it totally did eat my whole sunday. i haven't heard of or played the other games, so i was pretty happy
Wow. It took them this long to figure out that Michael Moore lacks any semblance of credibility?
Fewer than half of us can identify Genesis as the first book of the Bible, and only one third know that Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount.
I knew that, and I've been ignostic my entire life and haven't so much as looked in a bible since i was 4.
How is it inapplicable when Christians still believe it? When did I ever say most present religions? I think its even sadder that they are mostly in the past and still there are some today. So you just like to argue for others points I see, I guess testing debate skills. Which are shown with statements like:
Wow, you're totally and completely wrong.
Good one.
Disliking Python because Ruby is better "for proper functional-style programming" is roughly analogous to disliking a screwdriver because a hammer is so much better for properly opening bottles...
Hmm, good point. I guess that establishes rotation. It doesn't help with the annual motion, though.
Nope, not the only one.
It doesn't really matter if you are or not. I gues syou just like to argue others points?
Huh? So the guy makes an argument against one dogma, you observe that the same argument could be used against another dogma therefore it must be a hack... you should become a politician ;)
(Perl6, by the way, is much more advanced than Python ever will be, it seems).
It's been the Language of the Future for quite some time... ;-)
Damn, there goes productive work
This is a rule of law country.
No kidding....
If the congress, the president and courts agree then it is law.
Wrong. All branches of government, for the last God damn time, must act within the provisions of the Constitution. That is what makes the U.S. what we are. They are also bound to uphold legal precedent, as in, previous Supreme Court decisions. End of fucking story.
This is the problem with Republican oversimplification of the violations committed by the Bush administration; which is fucking grand hilarity, what with all the rage and banter over "activist judges" that conservatives have been fashionably given to over the passing years.
So are you saying President Bush, the United States Congress and the US Supreme and Appeals Courts are acting in unison to violate the constitution?
This is not conspiracy theory, and your attempt to bait a trap is so dull as to be insulting. Bush, Cheney, and Rove have been gaming the system and exploiting loopholes, using a bully Congress to shut out non-Republican members, and appointing a judicial system they control to facilitate this exploitation, their violations of the Constitution, and their amassing of Executive branch power. However, they lack the intellectual capacity to really pull it off as "legal", so they are open to prosecution as soon as someone with a spine and moral compass steps into the majority.
You can note this now as a future subject liberals will be able to say "I fucking told you so" on, to be added to the list that recently gained the additions of "Global Warming" and "Iraq".
A lunar base by 2020?
This was a PyCon talk I'd really wanted to go to, but ended up missing; there's a ton of useful information (some of it not even Python-specific) in here, all lining up very nicely with things I've seen in production (the bit about a load-balancer being able to "trickle" to slow clients while freeing up your "real" backend processes is a huge one, and I'm glad to see it mentioned here, because it gets overlooked far too often).
I'd be interested to see the deployment tools they mention at the very end; we've been using Capistrano to handle deployment to multiple machines, but a Python solution would be nice to have :)
Ah yes, the Argumentum ad Black Metal.
A Kulisz Klassic.
Next you'll be trying to impress us with more of your cheesy genocidal fantasies:
I'm not a nice person. There are whole nations I'd have absolutely no problem seeing exterminated. Bullets, gas, even mustard gas for all I care. There are thousands of cultures that are evolutionary dead-ends. And I wouldn't mind if the entire American Bible Belt were put to the sword.
--richardkulisz
Do that croaky fucked up voice again! It's so spooky.
It's inapplicable because you can't accurately say that most or all modern religions believe in resurrection. Your original statement was that all religions believe in a resurrection. If some modern religions (and even some old ones) do not, that disproves your point.
It's inapplicable to the modern world because Christians are not the modern world. As much as they may try to dominate everyone's lives, they can't. So go live your fucking life without worrying about what other people believe.
Is there a link to this Documentary?
For a minute I thought you were actually going to stop in the thought that I'm Christian.
Yeah, saw it yesterday.
I won you resorted to name-calling. +1 for me.
Why the hell are you arguing these points for other people if you are asking why I care about arguing these points. I am not really worrying, just having some debates and when you said "So go live your fucking life without..." I won. Usually when you are right and it challenges the other debater you get anger or name-calling.
That's a qualification ? Do you know the difference between a lawyer and a bucket of shit ?
Be obnoxious then. Look like a fool. I'm sure the people you're trying to help will greatly appreciate the way you're turning people off their cause.
(its a story of every religion) "a story" not "the story"
This is a perfectly accurate statement. All religions have resurrection stories.
The fact that most religions that have existed are now dead only proves the point he was making. It is the same stories retold through the millennia.
If people are actually tithing "correctly" (10%), and they average $40,000/year income then each is giving about $4,000 per year to this joke of a church. $4,000 is a lot of TVs and games that could be bought each and every year. Besides, those things are optional, and if people are really caught up in believing, the tithe is not optional.
"I know for a fact that the church I attend spends a ton of money on the poor, so I don't have a problem with giving it money.": I give money to certain charitable organizations, as well...and I suggest that church offerings should be simply for the support of that church, and any excess ammount can be directed to organizations that directly offer whichever service you wish to support. Examples: foodbanks for food, several NGOs for third-world development (I like www.unitus.com, but many good ones).
In any regard, check out whoever you wish to contribute to with these sites:
http://www.charitywatch.org/toprated.html
http://www.give.org/standards/index.asp
http://www.charitynavigator.org/
I heard that the only real application for that technology was child pornography. How did you hear about it?
hah!
Wow. Someone doesn't like Ann Coulter.
Trashing U2 was worth your time Henry, this wasn't.
The point you miss is that all the top 4 have deals with private oil companies and participate in OPEC, a supply controlling cartel including Saudi, Venezuela, Mexico. China does its own thing and we don't get much Chinese oil.
This is also just their reserves not their future output or current output.
The mentally unstable flock to religion.
Your blanket statement is what I was commenting on, and I provided you with two examples of mentally stable individuals who are charitable. They credit all of their charity TO their religious beliefs so I followed the logic: If belief in religions is for the mentally unstable, and charity is a chief tenant of those religions, then charity can be seen as an act that shows mental instability.
Hah, I know full well of the political bullshit that goes on behind the scenes in churches. Don't worry, there are still some Christians that have a well-made head rather than a well-filled one.
Tesco are greedy crooks who have finally got their comeupance!
You backing up my point about slowing production to tighten prices. There is not a lack of hydrocarbons in the Earth, there is a lack of investment, production and exploration by oil cartels to slow down supply to get more margin on each barrel.
I have to agree.
He probably would have been better than Bush (because it would have been hard to be worse), but that doesn't mean he'd be very good. And I like how they basically say "9/11 wouldn't have been avoided, except, well, Gore probably would have, HE knew what was going on." Yeah, right. But he probably wouldn't have invaded Iraq. What a mess.
Oh well. Washington was probably right... with a party system, everything ends in shambles, you just get politicians good at climbing party ladders, not good at Presiding.
Just some thoughts from a cynical college student.
Couldn't you type in eval(" and then paste the code snippet and then close it with ")?
Supposed to say high prices, typo/mistype. Prices stay low for investment and exploration adn production, higher prices for lack of supply.
hey my name is annie
Glad I replaced milk with beer in my diet a long time ago. Nothing like Cap'n Crunch in a bath of labatt blue
Good, Fast, Cheap,... pick two.
Once the all branches of government have agreed that legislation and it's application are constitutional it is. Generally the courts have had the last say on constitutionality. And the courts agree with the President on habeas. So as far as habeas is concerned the current law is constitutional as it is currently applied by President Bush. It could change if the Supreme Court decides to hear the case, but since the law was modified to meet the courts concerns it's unlikely they will hear it. Habeas as applied by President Bush is the law.
Ahahahahahaa! I love it. I hope someone sends it to Ann-leech-on-the-ass-of-humanity Coulter and soon:)
I'm sorry. Your comment exceeded my attention span.
You'll need to cut it way down if you want me to read it.
Forgive them, the prozac and water at the churchs make you giddily giving at the wallet and overly forgetful or inquisitive, just happy. muh-hah-hahaha
The kind of loser who's about two orders of magnitude smarter and funnier than you.
eval only works with expressions, which can't contain newlines anyway.
I like it when a youtube video is embedded in a blog post (preferrably with some context). It can't be worse than having to look at the depressing stupidity of youtube comments
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i guess henery is a faggot to
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I guess he's a faggot.
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You first.
Because the most popular implementation is slow, uses reference counting for memory management and doesn't seem to have good Unicode support.
Future Headquarters of the Official Lou Franklin Fan Club!
fucking videos and fucking creepy looking dudes
Scheme is like a ball of snow. You can add any amount of snow to it and it still looks like a ball of snow. Moreover, snow is cleaner than mud. -- Marc Feeley
Nice shot across the bow to Scheme's Big Ball of Mud relative. ;) Reminds me of:
Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious."
Lispnik: "Buddha is big, has hairy armpits, and laughs."
tl;dr
This is decades-old USENET bullshit in a "fringe science" crackpot archive.
you really think this is going to help your case kid? you didn't even spell his name right
It has the side effect of keeping python from having lambdas containing any structures which rely on indentation, and from keeping arbitrary string interpolation from being practical. Another problem is pasting in arbitrary valid python code; there are technical work arounds (I use 'edit' in ipython), but it is just a pain to new users who want to paste in the body of a function (they better have block select), or paste in something with indentation and more than 2 empty lines in a row.
I don't really mind the whitespace thing overall, as the readability win is large, it saves precious vertical space (although, trailing if/unless modifiers like those found in perl and ruby save lots as well).
Yes this is my concern with the design - the F14 has a swept-wing design to enhance lift at low speeds ("enhance efficiency" not that the military cares about that), then pull them back for speed - also enhancing efficiency.
If the fuselage is the structure providing most lift you lose some opportunity for reducing lift/drag when you need to. I question the efficiencies they anticipate in a long-distance flight. Perhaps these come primarily from the inset engines and lower profile (no tail), but I still have to wonder. The increased drag at speed of an increased lift design is not addressed in the article which makes me wonder if it was not considered.
Kos is a faggot.
Edit: They're the same idea.
http://silentaircraft.org/
See the part about where Boeing's funding is coming from - the same MIT team as the one discussing the concept linked in this Reddit post.
Show us your tits!
There are many people who have a propensity to believe stories which have a story line along the lines of any of: the evil United States, big oil, big drug companies, evil military, global warming, etc. Reddit is a fount of unusual journalistic sources which support these story lines.
Of course, if this story is true the US soldiers who committed crimes should be tried and if found guilty, punished.
This game is way addictive
Well i caught it on BBC last night. That a good enough source for you?
Your analogy is inappropriate and affirms your moniker.
How clever. I like how you started right off with a personal attack.
added functionality (higher quality parts, better handling, et cetera).
I think you're mixing quality and performance with functionality. Does a Porsche allow drivers to transport 5 people to the airport? Can you fit all your groceries or luggage in the trunk of a Porsche? The Camry is in every way as functional as a Porsche, just not as well-performing.
this interface is more like a giant chrome marble with a one foot square windshield that you navigate by throwing your body against the inner walls.
Tone down the exaggeration; it's not as bad as you describe it.
His parents were only trying to do what's best for the child.
I'm a Canadian and I'm positive that we shouldn't be deporting anyone to Iran, whether they are here illegally or not. And especially not 9 year children who are citizens.
It's really a shame their plane had to stop in the land of the free or these people could be living a normal life right now.
I hate it when bad guys (Bush+) win.
Yes, I wonder how willing passengers would be to fly in something that is largely windowless. Even if you put windows on this plane, it appears from the design that their angle would not allow you to see the ground.
It is becoming a thing of the past that flight is a wonder, so where it was once a nicety of a flight that the plane roll to show you landmarks you pass over, now this practice is disappearing - so perhaps customers don't care for the windows too much anyways.
I suppose that this problem could best be solved with the right cabin amenities - if the insides felt more luxurious and open (the opportunity offered by such a wide and spacious cabin) than a normal plane the changes may be welcomed as an improvement rather than avoided as an unnecessary stray from what works.
Possibilities include designing it as a giant flying restaurant, or a giant flying movie theatre. In either case the existing association with comfort may make windows irrelevant. In the case of the movie theatre, it makes windows unwanted.
I completely agree. The parents were not deemed to be suitable for refugee status, deported and then planned to lie their way back into Canada. How is anyone supposed to believe that they were persecuted in Tehran when they are lying about everything else?
I feel bad for the kid, and I feel bad that they can't have the life they sampled but paying criminals to get you into Canada is not the right thing to do. I would have thought spending the $40k on a really good immigration lawyer might have been a far better path.
I wonder why the U.S. has not just sent them right back to Iran though?
San Jose based virtual community for teens has struck Gaia Gold with $12.01m in second round funding from DAG, Benchmark and Redpoint.
Your comment would've been on topic, if highly redundant, if this post had been an xkcd cartoon. It isn't.
(Hint: Click the link.)
Some of the comments referred to Bazaar's lack of tags. This feature has been implemented and will be part of the upcoming 0.15 release.
It would've been extremely interesting had 9/11 happened in 2000.
Thinking back, I was flabbergasted that Bush had been nominated instead of more worthy members in the Republican camp, but I thought of him as nothing more than a harmless yokel, so I threw my vote to the Libertarian.
Had we been attacked, I might have swung to Gore.
I think I actually almost sort of figured out how to navigate it, but the durned thing wouldn't click!!
Me: Have at thee, foul beast.
Raptor: Did you just squirt me with grape juice?
Me: I read about it in a blog. Do you feel repulsed yet?
Raptor:...
Me: ...you're gonna kill me now, aren't ya?
What cartoon does this email refer to?
really? why not? because the rest of the world is soooo intimidated? geez, not even the marsh Arabs are intimidated anymore... because the rest of the world "needs" the US, economically? actually, the US is a sucking power-toilet of international finance. and those numbers don't even include private debt (like that VISA card you're behind on), which is approaching another trillion. it hasn't created wealth since the mid-nineties, and that was just on paper - hence its hasty disappearance during the dotcom bust. if the US doesn't start making things (other than "information" and "services") again and soon, i can't see that sort of thing NOT happening. neither can The Daily Telegraph, or even Ben Bernanke, of all people.
Seriously. People are blaming the US, saying how we're at fault for Muslim fundamentalism. Um, how about the actual fundamentalists themselves? Like, the ones actually killing these people? Yes, the US is partly to blame, but ultimately it is the people doing the killing.
Completely agree, it would be nice to have some swooping major changes in this country though, if they were for the better at least. But we aren't ever going to see them if we keep voting on politicians.
Your claim that they would be ok if they only just managed to get to Canada is unfair. If Canadian immigration had found out they were on fake passports they would be deported or detained until they were deported (a la US).
I like your latest blog entry - yes I subscribed to your blog.
Huh? They'd be living as criminals in Canada. How is that normal?
I definably agree with the author on point #3. Python's standard library is awesome, it's one of python's greatest selling-points but it really needs a clean-up. There are so many inconsistencies in variable/function naming style and many modules that are outdated/useless/duplicated.
They might as well throw out Tkinter entirety. Nobody uses it.
Yeah, it's so easy to buy points on reddit. All you need to do is actually be entertaining in some way.
I don't know, but it's not unlikely that they're actually better off in a detention camp in Texas than in Iran --- if you believe their own story of what happened to them in Tehran.
Perl:
$a = 1;
print 'Greater' if $a > 0;
See people? THIS is what is called constructive criticism. Usable critiques and issues... not 'well i don't like van gogh or picasso' bs.
I'm voting this up just for the title.
Jesus was never presented as a myth in the Gospels or Epistles, and you only prove the article correct in claiming he was. The Gospels are written as a history of who the person of Jesus is, not as some ancient myth trying to explain why the sun rises each morning. There is a plethora of contemporary historians and writings that acknowledge that Jesus of Nazareth existed:
Tacitus, Suetonius, Josephus, Thallus, Pliny the Younger, Emperor Trajan, the Talmud, Lucian, and Mara Bar-Serapion are but a few.
Whether or not you believe the Gospel account of Jesus is a philosophical matter, not a historical one. Oh noez, edumaction.
you needed to read this to know disney is evil and stupid? really?
I think Ann Coulter is too dumb to get any of the stuff he said...
Yes, but as indicated elsewhere in these reddit comments, the rate of violent deaths amongst vocal Putin critics is far higher than in the general population.
Moreover, there has been exactly one death ever recorded of Polonium 210-poisoning in Britain: Litvenenko. Polonium which has been traced to an airplane from Moscow. Polonium, almost all of which is produced in Russia, and is very difficult and expensive to procure in mass quantities. To go to the trouble of doing this is like leaving a calling card on the body, "courtesy of the FSB." Therefore there are really only two possibilities:
1) Putin's government did it.
2) Someone is willing to spend a lot of money to make it look like Putin's government did it.
Of these, 1) is far more straightforward. This, coming on the heels of a law shoved through Russia's parliament stating that it is legal to kill dissidents in foreign countries.
P.S. w.r.t. the above enumeration, I'm fully aware that the conspiracy-minded often fall into the trap of ascribing perfectly rational behavior to all actors and fail to account for options like 3) People do dumb shit for no apparent reason. However, with this polonium thing, I think these really are the only options.
I find it hard to believe that you think there was no duplicity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/22/washington/22intel.html?ex=1303358400&en=8955c89fa7eb09e6&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
"According to the release, Mr. Drumheller cited one instance in which George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, told President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney that a paid agent in Saddam Hussein's inner circle, Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, had reported that Iraq had no active programs for weapons of mass destruction.
Three days later, according to Mr. Drumheller's account, the White House told C.I.A. officials that it was proceeding with plans to go to war.
"And we said, 'Well, what about the intel?' And they said, 'Well, this isn't about intel anymore. This is about regime change.' "
A CBS spokesman, Kevin Tedesco, said Mr. Drumheller's account was that the exchange took place in September 2002, six months before the American invasion of Iraq."
Why would Bush spend any time fooling democrats?
Because even the most rapid conservatives would have a hard time signing on the dotted line if Bush said "yeahhh...the CIA is telling us that there are no WMDs, and we totally made up that yellowcake story, and we really are just taking a wild guess about the mobile weapon labs, but we're gonna put 150,000 US boys in harm's way anyway."
A bucket of shit won't over-bill you.
Poor Leslie, she is giving her retirement away to a non-existant dream
she's giving her money directly ($600+/month) to the poor. What is so bad about that? religious or not, more people should be just like that: I don't feel sorry for her, I admire her.
Gore has stated about a billion times that he doesn't want to be president. Why do people keep kicking this dead horse?
dang.. they still teach typing?
Go ahead and make assumptions. I never said Jesus didn't exist he was a political dissident and disagreed with the establishment of the time, a people's hero when there was no intarwebs to there was nothing to do but perpetuate the stories into myths. The myth was the resurrection, divine miscommunication. Resurrection at one time also meant rising from the death bed, or getting better.
Oh noez l337 critical thinkigz pwnage!11
I didn't hear any thing or see any thing. I wasn't even here. But if I was, I was sleeping.
I also have no experience of Tehran but the people who deemed them as non-refugees probably have a better understanding and it must be with them that I must side seeing as they are not proven liars.
I don't really believe that life in Tehran is more oppressive than a detention camp where the father cannot even fix his son's bed. I expect at the very least they are free to walk to the shops. They seemed to be pretty affluent with $40k in savings, and like I said that could get them a great lawyer if they really felt oppressed they would have a very good case.
Ok point taken but 10% of your money is alot, that is many things you could buy for yourself and your family.
That is an incredibly sad statement to me. If you don't want to give 10% of your money to a religious cause, that's fine. But if there are dying of poverty in your city (never mind in your world), then the first thought coming into one's mind should never be the consumer goods that they can but for themselves.
like sex
I hope he does run, we all need a laugh.
EDIT: sorry, double post
Doesn't matter.
Nobody likes a hypocrite.
Al loses.
Outlook Taskpad (the little optional task list in the calendar view) can actually be made usable with some tweaking. You can even sync it with your handheld and have access to your to do list anywhere.
Are you saying that Leslie is not capable of giving to charities on her own instead of funding religion real estate deals along the way?
Fair enough. Now what are five things you hate about Ruby?
Sure it was.
If you think these rich people are just sitting on a pile of hoarded (and "unproductive") cash like the author of the post seems to think, then you need to think about things a little more. Money is just a voting system, it does nothing in and of itself anyway.
No. We need not pay attention to Big Al anymore.
Global warming is now separate from Al.
I didn't call the founders insane, I called the people that support them insane.
There are just too many statements. print isn't even a function (though that will change in 3000). 0 and '' evaluating to false is tough on a lot of functional style coding and isn't a net win in my view; it is more of a concession to C.
The hairdresser scrapes together $600 of her own money each month to keep up the program because the Prayer Palace
She is giving her money directly to charity (if not a charity). I'm not defendign the church here, but I do think that that $600 is very well spent indeed.
He notes, with Iraq and New Orleans in mind:
The stresses come in part from rapid urbanization. Schwartz notes that in 1900, one in 20 people lived in cities; today it's about half, and the percentage is rising fast. Without strong and supple governments, this could become a world of vigilantes and militias, desperate to control scarce resources.
So spending your own money on charity, on your child's education, your own retirement, that is stingy? I never said ANYTHING about not giving to charity, religion and charity are two separate things.
Another reason why making the head of state, head of government and commander in chief the same person is such a bad idea in modern western democracies. Such things may be necessary in relatively anarchic situations (i.e., under meaningful threat of military coup, or if you happen to find yourself founding an overseas rebel republic some time in the 18th century), but in more stable situations, having a singularly empowered head of state is just asking for unnecessary trouble.
VIDEOS
We aren't talking about indivuduals here, we are talking about the place they give them to (the church in this article) using it for homes, gold plated gates and beamers. people are much better off just giving themselves, just as you support my point.
Very Relevant
Unless your study of it is guided by someone who tells you all the "right" interpretations.
More than 10 percent think that Noah's wife was Joan of Arc.
That could be straight from The Onion.
Ruby: It's not Python. Nor is it Smalltalk.
Python: It's not Lisp.
Lisp: It's not Python.
Scheme: Halfway to a half-decent language. (Hint: the other half is called STANDARD LIBRARIES!! Yet, somehow, I have a sinking feeling that R6RS is going to find several creative new ways to suck.)
Haskell: Still waiting for ghc to compile. Also, you can pry my heterogeneous lists out of my cold, dead arena.
OCaml: Ugly; no unicode.
Assembly: Too not portable.
C: Not as expressive as Assembly. You'll only notice that C isn't nearly a "portable Assembly" when you start considering using it as a compilation target language. :P
C++: Oh, hell no.
Java: It's basically C++ that sucks 10% less.
C#: Borg. Also, not that much better than Java.
Guile: It seems that the GNU people have ever-so-carefully balanced slowness, brittleness, and poor integration with C.
Forth: Builds brains, but makes my eyes hurt.
Lua: It's not Lisp. A lisp that fit Lua's niche would be amazing...
Smalltalk: Don't like living in an image. Poopy syntax. Where's my REPL?
Perl 5: perl -e 'die and die and die'
Perl 6: Been waiting too long for a language that's basically a more complicated version of Ruby.
Javascript: It's about as crappy as a language can be and still be considered a functional-style programming language.
Arc: Paul Graham made the mistake of announcing it too early. I want it yesterday!
Goo: (dead? 'goo)
Objective-C: I knew Smalltalk, I worked with Smalltalk, and you, Sir, are no Smalltalk! Hell, you're not even Ruby...
XML: Not even a programming language! Bloated, unparseable garbage! Calling it S-Expressions-in-drag is about 3 orders of magnitude too charitable to XML, and an insult to drag!
TeX: Knuth tried hard to make it just feeble and ugly enough not to be used as a real programming language. Knuth overestimated humanity's good taste.
SQL: See TeX, although this one's not Knuth's fault...
Edit: And how could I forget this gem:
PHP: The only good thing I can get anyone to say about PHP is, "It's not that bad." Then they run off sobbing, although whether it's out of guilt for having lied to me, or the realization that they've been lying to themselves, I doubt I shall ever know...
In many cases, the first-order function you want to pass is a one-shot throw-away. Lambdas are very nice for that, and anything that makes them less convenient is a drag on functional programming.
Yes. Distractions are us.
[...] the most beautiful "ultra-HLL" in existence... by a huge margin?
That's just bizarre. It's significantly uglier than Smalltalk, Scheme, Erlang, Haskell, Lisp, and several others.
[...] Swing sucks
Why? Swing is fine. It's actually one of the better parts of Java and is very powerful.
[...] whitespace being meaningful is a bad idea
Why? You use it anyway, right? And I'd bet that at least 90% of the time you use it exactly like Python would expect--an indentation inside a block.
Now thats a well thought out funny comment............you enrich my world!
Correct, but you don't have to leave the home row to type it. On many keyboards, you have to remove a hand from the home row to get up to F5, then come back and find it again.
I am not saying that the science doesn't work.
Actually, you are. But please, continue and prove my point.
Yes oil fields lose their oil, but they also have been shown to replenish slowly...
If by "slowly" you mean billions of years, you are correct, but it won't make any difference to us humans with lifetimes several orders of magnitude less than that. If "slowly" means decades because you think oil is "abiotic" then you have rejected the science.
Cheap pumping oil may be on decline but oil is here for many more centuries at least
Here you are actually admitting the issue and yet rejecting it at the same time. Of course oil will be around in 100 years. The question of Peak Oil is, "How MUCH oil will be flowing?"
And that brings us to your issue of price. If I give you 1 dollar and you use it to get 100 bucks of oil out of the ground, you've got a pretty sweet deal going.
But if I give you 1 dollar and you get 1.50 back in oil, then things get tough for you. If I also stipulate that you can only ever get back 100 bucks in oil due to geological constraints, then if you had an economy that would require 110 bucks worth of oil, you'd be in trouble. If the geology meant that you'd only get back 90 bucks the following year, and 80 the next on forever, you'd have to make some serious life changes.
What you are missing is that Hubbert's Peak ALREADY HAS shifted production around to where the oil is. It did so when the US started to become a net importer. It did this without any "marketing campaign." It happened as the natural consequence of the US Peak in 1970. In fact, the marketing campaign from the oil companies was directly against Peak Oil, and still is today.
So again, the data and tested hypothesis are against you.
Russia, China, Sudan, Cuba, Alaska, Pacific, Indonesia, Nigeria etc.
Russia will peak in 5 years. China has peaked or will do so in the next year or two. Cuba has almost no oil to speak of and any production will go straight to Cuba. Indonesia is in a 10% decline. Alaska is in decline with only the ANWAR able to halt that decline. Nigeria is a nightmare which may have already peaked but at best will be a flat production due to bandits. Etc etc.
So the places you claim that are going to start pumping more oil out of don't have the ability to do so.
Its just the exploration is also controlled by cartels
That's a bizarre mix of state actors and oil company actors in your list above. This collusion must go all the way to the top. And defy physics at the same time.
Anyway, oil flows will cease to rise and start to fall. The science surrounding that has been proven for over 50 of the top 60 oil producing countries. To believe that the rest will mystically start following some new hypothesis seems very far fetched. To chalk it up to conspiracy seems even MORE far fetched.
I'm not saying Peak Oil means doomsday. I'm saying that if we don't start taking it seriously and start really working hard at switching our infrastructure, we will have shortfalls, bad times, or worse by not navigating around easily foreseen, scientifically proven consequences.
Check out the Hirsch Report if you are interested in detailed reasons why.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_report
Or you can continue to believe in some crazy oil conspiracy. I like the science better, personally.
I always found the "du -sh" command helpful...
Further spoilage of the alphabetical-order theory: One's own comments get permalink, parent, reply, edit, delete, report. (Why would I report my own comment?)
This is why you shoot rubber bullets at protesters instead of letting them do what they want.
Not good enough to vote for.
It's because you could only believe in if you don't know anything about it.
I remember getting these every year from junior high through the end of high school. At 11 I could tell it was a scam, but I hadn't every thought about the extend of information I had floating around the world because of National Honor Roll. That's a little disconcerting.
I guess things aren't bad enough since the kid has the whole rainbow of colors to write with.
Good work, bonkydog. This is on par with the majority of your submissions.
Do whichever you want, I'm just giving a tip. Programmers tend to be a little crazy about not wanting to remove their hands from the useful part of the keyboard.
Can you provide me a link or two backing that claim please? If I'm going to get pwned, I might as well get a thorough pwning.
Or a site explaining why a prominent Pharisee would go from butchering early-Christians to suffering torture and beheading for a political dissident?
Critical thinking, huh? Try getting flogged to near death, hang on a cross for a few hours with nails in your appendages, and then stabbed through the stomach with a spear and see how quickly you raise "from the death bed" or "get better". You don't, and that's another historical fact.
This is why so much of the Internet sucks: people who think their sites are so artistic that they don't need to be functional. Bottom line: if the site can't be used easily, it doesn't matter how artistic it is.
Even been to an art gallery? The gallery itself is such a model of minimalist functionality and spare, intuitive design - simple, open spaces framed by plain white or off-white walls - that even Jakob Nielsen might approve. The reasons is that the curators don't want the form to distract visitors from the content - the art pieces themselves.
I rate this story 4 out of 5, and vote it up.
Much as I like the guy, you're absolutely right.
Like I said, "He tells you how to best survive it, in his opinion." Or did you not read the first sentence of my post?
Puts in the banking sector are not pricing in the coming credit crunch.
I couldn't parse that.
I saw it as I was driving up the hill to turn around to go buy food around 7 pm last night. I live in Georgia. Was pretty =]
Because our entire code base is written in Java.
If you took out the money tables they would do the same to you today. He was driving people away from the Establishment. He marched into the city defiant and tipped over the money tables (their wall street exchange). What woudl they do to you?
Dude, this exact comment was posted on the blog page as "Doug". I wasn't going to respond, but if you're going to be cutting and pasting it around the web, I might as well say something.
1 could be leveled against ANY language:
1) C: "Slower than assembly"
2) Java: "Slower than C"
3) Python/Perl/Any-interpretted-language: "Slower than Java"
Yeah, yeah. If you're scripting, you exchange convenience for speed.
You have the background to talk about closures and macros in #2, and then ask about "lambda" and "def" in #4? What gives? Obviously the stuff in #4 comes from Lisp, as does the stuff in #2; how can you know about one and not the other? Lisp uses lambda and defun, how are these mysterious to you in Python?
3: OOP was tacked on in the same was it is tacked on to Lisp, which is to say it was written in the base language as an add-on to the original language. It kind of demonstrates the flexibility of the underlying language. Indeed, IMHO, OOP should be tacked on; OOP is NOT flexible enough to be the only way to program. Java demonstrates this.
5: My experiences have been the opposite.
If it's an interface to an art website, then it should stop trying to compete with the art.
You spelt centimeter wrong
upload videos
Ever since Bush was selected president we have had a dark cloud over our nation. I cannot wait till he and everyone associated with that administraion is out of office.
I am hohoman119 fear me
LMAO upmodded for that one! =]
I am hohoman119 fear me!!!!!!!!(0) i made a doughnut!!!!!!!!
I am hohoman119 fear me!!!!!!!!(0) i made a doughnut!!!!!!!!
Very interesting, coming from the guy who gives the orders to inflate the US currency, currently at an annual rate of 11.5% per year. As another commenter has said, the real prices have come down, just not as much as the currency has been devalued by printing more.
Or, they are possibly just lazy.
Politics and the English Language
Were it not for a few hundred fools in New Hampshire who believed "there's no difference between Bush and Gore" and voted for the narcissist instead, Florida would not have mattered and Gore would have been president. How many believe it would not have made a difference?
I'm sorry, but I fail to see the relevance of this to what I had previously said. If you're responding to:
Or a site explaining why a prominent Pharisee would go from butchering early-Christians to suffering torture and beheading for a political dissident?
That was Saul of Tarsus, later Apostle Paul, not Jesus.
> The mentally unstable flock to religion.
Your blanket statement is what I was commenting on, and I provided you with two examples of mentally stable individuals who are charitable.
Logic can resolve this!
drawkbox said (but did not prove) that "mentally unstable flock to religion."
Let M be mentally unstable.
Let R be relgious.
His statement is then M -> R.
Now, you produced counterexamples of people who were devoutly religious, but clearly not mentally unstable. This counterexample thus disproved the theory that R -> M.
However (M -> R) -/-> (R -> M), so your counterexample does not disprove drawkbox's theory.
That is, just because mentally unstable people are relgious does not mean that relgious people are all mentally unstable.
For a different example, just because blonde-haired people are human does not mean all humans are blonde-haired.
I call it a draw. Good day!
Nice idea, awful site.
Unfortunately, the simple existence of fools over-using anti-biotics threatens every one of us by potentially creating anti-biotic resistant bacteria that don't respect property boundaries, and don't care when you scream "but I only bought organic!"
duuuude
Your blog is dead.
Gore WILL be our next president. Make no mistake about it.
UIs are supposed to be boring. An "interesting" UI is a UI that forces you to think about it when you could be thinking about the actual content of the site.
If the user interface of, say, my car suddenly got interesting - if the steering wheel suddenly had to be operated by clicking repeatedly on up and down arrows or I had to minesweep to find the brake pedal - I would be too busy exploring it to focus on driving.
There's some good technical work here, and I don't want to knock that. But I might take issue with the underlying premise.
Bandwidth is not free. It is not becoming free. It is not scaling at the same rate as our storage. This is as true with bandwidth on your motherboard as it is with bandwidth on the Internet.
If we extrapolate from the trends we see today, we can expect that disparity in available bandwidth will only increase over time. This disparity will take two forms: (1) the disparity between available bandwidth and available storage, and (2) the disparity between the bandwidth available at two separate points on the globe.
Remember how Jim Gray sent terabyte hard-drives around the world via snail-mail because it cost less than transferring the data electronically?
This is not to say that bandwidth won't increase, for some, to the point where storing relatively small amounts of data in the cloud will be reasonable. JPG-compressed photos are quite reasonable for most people in North America and Europe today. Low quality video, too. Perfect for sharing. Not so great for my personal collection, though.
I may eat my words, but my prediction for the future is that we will continue to want to consolidate our data near our CPUs; we will see the WAN/Internet as just a new extension to the standard hierarchy which starts with CPU cache, moves on to RAM, and ends with the disk.
The website is the art.
Finally, something I can relate to!
Al Gore?
Dude I am for the science. I am simply saying that there are MANY processes to get oil. The market will drive towards those and has. You failed to mention the Caspian and most of South East Asia. Russia has just started heavily in oil in siberia and its not goign to peak in 5 years (you can bet me on that one).
I think that all this doomsday chicken little shit says alot about it. Its not a cazy oil conspiracy its the way markets work when there are only a few options and subsidies heavily to keep certain companies afloat or in the money over competition that could make more oil processes efficient (and then less profitable).
The government gets a percentage of gas in tax and a set price in many places, is there much motive for them to solve this issue when the profits are going up on less supply? No. the oil companies, no. Will it be used to justify further invasions, probably.
I am for the market price of oil to go up, it will spur other industries and multi fuel markets (its crazy to me we only run wiht one for cars -- the grid is not like this). The funny thing is just before it gets out of hand every time, the price of oil comes way down and they find all this oil and start pumping heavily. Its the same thing that happened in the Oil Embargo and historically with other resources throughout the time of humans on Earth spices, metals etc.
It seems to me YOU have no faith in the market to find new sources when oil is high, or that people conspire to make more profits (what the eff is a board for?). I think that people and processes when needed will find more ways to extract an almost unlimited supply of hydrocarbons that can be converted to oil, not as easy sure but then maybe other fuels can take over.
This governemtn subsidies and colluding at the highest levels (board) to keep margins higher at the expense of the economy by controlling the refining process as well is just not fair capitalism its fascism.
Show us your sense of self worth and humanity............please.
I added a comment on the blog to clarify my not-quite-accurate use of 'velociraptor', which I occasionally get letters about.
And this is representative of your commentary.
You're not a wacko unfortunately. I have the same fear. I keep a personal risk assessment number that I raise and lower based on current events. ie, the chances of Bush cancelling the 2008 presidential election and simply keeping power started out as infinitesimal. Grew to 1%, then 2, etc. It once stood at 10%, but has fallen back to 5% as I'm seeing rays of hope that there won't be a war with Iran. We'll see.
New Zealand diving underwater photo of snapper and diver.
This will never happen since elections are inherently aristocratic and anti-democratic. All of the candidates for an election will automatically be rich, powerful or famous. Or else have no chance of winning. And if you have a modicum of self-interest then you won't like any of them. The only solution is sortition, also known as random choice.
Jython supports list comprehensions, which were available in Python 2.1.
Well, now we are getting a little closer to the matter at hand. Remember my main objection to your initial comments was about your assertion that:
"But if you are counting on it you are dreaming"
and
"Social Security is really worse than a retirement fund because its not guaranteed"
Both statements are on very, very loose ground, the notion that SS will just up and vanish at some point in the near future is just not grounded in reality. Is it true that some set of events could lead up some fiscal crisis that means that SS will have to be dramatically slashed or eliminated? Yes of course that is theoretically possible, just not very likely based on past experience going back half a century or more. That it could happen in some sort of economic vacuum whereby SS was the only casualty of said crisis, is also very unlikely.
After a bit of bar moving, you seem too accept SS's basic soundness and move onto a position of private based investment, IRAs, 401K's versus government mandated and run contributory ones. Or rather a vision whereby all current individual SS contributions would stop and be replaced with some flavor of voluntary IRA/401K-esque plan. It seems also that you would do away with the employer contribution completely possibly assuming the employee would get back the in kind difference (highly unlikely IMHO) to invest as well, again as a voluntary choice.
All this is well and good in an Ayn Randian sense, and for a portion of the economic ladder it makes a lot of sense, in fact for high wage earners they are on this plan anyway and SS is not a concern since a) the contribution is capped and therefore its impact is reduced as income increases and b)since they are investing in other retirement plans their future SS checks are only a small, if not tiny, portion of their future post-retirement income.
I would make the case that a purely voluntary retirement program that relies on the investment decisions of the average Joe/Jane is problematic. You almost have to build in a safety net analogous to SS anyway. Yes you could mandate some milque-toast investment plan that while still private, is in effect a tax like any other government imposed tax.
Then what are we to do with the millions of honest working citizens who just don't make enough money to provide a nest egg that will support themselves? There are such folks literally millions of them, never mind the structurally unemployable, disabled and the ilk. To my mind, SS is not a perfect system, it is arguably not even a "very good" system, it is though a fairly decent program that has served this nation well for many, many decades and there is not particular pressing reason to change it to any great degree
If you took out the NYSE would they torture you, what if you were a heavily religious dude that had followers against the rule of the current establishment:
NASB: And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.
Isn't the moon almost always eclipsed each month? I guess I don't get it.
Utahraptor was discovered during the filming of the movie. They basically called Steven Speilburg and said "Hey, we found your giant raptor!"
I know! English is outdated. To be relevant the post should be on Klingon.
What, there's no magic sound that turns men on?
4'33" should do the trick.
yeah all sites should have the same tasteful design as our friend reddit. Mind blowing.
Ok trying to keep this short.
Social Security is solely on US Treasury Notes. This is good but if treasury notes were to downspiral or the baby boomers and health care costs went higher than projected it could EASILY get out of hand and is probably probable to do so (health care has risen 40% per year past 2001).
401K, IRA, etc can be in many things, stocks, bonds, t-notes, emerging markets, global, gold, etc etc.
If it all comes down neither will do any good but the latter will outlive the former due to its diverse balance. It will also do better year on year and you can bet over time that the market will beat out ss every year (it has since 1933 its inception).
There could be a market for people who dont' want to manage it directly but the smart ones will.
It is more diverse and has more chance of rapid growth and balancing effects.
I am not against SS I am for it, I am just saying it has political problems and will be a huge burden with baby boomers, its not as secure as the name suggests. I want my SS money to invest.
Maybe it just needs marketing right for the american audience - bringing you The War on Coal (tm), saving the planet from the evil black death-dealing baby-killing nastiness that is coal.
Seriously though, we all need to face up to the fact that coal is a very very bad choice indeed, and we may need to make some lifestyle adjustments and design a few things better, but we in the developed world are operating in such a wasteful manner right now that it will be much easier to make some huge savings than the chicken-little economists seem to think.
Puts - Options that you buy to bet on the price of a stock going down.
They're cheap. Very cheap. They arent pricing in any of the likely concequences of either the housing bubble pop or the massive imbalances going on in the world economy.
Even easier, you can hit the "print screen" button and just save it as a gif.
Not only is this terrible spam, your site sucks.
I can't remember any other Foxtrot strip ever carrying a political message before.
Who else misses Foxtrot? It was the only funny, savvy daily newspaper comic, helping to fill in the void left by Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side.
Aussie cricketers display the poorest sportmanship ever when NZ needed a 6 off the final ball to draw. Check out the classic footage of the final delivery that caused a rift between Aussie and kiwi cricket fans for decades.
I tell you who I wouldn't vote for -- Hillary Clinton -- because of Bill Clinton.
I'm pretty fond of OCaml these days, so I'll bite:
Findlib doesn't work on Windows
directives don't work with the compiler
No stack traces, unless you use the bytecode compiler and run with OCAMLRUNPARAM=b - meanwhile, your program just terminated with a lonely error of "Not_found"
"This expression has type float but is here used with type int" ("here used"?! which is which again?)
No polymorphic print/show, unless you use something like Extlib's Std.dump, which is still limited by OCaml's lack of RTTI
Blah ... 45/50 ... I'm so bummed.
Frank Zappa: Dumb all over
Whoever we are
Wherever were from
We shoulda noticed by now
Our behavior is dumb
And if our chances
Expect to improve
Its gonna take a lot more
Than tryin to remove
The other race
Or the other whatever
From the face
Of the planet altogether
They call it the earth
Which is a dumb kinda name
But they named it right
cause we behave the same...
We are dumb all over
Dumb all over,
Yes we are
Dumb all over,
Near n far
Dumb all over,
Black n white
People, we is not wrapped tight
Nurds on the left
Nurds on the right
Religous fanatics
On the air every night
Sayin the bible
Tells the story
Makes the details
Sound real gory
bout what to do
If the geeks over there
Dont believe in the book
We got over here
You cant run a race
Without no feet
n pretty soon
There wont be no street
For dummies to jog on
Or doggies to dog on
Religous fanatics
Can make it be all gone
(I mean it wont blow up
n disappear
Itll just look ugly
For a thousand years...)
You cant run a country
By a book of religion
Not by a heap
Or a lump or a smidgeon
Of foolish rules
Of ancient date
Designed to make
You all feel great
While you fold, spindle
And mutilate
Those unbelievers
From a neighboring state
To arms! to arms!
Hooray! thats great
Two legs aint bad
Unless theres a crate
They ship the parts
To mama in
For souvenirs: two ears (get down!)
Not his, not hers, (but what the hey? )
The good book says:
(it gotta be that way!)
But their book says:
Revenge the crusades...
With whips n chains
n hand grenades...
Two arms? two arms?
Have another and another
Our God says:
There aint no other!
Our God says
Its all okay!
Our God says
This is the way!
It says in the book:
Burn n destroy...
n repent, n redeem
n revenge, n deploy
n rumble thee forth
To the land of the unbelieving scum on the other side
cause they dont go for whats in the book
n that makes em bad
So verily we must choppeth them up
And stompeth them down
Or rent a nice french bomb
To poof them out of existance
While leaving their real estate just where we need it
To use again
For temples in which to praise our god
(cause he can really take care of business!)
And when his humble tv servant
With humble white hair
And humble glasses
And a nice brown suit
And maybe a blond wife who takes phone calls
Tells us our God says
Its okay to do this stuff
Then we gotta do it,
cause if we dont do it,
We aint gwine up to hebbin!
(depending on which book youre using at the
Time...cant use theirs... it dont work
...its all lies...gotta use mine...)
Aint that right?
Thats what they say
Every night...
Every day...
Hey, we cant really be dumb
If were just following gods orders
Hey, lets get serious...
God knows what hes doin
He wrote this book here
An the book says:
He made us all to be just like him,
So...
If were dumb...
Then God is dumb...
(an maybe even a little ugly on the side)
Bah, humbug.
why should obesity incidence (a fraction, peaking at 1.0) track housing size (an absolute quantity)
why look at obesity? why not look at mean weight? obesity is sort of the ~1 sigma tail of weight, so it grows non-linearly with increasing weight as the, um, fat part of the gaussian pours out over the one sigma line.
why should fat people want big houses?
why doesn't this track the trend further into the past?
there are two parameters to each (obesity, house size) line: a slope, and a zero point. Both are adjusted to match using the scales of the vertical axes. The moral of this plot? Two linearized increasing trends can be made to overlap using just two parameters. Think of anything that grew over the past 20 years. I will correlate it with both housing size and obesity, proving nothing.
How true is this story?
The behavior implies schizophrenia.
The statement that staff don't know what to do implies they are not familiar with schizophrenia. How could they not be?
Its a lovely story isn't it.
Wow! It is all that! (all that = ridiculous)
As has been pointed out, this isn't anything like your car. Not is it eBay, or a technical database, or a banking site - that is, something you use predominantly to get stuff done. It's an art experiment, which has a completely different purpose - to be, in fact, interesting. If you are complaining about it being bad usability, consider this: what exactly is is supposed to be used for? No more than itself - you are supposed to explore the unusual interface and picture generation. Considering that is the purpose, not a secondary one, having such an unusual interface is perfectly acceptable. It's not as if the guy is saying "Here, look at my website - it's an example of how cool the web would be if we did everything with fancy 3D".
henry rollins is my hero.
And only the good looking ones get to work above ground or outside of animal suits.
Not withstanding the objects of the grandparent, your statement is simply false. Mentally unstable people can be irreligious too.
Coulter is the embodiment of the ugly American. She is the equivalent to the "ugly German", the Nazi Joseph Goebbles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
Unless your parents named you StupidHead, in which case I am gravely sorry, nobody should be made to feel guilty for agreeing with your self-identification.
"Does a Porsche allow drivers to transport 5 people to the airport? Can you fit all your groceries or luggage in the trunk of a Porsche?"
Yes. http://www.porsche.com/usa/models/cayenne/cayenne
Fine, if "functionality" is defined as "able to, in some world, under some circumstances, allow for the navigation of a website," this is just as functional as anything else, just not as well-performing.
Or more precisely, the website is part of the art it is displaying
This is deffinetly good if u want a breif outlook on the crusades in Europe.
Well said.
http://xkcd.com/c37.html
Oh, I see, thanks. The problem with trying to profit from this with puts is that you could lose your shirt trying to guess when the market will drop. If you guess wrong, your puts, however cheaply bought, are worthless. The markets seem to have a nearly bottomless ability to ignore the huge warning signs. Why is oil only $60/barrel? Why has the yield curve been inverted for so long? Why do lenders continue to lend to lousy credit risks? Why did the market go to 12600? Will gold go up or down from $640?
Expecting the markets to act rationally is a great way to lose a lot of money.
It's pretty arrogant to assume that I've never used these, especially since some of them are rather common, I think.
Why not just "10 cool Linux commands"? Or even "10 Linux commands," since cool is a bit of a stretch for some like nl and col.
Quotes from the article:
"consumers review only products they love or loathe"
"most folks review things related to their pet hobbies"
Quotes not from the article, but could be:
"Water is among the wettest substances on earth"
"Most people who breathe, breathe air"
Apparently you underestimate the value of having the artist's (presumably) original vector work.
Well played. Your schema associations are worthy. +10
I am simply saying that there are MANY processes to get oil. The market will drive towards those and has.
So conventional oil will peak but unconventional oil will save the day? How does that mean that Peak Oil will not happen? All you are saying is that it WILL happen but we will find a way around it. That is an entirely different statement than "Peak Oil is an oil company conspiracy."
Its the same thing that happened in the Oil Embargo...
Actually the US produced less and less each year during the Oil Embargo, so I think that contradicts your premise.
It seems to me YOU have no faith in the market to find new sources when oil is high...
I don't require faith. I require evidence. And the evidence is, even though oil prices have risen so much over the past 30 years, we still cannot get the US to produce more oil. But you seem to think this logic will not apply to the world. I don't see why this is the case.
Your argument also assumes that the EROEI does not matter. It is like I said before, when you spend 1 buck to get 100 bucks of oil, everything will work out fine. When you have to spend 1 buck to get 1.50 back in oil, it is a different economic world.
You say that
colluding at the highest levels (board)
but as I've shown, oil is both a board level and a state level system. So your conspriacy has to cover both. That isn't reasonable, no matter how much you hate the oil companies. You are granting them far greater control over the world than they actually have.
Anyway, I've cited evidence and reasonable, proven hypothesis for my side. I've linked to relevant data. All you have offered is some vague oil documents that don't actually say what you claim they say. (Ie the collusion is surrounding particular plants and does not apply to the oil system as a whole)
If there really was such a great market opportunity being waisted, you could get the necessary funding to build your own refinery. But no sane banker would ever make that loan because you wouldn't be able to show where you intend to supply your refinery FROM. This is the issue that the corporate types are dealing with in their reports. Obviously, they are trying to make a quick buck on the down slide but they lay out the fundamentals in black and white.
He asks some reasonable questions, like why, given the vast upsurge in concern about animal welfare, is there no parallel upsurge when it comes to mice?
doesn't seem to have good Unicode support
Can you elaborate on this? My understanding has always been that Python's Unicode support is at the least fair. Granted, I have nearly 0 practical experience with Unicode (do I get points for knowing it exists?) but would like to know why Python is lacking.
OOP was tacked on in the same was it is tacked on to Lisp, which is to say it was written in the base language as an add-on to the original language.
No. Python has been an OO language since day one; self is there not because it was "tacked on", but because it helps clarify scoping. Other languages have different conventions -- this, the @ and @@ in Ruby, etc. -- for this, but do much of the same thing. The only difference in Python is that self needs to be accepted as a parameter in instance methods (in class methods, you accept cls instead).
I had a friend who came during a song by Bongwater at the old 9:30 club in Washington DC. But she was sitting on the edge of the stage, which had huge horn speakers under it, and had moved the heel of her shoe up to just the right spot. Kramer's bass was apparently just the thing.
Good.
CompUSA treats their customers are thieves. A few friends and I bought some stuff at a CompUSA store once and server threated as thieves by security there. We had to basically rough-up the security guys to get out of there. Oh, and they called the cops. The cops showed up and after talking to us, them, and the witnesses, the CompUSA crack security squad found themselves under arrest! It was priceless.
So, I haven't ever shopped there again. I'm happy about this. Couldn't happen to a more idiotic company.
Right, like an album cover. I suppose it would be more "usable" if all album covers were printed in a large, standard font, in high-contrast colors, like black on white.
catch-22?
most religious = most fucked up
fake
I knew this already just from looking at the ratings on Amazon and putting two and two together. A rating lower than four basically means the people that would normally love this product have found something wrong with it.
I don't even need five. Python's bossy. I will not be talked down to by a tool!
I was a young backpacker in Oz when this happened....watching it in a pub. I clearly remember a couple of things - anyone over about 30 was embarrassed, most of the younger Aussies were not. I also remember the Kiwi PM making some reference to now knowing "why the Australians wear yellow...." Great stuff.
This is the kind of thing I was expecting (and hoping) Microsoft would come up with when they announced they were writing a shell called Monad...
I'm no graphic designer. I appreciate the value of being able to see the pictures and read the text. :)
Once and future president.
Coulter is the embodiment of the ugly American. She is the equivalent to the "ugly German", the Nazi Joseph Goebbles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
It is a fact, as I demonstrated, that suicide bombers come almost exclusively from specific Islamic sects.
Wrong.
This is state department's list of Significant Terrorist Incidents between 1961-2003 (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/5902.htm)
Says that
Hebron Massacre, February 25, 1994: Jewish right-wing extremist and U.S. citizen Baruch Goldstein machine-gunned Moslem worshippers at a mosque in West Bank town of Hebron, killing 29 ...
This guy knew full well that he would be killed, this was a suicide operation. But unlike your assertion he was "Jewish right winger, and not from "Islamic Sect".
It is also interesting to note that that prior to this incident there were no suicide bombings in Israel.
catherine is sexy
Homegirls Potato Chips - Bringing Engrish to a new low!!!
I doubt that.
It's the Dr. Bronner's of snack food!
Re 1: this is also an oft-heard complaint. However, I think the people who came up with "Explicit is better than implicit.", were on to something, being explicit about these things saves some brain cycles from having to think where some variable came from.
I don't think that is the case here. "Explicit is better than implicit" works for some things (like the oft-maligned underscores, they serve a very clear purpose in that regard) but how often do you write a method that doesn't need access to its instance? In this case I would say the explicit case should be when things are unusual, not when you are defining one of hundreds/thousands of normal methods.
My favorite thing is that it is Perl. What other language has a a tightly-knit community filled with members that are willing to travel half way across the world to give a 40 minute talk for free? (See: http://tokyo2007.yapcasia.org/speakers/ , for example). What other language has over 11,000 modules ready to drop into your program with a single command? (And most of these modules are actually pretty good -- they all come with docs and most come with comprehensive unit test suites.)
What other language has a syntax flexible enough to create expressive domain-specific mini-languages (and support 3 major object systems)?
Really, though "old", Perl 5 has a lot to offer. It's doing everything the new languages are doing, and it's had 10 years for the bugs to filter out.
Anyway, give Perl a chance. Once you get to know it, you won't use anything else. (Except maybe Haskell :)
the rate of violent deaths amongst vocal Putin critics is far higher than in the general population.
Is it? You hear only about those who are dead. Most of them are not noteworthy.
Even then, Politkovskaya had a lot of shady contacts (by necessity -- she was an investigative journalist), Litvinenko is also known for having dubious friends.
"Novaya Gazeta", a violently anti-Putin newspaper, where Politkovskaya worked and Litvinenko published his articles is sold on every corner in Moscow and other cities I have been to. It's circulation figures per capita of Russian population are close to New York Times per capita of US population (if you believe NG numbers). Most of its editors, journalists and readers are not dying.
Polonium is indeed produced in Russia, but exported all over the world. Even if it was brought from Russia, there are approximately 145 millions people there. Putin is not source of all good and evil.
There are a lot of reason to criticize Russian government, but these silly James Bond villain accusations make it hard for real criticism to reach the target.
Oh, yes, and recently dead violent Putin critics have some other in common --- very close contacts with Berezovskiy. I have no idea about Paul Joyal, but I would not be surprised.
So conventional oil will peak but unconventional oil will save the day?
No I am saying there are more techniques but there is not a lack of oil in site for at least the next 30 years.
Actually the US produced less and less each year during the Oil Embargo, so I think that contradicts your premise.
No it does not its simply not as cost effective in the US. You will start to see the Gulf and ANWAR more easily drilled with the public pumped up on "Peak Oil" fad. There are still many untapped markets its only been about 60 years of heavily using the cheaper oil. There is plenty left all over I am sure you know we get lots of our oil from Canada but it is not as good profit margin so the comapnies look to places under heavy marekt control.
but as I've shown, oil is both a board level and a state level system
Condoleeza Rice has a tanker names after her. Cheney ran Hallliburton. Bush family owns Pennzoil. Uh oil and pharma are areas with HEAVY government to private links.
If there really was such a great market opportunity being waisted, you could get the necessary funding to build your own refinery.
hahahah apparently you have no idea what a cartel is, the oil business is cutthroat mafia like and is the pirates of our day. Go ahead and start your company see how fast you get run out or bought out.
I guess we will have to agree to disagree. Anything you don't agree with that isn't the current public opinioin is not always conspiracy theory, its simply business as usual. Read up on salt or gold throughout history.
honest and raw as ever! Rollins you rock!
The state governments seem to be listening, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_medical_status_of_cannabis#United_States
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All show no content
too gimmicky to be any more than a passing interest
Oh HELL NAH!
fucking stupid. that blogger should not quit his day job.
Luke Johnson, of YouTube fame, on Jello.
It doesn't take that much effort to learn and work with Python on the side. Haskell is undoubtably more effort, but also significantly more rewarding.
A lot of concepts you can find in one language are not expressed as cleanly as they might be due to something incidental to each. (implementation, syntax differences, etc) I would encourage you to take a crack at Python simply to see if it makes parts of Java or JavaScript make more sense because of the different way the syntax treats various programming concepts.
Haskell I would also encourage, without having yet studied it, simply because it will run your brain through a wringer and leave you better for said treatment.
what is up with all these japanese ww2 stories on reddit? a bunch of korean students must be trying really hard to bash japan.
grow the fuck out of it already.
Ruby: It's not Python. Nor is it Smalltalk.
You only listed one (2, 3(++1)) hate for all of these. Do you mean to say that you know very little about them?
++1. Where's your REPL? It's over by the REPL, you twit.
since when is a japanese ww2 story current news, you fucking korean or chinese basher?
I've used both Ruby and Perl 6. Ruby has its nice features, but it doesn't measure up to Perl 6 by a long shot.
Right...I was unaware that in a non-exclusive environment I wasn't allowed to make my own comments.
Silly me thinking context to an upmod made sense and lively conversation and debate was the point of a commenting system. :-p
Bonkydog, you're an absolute jackass. Please stop submitting content with ridiculous headlines.
The bucket?
I suppose, but at this point the Reaganauts have already been saying that Bush isn't properly a return to Reagan era Republicanism for awhile, haven't they?
Those things are even easier when you can losslessly zoom in to any desired power.
If you haven't read it and , I highly recommend Neil Gaiman's American Gods. It's all about how the old gods like Odin and Loki have lost their power in America to the new gods like television. It's excellent in that way that most of what Gaiman writes is excellent.
Actually, many satanists don't believe in satan except for in a symbolic sense.
When you run a python script A.py, the interpreter produces A.pyc, which is an optimized bytecode representation of the original program. If you move A.py into a different directory, your import statements may cause the old A.pyc to be loaded.
Right-
Even by looking at the Earth and the sun, depending on which you center your perspective, either could orbit either.
Thinking that way, this picture means nothing in terms of what orbits what.
Grandparent is funny. On one hand, he knows that the Earth mostly orbits the sun, on the other, he doesn't understand that either way, this picture could happen.
Exactly. They should throw away the key to the little devil bastard's cell. And throw Bonkydog in there with him for being a sympathizer of law breakers and abusing reddit's headlines...
Modded down for the ad. No time for that.
Hey BlackBerry Pearl loves checkout NFL theams for Pearl.
except in Lisp one has to add what are often unnecessary parentheses.
I'd argue that they are never truly unnecessary, but are often superfluous. The cases where you don't need Lisp to be regular probably outweigh the ones where you do about 15:1, but damn is that a useful feature when you do need it.
And nobody cares about this little lawbreaking scumbag. I hope we throw away the key to his cell and take away his damn crayons.
+1 for unironic use of "nuts" in comment
Thanks for your reply. The surface is the same here in NYC (at least where I ride) but I wasn't aware that was a consideration elsewhere.
(Python)
It's stupid easy to write a decorator for a function, but to do the same for a class you have to resort to a full-blown metaclass. Class decorators would make a lot of conceptually-simple things also be simple to code, but keep getting put off or shouted down.
There's a lot of clutter in the standard library (including a variety of deprecated modules -- see distutils.fancy_getopt for one; why is it still in the stdlib when we've got optparse?), and lots of things which could stand to be named better.
Converse: there are a few amazingly useful libraries that don't ship with Python (BeautifulSoup, for example).
The fact that staticmethod exists. Things which staticmethod is appropriate for don't belong on a class.
That PEP 666 got rejected :)
Can she play that orgasm sound I've heard so much about?
The Python code is broken while the PHP-code is still working.
While that statement is totally true in this case, it's only mostly true in general. In general, all languages suffer unless you transmit their code with byte-for-byte fidelity; certain transforms happen to result in identical code, but that's an accident, not a fundamental truth.
Python does you the courtesy of dying loudly and obviously. (Yes, that's a horribly slanted way of putting it.)
Consider "if (value == 'foo bar')" for some C-syntax-like language that implements string comparisons (perhaps Javascript). How many spaces are there in that string?
(Edit: Interestingly, Markdown is maintaining the "correct" number of spaces in the HTML it generates.)
Yeeeeah, boyee!
We got Rasheeda in the motherfuckin' hizzy.
And you know she be down to get bizzy.
She got the mad flava like a potata
Anybody say she don't is just a hata.
Word.
you're right - that's fixed. The dates were messed up. As for old albums being marked as new, that's up to Amazon and iTunes. Sometimes, they add old albums to their inventory, they mark them as new ... so, it makes its way on the list.
I believe that picture is from the Fiesta of San Fermin, i.e., the running of the bulls. He slipped.
Do they come with a can of mace inside?
Uhm ... build a time machine that takes us back to 2002?
Bored. -1
Because I am an imperative programmer. I have not yet been able to wrap my mind around functional programming in exclusivity.
Well, this is true.
Above we see THE reason against 'TWT': The Python code is broken while the PHP-code is still working. Consider a bigger example where it's not as obvious as above what is meant.
So "THE reason against 'TWT'" is that code may lose meaning when posted anywhere that disregards indentation? Discouraging Copy&Paste programming seems like another plus to me, although I will concede that it isn't as important of a principle for quick scripts. For anything I expect to spend much time with though, forcing me to at least take a second look at some random crap I pulled from the web is a good idea.
Yes, it's just a matter of time.
I put my package up on PyPI a couple of months ago, and only today tried "easy_install"ing it. I was really surprised when that worked; I didn't realize you got that "for free".
I haven't tried anything with dependencies through easy_install (my package only depends on Python itself).
Bonkydog and his jackass headlines...
I say we jump their punk asses.
"Suicidal Teens Welcome?" I don't even want to know.
No it's not art.
It's a good thing we have you around to let us in on these things.
That's an odd statement. When I see other languages struggling with integrating Unicode, Python is usually held up as an example for them to aim at.
Thanks for making that point. I'm actually glad that Ann calls it like she sees it, actually. We need to cut the bull sometimes. I say that Hilary is a lesbian.
Why would you say it is fake TacoBellManager? You should be familiar with this ability. Don't the rats in your restaurants in NYC have the same chameleon-like ability?
http://consumerist.com/consumer/rats/kfc-taco-bell-rats-gone-wild-raw-video-footage-239257.php
I can barely see them either
Need to hear it... any audio or video of her playing anywhere online?
Hmmm, the plot thickens. Utahraptor is quite a bit larger than the movie raptors. Apparently when Chricton wrote the book there was another species Deinonychus, that was temporarily classified as a Velociraptor.
I think they're using some ajax'y technique to make a request within the webpage to the usual routers' address. They don't say which browsers are affecting in the article though; I'd be surprised if firefox et al were vulnerable, as they by default don't allow such access to domains other than where the page originally came from.
The original source of this would be handy.
On easy i got to lvl 40. Building a maze is expensive but necessary, and I just used the pellet towers and they did okay. Upgrades aren't that expensive and go from 10 dmg to 20, 40, then 80. Didn't put too many squirt towers -- those might've come useful towards end game.
Recycled Simpsons joke:
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/12/video-the-simpsons-salute-the-lazy-and-uneducated/
You know, there is always the possibility that she is the Anti-Christ. Think about it, it sure as heck would explain a lot about her career. I'm just saying.
Have you considered what would happen if they attempt to impeach and fail?
How is it that in the course of one to two years Python went from a "notoriously friendly" user community to a "notoriously unfriendly" one?
I can't help but feel like it's a bunch of Ruby users engaging in a lot of confirmation bias; they need their community to be the best, and therefore, the competition clearly must suck...
I won't deny that the Python community conspicuously fails to take "that idea that this one guy who's clearly been programming for about six months in Java" and gleefully integrate it into the mainline language implementation, but lowering the bar for "hostile community" to "doesn't think every last idea is great" or even (gasp) "thinks they are largely right about things" seems a bit much.
How are universal human rights and human extinction anything but generalities? I said specific responsibilities.
Define universal human rights and human extinction.
It's caused by the fact that the orbit of the earth around the sun is not a perfect circle, but slightly elliptic.
Thank you. All that markup on the linked story kind of ruins the humor. A person likes to get the little haha's as they discover each little ridiculous nuance.
ACTUALLY, you should resubmit this story using the link you provided.
I don't think there are any circumstances under which killing a human being, soldier or civilian, can be justified.
Any? I doubt that. Even setting aside the various 'needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few' scenarios, a pacifist philosophy that you seem to be advocating can only exist within a bubble of safety created by non-pacifists.
I ran across this video and had to comment it when I saw that a fellow Americans were talking shit about the way the driver of the humvee is driving... My fiancee is out there... Its so sad that so many "Americans" have forgotten that the war is even going on, and go about there day. How they could critisize this video the way some did is BS.... They arent out there and they have no clue what it would be like. My fiancee is actually drives a humvee out there. Thats what they have to do for their own safety... Anyone of those other vehicles could be an enemy and if they stop they could be dead. Its kill or be killed out there. People should stop and think before they talk .
Lynz
My hero!
Are you saying that the Army is underfunded? Are you fucking retarded?
i've never seen THAT before...
I guess it's possible for them to make a tiny group like the Mandaeans submit, whereas {Sunnis, Shiites} have to kill {Shiites, Sunnis}. It's not so easy to make somebody with a posse behind them convert.
The Borgness of Islam is horrifying. No doubt the Iranian Zoroastrians, Middle Eastern Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists who lived in currently Muslim lands in the past would have been horrified to know that their great...great grandchildren are named Muhammed, believe that what they believed is evil, and in many cases don't even speak the same language or have the same alphabet. I wouldn't be thrilled to find out that my great-grandchildren turned out that way.
Delay sendin your email.
"have broughtened"
The United States offers democracy to the Muslim world, and is universally hated; Putin destroys an entire Muslim country, and is welcomed as a friend.
Wow.
That's a pretty good photoshop trick.
Those rumors have been going around about aging bachelor Henry Rollins for 20 years or more.
Dangerous? Really? Yes, she is spinning the issue of our borrowing and deficit spending into a national security/economic-security-in-a-globalized-world issue, and yes, the actual reasons it may indeed become a national security issue are getting lost in her rhetoric. But it's not like she's going to recommend we somehow block countries like China from buying our debt- she just wants us to have less of it to sell in the first place.
It's kind of stupid on her part, but I don't really see how this is particularly dangerous.
it's not a 3d interface, it's a very traditional 2d interface with cool 3d effects
For example, unsafe GETs seem to have been prevalent and were fixed grudgingly in the Ruby community when GWA showed up.
Not true. Please note: Rails != Ruby. (And think only a handful of vocal, core Rails people expressed displeasure with GWA catching them with their pants down.)
They have wildly different communities, too. The zealot:clue ratio is bad in the RoR collective. Not so in the general Ruby crowd.
I cringe at the use of "open source" in that letter.
I agree 100%!
http://www.marikimura.com/subharmonics.html
Impeachment of both Bush and Cheney is certainly not out of the question. Nancy Pelosi is Leader of the House... and the next in line.
"That's right. It's unpredictable."
Yes, retard, that's what you said. What I'm saying is that you believe this and ignore all the facts that don't fit your idealogy.
""Remember? You claimed psychology wasn't a science? Remember? Twit."
No I didn't. Quote me where I said that."
Ok. Right here:
"Economics is an ideology. It's less of a science then psychology is."
The implication is that psychology isn't a science.
If you were to say 'you can bark even less than my dog', it implies that your dog can't bark.
Remember, retard? You can't even recall your own statements.
http://reddit.com/info/16fnj/comments/c1757t
"There are experiments in physics and chemistry every day."
So what? There are experiments in medicine every day too, but that doesn't make homeopathy a science either.
The fact that global warming has everything to do with physics and chemistry does NOT mean anyone has successfully done scientific experiments in global warming.
Ironically, there have been more experiments in homeopathy that in global warming. LOL Your own idiotic examples are proving you retarded.
Yeah, I was wondering which link to put as the main one... oh well. is it really worth a resubmit?
Why does he write for this garbage magazine anymore? I mean, who purchases PC Magazine? I sure the heck don't. Opening it up, my head gets dizzy and I don't know which part is an article and which part is an advertisement. I get a headache. And if you open it up in a bookstore, all these stupid cards fall out and you're left there to look stupid. Meanwhile, they used a devious in-line popup DIV. If popups are bad marketing, then why do websites still use them? There are just some magazines I won't even touch, and this is one of them. Bob could do better to write for a better magazine. I'd sure like to see him come over to Linux Magazine or something like that.
woo nice find. Love all the bands mentioned
While according to wikipedia octopodes "can change the apparent color, opacity, and reflectiveness of the epidermis" It sure looks like a composite image. I think they took a bit of film of the actual octopus fleeing the camera and blended it with the original scene. Moreover, the other videos of octopodes don't show the "translucent" behavior, just the color blending. See 1:20 seconds into this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xT1IV9ibkI&NR
how can you hate pot pies? mm yummy
It eats your short-term memory, first of all.
I've never heard this proven*. Support?
Also, smoking anything, no matter what it is, can destroy your lungs.
So eat it instead. "Fire and fire byproducts" + "Organic matter" isn't, and never was, a good combination.
Meanwhile, would you eat vegetables that someone grew in a basement with almost no health checks, then passed through 500 shady individuals, and then shipped the funds off to support terrorism?
No, I would grow them myself in my garden, just like I do my weed here in British Columbia.
* Edit to appease tantalos
What the heck is a paean? Like who uses a word like that? People who giggle while reading The New Yorker or The Atlantic Monthly?
throw some D's
No 500 error, but on the recommended page: "no links have been recommended for you yet. keep telling reddit what you like and dislike by voting on links, and check back here later for recommended links".
Been on reddit about four months, and usually there's about 50-80 links daily on the recommended page.
Make sure you report this spammer, not just mode him down.
not very useful but neat to play with.
Well, if it doesn't eat the short-term memory, and I can't scientifically say it does but it sure did affect mine, and you don't ever get in an emergency and need to drive someone to a hospital while on the stuff, then I guess, perhaps, because of how you grow it an consume, then perhaps it's okay. However, I wouldn't risk it.
do the people who complain about The Whitespace Thing (TWT) just not indent their code in other languages or what?
Or what, for me.
I indent code, and probably most times it fits some common convention, but many times I want to use formatting that expressions intent or value in a way that is most meaningful to another human (maybe me in the future), rather than to a program.
Posting instructions for bombs like this only helps the terrorists.
In fact, a recent study analyzing more than 585,000 customer-written reviews on Amazon found that the average book title gets 4.2 out of five stars
The real answer lies in Amazon.com's stapler section, where, believe it or not, a total of 42 customers have commented on stapler purchases. Not surprisingly, 27 granted five stars
42 is at it again.
You should really use an icon for the RSS feed, it was a lot of reading to find it.
I disagree.
The defining quality that I'm looking for in a candidate is somebody honest who isn't owned by lobbyists, corporations, or the military industrial complex. So who's that leave me with... Obama? Too inexperienced. Guilani? He's only in the race because of 9/11.
Gore is my dream candidate. I don't know how he stands on any of the issues and I really don't care. He's smart & honest, experienced, not indebted to anybody, and able to win the office on the sheer force of his popularity. In this era of corruption, warmongering and faux-terror, Gore is different from all the other candidates.
Um.
Exactly how big do you think Europe and the USA are?
Because I think Europe is about four million square miles, while the USA is about 3.8 million.
Not coincidentally, things like encyclopedias and atlases agree with me.
Gaia theory is a mistake of direction. Lifeforms don't adjust the planet to a favorable state. They adjust the planet more or less randomly, and then evolve to tolerate the changes. The result is that they end up reinforcing the conditions they thrive in. The point being, "favorable" is only definable relative to organisms whose form is a consequence of their context.
Let's get you some formal training, then, shall we?
http://www.itulip.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1033
No, but they have a sharpened screwdriver with a handle made from a popcicle stick and electrical tape.
Be careful on this one... Like Spocko, Kos is manipulating people to his own end. It isn't about the best interests of advertisers, it's about effectively censoring people.
If you really believe what Anne Coulter says is nutty, there's no sense trying to keep her quiet; people will just laugh at her.
I know someone who noticed that when he smoked it regularly, he'd have odd lapses at times. When he quit, those cleared up and his mind sharpened too.
But he also had had a head injury when he was 4, so it's difficult to say.
Either way, sure, if you are gonna need to drive, then don't intake thc, but don't intake alcohol either.
Regarding smoking weed that's passed through 50 shady individuals, when alcohol was prohibited, there was plenty of risky booze. When it was legalized again, the stuff was regulated. I'm sure the same thing will happen if weed if it becomes legal.
I'm with you there -- about the memory part and questionable growing practices. It's not like people growing pot are too fucking concerned with sustainable Earth practices or USDA organic.
And adulterants: the only "Wet" I like is in the shower, not weed.
Is this really a surprise?
Nope.
In Romans 9:27, Paul quotes Isaiah: "Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that will be saved . . ."
At least they're honest, ne?
With you mom?
I like it. I was like, "Yeah, who DOES care?"
I'd like to see this story make it into a feature film.
And yet in the intro to Raptor Red, Bakker says the Utahraptor they found in 1992 was almost exactly the size of the movie's largest raptor (the "big female"). You would think he wouldn't be mixed up about the raptor dimensions for the movie he was consulting on, and he's certainly not mixed up about the size of the raptors he himself discovered. So I don't know what the hell is going on, and I just say the movie raptors (that is, the ones that I had all the nightmares about) are somewhere between the size of Deinonychus and Utahraptor.
The article said some of the women were former engineering students. It never said they graduated.
Two things wrong with this.
Even YOU are assuming the events happened as this article subscribed.
You're excusing it no matter if they did or not.
I'm so disgusted I'm not sure what else to say.
quoted from whom you replied to "Also, if you're typing too many _'s, you're probably doing something wrong."
"self.__foo is ..."
You are doing something wrong. Quit using forced encapsulation everywhere.
I am rather naive, never been even in jail much less prison. Being a blue collar guy, I've worked with lots of guys who've been in so I've heard some of the stories, but you just don't know.
But I know now - I've a buddy who is a guard in the system here (Texas), and he looked at me like I was nuts when I asked him about it, like 'How could you not know?' In his world, it's matter of fact.
When you get sent to a prison, or even a jail, you will be continually tested, right from the very start. Someone will walk up and say "Hey, you're sitting in my spot" in the lunch hall, and what you must do - you must do this, or you are immediately branded as a punk - you must slug this guy, give it all you've got, even if he is twice your size, even if you have never, ever in your life been violent. If you do this, you will probably be beaten, and you may have to fight for weeks and be beaten for weeks, but eventually you will be accorded some respect. But if you don't do this, you will certainly be raped and/or beaten, at any time for most any reason, especially if you are young and slim and boyish. It's the worst possible world you can imagine, no mercy, no quarter. If you're a regular person and you don't understand these rules, you'll learn them plenty fast. It's the jungle in there. People have nothing so they take what you have, they push and test for any weakness, and any weakness is immediately exposed and exploited.
So. Of COURSE Perry knew about the sexual abuse. Anyone and everyone knows it, unless you're blind, and Perry isn't blind. Don't ever get tossed into prison and damn sure don't let your child get tossed in, do whatever it takes to raise the money to get a good enough attorney to save you and yours.
"I will not be talked down to by a tool!"
Well then be smarter than the tool.
What the hell'd she do to get you guys so pissed at her?
What'd she say/publish/write?
Or is it just her homepage that has you guys ticked?
What's the beef?
Tried it; it felt stiff and formal, like I wasn't supposed to color outside the lines or something.
I know a few folks who swear by it, but it just doesn't fit my head.
By the way, I didn't take the scan of this or make the markup.
The original discoverer of the bag claims to have found them at "Kimey's place" on 34th and Brandywine in Philadelphia, PA.
Current speculation is that "sweeties" means Barbeque.
Which is bullshit. Where I'm originally from, I read not 6 months ago that the starting salary is $25,000 a year, and even those in the school system for years only make $40,000 (which is decent for a rural area, but not exactly rolling in it).
And this assumes a 40 hour work week. I wouldn't be shocked to learn that many teachers put in closer to 70 hours a week or more. $34 an hour is $70,000 a year on a straight week. So there's just no way this is taking into account overtime and onerous retraining requirements.
So, consider this story bullshit.
"Idiomatic" Python programmers, I've found, tend not to worry too much about trying to hide class members; Python's "consenting adults" philosophy, combined with encouragements to document the code well so people who use it know the ramifications of accessing something, tends to make it moot.
In light of that, I'd be perfectly happy to see the double-underscore trick just go away; having it, I think, confuses people who expect it to work like a "real" private member in other languages.
I agree with your sarcasm here. I don't buy it either. +1
If you do not specify a name, it will default to George W. Bush. :)
"technical person reading an article on their field."
Yeah, I was suprised a linguist thought they were such a master of biology and animal husbandry to decree cows mooing with regional differences ridiculous.
Article got downvote for being hypocritically elitest.
And "...scientific illiteracy among journalists."
you can replace jounalists with people
Jython's probably going to make some leaps forward in the near future, and it'll be interesting to see who ends up using it once that's happened. To me, access to Java/JVM features isn't a big deal -- the more interesting thing is being able to take advantage of the speed of the JVM itself (or of the CLR with IronPython). PyPy's JIT compiler will hopefully provide a third option for that, too.
Looking at the bureau of labor stats cited in the article I don't see where $34/hr comes from. For the quintessential Middle School Teacher I see an annual mean salary of $47K, which works out to about $22/hr, much less than the $32.40 cited for a computer programmer
WTF?
Pretty cover on that book.
And Spielberg obviously had dug up the fossils, put the raptors in the movie, and then buried them again so someone else could "discover" them so as not to distract him from the film.
That and he made Jaws. What an amazing man.
The figures don't even jive
How are you ever gonna navigate to a link if the inputs aren't reversed?
Why is this #13 on the front page when it's already #4?
No, due to the tilt of the earth, we do not see an eclipse every month.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_phase
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_eclipse
Easy-to-use website for finding bargains on Amazon.com. Keyword searching - sort results by price, popularity, percent off, user rating and bargain status. Even lets you view sample customer reviews!
The bureau of labor statistics don't seem to back this up.
lol i used to eat these. I think the boy version is (was?) called Chumpies.
Isn't calling a gay man a faggot kind of like calling a black person a nigger?
Look at that damned list of ingredients: atta way to respect your body!
My wife is a schoolteacher. This story is bullshit. For many years she barely scraped $38K and they gave her a non-401K kind of retirement and used union-like tactics to push her into signing for it. They also pushed hard to get her in the union, which she didn't want to do and has never done. Now, after passing the USA National Teacher Certification program, she's pulling $55K and that's a freaking miracle after 15 years of teaching.
Most programmers in the USA that I know are pulling anywhere from $65K to $150K, depending on what they're doing.
My small town CPA, in the rural area where I live, earns $85 per hour for consulting.
And here's a rule of thumb for computation. If you ever want to know what someone is paid per hour and want to do gross to net conversions, here's some simple math that works on averages:
To take an hourly rate and compute a USA citizen's gross salary, multiply times 2000. And move in reverse to find the hourly rate, given what you know about a gross salary.
For a net salary from a gross salary, you can usually deduct about 50%. The 30-40% is owed in taxes, and the 10-20% is owed to health insurance and so on.
Oh gawd, from the homegirl's 80s fashions, to the typos, to trying to make kids socially responsible with a message while clogging their arteries, it's a trifecta!
How many kids are gonna read the bad motivational message while woofing down the chips?
Obviously, they are trying to counteract the negative effects of Rap Snacks!
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+1 Exactly. Thanks for taking the time to look that one up.
I'll take that as a compliment
lambda a, b: setattr(a, "foo", b.bar) # not as nice, admittedly
What an insulting article. True religion involves Jesus, ham at Easter, Christmas trees at Christmas, salvation, singing, pot lucks, spending time with people on Sunday when you want to be sleeping, and lots of round-table discussions about salvation, Jesus and ham at Easter.
Every now and then, people make you feel guilty about not handing money over to fund round-table discussions about salvation and buying Easter hams.
+1 on your comment. The guy is mental. He has a blog site setup with no real whois info -- proxybydomains -- and then he only has two links and some Google AdSense. One gives you, I guess, heavy metal songs to download. The other gives you this bogus set of stats on teacher pay. The home page isn't even really a home page. If that doesn't say troll, I don't know what would.
Perhaps the guy wants to earn $70 AdSense money by pissing people off. It's probably working.
The WSJ cite is from the Opinion page albeit a piece that does refernce a "study" by the Manhattan Institute. A quick surf of their web site's about page has pictures (in order) of George Bush, John McCain, Rudy Gulliani and Dick Cheney
You'll forgive me if I give little credence to the cherry picked stats some right wing think tank, anti-teacher bunch of rent-a-PhDs have to say on the matter of teacher compensation
And you can't hardly roast a person to celebrate a successful launch. But pigs, marinated with wine, sent to space to tenderize, come back to earth much more delicious than they left.
Pigs have a variety of delicious cuts that are perfect for space travel: shoulder picnic, boston butt, sirloin, hams, hocks, loin, bacon, cheeks, ribs. This makes them perfect for After Space Launch parties.
Learn how a budget works. Learn how appropriations in the House of Representatives works.
You might also spend some time on your language skills.
god damn, it's easy to see why terrorists are getting more brave and brazen, it's obvious that after reading stuff like this, they have no fear of being caught, they must laugh at how tame the US is compared to them when it comes to interrogation.
Python again:
a = 1
if a > 0: print "Greater"
Python does not force you to indent for one-liners. In Python 2.5 you can also write:
a = 1
print "Greater" if a > 0 else "Not Greater"
I actually enjoy knowing what someone else noticed about something. I love getting books from the library and discovering that they've been marked up and dog-eared by previous borrowers.
Actually, I got something out of it. It went into much more detail about the procedure than I've seen elsewhere.
+1. Thanks for posting this. Vista SUCKS!!! So basically if I have Windows Vista and I want to make Firefox my default browser, I can't? Moreover, the User Acceptance Control thing is going to bug the daylights out of me? And Vista will make Firefox hang?
This screams monopoly so loud it's not even funny.
They were able to capture the specific sound of a wallet opening?
Well I think so. But that's just me. I like my humor subtle, not underlined.
Maybe it's a bit late now... when I originally commented, the story had 7 upvotes... now it's up to about 60.
I still have to see a case where Python doesn't support the indentation that looks the neatest.
Edit: Beside, the main cause of disagreement over indentation is where do the braces go and they don't exist in Python.
Use setattr. Which sucks what happened "to there is one way to do it".
But I agree lambdas not being able to have statements and/or many things being statements like "raise" is in my top5
It's an unreal world we live in if this is true. But what's true in this world anymore?
I submit to you octopus! You are too skillful for me.
-1. Bored.
I don't use Windows, and who cares?
Alternate strategy: only look at the negative comments, and look for a pattern. Is it just bitching and moaning, or is something really wrong with the product or retailer.
So the top 5 things you hate about perl are:
it is not python
it is not ruby
it is not lisp
it is not elrang
it is not java
yeah, clearly reality isn't real and we're in the matrix, or stuck up scientists shouldn't claim a bunch of shit when they don't know it.... subharmonics can be produced on standard bass guitars with about 15 minutes instruction.... maybe they should count as 'possible' now
For a more extreme example, Perl 5 is fabulously explicit about its code for objects and classes. Which is to say, it makes you write out a bunch of things that the language ought to be doing for you.
Sometimes explicit is just gratuitous.
Check out the customer review, too.
Again you repeat your links. Goldstein was an isolated incident - no side is claiming suicide attacks are an Israeli tactic, regardless of your opinions on this conflict. In fact, even that case doesn't qualify as suicide attack, Goldstein didn't detonate or shoot himself, he was killed when his ammo ran out.
Indeed, prior to this incident there have been no suicide bombings in Israel (but there have been in Lebanon) - and after it, it became the weapon of choice for Palestinians (talk about "sure signs of sick society").
but it all boils down to "who gives a shit"
Britney's past her prime and shes trying to get attention.
stfu oprah
When doing a lot of programming...
...use foreign-language quotes (the little << and >>).
...when you already are writing something inside parentheses...
...you are writing an aside from the topic of discourse. If you are making an aside from that, you are going too far off-topic, and should flatten your stack.
...capitalization...
...is subjective, and so no rule can be better or worse than any other. Usually, capitalization is used to visually distinguish "instance" terms from "class" ones, so you won't try to parse my friend Red as a color, or vice versa.
"Python: Why? ... whitespace"
Did you read the article? I quote "If they can't find five things to hate, they don't know the language well enough".
Come back when you have a clue.
Yeah, and most people can't find India on a map. People are ignorant.
dude the next goth album is going to be her best work
She doesn't claim to stand in the place of Christ, therefor she's not an anti-Christ. An anti-Christ has to claim to replace Christ.
Kid-friendly restaurant reviews for the Orlando, FL area
The ordeal began when she terrified staff by writing the number of the beast on her head and running around the clinic screaming, "I am the anti-christ!"
Why is this terrifying? I mean, they must see some really messed up stuff there, right? OMGZ she's got marker on her forehead!
I got it yesterday (Mar 4) and again today - 5th.
I'm also getting no recommendations.
-1. You're an idiot.
This isn't digg, you know, old stuff that is relevent to current events can be presented
There is no reason to believe the father and mother are lying about what happened to them in Iran. That kind of stuff is very routine. (I know many Iranians.)
Living in Tehran, or any other part of Iran, is not the problem. It's a very nice place to live, I hear, if you don't upset anyone. Great food, nice weather, beautiful scenery, rich culture. The problem is how terrible your life can be made, quickly, if either the public or some officials decide to do so. That is why so many folks really cannot live comfortably in Iran, and try to leave via any measures. Usually not just because of fear of this happening: because it did happen to them and they believe it will happen again, or to their children.
Sounds neat, but they need a really good hosting plan and they appear to not have one. I can barely load the site with each click. Mega slow.
Well, the backspace button happens to delete four spaces in both in emacs and vim, at least. It works just like your SHIFT+TAB.
Is there a bottom line to art? I'm not so sure. And if there is, then I doubt it's all about making the experience easy for viewers at every turn.
I understand what you're saying, that the interface can distract from the "content" -- and I agree, that's a good rule in most cases, particularly for utilitarian purposes -- but with this site it's unclear where the interface ends and the content begins. The form, in this case, pretty much is the content, and it's trying to be playful. Is that annoying? Maybe, and maybe not; I think a good deal depends on your mood.
anyone got a lighter?
All these new websites try to be a one stop shop but do will they stick around in the future... hard to tell. izimi seems cool though.
Is speed really that big of an issue for many people with Python? It seems that while line for line Python may be pretty slow, the language and its libraries offer a wealth of ways to speed up critical code:
language constructs like list comps and generators that reduce potentially slow loops to more efficient "closer to the interpreter" code
libraries designed to efficiently process large blocks of homogeneous data like NumPy
Psyco, for easy optimization
Pyrex, for slightly more intensive optimization (admittedly haven't used this myself)
write optimized C/C++ code and invoke using custom Python wrappers, automatic wrappers like SWIG, or the ctypes module (haven't personally used these either).
I should also mention that the Jython FAQ states that currently Jython is probably slower than CPython, with a significant JVM startup penalty to boot. Never tested it myself, so YMMV.
As a bit of an aside, these points illustrate how I feel software should be developed: start with the most productive language available, freely taking advantage of the first two points, and then only move to later points to improve performance as necessary. If Jython provide the speed boost without any loss of expressiveness or convenience then it would be ideal, but given current circumstances I don't think I would trade even small losses in pure Python capabilities for a speed boost.
Yes that is true but it will be a serious pain re-installing all your apps every few months. I just want to make sure nobody is surprised when this happens.
I may be using this on a couple test machines that I re-install periodically anyway. If I can get 60 days instead of 30 days I'm happy. But doing this on your main box would be foolish to say the least.
yay
LouF:
I admit that I am not very good at arguing, I use cheap rhetorical tactics because I am not subtle enough to even understand what you are arguing with me about, let alone come up with a coherent defense. I admit that I must have some kind of mental issue, and should seek professional help.
Why do you keep repeating yourself? Whatever the case, section 6 makes it clear that we should not feed trolls, so feel free to get the last word in, I will not be replying again to you in this thread.
Whatever you might want to say, please do keep in mind that unless what you are saying is in proper compliance with the relevant remedies, it will be interpreted as semantically equivalent to the quote cited above. This is outlined in the license which you have agreed to and which you are now bound to. Please try to become more familiar with this agreement, and please also try to be more compliant with it if you reply to me in the future so that we won't have this unpleasantness where you keep repeating things semantically equivalent to the aforementioned unpleasant quote.
This post is bound by the EULA for any future posts by LouF.
Just the thought of that combination, makes me cringe.
I'd offer to stop, because 'buying points' sounds like a pretty serious accusation, but on reflection I honestly don't know what on earth you're accusing me of doing.
Ah, but she's no match for The Great Kat!
Yeah, I've got one of these.
It's called "my hand."
They make the money, and they should be allowed to with it as they please.
Think: How would you like it if people said you were a terrible person because you bought more clothes than they did, even though you gave away the ones you no longer wanted to goodwill? Or what if you had a limit on your "heinously wasteful" chocolate purchases, even if you were a Columbian cacao farmer?
It doesn't make sense to tell successful people that they can't use their hard-earned money how they want.
See this on harmony-central reviews (music equipment) all the time. I think there's also a phenomenon where people don't want to say: "I shouldn't have bought this product, it was a mistake"...
Again: if you believe what the father himself is saying, he's better off where he is. If you don't, why believe anything else he's saying?
Get them started on Squeak Robots. You can buy Stephane Ducasse's Learning Squeak with Robots book, which is fun (it's basically like Logo, with some OOP concepts, e.g., "the robot factory", i.e., classes).
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=444
Strength: drill those mathematical concepts without them even noticing it (angles, sums, and variables - remember, a kid doesn't see variables until the 5th grade, but you can introduce them to your young ones in a fun way, with Squeak). All those Logo (truly, differential geometry in disguise) drawing.
Drawback: Kid must not be afraid of math. Less bells and whistles.
Or, introduce them to Scratch
http://scratch.mit.edu/
Scratch is also made with Squeak Smalltalk, like Robots, but it is somewhat more "fun", because it is really multimedia. You can drag and drop photos you took yourselk and greate animated "stories" with the pictures (which, in reality, are programs).
Strength: high appeal, introduces control structures naturally with "drag and drop" control structures. The notion of computer programming is introduced in "stealth mode." :-))
Drawback: maybe looses points in the will-put-some-math-concepts-in-your-little-head-withouth-you-even-knowing department.
Alice
http://www.alice.org/
No, not the ML family language with futures and concurrency, but a language designed to teach imperative and OOP concepts through video-game like characters.
Pro: Kids will just love the video-game characters. They will create action scripts ordering it to spin, jump, fly, the whole works. Will also teach variables (the symbol substituting quantities).
Cons: Less math drill possibly then Robots, and requires good hardware, because of the 3D graphics.
Pure Squeak
http://www.squeak.org
Squeak Smalltalk is multimedia rich. It can do 3D graphics very easily and you can also create eToys, which are like little programming scripts with drag and drop.
Pro: Very colorful and can create very sophisitcatred things. More sophisticated mathematical concepts can be introduced surreptitiously (;-)), such as constraints, rates and constraints.
Cons: Maybe they will like the others,because they are more polished visually (except for maybe the Alice in Wonderland 3D parts - yes, that's right, that's the third Alice I mention...) This is bad because Squeak is vastly more powerful and can grow into a first real programming language (like BASIC, or C, was for a lot of us, you know). Squeak also has support for creating music, which someone else inquired about. Remember: Squeak is Smalltalk and it is not a toy. So invest in Squeak. Your kids will develop a polished and ellitist taste and will scoff at C++ and Java. :-))
Teach 'em all. I tried 'em on my 10 year old niece and she got a kick out of all of them.
Here's a better argument:
Al Gore claims that anthropogenic CO2 is causing global warming.
Al Gore's actions create more than his fair share of anthropogenic CO2
A reasonable conclusion could be that Al Gore doesn't really believe his claims.
Terrorism? Please.
There are clearer and more documented links between the cocaine & heroin trades and terrorism than the leafy greens.
You're asking me to define human extinction? You know, this is a completely new level of stupidity which I am ill-equipped to deal with.
Don't get upset by this 'secret' crap. After forty years spent delighting in the phenomenology of bullshit, I'll make you a prediction... the uni/multiverse will give back exactly what this batch of true believers are spraying about...remember the ancient wisdom 'Don't piss into the wind'.
Well, it certainly explains the inconsistency you see from most people that claim to be Christian.
As Wendell Berry says, the bible discusses homosexuality as a sin a handful of times, but talks about the need to help the poor at least a thousand times. Yet 'most people that claim...' spend most of their public time demonizing homosexuals.
Fortunately the evangelicals that are more consistant in their beliefs seem to be gaining power.
Here's my solution for Third-World PCs. First off, giving a kid in these countries a $100 laptop is naive. It will be like giving a kid in South Boston a pair of $250 Nikes -- either the kid won't last long in good health or the Nikes will disappear. Second, why teach these people on an OS that nowhere near resembles what they'll end up having to use in a regular job someday? Third, you can beat the $100 laptop by using an Internet cafe with discontinued off-brand hardware or stuff snatched up from eBay. And actually, the thin-terminal Ubuntu workstation is the way to go. Besides, think of the power you need. It's far cheaper and easier to produce a classroom of thin-terminal PCs powered by solar power than it is to have an aggravating laptop you have to crank every so many hours.
WTF? Have you ever seen a galaxy? Those look like oil slicks...
Imagine Henry and Ann's progeny...
brrr... okay... I gotta stop thinking about shit like that.
Uh... won't that lead to a lot of condoms that break during ejaculation due to the air pocket that's not dealt with at the top?
Still, an ingenious design and a great commercial to go along with it (the second one in the article).
An intense struggle is occurring within Christianity over the issue of whether a good Christian has a duty to protect the environment or whether, as people like Jerry Falwell and James Dobson believe, the environmentalist movement is a Satanic deception.
I don't know whether to vote up because this debunking should be publicized, or to vote down because I don't even want to hear about it.
Well this strengthens my facsination with them...squids and octopuses amaze me.
Think what we could learn from them......they are almost alien.
kkk
Goldstein didn't detonate or shoot himself, he was killed when his ammo ran out.
He knew full well that they would kill him when his ammo ran out.
Question is what was his motivation? Promise of Virgin?
The article argues promise of Virgin is the motivation for the suicide bomber, not a political goal, well if that is true what motivated Mr Goldstein?
What has motivated 3000+ American soldiers to die for liberating the Iraqis?
Why do Muslims need promise of Virgin but others can sacrifice themselves for their cause, right or wrong.
it became the weapon of choice for Palestinians (talk about "sure signs of sick society")
Show the sign of desperation that 50+ years of Israeli occupation has caused, doesn't it?
Regardless, do you have a better suggestion for them? I think the source is the occupation, but you don't seem to be against occupation, may be you can offer them a better tactic.
How about sending some machine guns and "ammo" to Palestinians so they can do what the Goldstein did. Would that solve your problem?
Sure. Read up on Ivan Pavlov.
Apparently it represents strings internally as UTF8, and uses different syntax for literal ASCII and literal Unicode strings. These are non-starters.
But hey, I've never used Python, so I tend to look down on it in much the same way Java programmers view languages they haven't used.
When liberals say that the troop's lives are being "wasted" when all the troops are volunteers, that's calling them idiots.
GPSmagazine has posted an in-depth review of the 2007 Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG Roadster's COMAND Navigation System.
Actually, not one single other prominent religion features such a thing.
As the Schemers fanboys gather upon my post to whip it good and send my karma shield flying away, let me ask, then, how many of you are running Scheme web servers. If you mod me down that much, it's because I must have said something wrong and somebody's got a really deft Scheme web server running in production, somewhere. Right, guys?
Love the look - smock dresses with tights - for winter. very hot!
belongs on Fark not here
stfu oprah
Super fast A+++++++++++++ best commenter ever!
So you dont' think Christians believe in the resurrection? Its a staple of Christianity, you know, Easter...
did anybody start researching organic cloaking devices?
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Seneca
"What luck for rulers, that men do not think." - Adolph Hitler
I want to see a slow motion capture of it getting flushed.
godfuckingdamnit!!!!!!!!!! this is a dupe for about the tenth time. reddit is suppose to be about new stuff not old stuff. i fucking hate every single one of you who voted this up, i hope you get cancer of the dick.
No, I take it a step further. Hilary is a hairy lesbian. Her legs are probably like a buffalo.
A useful and free graphics software applications and associated resources.
Exactly.
Whether you believe in Christ or not (and I happen to), don't try to confuse why he was killed. Jesus was hardly a political dissident, in fact, he told others on several occasions to do as the authorities commanded. See the quote: "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and unto God what is God's." Political dissidents didn't go around telling other people to pay taxes.
James Stewart was right, Jesus was very real and worked very much in reality. A reality that some people fail to see.
Acoustic?
Without an octave multiplexer?
orly
It is a convention of human-computer interfaces that user directed objects and perspective follows the user's directions directly. Meaning, if you move the mouse up then the tank's main turret moves up and so does your perspective, if you press the left-arrow key then the character moves left, and if you drag the mouse to the right then your viewpoint pans right. This is a very simple convention and there's only one type of game that violates it; airplane simulators, and games written by people who play too many airplane simulators.
71. You know that's a good point. Thanks for helping me refine my thinking about this problem.
Yeah, right, whatever, naysayer.
Broken down into the root issue
This type of "journalism" is really counterproductive. Within the context of this video the people he ambushes come out as sympathetic characters, which in the larger (unseen) context they have no right to be.
No, I don't. I'm taking it to my shrink, next Tuesday. Let's see what she has to say. You, programmer, I don't care.
And, BTW, I am all against The Whitespace Thing (such as Python).
Bah, I have a giant red USB button that refreshes a page.
I welcome you, my transparent overlord...
Military officers are not allowed to contradict or use "contemptous language" towards their superiors. Military men period are not allowed to do so. He does not have to disparage anybody to present a case. He merely needs to present the facts, and those will be the judge for themselves.
And lest anyone say it's only because of our current president, that's military rule. I knew a Major that would not publicly agree to the impeachment of Clinton though that is what he thought at heart. He was meeting requirements.
Scientific proof? Sure, I got some. Let me dig that out of my documents folder... I, uh, can't remember which subfolder I put it in but I'm sure it's in ... uh, what was it you wanted?
So now we're brave in this country for criticizing those who are directly responsible for our well-being. I hope you never end up on a battle-field.
I think it's not that Gore is the savior (although I certainly see where you get that), it's that he has everything that the other candidates lack. Obama's inexperienced and Hillary was (and is) a hawk on Iraq. Edwards has many of the similar qualities, except he's shiny where Gore has substance.
I personally would vote for Gore in a heartbeat over any of the other Democratic candidates running right now, and I'm working for Barack Obama. (Of course, that's partly because I think Obama is the one most likely to be picked for his running mate...)
Will the liberals never let him go away. Will he never let us move on. Al Gore is old news and does not represent any kind of hope for America.
You mean __setattr__. And that's just ugly. Statements are second-class citizen in Python.
edit: OK, there's setattr(), which is about as elegant.
You can do ugly hacks around that (i.e. wrap them up in a def), but it kind of destroy the purpose of having anonymous functions.
Re statements vs expressions: A lot of functions aren't really functions as well; merely statements (i.e. closing files, executing specific SQL commands, and even print, which is becoming a function in Python 3.0). Why are they being allowed in lambdas, while assignment isn't?
Oh. Syntactic limitation? That's, like, the best excuse ever.
Disclaimer: I don't hate Python; this is just another thing, among a few, I hate about it
That's pretty sad. You don't care where he stands? You don't care whether he agrees with what you think is best for this country?
Gore is sold out to somebody. That person is Al Gore. He owns his "carbon footprint" selling company and only sells the stocks or whatever he calls them to himself.
Warning: the comments on this story will make you actively dumber.
At least the story is only passively dumb.
Just goes to show, you can find anything you want to believe on the internet.
scas
Yah occasionally but not enough to winge about
>> exec """
... if 0:
... print "foo"
...
... else:print "blah"
... """
blah
>>>
Seriously, though, I just don't understand why " and ' won't span multiple lines, either.
> [...] whitespace being meaningful is a bad idea
Why? You use it anyway, right? And I'd bet that at least 90% of the time you use it exactly like Python would expect--an indentation inside a block.
I use python occasionally, and I do think it's a pleasant enough language. However...
I think the point is that you haven't bought me anything for that 90% that I didn't already have, and you made the other 10% miserable to do it. Plus it's only a matter of time before some idiot saves my file in SuperNotepadDeluxe 2007 or some such monstrosity that mucks about with tabs and spaces, and now not only is my code broken, but the breakage is actually invisible. All so I wouldn't have to type {}, which never bothered me anyway.
I like the picture showing the "hacker" as a masked man hiding behind the big CRT monitors and "BOOP" pressing the BACKSPACE key while no one is using the computer. That's one tech-ed up hacker!
I can conclude from this picture that our current move into LCDs is definitely a good choice, less places for hackers to hide!
Freedom is on the march.
It's not.
Totally cool!
My point was, how are you ever going to get to a link to the left of your cursor, if the further you go left, the further the link moves away?
And I might add something about perspective: when you tilt your head left, the whole world pans to right.
I can't confirm or verify both. My Iranian customer is also not reachable at this moment, but I'll ask him again later if I have the chance.
He said the Ayatollah, the religious leaders in Iran are Arabs...and he has said this several times. Although...I don't yet know how to properly Google this information. I'll reply again if I can confirm/verify/retract what I said and also about Azeri. :-D
Thanks!
Edwards is soliciting campaign donations because of this, which is smarter than boycotting the advertisers -- it's a good idea in practice too, like "Dear Ann Coulter, thanks for your latest piece of hate filled bigotry, it inspired me to donate even more money to Democratic candidates so that I can shut down the influence of cunts like you."
"See video demonstrations of the product here and here."
No thanks!
This interface is really well done. For those who say "you have to move in oppostive direction", please look at the interface again. Instead of thinking about rotating the 3D words, simply try to move your move your mouse pointer IN A STRAIGHT LINE TOWARD THE TARGET WORD you have in mind, JUST LIKE YOU WOULD IN A 2D GUI. Notice how the 3D sphere magically rotates to make the word you have in mind closer to the mouse pointer?
I disagree. Using the same syntax for Unicode and byte strings (no real such thing as ASCII anymore, nobody uses 7-bit characters and specifying all 8-bits requires an encoding declaration in all cases) is a non-starter. You must not confuse those two. They aren't the same thing, they can't be treated as the same thing, and both are totally necessary.
I support the more distinctive delimiting of "byte string" coming in Python 3000 (most like 2.6 if I had to guess the real version), and if we had a time machine I'd support making Unicode the default and the current bastard hybrid byte string/ASCII string the secondary thing accessed with special syntax, but it's just too late for that.
Python can be compiled to use either UCS-2 or UCS-4, apparently, but in either case that's not UTF-8.
Imagine the crushing weight of moral authority I feel when scolded by someone who argues that imprisoning 5 year old children is just.
What other language has a syntax flexible enough to create expressive domain-specific mini-languages
It's doing everything the new languages are doing, and it's had 10 years for the bugs to filter out.
Once you get to know it, you won't use anything else.
That sounds shockingly familiar. Are you sure you're not talking about Lisp??
Wow, I can't believe two different people missed the sarcasm in that comment.
I do.
I've seen this same comment in three different places, we get it already...
Why do you assume this? That doesn't make any sense. Look assume that I'm not senile and try to make a model of a UI that fits my description and that also works.
inside of a sphere, not the outside
objects fixed on the sphere
the sphere and everything on it rotates as a block
you control your perspective directly; right-arrow rotates it clockwise around the z-axis
You can't control the sphere's rotation directly because the sphere is an abstraction which users don't care about. You can't rotate the objects on the sphere because users moving objects they haven't even selected is nonsense and guarantees confusion.
Yet it forces you to use the redundant trailing colon. How ironic. (:
(I'm a big fan of significant whitespace here, but while Python is nice, I think the Haskell people got it just right.)
it's only a matter of time before some idiot saves my file in SuperNotepadDeluxe 2007 or some such monstrosity that mucks about with tabs and spaces
One of those things that you think would happen but never, ever really will.
.. and then shipped the funds off to support terrorism? I don't think so.
WTF are you talking about ??
And YES if marijuana were legal it wouldn't be produced in a basement with almost no healt checks and then passed trough 500 shady individuals. That's the whole point.
But funding terrorist ?? I'm sorry but you're a retard.
I have a trilogy for to read it's called the white duck trillogy by Lionel Fenn if you can find it.... it's an old set and out of print but very funny expecialy with the situations Gideon Sunday with his glowing green baseball bat... lol
The "greatest violence in the world" is abortion.
50 million every year world wide.
1 million in the US each year.
Who's more likely to get an abortion, atheists or religionists?
The same thing is happening to me.
The one guy said "We were there to document the event".
It's coming right at us. What are we going to do about it?
We will freakin' cope, that's what. Two more climate zones, or whatever the gardners call it, and I can plant palm trees and an orange grove. I plan on c o p i n g.
Are you sure? Don't be so hasty
I don't know if universal human rights is a good target for us. We've shot at it so many times and missed that we might be better off just sticking with self-preservation and non-extinctionism.
My goals for America (assuming self-preservation and non-extinction):
Transition in the next fifty years to only using renewable or effectively infinite energy resources.
Conduct as much trade as possible with everyone else.
Use financial power to gain friends, not under the table, but on the level. Give foreign aid generously and visibly, assist India and China particularly.
If we can do those things properly in over the next fifty years, I'm willing to consider adding human rights back into the goals.
maybe she's playing so slow with such nuanced pressure that the bow strings themselves help cause the subharmonics.
Why do I assume what? And what's with the right-arrow, you're making user switch to keyboard now?
Inside a sphere, I can understand, and perhaps agree with. But while your cursor moves left, (from a 2D perspective) the object still needs to move right so you could click it.
I believe this is the same everywhere. In FPS games, when you move your mouse leftwards, from your view your enemy moves rightwards. I can imagine the opposite being done, though, but that would be just ridiculous.
Excellent tips for cutting back on spending.
That's cool, but it seems like overkill for most things. Exactly how big of a file are you expecting to want to edit, anyway? Unless you're expecting edit truly huge files, you'd probably be better off with using a simpler, easier to implement solution, like a linked list or a buffer gap.
Or the brown note!
Mitch Earleywine, USC Professor and author of "Understanding Marijuana," debunks the popular, yet scientifically unsound, argument that marijuana leads to lethargy, or 'amotivational syndrome'
Cannabis, motivation, and life satisfaction in an internet sample
Notes on Marijuana and the Amotivational Syndrome
Hunh? Maybe I did misinterpret your comment, which does happen. It sounded like you were saying that the comic fit all Christians, by emphasizing both "all" and "fit" in a rhetorical sentence. Did I miss something there?
Those boys are in there because they've got problems. They don't need to be molested in addition. :(
You based that on one of the most idiotic statements of all time. The greatest violence in the world is abortion? Please.
In that case it has indeed been changed.
Six Sigma would be proud
Canadian, 46/50 --> You forgot:Connecticut, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire. w00t!
I hope this is true because it's totally unbelievable.
Pretty great footage.
Wait, we have to pick one?
very nice.
Yeah I always noticed Coulter brings out that "teach the bitch a lesson" sexuality from people. weird, even in parody form.
I really enjoy Firefly's stories.
you gotta be kidding me. an aborted human baby is usually nothing more than living cells that happen to be human. there is no brain, no central nervous system, no past experiences, no relationships. they have fewer cells than the brain of a fruit fly.
you're saying that murdering an adult human is less offensive than destroying a few hundred thousand cells?
by the way - i'm not advocating abortion. i'm just invalidating your ridiculous assertion.
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also - most pregnancies are automatically aborted by the human female reproductive system. most of them have something wrong so the cells are abandoned by the uterus.
let's use our brains here. it is not the "greatest violence in the world". only an unsophisticated mind would think that.
"Only one third of Americans can name even one of the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment."
Nonsense. In fact, the organization responsible for this polling, the national constitution center, says quite the opposite: http://www.constitutioncenter.org/CitizenAction/CivicResearchResults/NCCNationalPoll/TheAnswers.shtml
It's easy to shortchange the average person, and it's even easier when you quote phony statistics.
Unfortunately, my mom buys into this kind of thing. It sounds nice, but it's really ersatz religion. Focus on what you want and you'll get it? Duh. Is there any physics behind it? Hardly.
Because the world didn't start the day you were born. Because those who ignore the past are comdemned to repeat it. Because the stories are just now coming out about what happened back then. Thirty years from now the high command will finally talk about their role in Abu Graib.
Thanks for the post. We need more posts like this. Cool to read.
If you think the lottery is a tax on stupid people, apparently you haven't heard about religion
Be careful, you might die of cynicism someday. :(
Wow going under. I have to say compusa had the worst checkout customer experience ever. I bought a game once and had to wait about 20 minutes for them to bring it, the line just sat there.
Bingo. And that's exactly what this guy did. When you use the outside of a sphere instead of the inside, your controls have to be reversed in order to make sense. This guy used the outside of a sphere with the same controls as for the inside of a sphere. What's more, there are good reasons to use the inside of a sphere in a UI but absolutely no reason to use the outside. Except that it's gimmicky.
Be sure to report potpie, not just downmod it
It's absurd that we demand today an apology for something that happened 50 years ago, especially when such an apology was already made.
What's more, there are good reasons to use the inside of a sphere in a UI but absolutely no reason to use the outside.
Google. Earth.
For those of us who experience spiritual reality -- there's no debate. Nor any surprise why some are insensate to spiritual experience.
The funny thing to me though, (great for chuckles all through my physical anthropology class), was how species differentiation is considered a non-intelligent process in the same breath that sex partner selection preferences are cited as part of the process.
Not that love nor lust are particularly intelligent.... ;-)
Do you suppose that the mating displays of birds are just as fickle as human fads, and just as subject to rapid change?
I agree. And really, is another apology going to change anything that happened? Is it going to erase the damage already done?
THESE ARE TOTALLY FROM KIMEY'S! I just laughed and bought a bag of these on Friday, three days ago. Hilarious. Only in West Philadelphia.
A problem is the assumption that without religion there would be no excuses for violence. Most of the violence blamed on religion is actually politically or racially motivated. Religion is the excuse and another would be found.
And weren't Hitler and Stalin both anti-religious? (Not saying anti-religion == fascist murderer!!!) Just that they didn't use their own religion as an excuse for butchery.
Evil people will always find something to manipulate selfish and stupid people into doing their bidding---twisting religion just happens to be an easy way.
yup. It's the fact that he WASN'T a political dissident that kept him from being saved from crucifixion.
Some of the blessings that come in prayer come from that big wide world that we otherwise how no control over, yet prayer brings us to that big wide world and blessings from that big wide world come to us personally.
It is wierd, isn't it? Some totally outrageous things get a free pass, but a 12yo goes to juvie for a butt slap. The girl should have slapped him, and that should have been the end of it.
Ugh. Well, the max is $500 a year, I guess.
I recall there being a LOT more online radio stations before the RIAA started this crap a few years ago.
I don't know of any cell phones that provide a WiFi network, but I wouldn't be surprised if some exist.
I believe that all Windows Mobile phones from the last couple of years have 802.11g. Mine, however (a T-Mobile MDA) doesn't support WPA....
Especially given that it's self-referential.
Amen; i don't get that criticism. subprocess is a godsend.
Video - See a seat bend and twist to become a chair, a booth, and more
partial(Popen, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE)
It depends how well the area is prepared
Who is "we"? I thought you were American or British or something. And neither the Yanks nor the Brits have lifted a single skeletal finger in the cause of human rights. Not domestically and not internationally. And the Yanks are even worse than that since they don't even recognize human rights. They've got this totally arbitrary and bizarre concept of "civil liberties" which has absolutely nothing to do with human rights. So of course, whenever you say "human rights" they mistranslate it as "civil liberties" since the concept of 'human rights' doesn't even exist in American.
Incidentally, all of your goals are sufficiently subtly fucked up to guarantee failure.
There's only one adequate source of energy, nuclear fission, and it happens to be inexhaustible, but it's almost certainly not what you had in mind. Transitioning to "renewables" would cause much hardship and destruction. Ever thought of the rainforests you would devour?
And why the 50 year time frame anyways? Petrol is going to disappear within 20 years, natural gas in North America is going to disappear within 5-10 years, tar sands and shales are limited by the availability of freshwater which is precious, methane hydrates are a mirage that might possibly maybe be talked about in 2020, and coal mining can't be expanded. So what are these mysterious energy resources which are supposed to tide the USA over from 2015 to 2050?
Trade divorced from production and consumption is an abomination. It's a merchant's mentality, not an industrialist's or a citizen's. If you switch from raising your own children to putting them in childcare, this is bad, yet by your criterion it must be good. It's clear your criterion (GDP is good!) is stupid and evil.
Financial power refers to con games and pyramid schemes as well as ever more elaborate protection money and tribute. The financial sector is the enemy of the real economy. The fates of the financial sector and the industrial sector are directly and inseparably intertwined. Negatively. Whatever's good for "financial power" destroys the economy. Recessions are good for the stock market and vice versa.
The problem with living in a country so evil as the USA is that your views become corrupted by it. You become incapable of distinguishing between good and evil, truths and lies.
Sort of a stretch, ain't it?
Don't forget that there are countries where abortion is considered murder. And even in the US, people are convicted of murder for killing an unborn child of a pregnant mother.
Also, you completely missed the issue of willful intent in your comparison. People decide with pre-meditation to cut-off a life that would very likely grow up, have a family, and engender multitudes of others.
Thanks for not-advocating abortion! That should be a party plank for a politician.
No, not really. There'll always be someone present who's eager to condense any perspective into pro-this or anti-that.
It is a sad commentary on the state of modern medicine -- and US drug policy -- that we still need "proof" of something that medicine has known for 5,000 years.
No, it's not. It's a testament to the progress we've made -- we no longer automatically accept any given idea just because it's been widely believed for a long time.
"Gore has stated about a billion times that he doesn't want to be president. Why do people keep kicking this dead horse?"
Because the best way to convince someone you are sincere is to tell them "I don't wanna...". It's how Guys have been getting into Girls' pants for decades.
So easy a woman could do it!
(Why yes.... I'm prepared to be downmodded.)
This is the van for the 'Certified Boob Inspectors' and the FBI, the 'Federal Boob Inspectors'. Dont' worry we have identification.
subprocess raises exceptions everywhere it makes sense (command not found, any Python exception in the child process, and so on): it doesn't generally do it for non-zero return codes because they don't necessarily indicate any error.
If you're using the call shortcut, though, there's a check_call variant which raises CalledProcessError for non-zero return codes.
Good old Freud discussed precisely this in his essay 'The Uncanny'
These last examples of the uncanny are to be referred to the principle which I have called 'omnipotence of thoughts', taking, the name from an expression used by one of my patients. And now we find ourselves on familiar ground. Our analysis of instances of the uncanny has led us back to the old, animistic conception of the universe. This was characterized by the idea that the world was peopled with the spirits of human beings; by the subject's narcissistic overvaluation of his own mental processes; by the belief in the omnipotence of thoughts and the technique of magic based on that belief; by the attribution to various outside persons and things of carefully graded magical powers, or 'mama'; as well as by all the other creations with the help of which man, in the unrestricted narcissism of that stage of development, strove to fend off the manifest prohibitions of reality.
If we enacted the policy of letting our leaders fight it out, I'd elect Arnold Schwarzenegger in a heartbeat.
Fortunately the evangelicals that are more consistant in their beliefs seem to be gaining power.
How could evangelicals gaining power possibly be construed as a fortunate thing?
those who are directly responsible for our well-being
If you were being held captive in the basement of some rich old man along with 300 million others, but you had formed your own economy down there and were able to support yourselves just fine, would it be wrong to criticize him because he owns the house?
Actually, never mind. Here's my real statement: does what you said work as an argument within your group of friends, your family, or your coworkers? What is their usual response?
Buffalo Theory of Beer Consumption is missing...
One afternoon at Cheers, Cliff Clavin was explaining the Buffalo Theory to his buddy Norm.
Here's how it went:
"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo
can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when
the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones
at the back that are killed first This natural selection is
good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the
regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the
slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we
know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers."
When I read the headline, I thought this was going to be some sort of commentary on the sad state of reddit submissions lately... but it was actually a ridiculous bag of potato chips.
Love this part:
When a second programmer comes back later and reads the code she might say, "The people who wrote this are morons. They just wrote a simple linear search here. This thing's ordered, so they could have done a binary search. They could have used a hash table here. Why are they doing a linear search?" Well, because a linear search worked. And when the other programmer looked at the linear search, she understood it in a minute.
Could part of her body be resonating with the instrument?
I'm with the parent. I don't see why the left gives her any manner of credence, even insofar as acknowledging her existence. Ann Coulter habitually uses enough rope to hang herself, and even ostracizes herself from most of her own party.
You can attack advertisers of her website, but you'll only bring more attention to the website in the end. Let people read her ignorant bullshit, and formulate their own opinions. If you're really democratic, it shouldn't matter who gets the mic and who doesn't: It should be up to the people, after all is said and done.
I've leveraged my interest in information visualization, organization, and mind maps to create a unique approach to goal setting, and I want to share this technique with you.
How is it that in the course of one to two years Python went from a "notoriously friendly" user community to a "notoriously unfriendly" one?
If I had to guess, Steve Yegge
Ditto. Very annoying, as I was out all day, and was looking forward to some light reading...
"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the wine I drink
I feel shamed. Then I look into the glass and think
about the workers in the vineyards and all of their hopes
and dreams If I didn't drink this wine, they might be out
of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say
to myself, "It is better that I drink this wine and let their
dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
~ Jack Handy
I think in the first demo video of the condom you can see a small air pocket for this purpose.
Also, I'm sure if somebody is smart enough to invent something as fast as this condom device, they wouldn't forget something as obvious as an air pocket.
Yeah she's not "so good" that she can play these notes. All she's doing is dragging the bow really hard across the strings at the right speed. I did this my second year of playing albeit not with any discipline. It's nice to see people trying "new" things on the violin though.
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Do we actually have that motto up anywhere these days? It's not really ours: http://ccs.mit.edu/papers/CCSWP181/ . Anyway, thanks for the link and the kind words, and let me add that Andrew, Luke, Ben and Colin - the rest of the Dabble DB team - also rock.
And yeah, we dig the maps too. We spent a long time being annoyed at the licensing restrictions on Yahoo and Google Maps before we realized that putting pins into a map wasn't what our customers really wanted anyway...
Upmodded for that last "Or this" :)
In West Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground's where I spent most of my days
Chillin' out, maxin' relaxin' all cool and all shooting some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys who were up to no good, started makin' trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared and said 'You're moving with your Auntie and Uncle in Bel Air.'
I tripped over the sequel to the video he's talking about, and it's all downhill from there. He says something about asteroids, then randomly jumps to a conclusion. Then he states that the earth's magnetic field has been decreasing exponentially, assumes that it has been for 4.5 billion years, then jumps to conclusions again. Then he does the exact same thing for the earth's spin. And sediments. Then pulls out a double-headed nickel, babbles for 2 minutes, and ends up saying absolutely nothing. I can't believe I actually watched this.
Now that I look at it, not only is their flash player broken (if you get to the end of the video and the 'related videos' appear, you can't rewind to to the beginning because the related videos never go away), but it looks like they stole it from YouTube. For bonus points, clicking one of those related videos does not open a new page, but instead just switches the video in the player, so you don't see the new video's comments, title, or URL.
Actually, the figure-8 is caused by the inclination of the earth's axis of rotation with respect to the ecliptic. The skewness of the figure-8 (one lobe larger than the other) is caused by the elliptical nature of the orbit. The Wikipedia page on the Analemma and its associated Talk page have good explanations.
By "amazing", I must assume you mean "annoying".
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/mysterymeatnavigation.html
I wish I could give you an answer but there's no way anyone could answer these questions. Everyone will have different reasons for doing what they're doing. Home is probably one of the safer places someone could smoke, though. I'm not aware of any "I-need-to-go-home-and-toke-because-I-forgot-my-pot effect"
I wonder if people have yet to realize that we've come to a point in this war that these small details don't matter. It doesn't matter how many people died - people are dying. It doesn't matter how many troops - they will lose. It doesn't matter what the Liberally-biased news says - we're fucked.
consumers review only products they love or loathe
They could assign a fractional 3-star for every customer who doesn't write a review of their purchase, assuming the product was probably average...
I run an employer rating site and, out of curiosity, I did a database query for how many times people rate an employer each of the possible values (1 through 4 stars). Here's the distribution:
stars | count
-------+-------
1 | 81
2 | 30
3 | 31
4 | 75
As is to be expected, the self-selecting set of people who post an employer rating either love or hate their employers.
SOunds cool, I wanna hit it up!
They could have condensed that tirade down to one word:
Amway
Where has playful hacking gone? You can also use an engine that already exists. But sometimes, playing with stuff is nice and it makes you learn.
The point here isn't to make a http client, it's to have fun with bash.
We also talk about train wrecks. They're more interesting than trains that do not crash. That doesn't mean they are a good thing.
And frankly, a truly interesting site is one with interesting content. The job of the presentation is to be unobtrusive.
Ahh beer.
Giver of live... taker of life? um..
don't mind me, im drunk
hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..............
So I could have an infection that stores the source code to Vista. Wait a minute, Vista is already an infection.
I watched the movie with my dad and I had to remind him throughout the whole thing it that it was mostly bullshit.
exactly. This is why we shouldn't just write off these 'art projects' as unusable, as the currently impractical ideas artists throw around might turn out to be the inspiration behind a revolution in interface design.
I think "High Fashion" works like this, too, with (often) extreme versions of different ideas being presented. Sure, no healthy woman could wear much of what gets shown, but the ideas get picked apart and resampled in usable clothing.
i dig it serious
I'm surprised that my comment was accepted at face value. I was merely making fun of the type of comment that I see so often on this site. Or was a voted down knowing full well that this was the case?
I was going to vote this article down for being LGF trash, but you just saved it.
An excellent and concise demystification.
Kevin Love, a high school basketball star from the West Coastin Oregon, flashes skills that make him the best outlet passer in a generation and a mega recruit next year for UCLA.
Problem is that whitespaces are the less preserved codes. And you still have to indent. I sometimes have to copy&paste code from one window to another, sometimes using different editors. It one uses tabs and the other spaces I have a problem in Python - and often even an invisible problem.
Next problem if I past Python code to a different indentation level, for example from a simple function to some if-block in a method. Now I have to indent the pasted code manually (I'm always talking about scripting stuff where I don't want to use an IDE or a specially configured editor which can to the indentation automatically). But sometimes it's hard to remember where the code I've just pasted in ends and I indent a line to far or not far enough.
This also happens in Ruby or HTML, but because I have an end marker there, I can always correct my mistake easily. In Python this is a problem. Sometimes I don't even want to indent it, because it's only for a short test or something and will be removed a moment later. But in Python I still have to indent it, while in Ruby I left it unindented (and optically standing out).
In the end I simply don't see the big advantage for all the trouble. All this, only to remove some simple 'end's? I simply don't think that it's worth it.
Great article!
You only listed one (2, 3(++1)) hate for all of these. Do you mean to say that you know very little about them?
I only listed things I hate. The rest count as 'dislikes'...
++1. Where's your REPL? It's over by the REPL, you twit.
Apparently some Smalltalks do come with a REPL. And it probably wouldn't be too terribly hard to add one to ones that don't. Consider said objection to be replaced by the new objection "Single-dispatch OOP" :-P
In terms of looks, it isn't that great. In terms of usability, its a negative number.
Looks devastating. Good to have folks like these around.
"The Secret" is stupid (albeit mostly harmless), but Salon's critique is pretty tedious:
Why "venality"? Because, with survivors of Auschwitz still alive, Oprah writes this about "The Secret" on her Web site, "the energy you put into the world -- both good and bad -- is exactly what comes back to you.
The Secret is not idiotic because of AIDS, Auschwitz, or the existence of poor people -- it is idiotic because it suggests that the way you think can actually effect reality.
And how exactly is any of this "venal"? ISTM it is run-of-the-mill self-help quackery, and I'm not really surprised that Oprah's fallen for it, but venality it is not.
Don't forget there are countries where torture, genocide, a state-controlled press, oppression of women, and imprisonment without trial are considered LEGAL.
Willful intent has little to do with the outcome.
Basically, your argument is just doesn't make much sense. And now I know why tigers eat their young.
THIS MOVIE STARTS A BIT SLOW BUT HEATS UP INTO SOME REAL ROMANCE AND EMOTION WITH SOME SCENES THAT REALLY CAPTURE THE MOMENT.
I don't know if anyone had noticed, but doesn't Charlie look a lot like actor Charles Napier?
It is quite simple.
God and religion are distinct.
You mean
Blonde = BB
Brunette = Bb or bb or bB
Bb+Bb produces BB or bb or Bb or bB
but couldn't BB then be diluted to the extent that a Bb almost always mates with a bb?
Let's say we have a thousand BB Swedes mating within a million bb Italians, producing 999000 bb brunettes and 1000 Bb brunettes and just 1 BB blonde. In the next generation, only 1 in 1000 of the Bb will mate with another Bb - we're down from 1000 original BB Swedes to just one or two blondes. So blondes have died out, even though the number of 'B' genes is preserved, and the rare blonde will always crop up.
I think this is right. I haven't had genetics for ages.
It looks to me more like some 3rd world Arabic or Indian bag of chips, trying to use American slang for coolness, imported back into the States. I can't see the design for that being produced in the States.
Yeah, so legalize the cannabis and you remove one income stream from smugglers/terrorists.
Now, it sounds like you Yanks have money to burn. I just wish you'd stop trying to influence countries who don't have money to burn to implement the same idiotic and expensive anti-cannabis policies.
1) The idea is that every child in a community will have one. If an adult is using one, everyone will know that they've stolen it. It's bright green and fairly noticeable. There will always be a chance of theft, but they've built features into the laptops to deter theft, like deactivating laptops if they are reported stolen.
2) You don't understand the goals of the OLPC project. It's not a computing project, it's an education project. The tools that they might use in the future have no bearing on what they use to educate the children.
3) Can you take a thin-client Ubuntu machine home? Can each child have one to use? These machines are supposed to replace a stack of textbooks and then some. If you can't take it home, you can't learn at home. A laptop is the only appropriate solution here.
There are far better critiques of the OLPC initiative out there, many of which include your first and second points.
You didn't write an article. You wrote a paragraph of unsubstantiated claims. If you haven't noticed, most of the things that are discussed on reddit are well thought out arguments about some topic*, and those usually take more than a paragraph to make.
*: Well, that and pictures.
I loaded the page and all of a sudden I was hit with 'Congratulations, you've won two iPod nanos!!!'
And then I closed the browser window. How about linking directly to the goddamn video?
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=2629441697264222238&hl=en-GB&subtitle=on
(And before someone tells me to install Flashblock, I prefer Safari)
Yeah I'd want to hear what the authors say. LGF makes some claims but doesn't give the words that would back them up. Not that it might not be true but, I heard an interview and they were very careful, picking random houses within random cities.
If this was Fark, this would come with the "Obvious" tag.
Lambdas are rather crippled
Streamlined, not crippled.
This bag of chips alone is why people come to America. Well, this and Soul Train.
Describes how to make a simple flex-based RSS reader with source code and example
I haven't read this book from Oprah, but I have read I guess one of its contributors: Joe Vitale's Attractor Factor. Here's how I felt.
The book is loaded with lots of self help cliches, and yes, it is also part of a system to sell lots of other stuff from him and his colleagues for more books, healing, yada yada. It really sucks have to get through that junk. But I pressed on to see if there were anything in there.
Well, just like "The Secret" the book encourages this belief that if you imagine a positive thought that it can come true, and that's what's holding so many people back from their own success.
Now, immediately this doesn't jive with the suffering in this world. Thousands of people aren't dying in Iraq because these poor folks aren't thinking positively enough. But I'm not entirely sure that Oprah or Joe exactly mean to tell people its black and white: Think positively and have anything, think negatively and you die from a bomb on your house. They just recognize that there is a subset of people with a large subset of problems that ARE self induced.
Positive thinking by visualization stuff can be extremely powerful and good.
For example, look at Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. These guys are constantly talking about how well they visualize their shot making. Tiger Woods talks about how he doesn't just visualize the putt, but the also the feelings and actions of things that happen AFTER he makes the putt. Of course, all the people they are beating are probably trying to think just like they are :) and yet they lose. But are they losing sometimes because they guys like Tiger have this visualization thing down. Look at Phil Mickelson. That guy has been such a choke artist. Maybe his nerves would chill if he could think as positively as Tiger has.
You can also look at examples of people healing themselves physically just by thinking positively. There's probably not anyone thinking away cancer (at least proven?) but thinking negatively and self induced stress is the cause of so much poor health (e.g. heart attacks, cancer, etc.). If everyone had this attitude that "hey, if i think that i can live forever and my body heals itself", we might be a lot less sick all the time. Hopefully at the same time, people don't idiotically think they can heal bullet wounds or jump off buildings. :)
So yeah, its a lot of self help stuff rehashed over and over. And it's also a gateway to spending (wasting) oodles of money on more and more in the pyramid. But shit, there really does seem to a be a lot of problems that we all have personally that we could improve on, if we did some more positive thinking and were confident that we are truly masters of our destiny.
I think the whole revolution being referred to here is that there are a whole great many fewer people who have a "personal collection" they're worried about any more.
Downmodded for preparation. :)
the technology around the corner is just amazing, from some of the future military weapons to all this future screen stuff, from the holograms to this type of stuff. its crazy!
Yes, 'ALL' was taken directly from parent comment, 'fit' was emphasized show how absurd the implication that the cartoon could represent all christians, becuase it simply doesn't fit.
One dildo, one carrot. Hardly red light district worthy.
how so? ruby and python are roughly similar in power and expressiveness, but ruby has a more functional flavour which leads me to prefer it to python. note that the OP asked "why don't you use python", which pretty much calls for subjective opinions of the language.
One benefit of pajamas is that once you get used to them, it's easier to get to sleep in strange beds, because most of your skin will be in contact with familiar fabrics while you sleep. A possible exception is if you bring your sheets with you, but who does that?
So sleeping in pajamas might be better for people who sleep around!
positively charged magnets attract negatively charged particles
Hmm, the guy tried to out do the book's crappy physics; what the hell is a positively charged magnet?
Hong and his partner started goosing the scores to compensate for the overwhelming negativity of the ratings.
I knew it! If you go to plentyoffish, even good looking people get about a 6.0 average score...good looking women: 6.0 at most. On hotornot, any girl who isn't obviously fat or ugly, and shows a centimeter of cleavage gets AT LEAST an 8.0--if she is above average, she's certain to get a 9.0.
Apparently it represents strings internally as UTF8,
No, you choose between UCS2 and UCS4.
and uses different syntax for literal ASCII and literal Unicode strings.
More like literal byte strings, not ASCII. (While Python's byte string type currently still has a few character-oriented methods, they are remnants of Python's pre-Unicode days, and are going away in 3.0.)
I've actually had the opposite experience, but it's largely subjective. At my day job, I write lots of Python and lots of JavaScript, and I've found that -- because of JavaScript's strangeness about this -- I've ended up writing lots of methods which accept a self-style parameter so that I can explicitly pass the instance and not have to worry that some quirk of execution scope has clobbered this.
After I've done a lot of that, I'm much happier to work with Python, where self is guaranteed to come to you correctly :)
Got too much sex ed in school, eh? Well, for us non-squeamish types, it looks like it can deliver remarkably fast. :)
The second video is an insane-o advertisement... Manto makes it quick-quick!
It looks like Moore is going to be facing an inconvenient truth.
I agree... 10 seconds is WAY better than 30. God bless R&D! (except the Catholic god in this case, I guess)
Having to name your multi-line function just isn't a big loss in practice, and you can argue (and I do) that naming it is a readability advantage over a complicated lambda expression where the reader must then puzzle out what it actually means.
The simple cases that you might be tempted to counter-argue with are almost invariably covered with lambda in Python, too. My rule-of-thumb is if the lambda needs more than two arguments or three tokens, it probably ought to be pulled out and named anyhow as it begins to become a real challenge to understand.
However, my real point isn't that the Python way is "better", my point is that it is arguable, with reasonable arguments on both sides (I am also sympathetic to the idea of cutting down keystrokes in some cases, for instance; friction matters). Thus, it's really hard to say "Aha! Ruby is obviously better at functional programming!" It's the "obviously" that is a problem.
If you're still having a problem understanding why that "obviously" is a problem, compare it to the following one: "Both Python and Ruby are obviously better than Java at functional programming." Now there's a difference.
I agree. Reading the bible made me an atheist. And to think that I read the bible in the first place because I was a hard core Christian/Catholic.
She's so good that she'll probably wake up with a bow through her neck... those other string player can be a testy lot.
The book is clearly rubbish, but equally so is the mindless warbling of the salon's author:
"in this time of entrenched, systemic, institutionalized poverty"
Oh. Get. Off. It.
"In this time" is less poverty than almost any period in history. It's almost like the salon is trying to guilt trip Ophrah--blah, blah, this book distracts the reader from our faux-Marxist view of the world, in which it isn't the self but society that determines everything, yadda, yadda.
Interesting topic and equally interesting article. The writer intelligently described the color psychology used in logos and how colors play an important role in logos. Read on for a comprehensive description on color psychology in logos. Highly recommended.
On how neuroscience is helping see that "learning" is much broader than what we usually call "education".
I welcome more of this in the run up to 2008. The left is its own worse enemy.
With friends like Dan Rather and Micheal Moore, who needs enemies?
This one just never gets old. :) Thanks for bringing back a classic. The best part is, he's STILL more respectful of Coulter than she is of others.
What is that?
I was wrong about this then.
a mass of half-organized drooling urges that you can barely articulate, let alone create a cohesive argument from
This describes me remarkably well, at times. :\
Wasn't Paul referring to the Jewish remnant there?
Well, they're going to do that with the next version of Perl, so we should probably wait.
If it's not already in [Pp]erl, then you don't echo 'friggen' |sed "s/igg/ck/"|tr r u need it! If some new things get introduced, then they are now acceptable to use.
That is all.
Have you ever been to the DMV? Your idea of 'average' is insane.
the author tends to ramble on and has some trite comments about the holocaust, poverty, disease - but I did like this bit:
"Instead of inquiry we have born-again epiphanies and cheesy self-help books -- we have excuses for not engaging in inquiry at all. Let other people schlep down the road to Damascus; we'll have Amazon send Damascus to us."
The analemma is a figure described by the exact position of the Sun the same clock time each day.
The apparent path of the Sun's motion on the celestial sphere as seen from Earth is called the ecliptic.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/eclip.html
opiate, masses, etc...
/waves hands mystically, analyzes class and gender differences
ha! That crazy, grizzled man! Youve made my day...he he he...
When this broad was born there were still people hobbling around missing limbs from the civil war. And there were people who had witnessed performances of Beethoven's works conducted by the man himself.
oprah is probably believes in "the secret" so she can justify her own ridiculous wealth to herself. Like any religion, faith in "the secret" is a double edge sword that allows people to believe in what they are doing (and therefore get shit done) but negative side effect that people believe in what they are doing.
Anyway sounds to me like they're saying believing etc. creates a feedback where you get stuff because you're positive, which leads to more positivity which leads to more getting stuff. Not neccessarily true but true in some circumstances.
Now that you mention it, I have been to WalMart at 2AM.
Brr
[...] and now not only is my code broken, but the breakage is actually invisible.
SyntaxErrors are pretty visible. :)
All so I wouldn't have to type {}, which never bothered me anyway.
All so you wouldn't have to read {}, actually.
I may have to quit reading Digg. The comments on this same story on Digg are at a much lower level of discourse than they are on Reddit.
I must have just gotten in at the end of Digg's useful life. Seems like just a couple of months ago it was much better. Now it's more like a tabloid freak show, whereas Reddit seems to have gotten more interesting and varied lately.
Kind people don't want to discourage the submitter by downmodding, so they vote both up. Redundancy for the for the win!
I might add that incompetent BOSSES as well as incompetent Co-workers can make life unbearable.
I recently moved from a contract position to a full-time position with the same company. I will swear to you now that what I am about to tell you is true, and not embellished. Those of you with a knowledge of networking will be dismayed or bewildered or (most likely) not suprised at all to hear that my ENTIRE WEEK at work last week consisted of:
Trying to convince our network admin (my boss, who makes 3x what I do and has 3x the "qualifications" I do) that Reverse-DNS really does matter, and that he NEEDS to put PTR records in place to make his email work. 4 Full days it took to convince him. sigh
Job security just isn't worth that price.....
I agree, but the worst part is they are reluctant to admit the whole thing ever happened.
Yes. Wish they were more direct about it.
xtians are fcuking retards? wow, 2000 year old news!
very well said [grin]
No. Read the article and some of the links on her website for an explanation.
Zappa is God.
For most of the work I do, Python's speed isn't anywhere near being an issue; my bottlenecks are things like Internet bandwidth and database queries.
But I have a feeling that Jython and IronPython will probably be faster than CPython someday (and hopefully PyPy will be too), and I know that's going to be a factor for some people (especially scientific/mathematical folks).
Totally theoretical at this point, but if you try this, please let me know!
Exactly, even with the awesomely-gratifying STFU parts.
This is way easier than throwing it up in the air and catching it on your manhood!
Well, one of the military branches slogan is 'Accelerate your life' (i.e. die sooner).
You missed the part in the article that said evangelicals aren't much more knowledgeable than non-evangelicals.
People cherry-pick from religious texts the parts that they basically agree with and ignore the rest. When was the last time you saw someone get excommunicated for adultery or bearing false witness? Those were (supposedly) written on STONE FUCKING TABLETS. Homosexual activity is mixed in somewhere with the dietary rules.
Christianity is stupid.
ruby has a more functional flavour which leads me to prefer it to python
Ruby's functional flavor:
def x
99 # no return statement needed (yay)
end
foo.map {|x| x + 1}
Python's functional flavor:
[x + 1 for x in foo] # nice, declarative list-comprehensions, a la Haskell
Scheme's functional flavor
(map (lambda (x) (+ 1 x)) foo)
Haskell's functional flavor:
map (+ 1) foo -- Mmm... curry...
Now, any advantage Ruby may have in "functional flavor" over Python is (a) arguable, and (b) so remotely tiny compared to the huge advantages provided by real functional languages that it becomes a very tiny factor compared to, say, implementation quality and library support (if these weren't important, you'd be using Haskell right now!). And by these measures, I think Python easily holds the advantage.
Of course, I am not unbiased. I liked Ruby a lot better before I had to start using it for work... (oddly enough, my esteem of Python increased a lot when I started using it for work....)
Ann, you'll get nothing and like it!
"Love your enemies, just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards"
Clintons did same as Bush when it came to lying about WMD in Iraq.
A twofer: 'Science in the Only News'
It is sad, but we need somebody to fix and heal this country, extract us from the middle east, disconnect government from lobbyists and big business, and purge corruption. Hillary, McCain, and Edwards aren't promising to do that so I'll turn to the candidates who are.
I don't care what his position is on abortion, gay marriage, or any of the other stupid issues that usually swing elections. Just give me an honest man.
It's a partial application of Popen, with stdin and stdout defaulted to PIPE. (functools.partial (PEP 309) was introduced to the standard library in Python 2.5, but it's a 6-line definition for earlier versions.)
Which I think are both good points, but there's no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
HI
that's because bush is actually worse than the people who blow up hospitals...
he's killed hundreds of thousands of people thru war
he's effectively overthrown the USA government
he's robbed the working classes and gave the money to the rich
he's rascist: he allowed New Orleans to get wiped out and dispersed the black residents to achieve a white majority
he's cut funding to military hospitals, killing his own soldiers
he completely ignores all laws and rules as a dictator
he's going to start world war 3 by invading Iran
Bitching cos you got modded down? Dude, chill.
I have a love-hate relationship with Python's indentation system. It's elegant until you lose track of your indentation.
This is sad.
Reading this article made me think about cello music. Cello music makes me think about Sunstrider Isle, the starting zone for Blood Elves in WoW.
Apparently I can't read anything without being reminded of that game =(
Wow. Gore/Obama '08. That would be my dream ticket. That could roll back the terror and war of the last six years. That could restore America's morality and balance. That would be a 16-year Democratic sweep.
Reason 1:
Whitespace. When I first read about it I thought it was a novel idea and I could picture it being really good. But when actually trying to code in python for the first time, I came to hate it for 2 huge reasons:
First off, it's just broken: Accepting tabs and normal space in the same file is fundamentally flawed. I pasted in some code from a web site and didn't notice that the tabbing was different and then had to track down obscure syntax errors. That makes it worthless.
Second, and almost more important, is the fact that it renders emacs' auto-tabbing feature useless. With no way to signal the close of a block emacs cannot divine where the tabbing should be. In C or perl I can wrap something in a for loop by typing the "for() {" part up front and the closing "}" at the end and then use C-c C-q to move everything around appropriately. Or if it's short enough I can just to the TAB-nextline-TAB-nextline dance a few times...
Reason 2:
I already know perl. Pretty well, too. After mucking around for a little bit python just didn't seem to add any extra expressiveness that I was lacking in perl making it seem relatively pointless to try to add it to my brain.
Reason 3:
Coming from perl I was also disappointed in the lack of documentation. "man perl" has so much info there's no need to ever buy the camel book. And I really like how perl modules all have their documentation in perldoc and how every distro seems to make man pages out of them now. I can "apt-get install libipc-run-perl" and then just "man IPC::Run" which is heavenly. Python just doesn't have that infrastructure. Ruby either, for that matter. Tcl is pretty good though.
Now that we're only 10 months from the beginning of an election year, it's a good time for candidates to start thinking about their position on legal marijuana. I doubt that "Hardass" Hillary will be much different from a Rick Santorum in that respect, but some of the others might say something positive, especially if it looks like they're going to lose anyway.
John Edwards just said the US is "not a christian nation", so who knows, maybe he'd also be amenable to legalization. Barack Obama said of inhaling: "that's the whole point". But his people might not let him go out on the legalization limb.
Of course, Ron Paul is probably for legalization, being closet Libertarian. McCain? It probably would not be a plus to have him on your side, regardless of what your side is. Same for Dennis Kucinich.
Because MJ makes white woman sleep with black men. It's a KILLER DRUG handed to you by a friendly stranger, that leads to MURDER, INSANITY, DEATH. Only Hell waits for those who use it!
(Disclaimer: Please do not take this seriously.)
Our concept of an OS' is kinda getting outdated. It's wonderful to see them innovating and trying a new concept.
well, i knew they weren't talking about her scaggy looks and preponderous weight cos that's no secret
*bows*
I feel blessed that there are scientists out there helping answer the real questions that plague everyday people.
Daniel Snyder, Prince Among Men!
The website seems to have a lot of info and reviews on different DVD rental sites.
Oprah probably believes in "the secret" so she can justify her own ridiculous wealth to herself.
No kidding. If actual millionaires revealed their actual secrets, they'd be run out of town by pitchfork-wielding mobs.
Raising the banner of perfection may not always be the wisest or best choice given the situation. Perfection can be laudable, but it is an imperfect world and real opportunties are found in this imperfect world and in inperfection.
Close, but big wings (I'm going out on a limb and assuming you're meaning high lift) generates a lot of drag at low speeds. At high speeds, it's things like friction and airflow disturbances that cause drag.
If you'll look closely (well not really it's quite obvious :P) you'll see that the entire airplane is basically one long curve. This practically guarantees that it is composite material, which has such a low drag coefficient it's ridiculous. Below you'll find another post (well soon enough anyways) about why that's the death strike for this design (for now).
I don't think it would have made as much sense like that.
MY SONG
Ruby:
1) Performance. The VM thing has been mentioned. I hope this gets at least partially fixed this year, but we've been waiting quite a while so I'm not holding my breath.
2)The age old block scoping issue (for lack of a better term). ie. vars you think would be local to a block may not be.
3)I'd like it if there were some sort of Character/String relationship (as in a String is an Array of chars). As it is we have to do funny things like string[2..2], for example, to get at the 3rd char of a string.
4) Blocks are great, but sometimes I want to be able to keep the block from being evaluated in current scope in order to evaluate it later. I'm thinking it might be nice if there were some sort of Block class that allowed conversion to String, for example. This would also allow for blocks to be serialized without assuming a context, for example. [no, what I'm talking about is not a lambda, since those are also defined using code blocks - maybe a good name for it would be a deferred lambda or deferred code block - mostly this kind of feature would be good for some DSL creation issues. It may be that the Block class would open up the idea of accessing and manipulating the AST which Matz frowns upon]
5) It would be nice if there were an 'uninclude' which made it easy to un-mixin a module from an object or class. There are ways to kind of do this, but they're clunky and usually don't acheive exactly what you want.
Oh, thought of a couple more: 6) It would be nice if we could call lambdas using '()' instead of '[]', but I understand the syntactical issues that would raise.
7) it would be great if we could define operators like '!' and '~', for example, but again, I suspect there are syntactical issues.
For the most part, though, I find that Ruby gets in my way less than any other language I've used.
also, when i clicked the link to the article the page didn't show, instead an intermediate redirection link page showed up. that's when i clicked the close tab on the article. fcuk salon, i don't jump thru hoops
I guess you haven't been following this story. I don't think the Danish police are just "letting them do what they want"!
re ugly hacks, Like I said "Which sucks"
Glad you corrected yourself about setattr() before I had to slam you for being ignorant. setattr() is what I was referring to.
I don't believe you can use print in a lambda because it is a statement. close() is a function and I'm not talking about the mathmatical concept "function". But more important close() is an expression whereas statements never are. And only expressions are allowed in lambda's, which sucks.
Misread title as "Legos", was confused when site claimed orange was a color Legos come in.
I agree with most of those points. I've worked for small start ups and medium-sized companies, and just started at my first very large company. I get more email in a day now than I did in a month at the other places, yet the bureaucracy is such that simple things are simply too much of a hassle to do because of the red tape.
I don't agree with the contractor thing though. In my experience contractors are treated like dirt.
Great web development tutorial for anyone from beginners to programming monks. A simple trick that needs to be used more often.
Rasheeda in arabic means "wise woman". Its kind of a "be wise, eat this" thing.
just rubberband the envelope to a brick and drop it in the mailbox... and the USPS will charge mucho for delivery
Softwares to generate and print barcodes . Print on labels . support of the major types of barcodes ( ean13 , ean8 , ean128 ( SSCC , EAN14 ) , code39 , upc ..)
I already have to buy milk that is labelled as "Bathing Milk" because where I live, selling milk that isn't pasteurised is illegal to be labelled as human-drinkable milk. I didn't realise it could get any worse.
If you still want a cup of real milk that doesn't hasn't been ruined by pasteurisation, additives, or nasty cow-drugs, there are websites out there to help you find local suppliers.
Cool architectures with marbles!
The best blogs aren't for money anyway.
Well that does it. I don't care if the plane is on fire I'm not getting off at an emergency stop in the states.
They should just send the family to Canada. Let Canada deal with it. Cheaper for the US to deport them to Canada and let Canada pick up the tab for deporting them to Iran. :)
I don't believe you can use print in a lambda because it is a statement.
Not for long.
Has this happened with more than one person or on more than one occasion? Is it possible he's an introvert and doesn't have as much fun with other people as extroverts do? Maybe he gets more satisfaction from smoking for whatever reasons. Cannabis isn't physically addictive so without knowing anything about him it's difficult to say why he'd want to leave your group to smoke. He might just tell you if you asked him in a way he doesn't perceive as an attack.
I think it's Cox and Forkum
One of the biggest problems with this design is in fact it's star attribute. It's fairly obvious that practically the entire plane is made up of composite materials.
Composite is such a revolutionary material, that it is changing the face of airfoils as we know it. It's light, strong (more on this later), extremely "slippery" (air friction), and can be molded to practically any shape. The only real downfalls are the price, which is always a factor in an "emerging" material/field and its "newness." The latter being the main problem with an airliner.
The FAA does not like change. At all. New technology is finally just being implemented (with 5-10 years) into airplanes like them confangled computers, forgps/autopilot/navigation, and diesel engines, and engine monitoring, and composites, etc. etc.
Now, with GA (general aviation), new technologies are much more rapidly implemented and excepted, especially with the recent surge in interest for homebuilt aircraft. However, with airliners, technology mush prove itself before it can even be considered.
There are many things that we do not know about composite materials yet, like long-long-term stress for one (big deal!), and until it is a "for sure" thing, I don't see this happening.
That is to say airliners are not using composite materials, for instance, airbus's newest A380 has composite materials in it, but it still has relatively the same design as typical jets and composites account for nowhere near a majority of the materials used.
IMHO, by the time something like this actually swings around into use, we will have developed a far better form of transportation which will render this obsolete.
I wanted to see a deadbolt opened, but there was only a key-barrel bumping that I saw last year.
They should put a message on it saying "It only works for really hard ones"
Really, it's a funny story that involves Johannes Goropius Becanus, Leibniz, Newton, Julius Caaser and Capt James T. Kirk. Well, the evil Capt Kirk from the Mirror-Universe... Figured he'd go back in time and sell time-share Condo's in Central Asia... To make a long story short, they ended up leaving Becanus behind when they ran from the Elephent People of Omicron Persei 8. So, it really ain't a coincidence at all.
:-)
But I'm not entirely sure that Oprah or Joe exactly mean to tell people its black and white: ... They just recognize that there is a subset of people with a large subset of problems that ARE self induced.
That's the approach a sane person would take, or a person trying to debate the effectiveness of visualization with sane people.
I think you're forgetting about the profit motive. If these people admit that there's any circumstance where their approach is not appropriate, then their market is restricted. They aren't going to make such an admission while there is still one person in the world who has not purchased the full line of products.
The trend of these positive-thinking, think-and-grow-rich books is that their solution fits every problem. You aren't experiencing happiness and unlimited wealth? Obviously you aren't doing it right! Just buy my followup volume (along with video, audiobooks, tickets to my seminars, and this herbal supplement I've just made available) and you'll get it for sure this time.
Yes, visualization is useful. But these people aren't presenting a useful technique, they're trying to make a buck.
Sadly, health care is going the way of the traditional pension.
Government action will not likely happen. With the exception of John Edwards, no viable canindate for President so far has come up with a detailed plan to provide coverage to everyone.
If change happens, it will effect nearly 2 out of every 10 dollars the economy currently spends - the plan needs to be worked out over a decade or more.
The fact that Obama and Clinton are skirting the issue by saying that we 'should' have health care for everyone, but not providing any details, says volumes.
Cool
the prison industry is a method of extracting money from the public coffers that the politicans in power use to enrich their cronies. same shit goes on in your country too, but they're probably more focused on a different industry
I've been having the inverted/non-inverted control scheme argument with friends for a long time, and I've seriously concluded that it completely relies on how an individual interprets how they their body movements changes their perspective.
It must be evaluated with the individual in mind. There is no right nor wrong approach. Therefore, on this area of design, an option/toggle would have been nice.
US jurisdiction in this case is pretty tenuous. There was no reason to make everyone on the plane clear US customs just to remove a body. These poor folks have been imprisoned indefinitely in the US without due process for attempting to break Canadian law. That's pretty harsh treatment for people just trying to escape repression and torture in their own country. A humane response would have been to let them live in the US while they applied for refugee status.
The author doesn't deny that missiles have been launched from Gaza. He does dispute whether Palestinians are on the verge of developing intercontinental ballistic missiles, which the Arrow missile defense system is designed to protect against.
It is astounding though, how many pot fans are amotivational.
Anecdote Warning: I agree that cannabis smokers do give the impression of being unmotivated. That said, though, I have a number of friends who smoke a lot of pot and they are all self-employed with successful businesses which require a lot of energy. The most extreme of them regularly works until midnight and gets up at 5am. When he does take a break, though, he can hit the weed pretty hard. To see him on cannabis without knowing how hard he works you'd really worry that cannabis does cause extreme lethargy. I guess he attacks relaxation with the same vigour he attacks his work with.
Positive thought helps only when it is followed through by positive action, and "The Secret"is a classic example:
"I want to make a lot of money" >> I'll write a book about making money >> People will buy it >> I made a lot of money!! >> Res ipsa loquitur.
what boring drivel... kind of an asstrology for colors. i looked for a page 2 where they related each color to the chinese year cycle but it turns out the author has no sense of humor
java != javascript. Javas 'this' semantics work pretty much as you would expect.
I agree that javascript 'this' is broken. Check out the bind function in prototype and/or this thread (comments too).
IIRC the javascript v2 presentation linked to in the yegge/NBL thread mentioned fixing the 'this' problem.
Aargh!
awesome.. three years ago.. ;)
A close relative of self-help and the power of positive thinking is self-denial and the power of not thinking at all.
If you have a top notch dev team, otherwise pick one.
All this will change in Leopard, wherein Python and Ruby will be alongside Obj-C as languages in which you can use Cocoa. I look forward to that day.
You don't need to wait for Apple.
Oprah has the personality traits that enable her to easily gain authority, which results in a leading position, which results in easy money.
Unrelated, Oprah also has magical thinking. "I can do anything I want" is typical child thinking; a lot of people never outgrow it.
In a display of silliness that can only be described as 'human', Oprah decides that (1) has stemmed entirely from (2). In fact they are completely unrelated; people trying to implement (2) in order to achieve (1), stand no chance.
(And yes, many people -- some women beyond a certain age, for instance -- buy into this meta-bollocks. If Oprah is in fact smart, she just gave the market what it demanded.)
Especially as the difference in url is merely a "?referrer=reddit". You'd think the software could take care of that...
That PEP 666 got rejected :)
I had never seen that one. I, for one, think that is a brilliant idea ... right up until my four-space-indention code dies because it tried to import an all-tab library.
Wasn't it Proust who said, "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"?
I still haven't found the perfect language but that's probably because I am too lazy to learn Lisp.
Lisp isn't the perfect language, it is just capable of roughly resembling the perfect language no matter what attributes said language may have.
one boot boy fascist gang vs another boot boy fascist gang. sounds like a win/win situation for the rest of us
Oh, there's a union already, the effect of which is slightly higher wages for Disney employees than other theme park employees. When I worked there I got 7.60 an hour, as opposed to 6.75 (CA minimum wage) at other theme parks. Of course, the extra 85 cents an hour is largely offset by union dues.
What it comes down to here is that Disney feels it controls the area around the park, the hotels, and the convention center (the "Anaheim Resort District" as the city calls it), and looking out only for itself, as it does, doesn't want any more people around.
Working there only seemed viable to me as a part-time job while living with parents or up to the gills in roommates, as many of my college-age coworkers were. Still, there are real adults with families to support working there, sadly enough.
But come on, did these people not realize that giving 20 years or more of your life to Disney ain't going to get you shit in the end? The turnover there is massive, and there's no reason for Disney to give you an honest to god living wage, whether you've worked there for a year or thirty. Either way, you're still an instantly replaceable cog. Instantly because entry-level Disneyland jobs are the kind of things you tell someone to do, and they go do. There isn't much learning to do with these jobs, they're monkey work.
In the end, I agree with anon hater.
...and our 8 year old son Noah--whom I homeschool (unschool).
Oh boy.
please do NOT submit links to adverts, you stupid cocksucker
why?
What is wrong with him?
I don't think we're disagreeing here.
Regarding close(): Any idea why it shouldn't be a statement? Just like the '=' assignment operator, it does one thing (producing a side-effect) and doesn't return anything. Why, then, is file.close() a valid expression (even when it doesn't express anything) while a = b isn't?
There's just no reason at all other than syntactic ones, that file.close() should be allowed in lambdas and a = b shouldn't. That's basically my point.
Regarding setattr(): I hope I made it clear that that's just as stupid and it totally doesn't belong there. Why don't also provide us setvar(a, 5) for 'a = 5', then, and in the mean time maybe make 'del' a function, etc.? Those ad-hoc discrimination in Python just make little sense if at all.
Or replace "global warming" with "intelligent design" and you get an article in defense of evolution.
It is Exactly his point - since should not be politicized. From both side. Whenever the results are convenient to you..
Nope, definetly didn't forget these people are trying to make money from this :) It reaks of this of course. Just look at all the fake testimonials on amazon for these books. I'm pretty sure lots of hired fake testamonials in there. Trying to sell more books.
But I do have to challenge the "aren't presenting a useful technique".
I stay far away from self help books, so maybe it was just the novelty of picking one up like Attractor Factor, but it actually has gotten me to recognize a lot of times where I'm just being a negative grump and not really doing anything to better my situation. It great to just observe the times where I'm making myself unhappy.
There was also this bit in there about being more grateful for things and how being grateful attracts more. Again, there's nothing earth shattering here, but it did get me into a mode of thinking more about how instead of fighting people for what I want out of my job, my marriage, etc. I should try showing more gratitude. And woah, gratitude seems to "grease the wheels"! It's crazy how a little more gratitude can diffuse an argument with my wife.
So, I am in no way proselytizing anything! And it would be sick to see someone get wrapped up into the money pit these things are doors too. But there are a few nuggets of stuff in these things that can lead to some better thinking and dealing with oneself and environment. This is pretty basic self help stuff that I'm sure someone can read enough of on the internet too rather than spending a dime on a book or god forbid self help conference.
Nopes.. exactly the opposite. Everyone's saying more correction.. Thats why Not a chance for tumbling down.
it is because you're one of the morons pushing stupid headlines to the front page
STFU you fcuking astroturfer
cellulite is just fat, and the only way to get rid of it is to diet, exercise and lose weight. so 20 mintues isn't going to drop even a quater pound even if you're running as fast as an olympic sprinter
That kind of evangelicals has lower birth rate and that is fortunate.
cos semen is their ticket to future alimony and childsupport
Common Lisp:
Macros aren't first class and can't be passed around like functions, yet it's often not immediately obvious whether a symbol refers to a macro or a function without doing a describe
Packages are an awful namespace solution and the source of many confusing bugs, particularly during interactive sessions
lisp-2 makes functional programming awkward with all the #'s, funcalls and applys. I find I end up mostly programming in an imperative or OO style due to these hindrances and suffer the consequences for it
Forgetting to check for special cases such as nil is a common source of bugs (for me at least, especially when using xmls and other list-based data structures). Just the general problems with dynamically typed languages (I've been converted since seeing static typing done right)
awkward naming conventions in some places (such as nconc)
The community tends to be elitist
I wanted a language with lazy evaluation by default (hence looking into haskell)
Haskell:
(GHC at least, not sure about others) not being able to put variable bindings directly into the interpretor as written in source code and instead having to rewrite them in a let or do syntax form to bind variables
No decent IDE currently exists
It would be nice if data types could be defined with a template with default values in one step
No lisp macros. Though mostly superseded by monads, sometimes it's nice to define my own syntax. For solving the problem above for example. I haven't used template haskell yet though; that might be the solution.
Things such as type class derivation rules need to be built-in and can't be user-defined. ie it lacks reflection
Is the situation different today?
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=us+kill+afghan
Apologies from individual Japanese officials were made, but not from the State.
This is akin to only President Reagan apologizing to Japanese Americans about WWII internment camps; without an official apology and reparations from the United States government itself.
"Everyone"? Really?
What news source are you looking at?
edit - jack - How are you trading this? What are you buying?
The point isn't to erase past damage. The point is to remember it so that it isn't repeated in the future... it's a bit hard when the history's being wiped from Japanese school history textbooks
remnant? you mean their stool? yuck
I find it highly amusing that I never noticed any inkling of "permafrost" in the Python community until Stevey told us it had been going on forever.
Selected ingredients containing one or more of the following:
vegetable oil, cottonseed oil, canola oil, peanut oil and / or sunflower oil, [...]
I've never been a big fan of PyObjC's syntax for Cocoa messages (e.g. NSData.alloc().initWithBytes_length_freeWhenDone_(myBytes, myLength, false)). I'm hoping that the bridge that comes with Leopard has a cleaner syntax.
For those who are wondering, the above evil is because in Cocoa, method arguments are named, and order matters. The last part is what causes problems, because you can have these:
initWithBytes:length:freeWhenDone: (real)
initWithBytes:freeWhenDone:length: (fictional example)
and they'd be two separate methods, possibly doing two different things. Python's named arguments are order-independent (based on its unordered dict type), so NSData.alloc().initWithBytes(bytes=myBytes, length=myLength, freeWhenDone=false) would not be guaranteed to invoke the method you expect it to.
The Top 10 site list is a compilation of the website links that can help Australian job seekers from the tedious process of job hunting.
This is not Really an Advert. It is a spec commercial. Which means a filmmaker made it to show his skills. I assure you Stolichnaya has nothing to do with this. And Even if it was an advert who cares, if its cool.
Interesting...but the last thing we want to do is have someone with diabetes get the munchies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile_cancer
Global warming was always separate from Al Gore.
I'm with Alpha_Binary on this one, the interaction makes complete sense. You want the links to the right so you move your cursor right. It's the same with video games. If you wanted it reversed your cursor would have to be fixed in the middle and the sphere would have to rotate accordingly which would be crazy...
Heh!
If I believed stabbing myself in the foot hurt, but still did it, would you say I didn't really believe stabbing myself in the foot would hurt? Perhaps I had some other reason for doing it, like that society expects me to stab myself in the foot to fit in with my bureaucratic brethren?
xtians don't know shit about anything else, why would they know anything about their own religion
You take any news source.. yen trading, long term supports broken, Asian markets correcting further. I am short on the markets since start Feb. as mood was very buoyant.
I am covering on every fall now. Its purely sentiment now and news sources are playing it. Just to refer.. volatility for calls is increased. Signaling decisively that even though news sources are filled with negative talks. Market players expect a positive move at least in short term.
sdoin
It's now or never, the site has already turned to mush so they might as well get what they can from it before it's too late. The shark has been jumped, it's time for them to find a company to sucker into taking the aftermath.
Mind you, why should we take the contradictory opinion voiced in the article -- that of a dermatologist, not a geneticist -- any more seriously than that of the German research team in the first place?
xDDDDDDDDDDD oh man! you're too great to be here! I'm upmodding your comment just because of it's great greatness yeah! love chaos! anyways I'm upmodding the link too, either fake or real just because I liked it and never seen it before (= and because I like radiation too o.O
You sound like you've never heard this kind of thing before. Have you ever had someone "assist" you in selecting house paint?
no, i don't notice anything strange. thanks for asking, though.
My guess the journalist thought the First Amendment is only about freedom of press (it matches 33% who recalled freedom of press). Oh, the irony: an ignorant ranting about the ignorant!
Sadly, this seems to be the common work of copy editors today. Instead of looking for legitimate errors, they just go looking for anything that breaks one of their little rules, which are completely out of touch with how the language is actually used. To roughly quote a foreign language professor of mine, "We try to fit language into these nice little rules, but the truth is that prescriptive grammarians die and languages live on." And it's a shame they don't die out completely, at least in situations like this.
Please explain, why we shouldn't hate them? I'm not a usa citizen, so my country can be chosen as next target, then i will be tortured and killed... Why should i say something other now?
lol... Hey, get back here you two!
"The United States is the most religious nation in the developed world ... Americans are also the most religiously ignorant people in the Western world."
When do we get a qualifying link?
Or do we accept your word as gold.
/subby is an ass
I'm in the same situation as you, my mom mailed this video 6,000 miles several months ago for me to see. arg.
Nothing new, it's the same self-help motivational stuff which has been around forever, only this one has a wax-seal on the front...
The big problem with "Focus on what you want and you'll get it" is that yes, it will certainly help you achieve your goals. But there's no God, Divine Spirit, or Physical Law which is keeping track. If there is, though, it reserves the right to enact it's second law which is:
Shit happens.
This isn't about bashing Japanese people (though I wouldn't be surprised if there were confused racist jerks on reddit). This is about remembering something that the Japanese government is trying to slowly erase.
It's like Germany trying to deny the Holocaust: erasing the memory from school books and so on.
Yes, a lot of high level Japanese officials have apologized, but this is different from a formal apology from the country itself.
Think of it this way: What if only say President Reagan or Carter apologized to Japanese Americans for the WWII internment camps? This is very different from the US government itself issuing a formal apology and reparations to Japanese Americans...
No, not really. The point is that it will be a standardized interface, probably using REST but that doesn't make it the same as REST.
Terrorists are winning! Let's bomb godless Sweden!
It's current news when it affects international relations in Asia. Asia is bad enough right now with nationalism rising in almost every country.... it's a lot like Europe before WWI (borders aren't really set, ....) - it's a powder keg. Stuff like this don't help
Do you think that a different country, put in a similar position, would act all that differently?
Nobody forced usa to this position. It's a democracy, where people choose government and associated politics.
We can try to address the problems occurring -- to think of solutions, or just rail against the system. Does saying "FUCK USA" help more than saying "GO USA"?
Being external to the system (i.e. not us citizen) i haven't so much possibilities to do something, except to protest.
Sounds like a job for Al Gore, help me out people:
An Inconvenient ...
It doesn't seem unreasonable to assume that peacefulwarrior believes in hell or at least knows about it, as he threatens that I will go there. I did ask if he believes in hell too.
And yes I am very pissed-off at Christianity.
Why does this opinion suddenly radically shift when we replace "boys" with "men?"
Stupid. Americans "believe" in Religion??
You fucking retard.
The Oprah ugly secret is that she is ugly. And it is not a secret. At least for her plastic surgeon....
Very true*, but my country does not try to influence your country's justice system. Not that it could even if it wanted to.
Note: I happen to like Yanks. I just used that word and an accusational "tone" to try and get some comments started ;-)
* I heard from someone yesterday that the department of corrections in my country is one of the most corrupt in our government.
this story could be extrapolated as a standard practice in all churches and all religions... they're all theives who use the poverty of others to enrich themselves
The fact that staticmethod exists. Things which staticmethod is appropriate for don't belong on a class.
On the contrary, staticmethod is entirely appropriate for overridable functions/hooks. You don't need to use state to use inheritance.
That PEP 666 got rejected :)
Amen. :)
Yen trading - I'm looking at that now - it's 115.40, from 121 less than 2 weeks ago.
That's quite move for the Yen, and it's sustained and BOJ isnt quite vocal about stepping in any longer.
What do you think about the carry trade? Do you think that the US current account deficit is sustainable? What about all the mortgage debt going belly up?
Do you think the vast majority of the population understand these things to be problems? I certainly havent met too many people who know about these, or listen to them without rolling their eyes.
I'm a contrarian - the thing that matters to me is ultimately price. What's cheap? Not the USD, not UST, not US stocks (generally), they arent pricing these risks in. What's cheap are Puts. Been buying those up since January and I think I'll continue that as the market doesnt seem to think that this current bout will get much worse...
I'm not seeing the 'doom and gloom' that you're seeming to see out there. What I see is a lot of complacency and some smart money thinking that this ISNT a buying opportunity.
Can you name your sources on the doom/gloom so I can follow them?
Also - going forward - what looks cheap to you?
Compare Germany's apologies for the Holocaust to Japans apologies for the treatment of China and you will find remarkable differences.
The Japanese right wing, including the Prime Minister, even go so far as to claim all the sex slaves "really wanted to work there." I believe they compared it to a pickle factory.
So... No real apology has been issued. And even if you want to count the past apologies, the current crop of right wing assholes in Japan should apologize for their own discounting of historical fact.
That's not possible! It's not possible to have electricity in Norway!
I would be depressed if I had to take a slightly acidic medicine optically, too.
I'd be surprised if you got many answers. Generally in an environment like this where there are a lot of programmers, if a web app doesn't exist that someone wants to exist, they'll implement it themselves, especially if there is some kind of monetary gain to doing so.
I can't say, it got my atention how half of the plant waved while the piece where tha animal is supposed to be was static but I thought it was because the creature was holding it. If it is an effect it's a very good one, it fades like dots, it can be faked that's for sure but, if it is, it's not a simple filtering effect.
Another thing, what if it was not really translucent we didn't see the portion of the plant it was stepped in, maybe it was just camouflaged like leaves that look really really alike as it was the real plant we were seeing behind it.
I'm scared :S
Heh... that was cute.
i am trying unsuccessfully to enter MollyBag competition can you help
Try making it resemble Haskell. :)
As one put it in the original symposium, "Are we to believe that the foundations of western civilization were laid by an ill-fed people living in a perpetual state of partial intoxication?"
That sounds about right.
I don't understand this Gore carbon footprint controversy. Is the issue that he's profiting from anti-global warming efforts? Should it be a surprise that someone who is against global warming would be involved in companies trying to stop it?
Nobody is safe in this world nowadays.
It's from the same film - I vote foulup, not foul play. Although, being Mel Gibson...
This you can do, but how will you know somebody else didn't vote between your vote and your page refresh?
See all these factors were known well in advance. Current fall was triggered by China raising interest rates. Do you know officials there were telling investors about it since two months?
So everybody knows about the trigger. Yet everybody was talking about creating new highs.. Now everyone is talking about creating new lows.
Not only big players have booked huge profits they had played puts too.
Now same is happening with calls. I know now everyone is telling its not a buying opportunity. Wait for some up move. Here's where I see the problem. People will again be sitting on fences when decisive up strides be taken again. Cause they are conditioned to expect further falls. And end up buying high again. You getting my point?
Lets leave this discussion here and return back after two weeks. I am certain we both will learn something new.
Nice to find someone with views exact opposite.
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This is great feedback. Since Python revolves around Open Source community, now there is an opportunity to fix things author and others are bitching about. Contribute it back to the community in a form of feedback or actual code and write a next weblog titled "Five NEW Things I LOVE About Python" :-)
-Alen
I didn't see anything but for some reason that trailer made me hate Jews and women
it isn't well spent. her charity only contributes to the poverty of those whom she gives to becuase it maintains the evil status quo and thereby negates any change in government. further, it keeps her in poverty too. plus she gives good will to this evil church so it emboldens these thieving clerics to expand their exploitation of people to ever greater depths
I believe the pertinent question is whether Americans are fucking ignorant about their faith in God.
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Exactly what I was thinking!
You forgot:
"Sure, just use the platinum card, hon."
From what I read, one opinion was just as valid as the other. Note/notice that a publishing company has its own rules for style, but that does not imply any kind of pejorative judgment. The editor simply wants to avoid informal style. The commenter seems to rabidly espouse it. No need to storm the Bastille, my little Grammanistas.
I'll advocate abortion then!
Abortion is great! We need MORE abortion. The more the merrier. The world can make as many people as we have food for. WHY would you want to make UNWANTED people, given that fact?
Abortion lowers crime. Abortion gives women in a bad spot their lives back. Abortion rules!
I'd like to see THAT as a political platform. I'd vote for someone going to those lengths to praise abortion.
I weep for the species.
God doesn't want people who use poor grammar in Heaven anyway, so it's all good. Don't be sad in Hell. We'll pray for someone. Maybe you.
"And yet, Atheism requires belief that there is no God."
nope. atheism isn't about god at all... it's merely a word for calling you theists liars.
theist: there's this guy called god... yada yada yada
atheist: you're a lying sack of shit
hope that clarifies it for you
Yeah, it's good as an advertisement, but not as reddit content.
There are other fallacies besides logical fallacies. Just because I say "fallacy" doesn't mean i'm referring to the far-too-often quoted internet-flavor-of-the-decade list of common logical fallacies.
Fallacy is a word and I used it to illustrate a point. Your pedant-wannabe-ism is both incorrect and unneeded.
Well - not sure what I'm 'exact opposite' against.
As for the 'well known' nature of these problems - I agree, but I would also say that subprime credit issues were 'well known' too, as well as the overvaluation of US real estate market - but those were bubbles, and the problems have surfaced.
Current fall was triggered by a lot of things - mainly that US assets were massively overpriced compared to the real problems in the economy.
We'll see what happens maybe not in two weeks - but two years.
I'll keep an eye out for your ideas - it's good to hear another perspective.
BTW - which issues (in particular) are you looking at going long on?
Ever lived as a criminal in Iran?
Are you sure you're not talking about Lisp??
Common Lisp has had 13 years to change very little. Individual CL implementations have had varying bug-filtering-times:
SBCL: eight years.
CMUCL: Twenty-seven years.
GCL: thirteen years.
'Perl5 has been around for ten years' is a nice memorable figure, but perl5 was first released in 1994: it has had thirteen years to filter bugs out.
(Python, by contrast, has had sixteen years.)
But sure, 'expressive' and 'DSL' and 'multiple object systems' apply decently to Lisp.
"The mentally unstable flock to religion."
actually it's low EQ not low IQ that determines religiousity: emotionally needy people flock to religion. god is their surrogate mommy
Video of it is on this page: http://www.io2technology.com/
Agreed wholeheartedly. The music industry, and on a larger scale the intellectual property culture as a whole has simply become a bloated example of late modern greed. I take confidence and pleasure in the fact that these guys can't beat the internet - they've lost, they're just not ready to give up. It's the nature of the system. I just wonder how many school kids and grandmothers (and iguanas!) it's going to take before they learn that.
lemme guess? an onslought of "I prefer Anal EmmaIV over the first three thanks to the art direction"
go suck the cock of your faggot god, you fucking pansy
I can't believe this surprises anyone. And I can't believe that people think that the Democrats have any kind of vested interest in stopping it. It's not like they're not also profiting from this war. It's their constituency that isn't.
Let's hope Israel is falling apart. And let's hope that what rises from its ashes is a secular state - the only way that the region has even a chance of peace. At the very least, one fewer nuclear power in the region, particularly one as expansionist and violent as Israel.
Given that I used 'unleashed' first here I shall qualify. I was careful not to say that the US/UK 'created' these evil bastards, but we sure as hell wound 'em up and let them go.
The description is just the same as REST, though.
Balzac
I thought they were going somewhere, and it was just too cheap and used repetative frames, then I realized.
I'm with you. Honestly, Disney's legacy is one of hatred, greed, bigotry, and soul-crushing capitalism. It's sad that this is what the world has come to, when a wine bar outweighs human life.
Don't forget there are countries where torture, genocide, a state-controlled press, oppression of women, and imprisonment without trial are considered LEGAL.
Dammit, I am so sick of people criticizing America....
(ah thanks.)
This whole article seems like complete bunk to me. Here is a copy editor, who is paid to make these kinds of changes, getting abuse for doing her job because some blogger doesn't like her choices. He cites such works as Moby Dick, Dracula and Wuthering Heights as examples as though writing literature were comparable to writing technical manuals.
For those who insist that there are no hard and fast rules, I recommend two books, "The Elements of Style" by Strunk and White and "The Complete Plain Words" by Sir Ernest Gowers. Both are devoted to the principle that the author's style of writing directly affects clarity, and that clarity is the most essential attribute of technical writing. The copy editor's job is not just fixing grammatical errors but editing the style to make the text clearer and more effective. If this blogger disagrees then let him stop carping and suggest an alternative text that is clearer and more effective.
Sustainable Mobility and Green Strategies for City of Los Angeles...
I've used both Ruby and Perl 6. Ruby has its nice features, but it doesn't measure up to Perl 6 by a long shot.
Agree. Perl6 has:
Documentation.
Try making it resemble Haskell. :)
See Qi.
A prime example, perhaps not of what is wrong with just the conservative talking heads, but with the country in general. Loud, sensationalist, and reactionary spin takes precedence over intelligent debate every time. Yes, it seems to be worst with the neo-fascist likes of Coulter, O'Reilly, and the fox news propaganda machine, but the weak-kneed and disgusting liberals are just as bad. My comment here isn't a left (hah, in this country, fat chance) okay, center versus right debate. It's a general point about the way politics are handled in this country. Shut up and listen to each other. Construct a solution, don't bicker about buzzwords.
How to squirt ink from our butts?
I think you are referring to bad loans. As far as I know bankers keep these things in perspective and keep some acceptable range for defaulters. I don't know the exact reason but I am trying to find reasons which news sources are not telling. Cause thats the only way to remain ahead.
These are the plausible events that may trigger up move (but we will see insider buying before that)
1) US employment data (has to be released today) gives positive indication.
2) Some report indicates inflation has subdued a lot
3) Banking sector report indicating that banks can still make profit even after bad loans taken into account
Some far fetched..
4) BoJ devalues Yen
5) China rolls back interest rates hike
Also shorts has to be covered. Any positive trigger may take indexes to high levels faster than anyone is anticipating.
I personally think 400 point fall in DOW was more than enough. I will short the market with all my resources if it goes below 11500 even though I think correction is overdone.
"Religion is Corrupt - SHOCKER"
Perl (syntax? Perl has a syntax?)
Yes. Perl has lots of it, actually. For languages where you can somewhat less stupidly ask this question, see Lisp and Forth (wherein your question reads as only gently amusing).
As unfair as it seems, everyone who passes through US territory goes through US immigration, even planes on stop-overs. They presented US immigration agents with false documents, as much of a liberal as I am, they're fucking idiots. In the process, they broke American law. That's what happened. That's it.
Another thing I really hate about Haskell is the strange ambiguities between the (-) operator and the minus sign.
Actually, Josephus is the only contemporary source to name Jesus.
How in the world did you catch that? Gibson should shave and wash. That is, is that gibson in the frame at all?
Wow these guys are having real fun in Holi, the festival of color.
I assure you, the mortgage market is defaulting like crazy - this problem is NOT contained. Not that suprising, considering we were giving loans to anyone with a pulse and a social security number. Over-appraisal and poor credit quality is much more widespread than most bankers are understanding. There is TREMENDOUS complacency.
If you think that bankers have a handle on this - check out NEW.
Shorts DO have to be covered - but what's being shorted is Yen, with a lot of that ending up in USD Debt - Yen is cheap, USD Debt is expensive.
We'll end up with much weaker Dollar.
true indeed.
Ever since I was a little girl, I could see angels
Not much point reading past that bit really...
You misinterpret the "render unto caesar" quote, as most Christians do. He is not telling people to obey authorities, he is avoiding a trap that was set for him by telling people to make up their own minds.
In modern English, the exchange would be something like this: "the coin has caesar's head on it. If it's his, then give it to him". That's light hearted, and very open to interpretation. Jesus only sounds serious because of the old English. Dissidents would interpret it as saying you shouldn't pay tax, as the Romans are an occupying army and the money isn't caesers'.
Feel better now? Eaten any cherries recently, or just had a dose of Dawkins?
Welcome to my world.
After being diagnosed with hereditary hemochromatosis, I've been dumped by my insurance company. I have no coverage. I'm 42, very fit, and the treatment for HHC is simply to donate blood as often as possible, yet I can't get health coverage.
Outlaw the inurance industry. They're just skimming the cream without providing the service. As soon as you need them, they dump you so why have them?
Nice. Upmodded for subtlty.
We all need an advice now and then..
There is a lot of work to do then !
The terrorists will kill them all. If the ruskies dont first.
Of course it does, it also does it in SciTE (the editor I use when I don't need the full Emacs goodness), but that was not my point. My point was more about semantics than final effect.
Doesn't really matter though.
Let NoScript be your freedom.
Is Israel Falling Apart?
Let's bloody hope so, was my initial reaction. Then again, it would prolly result in more bloodshed amongst Palestinians, so I'm not so sure. And I don't think it's very likely either.
It's a wonderful idea, and I'm glad you posted it, but this kind of has to be taken with a grain of salt. Certainly not without exception, but many of these countries are also homes to international pirating and crime rings. Now, I think the notion of right and wrong is wholly different from what is legal and illegal, except when it hurts other people. Which piracy and the kinds of crimes that make places like St. Vincent famous for do. Not to mention the fact that Flags of Convenience come from these countries, allowing shady-at-best business deals that almost certainly make millions of people poor. So yes, it's great to see that countries can indeed survive without armies. However, these countries are surviving on something else. That aside, there are countries without that problem here.
thanks for the info
I just has some basic knowledge of c/cpp (and English).
know m4 not well.
So, is the African Cajun restaurant at 401 Cayuga any good?
I didnt catch this at first -
It's not the monkey, it's the men with the white pasty stuff on - in that scene you can clearly see Mel Gibson in modern clothes smoking a cigarette. It is odd to see.
coincidentally they refer to russia west of ural as europe too. so when you where speaking about economy where you counting russias economy too? I dont think so. So no actually the europe you are referring to is not the continent europe but the European Union, And that is smaller then the USA or else where you comparing a nation with a Continent.United states to the euopean union, thats the proper comparison.
Can anyone post a screenshot for those of us too lazy/don't have quicktime?
Massachusetts passed a law requiring 1) everyone to have health insurance and 2) insurers to insure everyone. This is one way to eliminate the problems of this article. No more skimming by insurers, and no more opting-out by healthy people. Everyone is in the same pool. The only disadvantage is the large overheads (30%) associated with private insurance.
The ordeal began when she terrified staff by writing the number of the beast on her head and running around the clinic screaming, "I am the anti-christ!"
Seems pretty specific about it.
No apology has ever been made.
The headline is ambiguous. It does not mean (will not (apologize again)). It means ((will not apologize) again).
As for "50 years ago", I'm not sure what your point is. Many of these women are still alive.
I just got across this story
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/hsbc-net-rises-asia-offsets/story.aspx?guid=%7BE58ADAF6%2D518C%2D434F%2DA08E%2D12FC04D33F4C%7D
"Profit edges 5% higher"
What do you think now?
I know the Yen problem. Lets take this example. You took 120 million Yen as loan from BoJ loan on .5% (I am pretty sure people has taken it at much lower prices, and Yen is just at 12 week high.. and at that time markets were making new highs. So again media is creating hype anyways..)
This money translates to 1 million USD.
You put this money in emerging markets, treasury instruments and by very conservative estimates make 10% return). So at end of year you get 1.10 million dollars. Right?
Now say Yen is at 115 to Dollar
The amount that you have to return to BoJ is 126 million Yen. Which amounts to 1.09 million dollars. Which is profit of 1000 dollars by most conservative estimates.
Now in earlier case where Yen was at 120 profit could have been at 5000 dollars you may argue. But my point it how further would Yen fall. OK, older investors may make less profit. But what about FRESH LOANS?
If I take loan now at say 115 (falling way below is way less probable) and an event devalues Yen than you be making huge profits. In case Yen gets strengthened at 115 than you are back to your previous cycle. So nothing should stop fresh liquidity.
It's cool that she can hit those notes, but the tone quality and pitch is shit when she does.
I agree entirely - she sounds a great player in the examples on her site, UNTIL she does the "cello impression" - then it just sounds like how I play, but an octave lower :-)
Right - or, use an inverse log transform on the ratings, so that the minor but potentially meaningful differences between (for example) 4.2 and 4.4 stars are expanded.
I imagine these kind of techniques are being used heavily by those trying to win the Netflix Prize...
the elliptic position on sun is really interesting
For those of you who can't find the frame, I took the liberty to screenshot this highly disturbing little cameo. :)
http://www.emage-software.com/gibsoncameo.jpg
I was wondering why reddit asked me if I was sure if I wanted to reply.
I misclicked several time (my issue is also that the two buttons are almost the same size), but the warning managed to stop me every time.
The report should be moved though, to the top of the post on the right of the hour for example, shouldn't be down there.
Of course; I'm lying. We all ive in igloos and have long beards with iceicles in; event he women. Of course I sleep in a polar bear hide pyjamas with baby seal lining.
This is lovely and quite
I saw the blasphemy against xkcd, but where's the second one?
Cute and Hasty
that must have been while he was hitting the bottle pretty hard.
Is there anything I can do?
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment02/
March down Pennsylvania Ave with your musket drawn.
rofl
Better quality: http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7209/melandwhiteboyshs0.jpg
PostSharp is a post-compiler for the .NET Framework. It is an open platform for the post-processing of .NET assemblies after compilation. PostSharp includes an MSIL-level aspect weaver.
PostSharp Laos, the first plug-in of PostSharp, is a high-level aspect-oriented framework (AOP). It allows to develop custom attributes that really change the behaviour of the code to which they are applied.
Can't you simulate lambdas by just naming the function instead of leaving it anonymous? My understanding is that people have tried to talk Guido into allowing multi-line lambdas, but he thinks they're ugly. Also, all of the text editors I use for code allow increasing and decreasing the indent level of a selection with cmd-] and cmd-[, so copy/pasting isn't a big deal.
I'm sure I've read this one before ...
... but it's quite modern, 2007/03/05 seemingly.
All the same, at least someone is out there trying to do something different. I'm not sure whether it's original - but it's something I haven't seen before - so, I appreciate someone having done it, 'cause I wouldn't have thought to do it, or had the time. These days I'm too busy fine-tuning my own computer interface. Forget about a keyboard and mouse - my idea is a plate with a knife and fork. Seeing as how everyone already knows how to use a knife and fork, I figure, it would offer an intuitive alternative. On the plate we have different items that can be moved around to start programs - there's even a jar of Slippery Elm to help with the defrag. It's more a tabletop than a desktop.
yuck... i wouldn't be using that gym again!
Yeah, not to mention it was a total sausage fest.
HSBC didnt make their money through the subprime section. This issue is a very recent one, only set to get worse.
As for the carry trade - fair value for the Yen is around 70 per Dollar.
We're going to see a lot more Yen appreciation.
edit - so tell me, what are you going long on?
Note that this is a professor of linguistics here, not just some Joe with a blog. He knows this stuff, it's his job.
Interpreting this in a "hey, let's gather links to all the xkcd-raptor comics"-kind of way, I've dug through all of xkcds comics to find the raptor-related ones:
Velociraptors: http://xkcd.com/c87.html
Substitute: http://xkcd.com/c135.html
Parody Week, Dinosaur Comics: http://xkcd.com/c145.html
Search History: http://xkcd.com/c155.html
Inefficient implementation of continuations is top of my list. It's very frustrating to have that neat a feature available, and nonetheless have to stay away from it because of the huge performance hit.
watch it
That's because they're all stoned and they can't be bothered to click the mod button on anything other than what pertains to their favourite drug. \joking
the article could kida do with some sources.......
Even setting aside the various 'needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few' scenarios
Utilitarism at its best.
great
I hope we never end up anywhere together, be that a battlefield or a "democracy".
Also: whitespace being meaningful is a bad idea.
It's only a bad idea when the standard IDE doesn't indent your code for you.
I have to go to the bathroom.
is not the same as
I need to go to the bathroom.
The second implies immediate consequences whereas the first doesn't.
If the "expert" can't tell the difference then the rest of his ideas are not to be trusted.
You have a point, but it does depend on what the relevant people consider to be contemptuous language. Some people might feel calling someone a liar is being contemptuous.
Do we have quotes of what he has said which is being thought be be contemptuous?
Juicier than your average...
Of course the first one does, it is implied. I have to go to the bathroom... or else.
And as far as programming is concerned, they do are the same : you have to indent your Python code is the same as you need to indent your Python code. Neither offers an alternative.
Over the years, my understanding of God evolved, and I began to explore toltecism, metaphysics, tarot, and other mystical studies. I don't like labels, so I don't really have a term for my spiritual path.
'Bullshit' springs to mind.
Wish they had that when I was a kid... looks like fun.
Anyone who watches TV news deserves to be misinformed.
How do you not have Quicktime?
That's why I wouldn't want to stop her, she's shooting in the foot of her own party.
To the Middle East boycotting Danish product over the famous cartoons, I guess.
My cat can compose a better picture. And he is smart enough not to submit a crappy one.
Many of a copy editor's proposed changes are issues of style, not grammatical validity. A copy editor's job is to bring your book into alignment with the publisher's stylebook, which contains technical writing guidelines that novels don't need to follow.
-jeremy
In theory, proving things about programs is a nearly impossible problem for anything but the most simple computations. The reason we don't do more proofs in practice is that the theory shows that we will be spending most of our time waiting for a program to compile. The theory also shows that any proof will be necessarily larger and more complex than the system it prove thing about.
So I still think the halting problem applies. To me, your argument is like saying, "In theory, you can count to infinity. In practice, no one does this." To me, that is not a useful distinction between theory and practice.
Here is another way of looking at the problem. We only have the first 64 bits of Omega (for a specific machine, obviously). We will never get the 1 millionth bit. In theory, we could get the 1 millionth bit. In practice, we would need a few more universes.
So do you see why I don't think that theory vs. practice is a useful distinction in this case?
I invite you to check her bookstore page : http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/content.cgi?name=bookstore
The best price Amazon offers on most books is under 2 bucks. Isn't it a wonderful demonstration of supply / demand economics? Much more people want to get rid of those books than acquire them.
A useful critique of The Secret here
Spiritual practices actually require that you do the work, that you sit down and meditate. Start a yoga practice, journal, dance your demons and shake your Buddha. That you be present to your emotions, your body, your mental patterns and learn the art of self-observation, introspection and that most harrowing of skills - honest communication. Spiritual practice requires that you turn to face your shadow. That you get real about your social conditioning, your political situation, the distinction between what you have power over and what has power over you.
Spiritual practice is inspiring, but it's also deeply humbling. It does not tell you that you can have anything, be anything do anything, without limit.
Sorry. That's the kind of fantasy high the Secret promises - and the hangover is a real drag.
But real practice does give you tools and resources to deal with the inevitable disasters, disappointments and struggles that make up every human life.
No one wants to know about how your parents made you ;)
Feel better?
The last thing anyone needs or wants is another (yes: another) extended whine about yuuuunix, from people so very odd that they ascribe to some manner of Unix and then get -personally affronted- when someone other Unix person describes things from their perspective, or writes to the co-perspected.
So should we characterise this response as 'feeling mildly denigrated' rather that full-blown affront? 'Cause where I'm standing, it's pretty hard to tell the difference...
That's like saying, "If somebody shoots me, I'll die!" When the reality is that there are consequences for murder and ethical reasons that keep most people from shooting anybody.
What I'm saying is this: China and Saudi Arabia would not embargo the United States because that would be economic suicide for the World.
"One would expect that to truly love something, one would also have to know it deeply..."
I love lamp.
Also, thank you for your comment. I'm glad to know that (A) you're smart (B) you know a lot about your country (C) you deeply understand every single thing you love (D) you do not drool (E) your argument form is cohesive (F) you are just plain ol' better than everyone else.
Why don't you check out this opinion on Votivation and vote on it?
This whole article seems like complete bunk to me. Here is a copy editor, who is paid to make these kinds of changes
Er no, a copy editor is paid to "check for accuracy and completeness and help perfect details of grammar and styles". In this case the copy editor "found" stuff he didn't like in the grammar and style of the copy and reported them as errorneous while, as Professor of Linguistics (not just Joe Random Blogger) Geoffrey K. Pullum shows and proves, these constructs are perfectly valid and correct.
See, considering that things are style issues and could be modified for improved readability doesn't mean that they're incorrect and must be changed.
I agree. Idiomatic C and C++ code tends to be so different that I suspect people who write "C/C++" don't know either language.
If they had just been suggestions I'd agree with you, but Mark Pilgrim's word strongly suggest that they were offered as correction of errorneous structures, not as suggestions for readability improvements.
My god! I saw him! In the pictures with the white faced guys... SADDAM HUSSEIN!! And I thought he was dead!!!
A start
They both mean the exact same thing. Everybody knows this. Possibly with the exception of you.
I don't think Israel itself is "mentally ill." Sadly, in many parts of the world, only the most sadistic are ruthless enough to grab power.
The thing to remember is, all these examples given in the article are problems Israel is fixing. Leaders being fired/arrested for crimes and corruption is a sign of a improved ethics and morality. You always have bags of trash pile up when you clean your house.
What is worse is when corruption thrives and nobody does anything about it. Russia anyone?
http://www.apress.com/free/content/practicalcommonlisp.pdf
hot
gOOD
') too right......
Weblo.com visitors can buy people, places and things
spear britney ?
nice read
At the very least, one fewer nuclear power in the region
Actually it will make 5 or 10 more nuclear powers in the region. Do you think the bombs will vanish in the air when the state collapse?
Most likely, they will be looted, and bought by diverse organizations and states, like Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria, Iran...
Ha, that proves nothing! The descriptive grammarians die just as fast!
old
Like I said, it's art. It's obviously not designed to be functional, it's designed to be interesting to play with and explore and part of what makes it interesting is the odd way it does things. You might not like but it seems silly to criticize it as if it were just some companies website.
It's good to read about somebody actually using a language like Erlang for something real-world (and being able to talk about it), instead of endless tutorials about distributed versions of the Fibonacci sequence in language X. However, it would be nice if the article had some more technical details/numbers on the system itself.
Dvorak has about 1-2 good articles / year - but this one might be one of them :)
Perhaps it's an American/British thing.
If someone used "have to" I'd assume they can wait a short time whereas "need to" puts their priority first.
I take it you've never seen an installation...
Seriously, I don't see how its that a war with Iran is an absolute pro-Israeli stance and nothing more? It looks to me like she's lumping all the problems in the region (especially Iran) as 'the Jewish problem'. If you all don't see that as anti-semitic than we have a MUCH BIGGER problem.
Who do you think is the head of state of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and so on ? These aren't independent countries either ? Oh, and the Dutch king is a queen.
Someone please put this up for testing?
that...sounds easy.
let's see,
would double blind testing involve eyeshades?
"imagine Brad Pitt..."
Useful and detailed information about... mattresses?
[Insert Google ad here]
Very interesting article.
I have a book up for free on the web and I often get suggestions from people who believe in various rule sets.
I used to sometimes make changes, reasoning that if a practice (such as "no which unless it immediately follows a comma") was widely held then violating it would distract my readers from my meaning. But I often then got advice to change it back based on some different, but equally capricious, set of rules that "any idiot knows".
So I said "screw 'em" and went for what made me happy.
For a moment I thought this article was going to be about Google and the expensive cost of living in the San Jose area. I guess that story happened about 10 years ago though.
Meh, I just lost some respect for Gibson. Smoking!? It's 21st century, dude, get over it...
The prefix (-) seems to be a special case in a lot of languages. It might be better to let go of this ancient syntax and use a regular prefix function e.g. negate x instead of -x. You could still allow prefix minus/plus as part of the literal syntax for numbers.
Thinking about it that way (people don't actually understand what they say they love), the high divorce rate in this country suddenly makes sense, too. Ditto child abuse.
I laughed and thought this was an onion parody when I first read it. Is it really true?
Can anyone find some verification on it? Is any other credible source reporting the same thing?
Great time-saver! :D
Man, that's good!
Pitifully poor journalism and an extreme lack of historical knowledge.
This is especially true for a lot of web development work I've seen. The web server retrieves a request, (scripting) language creates a lot of objects (page, database, etc.), generates a page.. and then destroys all objects as the request is finished.
great resources infact
Thanks for the clarification. I never would have guessed that there was a difference between Rails and the rest of the Ruby community. I guess it's just one of those things outsiders don't get.
what people don't really know is that the Nazis didn't just build a base on the moon, they built a base on mars as well!
now we have proof!!!
Dupe.
voted this shit down
if this doesn't make baby jesus cry, nothing will!
Interesting article. I'm not really one to argue with a professor of linguistics, especially not when I agree with him.
The only point I would disagree with is "like" vs. "such as." Although it depends where/how it's used, "like" tends to be very informal. Like "ain't" level informal.
Two other potential points against him
maybe the publisher wants a particular tone/style
works of literature from the turn of the 19th century might not be the best references. Although since he's arguing for more casual usage, and the writing style of the time tended to be more stiff, one could see it as making his point even stronger.
O_o
You assume that this isn't all stuff that's already been hashed out ad nauseum on the mailing lists years ago. :)
Lack of STL standardization means you can't use STL in binary-only library APIs.
Does cross-compiler C++ library without the source work at all? It's not about STL, but rather name mangling (not specified).
Icky DLL hell problems on Windows.
Hmmm... Not a C/++ problem. Same problem could just as easily be created using any other language.
Yes, only the functional ones survive. But isn't it obvious?
May God bless her soul and save her from the devil.
No widgets required, valid for all blogging platform where you get access to the html source (Blogger, wordpress, etc...)
For Gods' sake don't jump! You'd screw us all up!
I don't feel this is quite as relevant as it was say six months ago. It took awhile but I think some of the retarded people in this country are starting to open their eyes a little.
You probably still have read it before.
Honestly, I don't understand the fuss over TMW; every strip is pretty much the same to me. Is it just Zippy with discernable politics, or am I missing something?
In mainstream media stories are intentionally repeated, endlessly, because new audiences "tune in" and haven't yet seen/heard/read the stories that more attentive news junkies like anonymous_hater saw/heard/read already.
It is interesting (frustrating) to see the same thing happen organically in a reader-originated news forum.
I thought it might be interesting to get a feel for which candidates the reddit community supports most. Please vote for one of the following:
I suspect it might. I added a pointless query string to one of my submissions a few hours ago to give it a more catchy headline, and yet my karma seems to be decreasing as upvotes for that submission increase. Fancy!
You can never get enough sex ed!
Hillary Clinton
Nice article for those of us who have no discipline!
John Edwards
Al Gore
Barack Obama
There is also the possibility that someone does not weigh every word extremely carefully before speaking it.
Rudy Giuliani
voted down for index abuse
Mitt Romney
John McCain
Don't linkjack, jack.
Shorter post: IT jobs suck because IT workers work for companies that have other concerns besides making IT workers' jobs as easy as possible.
I mean, they actually think you're there to help them! The audacity! The entitlement!
Does anyone know how these compare to brands like HotRod?
Even if it wasn't just a carrot and a dildo, what's up? You not comfortable in your sexuality? You never seen a cock before?
You had some excellent posts last week with good headlines, so I know you can write good heads. Why do this? This is not just a bad head but abuse of the index.
See also the data structures used by HexFiend:
http://ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/docs/wiki/index.php/Developers/DataRepresentation
You have a bug in your obscenities, it should be
echo 'friggen' |sed "s/iggen/cking/" |tr r u
Accepting tabs and normal space in the same file is fundamentally flawed.
Invoke python with -tt and it throws immediate syntax errors when you mix the two. This is recommended in the style guide, PEP 8.
Second, and almost more important, is the fact that it renders emacs' auto-tabbing feature useless.
Not being an EMACS user, I'm unsure what you mean. You write multiple nested blocks on one line and then use EMACS to reformat it? Seems like an odd way of working.
I can "apt-get install libipc-run-perl" and then just "man IPC::Run" which is heavenly. Python just doesn't have that infrastructure.
Sure it does. import foo; help(foo) in the interpreter, run pydoc, or run pydoc -p 8000 and read it through your web browser.
It's more artistic than many "modern art" pieces I've seen.
I am pretty certain of what I said. I did say that LISP is dynamically typed and dynamic typing implies strong typing unless you want your programs to crash randomly. However CL does have optional static typing.
Hahaha, the article led me to the Amazon Milk Review Page. Truly hilarious!
Well, labeling something "modern art" seems to be a crappy excuse for not bothering to put some effort into your art.
It's a culture where people apologize by saying, "I'm sorry you took offense at what I said"
Truest words spoken in the entire article, and they weren't even ripping Oprah.
Holy batshit, I seem to be having some really unpopular opinions. Nevertheless, I'd appreciate it if you'd actually point out that you disagree instead of just downmodding me. You may disagree, but that doesn't mean my post is off topic, SPAM, flooding, trolling, extremely poorly put or any other thing that warrants harsh treatment.
Midget dating, thats amazing!
Midget dating, thats amazing!
No no no!
It IS the copy-editors job to improve clarity, but the problem is that NONE of the changes which(!) she suggests affect clarity. The clearest form of English is standard English, and 'standard' is defined by the most popularly used forms. Formality and clarity are either uncorrelated or negatively correlated.
The disabled parking sign is a nice touch
We don't exactly see the RIAA as "trustworthy" either...
I thought you said they were the "exact same thing" but now you seem to disagree with yourself for weight would not be necessary should that be the case.
You seem to have agreed with me but replaced one bone of contention with another to save your puny human pride. How sharper than the serpent's tooth it is.
Personally I prefer using Haskell as I like the strong-typing and the use of type-classes and monads.
Or, as most people would read it:
Personally I prefer using Haskell [to Lisp] as I like the strong-typing [which Lisp does not have] and the use of type-classes and monads [which Lisp does not have].
(C/++)
integral conversions
double d=whatever;
if (d == 7) // Crap!
if (d) // Even worse
mixes logic and integral types
int i=whatever;
T* p=whatever2;
if (i || p) // WTF!?
has both "struct" and "class" (+/- the same), but not "interface"; would work with "struct" only
templates too powerful for their own good
screw {}, "begin/end" is better (best: nothing, i.e. indentation/empty line for blocks)
everybody and their mother has yet another string class (MS VC libs have at least 4)
mixing C and C++ coding habits creates inconsistent crap source (I know, historical problem, but still...)
too much freedom (example: can leave members uninitialized in the ctor, i.e. default ctor for primitive types is empty)
(Edit: formatting)
Did this product have anything to do with originating (or popularizing) the saying: "All that and a bag of chips?"
Where did the saying come from, otherwise?
Lisp??? Erlang seems to have only one implementation, but Lisp is family of languages with many implementations of each. It is like saying that Erlang trumps languages with C syntax. Not very informative. At leas the could say what language he used before, because Lisp is not any specific language.
Midget dating satire, that's not as amazing!
I was more thinking down the lines of not allowing a double submission if the url itself (whatever the nomenclature is) is identical
Damn, hahaha.
Qi is a strict, non-referentially-transparent language, isn't it? How does that resemble Haskell (instead of, say, ML)?
Tacitus, on the great fire of Rome.
"Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite torture on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus . . ."
Suetonius, chief secretary to Emperor Hadrian.
"As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he expelled them from Rome."
Pliny the Younger, in a letter to Emperor Trajan.
"They were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god, and bound themselves by a solemn oath, not to do any wicked deeds . . ."
It doesn't surprise me that you were up-voted for that statement. I could quote all the others I named, but I'll leave that to your thorough and unbiased research ethics. /cheers
2004 just called. They want their trailer back.
Did you see last week's finale to the 3 part Grey's Anatomy drama? Where Meridith fell in the water? And, like, almost drowned? I was like OMG! Totally cool how McDreamy all, like, rescued her and stuff!
Prison is organized revenge, pure and simple. All this rehabilitation nonsense is bs. Why would I want to spend money to rehabilitate this guy? So he can get out and firebomb my car after he had such a wonderful academic experience in prison? Screw that. Punishment for this kid consists of denying him his academic interests; I have no problem denying them to him.
And I think 7 years is too short of a sentence. If he had done that to my car, I'd be set back a long time in my life (lose job, can't finish school b/c of commute, etc). If he did it to 10 cars, he may set back 10 people's lives for X years. Why should he not also be set back?
No, they mean the exact same thing because people use both terms to mean the exact same thing.
I started writing on health topics out of rebellion against the huge amount of bad information on diet and weight loss.
At least now we know how to not get pregnant from a carrot or a dildo. This will prevent a growing population of cross-breed carrot/human mix (such as the comic named Carrot Top), or worse yet, more dildo/human mix - which I seem to get stuck behind in traffic all the time.
These days, I tend to only want to take up a language if a) it offers some interesting novel paradigm I want to play with and learn from; or b) I'm getting offered money to use it. As yet, python isn't offering me either.
Python seems to take all its ideas from other languages. It seems its only novelty is to "be an aesthetically pleasing and readable language in the eyes of Guido". That's all fine but I'd prefer a language offering a bit more technical meat than some guy's opinion on aesthetics and readability.
Also, I typically dislike OOP. So my aesthetic preference directly conflicts with Guido's leaving little for me to be impressed with.
The problem with the violin subharmonics is that they sound like crap.
They don't have the pleasing timbre of either a violin or a cello. They sound like an inexpert musician dragging a ragged, sawtoothed bow over a viola da gamba. They sound like my bass playing from 6th grade, before I had good bow control.
But wait, is that a regular cigaret? Or...
Wow, this description of how he managed to expand his sales was as close to "3. ???" as possible.
I'm pretty sure lots of hired fake testamonials in there. Trying to sell more books.
The sad bit is that it probably isn't even necessary. Even when the "witnesses" have a profit motive (think MLM), they usually believe it themselves. Even if they don't, they'll never waste money actually paying anyone for a fake testimonial. Real ones are easy to get, and fake ones you can make yourself.
Why would this writer at Salon want to bring all this negativity on himself by writing that?
Please look through LinguistList's coverage of the hypocrisy of The Elements of Style. Strunk and WHite consistently break ever hard and fast rule they set throughout the book.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/
There are too many articles to list individually, but an archive search will give you a taste. A precis would be that Shakespeare, Orwell, Dickens, and the Declaration of Independence, along with S. and W. themselves, pay no attention to the rules of the Elements of Style.
Like this: :)
Another article that pretends that the world outside the US doesn't exist. There are quite a few nations that have become more secular over time. It could happen in the US.
Cable companies suck
Here's another one "Uh-huh" for you: Activist, anti-Bush lawyer "falls to death" at hotel
Every time Ann opens her mouth I hear "PAY ATTENTION TO ME!"
The opposite is pessimism and bad attitudes, that the majority 0f people have, as they trudge along through daily life. Makes it easier for the rest of us :)
thanks in advance?
I already know perl. Pretty well, too. After mucking around for a little bit python just didn't seem to add any extra expressiveness that I was lacking in perl making it seem relatively pointless to try to add it to my brain.
That sums it up for me, too. Python seems like a cleaner, more OOP oriented rewrite of Perl. But if you already know Perl, it doesn't seem like Python brings you much added value.
Great article: At noon, the "stuffing" process gets under way. An associate grabs a sleeved outbound disk with one hand; inserts it into an electronically addressed envelope with the other; flips the envelope closed; rips off a peel over a sticker strip; and presses the envelope shut. Stuffing styles vary.
I think this is what's known as an "easter egg"
Here's my secret for success:
1) Keep a list of the things you want to get done and update the list periodically. Don't be afraid to remove items that don't make sense anymore. It should not be merely a list of wants (material things), but rather a list of goals. The list is primarily so you don't forget and stay on track, it has no magical powers and it not your master.
yeah, but he's had us waiting on his new game for too long. he pushed the release date back a month and a half.
Oh... it only gets better. Yes, really. You're missing out.
Lawbreaking .. scumbag ?
Did you read the article ? because I don't remember at any point that it's said that he did break the law.
Comments like yours is so constructive, where do you get all that inspiration ? .. oh but wait, your nick might say it all.
It is well known that the mere sight of another man's penis turns you into a homosexual.
Their which hunts are pointless time-wasting nonsense.
Bravo!
What is happening in Israel shows it's strength, the fact that the authorities are fighting corruptions and that everything is clear and in the media.
It's stupid to think that other countries don't have same problems with politicians, but in other part of the world, especially in the muslim countries, there is no "Democracy", and so if someone will try to reveal corruptions he will be sentenced to death.
Do you really believe that the way the saudi royal family is living is not corruption with all their palaces and luxurious cars? Do you think that when the dictator from damascus is living well while his people are starving to death - isn't this worse than any israeli official who is being sentenced and sent to jail?
Yes, thank you! I think this is the essence.
But do they have electrolytes? Electrolytes are everything a body needs...
I also like:
What's the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank.
Brecht
oops :| see, told ya that I'd misspelled it :p
Sorry, wrong. There is good evidence that there is a substantial biochemical component, to the extent where brain structures are 'feminised'.
Ok, please link to the "good evidence" you cite, and update the Wikipedia entry on GID to reflect it.
What you say is irrelevant, as you have no expertise.
Ha, obvious fallacy.
This shows how little you understand biology. A hormonal change in the womb can feminise a male brain, but it can't 'goperhise' a brain. For goodness sake, if you are going to comment on medical matters and don't want to look like an idiot with posts like this, do some research first!
You won't find the term "feminize" in any biochemistry textbook or anywhere else in science, as such a term is non-scientific. There is much about the brain which we do not yet understand. Issues such as self-identity, sexual orientation, etc. are not resolved by "if A then B" type biochemical relationships. Biochemically speaking, there is no difference between the hetero and homosexual brain, and no, you can't test the mother for hormone A to see if the child will be a homosexual. If only science were so simplistic.
Interesting. Please could you list your psychiatric qualifications that enable you to make the diagnosis of insanity? And what harm do you expect them to do if the 'roam the streets'?
Since you asked, I have degrees in Microbiology, History, and Political Science. I'm not a medical expert, but I am a very well educated lay-person with a strong background in medical science. If I see something that I consider insane, I will label it so. I would classify someone who walked around dressed in tin-foil mumbling about the end of the world, "insane." Likewise, someone who is hellbent on surgically deforming their body and dressing in drag is also "insane" as per my classification (in fact, I see no logical difference between tin-foil person and a transgendered person; both are equally insane). I recognize that it is politically incorrect to label some insane people as "insane" but I do not consider myself beholden to political correctness; I'm educated enough and confident enough in my faculties to make up my own mind.
If you are uncomfortable with transgendered people wandering the streets, it suggests that you have a problem.
Fallacious reasoning. 2. Yes, I do have a problem with the insane, as I said in my original post. I think that these persons require psychiatry so that they may resolve the issues that underlie their insanity, or, if GID is demonstrated to have a biochemical component, they ought to be medicated so as to resolve their insanity. I feel the same way about schizophrenia.
Frankly, I am disturbed by persons who define themselves entirely in terms of their image and sexuality. I don't favor forcibly locking up transgendered persons, as I don't think being delusional necessarily makes one dangerous. However, I think someone suffering from such delusions demonstrates extrordinarily bad judgement and poor prioritization. As such, they are unfit for leadership. I don't want to put them in camps, but I also don't want them teaching my children. I think someone who suffers from such psychological delusions is, for all intents and purposes, disabled by their illness.
I agree, it is very easy to accuse the US here, they are a soft target at the moment, you can just default to assuming that everything they do is about oppression. Well, maybe this is so, but in this case the US is just playing ball. They put the flight through immigration because that is the law, I am sure if other people on the flight did not have entry visas they were refused entry to the US and if they had entry visas to their final destination (Canada) they were sent back on the plane they arrived on.
An airline is bound by international law to disallow anyone on a flight if they do not have correct paperwork for their journey. The US officials could not have put them back on the flight to let the Canadians sort them out as this would be unlawful and a bit unfair to the Canadians. The Iranians broke the law in the US, not Canada after all.
This is a matter of established international law and practice. It is not a case of the US imprisoning thought criminals in Gitmo or spying on innocent US citizens.
I am sure if the Iranians wanted to leave the detention facility they could, but it would be an exit onto an airplane back to Tehran with a criminal record in the US.
We should not be messing around with other people's cultures, let the Iranians sort themselves out, Tehran is far from the worst place to live in the world and the West really is not responsible for harmonising and sanitising all cultures.
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I'm not one to argue for or against the specific objections. However, as a professor of linguistics surely should know, language changes, and so holding up old classics as examples of good contemporary English is completely wrong.
Likely original footage, bad audio: http://www.efootage.com/play_clip.php?clip_id=17963
Lisp uses lambda and defun, how are these mysterious to you in Python?
It's bad enough that Lisp insists on using "lambda" to create anonymous functions, but it has history as an excuse.
Python doesn't.
I agree with the copy editor regarding only. The author's use is accepted usage, but because it's often ambiguous, it's a bad habit. The placement of the word not has similar issues.
This article lacks merit. The name of the game for retail is availability, not staying small and being a family. Furthermore KKD did not go the way-side because of donut distribution, but rather because of bad financing.
Sounds like an argument for real garbage collection.
Yup, the cartoon captures the level of non-debate and anti-intellectualism that is taking its toll on the US.
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Here's "The Secret" on reading and, um, electricity: "When I discovered 'The Secret' I made a decision that I would not watch the news or read newspapers anymore, because it did not make me feel good," and, "How does it work? Nobody knows. Just like nobody knows how electricity works. I don't, do you?"
Arrrgh! How do these people muster the intelligence to tie their shoelaces in the morning?
Copy editors are Christian Reconstructionists. Linguists are Unitarians.
Copy editors wield style manuals and the first dictionary definition with the same might that Dominionists do the bible. It is the word, and the final authority.
Linguists study usage and patterns of speech as they exist and, particularly, as they change in the world. If you speak it, it must be language. Anything that people do to communicate with each other is ripe for study to the linguist. As for Unitarians, take a look at their published hymn book. There are very few of the world's spiritual beliefs that don't get repped in there.
For what it's worth, I don't really feel one perspective is superior to the other. I just noticed a little similarity in form there.
Yes, Americans worship the state and many other Golden Calfs (Calves?) like none other. Sports, entertainers, you name it.
It doesn't even take an artificial womb to clearly show that all of you are murderers. As infants survive earlier and earlier separated from their mothers after fertilization, it will become more and more obvious that abortionist are murderers.
And what can stop the simple advance of this technology that holds the promise of freeing women from the burden of child birth? Of course it will be used in the food industry long before then.
Your time is running out quickly. Justice is surely coming. And history will condemn you along with that generation -- as the bloodiest and most heartless murderers ever.
"Carbon offsets" are already touted as a responsible means of the rich, Like Al Gore,the worst offenders, to buy themselves out of the program. Don't look at me, I planted a tree. This will help them dodge the desired Al system of "wasteful energy user taxes".
Let's not forget, Al Gore and his bride Tipper, were early adopters of censoring music and video games. Thier primary interest is in telling us how to live.
Al flies around in corporate spnsored private jets getting paid big bucks to scold the rest us for carelessly bringing on the end of the world by doing things like, driving to work,using computers,listening to music, watching TV and turning on lights. He wants that stopped, now. He does not lead by example,helping to find and using solutions that we can implement now, because that is not what he wants.
Though very busy flying worldwide,Al Gore manages an unbelievable $30,000.00 annual utility bill at his home. That is not a misprint. A Thirty thousand dollar annual utility bill at his home.
Plan Al Gore to save us from ourselves:
1 Al In Charge
2 You are guilty, you deserve to suffer.
3 Suffering will be directed by me,Al,using massive Government interventions involving tax/regulation/fines/limitations/$5 per gallon gasoline. Basically, an organized economic downturn. You can no longer be allowed to live like this.
Be careful what you wish for, people.
more incredible octopus video - it's real
http://youtube.com/v/3Av1n2zoOO4.swf
And "The Bahamas" is just nuts.
(94 remaining, with 10 that I named but couldn't spell).
Here is a wikipedia entry on the supposed "some blogger":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Pullum
I know. Just to be cautious, I try not to look even at my own. Stare straight ahead at all times...
"I no longer expect that the Department of Defense will keep its promises to the soldiers or their families. I don't pretend that the Pentagon will adhere to its policies."
Why does anyone expect anything from the US government? One need only look at what happened to the Bonus Marchers and the Vietnam vets to realize that nothing is ever going to change and that rational people must protect themselves from the machine. Honestly, it is no different than what the Catholic Church did to people in the Middle Ages.
Thanks, very informative. Hmm. I personally would have tried commercial implementations before rewriting code (you get free evaluation version - uncrippled if you talk to vendors). What is $1000 - $5000 compared to cost of rewriting.
But Erlang is cool. I might be tempting to switch, so you can learn new programming language :)
If it works that well, perhaps you should consider marketing your hand as a condom application device. You'd be racking it up in no time, I'm sure.
At which point you remember to make a new function: elegant again!
"In this time" is less poverty than almost any period in history.
Out of pure curiosity: do you have numbers to back that claim up?
Macros aren't first class and can't be passed around like functions, yet it's often not immediately obvious whether a symbol refers to a macro or a function without doing a describe
Another less than enthralling solution is to use MACRO-FUNCTION, which will be non-NIL if something's a macro.
Er, camouflage?
/nobody has mentioned this word
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I pretty much never agree with anything you say, LouF, but I agree that "This Modern World" never brings anything to the table. The whole comic centers around dehumanizing conservatives, building up strawmen, and knocking them down.
... which would be fine, if it was funny. :-/
Watch the video on the 4 problems facing evolution. The wonderful part about their being no "mechanism" or "cause" for evolution. Obviously this guy does not understand that the mechanism for evolution is the very fact that those members of a species that don't have the new benficial trait are out-bred by the ones that do or they just simply do not survive the changes in their environment. What an idiot.
Haskell almost got it right -- mixing do blocks and if/then/else is a pain, and copy and paste from some websites can be a pain. I think the former is being reviewed for Haskell'
A B.S. headline... Iranian is Iranian ..
Distributed recruitment. I've yet to see a recruitment website that was remotely well designed, either for candidates or employers. I've built dozens of these sites, sadly with no say in the feature-set. Some of them import from/export to other sites, but it's always a short-sighted hack.
LinkedIn and EdgeIO are steps in the right direction, but I've yet to see something that gives that "Aha!" feeling when you see it.
... because either the notes can be produced by a violin or she isn't producing the notes at all.
Not sure if you've ever played a string instrument, but there's actually very little hyperbole in that title. It would be nice to have an explanation, but from the sounds of the article, they haven't really got one yet. All they've got is the fact that she plays notes lower than the lowest string at open.
Blimey!
And if I've read it right, they're not out of date yet?
Indeed. Some time ago he hilariously pointed out the formulaic nature of Dan Brown's prose:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl/languagelog/archives/001628.html
And was later seemingly plagiarised by Mark Steyn:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003147.html
Note that it was NOT bad alcohol which crippled these people, it was a chemical addititive. It's bad "facts" like this that keeps home distilling illegal, even after home wine and beer brewing has been allowed.
I love the generalizations here. Internet imbecility at it's best.
so let me get it: from holding the hand of christ now mel gibson moves into more serious stuff like subliminal smoking ads?
come on guys, get serious, this is just marketing crap; stuff to "discover" and send over to bring the movie to everybody's attention. bleah
Please Democrats don't vote for her in the primary. The idea of running against her is making the Republicans giddy.
I whistled for a cab, but when it came near the licence plate said "Fresh" and there were dice in the mirror.
If anything I could say that this cab was rare, but I thought "Nah, forget it - yo homes, to Bel Air!"
I pulled up to the house about 19:00 or 20:00, and I yelled to the cabbie "Yo homes - smell ya later!"
I looked at my kingdom - I was finally there... to sit on my throne as... the Prince of Bel Air.
-- The Epic of The Fresh Prince
Book I, Chapters XIV-XVIII
This sounds bogus to me. It should depend on your timezone, daylight savings and where you are relative to the logical centre of the time zone.
If this is true for you (i.e. at your position), then it won't be true for somebody 5 degrees further east or west even if they are in the same time zone.
The sun will still be on-clock (as you put) four times a year, they'll just be different dates for people at different relative positions to the "centre" of their time zone.
yawn thats so old :)
Yet another digg /reddit clone with a twist. It is a digg like site for creating digg like sites on popular request.
A digg factory. You propose a idea for digg like site, once it gets certain number of votes, a digg like site will be digged.
She didn't call him anything.
"The Secret" works as a metaphor, if it can make people think about their behavior and make them change. More positive thoughts and goal-oriented action can only be positive for everyone.
However, calling this a "secret", selling it to the hoi polloi and then blindly flailing it around like a dogma? Using it to turn the tables on those who have suffered injustice and make them seem guilty instead of victims? Why, Godwin me a thread, a concept like this might be just what the plutocrats and (yes, let's say it) fascists need to justify their wars abroad and the growing gap between the classes at home. Also, maybe it'll help sell some Zoloft at the same time. It's Aryan racial purity-like ideology for the next millenium: smile and be counted while happiness comes to you.
You think IT jobs suck? Try picking tomatoes...
Or just thank your lucky stars that you live in a place and a time and have the education where you can hold down a fairly well playing job, at which you can waste away your time posting to reddit.
I tend to agree, but I'm flexible on this one...
I did minor work on a reasonably large Python codebase and a) we never once had an editor problem, because, well, we were all working on a reasonably large Python codebase and b) our complaints about the whitespace were more like <1%, but I was being generous in my OP.
God help us. With broadband, are animated gifs returning?
/cool though
Maybe they actually believe in the anti-christ? Perhaps they ought to book themselves in for some treatment...
read http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6418565.stm
Or a suspiciously long cigarette...
Ha. I'm in Philly next weekend; I'll totally have to find a bag of these.
IdeaStorm is a site where people can submit product ideas to Dell and others can vote on them. As of this writing, they had collected roughly 2,500 ideas and 150,000 votes. Sounds innovative, right? Sounds like Michael Dell has been been reading The Wisdom of Crowds and using social networking sites like Del.icio.us.
Recent research with cloning has shown that all cells (except red blood cells) in the body have the potential to grow into a fully formed human. Next time you scratch your nose, you are, by your definition, committing mass murder.
The issue is not about the ability of a fetus to survive. Potentially, any of those nose cells you scratch off could 'survive' to become a human with the right technology.
The plain fact is that before a certain stage of development there is no mental actitivy and no conciousness. It is not murder if there is no person, and if there never has been one.
All major states are falling apart. It is a slow-motion move away from centralization that will take decades or even centuries to complete.
Using force to achieve one's ends is just like going into debt. Eventually, the debt has to be paid off or repudiated. Either way, the cost is tremendous.
Companies commit suicide when they hire too many MBAs.
Please point to the part of the headline or article where it says a violin can't play these notes. All I saw were "shouldn't be able to" (ie, according to our current understanding) or "can't normally" (relating to the usual technique of holding a violin string).
I mean, I'm as pedantic as the next guy (or girl, or particularly pedantic mammal), but before you lose it and go off on a public tirade, how about making sure you've actually understood what you've read?
Exactly. I'm all for positive visualization: spend an hour with your eyes closed, imagining yourself making 100% free throws, and you'll probably make more free throws.
There's research that suggests cancer patients recover more speedily from chemo treatments when they use positive visualization.
Apply this line of thought to the victims of genocide, and you have me "visualizing" Rhonda Byrne losing all of her newfound money. Painfully.
Other than Christianity, I meant
No, I made it up. Back in the 1800s and prior we were much richer for watching a horse's ass 12 hours a day out in the field. When something went wrong, the leeches were all the health care we needed or wanted.
like that would be a first or something :)
Er, Samus_ mentioned it about 5 hours ago...
It doesn't say "notes that a violin can't produce," it says "notes that a violin shouldn't be able to produce," and it's accurate.
Are you kidding me?
"Europe" is:
Not "the European Union", and
What I said
Read more: In a strange collision of tradition and technology, more and more Chinese are sending their New Year greetings via text messages on cellphones. In the first week of this year's New Year celebration, which started on Feb. 18 and ends Sunday, Chinese sent 15.2 billion text messages, or about 33 messages per cellphone account.
Yes, the increased productivity that comes with it is of no importance at all.
Ugh.
OK.
There's a great book full of stats that prove that the world is getting better, not worse, in most areas, including poverty. It's called The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse.
I understand part of your excerpt pica, but try telling this to the soldier on the ground, pilot shot down, or any man or woman in the military who is losing limbs or dying that they are not fighting a war because it is not against China or Russia!
It's no secret she's ugly, hey-o!
Finally, someone tells it like it is!
cool stuff
Almost all of them.
Christianity is not half as original as most people/Christians think. In fact, if most Christians were to go back and see how much of the dogma of mainstream Christianity was appropriated from pagan festivals, gods and myths they'd be horrified.
In Thailand everybody uses a spoon and fork. Hardly anybody here knows how to eat with a knife and fork.
Again you're trying to change the discussion, to Goldstein's tactics or whatever - as you cannot argue against the my main point: suicide bombing stems from a particular religious belief, not from a particular political situations.
Whatever went in Goldstein's twisted mind is irrelevant, as no one followed in his footsteps and suicide attacks did not become an Israeli tactic. This is a fact.
What I'd suggest for the Palestinians? First I'd suggest they get back on the Oslo accord track to a two state solution, which their nutcase leader (and the real tragedy of Palestinians) Arafat decided to abandon in 2000. If they are intent on keeping fighting, they are far more equipped with "guns and ammo" then most other people living "under occupation", so claiming suicide bombing is their only choice is, as I've been explaining for about 2 days now, bogus.
In any case, you clearly won't allow yourself to question your unconditional support of anything the Palestinians choose to do, so this discussion is really pointless by now.
Who's more likely to get an abortion, atheists or religionists?
Who's more likely to use contraceptives? Who's more educated? Who's more likely to abort out of shame? Who's better off financially?
Religion plays but a small part in the abortion choice, particularly when you consider that the religious who are faced with the decision likely have already violated their religion by having sex out of wedlock.
If I had to run a dynamic Python-like language on the JVM, I'd probably take Groovy.
Velcro.
I think you misunderstood what the article was about.
Anyway, the solution to your problem is FastCGI or SCGI or something like that.
Well, that just goes to show, you can fit anything in a frame and nobody will realize it!
"an aborted human baby is usually nothing more than..."
Central nervous system development starts at week 7. Brain scans detect activity at week 8. Do you have numbers for the ratio of abortions before/after week 8?
"let's use our brains here. it is not the 'greatest violence in the world'. only an unsophisticated mind would think that."
Not true. The majority of sophisticated pro-choice scholars acknowledge the possible moral issues of violence to fetal life. They simply offer other imperatives which they believe take precedence.
surely this is a weird joke
(syntax? Perl has a syntax?)
[...] see Lisp
At least in Lisp, this is a valid program :)
This picture of Mel is also referenced at wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypto#Trivia
Although Mel Gibson does not star in the film, he does have a one-frame cameo (pictured to the right) about 1 minute, 46 seconds or about 2/3 into the first teaser trailer. His appearance is just before the screaming monkey is shown.
Huh. I looked at this thinking "Thank goodness nobody wants my old POS 1990 Accord".
Oh. Wait.
well, i suppose that is why you call yourself hater. besides, you're "anonymous", so we can't hunt you down and shoot you for inciting violence and bad behavior.
I'm pretty sure he added "a country" upon editing his post, after I asked him the question. I think it was previously "a company".
But anyway, "the Middle East" is now "the right" (within the context of American politics)? That simply makes no sense as an explanation.
sources for the quotes please?
how do i get on myspace??
More importantly, the Gospels likely weren't first written until after the supposed eye witnesses' deaths.
Although it's popular to claim that Gospels are hard first-hand accounts of Jesus as a human being, it's fallacious. All we know is that the first complete copy of the Gospels dates back to around the 4th century AD - 400 years after Christ's death.
FWIW, most contemporary historians accept there likely was a historical figure called "Jesus", but there's fuck-all evidence that he could walk on water, turn water into wine or rise from the dead.
If you go back and read the New Testament, it's pretty unlikely he'd even approve of the actions and attitudes of many of the denominations who worship in his name.
OK, I'll bite. By the way, in your response, don't worry about the insults and stuff. I'll pretend you added them in and it'll save you typing. I don't want to contribute to any carpal tunnel syndrome or arthritis or anything. :)
By your own judgment, Americans don't know what human rights are. Thus, I'm sure you have no opposition to my leaving it off my goals.
What does killing rainforests have to do with using renewable energy and other resources? I was mostly referring to solar and wind, although decreasing consumption would be another good goal. I guess my energy goal was more particularly targeted at just reducing our net consumption of things that we can't replace easily.
Fifty year time frame because I'm not a policy maker and I'm OK with not being perfectly correct. OK, ten, twenty, whatever makes you happy, right? I don't care. Fuck it, maybe I don't need a timeframe at all and I should just make them "Goals" rather than "Goals for the next fifty years." I have a feeling that the lights will still be on in a decade, one way or another.
Trade is a goal because it increases interdependence, increasing the incentive to understand other peoples and to interact with them peacefully. I've seen you take exception to this idea before, so it's OK, you don't need to tell me how stupid it is again. I'll just go on the assumption that you disagree, and, by the way, think I'm a moron.
I took it as granted that people will try to increase production. I don't know where you're from, but here, everyone is trying to make more money. Greater production capacity is a natural outgrowth of investment in that pursuit.
I didn't say that every single unit of trade was good, so I don't think your daycare example is relevant. You're making it out like I'm speaking in absolutes, where in reality I'm just drawing a sketch. I know that you tend to be very specific in what you write, but I do not.
Financial power refers to money and goods, at least the way I was using it. I'm sure I disagree with the rest of what you said about the financial sector, but since I wasn't really talking about it I'm not going to address that now.
What are you really trying to do on this site, anyway? I know your goal isn't to make friends, and it's not to convince people of anything. You clearly don't want a discussion. Is this just venting? It'd be so fascinating to meet you in real life . . . like a science experiment or something.
"The plain fact is that before a certain stage of development there is no mental actitivy"
You seem to be strongly persuaded by plain facts. You oppose abortion after evidence of mental activity, then?
let's hope that what rises from its ashes is a secular state - the only way that the region has even a chance of peace
Yeah, cause the problem is that Israel (where gay marriage are recognized, for example, and abortions are legal) is too religious for this enlightened, liberal region. The rest of the comment is also inane, but this sentence make it one of the dumbest comments on Reddit ever - no small feat.
Texas clerks want to post legal documents on the web without first removing identifying data like SSNs.
That reminds me on a case of such a Garage, where there was a dispute about the license of the Software driving the garage. The cars in the garage could not leave as the software was not working and the supplier refused to fix it until the dispute was resolved/the license fully paid.
You said it, not me.
Neat - I've been looking at this every now and then, and it's the first time I've seen a download that didn't require Coyotos as well.
Like I said, it's art. It's obviously not designed to be functional
Then it's a pretty 3D website interface.
The only amazing thing about a 3D website interface would be someone inventing one where the usability and ergonomics didn't suck industrial-sized balls.
I can't get over the image of "like a drunk with nunchucks". :D
Do you really believe that the way the saudi royal family is living is not corruption with all their palaces and luxurious cars?
Being less corrupt than Saudi Arabia---there's something for a government to aspire to!
Yes, I also watched Glenn Beck this weekend. When he brought up the jet, he forgot to mention this interesting story
And only make conversation in the toilet when everyone's zipped up and tucked away.
None of those are contemporary sources. They were all born at least 30 years after Jesus' death.
Art galleries aren't art. And calling anything you don't understand and/or that hurts you "art" is stupid.
I have a secret algorithm that has calculated that 498,734,159 pieces of trash passing as journalism have been published. The 500,000,000 mark will be passed on April 24.
Well, robbing a bank takes money away from other people that then has to be repaid in the form of higher interest rates on loans and probably higher taxes.
Founding a bank takes money from other banks by forcing them to lower interest rates on loans to maintain the same amount of business.
So one prevents people without money from getting it cheaply, and the other allows them to. Ass.
/work in finance, ashamed of parts of how it works, but not the fact that it does work
Basically translates to KGB USSR (Not really KGB, but a similar org)
Good article. I particularly liked this:
When a chain becomes of every place, it's no longer of any place.
The 9-year-old boy is a Canadian citizen (re-read the third paragraph). He was born in Toronto, Canada.
HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHAAA
PLEASE try to get Gore to run. There will never be a greater depopulation of lefties in the US than when Gore loses AGAIN to some idiot like jeb and there is a massive synchonous community cranial detonation.
Arguing about whether or not there is a God, is like arguing over the square root of negative 1. There's no straight-forward answer. Get over it. The real issue here is intolerance towards other humans. That should be our main (and Sam Harris') concern.
A prime example, perhaps not of what is wrong with just the conservative talking heads, but with comics in general. They just aren't funny anymore.
It is not unusual for couples to merge with each other because initially it feels so darn good. Unfortunately, what tastes sweet at the start often turns sour after time.
congratulations, you can't search reddit.
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eternal september all over again
yeah, i mean the CIA rarely kills south american democratically elected presidents. oh wait.
Of course it is - and not just Israel, the US and Europe too. The fact that people in the highest positions of power are brought to trial, and face extremely critical media and public opinion, is clear sign the country is falling apart. Any Reddit reader can see such scandals never happen in truly healthy countries like Iran or North Korea or Syria.
Is Reddit falling apart?
I see they finally got the internet up and running at the insane asylum.
The theme of this particular strip, and of most of his other ones it seems, is the foolishness of strawman attacks. But by engaging in strawman attacks itself, it kind of bones itself up the ass.
I love Fresh Air. Any radio program with a resident linguist has got to be on my top 5.
While we're complaining about Salon.com, doesn't it seem like this whole article is just away to get their own traffic off of Oprah's name? Exposing snake oil salesman and scammers is great, but saying that someone is a scammer just because their philosophy isn't rigorous by your own? Or because they're making money off it, just like you are by "exposing" it? Repeating the word "venality" over and over doesn't make it reprehensible.
So why focus on these guys? Because Oprah = page views, right?
I might be a little biased because my recently divorced Mom is at a spa in Arizona with Oprah after having won a "Why I deserve to go to a spa with Oprah" contest. And some of the classes/treatments available (all for free, in this case) at the spa were New Agey crap. But my mom is a grown woman--she can tell for herself what she wants to believe.
And if she believes in the worst of it, well, she's still doing better than most major religions.
Actually[1] that second one appears to actually be by Mark Liberman:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Liberman
[1] According to the signatures, they share Mark's blog.
looks like two clips merged together to me.
it's definitely cool; but is this real or a fake?!
to give everyone an idea of healthcare in massachusetts, let me tell you my story. i have insurance through harvard pilgrim with rx at $268/month. i'm a healthy, non-smoking 26 year old with no prior health issues. just yesterday, i received a letter from my providor telling me that come april, the same insurace is going to cost me $320/month. if you want affordable coverage, don't settle in mass.
i recently moved to new hampshire and have found that a comparable plan is only $100/month. not to mention my car insurance went from $1800 a year to $600 year.
The problem is with the self-sustaining elements to the meme. If it doesn't work? Well, you just aren't thinking positive enough! Jean read the book, and she got a new job within two weeks! Anecdotal evidence will keep it circulating far longer than a perfect world would allow.
And to be honest, I think there is reason to get annoyed. Because the people peddling this rubbish almost certainly do not live by it and have not found success by it. It is ordinary people who will suffer as a result of this, and that's what makes it a bad thing.
I'd like to say, as a Christian, this made me cringe too. Please don't paint us ALL with the same moron brush :)
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these guys are warped. love it again
not gonna happen. get over it.
How is this a straw man? Didn't this EXACT same sort of thing happen with John Kerry's joke about President Bush that was turned into a supposed attack on the troops by unthinking, reactionary people?
I thought I was in bizarro world when that was going on.
Seconded. CM is a damned impressive piece of work. Taube is a badass.
Think of all of the octopi that had to die to select that adaptation. Oh, the octopanity!
You can be injured, shot down or taken captive in a battle or "police action" (ie, early-on in Vietnam) as well.
The chief difference seems to be only that of scale.
Oh, and also the fact that traditionally if you're in a war you can rely on the Geneva Convention for protection. Oh, wait-
..but it would satisfy his ivory tower assumptions!
So what you're saying is nobody should be allowed to criticize Oprah except for non-profits.
I hate to be a devils advocate but the customers are not trustworthy. Piracy does exist, does it not?
Yes. Although not just any mental activity. (Even people with no higher mental functions can show activity). There has to be reasonable belief that there is a 'person'.
The square root of negative 1 is a terrible analogy.
However, it's true that Harris is descending into frenzied bigotry.
My guess is that the Erlang code won simply because it was a rewrite. If they had rewritten the Lisp system in Lisp using a concurrency package, it would have probably worked just as well.
All I get is a "Click here to go to salon", which doesn't link to the article. :-(
mental note, never hire you to do any python programming:)
This is a pardoy of the new Windows Vista banner ads, and commentary on all the disappointment surrounding Mircosoft's new operating system.
Note to the US Plunge protection team: Could you guys send some of that money that you are using to bail out the big ticket sellers my way? I could see that it quickly turns into an increase in Domestic Manufacturing Orders which might help the economy rebound, rather than just ultimately contributing to USD devaluation.... (Shit I'll even buy an American car with part of it!)
Just saying.
And what would be Leopard's cleaner syntax?
I'm not trying to be mean, it's just that PyObjC's solution seems to me the best compromise you can make, given ObjC's bizarre method calling syntax (without resorting to ad-hoc wrappers, that is).
So if I asked you if there was a little man who lived in your ass that was undetectable to all your senses and was the source of your indigestion, you would say "I know nothing about that particular phenomenon and that's the end of the discussion?"
Mwahaha... original poster got owned! =)
Oh. Well do you agree that there is no "plain fact" to define at what point a fetus is a person? Do you realize that many reasonable people believe that this happens very early, and many reasonable people believe it doesn't happen until quite late?
It's possible that the memo went public accidentally on purpose to boost Starbucks' image among stock holders ("Oh no we're growing so fast and efficiently!") and as a ploy to hold market share by alerting customers that they are genuinely concerned about the "flavor" and experience of visiting one of their stores.
It could just be an accidental leak, but if not, kudos to Starbucks on a well crafted PR move.
I think the error in handling this type of conservative is saying "oh no, I didn't mean the troops are idiots" because frankly, at the current point, after all this administration has done everyone who still signs up for military duty is an idiot and I would even go so far and say, everyone who voluntarily lets himself be shipped to Iraq or Afghanistan at the current point is an idiot too.
I believe it is a wrong understanding of the military to say they have to follow every order they get. Nobody should participate in a war that will threaten his life but is only for the financial gain of others.
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C'mon, that was posted 11 months ago. Most redditors weren't even born back then.
The Exodus story meets Will Smith
Jesus christ, man. What's with the brutal downmodding? 'Lol': a little trivial, yes. Offensive/lynchable, no.
Malcontent, has it ever occured to you the Mid East wars are not purely Israel's fault? Could it possibly be that Israel's generations aren't going out to "kill arab" for their personal pleasure, but are defending their country from people who openly claim they want to destroy it?
No one is locking Israelis in their country. You see them all the time, in Europe or US or Asia or Australia. Are they all that ruthless and evil that they choose to stay in their country and do military service, just to get their share of torturing/maiming some Arabs? Can you, or any of your 14 hateful upmodders (granted, some of them are also you), reason that?
Well, if you're bored, I guess.
My feelings toward Ms. Coulter and her compatriots is that they are best ignored. If no one pays attention to them they will go away.
And for the record, I quite like Henry. I even saw him when he was the lead singer of Black Flag several times. I remember one show at the 930 club where he wore only a pair of tidy-whities with the words "Property of Ian Mackaye" written on the back. Most amusing.
Do I believe in God? No. Do I disbelieve? No.
Then you are an agnostic.
But the point of the article is that there may be more to the game than just availability, and that balancing that with distinctiveness appears to be the new challenge for the company.
This is a misleading headline. It is an airplane. MD-90, I believe.
LOL, Romney is the next Dukakis. I feel so relieved now.
You won't find the term "feminize" in any biochemistry
textbook or anywhere else in science, as such a term is >non-scientific.
What are you talking about? Just look:
http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/biology/units/gender/experts/vilain.html
"What we know even less is how our brain becomes either more of the masculinized brain or more of the feminized brain."
That took only a few seconds to find.
I'm not a medical expert, but I am a very well educated
lay-person with a strong background in medical science. If I
see something that I consider insane, I will label it so.
Biochemically speaking, there is no difference between the >hetero and homosexual brain,
Yes there is, or at least this is likely. There has been research that indicates that there are structural differences. This includes the research of Simon Le Vay, and the recent animal work (that got so much publicity):
http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2005/08/15/4
But you are getting things wrong here. This person is not homosexual. They have a different gender identity.
Sorry, but this is specialised area. I have degrees in Biochemistry, Computing and Biology (so more medically based that you), and I certainly have no qualification in psychiatry, so I am not qualified to judge sanity.
I recognize that it is politically incorrect to label some
insane people as "insane" but I do not consider myself
beholden to political correctness; I'm educated enough and
confident enough in my faculties to make up my own mind.
This is nothing to do with insanity. This is not a delusion, as would be the case with (say) schizophrenia.
I think someone who suffers from such psychological
delusions is, for all intents and purposes, disabled by
their illness.
It is not a delusion. Or, at least, psychiatrists in this field don't believe it is. Who are you to disagree with them?
For a small price, I can install a little blue button to get you back to work.
I don't mind that external objects can touch private members if the author knows what he is doing, but I'd like a nicer way of indicating, in code, "you should know what you're doing before touching this."
Well, here's another bit you might find interesting:
"At the same time the state's congressional delegation begged for money to protect the coast, its members had joined the anti-regulation movement Republicans brought to Washington when they took control of Congress in 1994. And so they supported efforts to soften regulations protecting wetlands from industrial damage and a drive to require financial compensation to property owners facing wetlands restrictions, which inflated the potential cost of restoration projects.
"At the same time we were asking for help in protecting our wetlands, (the Louisiana delegation) was pushing for reducing regulations and protections," Davis said. "It was all to help the oil industry. People on the national level just couldn't take us seriously."
But do you have a counter-example?
(1) Ignorance is no excuse. Ignorance of human rights is practically an automatic human rights violation.
(2) Solar is a major CO2 emitter. You think people pull 5- and 6- sigma purified silicon out of their ass? And in any case, it's a freakishly expensive and unreliable technology which by its cost alone impoverishes its users. Wind can make up no more than 50% of an energy grid's production, even in theory. At that capacity, it would be 3x more expensive than nuclear. Which is why no country anywhere has wind farms in serious amounts. Even Denmark only has enough wind farms to screw over its ratepayers who end up paying many times the electric rates of Sweden, Norway and France despite the fact that Denmark produces most of its electricity from coal. That one should puzzle you; how come the only nation to use wind turbines in any significant amount also "happens" to rely mainly on coal?
although decreasing consumption would be another good goal.
No it wouldn't because it isn't a good goal. Conservation is an investment that actually costs money. And since all the easy conservation measures have already been implemented back in the 70s, it costs a lot of money. The Australians figured out that conserving a mere 3 petajoules of power over 12 years would cost the same as building the nuclear plants to produce that energy. And conserving the next 3 petajoules of power would cost 4 times as much money as conserving the first three. So if you go the conservation route then you lose the opportunity to build know-how in nuclear power and you soon meet a dead end that forces you back on nuclear power anyways. Meanwhile you burn coal.
Fifty year time frame because I'm not a policy maker and I'm OK with not being perfectly correct. OK, ten, twenty, whatever makes you happy, right? I don't care.
So you're okay with dying? No electricity or heat or transport means economic collapse which means death. Evidently you don't care but there's lots of people that do.
I have a feeling that the lights will still be on in a decade, one way or another.
Maybe, maybe not. Does "one way or another" include mass starvation and death?
Trade is a goal because it increases interdependence, increasing the incentive to understand other peoples and to interact with them peacefully. I've seen you take exception to this idea before
I doubt you've seen me argue against trade because international trade in the real economy creates economic interdependence. Interlocking of financial institutions only creates financial interdependence, which is shallow. And hugely destructive. In any case, the goal should be to minimize and eradicate the financial sector, not to feed it.
Anyways, eating kiwis doesn't increase anyone's understanding of New Zealand. All it does is burn a plane-full of fossil fuels and emit a lot of CO2. And for what? For nothing. International trade of consumer items in no way compares to ooh I don't know ... tourism. I'd be willing to bet that 99.9% of the newfound peace and understanding in Europe is due to increased tourism, improved telecomm and less abuse of children leading to more laid-back open-minded adults, with less than 0.1% due to trade.
I took it as granted that people will try to increase production. I don't know where you're from, but here, everyone is trying to make more money.
That's because they're idiots. More money? Try something useful like more steel, more energy, more transport (only achievable using mass transport), more decent (dense) housing, more knowledge, more robots. And given the USA's track record in currency "trading" and finance, it's blatantly obvious that trade does not mean more production. Especially the USA which produces practically nothing of real value now.
Greater production capacity is a natural outgrowth of investment in that pursuit.
No it isn't. If that production capacity remains unused then it gets sold off. And in any case, lots of spare production capacity was created in the 80s for the specific purpose of waging class war against workers. Not to actually increase production.
You're making it out like I'm speaking in absolutes, where in reality I'm just drawing a sketch.
You're not a child so it's okay to say your sketch is ugly. And creepy.
Financial power refers to money and goods, at least the way I was using it.
Oh so you've got your own idiosyncratic definition of finance which is in direct contradiction with accepted usage? Well tough! What's more, money and goods are in opposition.
It also doesn't matter if you disagree with what I said about the financial sector anymore than it matters if you "disagree" with the existence of the top quark.
I know your goal isn't to make friends,
You know what they say about Unix? I'm picky about who my friends are. Your love of doctrinaire thinking and incuriosity about alternatives is certainly not going to endear you to me.
Well, here's another bit you might find interesting:
"At the same time the state's congressional delegation begged for money to protect the coast, its members had joined the anti-regulation movement Republicans brought to Washington when they took control of Congress in 1994. And so they supported efforts to soften regulations protecting wetlands from industrial damage and a drive to require financial compensation to property owners facing wetlands restrictions, which inflated the potential cost of restoration projects.
"At the same time we were asking for help in protecting our wetlands, (the Louisiana delegation) was pushing for reducing regulations and protections," Davis said. "It was all to help the oil industry. People on the national level just couldn't take us seriously."
To elaborate on my earlier comment, I think your "50 years ago" remark is bizarre, and I don't understand what you could mean by it.
Perhaps your grandmother is still alive; let's suppose that she is. Now imagine that she had been abducted from middle school and forced to fuck the entire Japanese army.
Are you going to tell your grandma that she should forget about being raped by soldiers every day for years because it's been fifty years and she should just get over it already?
I am proud to say that I am almost the exact opposite personality type from her. Why couldn't she be an S instead of an N?! That 1/4 similarity is going to haunt me.
As the N'th person on this thread to comment about how badly written this article is, I'll note that the "venality" of talking about money "when you're walking distance from Cabrini Green" is somewhat blunted by the fact that Cabrini Green no longer exists, for all intents and purposes.
It's not up to you to decide what is and what is not art. It seems pretty clear to me that the site is meant to be taken as a piece in itself.
The biggest joke is that this is the same crap that EST was pushing and that keeps getting recycled with a new name every few years after being debunked in it's previous form.
Scarier still is the fact that the Scientologists claim that EST was stolen from their "tech" and that they set out to ruin Werner Erhard and succeeded.
http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/06/30/landmark-forum-scientology/
It seems these movements have an underlying mean spiritedness using the "blame the victim for their situation" message in common.
Oprah should go to some abused women shelters and have her buddies do some free "work" with women who were raped - it might open their eyes and allow them to realize that they attracted the rape to themselves.
BAH! Thanks for pointing that out. I see the rest of the wings extending out now.
Modern atheism IS agnosticism.
BS. I am an atheist. I believe there is no god, period. Evidence would change my mind.
Exactly. What a whinefest, and I've had completely the opposite experience. Maybe if that person spent more time understanding the company's needs and not his need to push some oddball technology that he found on freshmeat that is v0.01b, whatever it happens to be, he'd be a lot happier and a lot more successful.
Censorship is so annoying.
In my view, the way Starbucks committed suicide was by selling mediocre at best coffee for really high prices. I live and work in DC -- there are 3 Starbucks in my vicinity and a local chain. Getting what I want, I'll usually average ~$3.5 at Starbucks but only about $1.75 at the local chain, and the coffee at the local chain tastes better. The Starbucks still do good business, but I assume there are enough semi-knowledgeable people that would rather brew their own shitty cup of coffee or go to a cheaper local alternative then go to Starbucks.
The article's syntax is idiosyncratic.
Oh yeah, I knew that - he's not in the habit of referring to himself in the third person as far as I've seen. It's third-party commentary on the fact that Pullum was copied by Steyn. I included a link to it because it's an amusing followup to one of Pullum's more famous entries :)
the military applications of this would be staggering - if indeed , IF the video isnt fake.
Another case in point: Borders Book Shop. Up until the mid-1990s, Borders was a destination store, with only a few dozen locations in the entire country. Each one had its own unique personality, style, and selection, not to mention booksellers who really knew their stuff. Back when Tom and Louis Borders owned the independent chain, potential emnployees were even given a book test as part of the hiring process.
Once it got bought, homogenized, merged, and dumped by Kmart, it became just another big, cookie cutter bookstore. And music store. And coffee shop.
Because if you are an atheist, you don't know that (insert invisible friend here) doesn't exist, you believe that it doesn't exist. Because your beliefs are evidence based, at some point, the preponderance of the lack of evidence becomes a justifiable basis for reasonable disbelief. Future positive evidence can alter your beliefs. Fence-sitting is not an intellectual virtue in all cases.
Salary Wizard will make you depressed or very happy.
Strong-typing is not a binary relationship. But perhaps strong-typing is the wrong word. A more accurate word would be more complex typing. Higher-order types, etc...
I did not mean strong to imply static, many languages have static typing. I meant strong in the sense of higher-order types etc... But strong does indeed have a more usual connotation. (Then again, weakly typed languages do not even enter my mind when discussing about pros/cons of a language... so 'strong' sort of loses its value then.)
So to summarize as it's been watered down:
What I like about Haskell are the type-classes and monads as well as the higher order typing.
What I think I would like about CL is the MOP system.
What I like about Scheme is the flexibility and cleanliness, aand then when talking more specifically about PLT scheme, the plethora of just cool stuff that implementation has.
Yes, I accept that. But there is still a point before which there is definitely no person. Just because there is uncertainty about the transition, does not mean there is no transition, and this is nothing to do with the ability of a fetus to survive outside the womb with artificial aids.
here too, occasionally.
is reddit replicated or just one monolithic instance in Massachusetts ! ?
Contemporary period in history, they don't have to be alive at the exact same time to be considered "contemporary". In 2,000 years, you and I will be considered contemporaries if we wrote about JFK, for instance. I'm trying to illustrate that non-Christian's had a knowledge of this individual from Nazareth, and that he wasn't considered a fabrication. They obviously didn't accept the accounts provided by the Christians, but they at least acknowledged his existence in history.
Everywhere I go... there's always something to remind me
Voting down for taking a quote out of context.
The article assumes that brands don't have life-cycles. You can argue that slow growth will make a durable brand, but on an ROI basis it might be better to exploit a brand and run it into the ground. Look at the restaurant business. Pizzeria Uno invented deep dish pizza and now you see the brand on cardboard swill in airports.
actually, this does apply to IT companies and not just IT departments in other companies.
Why I don't use Common Lisp
Before I found Reddit, I hadn't heard the name "Lisp" since about 1987. I'm not kidding. I've only been reading articles about it for a litte while now.
Learning curve: It's a bit different from other languages I've used. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but I need some time to get hooked into it.
Lack of open source? There are gobs of Java or PHP open source, for example. I learned PHP by looking over WordPress code. Is there something similar in the Lisp world?
No one is paying me to do it. I code outside of work, but I ususally learn new things to accomplish a task at work. Why does no one seem to use Lisp?
Lack of frameworks/books? I tried the Eclipse plug-in and never got it to work. I was working through P.G.'s book but it's hard to get far without a framework...
come back in a few years son
Technically speaking that kind of statement just doesn't take you anywhere.
Disbelief without evidence is just as logically incorrect as belief without evidence.
No evidence will be forthcoming because the God hypothesis requires no physical evidence to be forthcoming. Therefore on the question of the God hypothesis no rational person would either believe or disbelieve.
Just because you call yourself atheist doesn't make you an authority on the typical usage of the term. I'm also atheist and was long before it was trendy. The modern usage of atheist generally means classical agnostic, while the modern usage of agnostic generally means nondefined spiritual believer.
Of course, one can use language however one wants to.
In any case, I'm quite sure furyg3 is the same kind of atheist that I am and that Richard Dawkins is, since it's the typical kind of atheism. And under that kind of atheism it can be very misleading to the uninitiated when we make statements such as, "No God exists," when properly the statements should be, "I see no truth in the God hypothesis."
Using the former rather than the latter is what causes the confusion that atheism is just another religion.
What has been proven definitively
What has been disproved definitively
What is neither proved nor disproved definitively
Groups 2 and 3 are NOT the same. If we want to be accurate, if we want to be honest, we should be clear. God fits into group 3.
It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his attitude was towards the phenomenon of the Church in the year, say, 1500.
Our Enemy, the State by Albert Jay Nock
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This is a hidden gem? You mean the one that's in every print dialog? How is this hidden?
No.
Next question?
No one makes up my mind but me. So yes it is up to me to decide whether I consider this art. And I also decide to feel nothing but contempt for you with your "it's not up to you to question and think" attitude.
The secular people are not the problem. In fact, I would say they are being held hostage by the religious zealot nut-job settlers who want all of "Greater Israel." As indicated in the article, they will do whatever it takes, legal or illegal, to take Palestinian land to make this happen. The problem for Israel is when these two forces - secularism and Zionism - come to a head.
I was always under the impression that it originated as a way of saying something is "so much - and more".
But I think it has a real-life mirror too. I grew up in NYC and a lot of bodegas (delis) would have deals where you if bought a sandwich you would get a free soda -- and the very best places would also give you a bag of chips. I remember being in middle school and all the kids would want to get their lunch at whichever bodega included the chips. "All inclusive" lunches are emblematic of city bodegas.
Then have your cat produce one so we can make snarky comments about it.
Blog spam. Redirects you to WAPO.
For me, the only real problem I've faced is that longer lambda expressions don't really look right, and long expressions in general have to be escaped properly to span multiple lines.
I find the trailing '\' in Python more annoying that the curly braces in other languages, but neither of them rates all that high on the problem scale.
I have screwed myself with the tab/space issue once. I had a heavily customized .emacs, but I made a quick change in vim. I didn't bother to test it (brilliant, I know, but I only changed a literal string). It was a month later when it blew, and I finally had to resort to diffing it against a previous version to find the problem.
3-time spelling bee champ, making it to the state level of the Scripps Howard Spelling Bee
Survivor of a run-in with a school bus at age 12. (The front tire ran over--and sat on-- my right foot Wearing sneakers bought the night before, the pressure blew out the side of the show. Yes, I could have been killed and, fortunately, I learned to walk again.)
OMG not the spelling champ's brand new show!
Starbucks really created a market for expensive coffee. Before Starbucks, the average person wouldn't even think of spending a few dollars on a cup of joe.
This has been awesome for the high-end coffee market. I have seen more coffee shops open after Starbucks moved in than before. If Starbucks wants to run its brand into the ground, it is just more opportunity for another shop to come in and take away business.
Sounds like the Saudi December threat is being followed through. Too bad our agenda is to go to war with Iran, instead of solving the actual problem. Diplomacy when tried is a wonderful thing (hint hint).
We must work at the same company...
"Do you think that when the dictator from damascus is living well while his people are starving to death"
WTF? Starving to death? I've actually been there and they are by no means starving to death. In fact according to the CIA world factbook, only 11% of the population lives below the poverty line.
For some perspective, compare this to the US where 12% live below the poverty line. We Americans are certainly not "starving to death".
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Why are we stirring up trouble? They apologized in 1993, why is the US Congress wasting their time on it?
Tacitus. Annals. In Great Books of the Western World, ed. by Robert Maynard Hutchins. Vol. 15, The Annals and The Histories by Cornelius Tacitus. Chicago: William Benton, 1952.
Seutonius. Life of Claudius. In The Lives of the Caesars. There is an online version here, you'll find the quote around P53 on the right margin.
Pliny the Younger. Letters. Trans. by W. Melmoth. Quoted in Norman L. Geisler, Baker's Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1998.
Except the way he said it, it wasn't an unreasonable interpretation at all. He said "you get stuck in Iraq", which is loads different from "you get us stuck in Iraq." The conservative interpretation is completely reasonable.
Er, I don't think so.
"You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq, (...rest of speech)
-- John Kerry, Pasadena City College, 2006
Is this in some code that I'm too dumb to decipher?
Yes, context is critical, but he seems (see vv. 23 and 24) to indicate that the scope is broader.
Reminding myself to Keep It Simple, Stupid, the following more clearly makes the point:
Not everyone who says to Me, "Lord, Lord," will enter the kingdom of heaven . . .
oh thanks, that makes more sense, it makes a damn good copy of whats behind it (call me a stupid, c'mon do it! but at first I thought that it was able to become transaprent or something like that.
I'm far beyond reality :'(
Why should we take in refugees? It's not like this is all our fault.
Oh wait ...
I hate to say this, but I tutored reading in an inner-city school, and the kids that need the moral messages on the side of the package most would not be capable of reading them.
If kids aren't read to from a very very young age, they sort of "miss" the years when the basics of language and reading become almost innately ingrained.
I believe I've read that the most important age range is like 3-6 or so.
It is heartbreaking to see 3rd graders unable to sound out even single-syllable words with a single vowel sound.
I've been in IT departments for 8 years, at an ISP, and 2 different research labs. Exactly what more do I need to learn about it?
edit: names changed to protect the innocent (and myself) :)
Wow. Really old. At least link to the MIT OCW website:
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
Anyone else click expecting to see something about BSG?
Fair enough then. Though it does seem rather pointless participating in a discussing if that's you attitude :)
Even older news is that bigots are retards.
If you have time check out some customer reviews at Newegg. They show you not only the average, but the review totals and distribution. Generally a product with a lot of reviews (several hundred) has a strong average that is highly weighted in the 4s and 5s. A product with fewer reviews is more likely to have a lower average and a more diverse distribution.
But that isn't what happened at all. Kerry made a joke that DID sound like he was insulting the troops. This comic is just re-drawing the situation to make it sound like he didn't. Sure, he gave an explanation afterward, but for once (crazy left-winger though I may be) I don't think the reaction was all that unreasonable.
Hey, neat, she likes the band Rush! She can't be that bad...
"My hobbies include the band Rush, Tarot, Mystery/mysteries, and (surprise!) reading."
Aren't hobbies things you do?
Okay, so she does Tarot, reads...
and... does mysteries?
Oh. I thought everybody had done the guys from Rush.
It is. Meantime, I either indent the "else" or wrap the expression with parentheses. Actually, I rarely use if-then-else. It's surprising how much you can do without it, using guards instead.
There was a study by the Federal Reserve Bank that shows for every dollar we invest in getting very young children to learn, we save $12 in social costs like welfare and jail later. That $12 has since grown to like $17 for every $1 invested.
http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/research/studies/earlychild/media/heckman.cfm
I hate Reddit entries like this. They make blanket statements over every member of Christianity. Yeah, GodTube is stupid, but if you truly wish to be honest and earnest in being athiest, don't fall into the trap of flamming on every Christian because of the vital few. It does nothing to strengthen your side or weaken your opposition.
Right, because I should unquestioningly take your word for it.
"Suck" is a pretty strong word to be applying to any white-collar office job that pays an above-average salary. As others have pointed out, picking tomatoes or cleaning toilets are far worse jobs. I sympathize with some of the poster's complaints, but you need a little perspective. In the big scheme, these are annoyances.
The article is about object hapiness. Since you're refering to FastCGI, which is unrelated as much as throwing new hardware at a problem is unrelated, perhaps it is you who misunderstood the article?
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Nah, old news. I grew up in the Bible Belt going to church every week and just not having the faintest idea how people could swallow this stuff lock stock and barrel. In church I always felt like an closeted anthropologist, observing the natives and their odd rituals. I think I was about nine when I decided, "If there is a god, he can't give a crap about people going to church." By the time I first read any Dawkins, I was already a confirmed weak atheist.
Also his argument that evolution violates the second law of thermodynamics is invalid since he completely ignores the fact that Earth is not an isolated system.
Also, I really want to know what his point was about the asteroid belt and photons slowing down particles was. What do they have to do with each other?
I still find it hard to believe that a company that makes ATMs did such a terrible job making electronic voting machines.
I guess the difference is accountability.
That means only one person would ever be able to submit, e.g., an interesting Google result. Too many pages on the web are accessible only via a get request for this idea to work well.
In theory, the Reddit community should be voting duplicates like this down, but it doesn't seem to be happening. . .
What does it mean - keep ideas alive? Ideas will remain alive as long as people hold them. And, ideas aren't oppressive. They are text in a book or neurochemical patterns in a brain. It's the expression of these ideas manifested in violence and intolerance that must be stopped. Ideas should be changed as a result of discussion, not force. We should be able to hold any ideas we wish as long as we respect the rights of others. Eliminating bad ideas, for example religion or communism, is not the answer. The fact that the idea is theistic or atheistic is irrelevant. Such identification doesn't get at the root problem - greed and the desire for power and domination.
Oh, stop the big bad media conglomerates from selling their crap!! Because we're not capable of thinking for ourselves! Well, OK, WE can, but those poor and stupid people can't. So we have to protect them from false advertising. Wow. The author needs to STFU. And comparing Oprah to Hitler and Mussolini...that's just sloppy writing.
I just know someone's going to ask, because they didn't read the article or lack the "cultural literacy" to catch the reference, so here you go:
The two Godwinning quotes:
"Why "venality"? Because, with survivors of Auschwitz still alive, Oprah writes this about "The Secret" on her Web site, 'the energy you put into the world -- both good and bad -- is exactly what comes back to you.'"
and
"But there's also no doubt that a lot of us have been making forgiving disclaimers like that about Oprah for years. And that maybe they amount to trains-running-on-time arguments."
So because Oprah's corporation shills for other corporations, she's a Nazi sympathizer? No, she's merely another corporate dick, making money the old fashioned way - selling swill. Get over it.
Proof that the Bible references the starship Enterprise.
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=c58e7446c9df0da541a8
Microsoft Word almost always suggests my "which" should be "that", for WHICH there is no excuse.
Part of the usefulness of a navigation is how intuitive it is.
A good navigation is like a set of lungs... when it works right, you hardly notice its there. It just does what it needs to do.
So creative? Yes. Useful? No.
Heaven forbid you should ever have to display a significant amount of text.
RootSync.live is a technology news site covering the stories of the week.
That is a great way to get people to donate. I haven't yet, but I feel guilty and probably will.
Nitpick:
Then again, weakly typed languages do not even enter my mind when discussing about pros/cons of a language...
Yet...
What I like about Scheme is the flexibility ...
Plenty of people don't know about it.
In Windows, the option is not usually there, so people who've recently switched probably wouldn't know about this.
Call me cruel if you want to, but I'd actually prefer that Venezuela continue on the path to all out socialism. More and more countries in the region seem to be voting for regimes of various socialist stripes, and if venezuela implodes economically without any coup or sanctions or anything to blame, then maybe the rest of Latin America (and the world?) will finally realize there is no alternative to capitalism. If their capitalist system isn't working well enough, make it more capitalist, not less capitalist.
Great headline, keen75.
Well, that's a little cynical but surely a business model that some people exploit.
I would assume the natural life cycle is that Starbucks has now become the standard cup of coffee at the high-end, so people naturally get tired of it and start looking elsewhere. Hence all the "Starbucks coffee sucks" posts you can find on the internets. They might have exactly the same coffee as several years ago, but people would still think it has degraded.
Is there a psychological term for this effect?
Like mutatron said, but to elaborate; the path of the sun through the day, for example, is the ellipitic. the path of the sun at a given time of day throughout the year is the analemma (the analemma is within the ellipitic, too)
I also wanted to mention that the whole point is the difference between belief and knowledge.
You have no knowledge that God doesn't exist. Therefore if you claim he doesn't exist, it becomes a belief, and beliefs are the issue here.
I know that the force of gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between two objects. I don't "believe" this I know it.
Science is the difference between belief and knowledge.
Logically, there's no difference between god existing or not existing, therefore it is accurate to say there is no god.
I knew all those bibles I've been stealing from hotel rooms over the years would come in handy one day...
She runs a website. There are numerous companies that advertise on that site.
I guess it's a good thing I didn't put up that article about Murlocks, eh?
Bukkake, apply directly to the forehead!
The simple man sees no difference between group 2 and 3, but the educated man who wishes to have a clear view of reality must understand each of these groups and use them correctly.
Nice. The wishy-washy man without the courage of his convictions refuses to take a position. Go on...take the plunge, the water's fine. It is perfectly possible to clearly see the difference between 2 and 3 and still maintain rational disbelief. By definition, number 3 is the case for all phenomena in the observable universe from the perspective of logical/empirical enquiry. If you are waiting for 1 or 2 in order to profess a belief/disbelief, I wish you luck.
Then again, maybe I'm just simple and uneducated.
But people know that there is more than one save format and they know how to look for it. I guess I can see your point, I just don't agree with it.
Anyone who has used a save dialog in windows or OS X knows there is more than one save format and how to access it. heck my grandmother knows how to do it:)
bad form
It's amazing how people talk about "if iran were directly involved in iraq".
There is already a huge force in Iraq by Iran. It needs to be stopped for any real stability in the region.
So what's the catch?
/always is one
This article made me hungry. Starbucks. Snapple. California Pizza Kitchen. Mmmmmm....
Jesus was a millionaire? This ties in neatly with that other story about Americans being ignorant of their own religion.
When they said "The Secret" I thought they meant that delicious sauce in them big macs.
The age of OCW is irrelevant. This deserves a weekly posting to Reddit. That same link was provided in the article text.
When you enter the nursing home, do not stand there with your group in a large cluster of clowns. Clowns can look rather intimidating if you see a lot of them in one place.
Sage advice, indeed.
this is awasome... it will boost up the knowledge...
Brodcast him? who's him?... All I see in the videos are creepy clowns and creepier dudes playing with bananas.
I also wanted to mention that the whole point is the difference between belief and knowledge.
You have no knowledge that God doesn't exist. Therefore if you claim he doesn't exist, it becomes a belief, and beliefs are the issue here.
Exactly. Allow me to quote myself from an earlier post:
Because if you are an atheist, you don't know that (insert invisible friend here) doesn't exist, you believe that it doesn't exist.
Beliefs are necessary things for humans. I would prefer knowledge on the subject of divinity, but rational belief/disbelief is the next best thing.
Of course, not all offbeat brands succumb to the temptations of rapid growth and public capital. Several California-based firms have managed to expand at a reasonable pace without compromising their integrity or charm.
It's no accident that the companies listed are privately held. In the "interest" of stockholders, publicly traded companies seek growth at the expense of everything else, and the prioritization of short term profit inevitably leads to long term consequences.
Basically, it appears that they had a GC bug and couldn't find it, and decided to rewrite. Like cwzwarich, I suspect that it was the rewrite that fixed it, not the language change.
Scheme is dynamically and strongly typed...
All right, fair enough, sorry for being such a grumpy pedant, it's a rainy Monday after all.
Closest I can think of is habituation. When you see something all the time, it's not special any more. Novelty seekers go elsewhere.
Actually this is my stepfathers brand. he owns this and used to own "chumpies" too. Yeah its pretty outdated though.
Join the Emo Brigade!
just did some googling around, and looks like my doubts were wrong. not only can they change color, they can even change skin texture. amazing. utterly amazing.
Wasted nights, indeed.
Just because something evades falsifiability does not mean its existence has no effects on the world.
Assuming you are serious (and if you are not, many others are), let me recount my personal experiences with churches doing charity work. I admit I might be a bit biased, being raised a Christian, but I'm seriously reconsidering my convictions, very much because of this issue. So please don't disregard this as a rose-tinted glasses, or indoctrinated opinion. It's just my own experience.
My parents spent most of their lives doing religion-related work. I've seen them do many, many good things because of their convictions. And no, that doesn't mean 'god told me to be nice, so I'm nice', but a deep conviction that care for others is the cornerstone of what we believe, and what we are.
I've seen them fight racial discrimination in eastern europe (gypsies), I've seen them pour their time and effort into changing lives for the better; superhuman work during the Kosovo crisis helping refugees, simply making friends, helping people develop basic hygene 'practices', giving much of what they had to those who needed it.
Closer to home, I see a local church I occasionally visit spending big effort setting up a micropayment foundation to help Kenya (and no 'clause' that Christianity should be spread either - just help). I see them working on a huge project to help out people in the city (again not specifically with religious goals - just help). I see a number of initiatives that pour time and effort into helping in the darker side of Amsterdam; the red light disctrict. No preaching, just being there for them.
I see refugee efforts by the church I used to attend, teaching them Dutch, helping them find jobs and even taking entire families into their own homes for extended periods of time. Often these people are, and remain, muslims.
Is this the norm? Unfortunately not. Is it a very rare case of 'Christians/religious people doing good? Also not. I see to much of it all around me.
To some degree you could say this is just 'good' people, and separate from faith. This is partly true; there good people in both religious and non-religious groups. But considering that 'doing good' was pretty much a constant theme in our faith's 'guru' (Jesus), it should really be logical that being a Christians means that one tries to be good as well. And many people approach it this way.
I can't speak for all Christians. You are probably right on many counts. Hell, I have serious trouble with, say, many (American) evangelicals and their (in my view) perversion of what Christianity is about. But it's too harsh to extrapolate this to the entirety of Christianity, and religion in general. There are too many examples of people doing good out of their religious conviction to dismiss Christianity off-hand because there's a portion that misbehaves.
Most Dutch pastors I know, either directly or indirectly, are in the lower income-scale and work disproportionately much. It's a great injustice to their efforts to extrapolate the misdeeds of the few misbehaving examples to include them.
Again, this is speaking from experience, and there's always the chance that ALL the other churches and 'religions' are horrible people. But you can imagine why I find that hard to believe, and I hope you can also understand why comments like yours hurt.
Disbelief without evidence is just as logically incorrect as belief without evidence.
You need to re-read your own definition of belief vs knowledge. If there was enough evidence, I would know. If there was some evidence, I would believe. There is no evidence, so I disbelieve.
yea but remember he's Australian.
For those that hadn't seen this before, it was still useful.
I know it's the height of trendyness to bash on Starbucks, but as a Pac Northwesterner I have to say I like their oversweetened goop better than any other chain's oversweetened goop. If I want a regular drink I drink tea.
I'm not happy that Starbucks bought out so many other companies - like Torrefazione and Coffee People, they each had something to recommend them when you didn't want what Starbucks was serving.
Another profound (and articulate) genius. I am shocked by your language, shocked!
Seriously, perhaps you have Daddy issues?
Latent types are weak, imo.
# Add breadcrumbs to code any time you make a change
So I don't do this every time I make a change, but I do it often. If I'm making a small change to some part of the code, it is reasonably likely that someone else will be making other changes in the vicinity. I only leave a comment if the code requires some explanation, but I do include initials in case someone needs to know who to ask.
Thought I knew them all, but the numeric range one was new. Very handy.
Cookie cutter retail is such a bore.
Instead my friends and I (middle class folks) have gotten to know the locally-owned unique shops in our big city hometown, one-of-a-kind coffee shops and restaurants, clothing stores where clothes are made in America (not marianas islands), where a wool winter coat costs more than the chain department store coats, but lasts many years, and stimulates the local economy instead of the Walton family fortune.
Many of the teens and college kids here shop at used clothing stores and customize the jeans and shirts they buy themselves.
Corporate cookie cutter business models suck so bad. They suck the economy out of local communities and take it to their corporate headquarters. Local business owners reinvest and spend most of their profits in the community where they make their money... that model builds up the local community instead of sucking wealth out of it.
While we are at it - how about adding some way to test that a value is a "numeric" - i.e. int, long, or float? (or complex?)
seconded.
For the record, the full quote is:
"I have been called -- my kids are all aware of this -- dumb, crazy man, science abuser, Holocaust denier, villain of the month, hate-filled, warmonger, Neanderthal, Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun," he announced. "And I can just tell you that I wear some of those titles proudly."
This little cameo has been mentioned on IMDb as well as Wikipedia amongst other places. I knew about this before I even saw the movies, I don't see why its creating so much surprise. Easter eggs are common.
www.eeggs.com there are loads of interesting easter eggs on this site.
But it was gone. Rather than simply 'turn off' the feature, my replacement had deleted it. He had also deleted it from the source-code control database, just to be sure.
That's hard-core!
Didn't we all just realize it??
It only takes one person to find it, and to post it on Reddit.
Since you think we're all just deceived and emotionally needy, may I have a hug?
A simple, hosted HR app that could serve as the basis for SSO apps. I'm with a small consulting firm, and we have tons of different hosted apps we use (Basecamp, sharepoint, jotspot, etc.) It would be awesome if we had some continuity between everything.
I love that this article has more comments than the one about war vets coming home with PTSD and how the US gov is laughing it off. That gave me a bigger laugh than these potato chips.
call me cynical, but that looks like the same group of kids that comment on Digg. Although I'm sure some are genuinely discontent with the new design, a good percentage of those posts are probably just the digg kids
S/He added a 'd' at the end.
Where did the article ever say that Christians are morons? The point of the article is that the GodTube web site has videos which reinforce the stereotype that Christians are morons, in the same way that Gangsta Rap reinforces the stereotype that black people are thugs. This doesn't make the stereotypes true.
In your rush to be offended, you've missed the fact that the article is doing exactly as you wished: bashing GodTube without painting all Christians with a broad brush.
Was that a tranny?
Oh. I thought this was in light of the recent BSG episode.
Charley appears to believe that scientists assume that data is linear and that things like the slowing down of the earth's rotation or the reduction of its magnetic field must mean that this trend is unchanged from the creation of matter to now. Scientists are not even 100% certain that fundamental constants of the universe like Alpha are stable... for all we know the earth flips its poles every few epochs and starts charging up its field again. Or the reason we are slowing down now is because the bolide impact in the Chicxulub Crater that may have snuffed the dinosaurs, also hit with enough force to slightly counter the rotation of the planet...
It would be as big a mistake to say any data might unerringly draw a straight line into the past as it would be to assume that it draws a straight line into the future.
Then you are contradicting yourself:
"Lisp is strong and dynamically typed."
"Latent types are weak, imo."
This will be my last comment in this thread.
I have no problem whatsoever with my views, since they are spot on rationally, logically, scientifically and I know exactly where they all sit. I have no emotional or intellectual need to "take the plunge" and forsake rationality like you may have.
When I speak I also make it clear what I think, rather than saying vague things open to multitudinous interpretation.
If your version of atheism is substituting God for no-God while ignoring the rational basis for this kind of decision, then you are simply another religious zealot.
It's the intellectual process that counts, not the result. The result, in fact, requires no thought at all if the process is well understood. The result becoming just another logical conclusion based on accurate premises - with no emotional attachments.
true, but i sooo want this one to be true.....
"The Thatcher Government concocted a plan to search for the Loch Ness monster using a team of dolphins"
Heh heh. That would be me.
An interesting article about the beer vending machines on Japanese streets and why the teens don't abuse them.
uhmm that is YTMND
is reddit becoming eBaum's World?
The French eat anything.
The language of business is eternally the language of bullshit.
Only when they're communicating to the outside world. Internally, if you can't give clear directions, you'll lose money.
Probabilities were invented to rationally incorporate what you think of as a belief.
Where definite certainties are unavailable, probabilities are used.
I remember fighting the we/you battle back when I was working on my book. The copy editor didn't really take sides, but my fellow authors prefered you, and I generally preferred we.
My theory was that it's us as the authors working through the examples, explaining our methodology. So we'd explain something, and if the reader could comprehend the explanation, then they too would join in the collective we. Whereas to write it in second person makes the implicit assumption that the reader is following right along. My approach tended to yield constructs such as this: "What we've done is X, for the reasons Y and Z. You can see that A and B are true because of C, but watch out for D." So it describes what's already been created in the first person, then moves into second person to describe the future.
I'm also a big fan of the semicolon as well, by the way.
Most of these are already known to any self-respecting Googlers out there.
Apparently some Smalltalks do come with a REPL.
Which Smalltalk implementations don't come with a REPL?
In case something should happen to your post, I've made a backup below:
Kind people don't want to discourage the submitter by downmodding, so they vote both up. Redundancy for the for the win!
I guess this is why they always remember to thank for the personal sacrifice the troops do. As I understand the term in this context, it is used metaphorically to describe selfless good deeds for others and maybe more specifically it means that you are willing to take hit that is not compensated in future. Does anybody know major war, where fighting troops, winners or losers, are better off afterwards?
For those who go to military service to get forward in their personal life, think again. If it were good move, rich and powerful would put their kids in the army.
In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none.
In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.
-- Erik Naggum
disliking a screwdriver because a hammer is so much better for properly opening bottles...
I think there is some merit to preferring the hammer to the screwdriver, here. For instance, I'd rather open my beer with a plastic lighter than a purpose-built bottle opener any day.
Once you get the hang of it, opening bottles with a lighter is quick and painless, and is often accompanied by a satisfying pop, as though a bottle of champagne has just been uncorked. As well, the integrity of the bottle cap is maintained, allowing for re-capping or excellent long-distance flicks.
Using your index finger as the fulcrum, any sturdy lever of suitable proportion will work. A Bic lighter happens to be very ergonomic for this purpose, and the plastic grips the 'teeth' of the bottle cap very well.
Plus, lighters are more ubiquitous than bottle openers, and if you can open it with a lighter, you can open it with several other common objects, including both hammers and screwdrivers.
This whole argument is stupid. In today's world we don't do it that way.
Today we write object.search(key) or search(data_structure, key) (or some other syntax for the same thing. The point is we use a subroutine so that we can change search (and perhaps the data structure to support the better search) without having to fix every place in the code that does that.
Linear search works, but as any programmer should be able to tell you (but many cannot), it is O(n). A binary search is a little more complex, but any good programmer can understand it, and know it is O(Ln(n)), while a hash table is complex, but O(1) if your hash is good.
When I'm writing code I know know if the O time matters or not. So I make it work right. Then I decided if I need to go back and make it faster. So my code has to support changing the algorithm latter if I want to.
However that isn't the end of the story. Today programmers have recognized that some things are done often. I would never write a linear search today, because c++ has std::map which is easier to use than writing my own search, and faster. Python has dictionaries if I'm using that language. Most (but not all) of the other languages I use have some form of this either built in, or as a common library.
The point is when I see search called, I never look into it in the first place to see how it works. You might argue that my profiler could reveal it is the bottleneck, or there is a bug in search, but I find that unlikely - language designers spend a lot of time on getting search right and fast. In most cases if search is not fast enough, anything I could replace it with would be worse.
Tough ... you lost your marriage ... now shut the fu*k up and think about all the people that lost their lives ... millions of persons that had the bad luck of being born in iraq at a time when morons in US managed to elect Bush ... twice ...
An excelent grasp of the subject matter, an enjoyable read
Every time I try to be funny on a job application, I do not get the job. Or is it just my poop jokes?
Next time I'll be doing my version of the aristocrats. I really need that job.
I only disbelieve things which I have proven to be false.
If there is no evidence I remain open. By making this distinction, I can further refine my scientific understanding of the world.
How do YOU distinguish between what has been proven false, and what has not yet been tested? As a scientist, I must always keep these two categories separated and cognizant. Only a bad scientist would do otherwise.
Lisp IS a specific language: Common Lisp. There's an official standard.
Nice yet failed to mention Google SMS: the free texting service that allows a lot of the same operators as the website. It's great if you have unlimited text messaging.
it shows you, without any doubt, that foo is a magic variable.
True, but I wish something that was easier to type was chosen.
What? What? I didn't get it. Mario and the sroom in tiny carts, with this guy in a beanie after them.....
My problem with the parent and grandparent is that they completely miss the point of the post. Despite the apparent leverage corporations have, a job is a two-way transaction and in an open economy like America the company ought to have as much accountability to their employees as the employees to the company.
I work IT at a bank and it's tough to feel warm and fuzzy when management is seemingly always trying to outsource you and yet traders and ibankers get multimillion dollar bonuses. Especially when the technology they (esp. the traders) use is pretty damn important also.
I think it has a lot to do with perception. Managers tend to align value with the bottom line (in a way I can't blame them) and traders are huge revenue streams and IT becomes a gigantic cost center. Perhaps if the IT department contracted their services to the traders (and became a form of revenue stream themselves) there would be a little more parity. Additional to that, managers are likely to assess the IT department's value on the technology but traders' (or sales' or ...) value on the individuals.
There are a million factors, but I think that this is also an inevitable (and unfortunate) case of corporations also taking advantage of technologists' collective passivity. There's often a reason why technologists try to build their value in knowledge (like knowing a language) than in some "intangible" (like being able to sell, or trade, or whatever other commissioned position). Technology people do value the security and steady paycheck somewhat more.
Listen - the low note is subharmonic http://www.marikimura.com/octave.mp3
Full disclosure: I'm an athiest (though I attended church occasionally as a child) and although not jingoistic, I do grow tired of the flood of 'look at how ignorant Americans are' articles. This is crazy, though.
Only half can name only one of the four gospel authors? Less than half can identify Genesis as the first book of the bible? This is really disappointing. How in the hell can you make it to adulthood without knowing this stuff?
Yes they did. Don't tell me that when anyone signs up for the guard it isn't clear that the One Weekend a Month, Two Weeks a Year and GI Bill might not be the full story. There might be strings attached. A big fucking string called Iraq? There's a fair number of people who joined guards just to go to college on the cheap. It's a gamble. And they lost because it is more than just cheap college for a weekend a month now.
Don't join an army if you don't want to fight.
There's a lot of reservists getting fucked by this too. Maybe the recruiter said, "Oh, you're the Guards! You'll be doing Hurricane cleanup and filling sandbags when the river crests -- in a worst case scenario. andmaybeiraq. But never mind about that.
Precisely. Also the raison d'etre of capitalist business model is to grow as much as the market will bear in order to convert footfall and sales into shareholder capital before said shareholder moves to the next 'big thing' in the marketplace.
"ON NEW YEAR'S EVE in 2003, I was seized at the border of Serbia and Macedonia by Macedonian police who mistakenly believed that I was traveling on a false German passport. I was detained incommunicado for more than three weeks. Then I was handed over to the American Central Intelligence Agency and was stripped, severely beaten, shackled, dressed in a diaper, injected with drugs, chained to the floor of a plane and flown to Afghanistan, where I was imprisoned in a foul dungeon for more than four months."
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I can't believe this shit. How is this going on, how can anyone look at this and then go on to masturbate into the American flag while chanting about freedom like some coma victim at an Evangelist faith healing church? Snake handlers with their eyes rolling into the backs of their heads make more sense than this.
I'm not supporting the argument - I'm just stating it.
This is very true. Until Starbucks became popular, there was absolutely no market for espresso bars.
The Federal Bureau of Miscellaneous Information is dedicated to the diffusion of knowledge based on research conducted at tax-payer expense for the benefit of the citizens of the United States.
Sadly enough a major portion of the destruction followed the first Gulf War. Saddam diverted the water from the wetlands in order to deny cover to Shiite militia. Wetlands kind of need water.
Ah, good call. Sorry.
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Was aware of the project, but didn't realize the entire curriculum would be online, and by the end of the year. FTA: 1550 of the planned 1800 are already available. PE.730 Archery, here I come!
I know that the force of gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between two objects. I don't "believe" this I know it.
Which requires the assumption that you aren't just a brain in a jar and that in the real universe there's no such thing as gravity. Taking your views about belief vs. knowledge to the logical extreme requires everything to be a belief. All the evidence for what we "know" is resting on other evidence which is resting on other evidence. At some point we either have to question basic reality or just accept that it's turtles all the way down.
At what point do you draw the line about knowledge and belief and how did you decide that that was the acceptable point?
If I remember correctly, after Vietnam war they changed the rules. There is requirement that some % of troops going to war comes from National Guard, or something like that. Correct me if I'm completely wrong.
That is so false--Rice is not a slut, and I don't know why anyone would think that. And Bush is not a cowboy--he owns a ranch, but he is afraid of horses.
No, I was just trying to determine whether the place that was selling the camera I wanted for really really cheap was a sleazeball outfit. Turns out it was.
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this is retarded. re-tard-ed.
Jesus christ. Can someone just explain it to me before I get downmodded into anonimity?
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As a former employee of Starbucks, I have to say that every bit of this article is true.
I used to scour the city for a Starbucks with one of those manual espresso machines back when they started to change them en masse because of the repetitive stress injury suits. Although it takes considerably more skill to operate them, the product that comes out tastes much better than the automatic ones.
One customer, back in 2004 when they still had lots of manual machines, remarked that there were virtually zero manual machines in Toronto. I guess being a smaller market does have its advantages.
Thanks. I was wondering what to do. I was just staring at the screen.
Oh! Oh! i think i saw this episode.
her vagina kills people because she doesn't give it enough attention, right?
The free market is a cruel master. There is quick retribution for those who stop pleasing their customers.
I have no problem whatsoever with my views, since they are spot on rationally, logically, scientifically and I know exactly where they all sit. I have no emotional or intellectual need to "take the plunge" and forsake rationality like you may have.
Well, since I've forsaken rationality, perhaps you can elighten me.
What you seem to be saying is this:
1. It is not possible to have a rational belief. There is only knowledge, (when there is enough evidence), and agnostic witholding of judgement until some critical mass of evidence is obtained.
2. There are some things that have been definitively proved or disproved through evidentiary scientific enquiry and...
3. Number 2 is not a contradiction of the scientific method and the basis of scientific knowledge itself.
I think you know as well as I that all scientific knowledge is conditional. What is your critical mass of evidence that brings you down off the fence and allows you to make a judgement? What would it take for you to disbelive in God?
I agree. Not a great photo but you've got to acknowledge that detail at least.
Wow LouF, you've finally got a score higher than -40, I'm getting worried about you!
Back to the topic. You're right, up to a point. The reason why more and more companies are setting up automated telephone support lines, and call centres in India is to keep costs down. The problem is, support suffers tremendously because both the automated call systems and the staff at call centres are stupid dumb systems who are told to follow a script and not to think.
Recently I went round to a friend's house when her broadband wasn't working. She wanted to buy a laptop so I suggested she replace the old USB modem she was using and buy herself a wireless router instead... who knows, maybe the problem was with her modem anyway.
Unfortunately it was clear that neither the USB modem nor the new router were at fault, the problem was with the adsl line. Neither the modem nor the router were synchronising with the exchange.
Over the next week we called the tech support line and every time we spoke to a different person somewhere in India. I explained the problem to one guy and he insisted I rebooted my laptop. "But I'm connected to the router wirelessly" I said. "I'm logged into the web interface and the connection between me and the router is ok. It can't be a software fault on my computer because the line isn't even synchronising and 2 separate PCs can't access the internet".
He wouldn't go to the next stage until I rebooted my laptop. The guy clearly didn't have a grasp of the problem - I just needed someone to test the damn line. I pretended to reboot the laptop, waited a minute and then told him it still didn't work. He'd heard the magic words... onto the next line of the script.
A week later the problem still wasn't resolved so she finally managed to reach someone in the UK, who looked up the incident on his computer and told her that a line test was never even carried out. We had been told TWICE that it had been carried out, and the second time they said it was taking longer than anticipated so could we call back in 36 hours. Yep, they were actually telling lies.
By pissing off customers in this way they're just going to lose out in the end. Customers will have bad experiences then cancel their service.
This is a small project that shows other developers how to apply simply image processing and motion detection algorithms to video from a locally attached web camera. The project does not use any third party utilities, so that other developers can learn from, and expand upon, the code.
How is it out of context then?
Thanks. but i copied and pasted...
yep.
The sad part is that many coffee shops do not implement the level of quality control that Starbucks is willing to put in their product. How many times have you seen someone oversteam/scald milk (which turns it bitter) or tamp espresso grounds incorrectly at an independent store?
I've only been to two or three other places that had comparable (or even better!) coffee than Starbucks, but they're often a) much more expensive (think over 75 cents more) and b) use automatic machines.
My name is Sean. I served in Iraq with the New Jersey National Guard. On August 16, 2006, I had a heart attack in Iraq. I was shipped to Germany for further care. I was in intensive care for 2 to 3 days.On my last day the cardiologist told me that I had heart damage and it would never recover.
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The irony of infinite reflections...
Thanking your lucky stars leads to complacency.
I'm sure pretty much all of us (given we have internet access) globally have an above-average lot in life but that doesn't mean that we can stop trying to advance ourselves. In fact, were you so concerned with the tomato-pickers, why not do your best to advance your position and then use that to help the tomato-pickers?
I don't want to get Machiavellian but in some senses people find success because they always think they deserve better (though not necessarily true) and others get pushed down because they always think they're incredibly lucky to be where they are.
Yes, an IT worker is probably very lucky to be in the top 1% of income globally in a safe, secure job. On the other hand, given what the average IT worker knows and the level of intelligence they often possess, this might still not be enough.
Just my take.
It's frustrating that they only give that little snippet with the single low note, since you can't really tell from it how much range she has down there. Is it just a handful of arbitrary notes she can hit, like the octaves below open strings, or can she play a full scale?
Edit: One of the comments below references this page; seems it's just octaves below strings.
Congrats to "Pip Freak" for breaking the record!
Concurrency in current Common Lisp implementations (at least the free ones) seems to be a problem. It's usually based on OS threads and not available on every platform (see SBCL).
The Scheme implementations on the other hand offer almost exclusively user threads, which are portable and easy to implement thanks to call/cc.
Easy - because the kind of people who sit back in their comfortable chairs and spew hatred across the internet will most likely never leave their own city, let alone travel across the world.
Also, they don't have dark skin, any compassion nor much intelligence.
The normal use of "I wear some of those titles proudly" usually means that some of the titles sound bad, but really aren't (i.e. "[insert favorite racial epithet] lover"). So exactly which one of those titles does he wear with pride? Adding "dumb, crazy, neanderthal, Ghengis Khan, Atilla, etc." doesn't add context, it just bolsters the argument that he doesn't know what he's saying.
Great point. One of the best things about the Google search interface is that it's command-line driven (and so, lends itself well to things like SMS).
This sounds similar to Michael Shermer's appearance on Oprah the same year. He documented it in Why People Believe Weird Things (the relevant except is available at the W. H. Freeman Publishers website).
also note the site has other shit like "Is Hillary a Vampire" and "10 things you can learn from the quaker oats man" and some shit about a Homo Sweet Homo sign.
"Generally, I think you have the right to say whatever you want..."
I love that logic. Generally, I am a staunch believer in freedom, until you say something I don't like. It's like, generally, I like pizza, unless it has cheese and sauce and bread.
And this is the person Michael Moore wants to be POTUS.
No.
But get paid a shitload for their trouble. I made the transition from contractor to permie once the market hiccupped a few years back. I can certainly identify with the grumblings of the article writer when it comes to being in a perm position. When I was based at company X and costing lots they tended to listen to what I had to say and give me resource to implement new technologies where appropriate. In permie land it's a constant power struggle to get anything done at all sometimes...
That'd be funny if he wasn't a biggot.
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Oh, the horror!! (I'm not being sarcastic here, either.)
So it's semantics then?
I say "I believe there is no God based on the preponderance of the lack of evidence"
You say "I surmise that the probability of God's existence is x based on the preponderance of the lack of evidence."
Where definite certainties are unavailable, probabilities are used.
In other words, everywhere. Thus the theists resorting to faith.
There's no argument that there are moral imperatives. Abortion isn't "good". However, to claim it as the "greatest violence in the world" is just not a worthwhile claim.
And as far as numbers go, it does matter which trimester you have the abortion. Early abortions don't seem to cause as many moral dilemmas as late term abortions. I think those are definitely inhumane since those fetuses have brains, nervous systems...etc.
While they are inhumane, they still aren't the greatest evil in the world - and that's my entire point. There are a lot of evils in the world.
Warren Buffet might be smart, but I think he misses the point. Yeah, newspapers are more expensive than shit you get for free online.
But here's the problem: anyone can put together the same content as a newspaper. Anyone can write down what they see, get a video camera and tape it. That's what everyone has been clamoring about: Citizen Journalists! Holy shit! An army of Citizen Journalists.
That's exactly the problem. When anyone can (and this is a lie) gather, edit and publish news, the table gets cluttered with a bunch of shit. How do you determine who's a partisan fuck, who' a stupid fuck, who is an ignorant fuck, who is a lying fuck, from someone who's honest and dependable?
And about that lie part. You as a citizen won't have access to government like a journalist working at a newspaper would. As a journalist, you can go places most people can't. Just by asking and being able to prove it. You can go behind the scenes. You can sit on the sidelines. People will schedule time with you when they won't with others. A citizen journalist can't do that.
With a newspaper, particularly one with a good reputation and brand name, it's a lot easier. Some smarmy fuck will say, "I don't trust newspapers. Look at X scandal." Exactly. Look at it. Jayson Blair. Found out and disclosed. Dan Rather. Found out, disclosed, and retracted. Modern news is about disclosure. It has its problems, but it's at least got reputation.
People aren't paying for news. They're paying for a newspaper to get coupons, the home shopper, classifieds, tv guide, or obits. But they would never buy a paper that was JUST those things. They want news. The internet makes getting a job easier and selling something easier, but it makes filtering and finding news much harder. I can't read all 780 links that Google News finds for a story. But I know that if I see a reputable paper linked, I can avoid all the others and read their version.
You can get all your news on the internet, but guess where that news comes from. How ironic that a "newspapers are screwed" link goes to the Washington Post. Not a blog. Not a TV station. But a newspaper.
Dead trees might be screwed, but Brand Name news is not. It's just too hard to filter out the bullshit. A brand lets you start well ahead of the pack.
From a marketing standpoint, it causes the visitor to have to really focus on what it happening as they move the cursor, rather than the static and not so intriguing glance and click model.
However the complexity of the swirling graphics are difficult to naviate and could cause visitors to leave in frustration. A slower and less sweeping motion would still be interesting yet less frustrating for less coordinated visitors.
Well lots of people have different views on that specific question, but the question is valid.
That specific question does not concern this specific argument.
I won't bore you with my personal philosophy since I'm sure you don't care. But I do agree with your approach. Just because the question seems hard does not mean the question is invalid or has no answer.
More importantly, the Gospels likely weren't first written until after the supposed eye witnesses' deaths.
Perhaps, life expectancy wasn't what it is today, but there were still people aging into their 50's and 60's. If someone was born around CE15-20, they could have seen Jesus and would be young enough to live until a Gospel or two is written, or at the very least some of the Pauline Epistles.
However, that's speculation, the Hebrew culture was one of oral-tradition. Rabbi's could dictate large portions of memorized scripture to their students, and their students the same. It wouldn't be unreasonable for people to carry on a verbal account to the next generation, more so the Apostles and their disciples.
... the Gospels dates back to around the 4th century AD - 400 years after Christ's death.
You don't need complete manuscripts, while ideal historians can still compare partial manuscripts to complete ones. Some partial manuscripts (fragments or whole 'books') date to nearly a century after their original writing, while fewer in number, the manuscript range is 250-400 years after the originals.
Here's a list of documents that a majority of historians agree are authentic:
Homer, Iliad. Written: BCE 800. Earliest Copies: BCE 400. Time Gap: 400 years. # of copies: 643.
Herodotus, General History. Written: 480-425BCE. Earliest Copies: 900CE. Time Gap: ~1,350 years. # of copies: 8.
Thucydides, General History. Written: BCE 460-400. Earliest Copies: 900CE. Time Gap: ~1,300 years. # of copies: 8.
Caesar, Gallic Wars. Written: BCE 100-44. Earliest Copies: 900CE. Time Gap: ~1000 years. # of copies: 10.
I'll throw the New Testament in here for comparison.
New Testament. Written: CE 50-110. Earliest Copies: fragment from ~114 CE (50 years), books from ~200 CE (200 years), most of N.T. from ~250 CE (250 years), complete N.T. from ~325 CE (325 years). # of copies: 5,366.
Hmm. Looks like the time period between when literature is written and when a copy is found is not as important as you thought.
FWIW, most contemporary historians accept there likely was a historical figure called "Jesus", but there's fuck-all evidence that he could walk on water, turn water into wine or rise from the dead.
You're right, there is no historical evidence or narratives (outside of the early church that is) that can support his miracles. This is a philosophical matter not a historical one, there is simply no way people would believe the miracles even if there were external sources that could assert the miracles. People would cry collusion so it comes down to whether or not you can trust the N.T. authors veracity. If you don't trust the N.T. authors then you likely won't believe the miracles.
If you go back and read the New Testament, it's pretty unlikely he'd even approve of the actions and attitudes of many of the denominations who worship in his name.
Here I completely agree with you, the "good" people do in his name is usually propagated by selfishness, ignorance, or both.
Yea, management ego/stupidity ratios tend to be pretty high once you cross that magic line that gives them actual power over you..
Back some time ago, there was a "hack" that used this numeric range search to find all credit card numbers online. Now, this doesn't work as well, since it pretty much just find websites that talk about this hack.
Nah he didnt hire an Indian Freelancer, It was his friend who drew it up for him in the VERY early 90's. Believe it or not they were cool back then. He really does need to update them though.
Actually, list comprehensions have been available since 2.0.
hahaha, thats amazing.
Think that russian had a little to much vodka.
Damn!
What generalizations?
a well-funded Zionists?
belligerent possibly
religious theocracy. Incorrect. It has the regions hugest pig farm.
I doubt that any informed neutral observer has ever regarded it as a beacon of democracy Because, of course, you're neutral.
one secular state as it was for the preceding 2000 years. SO incorrect, that you deserve to be called an idiot. Every single empire in the region (except the Mongols and European colonialist oppressors), was theocratic.
I disagree. The topic of "what do you believe" is one area where pedants seldom waver. I'm more than happy to let a European call me "American" (I'm Canadian, which is in North America, so close enough) but I'll be, um, damned if I let someone call me an atheist when I'm actually agnostic.
Wow, I didn't know I knew so many languages, much less used them.
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I must be thick. Why do I get 25 for f(5) where f = (41/24)(n-1)(n-2)(n-3)(n-4) + 1?
This is a misleading title-- it's not that the average product rating is 4/5, it's that the average review is 4/5:
In fact, a recent study analyzing more than 585,000 customer-written reviews on Amazon found that the average book title gets 4.2 out of five stars.
I find the product ratings on Amazon generally useful, so I'm going to guess people tend to praise the products they like, and that these reviews are clustered around good products, and that the actual product ratings aren't as skewed as this title suggests.
I'm glad he's blogging. Lets the world see inside.
Great Zombie Jesus
also, it was before september, silly me.
Yes, but I'm guessing that there are a lot of non-self-respecting Googlers out there that might find a tip on the list that they hadn't tried before.
And that inevitably leads companies to engineer the individuality gene out of the company's DNA.
Please stop using DNA/genetics analogies with companies. Annoying.
I didn't see that argument being made in the article, but then again I've (purposely) never been in a position that could/would be outsourced.
You're right though, the very rare exception is the company that realizes the value in a good (and happy!) IT department. Most of the time IT is seen as a cost, and corners are cut all the time. IT is arguably the most important component in any company nowadays since it keeps the entire workforce working. That obvious fact is lost on a lot of management teams.
it's always interesting to me when people try to pass off materialism and greed as a virtue
There is an interesting documentary out called 'Black Gold' about the struggles of Ethiopian coffee farmers. In it there is a perfect caricature of Starbucks featuring a vacuous store manager prattling on about how coffee is 'about the people', while the farmers in Ethiopia are making $0.50 per day.
Isn't globalization fun?
You can't spell Christian or fuck, and you're calling a quite large group of people retards?
Even though you're an egregious troll, perhaps one day you'll remove your head from your ass.
Yes, Dowd is an embarrassment to the US press, and that is saying something.
Be afraid, be very afraid...
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Because it's niche is too close to perl and I'm old enough to have learnt perl fairly well.
Also, moving away from CPAN would be painful.
And perl6 is looking very exciting at the moment.
For me, python fails the "language which doesn't change you think about programming isn't worth learning" test.
I've picked up some scheme recently (SICP is excellent) and seen enough Haskell to like the idea, but sinking time into learning python's differences to perl doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
I may give ruby a spin, but only if perl6 fails to deliver.
Well you said not "one single prominent religion" so your statement was false. Also see up further, its a large part of religion of many times going back in time.
Regarding the Python interpreter problem, you should really look into using ipython (if you haven't already). It's an enhanced python shell.
http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/
Install it, fire it up and type:
cpaste?
It's exactly what you need.
If you find yourself using the python interpreter a lot, you're going to love ipython, it's awesome.
That's the last straw. The dude is now officially psychotic. When did it all go wrong?
Doesn't matter, all programmers need the qt license. Besides, qt includes a lot of non-GUI things that they will want to use. Their containers for instance or easier to use than the STL versions, while being fast enough. (Qhash is faster than std::map in most but not all cases)
Re: "have to" v. "need to" - I prefer "must".
Test
He might have moved there, but it ain't why he's broken.
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born on January 3, 1956, in Peekskill, New York, USA
These are the same people if unchecked will walk right into a dictatorship, for the parental aspect.
I know, but I'm glad you chose that sentence rather than use the headline the Times had.
Fighting straw men with straw men?
It's like watching the Scarecrow commit suicide :-(
You must be new here. Any quote that includes "make baby Jesus cry" is so 1998 and on the same lameness level as "where's the beef?" It's also just about as funny. Meaning it's not.
Spoken like a true college dropout. And the H1B thing is to get cheaper talent because, with Vista and SQL Server failing to get the dollars the company needs, they need to cut costs anywhere they can.
sure, if you want
Well, the word 'cunt' is used as a term of endearment in certain parts of the world.
excellent quote, good connection there...that was very interesting, thank you
This is why intellectual honesty is important.
If you don't know what is definitively false, you are less knowledgeable than someone who knows what is false and knows what has not yet been tested.
It's not just language at issue here, because there is a functional difference between the conduct of people who strive for a certain level of solid proof and those who don't.
Knowing the difference, at the forefront of your mind, between something which has some mysterious undefined chance of being false and something which has been shown to have a 99.5% chance of being false is very very important.
Knowing the difference between categories 2 and 3 determines what is fruitful to test. Are you going to keep testing the ether hypothesis when it's already been 99.9% disproven? Or are you going to test the God hypothesis which is essentially unexplored?
You give both those theories the same credence when in truth the God hypothesis is extremely more likely since we have physical evidence that the other one is false.
no market for espresso bars... in the US
my american boyfriend was recently frustrated on visiting NZ only to find that none of our cafes serve regular drip coffee... the closest thing he could find was a long black, which was too strong for his starbucks-trained palate. Luckily, there're a few starbucks in NZ and he could find his bland regular coffee there.
The Australians figured out that conserving a mere 3 petajoules of power over 12 years would cost the same as building the nuclear plants to produce that energy.
That's really interesting. I have already read that recycling is generally worse than just throwing things away. I didn't know that the same type of thing was true of power consumption.
So if you go the conservation route then you lose the opportunity to build know-how in nuclear power and you soon meet a dead end that forces you back on nuclear power anyways. Meanwhile you burn coal.
OK, so nuclear. I have no argument against that.
And for what? For nothing.
Hmm . . . for the enjoyment of the people who are consuming the kiwis. What else is the point of producing things at all except the joy derived by consuming them?
I'd be willing to bet that 99.9% of the newfound peace and understanding in Europe is due to increased tourism, improved telecomm and less abuse of children leading to more laid-back open-minded adults, with less than 0.1% due to trade.
I can buy that, but what do you think should be done in the US, my country? I have only traveled abroad twice in my twenty two years of life, and once was when I was two. The second was very recently, and it was an eye opening experience in the ways that people in other parts of the world live. However, it's prohibitively expensive. The trip cost me half of my yearly vacation time and two thousand dollars. That added to the fact that my means are well above those of most Americans makes it difficult for us to travel to places where there are other cultures, except Mexico and central America.
On top of that, international travel does use those fossil fuels that we're running out of, unless we figure out a way to get a nuclear reactor on an airplane sometime soon. :P
Especially the USA which produces practically nothing of real value now.
That's not true. It is true that we do not export much in the way of physical goods. However, we do have a good amount of domestic production and assembly. Also, we export services and entertainment to other countries. Also, a lot of the money from our country has been invested in increasing production elsewhere.
You're not a child so it's okay to say your sketch is ugly. And creepy.
What can I say. Mommy never said I was going to be an artist. I've always had small motor problems.
It also doesn't matter if you disagree with what I said about the financial sector anymore than it matters if you "disagree" with the existence of the top quark.
The only difference is that in the case of the top quark, everyone is in agreement on its existence. Not everyone agrees that the financial sector is evil and bad. To say that the fact value of the two is the same is disingenuous.
I'm picky about who my friends are. Your love of doctrinaire thinking and incuriosity about alternatives is certainly not going to endear you to me.
But it doesn't seem like anything I read from you ever agrees with what anyone else is saying. Are you the lone voice of sanity? I looked into your track record and noticed that you've been thrown off of at least one other site for your manner of . . . ah . . . debate. Nevermind, you don't have to answer the question if you don't want to.
That's why it is perfectly tenable from a logical and rational point of view to have an epistemic belief in the nonexistence of God based purely on the principle of parsimonious priors.
The irony of infinite reflections...
haha, can we say the same thing for haskell too.
I believe in religion. I believe it exists.
The problem is people are believing in "religion," that is, in a system, instead of really chosing anything and believing themselves.
Jeez, RTFC dude..
America doesn't make mistakes.
Funny, drunk dumbass seeing the true face of Bush :)
You really know your stuff. Thank you for showing you're a human being and using your brain, unlike so many people on the internet.
I can only speak for banking (where I've worked), but a lot of IT managers in banking seem to be people who have moved in from other functions (sales, accounting, trading, ...). For some reason, technology people don't seem to become IT managers. Maybe it's because technologists are "too valuable" in their current role, or technologists don't have "management skills", or they just want to find a place to put these burnouts and IT is the line-of-business purgatory.
Regardless, it's tough for me as a technologist to have any say when my manager doesn't know what I'm talking about and has little interest in learning.
I imagine what I've described happens in a lot of non-technology companies where IT is the biggest expense on the sheet. I guess the mecca really is a technology company that understands the value of new technology and the people eager to learn and use it.
I dont think there very interesting, not sure this will effect me much.
Yawn
Seriously though, do you really think that this is in anyway interesting ?
Perhaps the title should have contained ellipses in the front as well.
"...science abuser, Holocaust denier, hate-filled, warmonger...I wear some of those titles proudly."
And yet the myth of the romanticism of war still exists.
Music listeners and lovers are not the RIAA's customers. The RIAA's customers are the record labels (and not even the artists themselves IIRC).
Does the RIAA even get any revenue directly from music sales?
Because you're bad at arithmetic?
Alternatively (and almost certainly the real reason)... because you're using a tool that treats integer/integer = integer.
Strunk and White's The Elements of Style is a great book and a handy guide. I keep my copy close at hand whenever I'm doing any rigorous writing. Their golden rule of composition, "Omit unnecessary words," has never failed to improve my writing when I have the time and energy to apply it.
However, my adherence to language guides of all kinds is tempered by the last rule in Orwell's Politics and the English Language: "Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous."
extremely well done! great beatboxing skills!
He missed the point of FizzBuzz. I too want someone who will google the problem and send me a link. Problem is all they have proved is google skills - important, even critical - but not what I need to know. I still need some way to know if you can actually write a program.
I know many people who can use google effectively. Some are really good at talking their way through interviews, and might know enough keywords, and have a few stories memorized that they can fool me. They can't do FizzBuzz on their own though, so I don't want them programming.
Arg... make it stop.....
I only disbelieve things which I have proven to be false.
So the only things that are open to belief/disbelief are things that are testable?
How do YOU distinguish between what has been proven false, and what has not yet been tested?
I am an agnostic regarding testable things that have not yet been tested. I am an atheist regarding preposterous things that can never be tested and have no reasonable basis in observable reality.
this is the difference between science and philosophy
parsimony is also faith based. If we listened to philosophers we would never have discovered quantum mechanics because philosophers used to tell us that the world MUST BE deterministic. Then it turned out it wasnt. These days, philosophers tell us the world is parsimious. But holding unproven beliefs is a detriment to science not a benefit.
If you don't know what is definitively false, you are less knowledgeable than someone who knows what is false and knows what has not yet been tested.
just a typical slut. nothing to see here, really.
If they had rewritten the Lisp system in Lisp using a concurrency package, it would have probably worked just as well.
I know of no Common Lisp built on and for concurrency with lightweight threads and virtually infinite clustering built-in.
Erlang is.
edit for precision: I do know that many Common Lisp implementations do provide lightweight threads and parallelization facilities, I think SBCL does (at least for lightweight threads) and a comment from one of the devs on LtU indicates that they did indeed not use lightweight threads.
But Common Lisp is not built on and for concurrency, parallelisation and clustering.
I didn't intend this post as a dig against Common Lisp, just as fact-stating.
Well, asserting that I don't understand what intelligence is comes across as particularly amusing (not to mention ironic) when you consider that the definition you are clumsily asserting for intelligence does not appear in in a standard dictionary. Instead of me offering you my definition of intelligence, I recommend you take a few seconds to look it up on your own. Try http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=intelligence
Just because a process appears to produce intelligent results does not make the process itself a problem-solving, intelligent thing.
Your misconceptions about the process of evolution, including variation, mutation, and natural selection demonstrate your ignorance of it. One example of that glaring ignorance is your choice of words when you say things like, "shuffling around genes intelligently, to come up with combinations that will solve problems." There is no intelligent shuffling. There is no intent at solving problems. In the same message, you say that "it's not a conscious entity getting rid of you." Yet, you go off an say that this completely impersonal, non-conscious process is actively shuffling genes around and seeking to solve problems with different combinations.
You can't have it both ways. My statement was just that you were errantly personifying a process, and you are. Maybe you don't know how to talk about intelligence without implying consciousness, but if you're going to go on and on about intelligence that is not contained in a self-aware consciousness, you really ought to figure out how to express yourself in a way that matches your thoughts.
Std. definitions of intelligence do imply self-awareness and consciousness.
I couldn't have said it better. I highly recommend reading The Corporation by Joel Bakan if you have not already. There is also a DVD available through Netflix. I just started Gangs of America by Ted Nace, and I am enjoying it as well.
Any source control system worth using can tell you who wrote each line of code in each revision so get a decent source control system and stop doing this; it is annoying.
is it terrorism or an act to establish freedom
Of course, it's called french cuisine!!
BTW, any thoughts on "american cuisine" you might want to share with us?
Can you prove God is untestable?
There is no advantage to disbelief.
It's good to read about somebody actually using a language like Erlang for something real-world
Er did you miss the articles on OpenPoker and Yariv's stuff (metaprogramming in Erlang, ...)?
I mean last time I checked at its core Erlang was built for real-world usage, so it's not like you can even use the "academic language" excuse about it...
Multidimensional spreadsheet (ala Improv/Quantrix).
Are you kidding? The trivia bit is priceless! And she looks just the way I had pictured in my mind when I read your comment.
These sorts of language comparisons, where someone hand-picks some inane example and attempts to draw some deep conclusions, are just silly.
(Rant: The worst is when the person making the point is not particularly experienced in one or both of the languages and has some prior bias or agenda. In short, they don't really know what they're talking about and are more concerned with carefully hand-picking 'evidence' which supports their pet world-view than they are with actually learning anything. The percentage of blog posts on programming which aren't this sort of drivel is pretty close to zero.)
Also, as one of the comments on that page shows, you can make the Factor version work more or less exactly the same as the Haskell, at least in terms of using the same sort of semantic components.
sometimes the headlines are bad, so i get out of my laziness and make one. but it's rare.
Oh no perhaps we should all stop drinking beer too. You never know when you'll be drunk and need to drive someone to the hospital after all!
I am a little confused when people refer to health insurance and heath care. It is probably just an issue of semantics but Insurance is usually meant for "in case it happens" situations while a Health care plan is generally meant to be more of a maintenence plan for your body. I would expect to pay more for a maintence plan than a gamble on an unexpected break down. Maybe I am getting a little too simplistic here? Any thoughts?
The Swiss being chosen as the next target?? That's hilarious! You guys make a living whoring yourselves out to the highest bidder! If anything, you'll be the last ones standing, so I think you're pretty safe. Go ahead and rail against the United States, it's a pretty popular opinion on this site. I'm sorry to have even singled you out in the first place; we have enough of our own citizens shitting on each other, might as well add a couple of more muffin heads to the mix.
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
Thomas Jefferson
Oprah and all these other daytime shows make money off soft-brained people. That's their business plan.
Or are you going to test the God hypothesis which is essentially unexplored?
Love to. How? As I said before, I'd willingly shed my disbelief for knowledge. If God is real, I want to know about it. Do you imagine some future point when this can be tested? If so, you are very optimistic.
The article is very apple-like - all about form, almost nothing about substance ...
Hah. Hi there, reddit front page. I'd like to clear some things up.
Yeah, we were having trouble with SBCL's garbage collector specifically. Or it was in the code; Michael, who wrote it, (AKA momerath42) wasn't able to track it down, and I tried everything I could think of. There is a way to run through all reachable objects, and the set of reachable objects didn't seem to jibe with the amount of memory it was chewing through -- maybe the fragmentation was the problem. We used a lot of hash tables-of-hash tables. Anyway the post beza1e1 tracked down explains it a little bit.
We tried switching to CMUCL (which had much worse performance - it basically exploded right away) and briefly entertained clisp (but the socket portability stuff was a pain) but ultimately we wanted something that would scale.
We weren't using OS-level threads at all, by the way. What we really wanted was lightweight processes, and Common Lisp doesn't have them, or continuations which would have been better. What we really wanted were Erlang processes.
We also make heavy use of Lua coroutines in another part of the system, which are similar but don't have the whole inter-process messaging thing worked out for you -- we kind of evolved one that turned out to be somewhat similar to Erlang's (but not nearly as powerful - no pattern matching, for instance) without us realizing it.
Also, it's kind of silly to point to AI as having anything to do with this. It doesn't, really, it's just that a lot of "things" are going on in our virtual universe and we need a distributed way to make them happen.
Come up with your own startup ideas :p
I disagree. When Jesus was crucified the authorities (the Roman one's under Pilate and now Jewish) hung a sign over his head that read, "king of the jews." You must know that this was common practice by the Romans when putting political enemies to death. He was also put to death along side two other men who were zealots themselves.
Jesus' own desciples misunderstood Jesus as a political savior, some of them were zealots themselves, why is it such a stretch that the Romans would mistake him for a political zealot?
One last thing. As Jesus and the desciples were about to riding into Jerusalem Jesus asks, "how many swords do we have," Peter answers, "a couple," Jesus says that is enough. If Jesus did not expect trouble with the law, or expect to MAKE trouble with the law, why the swords weilded by the deciples of this meekest son of man?
I haven't read the book, but judging from the quotes cited in the article it sounds a tad like Hubbard's Dianetics - a way for people who are already rich and comfortable to stop feeling guilty about it.
Anecdotal evidence is the pillar of scientific proof.
along with everybody else?
Or we make sure to destroy any evidence that mistakes were made. Too bad that the age of information is starting to destroy the old adage that the winners write the history. Did I say too bad? I meant about time.
I recently read that rape was so commonplace in the military it's now considered to be the unofficial duty of female soldiers to service their superior officers.
Source?
I disagree. People talk about Lisp when they mean Scheme, ISLisp, Emcas Lisp, LISP 1.5, Common Lisp, or whatever language that has s-expressions. This case it happened to be Common Lisp.
It doesn't matter what I imagine what matters is what has been shown to be true, what has been shown to be false, and all those other things out there in the middle.
As long as people still treat stuff-in-the-middle as if it were stuff somewhere else, society will have issues. The real problem with religion is not a belief in God it's a belief in stuff for bad reasons.
Disbelieving God inaccurately is just as bad as believing in God inaccurately. Progress is not made by substituting one superstition for another.
Bill Gates should start an army
That's right. And this woman's marriege was KIA so rich corporations can make more money. Get used to it, it's America the accursed.
Thanks for the steer, will grab them and have a read.
who...who are you talking to?
This is news? I'm constantly amazed at how much slack there is in the economy. Long term, I think he's right. It's just amazing that it's a 20 year slide.
You know ... the US is starting to fill up with a bunch of whiny babies.
I'm American born and bred, I served in the military for 16 years, and my grandfather fought in WWII; and I could not care less whether or not the Japanese apologise for something that happened last century by OTHER people! It's over and done with and the Japanese are, for the most part, on our side. We have a good relationship with them. Plus, they make GREAT electronics.
This is as ridiculous as the blacks demanding an apology from the government for slavery. Again, crazy. Not one person alive today had ANYTHING to do with slavery! I know it was bad and you know it was bad, but neither you nor I did anything to enslave anybody. And who exactly would we be apologising to anyway? All of the dead former slaves??? Shall we have perform a seance?
I say ... grow up and get on with life. As long as we keep holding grudges we will NEVER get along with anybody.
p.s., I am white just in case you were wondering.
Starbucks isn't just about coffee. It's also about having a reasonable quiet, clean, non-smelly place to go where the only other people there are the kind that don't mind paying $3 for a cup of coffee. Contrast this with going to McDonald's for a cup of coffee and you'll see why I usually meet people at SB.
I wonder if this report of Starbucks' death is greatly exaggerated. We often proclaim such things, which tend to have a kernel of truth, but only that. How long have people been trumpeting Microsoft's downfall? And yet they appear to be making money just fine, although the stock is a little flat.
And on a related note --- this man makes a rake produce notes it shouldn't be able to produce: Eugene Chadbourne
It would be nice if data types could be defined with a template with default values in one step
Here is one way to do it:
data Foo = Foo {bar :: Int, baz :: String}
defaultFoo = Foo {bar = 0, baz = ""}
This defines the data type Foo with fields bar and baz. Also, we've defined a Foo with reasonable default values.
anotherThing = defaultFoo { baz = "stuff" }
Here, anotherThing inherits bar from defaultFoo and overrides baz.
Too bad this wartime use of National Guard units will likely deter people from joining, so we will have fewer units available for things like national disaster cleanup.
There is already a huge force in Iraq by Iran. It needs to be stopped for any real stability in the region.
Define "by Iran". If you mean people who crossed the border on their own accord, then there is nothing you can do to stop it, short of building a 20ft high electrified fence across the 2,267 mile border. Oh, and Iraq's electricity supply is still unreliable, so you'd better make it a 40ft wall instead.
There will never be any real stability in the region during our lifetime.
I suggest you start to read world history before throwing accusations that Iran is directly involved. In every major conflict with an ideological basis, like minded souls from around the world flock to fight for their respective sides and not necessarily the country they should be supporting. In WW2, there were good Germans and bad "allies", with people from uninvolved nations on both sides.
You must have quite the lab if all your beliefs have to be tested in it.
Are you honestly trying to claim that you are agnostic about everything and anything that either has not been, or as of this moment in history, cannot be, tested empirically by you personally?
I am impressed in spite of myself.
to the guy who wrote the article?
darcs? pugs?
Tres Kunstler.
This is awesome!
What kind of a man of the people lives in a $5.4 million house??
First - Zionism is largely secular, atheist even. From its start, Zionists were at odds with religious Jews.
Secind, what indicates, in your opinion, that anyone is held hostage to the "Greater Israel" approach? Israel gave up Sinai, 60% the size of the country at the time, to Egypt as part of the peace process. It signed the Olso accord, which was supposed to bring a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. It withdrew from entirely Lebanon in 2000 and from Gaza strip one year ago, and finally it elected a government on the ticket of a "two state solution" to power. It seems the problem now is the "Greater Palestine" approach of Hamas, rather than the Israeli side.
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Disbelieving God inaccurately is just as bad as believing in God inaccurately. Progress is not made by substituting one superstition for another.
Perhaps you could withdraw from the conceit of your Archimedean point long enough to consider the possibilty that disbelief in God is in fact progress?
no market for espresso bars... in the US
Touché!
A Newt Joke
I'm absolutely agnostic if I can't apply some sort of judgment, and even when I do apply fuzzy judgment I remain functionally agnostic because though I might use the technique I am constantly monitoring it for effectiveness.
There is no disadvantage to agnosticism. Why do you feel you must take a strong position when only weak evidence is available? Grey is a totally fine color.
No, they're not so much evil, as stupid. Now, if they use that stupidity born prejudice as a justification to do violence ... that is evil.
there's a super simple solution that involves creating a mutable variable in the enclosing scope. There's also another solution in which:
def outer(n):
def inner():
inner.x = inner.x + 1
return inner.x
inner.x = n
return inner
This provides the same functionality you're looking for, even if it's not "real" in your sense.
First thing that crossed my mind...
MicroRNAs are tiny snippets of RNA that can repress activity of a gene by targeting the gene's messenger RNA (which copies DNA information and starts the process of protein production).
Scientists have developed a new procedure for the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells, with which they have created the first transplantable source of lung epithelial cells.
Inhofe repeated his view that man-made global warming is "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," and he quarreled with a Bush administration proposal to list polar bears as a threatened species. "They're overpopulated," he declared.
If Stephen Colbert decides not to run for president this guy could easily take his place.
There are infinitely many sequences that begin with 1,1,1,1,... There is no way of saying what the next value is.
The guy's 76 years old. Not many people that old (sidenote: Ted Stevens is much older) realize just how much computers have changed things.
With the amount of money this guy has, whenever he talks, smart investors listen.
How does LinkedIn Answers cope with the question "Does digital suck?"
Extreme paranoia, and delusions are common themes amoungst dictators. Stalin,Hitler,Idi Amin,Saddam being well-known examples. Mr Chavez may be graduating, moving up to the next level, a complete break from reality may be near. mercifully, I have popcorn. Nationalizing industries,structures of control,spies, secret police,reams of regulations and law regarding every aspect of life resulting in absolute and detailed control by
the one man, an over-riding and intense need to control and record, to know every detail,and trust nobody are standard. These are pre-existing conditions, a part of thier character and thinking that leads them down this path. Thier fall can be hastened with dis-information, a technique apparently used to break Grenada. Bernard Coard, who had leader Maurice Bishop and close friends executed, believed as told,that the CIA was causing natural disasters on the little island,which they hoped to build into an eastern bloc type of socialist state. Coard also believed the CIA was reading his thoughts. It was not necessary to actually do it, the seed of the idea was enough. The same may be true in this case. This is also in effect in a very non secret way against Iran and North Korea. I am certain,if there was an actual desire to kill Chavez, he would be dead, as he is a very easy target. The truth is, he is only a threat to his own people, busily ruining the economy, and destroying its strongest industries. He is a minor irritation, with delusions of grandeur, seeing himself as some kind of future King of The United Socialist South America of Chavez. A genuine nut case. I am sorry for our Venezuelan friends, but his show serves as harmless distraction right now. Comedy relief. He is not a priority.
Logically, there's no difference between god existing or not existing, therefore it is accurate to say there is a god.
Also "it's" is a contraction of "it is".
Not as to be a big defender of Starbucks but you're most likely comparing two different products.
Are you honestly getting a 16 or 20 ounce latte for $1.75 at the local place? I know I can get one for $2.25 around here at cheapest and it was just terrible (I love my local cafes but just not that one)
If you're going for a plain cup of coffee the most you'll end up spending at Starbucks is $1.80 or $1.85.
How would we stop them?
Regarding the 4 risk attitude categories and how they impact your projects.
You vote with your taxes. It's that simple. If your paying the state off for protection it's YOUR OWN GODDAMN FAULT!!
In the reddit-link comments section?
The inanity of your original post confused Lupus. He tried to pull some sort of meaningful argument out of that back alley abortion because he couldn't believe that somebody would actually say something so obvious. What you described was the basic life cycle of every http request, ever. Wow, objects get created to handle a request? NO SHIT! Then they get destroyed at the end when they go out of scope? NO SHIT! This is like claiming that variable creation, destruction is stupid in a non-OO language.
Were I in a snarky mood I'd accuse you of simply restating my comment. Instead, I'll be serious.
Some groups are more evil and less deserving of existence than other groups. Child molesters, for example. The problem is, most such "groups" are only "groups" in an abstract sense.
Why do you feel you must take a strong position when only weak evidence is available?
So I can set aside the question and get on with my day...at least until new information comes to light with which to re-examine the question. Also, because I am not agnostic about other things that I cannot prove...such as the fact that I love my wife. We are not entirely rational creatures. It is a conceit to pretend that we are.
It's certainly not progress as countless immoral non-God people have shown.
Let's get rid of God and replace it with Stalin. That's sure to work!
The only useful substitute for belief-without-evidence is strict rationalism. Everything else is just another tone of superstition. Changing from faith in God to faith in Stalin or faith in Nietzsche or faith in Pharaoh is absolutely useless and results in the same atrocities that people of God committed.
Both Genghis Khan and Stalin were atheist in the way you describe it. They didn't believe in an omnipotent God being. Was that progress?
Wow... strong competition for "most inane Reddit comment ever" today!
Since space is limited, I'll just pick the most entertaining piece of your fine effort: "They could return Israel and the occupied territories into one secular state as it was for the preceding 2000 years" - huh? What is that state, that existed peacefully and secularly before the evil Israelis tore it apart? If it existed for 2000 years, surely you can point to some source about this?
I'm tempted to think this is some sort of parody on Reddit comments. Could anyone truly be that ignorant?
From your link:
1.\tcapacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
2.\tmanifestation of a high mental capacity: He writes with intelligence and wit.
3.\tthe faculty of understanding.
And yet, with the exception of only part of 1, anything less than human has no intelligence at all. When has a mouse ever grasped truths, relationships, facts or meanings? A mouse doesn't have a high mental capacity in the sense that they mean, and it sure as hell doesn't have the faculty of understanding.
Other than humans, you only apparently allow for hypothetical extraterrestrials who have human-like intelligence, it would seem.
Your misconceptions about the process of evolution, including variation, mutation, and natural selection demonstrate your ignorance of it.
Since when did I ever demonstrate any fundamental misunderstandings? You keep confusing intelligence with self-awareness and directed purpose, which simply is not the case.
One example of that glaring ignorance is your choice of words when you say things like, "shuffling around genes intelligently, to come up with combinations that will solve problems." There is no intelligent shuffling.
There is shuffling. Genes are transferred laterally across species at times. At others, they are mixed and matched within organisms. The only point of contention is that this may or may not indicate intelligence.
There is no intent at solving problems.
Here is the core of your misunderstanding. Intelligence doesn't require "intent". That's a function of self-awareness.
Yet, you go off an say that this completely impersonal, non-conscious process is actively shuffling genes around
Active is a good word to describe it, things are happening, don't you think? Even if there is no intelligence, would you describe the process of evolution as inactive?
and seeking to solve problems with different combinations.
Again, I never suggested any "seeking" was going on. That's a function of self-awareness, not intelligence.
My statement was just that you were errantly personifying a process,
Intelligence does not equal personhood. Therefor, no personification.
Std. definitions of intelligence do imply self-awareness and consciousness.
Common definitions do, mostly because people have little of the quality being discussed.
What's the problem? People have no inherent value. They're just insurable commodities, like cars and houses. If your house gets broken into, or you have too many accidents, your insurance company drops you or hikes the rates sky high. Same thing if you're stupid enough to get sick.
ah, yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. (And, yes, I'm of the slow-but-sure school in maths...)
Yes. For example, gunpowder is sold in different varieties that are distinguished by grain size.
If you want to act based on faith I will not judge you.
However I think you owe it to humanity to be clear about your beliefs. Don't pretend that your faith is scientific... unless you want to confuse people.
I think citizen journalists are like podcasting and blogs in how they'll be utilized by normal people. Normal people find bugs in ideas like these that most reddit readers are oblivious to.
It's still about the money; if people can get their news for free and it fits their lifestyles, they won't pay for it. It really is that simple.
So, I have been working on a website for awhile, and though I think its ready for production after the testing that I have done, I wanted to know if there was more that I could I do? I am sure there quite a few people on reddit that are web developers, so what do you use to stress test, 404 test, cross browser compatibility, etc?
The commitment goes both ways: the soldier agrees to fight if called upon to do son, and the government agrees not to call the soldier without good cause. Iraq did not, and does not, qualify as good cause.
It's called the Just World Hypothesis.
Basically, people don't want to accept that the world is random. They don't want to accept that bad things happen to good people and good things sometimes happen to those who don't really deserve them.
In all seriousness: like what?
I don't find __ any harder to type than @, which people seem to find much more convenient, and I think it's easier to read something surrounded by underscores than prefixed by @.
Maybe /magic_var/? |magic_var|? :magic_var:?
I don't like that they all intrude on the vertical space of the identifier.
You mean admit mistakes.
Well now we are in complete agreement. (Except for the faith in Nietzsche bit. He offered no solutions, merely a lament for a state of affairs.)
The only useful substitute for belief-without-evidence is strict rationalism.
You still haven't convinced me that this is useful outside the lab. What kind of strictly rational theory of morality would be useful? Utilitarianism simply opens the door to the same kinds of atrocities that you just decried.
If Liechtenstein had an army, maybe the Swiss would've left them alone.
That's what a single, prefix, underscore is for. Quoting Pep 8:
In addition, the following special forms using leading or trailing
underscores are recognized (these can generally be combined with any case
convention):
- _single_leading_underscore: weak "internal use" indicator. E.g. "from M
import *" does not import objects whose name starts with an underscore.
Why is @ easier to type than _?
Faith is immutable. Belief is open to evidence. Please do not confuse the two. I do not.
There is evidence that I love my wife, even though I cannot prove it definitively. From a strictly rational POV, I should be agnostic about this - i.e. I should refrain from stating a position. Or do you deny that your position mandates this?
They are defending their country from the people they have been occupying for thirty years?
I dunno. Maybe they've been defending it from the rest of the Middle East, which have been in state of war with Israel since 1948? Maybe it's even those people, who go and bomb themselves in Israeli schoolbusses and malls? Maybe they're just keeping an army to defend their country - every other nation in the world seems to do that.
Give me freedom or give me death. Israel has chosen to give them death instead of freedom
You really are so cute, malcontent :) Brave young man, fighting for freedom cliche after cliche, stopping only for a quick login change or an occasional wank. Did you hear of a "two state solution"? Have you heard of the Israelis pulling out of Gaza last year? Is the term "Oslo Agreement" familiar to you?
Military service is mandatory. So they get to have fun after they serve and get their share of pissing on palestenians and looking up old ladies dresses.
So, you do claim nearly all Israelis are so evil by nature that they actually prefer to go kill some Palestinians for fun, rather than skip the service?
This could have been condensed to one tip, "read Google's own help content", starting here, at a page which presents everything this article does, better.
"Christians are morons."
When we did Archery in elementary school P.E. one clever student shot an arrow straight up into the air. Nobody got hurt but it stuck into the ground right next to the teacher. For some reason that story seems much more dangerous now than it did at the time. I don't think the student even got punished.
Anyways, good to know I can learn Archery from the safety of my laptop. ;)
I am afraid that story is lost in the greater noise of disgusting behavior by the israeli military and politicians.
Malcontent, you are one in a million! :)
Yes, Joel on Software argued that the inherent difficulty is a problem of scaling up: Big Macs vs the Naked Chef
http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000024.html
Boo-fucking-hoo.
What I like most about Starbucks being everywhere in Hong Kong is that all the idiot tourists from the US seem to end up doing their tours of the Island bouncing from one Starbucks to another.
Even though they have their food made for them half a day before their loyal customers buy it. The Cantonese cannot stand food that is not fresh. Neither can I as an Aussie expat.
Boo-fucking-hoo Starbucks - die in a fire - you are shit.
Those questions are valid and worth exploring.
But do you really want me to solve the infinite mystery of the universe for you?
Just becauase a question is hard to answer does not mean it's a bad question.
A work of art. There aren't too many people in this world who can point out flaws of modern society in this simple yet brilliant fashion.
5 out of 5
This is such a good example of why I eventually became totally disillusioned with orthodox New Age doctrine. I glommed onto their teachings at a time in my life that I was lonely, desparate, and scared, but I eventually grew out of it because fundamentalist thinking just isn't in my nature.
The Senator said "some of those titles," and the poster chose the most sensational subset.
I'm guessing, but I think the right context would be that he's taking claims that he's generally evil and turning them into a statement of pride, much like how blacks go around calling each other "niggas."
Edit: typo
Right, but it is a good way to get rid of trash that will fit in the envelope.
Refute this? If you do you are blind.
A citizen journalist can't do that.
I disagree. As a citizen journalist, I have gone places by asking; gone behind the scenes; arranged to meet with people in government and industry; and so on. The only constraint for me is time: I'm not paid to do citizen journalism, so I do it as a part-time hobby.
I have had journalists come up to me off the record and tell me they wish they could do what I do: write plainly and bluntly about political and economic issues over which the newspaper has conflicts of interest.
As a reader, you can't afford the luxury of accepting anything you read at face value; not a "reputable" news source or a citizen blog post.
The former are more heavily edited and fact-checked, but they are also pruned into banality and contain hidden biases in the facts, interviews, and events never reported at all.
The latter tend to be less professional but are more independent, more likely to cite their sources (so you can check them yourself), and more likely to wear their opinions on their sleeves instead of obscuring them under a blanket of faux-neutrality.
Any individual independent news source may, to borrow a phrase from Douglas Adams, 'have many omissions and contain much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate', but taken as a collection, these are turning out to be superior to the legacy newsmedia in many ways.
I agree that Brand Name news is not screwed; but the transformation caused by new information technologies is going to overturn some legacies and establish some new brands.
Why should the government admit what it did wrong if the general population cares so little about it? If you compare the average American's knowledge of the "war on terror" to their knowledge of the cirucmstances of Anna Nicole's death, my guess is the scales would tip quite favorably towards knowledge of Anna Nicole's death. Until the population choses to be knowledgable, make some noise and demand change, it's just going to be more of the same.
I don't know much about American Cuisine. I'm more a Saumagen guy. :-)
"... maybe it was just camouflaged like leaves..."
Oh yes, of course! As recursive points out, Samus_ added a 'd'. My mistake!
Well, since you don't use proper grammar yourself, I can see why you may not find it interesting.
... that this is in anyway interesting
Should read
... that this is in any way interesting
I personally prefer that people use proper grammar. It simply makes the writer look more professional, intelligent, and trustworthy. When people use improper grammar (particularly with more egregarious offenses), I think, You can't even write properly. Why should I believe anything you have to say?
I find her review even more interesting.
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Rhonda-Byrne/dp/1582701709/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-1325469-6863913?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173115533&sr=8-1
She sings its praises right up to the point that it says people are fat because they think fat thoughts. Suddenly the book doesn't make any sense to her but she still thinks the rest of the book is great.
Thanks for sharing the link.
Though Google's page is certainly more comprehensive, for some reason, it didn't appeal to me. Perhaps it is meant for a more technical audience.
What is wrong with criticism? If there was nothing to be critical about, there would be no criticism. It does not make you unpatriotic to question the actions of your leaders. Quite the opposite. Blind patriotism that leads to the death of our finest young men and women, many of them being my friends, is idiotic to say the least.
A good leader welcomes input from their subordinates. If they are not open to comments and suggestions and continue to make bad choices, those comments and suggestions will ultimately become criticism.
To hide behind a law or to change laws so you become immune to comments, suggestions and criticism is cowardly. I will not support a President who is too cowardly to admit his mistakes or invite and ACT ON input from the lower ranks. The man is a buffoon. He receives criticism because he earned it...
In light of all the ethics scandals (Tom Delay) and leadership problems (Dennis Hastert) the Republican revealed in their Party, not the least being a costly war, the Haggard and Foley scandals involved everything that a good conservative voter simply could not ignore no matter how much they innoculated themselves with the Faux News vaccine: Sex, Pedophiles, and Homosexuals.
For what it's worth, my Amazon reviews break down as:
5: 6,
4: 1,
3: 2,
2: 1
I seem to review things I really liked, or expected to like more than I did.
I've also found that non-5 reviews seem to attract more negative responses. I think it's 5-starers defending their favorite products.
Atheism won't go any place as long as it plays into the worst stereotypes of the religious.
If you follow Common Lisp, then you know this isn't the first bunch of people having GC problems with Real World applications. Orbitz (you know, the best site to buy an airline ticket), IIRC, simply resorted to C++ and left Common Lisp for programming logic. Or something.
Hey, I bet that if you throw a wad of cash at Franz hackers, they'll be happy to fix it for you.
In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief. -- Erik Naggum
This sounds exactly backwards to me. You fight against invaders, but for empire.
This is surprising? When you willingly enlist yourself in a military service then you also know you forfeit certain freedoms that would not otherwise be surrendered.
Just another Oprah bashing article. Who gives a shit? She's a successful celebrity, therefore an easy target. Bo-ring. As for thinking positive, that's no secret. Positive visualization is no secret either. Bo-ring Oprah bashing. Don't we all have something better to do with our time?
Let me just come right out and admit it. Scott Adams and I are part of a cartoonists cabal working to get every update to our comic (or blog, in his case) posted to the reddit front page. No one votes for them; we just mail a few kilos of pure cocaine to Alexis and Steve each week and they give the stories 100-point bumps.
I hope this clears everything up.
For what it's worth:
http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=256#evidence
There are links from that page. Note that I used the term "suggests" very carefully there, in case you don't like what you find :)
She's got another play, 'Letting Go of God'? Good for her.
I use Google Adwords and Adsense. Something doesn't seem right to me. I remember paying 35 cents a click, then the next day it went up to $1.20. That's 3.42 times more! And all my keywords got locked out.
I know the difference between Java and JavaScript -- this is a common construct between them and a couple other languages, but I was mentioning my experience with JS and the screwiness of this in JS as a subjective reason why I feel comfortable with explicit self in Python.
Cool print ad from a Brit museum plays "Where's Waldo" with the big cats.
Hint: Look near the letter B.
This is a hillarious experiment by Mr. Hargrave, one day I swear this man will kill himself by accident
Yes, financing def. had something to do with it, but I distinctly remember the seemingly omnipresent bad vibes when they started selling their donuts in supermarkets, practically destroying their brand, since there are few things more common than a supermarket.
I guess I need to download some new BSGs cause we don't get them on terrestrial or broadband TV.
Is there a Starbucks ref in BSG 3.x? Like them stopping drinking booze in favour of coffee? Friends lost me when they did that.
Indeed. The UI is terrible as a UI but beautiful as art.
The Reddit headline is just pointless gushing. ;-)
The quote was taken from an article in Newsweek, not the book. Her words were taken in direct response to a question about the Rwandan genocide.
There is no other conclusion to be reached.
The one I would program myself and get really rich.
Starbucks is the newest master of McDonald's theorem: Success comes from being least offensive to the largest number of people possible.
Note that being least offensive is not the same as being unique, having a particular character, or appealing to discriminating tastes. Rather, it's being inoffensive in a "yeah, okay" way to the largest possible number of wallets.
Paradoxically, after years of success McDonald's no longer conforms to its own theorem. McDonald's mal-nutritional menu has finally become offensive to a significant enough number of people that sales are flat, even falling in some areas. (All too predictably, McDonald's has responded by trying to cosmeticize the malign aspects of fat, salt, and sugar with yet another of the company's slick advertising campaigns, this one proclaiming "wholesomeness").
Starbucks is now -- gasp! -- a HUGE multinational chain. It got there not by selling uniquely good coffee, or being architecturally daring, or for its plastic-wrapped food. No, Starbucks is just the current exemplar of McDonald's theorem: being least offensive to the largest number of people possible...
I've wondered if Erlang's active/communicating light processes might not be a very good substrate for AI.
In this circumstance AI wasn't what led the decision, but perhaps it might benefit?
Calm down, it doesn't really matter. I've given you a couple of up-mods if it makes you feel any better.
I have the same pet peeves with my friend, but especially because he claims he is a writer.
Do you mean to say that, "People's faith is immutable to evidence?"
Yes. Not only did I mean to say that, I said it. The fact that you understood me is the evidence.
I'm still interested in seeing how far you will take your strict rationalism. What is your answer to my question about my wife? Should I be agnostic about this sensation that I experience? Should I refrain from using messy words like love? Can I only be certain about this if I drop everything I'm doing, get a post-doc in neuroscience, and devote all my time to finding the biological basis for love? Or can I simply believe that I love her and move on with my day? And isn't this final option also rational?
Why aren't wages increasing if there's such a shortage? Its much easier to believe that they want to cut costs and aren't paying foreign born workers all that much. I would believe him if the H1-B workers were payed much more than the regular ones. Then I'd believe that they were 'highly-qualified' and their skills were 'needed'. What paying them the same says is that they keep wages down.
"As an independent contractor with a Century 21 real estate brokerage, Ms. Readling had bought insurance on her own, a temporary extension of coverage from a prior job. But she was unable to renew it after she had surgery for breast cancer in 2005. Most insurers would not offer her coverage, she said, and one carrier quoted a price of $2,300 a month for coverage with a deductible of $5,000 a year."
Nice article. I've seen this several times (not at bigboxMart, I don't shop there), but never knew what it was.
The actual Balzac quote translates to "The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed." (source).
I agree. I guess it's scientifically interesting but not really musically. It just sounds disturbing, like she's playing the bow right into the wood itself.
Here is the world corruption index of 2006, published by Transparency International:
http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2006
As you may see, Israel is placed at 34 out of 163 measured (higher location means less corrupt), putting it not only above nearly any of its neighbors, but also above Italy, Greece, South Korea, most Eastern European nations - generally, most of the world.
For those who like graphics, they even drew a map: Israel (I'm sure you all know) is that tiny orange colored spot on the east side of the Mediterranean, surrounded by deep red colors:
http://www.transparency.org/content/download/10672/91340/version/1/file/elmundo_cpi_y-or-re.pdf
Watching this map, one might wonder how come so many stories of Israeli corruption appear on Reddit, and so few of any other nation (save the US)?
You've never heard that pot eats your short-term memory? Are you retarded? Hence all the pot jokes about forgetting shit. Sorry I'd quote one, but I've already forgotten...
And obviously your head must be up your ass when you're around people who are stoned....
And you want support? Here's the link from pubmed:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16596784&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum
That's just one of many that talk about neurocognitive impairment from marijuana... and any user with an IQ above 130 is going to tell you that it blanks out their memory and makes them hungry... or have you not heard the hunger one too and need support for that?
Oh and here's some more on cognitive dysfunction:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16574226&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_DocSum
And here's one on increased onset of schizophrenic psychosis:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16507965&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_DocSum
Incidentally if you don't know, this is the main medical research search engine and these are not searching for random articles on google. These are abstracts from decent medical journals... not some study by some schmuck who grows his weed in the garden.
LOL.
This is really similar to a Demetri Martin joke with a graph of "the cuteness of a girl versus how interested I am in hearing about how intuitive her cat is."
http://reddit.com/info/17xbc/comments/c1818c
This was exactly the point I was trying to make. Perhaps I need to spell things out more.
Glad theres no charge for "dumb looks"
Important story, but doesn't belong in science.
Anyway the crucial point here is that if someone wants to be rational they better know which "beliefs" are based on science, fact, testing and which aren't. And it's double helpful if they are clear about what is what when they speak of it.
Do you allow no room for rational beliefs that either have not or cannot be tested scientifically? If so, this is a very narrow definition of rationality.
So, some dumb lonely shmuck is going to starve to death while waiting by the door intensely imagining Jessica Simpson will arrive any moment with a pizza,wearing those shorts. You know the ones......................... Alright already. Okay,i admit it, dammit. I tried this imaginatin'and athinkin' stuff all morning, and it just does not work. It is just wrong. Wrong.
UNWANTED Popups and Forwards. *
I may have hovered over something, but I didn't click anything. Avoid this site.
rrr....I have a propensity to belive stories from the Associated Press like this one. Silly habit, I know.
I'm calm. I don't care about status, I just think it's cowardly and unconstructive.
"the stereotype that Christians are morons"
Those extra three words aren't just for show!
I answered the first three questions right, but the "out of order" seems to be unanswerable. Highest advertising/credits to content ratio evah.
Ok, duly noted. I thought it was helpful. No more initials. But the rest of the comments are staying.
It's also about strength of brew. I think Slate did a piece on how Starbucks' coffee has more caffeine per cup than anyone else - by a good margin:
The lab reported that a 16-ounce Starbucks house blend coffee contained 223 milligrams of caffeine, compared with 174 and 141 milligrams in comparable amounts of Dunkin' Donuts and 7-Eleven coffee, respectively.
http://www.slate.com/id/2107807/
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http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1933
Properly aged meat is tender and brown.
You don't want "fresh" red meat, it's tough.
The important thing is that it does not contain harmful bacteria, and red meat is as likely/unlikely as brown meat to be contaminated.
This issue is being dredged up by overpaid union meat cutters who have been replaced by a lower-cost process.
(I didn't understand clearly, I had to take a guess at what you meant. Looks like I was right.)
I can't tell you how you should live your life. The only reason I started this chain of discussion was because I detected an overt contradiction that could easily be avoided by a tiny change in language/concept-form. Contradictions are bad.
My personal method of handling uncertainly is highly faith based, however I always clearly know what is faith, what is fact, what is being left as "agnostic", what has been proven false.
To me it's highly dishonest to say, "People should make all their views based on science! God doesn't exist!" To me that's like saying "A=B, therefore A != B."
To go up to a Christian and tell them, "Your belief is irrational, you should believe in my irrational belief." Is extremely insulting and is not going to win any converts.
That sounds cool. where's the ad?
let's just ignore her, please!
Let the gravity wars begin.
Unfortunately, all CTs will discount this immediately. Why?
.gov
Popular Mechanics
/bookmarks page anyway for future arguments
This graph seems to apply to dogs and babies too.
First of all, many of the points seems debatable and they have a certain ring of untruth to them. "Experts say"; "no data was recorded" etc.
But, a US govt site trying to prove to everyone that there's no conspiracy!? Yeah, right.
Every type of social software site has ways it is subject to social hacking or fails to scale. This article goes through each in turn and lists its specific weaknesses.
1) We've been outsourcing our middle class manufacturing jobs to third world nations. SOURCE
2) We've given massive tax cuts to the multi-millionaires, while heaping an extra "alternative minimum tax" on middle class families. SOURCE
3) Middle class wages have not kept up with the economy over the past 30 years. SOURCE
More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri
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I have already read that recycling is generally worse than just throwing things away.
That's not true. Recycling of metals and glass is almost always worth it. In some countries, people spontaneously decide to recycle the copper in the live wires of electrified train tracks. Aluminum cans should have a hefty deposit to give an incentive to return them. Recycling of paper and cardboard is simply necessary. Timber is a scarce resource. Plastic though should be reduced and if possible reused. Reusing is better than recycling in any case.
What else is the point of producing things at all except the joy derived by consuming them?
You're assuming there is joy in it. We already know, empirically, that production past a certain point doesn't increase happiness.
unless we figure out a way to get a nuclear reactor on an airplane sometime soon. :P
Not gonna happen since it's been tried and it doesn't work too well. I don't really have a solution to intercontinental passenger travel. Though the first step should be to stop wasting hydrocarbons on urban, metropolitan, regional and continental travel.
It is true that we do not export much in the way of physical goods. However, we do have a good amount of domestic production and assembly. Also, we export services and entertainment to other countries.
"services" which I've already accounted for and discounted as con games and pyramid schemes. And by entertainment are you talking about the publishing industry (movies, books, music) which is disappearing as it moves to the internet? The same industry that could be bought and sold wholesale many times over by the telecomm industry because while it's very loud, annoyingly so in fact, it amounts to three times nothing in terms of economic clout?
Also, a lot of the money from our country has been invested in increasing production elsewhere.
This is untrue. It used to be true but is so no longer. Foreign nations own far more of the USA's economy than vice versa.
The only difference is that in the case of the top quark, everyone is in agreement on its existence.
You conveniently forget religious fundamentalists, but it doesn't matter because there's plenty of physicists who've bought into the dumb notion that wavefunctions aren't physically real. That they're a mathematical artifact that just happens to match reality, not that that actually means anything. The point though is that the "fact value" of something isn't determined by intersubjective consensus. Otherwise it would be a "fact" that Jehovah exists in the USA and a "fact" that he does not exist in Europe.
But let's consider a better match. Do you think Star Wars has any chance of ever working? Reasonable people are in agreement that the answer is 'no'. That doesn't stop a legion of paid shills and delusional fanatics from saying otherwise. The same incurs for the financial industry's parasitical relationship to the economy. Very much the same since both finance and the military are parasites.
But it doesn't seem like anything I read from you ever agrees with what anyone else is saying.
And is there a problem with this? If you want a yes-man, look elsewhere, there sure are plenty of them around.
Have you considered lispworks?
http://www.desiurl.com/ed859
The whole thing is the visual equivalent of a moronic clip-art jumble sale poster designed in the dark by a myopic divorcee experiencing a freak biorhythmic high.
And haven't we all seen dozens of those?
heh-heheheheheh. Cool.
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Please don't approximate fractions as decimals. It makes the baby mathematician cry.
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Amazon's S3 service is a very cool service you can use for storing files. But did you know that you can also serve web content directly from it? And if serving web content, what's better than serving compressed web content directly. This article shows how to do just that. Though it uses Ruby, the principle is just the same for any other language you wish to use.
Joff was obviously joking. Genius. Apparently we should have another article for the sense of humor impaired.
and incidentally it's 'egregious.' However, you are correct in your assertion that when someone writes like an idiot, they look like an idiot. Well done for exemplification of your point.
There is a certain point where you have to separate the philosophy from the science.
Philosophy is essentially just crap. Science is the true gem. Philosophy is only good when it uses science to bolster it.
Does that answer your question? IMO rationality is only good when it's used in conjunction with science. What's the point in rationalizing about the form of the Holy Trinity when the entire thing is based on crap in the first place?
"Let's argue for centuries about whether Jesus is just the son of God, God himself, or a normal person with God given miracles!" <--- totally useless because there is no science
Caricatures are not strawmen. The point is not "OMG funny" or to convey a nuanced position in 10-frames-or-less, but to saturate with a message that counters the nonsense that has indeed spewed from fanatical mouths. The cartoon is at least as sophisticated as your typical "Support the Troops" philosopher. If I had a ribbon that said, "Support decent and honorable human behavior", there's folks out there who would think I'm a drugger-hippy calling the troops idiots. Countering stupidity, no matter its frequency, should be applauded.
Fair point on the reliability of the written version of the NT - your point is accepted, and I've definitely learned something - I'm inclined to give the NT slightly more historical credibility now.
Also a good point on how hard people would find it now to believe in ancient miracles, even if they were corroborated by independent sources.
I agree that people would still dispute accounts if any "non-biased" corroborating records could be found, but I think the nay-sayers' position would be a lot weaker if this were so. Unfortunately, as there are no reliable independent corroborations the matter is something of a moot point.
i wish i could find the link, but you can print out and send a form to the 3 credit reporting agencies that tells them not the share your info, and you'll no longer get credit card apps for the rest of your life, i signed the 5-year form & emailed it, (i have the lifetime form, but i haven't mailed it yet) and since then, even though i still receive a few forms (the disreputable agencies i suspect), it's down by like 10000% (from like 5 a week to maybe 1 a month).
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I agree. Further more, while I think that the Christians have a firmly held stereotype, most middle Americans don't have such sharply held beliefs. This sort of thing will give fundamentalist Christians another lever to more easily persuade others to see atheists from their perspective.
The guy in the beanie is Tom Cruise in Minority Report, he's actually chasing his eyeballs in the film (long story)
What this has to do with Mario Kart I've no idea, but I still laughed :)
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If you want any vote from me, kill this and repost, saying what it's about.
I love the topics you discuss. Share how to talk to your teens?
Extreme paranoia, and delusions are common themes amoungst dictators.
First off, he was elected. Twice. In landslide victories. So "dictator" is a bit of a lie, eh? What's your angle I wonder...
Chavez has every reason to think that the CIA may be trying to kill him just now. They have been trying to kill him for years. They took part in the 2002 Coup against him. They have already murdered numerous south american leaders, as well as being the principle sponsor of terrorism. The USAs "School of the Americas" teaches the likes of Augusto Pinochet, Yanine Diaz and Hector Gramajo. Look up those names. They were taught how to efficiently torture their enemies, political sabotage, urban terrorism and combat intelligence. The Chicago Tribune said:
"If the SOA published a register of alumni, it would be a scary catalogue of the most notorious military assassins and human rights violators."
So, I would not call his sentiment "paranoid" or "delusional" given that the US has a long (and current) history of disposing of leaderships it doesn't like. Seen Iraq or Afganistan on the news lately?
Chavez is a hero to his people. He has thrown out corrupt businessmen that were raping the country. The vast majority of the country lived in utter poverty. If he were American he would be considered a patriot on the levels of Lincon or Kennedy.
His only crime to the USA is that those corrupt businessmen were doing most of their business with the USA. This is the exact same story that was behind the USAs toppling of the Iranian leadership in the 50s.
Coard also believed the CIA was reading his thoughts.
Well, the CIA spent millions of dollars in research on this "field", so if you are slinging it around as an insult be aware that most of it is only going to end up in your own face. They also drugged random strangers with LSD just to see what they did. Finally, they also experimented with "remote viewing".
The truth is, he is only a threat to his own people, busily ruining the economy, and destroying its strongest industries.
Actually, it's been proven consistently that having an educated population improves your economy. Something to the effect of every $1 dollar spent on a child is worth $17 as an adult should they turn to crime and poverty.
He's creating a nation of intelligent, literate people. Somehow America feels threatened by that.
Loads of much thinner women have had similar surprises.
UK recruiting company goes virtual with an office in SecondLife
The dumbest set of web users you can find. Rarely has an automated, scripted solution ever been able to test for the crazy shit people will try to do or not be able to figure out.
Are you implying that Christianity deserves to exist less than (or to the same degree) as child molestation? Child molestation is a crime and we punish those who do it. I hope you're not saying the same thing about Christians :-O
Yeah, this is pretty good. A good primer for newbies, a good review for everyone else.
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Ha! I always knew you'd slip up some day! Now we know the TRUTH!!!!
Ohhhh, link it! I'm at work and need my WoW fix.
Actually, I think we're at the root of it here.
To me it's highly dishonest to say, "People should make all their views based on science! God doesn't exist!" To me that's like saying A != A since "God doesn't exist!" is certainly not a scientific statement.
I agree that this is a logical contradiction. But my position is this: "People should base their beliefs on evidence. If there is little or no evidence, doubt is justified. If there is no possibility of evidence, or if the proposition requires ignoring all contrary evidence, disbelief is justified."
This is different than both faith and science. Disbelief is useful for non-scientists because we don't have the means or training to evaluate everything scientifically. This does not mean we cannot evaluate things rationally. In other words, there is such a thing as rational disbelief.
For short phrases, save some typing by putting a period between the words instead of quotes around them. I don't know if this is a documented feature, but Google appears to treat dog.food the same as "dog food".
Also, trailing quotes can be omitted if they fall at the end of the search string.
Don't be fooled by statistics. These are people acting on their own. Look at the history of the Afghan conflict, this is after all the origin of 'Al Queda', which in Arabic literally means "The List". It was just a loose tracking system for people who came from outside Afghanistan to fight off the Soviet imperial aggressors.
Do you really thing an Arab who's had people in his family killed by somone who is not from the area, who is from a major power in the world, really makes a distinction between who they are or why they are there? It all looks pretty much the same when you are cleaning blood off the floor.
So it is no surprise that people are coming from surrounding countries to join the fight. And don't ask which fight, there's more than one struggle going on over there you know.
Nice thread
lol, i'm sorry you wasted your entire weekend writing this post.
If you don't know what 'Dan Rather' means in the context of media bias, then this conversation isn't worth having.
He did leave CBS for a reason... and it wasn't because he took and early retirement. Do a 2 minute google search for 'Memogate' or 'Rathergate'.
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Do you have the slightest clue on what life are like in Syria?
Yes I do. I've been there and I have a large number of family members living there. Granted Syria is far from the richest country on earth, but krembo's comment was blatant propaganda. The people there are not starving to death. If you think I'm wrong, then cite some references to back up your claim.
I can't find the frame everyone is referring to. Perhaps they took it out?
I thought you might be referring to the monkey, who appears to be wearing sunglasses held on with Scotch tape.
Exactly! To me, Starbucks' strength is not in their coffee (which is fine for my untrained palate), but in their service and the consistency of the product they produce. I have always got exactly what I was looking for if I went to Starbucks.
Sure, sometimes inconsistency can be the spice of life. There's something to be said for the flair of an independent vendor. But let's be honest: It's rare that I'm looking for an exciting new experience when I'm buying coffee.
but wait --- proper grammar makes people look more professional, intelligent, and trustworthy. BWAHAHAHAH. I know, I know... I hate those EGREGARIOUS mistakes/sorts. They always talk and talk and talk and then they say the most egregious things!
They need to get rid of the sound on that video, I don't want to hear anything like that around that area.
I can hardly buy store bought "fresh" meat, in my childhood we had our own cattle and I saw what fresh meat really looked like. The colouring used on the meat makes my stomach ill to look at. The bright red colouring at stores is horribly staged
You make a good point with the faux neutrality. Probably the worst thing that ever happened in journalism was this dejour, and later defacto, crap about presenting both sides of an issue in the interest of "fairness." What happens is you have one issue and you end up manufacturing, in some cases, a controversy by finding two groups with differing opinions on the matter to "let the reader make up their own mind."
Not all stories have two sides that are equally valid in their positions. Articles about global warming are a good example of this. The science is solid about global warming. The facts are well-known. But when you take people who are vehemently opposed to the idea of man-made global warming and put their ideas on an equal footing with the evidence to the contrary, you diminish the facts and elevate foolishness.
This is most of a problem in the thousands of small daily newspapers that have to tip toe around sensitive issues to avoid offending their reader base and local advertisers.
Unfortunately about 90% of the bias is already done. There's a bias in what stories are reported, what aren't. There's a bias in which reporters are sent to cover those stories. Some reporters are good. Most are not. There's a bias in which questions you ask and how far you push. There's a bias in which quotes you write down. There's a bias in which quotes you include in the story. These are invisible to the reader, stuck in the machinery of journalism.
You can buy news coverage too. I have seen it. I know what it costs to purchase coverage. Not on a national level, but at a small-town level. For under $1000 a month, you can purchase positive coverage in a small town daily. You're not explicitly writing checks to a person, but enough ad dollars will grant you more editorial control than most people realize. This is not as likely from people who make no money doing journalism and can publish for free, but those ideas, because they are not brand name, are diluted in the sea of information on the internet.
So is that why Paris Hilton is always so peppy?
Adds nothing to the discussion so it gets hidden, that's what down mods are there for!
Philosophy is essentially just crap. Science is the true gem. Philosophy is only good when it uses science to bolster it.
Actually, I agree completely. And I say this having spent (wasted) years studying philosophy.
IMO rationality is only good when it's used in conjunction with science.
This, I would agree with if you rephrased it as "strict rationality is only good when it's used in conjunction with science." Do you really think that rationality has no place in civil society?
Official technical specifications & a preview of Audi's new A5 and S5 before their Geneva launch later this month.
As long as your here with director commentary of said drug dealings thats alright in my book.
I'm going to guess people tend to praise the products they like
I'm assuming people buy the products they like, then review them. Every review less than 3/5 means that the buyer probably bought the wrong product for them.
Any less than a 4/5 average I think Amazon would be getting accused of being misleading or having a poor interface meaning that users can't find suitable products.
The problem is that most newspapers are now owned by conglomerates who don't want to do real journalism - they only want to pump out raw news because it's cheaper. For example, Gannett got rid of the news rooms throughout their entire system.
This is backfireing due to the fact that, thanks to the internet, people don't need to turn to papers for first-hand reports anymore.
Rather than imporve their journalism and give people a reason to depend on them again, they are depending on the public to give them free content. It's part of their freaking business-plan now!
Now's a good time to join the ACLU if you haven't already
Another key tip is to keep refining and adjusting your search until you get useful results. You will need to have some kind of established knowledge of your subject matter to be truly effective at determining which results are useful. You have to have some context for your search and the ability to filter useful "bread crumbs" from noise/junk. It helps to do searches on subjects you're already familiar with to establish good scanning, filtering and reading habits.
I like Clusty's full text search as a starting point when I need to establish some context for a subject I'm unfamiliar with and all I have is one or two key words to start with.
Of course, if you're searching for highly specific technical information like a fix for an error message, nothing beats Google. I also like Google Code Search, and of course it's always great if there is a Bugzilla site for the software in question.
Remember that you're doing research, and apply the same basic research skills that you would use in any media. This includes reading quickly but with comprehension, using multiple sources and independently verifying information.
e.g. Digg?
i'd say frigid, closet lesbian (from appearances alone) about rice...slut?
It's just different models to approach reality with.
Your model is absolutely fine but it misses a big part of what it used to mean to be atheist.
Judging from your upmods to the original comments we made, it seems to me like the "pro-atheism" movement has succeeded in switching a bunch of unthinking Christian zealots into unthinking atheist zealots.
This was also the original issue with the term atheism being used rather than agnosticism. You'll find that people like Richard Dawkins are indeed agnostic but call themselves atheist for lingual simplicity. This seems to have confused people who honestly believe they should disbelieve in God rather than just come to a mental place where there is no need to make a statement either way - since there is no evidence either way.
The problem with zealotry is that it blinds people. Religion blinds people because they close their minds off to anything which contradicts their God hypothesis. True Atheism blinds people because they close their minds off to anything which has not been proven - from the possibility of God to meditation to telepathy. If you close your minds to stuff which has not been proven, you will never find anything new.
Are you truly open to the God question, or have you essentially closed your mind to it and stopped seeking evidence one way or the other?
Any sufficiently advanced science or technology is indistinguishable from magic to the uninitiated. By becoming a strong atheist rather than an agnostic, do people close the part of their minds that looks out for the existence of magic?
Do people start to just assume evolutionary procedures took place and then stop testing for proof of them? When they see something odd, do they jump to conclusions based on their "belief" system or do they actually test it, and if they don't test it do they catalog it in the back of their mind for something to test in the future or look out for a proof of?
The enemy is not God the enemy is minds who shut themselves off from progress, from growth, from change, from suprises. Minds which stop seeking for answers in the infinite mystery that we call the universe.
They owe it to the abductee concerned to publicly admit what a god-awful fuck-up they caused.
They owe it to the abductee to explain how in hell they justify treating convicted terrorists like that, let alone people who aren't even guilty.
They owe it to the American people to give them a news item that might shake them out of their recliners and, just perhaps, kick their fat asses into actually protesting (hell, realising would be a start) that their government is now morally no better than oppressive regimes like Saudi Arabia or Iraq.
Oh, sorry - it's not acceptable to treat people like this who are convicted "enemies of the state" (however "evil" the state may be)... but it is acceptable to treat people like this because you can't even be bothered to ascertain their guilt before stripping them, beating them, imprisoning them and removing their inalienable human rights? Nope, not buying that one.
America is, on average, fat, stupid and concerned only with gazing into its own navel. Embarrassing and humiliating public apologies from the evil, undemocratic fucking scumbags that caused this atrocity are one of the few things that might wake people up and stop them electing yet more of them into power.
If basic moral obligation or the death of their democracy isn't enough to do it, perhaps the fact that their leaders had humiliated them in front of the world might just do the trick?
Zergs can Cloak? What the hell?
hilarious. i highly recommend the adam and joe show starring adam buxton, which you can find online.
Yes, a lot of high level Japanese officials have apologized, but this is different from a formal apology from the country itself.
Think of it this way: What if only say President Reagan or Carter apologized to Japanese Americans for the WWII internment camps? This is very different from the US government itself issuing a formal apology to Japanese Americans...
It's like Germany trying to deny the Holocaust: erasing the memory from school books and so on.
I think this news story is just an update that they are nearing completion of the project.
Perhaps kam0 thought it was new news, as that is what the title suggests. Feel free to submit two new links, one to the story with a correct title, and one to OCW with an appropriate title. If you update your comment, I'd be glad to upmod those 'corrected' submissions...
Maybe a better way to put it is that citizen journalists won't be able to develop the same relationships as those of a career reporter like Helen Thomas. Covering a beat like the White House requires a person's full time, and that means they must also be paid. As long as money is in the equation, there will always be some business organization behind journalism.
They call it "rationalization" for a reason. Anything can be rationalized. Without science rationality is dangerous.
No, this is not relative but absolute.
It's a shame you had to keep reminding him. People are generally so completely illiterate about science that they'll swallow anything that sounds sciencey.
Mention "cosmic principles" and drop in a couple physics terms and automatically everyone assumes you're brilliant.
If you live in Southern California you have probably heard of a great local chain of Coffee shopes called DIEDRICH. Recently Starbucks purchased the company and shut down each location. Boycott Starbucks!
Good stuff: three very interesting open questions about monads.
"Snippets" are formally called text clippings. They are really handy.
Oh, please stop the mean-spirited anti-Bush trolling.
The story is actually quite interesting. This library system may shutdown as a symptom of a complicated web of policies and promised subsidies starting with Theodore Roosevelt. The problems revolve around logging in this rural community. The article doesn't even mention Bush, if IIRC. Cutting the library funds was a local decision, albeit a tough one when faced with a too-small budget.
Gladly, the article plays up alot of grassroots interest in finding their own funding for the libraries. If it works, its a much better solution in the long run (compared to relying on federal support.)
I wish I could have time to help him out but currently I don't have time at all - unless he comes to me and ask for the help/clarification about what he is really doing and why he is doing that.
Instead, he can watch recent Karen Armstrong's c-span booknote appearance. She has more sense of entire context of modern world(history, world), and how a person may find her/his own satisfying way of making 'journey' in that process(personal context, each of us got relatively unique one), either secular or religious - or scientific or humane - or whatever.
Before going to public, Sam Harris should have worked on his 'spirituality boy' issue bit more.
...but going out first and start hitting cans all over is one way too, one may have to do that in the first place. That may be his destiny.
I agree with In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. If you haven't heard the album, do yourself a favor and find it. It took me a while to get into, but one day I was in kind of an off mood and gave it a try - and I was immediately in love.
The porn shall set you free!
The page isn't loading for me, but here's a neat puzzle you should try, which has is a single very elegant solution (as far as I know):
What's next in the sequence 0, 1, 2, 720?
Edit: Oops, that should've been 720!. Sorry.
Could someone kindly post a mirror?
maybe you should be able to smash people in the face if they take your picture without your permission.
Rabin's pragmatism in 1996 is to be applauded, but it had little to do with returning Sinai to Egypt in 1979 by then ruling right wing Likud party:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel-Egypt_Peace_Treaty
Uri Avnery indeed has a fascinating biography, but he represents Israelis about as much a Noam Chomsky represents Americans. Fortunately, Israel is a democracy, so it's not hard to know what most people there want: all major parties in Israel, including far right wing ones, now support a two state solution, with a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This is the main ticket the current goverment got elected for.
Meanwhile, in the Palestinian side, Hamas won the elections, a fundamentalist Islamic party which runs on a "one state" platform - a single Islamic state instead of Israel, not alongside it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas
Interestingly, one doesn't hear much from Western supporters of the Palestinian cause regarding that. Wonder why.
Was your grandfather fighting in the Pacific or in Europe? If he was in the Pacific, I take it he wasn't part of the Batan Death March?
This isn't about bashing Japanese people (though I wouldn't be surprised if there were confused racist jerks on reddit). This is about remembering something that the Japanese government is trying to slowly erase (no formal public admission, deletion from school textbooks, ...).
Remembering things like the Holocaust isn't so we can hold this stuff over the heads of the countries involved forever. The main point is we need to remember this stuff so that it doesn't ever happen again...
BTW: in the US, we actually keep a record of our mistakes like slavery (and even Mai Lai). It is very prominent in our school history books (like Germany with Nazi atrocities); this isn't the case in Japan
"The implication only exists when you are an idiot"
Hardly, jerkoff.
You dismissed psychology in the same breath you dismissed economics. Admit it or are you too much of a wuss to admit when you're wrong?
Tax cuts do EVERY TIME positively impact the economy. Admit it.
"And oddly enough the medical establishment discounts homeopathy. In other words homeopathy is not medicine.
In the same way economics is not science."
I never claimed homeopathy is a science, retard. The study of economics is at least as much of a science as global warming, and there's FAR more data and research in economics than global warming.
"Only if you don't count any experiments done in physics or chemistry or fluid dynamics, or meteorology."
You claimed experiments in physics and chemistry are done every day, so therefore global warming has experiments. Sorry, but unless those experiments are done SPECIFICALLY for global warming, they don't count, jackass.
Testing a bottle of water to see if it can store frozen c02 is NOT experimentation in global warming. Testing a can of air to see if adding c02 will raise the temp is not global warming research.
The only research data in global warming is merely temperature taking over long periods of time. There's only one globe and you can't do standard control experiments with it. All you can do is take data in and make theories.
This is a lot like economics, except that in economics there's a lot more data and a lot more economies to take data from.
Fucking retard. You can't see past your own idealogy to admit your basing your entire premise on your idealogy. You just ignore facts to suit your preferences.
That was cocaine? No wonder my mom's bake sales have been such a hit.
edit: fixed a typo caused while doing a line of baking powder
That's the thing, nobody is looking. You and I are looking, except who are we? Two people sitting and reading reddit. What do you propose I do? Grab the shotgun off of my wall and charge into congress demanding justice? Send my congressperson a letter declaring my disgust? I found this to be equally disturbing, but what -- in my very comfortable middle-class life -- should I do about it? I expect a response something along the lines of, "Of course you should send them a letter! Of course you should be picketing for justice!" But will you be there with me?
How not to be a sheriff. This sheriff conducts the ole blow in my fact test to decide if the boat captain responsible for the deaths of 20 people was impaired by alcohol or drugs. Since when can the human nose smell drugs---is he part canine? Maybe if he hadn't gotten rid of the department canines, the dog coulda done a smell test
All politics aside, penguins really are as seditious as they are flightless. Those white-bellied cowards.
The first conspiracy discounting ignores the pools of molten steel that sat at the foundation for months. No one has bothered to mention where this would have come from.
Out of all the albums of all time, they chose the Clash twice?
Take off the Clash greatest hits and replace it with the Minutemen's "Double Nickles on the Dime" and they have a list to be proud of.
hahaha. wonderful stuff.
All power structures, even ones created for ostensibly noble purposes like the International Red Cross, are corrupt.
That it to say, all power structures at some point become motivated to a greater or lesser degree to assure their own survival. If not moderated, the corruption takes over the organization and dominates its operations.
The United States government is today corrupted by the inadequately moderated power of its administrative branch. It not checked, that power will destroy the noble principles upon which its host nation was founded.
You'd be surprised how much one person can change things especially today with the internet. You appear to have given up before you started.
britney, we already knew you were the anti-christ?
Well, for starters, why not stop voting for Republicans or Democrats and start voting for third parties or for candidates that might actually have some principles?
It's not much, but it's a start.
Or when someone clicks the bookmarklet on a non-html link (an image or text file).
A more enlightening read about McAdoo and friends.
Your faults are yours ALONE (yell at your parents maybe). live till you die. good luck. stay out of MY pocket.
and about 70% of a typical Linux distribution (thats the whole distribution, not just the kernel) is written in C with another 15% in C++. So much for C fading away.
http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/redhat71-v1/redhat71sloc.html
this is a little old (2002) given the recent upsurge in more modern languages, but I bet the change isn't that much.
No, I'm asking you to define specifically how humans can go extinct. If you want me to provide a valid objection to anything, you need to actually provide a reasonably specific suggestion of what could go wrong and how we're supposed to fix it since it's our responsibility, according to you.
Example: A giant asteroid may hit the earth in 13 months, and our responsibility as US Citizens is to send Bruce Willis to space to blow it up.
Retard. How the heck do I know what kind of human extinction you have in mind?
I have upvoted your comment.
I agree about respecting the ideas of others, except where those ideas don't respect the ideas of others. If we are serious about wanting diversity and freedom, we should not be shy about condemning the enemies of those ideals, and discouraging the spreading of ideas that make more enemies.
Stop upvoting this, it's obviously fake - and not even well done. Seems like something that would top digg... not here.
totally disgusting
Have an Americano! I love imagining the invention of the Americano.
Tourist: Coffee, per piacere?
Barista: Ah, un Americano! I am so sorry we do not-a have-a your coffee here in Italia. But I think-a I make-a you something just like.
Barista puts water in espresso.
i hope it's well written. and i hope they use that airport tune as the theme song.
though i hear one of the commercial writers is writing the pilot.
Great article. Historical and financial information.
i agree. to these fools: please stop being assholes whilst misrepresenting an entire world-view. from: an atheist who'd like to be taken seriously in politics.
Oh, yeah! Thanks man :) Cool. :)
So where's the beef?
That's it. They don't win anything on it, so they can't be bothered to risk losing face publicly (more than they do now, that is).
Toxoplasmosis humor! Yay!
Entertaining. I had never linked Lake Martin and Talladega before reading this.
I'm well aware of the Dan Rather Bush awol papers scandal.
My question is and remains how does this incident support your point? And frankly I haven't spent more than a half hour responding to your posts. Tho it does look like I am wasting my time talking with you because you are not really participating in the discussion. You have yet to discuss the substance of any of the links I have provided you, where as I have dissected yours completely minus the Rather catch phrase which I intentionally ignored waiting for you to clarify how your thinking on that, which you have yet to do.
See one of us (me) is offering ideas, listening to the other, reviewing his points in detail and reacting to them. The other one (you) seems to be dismissively firing off insults and catchphrases, while avoiding addressing the substance of the conversation.
Your avoidance of the details of the conversation, would be typical Right Wing Authoritarian Behavior, a study of which I linked in my first post, if you had bothered reading it.
You essentially in your continued actions are proving his point. And I encourage any future readers of this sub discussion branch to read Altemeyer's work and see this for yourselves.
Covey told you what to do, Craig says what not to do.
I think a lot of people do prefer local brands as compared to the pricy Starbucks!
if i were her, i would've long ago 'retired' to my walled oceanside compound with my $50 million. and told the slavoring hordes to fuck off.
why do you assume I actually manage a Taco Bell?
Wow, your opinions are 180 degrees opposite of the truth. Manufacturing positions? Hiding positions is far more likely.
As for global warming, you never hear anyone mention that the IPCC's worst-case scenario, the A1FI, is physically impossible, do you? Hmmm, on well, let's trust them anyways, right?
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This looks like an indexed gag.
Enlightening: Tulrich's comment is exactly what's wrong with America these days.
Everyone's so fucking self-righteous and busy cheerleading for their own team that they'll read a potential attack into anything, because it provides them the right to get good and pissy about it, and allows them to play the victim. Oh god, how we all love to play the victim.
If you read the headline, it explicitly mentions the stereotype of "Christians == morons", without taking a side on it.
Is it unfair that some people will look at GodTube and decide all Christians are morons? Yes. Is it factually accurate to say some people will do this? Yes. Is there something of a stereotype amongst some sections of the world population that American Christians are morons? Yes.
All this headlines says is that this kind of mindless, ill-educated but self-righteous propaganda is exactly the kind of thing that encourages people to think (completely wrongly) that "all Christians are morons".
Nevertheless, perceiving an attack on a minority group, Tulrich (I'm going to stretch here and assume s/he's either a Christian or has sympathies for the group) wades in and immediately decries "blanket statements" about "every member of Christianity".
This never happened. The statements were never made. Nevertheless, by not reading carefully and knee-jerk reacting, Tulrich posts something guaranteed to agitate the atheist side of Reddit's Idiots, Knee-Jerkers and Miscellaneous Trolls Guild into responding.
Scenting blood, the fundamentalist atheists will then respond vitriolically about Christianity. Tulrich and pro-Christian posters have then caused the exact thing s/he was complaining about, but hey, who cares?
The fundamentalist atheists and the Christians can scream incomprehensibly at each other for pages and pages, everyone can get good and upset, everyone can feel they and their group are victims, nobody learns anything and the entire point of the article goes out the window.
Or, you know, people (religious and atheist alike) could shut the fuck up, sit the fuck down, learn to read, and we could actually debate important topics like grown-ups, instead of just sitting in the next tree hooting and flinging our poop at the other group of monkeys.
Not everyone is Orthodox :-)
And you can order Bacon Cheeseburgers in Israel.
Feels guilty
I was expecting another "OMG Haskell IO is so hard, lets go shopping!!111!!1one!" type post. But no, it was quite interesting.
My claim is not whether people are starving in Syria, but the ridiculous picture you're trying to paint, as if Syria is comparable to the US. Let's have a look at the GDP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita
US #3
Israel #28
Syria #118
You've been to Syria. Would you consider living there? Would you advise anyone living in the West, no matter how poor, to move there in order to improve their lives?
People are downmodding you because you appear to have completely missed the points that raldi is making:
The way art is packaged can be considered as an important part of the artwork itself.
It is absolutely not a necessary condition for art to be functional.
Your personal dislike of Picasso is almost irrelevant to either of these points. Hence the downmods.
Erik's Usenet history is full of good stuff like this.
Tokenizing and Parsing
Comparing Lisp style to Unix style
Bibop-style memory management
Software reuse
Optimizing date/time calculations (the whole thread)
What Lisp needs; included in the list of things not needed is Paul Graham's hatred for Common Lisp.
Good stuff.
edited to fix the software reuse link
Its in PA! Cajun is a Louisiana culture. More precisely its the descendants of the french acadians who were run out of Canada by the british and subsequently resettled in the area of Louisiana known as Acadiana.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadiana
What's molten steal?
the US admits mistakes - just not recent ones
Advanced synthetic biological weapons. Not the humdrum biological weapons of old. No, the real deal, the ones that are engineered to meet specific goals and can be built on the cheap by every bozo in his garage. The ones the USA is busily researching in an effort to bring about the apocalypse.
Regardless of what you might think it is also clear that he welcomed the ambiguity of his response. Do you think he would have been so ambiguous if "pedophile", rather than "holocaust denier" was on the list? I certainly don't.
hey yall...peeps...
The normal, even during wartime, was a year long service with a break. Most national guardsmen probably didn't think they would be in a war and they probably never expected being there for multiple terms back to back.
Human psyche can only take so much before mistakes are made and fatigue/mental gets the best of you.
Imagine if you did a big ass project at work that took a year, people at work died while doing it. Then you think you are going home, then in the final month they tell you you are there for another year. Now imagine doing this just out of high school.
THAT is just wrong, even if they signed up for it...
exactly
and you 'know' this how?
like a Google-searching expert.
Bad spelling, interesting subject though.
thank you tezlo. at least someone sees it my way.
what's retarded about it? If a predominantly white church spelled out their beliefs but substituted the word "white" for "black" it would be considered racist. Correct?
Diebold CEO: "Well, we got Dubya into office not once but TWICE! We're done here; let's sell this crap and move on. Mission Accomplished!"
Oh please, get over it. This clip is older than the internet. I knew which video it was going to be before I clicked... BUT, I still clicked, cause it's cool. Only the really neat shit gets modded up over and over and over.
Just rephrase it and the redditers will love you:
"LOL" = 17 (and counting) downmods
"Good catch" (see
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DystopianFutureToday above) = 10 upmods
I was only using the US as a point of reference for what a reasonable percentage of poverty is for a country. You are reading messages into my post that are not there.
I know what Cajun is.
We have some pretty good Chinese restaurants in Philadelphia, too, even though the Chinese folks don't always come from around here.
That was probably one of the better responses to the kulisz troll I've seen in a while. I suspect he started out by being paid by a psyche major to troll boards, but it's now just a rut he's gotten into.
It's not fake, but the only way to prove it to yourself is to go to the nearest aquarium.
wow nice stuff...veru suitable for young skaters
Are you truly open to the God question, or have you essentially closed your mind to it and stopped seeking evidence one way or the other?
A bit of both. The question is settled enough in my mind that I no longer need to actively seek evidence one way or another. This frees me to pursue more practical, pragmatic questions that have more immediate relevance. However, this doesn't mean that I will deny evidence if it appears. In fact, I would welcome it. But at some point this particular search becomes futile - there are a great many other more fruitful avenues of enquiry.
If you manage to live your life balanced on the knife-point of possibilities, I tip my hat to you. But don't worry too much about those of us who have adopted a position of strong atheism. If Zeus reappears convincingly, we'll acknowledge him. I don't mean that facetiously, I simply mean that we are more open to possibility than you give us credit for.
Close libraries and schools - build prisons instead.
What a fucked up country!
ah, another addition to the wonderful and exciting history of defenestration...
Did I mention the cops have been working without a contract?
I am glad to invite you to the BossTalks.com. We are building a place, where you can come and talk. Most of you are the bosses. The bosses of your little business, ISV (and it doesn't matter what size is it), huge companies' project managers or officers, or just bosses-wannabe. We would even support a PMBOK-spoiled guys, if they will fit.
Ask questions or tell us your stories. You are devoting our time to building startups, entrepreneurship, software project management, developing software requirements, project management life-cycling and so on and we would be happy if you will discuss your efforts and experience with us.
$320 a month is a bargain. I know of people in good health paying hundreds more - like $7-800 a month. I wonder about that $100 a month plan. Does it cover meds? What is the deductable? Co-pay? Etc.
When growth taps out, you either
a) introduce new product line / maybe a side store (like McDs made Chipotle)
b) start buying other growth companies
c) reinvent yor customer service, loyalty programs
d) spike the product with prozac
Its not really all that bad of a problem to have, being too successful.
wouldn't it follow that the author of the Secret is to blame? Or you, or me, no wait.... ahhhhhhh.....
Then get rid of all insurance.
When Ms. Readling was shopping for insurance, she found two responses particularly galling. One insurer, she said, suggested she return to her prior job, at a furniture company, so she could participate in its group health plan, though she loved her work as a real estate agent. Another insurer suggested she remarry her former husband to get back on his insurance plan.
OK, option number 2 is galling, but getting a job with health insurance was the first thing I was going to suggest. What's so galling about that? Sounds better than $27k/year premium and $5k deductible.
Not sure why she thinks she'll be treated differently without insurance. She is not a "financial loss" to the doctors because she's uninsured, as long as she pays they don't care. The doc is always gonna get paid.
No problem. I thought the same thing until someone pointed it out to me. It is a cool picture, though.
I had the chance to witness firsthand the destruction of a young man after a friend of mine came back for Christmas R&R from Iraq. A lively, joking, healthy guy came back a nervous, meek shell of what he once was. When he did tell stories, it shocked me how much goes on over there that is hidden by every mainstream media network, not just Fox News.
This is why I absolutely reject any of the conservatives' notions that we should, "Shut up and support our troops." After seeing the gross destruction of a human soul to satisfy illegitimate financial interests, I am sure that I stand on the right side when I declare that we should BRING THE TROOPS HOME! Anyone who says otherwise should make their way to the nearest VA hospital and educate yourself to what the troops really want, not just what we are told what they want.
What about them? You need to put it into the form of an example here, not just throw the names of research around.
Here, I'll set it up and you fill in the blanks, so that you don't need to stretch your mind too much.
Example: The US will develop advanced synthetic biological weapons. (blank) will (blank) the weapons and (blank) will happen, resulting in complete and everlasting human extinction. Our responsibility as US Citizens is to (blank) to prevent this.
So you can fill it in with whatever you want. That help?
once
yet fail to bring up a single counter argument, unless you count the last sentence, which proves you don't understand OO too well.
YOU NEVER MADE AN ARGUMENT TO BEGIN WITH. TRUISMS ARE NOT ARGUMENTS. YOU STATED AN OBVIOUS FACT AND TOOK IT NOWHERE. ARRRGH.
Did you ever run a high traffic web site?
My day job (which I really should be doing right now) is in the net's top 5000 sites traffic-wise according to alexa. I would not be surprised if the object count was, on average, several hundred per page. You know where this code spends its time? In the database. You know what my biggest annoyance with this codebase is? Ugly hand-rolled framework.
If that falls away, you might just as well use procedural code for anything less complex than a complete framework and anything which has a low chance of a high lifetime combined with high reuability.
I take it you're a PHP programmer.
Edit: a friend of mine's company just ran a profiler in production. 75 millionish objects are being created and destroyed every minute.
The point is that people who are really well informed on the subject, in fact the people who are most well informed, do not understand how it works.
Yes, you are too simplistic. Suppose you get just the "insurance" (your notion). Then you don't actually pay for the maintenence (do check-ups, etc.). That means that the ER becomes your doctor which raises the costs considerably. It is actually cheap to insure everybody and pay for the maintenence than to just cover the "in case it happens".
Especially Christians, who point out that the coming of Christ was foretold many times, hundreds and thousands of years before His conception and birth.
Of course, that isn't all. There's also Isaiah's prophecy of the coming of King Cyrus, among others.
The point for Jews and Christians is that God knows who we are long before our birth, even from the beginning of Creation. And that the body, alive or dead, is only a portion of who we are....
this will be very useful the next time i am out knifing rats in the front left paw.
They are ditching their political cartoonists, cheapening their journalists and there is less content there nowadays. When you cheapen your product you lose quality. I dont' read the paper in paper form just because I hate the feel of it and its too freaking big. I like gettign my news online. It is a dying breed in paper format.
cool
I'm torn by this comment. On one hand, I see your point. No matter what the recruiters say, the military is not a job-training or self-esteem program.
On the other hand, to say such a thing implies that the US military is little more than a mercenary army - and that none of us are responsible for what is done in all our names.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say with the Wikipedia link. Can you please elaborate?
Perhaps you could say that Uri Avnery represents Israelis as much as Richard Perle represents Americans? The United States too is a democracy, which still gives me hope that the lunacy will stop. But as I stated before, influence is more important than representation. Using the United States as an example again, consider the influence of PNAC, AIPAC, Ken Lay, Jack Abramoff. None of these people were elected, but see what influence they had (and some still have) on policy. So I ask you, how about in Israel? How much influence to the settlers and their ilk have on Israeli policy? There is also what your politicians say and what the government does - these can very much be at odds. Again, see the US as an example.
BTW, Uri Avnery was a member of the Knesset. He was elected, so therefore he must represent someone. Last I checked, Noam Chomsky has held no public office.
Regarding Hamas being popularly elected, this is indeed a scary development. But, you have to understand what Hamas is. At first glance, they only appear to be a terrorist group - a core function, undoubtedly. But they are also extensively involved in social services. They provide health care, food and money to the people who desperately need it (obviously with ulterior motives). But, if you're a poor, starving Palestinian affected by the hardships imposed on by Israel - the checkpoints, the wall, arbitrary detention, targeted assassination (understandably for Israel's protection - but there is collateral damage) - is it all that surprising that many Palestinians have turned to Hamas? Would you bite the hand that feeds you?
That example does seem out of date given the ubiquity of reusable binary searches in modern languages. However, the essense of what he's saying is "don't write what you don't need".
A more apt example might be the proliferation of certain OO patterns that don't make sense in all situations. For instance, everyone knows the "Factory" pattern, but would you use it in private code that is never reused? Probably not, since it's just as easy to change your private code as it is to change the factory.
Despite this, Factory patterns pop up all over the place where they provide no value. (This isn't to say this pattern doesn't have value in a certain context, just that it doesn't necessarily have value in all contexts.) If developers wrote the simplest thing that could possibly work in this case, the amount of work and boilerplate code is reduced, and nothing is lost.
A local optimization, perhaps, but I wonder what the cumulative effect would be.
It proves you're an idiot and that this conversation is at an end. So yes I guess it did help. Much.
best part is the badges...
Outlaw the inurance industry.
Outlaw? How about you just don't buy insurance. Pay as you go. Just don't come crying to Uncle Sam when your house burns down, your car gets totaled, and you need a quadruple bypass. Some of us might still want to mitigate risk against financial catastrophe.
I wonder if the dude gave Putins wife a foot massage?
Then what approach do you suggest for the burning questions of political "science?" The concept of justice is something that defies scientific methodolgy. Is there no way to rationally speak about justice? Should we do a voodoo dance to draw up our laws? No doubt there is some biological basis for ethics, but do scientists write constitutions? Can they? Should they?
Without rationality, people are dangerous.
If you happen to be visiting the Mediterranean region, specifically Cyprus, and suddenly feel like you are missing your regular dose of good ol' Mexican cooking, then be sure you drop by one of the best restaurants in Pafos. Lucky for you that restaurant happens to be Mexican, and the name is Dos Pesos Casa Mexicana Restaurant, located at 32, Tombs of The Kings Road, in the tourist area of Pafos, area which is otherwise known by the locals as Kato Pafos.
Wiki moderators keep thoughtlessly restoring this page.
This is crazy! Clearly marketing materials!
"The effects of tax cuts are entirely unpredictable.
Deal with it."
The effects of tax cuts are always positive.
YOU deal with it. You're the one who dismisses all data on it.
'"Sorry, but unless those experiments are done SPECIFICALLY for global warming, they don't count, jackass."
Sure they do. Global warming is based on physics and chemistry.
Deal with it.
'
So an experiment in physics showing how a turntable will throw an object at a tangent has anything to do with global warming?
Retard. Specifically which physics experiments have ANYTHING to do with global warming?
You're a broken fucking record. I've given you multiple opportunities to show that global warming has more research data and experimentation than economics, and all you can do is throw the words "physics" and "chemistry" around as if this answers the challenge. You might as well be saying "because God says so".
You're a fucking retard.
Yeah. If you, by saying that people do, actually ment that people do not act like DHH invented the Active Record pattern, you really need to spell things out more.
Nobody is acting like that, and nobody thinks that. The success and expressiveness the person you quoted is talking about is in regards to the implementation.
They didn't take pictures of the soldier
"Gul and a video cameraman working for AP Television News were taking pictures of a vehicle inside which four people had been shot to death when a US soldier demanded that Gul delete his photos."
He seemed to choose outrageous examples.
He clearly isn't a Neanderthal, Genghis Khan or Attila the Hun. Republicans generally appreciate hyperbole.
Pedophile would have crossed the line because it possibly wouldn't have been outrageous, especially after Mark Foley.
Yep. Context is key. How many Christians quote 2 Chronicles 7:14 (or at least put it on a bumper sticker) as some type of promise that God will bless America if we repent? Actually that verse is a specific promise in a specific covenant with the Jews. I have no idea why Christians, who are supposed to be under a new covenant, look to promises made in the old covenant and expect them to be kept. As if the promise of forgiveness of sins isn't enough.
I knew someone who had a very difficult time with "has" vs. "as".
ex:
"Has you all may know, Cindy as been weighed down with work lately."
The person was very consistent in screwing up the usage of the two words to where we weren't sure if the person was doing it intentionally, or was just a colossal idiot.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahaahha!
"The secret" is transparent touchy-feely new-age bullshit.
If anyone out there still doesn't understand that basic fact, they really can't be helped.
It only proves you incapable of arguing and have nothing real to contribute.
Btw, I thought you said before you were never going to respond to me again. You also said you were going to kill yourself. And yet, you're still responding to me and you aren't dead.
No, I'm saying that I suspected that the only reason these criticisms exist is that criticizing Oprah gets traffic. No matter how overblown, trivial, or poorly written the criticism, it makes money.
Well, isn't there a parallel there with these venal self-help folks? I'm not the one who begruded them the money they make, after all.
"GWB is crazy huh? Crazy like a fox". Oh, yah.
The religious, who supposedly have something to believe in, have a lot of difficulty agreeing on how to go about it (my egregious understatement for the day). Why should atheists be any different? I'll think of this as a religious themed art exhibit that actually made me laugh out loud in the office:-).
I hope not, that would suck. I would lose all interest in Heroes if that happened.
The reason the Zeus issue has direct merit to this specific reddit topic is because it's a topic about some kind of philosophy, that atheist redditors are outright dismissing as a whole immediately.
I see no evidence of an open mind among redditors when it comes to this "The Secret" type of thing. Closed mind means no progress. Personally I would not be suprised if there are simple mental principles that we humans can use to greatly simplify our lives and increase our power. Visualizing outcomes is very likely one potential. But it's packaged in a mysterious way and redditors dismiss it with a knee jerk reaction.
The superparent of this thread we speak in had a guy who claimed, extremely boldly without evidence, that The Secret does work but it's not controlled by a God, and he got 20+ upmods by reddit atheists. If that is the new typical atheist approach to the mysterious then I'm afraid we've gone backwards as a movement.
We should be on the fence with regards to both the efficacy and the mechanisms of "The Secret". The entire point of atheism, as I have known it for nearly my entire life, has been that kind of brutal intellectual honesty no matter how uncomfortable it may be. Yes, it's a huge inconvenience to objectively weigh every idea you come in contact with. But who ever said atheism was the path of the lazy? Of easy answers? Of simple soundbites?
Atheism is work, it's hard, and it demands the development of a disciplined personality that can deal with uncertainty in a structured way. The burden of the scientist is that he needs proof. We can't just abandon that basis because it's inconvenient. That basis was the entire point, without it atheism is just another religion.
I'm holding out judgment on The Secret. It's not as fun to hold out judgment as to immediately give a knee-jerk judgment but I'm commited to my own personal search for truth. I'm not looking for easy answers and I'm not scared of hard questions that may come up.
If The Secret does indeed work, it's not ok to claim it works without a God concept until we prove it. Darwin didn't just come up with the theory of evolution by natural selection. He took meticulous observations. Today, many of his followers don't test, they knee-jerk. They appeal to authority. They go for comfortable consensus rather than accurate observation.
It's not the virtuous path.
You aren't researching very deeply. There has not been one study showing PERMANENT short term memory loss from marijuana. They've only found that your short term memory is effected while high.
I am an English tutor and it amazes me how many times I will see college students continuously make all of these mistakes.
I agree, it makes you look really dumb.
I wasn't sure, until I read the article, if he was talking about actual film or just his career.
/sarcasm
This is from thinkprogress. What the heck else did you expect? -_-
No, the National Guard troops must be federalized (by the president) in order to serve, and prior to that they are technically under the individual State's control. Example, one would join the Alabama National Guard...not the US National Guard. The President has federized troops, so they are now serving. The Reserves are "Part time" federal troops (both "active" and "inactive", although the president can change these designations).
The reason that the US is using so many NG and Reserve units in the current wars is not because there is a rule or law that it be done. It is because as the US military (1) switched from a draft to an all volunteer organization in the 1970s and, (2) with an increase in the complexity of war equipment and resultant need for constant training - that a decision has been made to skew the full-time military personel to more sophisticated operations...such as techical equipment, training, aircraft, special forces, repair, etc. The reserves and NG that are called up tend to be in the "grunt" (ground fighting front line infantry and support) units that are needed for actual sustained situations like we see now in Afganistan and Iraq.
Javascript will win:
http://radar.oreilly.com/Jan06to07languages-thumb.png
It has the most momentum. Ruby has quite a bit but javascript just might be the NBL
Well, given how much the rest of the world hates us, I'm glad we spend the most here in America. Oh, I know, the rest of the world hates us because of how we act / how we vote / etc. Believe that if you'd like. They'd hate us either way.
I do rely on customer reviews of technological gadgets, but not much else. This tends to be a lot more useful than reading reviews of books or movies or TV shows, which I completely ignore. The point is to look for information on how well something works, and people's actual experience with a product, not if the person likes it or not. Looking for patterns (as jvance suggests) can really help one identify a good or bad product.
In case anyone argues with the conclusions of the article:
Right or wrong, we must always be in a state of "we're not good enough yet". Nothing works better in a progressive society than assuming you're not good enough.
+1 for the title. I'm a sucker for bad puns.
so nobody gets shot? then where's that Biggie-Lennon duet? i hate to break it to you and keelan, but logic rarely wins out. and there is a definite lack of ability to learn from the mistakes of the past - deregulation, consolidation of media power, reactionary trade protectionism (a certainty in a democracy with a crashing economy and the worst education system in the developed world)... it doesn't matter how deep in the sand you stick your heads, a hard rain's a-gonna fall. remember, mlhard, this is not about logic. this is about economics and national self-interest. everyone's already trading in the Euro.
If you're really worried about funding terrorists, stop putting gas in your car.
I think its just the feedback of people really liking the content, it rings true. Now about those kitties, they have some sort of proximity prozac...
WTF are you trying to say? Yes, people who are very well informed on the physics of audio do not understand how this works. Well informed != omniscient.
Enjoy!
"Like" and "as" are not equivalent. Like = "similar to", such as = "for example".
A tangerine is like an orange.
I eat fruit such as oranges.
"I eat fruit like oranges" is to say that I eat things similar to oranges, but not actual oranges.
"I eat fruit like a monkey"
"I eat fruit such as a monkey" (huh?)
"Your love of doctrinaire thinking and incuriosity about alternatives is certainly not going to endear you to me."
Ironic, coming from you.
The fact anybody on reddit cares about Oprah is scary.
Another edition of the only online newspaper devoted solely to birds in the news.
Haha, so true. My fiend has cats and his IQ drops when he's around them. I thought it was from sniffing all the fuzz balls.
So, Al Qaeda is directly financed by Saudi oil revenues, but I bet that doesn't change your driving habits. Besides, marijuana is almost entirely produced domestically these days. If what you're saying is true, only idiot rednecks that buy shitty brown brickweed are financing colombian terrorism (and btw, by paying your taxes your are doing EXACTLY the same, or have you not reseached the american government's role in Colombia)
Given the issues the Catholic Church has had vis a vie priests and young boys, I could again give in to temptation and make a sardonic comment or two.
That being said, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you were not intending to ask a "How long ago did you stop beating your wife?" style question.
I made no implication regarding the continued existence of Christianity, nor did I imply any comparison between Xians and child molesters, let alone parity. I gave child molesters as an example of a "group" that is more evil than most other "groups", and certainly doesn't deserve to exist.
I should also comment on your question of moving to Syria. Yes, I would consider living there if I had some motivating reason to, like a job or familial responsibilities. It's a perfectly nice country. The crime rate is low, and there is ready access to the luxuries that I am used to in the west, like satelite TV and internet access. There are also a few luxuries in Syria that are higher quality than what you can get in the West. Specifically, the cotton is some of the highest quality in the world, and the coffee is extremely good.
Of course, your comment about poor people moving there is ridiculous. Poor people can't afford to move anywhere, that's one of the things that keeps them poor.
I find the politics of the site.....bad.
But it's informative, so....up :)
Sad that a person could be so ill-informed, biased, or just plain stubborn. Sadder still that he gets a soapbox (GodTube). And worst of all is that some people might actually listen to him....
He means the physical medium, not the artistic modality.
people still use geocities?
IS Mel's next role that of a deranged lumberjack?
I missed that memo.. who, when and where was the torture ordered again?
Can I see the documents admitting this torture?
WTF???
First, this sucks. Libraries close, the community suffers. Nobody likes that, it is very unfortunate.
BUT...
Who cares to support a library system that is insolvent? The host community clearly is unable or unwilling to support their own library like most other communities. I would rather make sure an endangered species is kept alive, than support the killing of tree's for library's.
So say we all.
it means you like oranges, I like tomatoes and the salads we put them into are different.
Atheism is as valid a religion as any other.
Justice/ethics tend to be empirical. People learn over time what kind of systems produce good results, and use them. That is the scientific method if it ever existed.
There is a higher level concept at work though in my opinion. I believe that people have a conscience and that they can hear it if they listen. Ultimately we should let our consciences be our guide, we should create kingdoms of conscience and societies based therein.
To the man who follows his conscience, justice does not burn. It is cooled by forgiveness. Modern culture thinks scientists are godless, but secular humanism is closer to the teachings of Jesus than anything else today. Forgiveness, unconditional love, cooperation, equality, human rights, democracy. There are empirical basises for these concepts and there are deeply ingrained intuitive basises for these as well. Evolutionarily inspired? I don't doubt it, but it certainly hasn't been proven.
People intuitively know far more than they give themselves credit for.
If the Marines were smart they would contract them to produce truckloads for our DU-exposed soldiers in Iraq. Then again, if they were smart they wouldn't have dumped 2000 tons of it on Iraq since the first Gulf War.
to paraphrase sweet Uma: "When you little conspiracy theorists get together you're worse than a ladies' sewing circle."
It almost looks like f(n) = n!!, except 0! is 1, not 0.
the sound you hear is of me bowing.
It's like a glimpse at wingnuts in their natural environment.
I don't know exactly what Guido said, but this sounds like a rather bizarre idea. Perhaps I've misunderstood, but what would adding that sort of functionality to Python accomplish that isn't already accomplished by inheritance, special methods, and duck typing?
is that a cross between a bigot and a faggot?
Scheme.dk uses Apache in combination with the PLT Scheme server.
All dynamic pages (such as the search engine and the source highlighter) are served by the PLT Scheme web-server.
All PLT pages are served from the PLT server.
Untyped uses it in their business: http://www.untyped.com/untyping/archives/2006/06/we_have_lift_of.html
The conference management system Continue uses the PLT Scheme web server.
I don't know squat about Krispy Kreme's financing. I do know that once you could get them anywhere they really stopped being so special. Also, since they weren't made fresh, they stopped being so good.
If I wanted 'just okay' donuts, I'd go to Dunkin Donuts. More choices and better coffee.
Communists did bring it on themselves, they killed a whole lot of people. It's terrible to lump them in with groups who have actually suffered.
what would be the point of that? You seem to be of the impression that tax cuts "to the rich" (nicely general) are a bad thing.
You are probably of the idea that redistribution of wealth is a better idea.
so.. what would be the point of going round and round?
ok, now I'm happy :)
A shame for the nine year old boy his parents are putting him through this.
Going hard for the right margin ...
Shut up and listen to each other.
Construct a solution, don't bicker about buzzwords.
They aren't just buzzwords. They are words carefully screened and focus-grouped by the best political hacks in the business. They are chosen precisely because they are the most effective at making points without engaging an intellectual response.
Where do politicians get elected on the basis of intellectual flexibility or practical consensus building? Because it sure isn't the U.S.
I have the notion of floating-point contagion so deeply ingrained that decimal quantities all look approximate -- even in cases like 1/2 = 0.5 in which the decimal representation is just fine.
Well, tools should help us in things we already know how to do ...
Bingo. Once government and law enforcement folk start to think of invididual rights as an inconvenience or optional, or somehow less than the rights of the government or a corporation, it is all downhill from there.
YES THEY DID
There are only two of the manual machines still in operation.
Machine one is in the original store at the Pike Place market in seattle. Cool store still has the bare breasted siren logo.
Machine two is in the Madison Park Starbucks in Seattle. This is the store closest to Howards house. When he goes into his personal Starbucks they make the espresso the old fashioned way. It is good to be the boss.
check it out, sign-up, and even make your own! its easy and surprisingly addictive...
There's also a map showing military expenditure as a percentage of GDP
Please in some reasonably verifiable way document cases of officially US government sanctioned torture.
I love the lack of reading comprehension here. Mild Internet imbecility at its mediocrest.
Its true, I was just over there and posted "OMG u r so funy"
Actually tune into ANY right wing station, they are still talking about the judge and all this stupid shit. This is a clear sign of trouble. They have the diversions on heavy PR patrol Coulter (for the left), Anna Nicole news (for the right), some sprinkled in Al-Qaeda news, I expect them to capture Al-Qaeda #2 again for the 15th time soon enough.
From everything I've seen, your second sentence is perfectly correct, but it doesn't seem to follow that the internally directed communication of (much) business is any less riddled with BS.
This is a local problem, and it needs a local solution. Taxpayers in other states ought not to have to foot the bill for their own local libraries and also Oregon's as well just because Oregonians don't want to pay for it themselves. Grow up people.
"The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." -- P. J. O'Rourke.
Did you, by chance, read why the Federal government was sending them money all these years? It was because the Feds, under Roosevelt, confiscated much of the land in the area which dramatically reduced their property tax base. There is a story today about the same problem in rural northern California left with much less money to support their local schools.
It seems to me that, if the Feds must own land, and, if we are going to support services with property tax, then the Feds ought to pay tax on the property they own.
It's not Oprah we care about so much as the sheep she leads.
Keeping a record and teaching people that certain things are bad (e.g., slavery, bombing a US Naval Base, etc.) is EXTREMELY good! However, holding a grudge for things that did not even happen to you is bad; and, demanding an apology for it is even worse.
In my opinion, there are some people in the US who just need to grow a thicker skin. Let's remember the past but not base our lives on dwelling on and crying over it now. That is no way to get over things. If every married couple acted the way certain groups did then the divorce rate would be near 100%.
For a moment I thought that this is a scandal - then after the video loaded, I noticed that it's Zhirinovsky. Those who live a bit further away from Russia than me don't probably know him but let's say that he's a lot worse than ten drunk Jeltsins.
Here is a short introduction
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/667745.stm
I had a samsung A900 for awhile and it was a similar experience. Is a confirmation pop up window that you can't close for almost an entire second really necessary every time I push a button? Is it possible that a phone which can play streaming movies has such a bad text search algorithm that it takes 3-4 seconds to find all names starting with 'J' in my address book?
Stop me before I lose myself in the hatred. . .
When there are religious symbols of a major religion involved, what would normally be considered insanity is often written off as a spiritual gift. Speaking in tongues and seeing angels and taking orders from a bush that's on fire seem pretty nuts to me, but there are people who see nothing odd about them.
Incidentally, this sort of thing is even more prevalent in New Age weird stuff, since it tends to focus more on spiritual experiences while placing a similar lack of emphasis on science or reasoning.
Simple solution:
Delete Photos
Remove Storage Medium
Take to a data recovery facility
Spread the news like the media should
She must never have listened to a word Neil wrote. Bizarre, really.
Jules: What does Marcellus Wallace look like?
Brett: What?
Jules: What country you from?
Brett: What?
Jules: What ain't no country I ever heard of! They speak English in What?
Brett: What?
Jules: ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER! DO-YOU-SPEAK-IT?
Brett: Yes!
Jules: Then you know what I'm saying!
Brett: Yes!
Jules: Describe what Marcellus Wallace looks like!
Brett: What, I-?
Jules: [pointing his gun] Say what again. SAY WHAT AGAIN. I dare you, I double dare you, motherfucker. Say what one more goddamn time.
Brett: He's b-b-black...
Jules: Go on.
Brett: He's bald...
Jules: Does he look like a bitch?
Brett: What?
[Jules shoots Brett in shoulder]
Jules: DOES HE LOOK LIKE A BITCH?
Brett: No!
Jules: Then why you try to fuck him like a bitch, Brett?
Brett: I didn't.
Jules: Yes you did. Yes you did, Brett. You tried to fuck him. And Marcellus Wallace don't like to be fucked by anybody, except Mrs. Wallace.
...
[Jules shoots the guy on the couch during Brett's interrogation]
Jules: Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?
Yeah, I couldn't help but look at http://finance.google.com/finance?q=SBUX , look at the five year graph and wonder at what point exactly was it that suicide occurred...
I guess I take the Bill Moyers approach: a journalist can get close to power (almost the entire White House press corps) or get close to the truth - but not both. I. F. Stone, an independent journalist who managed to create a viable business model to get paid for it, did a better job of reporting on politics than any number of political correspondents, without ever developing a relationship with a politician.
My experience talking with politicians is that they are exclusively interested in what you can do for them - give exposure and credence to their policies, explain and/or excuse their missteps, or criticize their opponents. In other words, developing relationships with politicians is a waste of time unless you're more interested in the mystique, glamour, and sordidness of power than with the practical consequences of its exercise.
As the companies get bigger, they end up with the "I'm a big time CEO" mindset... it's this cocky attitude that "any good CEO can walk into any company and run it" with no knowledge about that industry at all.
They have perverted the GE model... when you put the best managers in place, you can't help but succeed.
Problem is, over and over again, the wrong managers are put in place, which holds back business success. Especially in IT where the people who know how to make it work have their hands tied by Project Managers who make decisions that don't and can't work.
It is perhaps the greatest irony that our nation's first self-proclaimed "CEO President" has run our nation into economic straits using Enron-style business principles.
Bush has put managers in positions for which they are not trained and have no real understanding, such as Michael Browne as head of FEMA, or a Veterinarian Bush wanted to put in charge of Women's Health. He has run up massive debt, to the tune of $100,000 per typical family, to pump up the military-industrial complex, while cutting money for libraries, affordable college, health care and benefits for veterans, and on and on.
EDITED above to correct earlier information. Background on the GE MODEL
Apparently this problem is more widespread than I thought.
Nope, sorry but all fluid dynamic experiments and all thermodynamic experiments don't count towards global warming experiments.
If any thermodynamic experiment could be counted as a global warming experiment, then using my calculator to add 2+5 could be counted as an experiment in economics.
Again, you only prove you have no valid argument.
"...and don't care because there isn't much oil where you live. Sorry!"
Um, it did exactly what I wanted it to do.
Maybe it's a regional thing?
Every time I see this guy, all I remember is his "George Bush doesn't like black people" comment and the priceless look on Mike Meyer's face.
If they could make more then $0.50 per day where they live in Ethiopia why don't they quit and move to the higher paying jobs? Does Starbucks have them enslaved? If the $0.50 per day wage is true, it must be the best they can earn with their skills where they live. So maybe Starbucks is providing a good wage.
What's the context here? Why not use YAML instead of XML?
It looks like it is a bug : http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3066
the only thing newspapers seem to still dominate is municipal politics.
Is it a coincidence that municipal politics is so degraded?
Holy jeebus, what an asshole! Sink a continent? This dude needs to lay off the vodka and go get in touch with his inner child or whatever.
please help with this loan
Can't you simulate lambdas by just naming the function instead of leaving it anonymous?
It's no simulation; they compile to the same thing.
My understanding is that people have tried to talk Guido into allowing multi-line lambdas, but he thinks they're ugly.
They are pretty ugly: they lose the light weight that makes lambdas nice for single expressions, without being a much of an improvement over defs for statement blocks.
Also, all of the text editors I use for code allow increasing and decreasing the indent level of a selection with cmd-] and cmd-[, so copy/pasting isn't a big deal.
For what it's worth, you can modify Vim's paste commands with ] (or [) to paste and realign correctly in one go.
Newsflash! The Republican base hates McCain. They have hated him a long time because of his obstruction in the Senate since his 2000 loss to Bush. And changing his mind on issues every other day for the last 6 years hasn't help either. The media seems slow to realize this, as they have been in love with their anti-Bush maverick, but any Republican will tell you he's never been a serious candidate, they all hate him!
McCain got the "hawk" votes?! How the hell do you figure that?
McCain shoulda ran as a Democrat, maybe he woulda had a chance to run as Clinton's VP.
I actually do care about your personal philosophy. Where individuals choose to draw that line is one of the things I think is fascinating about humanity. I had a similar discussion with my father once and he was literally incapable of thinking about accepting what he sees with his eyes as a matter of faith. The idea that it could all be an illusion dreamed up by his brain was completely foreign to him. He's so different from me in that regard that just trying to understand his viewpoint was a mind-opening experience.
As for the question applying to this argument, I disagree with you. Two people discussing the existence or non-existence of an entity where the only "evidence" for said existence is the non-falsifiability of the entity have to acknowledge what their thresholds for accepting reality are. Otherwise, they're just talking about two different things and they may not even realize it.
For what it's worth (not that anyone asked), I've thought long and hard about it. I decided that I'll accept reality to be what I could, assuming I set up the proper experiments and such, observe with my own senses. Gods, faeries, demons, and angels don't appear to fall into that category so I don't consider them a part of reality. It's not a matter of faith; I just had to arbitrarily choose.
Should a fairy ever show up, I'll be willing to reconsider. In fact, it'd probably be kind of cool...
Side saddle no less!
As an East Coast transplant in So Cal, I am frustrated with the lack of Dunkin Donuts coffee (and donuts for that matter) to be found here!!
Missed the point completely. My personal belief is that there is no god (divine spirit, or physical law) keeping track of the positive or negative thoughts I have about buying a new car or passing a mid-term.
Saying that "you got aids because you had negative thoughts about your health, and god (or whatever) was counting" is pretty damn fucked up. Similarly, I think we can all agree that positive thoughts alone can't get you that better Credit Score.
I have my concerns with religion in general, but I'm more concerned with reckless beliefs specifically (be they religious or not). Some may be able to use this video to lift themselves out of whatever strife they have in their life, but it could be presented in a much less dangerous way.
Something like "Hey, codifying your goals and focusing on them on a regular basis really helps you achieve them. Look at all these studies!" would have been just as useful. You can even throw in some dramatic music and parchment if you like ;)
Here are some like-minded (and probably better stated) critiques and perspectives on The Secret and the secret behind this amazing marketing phenomenon, the Law of Attraction.
I found that : http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/07/22/wordpress-backslash-literal-entities/
It may help ...
Look again.
These aren't hidden gems. They're all features that Apple has promoted heavily at one time or another. Jeez!
by John Grisham, this is his first non-fiction work that examines murder and the miscarriage of justice in a small town.
This sounds like the kind of person that gives homeschooling a bad name :(
What right wing stations?
Funny, I refer to Starbucks nowadays as the McDonalds of coffee shops. Remember the days when common folk wouldn't think about entering the sacred halls of Starbucks? If you didn't have a laptop, weren't carrying a 500 page book or weren't a poet/student/programmer you dared not enter. It was almost like a password was needed or something. But today? Hell, walking into a Starbucks is like walking into a McDonalds. Same clientele, different signage.
So give a good/bad, like or loathe, rating rather than marks out of 5 or 10, then use the numbers of good vs bad to determine the position between good and bad. It's easy. Bads get 0 goods get 1.
15 ratings, 5 good, 10 bad, we have ... tada 3/10 or however you want to present it.
Having said that, and this is the real problem... There are a lot of complete idiots out there, so the better solution is to use something like regression analysis to categorise people into their relevant grouping, that way we can all be happy. The idiots will self select in to their own group and be happy with their 5 stars for mediocre products and those of us who can appreciate quality will benefit from those others who an also appreciate such things.
Forgot to mention wikilens, which is basically what this site does. http://www.wikilens.org/ it isn't terribly well organised at the moment.
Kristian Williams examines the links between theories found in the military's new Counterinsurgency Field Manual and the military's actual practices in Iraq.
I personally consider the official theory about the collapse of the main WTC buildings highly possible, however the story on WTC 7 is TOTALLY different and the chances of the official explanation being right are quite zero ...
COUCOU TOT LE MONDE
Great to see some of the behind the scenes stuf at this great show. Can't wait to hear the soundtrack.
this is just for a replacement remote that only works with the Belkin TuneCommand AV. If you don't own the Belkin product, this remote has no use value. It's a customer service page NOT some sort of web promotion.
Note: I'm the submitter, and I upmodded both of your comments.
While 'suicide' is an embellishment, it is a succint embodiment of the article. It is about how chains (not just Starbucks) have a real danger of growing fast (appearing successful) and still dying an entirely preventable death.
Starbucks will live as long as it provides a product people want at a competitive price. Whether or not Starbucks is committing 'suicide' is yet to be seen. Of course, I used past tense in the headline. So, well, I'm sorry, downvote me.
Want it.
the Supreme Court seemed to disagree ... but maybe it's time to stop finding excuses and start seeing the real world ... MANY millions of morons voted for Bush and (maybe indirectly but nonetheless) for the current situation ... it's just normal to expect us to hold that people responsible for the resulting mess ...
Oprah is a freak created by money, television and sycophants. She passed beyond our plane of reality long ago and now only exists in Harpo land.
The girl sprint sent me was really hot!
As far as I can tell, this story doesn't really have much to do with libraries at all -- although it makes a catchier headline. The issue is around publicly-provided services (the article also mentions search-and-rescue and jails) and bickering over how they shound be funded.
The town is just noticing, and using, the library as a touchstone for what happens when a town can't pay for its services. The article just as well could have talked about them closing fire halls or EMS services (which they might well be).
As for blaming libraries for endangering owls... that's just silly.
I would feel bad for her except her husband chose to reinlist in 2005. She told him she would divorce him if he went back. And to quote her husband Lorin:
"On a personal level, yes I'm glad I went over there and had that experience as a soldier. Yes, I get to wear the Combat Infantryman Badge. . . . That's something special for us.""
Sounds like she could not come to terms with him and left him for it. Now she is trying to keep from looking like a bitch by blaming the government for it.
The government has really let down our soldiers on several levels over there, but I don't buy her sob story for a second.
For the LaTeX you could use jsMath : http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/
It works well. I am using it on my blog.
I don't know if you can install it on blogspot ...
Box slicers? Box slicers are dangerous?
What?
Me too. Anytime I see a decimal point, I immediately start thinking "rounding error", even when using non-float types.
Well just about every talk station on the dial I mean. Guys like Michael Weiner aka Savage!
Clearly many sequences CAN satisfy the first four integers. How about choosing between those and picking the one that can be written in the least amount of code? This is Occam's Razor / MDL ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_description_length )
Story was on the Dutch news:
http://www.nos.nl/nosjournaal/beeld_en_geluid/index.html
Some crazy historican claimed he found the lost castle Hulkestijn near the city of Nijkerk, Netherlands, when searching for hints using Google Maps. They send down a diver but because of near zero visiblity they couldn't find a thing. Looks like a hoax, but posted solely because of the name "Hulkestijn"..that's a classic.
Oprahs into all this touchie feelie new age religious bullshit. She's a dingbat. But she gets a pass by everybody because she's black.
Holy shit. Those CIA people should go to fucking jail forever for that. I can't wait till Bush and his crony tentacles are out of office. Will that stop the wrong being perpetrated on US citizens and the rest of the world? I'm not so sure...
From your one-line post, I can assume that you are probably:
under 50
middle-class
not a logger
So, it's possible that you may not exactly represent the demographic that this article is talking about.
(EDIT: 'demographic' is a more appropriate word)
Best satisfaction comes from working for technocrat companies - not IT departments. Eg: Microsoft Gold Partners - cutting edge of technology, fat contracts, rock star patina, telecommute flexibility, customizable vacations. Also choose a niche technology - dont get pigenholed into an (IT) mainstream.
Please be getting over yourself. Donkey.
But ... chew on this for example, Anglo-Americans Rattled
By Argentine Bank Raids
Looks like Warren Buffet watches Frontline.
What's Happening to the News
Conservatives would also say that you are ignoring all the good things that the invasion has done. For example, I'll bet your friend handed candy to an Iraqi child.
Why won't you talk about how happy that kid was for the candy?
Why do you hate the troops?
British Columbia, not Canada.
Given British Columbia's extensive mountain ranges (therefore, opportunities for hydro power) do they build coal-fired plants anymore?
I don't think the coal we've got out here in the Pacific Northwest is terribly high-quality, so it would have to be shipped via train from somewhere. I can't imagine that would beat the cost of a dam.
But did Senator Kohl evade the camera men by shooting ink out from among his tentacles?
Lol. If I never see another Starbucks it will be too soon. Down with chain stores, period. They all become soulless behemoths eventually anyway.
And to those of you who pay ~$3 for coffee, you deserve bland.
Oh of course it is. It's based on unprovable beliefs just like any other religion. Quick, prove the universe has just always been here, or the universe spontaneously appeared from nothing or what ever you believe.
The big buck isn't all that apparent and you have to look closely to see it. The commercial was made without the buck being noticed apparently. Some people have had a hard time seeing the buck initially. But once you see it there it will stick out to you like a sore thumb.
Does cocaine really cook well in to cakes? Stick to the facts people.
They list options for the web server, and among them is Apache + mod_python; it's just not the option they chose to present here.
The disabled parking sign probably wasn't photoshopped. It's a Federal requirement, you know.
I'd like a social news site like Reddit where I didn't accidentally click "report" on the parent post (sorry dude... how do I un-report something?)
On a similar vein, how about a social news site which actually notices that I really don't care about stories attacking George W Bush/Republicans/Christians etc and stops showing them to me?
He did talk about that when it took place. I listened to all of his shows last week and he didn't talk about it. Listen for yourself http://www.910knew.com/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=savage.xml You can download all of his shows if you don't believe me. But then again, he is not a journalist, this is not the nightly news, it's opinion talk radio.
How about a non-linkjacked version here: http://www.atheistagenda.org/porno-for-bibles
In IT, it is not important to those you serve what the technology is, rather its whether the solution provides the desired value.
Good grief. That's not IT he's describing, that's just business. Of course results are more important than "what the technology is," whatever he means by that.
And for whatever it's worth, my limited exposure to corporate IT departments has been precisely the other way around anyway, with IT dictating what applications and system configurations are allowed, rather than other departments insisting that IT support the stuff they need or like.
This is the real reason why men are better at math than women. ;)
No Starbuck is a character in BSG, she's not particularly stable either.
I would rather make sure an endangered species is kept alive, than support the killing of tree's for library's.
Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots
I don't want popular -- everyone I meet is an idiot. There all to ignert two get it write.
I'll take correct, thanks. You can take a lot of liberties in fiction that are not acceptable in technical prose. The copy editor's suggestions certainly sounded more professional than the author's versions to me.
How ironic that a "newspapers are screwed" link goes to the Washington Post.
Some of us get it straight from Berkshire's annual report.
And much of "brand name news" is bullshit. That's part of the problem - in the pursuit of ever higher ad revenue, they've compromised their integrity. There are zillions of people who are willing to compromise their integrity on the Internet, so why should we bother with the brands?
Ive never been to a Starbucks which didn't have the automated machines. Either way, the manual machines make a big difference if the barrista knows what they are doing.
Against my better judgment, I'll take the bait.
Maybe it's just me, but I think Google is now a critical part of work. I don't know how I'd work without it.
All search engines do not have the same results.
Strings have the isdigit() method, but that only works for ints. I think the standard way to do this is using a try/except block - but you can easily add a function that does what you want:
def is_numeric(num):
try:
float(num)
return True
except: return False
There are also decorator recipes that perform type checking/casting.
If Guido implements optional static typing the need for such a function built in would likely be negated.
I looked again. What am I missing?
Only 300 of these cars were ever produced. It is the world's most expensive and fastest production car in history.
That is, unless you define "performance" as "eating an entire bag of Doritos in 12 minutes and playing video games on the couch for 11 hours straight".
There are many reasons why:
Young people do not subscribe to newspapers. I know I don't want them in my house! So as older subscribers retire, they aren't being replaced. The Boomers are headed out and a lot of stuff that catered to them will go with them and good riddance!
The cost of raw materials is way up.
The quality of journalism, is well, let me say, it's somewhere below the level of the toilet, more like in the pipes headed for the treatment plant. It's not just newspapers, though--television journalism reaches even lower on the value scale. The wall between the advertising department and the editorial department has been penetrated and it's a disaster.
The [Red] Star Tribune in Minneapolis has a far left political tilt, so does the Pioneer Press. Whow wants to read that garbage? I already know what it's going to say, I already know I disagree with it. I don't care what leftists think and I don't like the agendas they try to set when they get the soapbox. I would pay not to hear them or have to be a part of their screwed up system.
Mr. Weiner gets none of my time sry. Ok tune into any clear channel radio station or abc station. Guaranteed you will hear about the wacky judge and custody battles of ANna Nicole Smith.
Weiner probably just plays bomb sounds all hour to entertain the monkeys.
Actually, the military has been a resistant
to the Bush/Neocon wars as they reasonably
could be. Can't blame it on them.
Too many financial shenanigans.
More details here:
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200703/kt2007030421224311990.htm
Yes, I can also highly recommend this immensely entertaining show.
The public? Most news stories are pure government propaganda!
So what does spending -10,000,000 mean? It that money spent to explicitly dismantle the military?
lol
This was a good concept, but seemed a bit long for the joke.
It was well done though, and the ending was good.
-1, sensationalist headline. despite the fact that it's the original headline.
Each map has a key over on the right-hand edge.
Too much to sort through, they need to post the top 10 topten lists.
Because most of the reddit readers seem to be American, and a large number of American tax dollars go to directly support the Israeli government. Also, I don't know if there are many Israeli corruption stories so much as their are critical stories concerning the Israeli policy towards their settlements and military actions around those settlements.
Too much Perl, eh? :)
Here you go.
"1"
Seriously though, here you go. The links are non-functional, sorry.
I'm off to give my host a swift kick.
vote
the dude abides...
Not only did you misspell 'missile,' you also didn't do a five-second check to see that this was already submitted two days ago, which would have had the added benefit of explaining that this is not a cruise missile at all. Sheesh. Do us all a favour and stop clogging this site with rubbish, kthx.
True, but much lower style points...
this has nothing to do with being right wing, but the moronic market they cater.
-1 nothing about anyone calling Coulter's tits withered. It's all headline.
I bet 90% of the people who voted it up didn't read it.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&pb=r&q=867-5309&btnG=Search+PhoneBook
For a good time...
Harris appears to me to be one of the calmest people I have ever seen. Even if he were 'descending into bigotry' (which I think is nonsense), it would certainly not be 'frenzied'.
The key on the right hand side
I gotta get me one of those bibles!
I don't understand why you say he gets none of your time, yet you imply that he spends his time talking about ANS. Either you listen or you don't. If you don't listen, then don't assume what he talks about.
I think the main concern should be with truth. Toleration does not help when well-meaning religious people are doing crazy things like banning condoms.
http://ship-of-fools.com/Lookalikes/media/gibson_hussein.jpg
I DO hate the troops and think they are part of the problem. Anyone who didn't refuse to serve in a patently illegal war is, IMO, culpable.
Without people willing to fight anyone that their leader, however crazy, tells them to wars like this would never happen.
I got what appears to be the full source code to the reddit web site from clicking a link on the home page. Has this happened to anyone else?
I can post it to prove that this happened, but I'm not sure if this would violate any copyrights or any of that kind of thing. But I could if people want it.
I heard from someone yesterday that the department of corrections in my country is one of the most corrupt in our government.
Link?
thank you. found it very useful as a photoshop rookie
You can get these, along with Chumpies, in most areas of the city. Used to buy them at Getty's in North Philly (Olney area).
Well it certainly seems impolite, just as it would be impolite to ask "psychic man" for his input. It's just a very impersonal way of addressing someone. I would be shocked to be talked to like that when being asked to give my input on a discussion.
Nope I dont' take a Weiner in the ear. Ok most right wing stations (at least here in AZ) are all talking about this. I didn't realize the depth that you had fallen in listening to Weiner for real. I am sorry you waste your time...
Try any other winner on that KNEW station and you will see.
Hell, I've DESIGNED some of them.
"Al-Qaeda #2 again for the 15th time soon enough"
World's. Most. Dangerous. Job.
Well, I do use Python. But I'd rather be using Scheme or something. Today's reason for not wanting to use Python is... variable scope. There is no nested scope in Python, so your variables stomp all over each other, meaning you'd better come up with lots of wacky variable names, i.e. implement your own homegrown namespace system... arrggh.
twittering handheld crapstones
A most excellent rant.
>> is_numeric("1.23")
True
>>> is_numeric(1+2j)
False
its obvious: the answer is: 5.
All of a sudden dubya isn't looking so bad after all.
How poor are the "poor"? Consider the following statistics, all drawn from federal government reports:
*In 1995, 41% of all poor households owned their own homes. The average home owned by a poor person has three bedrooms, 11/2 baths, a garage and a porch or patio.
*More than 750,000 poor people own homes worth more than $150,000; nearly 200,000 own homes worth more than $300,000.
*Only 7.5% of poor households are overcrowded; nearly 60% have two or more rooms per person.
*The average poor American has a third more living space than the average Japanese and four times as much living space as the average Russian--that's the average citizen in Japan or Russia, not the average poor person.
* Seventy percent of poor households own a car; 27% own two or more cars.
*Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; nearly half own two or more color televisions. Nearly three-quarters have a videocassette recorder; one in five has two VCRs. Sixty-four percent own a microwave oven; half have a stereo system; more than 25% have an automatic dishwasher.
*Two-thirds of poor households have air-conditioning. By contrast, 30 years ago only 36% of the entire U.S. population had air-conditioning.
*As a group, the poor are far from being chronically hungry and malnourished. In fact, poor Americans are more likely to be overweight than middle-class ones. Nearly half of poor adult women are overweight. And 84% of the poor say their families have "enough" food to eat; 13% say they "sometimes" do not have enough to eat. Only 3% say they "often" do not have enough to eat.
*The average consumption of protein, vitamins and minerals is virtually the same for poor and middle-class children and in most cases is well above recommended norms. Poor children actually consume more meat than do higher-income children and have average protein intakes 100% above recommended levels. Indeed, most poor children today are supernourished, growing up, on average, to be one inch taller and 10 pounds heavier that the GIs who stormed the beaches of Normandy in 1944.
I didn't.
My law knowledge is zero, but if reddit gave you something you were not supposed to see, that's not your problem, unless they ask you later to remove the info.
I am highly enthusiastic about these most entertaining and delightfully sincere parent comments and would not hesitate to recommend them to other individuals
Number 3 might present a problem to a reporter in the field.
I think the real gem here is:
It's amazing what Cherry Coke and hamburgers will do for a fellow.
Yeah, this is one of my pet peeves.
Just as annoying is when the dvd automatically runs previews of other movies and your player is blocked from skipping right to the menu. The assumption behind this must be that you only bought the dvd to watch it once.
It really sucks when you can get better results through piracy than through purchase.
This website of the OSDP is aimed at an independent information offer for information about as many operating systems and its developers as possible.
I do believe you the coffee in Syria beats Starbucks', but there's also matters of civil liberties, freedom of speech, minority rights or plain old democratic elections - ie, ones that don't always end with %98 vote to the ruling party - that might make someone in the West reconsider a move to Syria. This, after all, a nation where the government kill ~20,000 of its own civilians when they revolted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_Massacre
your comment about poor people moving there is ridiculous. Poor people can't afford to move anywhere
Really? I have to take that up with the hotdog vendors here in NYC, the cleaning ladies, the kitchen hands and the rest of the poor immigrants whose hard, low paid work keeps economy rolling, from San Francisco to Sydney.
If you don't understand the difference between a "former chapter president of the state branch of the ACLU" and the "current head of a national evangelical organization", I guess there's no helping you. Good luck repeating the lie ("president of the ACLU") until it sticks.
You're spinning sir!
the military is not a job-training or self-esteem program.
In the US, the military is what passes for a social program such as the other OECD countries have.
No doubt. I totally submitted that a year ago (back when just about nothing made it past the downvote-bots).
The [Red] Star Tribune in Minneapolis has a far left political tilt, so does the Pioneer Press. Whow wants to read that garbage? I already know what it's going to say, I already know I disagree with it. I don't care what leftists think and I don't like the agendas they try to set when they get the soapbox.
Heh. I gave up on reading The National Review because they didn't say anything I found disagreeable, so I wasn't any better off reading them. Now I read (and loathe) Daily Kos, because it forces me to articulate why they're wrong rather than just agreeing that they're right.
If you can fully use your existing code by recompiling it to Erlang it seems like that is the way to go. Erlang is free I take it?
The only thing I'd worry about is whether you will be able to debug the code when it goes wrong as easily when it's Erlang-code-produced-with-lisp?
In my experience with Lispworks it's by far the most stable and debuggable of lisps. I've heard people complain about Allegro's GC before.
Although my use of lisp is purely for fun and I've never built a big production system with it, so take my observations with a pinch of salt.
Hey, speaking as a Yank, I wish we would too.
And no, we don't have money to burn.
I don't believe one word of this guy's account. I believe he was abducted. But beyond that, I am betting my life he is lying. He certainly has plenty of motivation to lie. Because then assholes like you here on Reddit will carry water for him. You are a bunch of suckers.
Amazing how a huge corporation deals with conflict, when they first cause it.
Everyone should stand back and look at this logically. Everyone is quick to flame the CIA because of one non-US citizen who claims he's been abused etc. without one shred of evidence other than the fact that he has indeed been detained. Crap, if we were to let every non citizen sue our government our legal system would be overwhelmed by every foreign nutjob with an agenda claiming he's been abused. If you can provide non-circumstantial proof, then the US can start talking apologies, until then... no way. It's how justice works you know.
is there a double standard at AI?
You're thinking too narrowly. Is it so hard to understand that deadly force might be needed to protect yourself or your loved ones even if it puts you at risk? What about a teacher acting to protect their students? And don't think about suburban America when you consider these things. Think about the many places in the world where the rule of law is not in effect.
What about Obama? He even claimed to have inhaled, and he seems to have a decent shot at winning.
He's right film photography is dead.
People :(
I don't enjoy listening to the other hosts on KNEW. But another person I enjoy listening to is Dennis Prager. Dennis talked a lot about Walter Reed during his show today.
I think a lot of people here are talking about stuff that isn't the issue at hand: They are talking about him being unfairly thrown in jail for a long time for no reason, and unfairly treated in the process. Obviously an injustice. There is no disputing that.
The question is, whether the US government can be forced to talk about why and how he was captured and how he was detained. The title of the post is "I am not a state secret." This is the issue to be discussed.
As a non-selfrespecting Googler and old school person, I find the advise a point and click in the right direction.
Of course the clerks in TexAss are astounded that they are breaking Federal Law. "If it's good 'nuff for W, it be good 'nuff fo me." I would say give these backwards unconstitutional rednecks back to Mexico, but that would insult the honest hard working people who spend their days in the sun, as well as Mexico. And both deserve more than a cackle of morons who are proud to have lost the Alamo.
Agreed. Blame America.
But Columcille?
So, Oprah continues to befuddle middle aged soccer moms everywhere.
I think Tim O'Reilly hasn't been relevant for a quite some time now.
You obviously haven't seen any pictures of Raptor Jesus.
Don't confuse religion with economic philosophy or personal philosophy. They can be one's religion but only insofar (person opinion coming up!) that one derives spiritual sustinence from those philosophies.
That stuff is souring your mind, pundit radio is bad for your health on either side.
Since when is Fox news or Think Progress actual new sources?
Biggest problem of Israel is its geographic location.
They should have put it on Long Island instead. Creating Israel in the Middle East is as foolish as creating a country
for Gay people in the middle of the Bible belt !
We should listen to and believe what the Iran officials say about their war with the west. They have been at war against us for years.
:|
That's me, not smiling. Not the slightest bit amused.
i've seen this picture somewhere else...a long time ago
Tab works as autocomplete in my cmd without any mucking about in the registry or using special switches, is this not the same for everyone?
Of course they were! Their bodies got in the way of the machetes!
Seriously. I say this a lot. If I had no ethics... I mean, if I were ready to (metaphorically speaking) suck Satan's cock for money... if I were an absolute sociopath, I'd get into this whole spirituality racket. It seems like the easiest and most effective way to manipulate people and get them cheering for more.
Aw hell, all them book learnins is just fillin folkses heads with Godless librul hogwash like evolution, global warmin and that kids book what felt like it had to use the word 'scrotum'.
What aspects of Erlang are you using? Are you using Mnesia at all?
What they don't tell you in the video is that it took five takes because the weight of the stuntman's ENORMOUS BALLS were interfering in the stunt.
Holy crap. This guy needs a star on the Walk of Fame.
What's this? No mention of The Departed in the article?
Wow, if that's real, then that's great. If it's 'shopped, then it's not so great.
If it's real, though, my guess is that some smartass intern with a USB flash drive swapped the image on the station's CG console. Pretty genius :)
Does anybody really think fox news channel is a reliable source of information? Its like thinking Jerry Springer is a social worker.
There's no telling how much one person can influence Congress using the ol' Series of Tubes.
The way they scream in there, they must pump in the prozac in the vents or something. You'd think they were teenagers seeing the Beatles in the 60's. Twilight Zone stuff...
rm -rf http://...
Not Windows Vista the operating system. It was Microsoft's Live OneCare security software which failed the virus testing. This is not a comment of any kind about Windows Vista on my part.
Fair enough :-) Then, given that the Mandaeans beliefs don't hurt anyone, and that their human rights are being violated in the most barbaric ways by those following a virulent, noxious strain of Islam, would you change the tone of the comment that started this thread from sarcasm to sympathy?
Sure. What's one innocent person kidnapped and dragged away to a military prison? I mean, when this starts happening to THOUSANDS of people, then you can write your congressman.
Nice. Reminds me of the parking system in "I Robot", but in the movie the vehicle was turned to an angle before lifted away.
It makes me a little nervous though. What happens if someone forgets to set their brakes, or their brakes happen to go? I'd like to see that parking system automatically put wheel blocks up before the car is moved.
Still, this is a nice step forward in parking.
They work for President Bush and he can fire US attorneys as he pleases.
Bush is originally from Connecticut, his ranch is a special effect.
It's not in "Save As..."; it's in "Print...". This means that many, many people who don't have printers wouldn't ever see it unless it's pointed out. Why try to print something when you know you can't?
Yes, this is the same reason prayer works in some cases, it's just self-delusion and getting yourself into the right mental state; but to claim that 'positive thinking' has any effect beyond your own actions is kind of stretching it (to be kind).
Says the grand-poobah of water-carriers.
I don't think you can beat "f(n)=1" in this case.
With the recent adoption of OpenID by industry giants such as Microsoft and AOL, it will be increasingly important that software development firms and agencies follow suit. digital-telepathy will be rolling out 5 new social networks in the upcoming months, all of which will support OpenID as the single-sign on standard.
Its not 'blame the victim' for the condition, its 'make the victim more responsible for their condition in the first place'. The more you complain and whine and say "its all poor me, poor me, poor me", the more like you will be poor.
But take a different tact, one that doesn't require victimism, and you will find that there is very defintiely a change of condition that can occur. Sitting around being a poor victim is one way to stay in the state you're in; being responsible for the condition, and thinking positively about it, in a way that engenders change and requires it, is very definitely the very first step towards changing that condition.
You wouldn't fly to the moon by saying "we can't fly to the moon, poor us, we are victims, we humans, we don't have wings and can't survive in space" .. you get there by instead saying "no matter the problems, we can solve them, we can be positive about it, we are able to find a solution, and thus we will get there".
Thats the difference. In Scientology, its a refined science, this 'taking responsibility for things' ..
Cowards.
Here I am! Get stupid!
Also: whitespace being meaningful is a bad idea.
I thought this for several years and almost religiously avoided Python because of it.
Try actually using Python for a while, seriously. Using indentation instead of { and } everywhere turns out to be a wonderful thing, actually.
Please.
The US Government does far worse everyday. You just don't hear about it.
Yes, you are correct.
You would normally want to ship the storage medium (hopefully something small like SD or miniDV) back to someone you can trust!
So it does. I didn't even notice the horizontal scrollbar.
here is a link to the blog entry where this was found.
http://gigglesugar.com/159246
Uh yeah. So the part about the U.S. even admitting that his kidnapping was a mistake is a lie on America's part - since you say his account is a complete lie.
Closures in Python are crippled, because nested functions cannot rebind variables in the enclosing scope.
This is a weak and tired argument. :(
Highly-regarded functional languages like Haskell don't support this at all: does this make their closures crippled?
In actual fact, they can (and always could): either by using this short helper function, or by using ctypes (or Pyrex) to expose and call the underlying PyCell_Set API function. What's missing is not the ability, but a convenient syntax for it.
(Said syntax is missing because when closures were first introduced (back in Python 2.1), it wasn't clear what syntactical approach would be best: since the vast majority of practical closure uses don't actually involve outer scope rebinding, the question was simply deferred. Recently, though, things settled on the nonlocal scoping keyword (analogous to local and global), which should make its appearance in the next major release.)
Nope, they don't. Doing an experiment to show how heat can be moved by converting liquid to a gas is an experiment in air conditioning, not an experiment in global warming.
Retardo. You have no better argument than to scream yes yes yes and cover your ears so you don't have to listen. You argue on the level of a 6 year old now.
Congratulations, you are actually regressing!
If you mix it with baking soda, you get freebase and a light fluffy batter.
European-trained people who would not dare to drink the Dunkin Donuts or 7-Eleven beverage, may be mildly comfortable with some of Starbucks's offerings (personally, it's either the doppio or the no-foam double latte)
The "Inside Orbitz" email has some details, in points 4 and 9 - 11. But from reading that it seems that Orbitz were just trying to avoid GC altogether for those tasks, not specifically having problems with the CL implementations of it.
When you pluck the lowest string on a violin, that is the lowest note a violin "should" be able to produce, since all other notes are either on higher strings, or made by shortening the effective string length, which also produces a higher note.
Mari Kimura can make lower notes than that "lowest" note with subtle bow manipulation.
Why is this confusing?
Seems like it would have been easier just to take the head for that prank. It must have been a pain to lug around a 300lb statue.
This is what we get after Patriot Act I & II and the Military Commissions Act have stripped away all the rights of Americans to Due Process - not just foreigners who get stuck in the United States by accident.
www.ImpeachforPeace.org
Haha, I was just joking around. I don't keep up on the WoW news, but I imagine you could come up with something about Murlocks if you really tried.
Very well put!
What?? How can you not believe the veracity of this site! After all, it's from the government. Why would they lie to you? Just because Dick and W have pledged allegiance to Saudi Arabia doesn't mean they can't be trusted - to put US money into Exxon and Halliburton.
This would be more realistic: it's amazing what the healthcare available to billionnaires can do for a fellow.
Not if it's hamburger. You want it fresh and red then.
I bought some once from a local store, opened it and discovered it was brown on the inside. Freaked the heck otu of me. Smelled ok, and when I used it it tasted ok, but I didn't understand it and never bought meat from that store again.
Now if only that would explain why it was posted 4 times and deleted (probably more) before it managed to hit the front page.
rahul messed it up. The sequence is 0, 1, 2, 720!, ...? (the factorial symbol)
4!!!!
Before you click, think a combination of:
1 1 2 3 5 8 type problems
and
1 11 21 1211 111221 312211 type problems.
Not so much that they are difficult (which they can be, especially if you've never used one), but the fact is that when you're about to use one, your mind isn't entirely focused on that, and it takes considerable time. How much time would you like to waste with your lady friend laying there spread-eagle, 20 seconds or 5?
Changing the float to complex will allow it to work with complex types. Both will fail with strings with a trailing L, eg "5555555L" which long will cast properly.
Here is a better version:
def is_numeric(num):
try:
complex(num)
return True
except ValueError:
try:
long(num)
return True
except: return False
>>> is_numeric("1.23")
True
>>> is_numeric(1+2j)
True
>>> is_numeric("5555555L")
True
Not sure if I missed anything.
So that's why the cops eat them all the time.
This ones easy, Mike had a line, Jana had one, Bill had a line also, and then there was me. The fifth bill? Went to the dealer of course.
Finally! I've been waiting over a month for my weekly news!
;)
Make sure everything you eat has lots of food coloring in it, if it makes you feel better.
This streaming video tells of the growing fiscal crisis that faces America.
We are using Mnesia memory-only tables right now. We're also using its inter-node messaging library (erl_interface & ei) -- I wrote some glue between Erlang and Lua so all of our sector nodes (written in C++ & Lua) show up as Erlang nodes. So now anything that happens in the universe gets sent directly (well, almost directly - there's a dispatcher) to the processes who are interested.
And we have some interns who hacked together an ejabberd node (separate from the server cluster) which communicates with our test server so you can track players and bots in the universe through a web interface in Firefox (with a Jabber plugin), which is really neat.
I'm not sure what other aspects you had in mind...
If the total # of US soldiers killed in Iraq is currently 3174, how do 60,000 marriages break up?
As a violinist myself, I'd really like to know the process she goes through to produce these notes; what string she plays, finger positions, bow speed/intensity, etc.
Is this supposed to be ironic?
Please, don't avoid sarcasm on my account. It would certainly make things more interesting. No need to get too serious on some random thread on the Internet ;-)
The Catholic Church is a perfect example of the idiocy rampant in large organizations. The problems they've been having with some of their priests I think would largely be avoided if the church just dropped the whole celibacy thing
Same goes with condoms in the third world. Boneheaded and mean-spirited. But for the same dogma, look at what some pharmaceuticals are doing in the third world regarding stamping out generic medicines all in the name of the almighty dollar.
It just goes to show, that none of us is as stupid as all of us :-D
By what reasoning would I have arrived at you beating your wife? There is obviously some cliche that I have completely missed out on!
You might find the case of the ACLU defending NAMBLA to be of interest:
http://www.aclu.org/freespeech/protest/11289prs20000831.html
Here, ACLU goes to bat for an organization that promotes child molestation (man-boy love - whatever) They stress that while the literature is vile, NAMBLA has the right to express an unpopular opinion. They argue that the ones who should be punished are the ones who actually molest children, not the ones who just write about it.
Some food for thought.
I know which I'd rather read :p
Ah, the peak of Muslim medical science. I wonder how they're doing on their quest to invent the Philosopher's Stone?
I know the work to turn Lead into Gold tapered off considerably after Oil was discovered in the region.
Call me crazy, but doesn't a religion require a god to worship ? Labelling every belief system or worldview you encounter as 'religious' just sounds to me like you're trying to tar the non-religious with the same dumb brush.
I'll keep it short and sweet--Oprah. Religion. Friendship. These are the demons you must slay if you wish to succeed (in business).
Look, I don't like Mo Dowd, but that article, when it got intow the quoted and sourced bit, was a bit of a stretch.
Is there any video of the hardball piece? If it's true, it's disgraceful, and she should resign.
I have only seen it in the 2-tone Blue and Black color before (at the LA Autoshow in 2005)... that color scheme in those photos is awful. I really hope that for 1.6million you can pick other choices... besides Terrible Two-Tone.
Good link though.
Scientology sure does take responsibility for things, especially suing and harassing its critics.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're wrong, Christians aren't evil, bigoted, hateful, persecuting, crusading, censoring, violent dolts. The truth is most Christians are kind, tolerant, caring, helpful people who are concerned about the well being of others. By the way there are no conflicts between verifiable science and Christian beliefs.
Seconded. I would be interested to know what exactly are Bill Gates' sources for the "annual 100,00 Computer Science jobs shortfall." On the contrary, everyone knows that Fortune 500 and the IT consulting business have been itching to outsource everything they can to the third world, to ease the bottom line. To me, bringing people from abroad is just another form of outsourcing because increased IT population with a constant number of positions need to be filled implies less money companies need to spent to recruit and retain employees. It is obvious to me that Bill Gates would also exaggerate the declining CS enrollment in U.S colleges. Again, everyone knows that the major software firms don't care about the run-of-the-mill of kids who knows Java; in reality, MS/Oracle/Apple/Google hires only from the top-tier CS programs in the country and take the cream of the crop. The rest of the crowd gets the standard helpdesk or web development work, that are the most vulnerable to the outsourcing that Bill Gates so conviniently forgot to mention.
Awwww....
In what has become an annual rite of spring, former daredevil Evel Knievel is preparing for another liver transplant. Only this time, his liver is coming from a most unlikely source: a donor who just so happens to be lying six feet under the ground...
lol
Hey, if I don't understand it, I don't trust it. Would you trust something when you didn't understand why it was different. I've NEVER seen brown hamburger before that purchase unless it was old.
I do have to wonder why you seem somewhat dismissive about it though.
What about "blogging about bad code rather than fixing it properly"? :)
I find it curious that as more and more "Fox Sucks" articles make their way to the front page of reddit, the less you see people calling bullsh*t. I personally hate Fox News, but I do love watching people defend the format.
Loyalty to people == feudalism.
that was beautifully said
Yikes and yikes again. That was more exciting than the actual movie.
Frenzied in thinking, not gesticulation.
I said "former President of the ACLU". Is that a lie?
It's perfectly legal to take your picture without your permission if the photographer is standing in a public place.
First, unprovable beliefs don't make a religion, they just make religions worse. Second, most atheists don't "believe the universe has just always been here", they willingly admit that, right now, we don't know exactly what happened to create the universe, but we have scientific theories about what happened that are backed by observable evidence. However, all of these theories are up for debate if more conclusive, contradictory evidence is found. That's not a religion, it's a rational understanding of the world.
Is anyone actually surprised by this? We're dealing with Fox News, here. It's not like they've ever really had any credibility anyway.
Absolutely.
Religion: opium for the masses.
... but ...
Hedonism is the other opium of the masses. Hedonism is just as brainless and destructive as religious fundamentalism; it is the flip side of the coin. Both neutralize the will, ruin the mind, and promote thoughtless obedience... in the religious case the thoughtless obedience is to priests, while hedonism promotes thoughtless obedience to feelings and whims that are easily manipulated and to consumerism.
Ah, I had to edit it for accuracy. Loyalty is now friendship. It's a take on one of my favorite C. Montgomery Burns quotes.
Isn't this Disney's 'Tree of Life' from their Animal Kingdom resort in Florida? Pretty sure it's made of concrete and paint, not carved wood.
Because all beef is aged, and aging makes it tender. Beef also turns brown fairly quickly.
If it's red, it is probably because of some trick like the one described in the article.
Have you ever been to a packing plant and seen the sides of beef hanging in the cooler?
Did they look red to you?
"The bright red color of ground beef is often used by consumers as a selection factor when purchasing hamburger, but a dark gray-purple color may not necessarily be a bad thing."
http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/aa092401d.htm
"(Carbon monoxide-reddening) extends the shelf life of the beef because consumers generally do not purchase brown meat even though it is still fresh, a practice that costs the beef industry over one million dollars each year."
http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.1440/pub_detail.asp
Atheists believe what can be empirically proven, measured and tested. That doesn't make atheism a religion. I believe there is currently an apple on my desk as it is confirmed by all my senses. That doesn't mean I am suddenly an apple worshipper or that a cult of the apple has to spring up to justify my belief.
Exactly. Better problem would be if the lines were just too long since too many more people wanted to buy their product.
Oldie-but-a-goodie
My Favorites
*Edit: By the way, if you want to see all the 'in poor taste' quotes, click where it says 'Top 100', then change the url from ?top to ?bottom. I could swear there used to be a link to that, but it seems to be gone. Maybe when the QDB was on a different site...
**Further Edit: The links I posted are not in the 'in poor taste' section, if you're wondering whether it's safe to click. :)
I was losing faith in you until I saw this comment.
No, I disagree with that, I found an organic ground meat brand that is actually very good (and researched the company to make sure it was not just fake labeled organic) and it's not that bright red (like red gatoraide). Fresh beef has a reddish almost purpled tone about it. Though the browned does mean that it's starting to spoil. Also the fat in the ground beef should be white not yellowed
Wow. You're actually claiming that present-day day America is worse than Putin's Russia. How
Behavior of troops in Iraq vs Chechnya?
The life of ethnic minorities in the country?
Corruption?
Freedom of press?
You just don't hear about how bad it is in Russia.
Nah, because there are other people who get passes too who aren't black. I'd say she gets a pass first by being female for a predominantly female audience, and only secondarily does the fact that she's black have anything to do with it. Although her audience is primarily liberal.
Affect is also a noun, it means "fakery" (synonym of affectation) or sometimes "visible signs of emotion" (as in "flattened affect").
egregarious: an adjective describing successful online socializing.
Firefox spell-check is your friend.
The only thing strange is how this makes the front page of Reddit AGAIN, a year after this trailer first surfaced.
Morons.
And rich, too, don't forget. Although that brings us back to your point, doesn't it?
In their defence, Walter Reed Memorial Hospital was in much better condition under Anna Nicole Smith's leadership.
There is something like this in Cryptonomicon as well.
If torture is a US government sanctioned policy there must be other times it was used. Is this the only instance of torture you know of? If not, please in some reasonably verifiable way document cases of officially US government sanctioned torture. If you can't document one verifiable case what is the basis of your claim?
d'oh... if Frank Booth shows up at your door don't answer it.
es que no se que poner
Hedonism is just as brainless and destructive as religious fundamentalism
Hmm... not sure hedonists go round killing people who believe in slightly different versions of hedonism though.
Hmmmm....
"Behavior of troops...The life of ethnic minorities in the country? Corruption? Freedom of press?"
That sounds so familiar.....I could swear I know of a place that has something like that.
I would try to answer that, but unfortunetly I have to go see who is going to inherit Anna Nicole Smith's body.
I keep my copy close at hand whenever I'm doing any rigorous writing.
I keep my copy handy when I'm writing.
HA!
oh i did not know that the internet was invented after 1999, when the video was shot. thank you for telling me. please continue to inform us with your great knowledge of facts.
also, please show us all a video clip of how easy it is to discharge a shotgun in your very own mouth. i am sure we will learn from it greatly.
As in "affection."
Also, "to effect a settlement" is different from "to affect a settlement."
The former means to cause a settlement to come into being. The latter means to influence or modify a settlement in some way.
Without Starbucks how much would those farmers be making? Globalization may be unfair but it's better than everyone being worse off.
Actually, pornography has been shown to help prevent rape. Just something to consider...
Nonsense. When someone says Lisp he or she means Common Lisp. Scheme is Scheme. Emacs Lisp is Emacs Lisp. Nobody talks about LISP 1.5 any more. No-one refers to any language with s-expressions as Lisp any more than anyone refers to languages with ++ operations as C.
The Harris-Dawkins militant approach ("since we think the ideas are wrong, we must blame all the unorthodox for the wrongful deviations of any of them, and we must shame the enablers of unorthodoxy") incorporates conscious prejudice, which is inevitably overbroad. Instead of inquiring after a truth such as: "what is good religion, and what is bad?" it forecloses the question with the imperative that it all must be treated as bad. In short, they may believe that they hold truth as an end, but they do not embrace truth as the means.
True... hedonism is probably an opiate that's less dangerous to others. But in my experience it reduces the individual following its' brains to mush as effectively as religious fundamentalism.
Furthermore, hedonism seems to be even more destructive to the individuals economic worth and fertility than religious fundamentalism. This means that in an analogously Darwinian sense, religious fundamentalism tends to have a higher fitness. Thus, if atheists go around promoting hedonism, they are promoting their eventual downfall.
There have been many societies based on religious fundamentalism; what's wrong with it isn't that it doesn't work per se but that it works in an inhumane, thoughtless, and repressive way. By contrast there have been no societies based on a hedonistic worldview beyond tiny subcultural flashes in the pan that rapidly self-destructed. Hedonism will always lose to fundamentalism in the real world, and that's part of the problem.
Atheists should be promoting rational balanced living, not reaction-driven nonsense.
That's exactly how it works, in my experience.
I asked for a coffee in a shop in Florence and got a tiny cup of really strong espresso.
The waitress saw my puzzled look and was not oblivious to my American accent. She asked if I wanted my coffee 'Americano' and I used about a third of my Italian vocabulary in responding "Per favore, grazie..."
She came back a minute later with a large cup of hot water to dump the espresso in.
Worlds. Most. Secure. Job:
Al-Qaeda #1.
A short documentary exploring an unusual history which points to the stars as the origin of mankind and a reptilian ruling class as the center of occult and satanic practice.
"Submitted by Pakistan IFP", they did indicate they quoted the AP. The AP article is very different from the story posted here on reddit.
Nope. Never been to a packaging plant. I've seen images from movies where sides of beef would be hanging down, and those did look red to me. Red and white, actually.
I still don't really understand this though. I've been buying hamburger and steaks for 20+ years. They are always red until they get old. There's usually a sell-by date on it too. The store is often promoting the freshness of the meat they have, but I can accept that this is probably just marketing.
I'm guessing the hamburger that's sitting on a styrofoam pad and wrapped loosely in cellophane is hamburger that's just been ground by the store. It might have been recently cut from an aged side of beef, but the hamburger itself is freshly ground.
The stuff that's packaged completely in non-transparent plastic without a styrofoam base is also red until it gets old in my fridge.
My confusion here, and I admit I know very little on this, is when it's ground, is it red or is it brown? Does it turn red because it's died or because it's getting oxygen? Does it turn red on grinding and then gradually turn brown as it gets old?
The comparison makes a kind of caffeine-jittery-sense until he employs the term "divorcee." What does that have to do with clip-art jumble sale posters, or designing in the dark on a freak biorhythmic high? Are we supposed to read some kind of high-stress manic depression into this imaginary designer?
i was just going to say the same thing, but not phrased so eloquently. congratulations!
The guy doesn't know what he is talking about. I have the same phone and it's superb. Maybe that's because it's my first high-end phone, but this guy really has got his facts wrong. Let's see: the menus are easy, I got used to the touchkeys fast, you can't terminate calls by pressing it to your ear because it deactivates the touchkeys when a call is in progress and i just made the number dialing font smaller from those easy menus. Oh, and the silent mode activates like on most other phones, by long-pressing #.True, the file manager could be better and the photo camera could take a picture faster, but overall i'm happy with it. And the mp3player works well with bluetooth stereo headphones.
Yup. They're fully responsible for taking on those who choose to attack the Church. How else can you ensure that Scientology will be around for the future?
Honestly, you can't say that the Church of Scientology doesn't take responsibility for things. What more responsibility can you take, in society, than to have your issue addressed in a public court, under one of the most Just systems of law in the world?
"Suing" and "Harassing" is one way to look at "enforcing the rule of law"... and its a not-very-positive way to look at it. One the one hand, its 'terrible' that Scientology defends itself, to the full extent of the law, in court .. on the other hand, where would you be without that same court system when you need it?
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suicide bombing stems from a particular religious belief, not from a particular political situations.
That is bogus. We agreed that prior to the Goldstein's case there were no suicide bombing in Israel. In fact there were hope for Olso process to actually resolve the issues and bring about the two state solution. Religion has not changed in last 10 years, but tactics have, so it is not the religion that is causing it, it is political situation on the ground.
Problem with you is not the reality. You are basically devising your own version of "Elder of Religious Belief" book
In similar light, some people look at the noecons and conclude that since they are overwhelmingly Jewish then the Iraq fiasco is rooted in Jewish belief.
Majority of people consider such remarks as Antisemitic and bogus. I find your comment as having the same level of intellect as the antisemitic remarks of the the bigots.
Whatever went in Goldstein's twisted mind is irrelevant, as no one followed in his footsteps and suicide attacks did not become an Israeli tactic. This is a fact.
Wrong again.
The Israeli elect these folks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avigdor_Liberman
Oslo accord track to a two state solution, which their nutcase leader (and the real tragedy of Palestinians) Arafat decided to abandon in 2000.
Olso was to settle the issue of occupied territories. IT started was signed in 1993.
From 1993 to 2000 how many Israeli settlements were build in the occupied territories that Oslo process was suppose to resolve?
If you were Palestinian you would go back to Oslo? For god sake, for once in your life, be honest with yourself.
If they are intent on keeping fighting, they are far more equipped with "guns and ammo" then most other people living "under occupation", so claiming suicide bombing is their only choice is, as I've been explaining for about 2 days now, bogus.
When they have a choice they clearly fight with Israelis.
Just this summer Hizbollah clearly fought with Israeli army, there were no suicide bombing. In fact the comparison of military to civilian deaths on both side shows the brutality of Israel in targeting civilians.
Lebannon 1000+ civlian death, 200-500 military death
Israeli 39 civilian death, 120 military
Israel also targeted Oil depot, and dropped millions of cluster bombs on villages and civilian targets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Israel-Lebanon_conflict
please stop being assholes whilst misrepresenting an entire world-view
It's funny that you can apply this sentence to all the religions if you want: Christians, Muslims...
"No, honey. I'm pretty sure the research says that the benefits only occur when administered orally..."
True, but that's not the message here. The "bibles for porn" stunt has the message "give up religion and 'convert' to hedonism!"
"Oregon GOP" is not the "Republican base". They're a very different beast.
But you still agree that it shouldn't be brown, right? That was my point.
Yellowed fat...ick. I'm not sure I've ever seen that.
How soon til this is used as a bar pick up line.
"Hey baby I'm like Prozac or Valium."
Try Peets. It isn't like DD coffee, but it's good.
Did I call you any names? I don't see any.
By the way, I tend to just fucking throw around words like fucking.
Oh, and I can't same to parse the message to which I'm replying. COuld you fix it?
Because the language which sells the most books wins, right? :)
I can hardly wait for the next installment of provocative stats.
The trailing colon comes from Python's precursor, ABC (language developed for readability). They realised it was not necessary for the parser but it did make the programs more readable for humans.
Just make sure you break up those 1000 line callback functions as well.
This means that in an analogously Darwinian sense, religious fundamentalism tends to have a higher fitness.
Not if you work on the assumption that hedonism includes mindless shagging :-)
Yes, I agree.
Also, in the context in which it was used, the phrase "visual equivalent of" makes no sense. If one were to describe Harry Partch's music as "the audio equivalent of ..." etc., it would make sense. But presumably the visual equivalent of a moronic clip-art jumble sale poster is a moronic clip-art jumble sale poster.
I conclude that the writer was so in love with the sound of his voice that he forgot to pay attention to what he was actually saying.
Good work. Now go do that for every other monopoly in history, and I'll admit that you're not a fundamentalist.
Thats pretty badass. The idea of a wrapped universe is mind boggling.
Troops follow orders. Troops that don't follow orders will not win wars. Don't blame the troops.
If you think we should never fight any wars, then you deserve to live in the most oppressive regime you can get.
Hint: Talking to Hitler about peace didn't get you any.
Then why do fundamentalists have the most children?
(I'm not as humorless as I sound, but these are important issues.)
Keep in mind that Python considers the next line a continuation as long as you have any brace, that is ( { [ open. So I find the trailing backslash is rarely necessary.
What's this? No mention of House of Cards in the article?
All religions have resurrection stories.
coughJudaism, various local/animistic faiths, and Islamcough
I'd love to own my own land and raise my own cattle. I'd name the animals too, just so I could throw barbeques and tell everyone we're eatin' Bessie. She had good taste.
Seriously.
Yes, I know, I'm really wrong, but I can't help it.
That's why you give final-delete permission to the administrator only.
My peeve is seeing the word impact used as a verb. It is a noun!
That's freakin' hilarious.
while I agree that more people is affected by the war, I can't believe that the vast majority of US citizens might be far more impressed by the 60000 broken marriages (or the death of some bimbo that filled the news) than the actual number of KILLED people in iraq ...
It's NWA day!!
Whoops, misspelled :/
Yeh I am sure O'Reilly wants a broad language war. He's always pushing the books. He invented Web 2.0 essentially and he's pretty good at what he does.
f(n)=((n-1)(n-2)(n-3)(n-4)+1)/25
so I was right...
Note that the avowed athiest carefully chose the words reinforcing the stereotype. Please don't assume we're painting you ALL, especially when we're extra careful not to.
Do they ? Are there any official statistics on the procreational success of hedonists ?
Anyway, the depressing negative correlation between IQ and offspring has been well documented.
im just sayin. maybe it would solve alot of problems...paparazzi...stoplight cams...lot's of stuff.
guilty.
Do you know what Quicktime does to a Windows computer?
Was the assertion that it was PERMANENT? My point was entirely to do with his 'never hearing that pot eats short term memory.' Your point is separate. However since you bitched and made a totally bogus assertion yourself, here's a nice little study that does show LONG-TERM decline in cognitive function:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16534113&query_hl=9&itool=pubmed_docsum
How about this one?:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=15925403&query_hl=9&itool=pubmed_docsum
That even gives you some of the effects of cocaine and MDMA in case you're hittin' those up too.
Now to be fair it's harder to show long term correlations than short term correlations. Why? Because we can't control all factors in human studies as we can in animal studies. However, the point is perfectly clear, that it does interrupt you short term memory, and there is a reasonable likelihood that after long-term use you are going to show deficits.
Your right, I thought I'd updated my comment after I posted but I got a 500 error, I guess it didn't take.
Thanks for duping "The_Bears" post:)
that kid didn't look very happy, he probably preferred the original lyrics
Like presidents who invade countries and start killing living fully grown people for little or no reason at all.
Downvoted for your racist editorializing which failed to redeem the otherwise linkjacked article.
Just go ahead and put your head back in the sand. You'll be happier there, and it will save the rest of us the trouble of having to look at you.
the men dont really look any better
the women look 10 years younger after the retouching
seems like the main thing they do is make the eyes bigger and the cheeks/jaw smaller. And of course, even out the skin tone.
Can you imagine what would happen if the German police kidnapped a US citizen while on holiday in Canada, and subjected him to this? Can you imagine how it would be investigated?
All you CIA apologists chew on that.
I think living on a farm as a kid and geting "organic" food has ruined me now that I live in the city. I'm always bitching that the tomatos taste funny and the meat looks funny and the milk is crappy.
I've gotten big into organic products though, trader joe's has been a blessing
A police spokesman defended the move, saying "Not only will the monkey raise the team's average IQ, but there is no constitutional prohibition against throwing poop at suspects."
An attempt to get Counter-Strike: Source to run on VWmare Fusion Beta 2. VMware Fusion Beta 2 supports 3D acceleration.
And every monopoly you will find will have a rampant trail of collusion with government. So, call me what you will, ascribe beliefs to me that aren't mine, accuse me of "market fundamentalism" or loving jesus while I fuck unicorns in backyard rituals, but you are wrong and continue to teach false lessons in your classroom. Good work.
Whoops, forgot one:
In a clear example of collusion between the state and mining capital, De Beers Mining Company constructed prisons and the South African state provided prisoners to fill
them. The mining company paid the expenses to incarcerate their labourers and also paid the state for the use of African prison labour. Such was the alliance between mining capital and the state.
Invoke python with -tt and it throws immediate syntax errors when you mix the two.
Thanks, I didn't know that. I think that should be the default though...
> Second, and almost more important, is the fact that it renders emacs' auto-tabbing feature useless.
Not being an EMACS user, I'm unsure what you mean. You write multiple nested blocks on one line and then use EMACS to reformat it? Seems like an odd way of working.
No, I don't do that, and yes, it does seem odd :-). What I meant was this: Say I'm writing a function and I decide that whatever part I'm working on needs to be wrapped in a for loop or protected by an if statement. I go to the top, insert the for loop or if statement, go to the bottom and put in the close brace. Emacs then has a command that reindents your entire function (C-c C-q). I do that and Bam, everything indents properly.
Also, hitting tab in emacs famously doesn't insert a tab. It indents the line to where it "should" be. The problem is that python's whitespace syntax subverts this feature. There's no way to tell where the line "should" go because the only thing that tells it that is the whitespace itself.
It sounds minor, but it was really aggravating.
Sure it does. import foo; help(foo) in the interpreter, run pydoc...
Ah, I see, like perldoc. I guess I like that most perldoc stuff is now [redundantly] put into man pages by the distros I've used, which I find to be more convenient. I also really really like the perldoc style where the first thing at the top of the documentation is the example. It makes so much sense I don't know why the rest of the world doesn't do it.
It's unfortunate, but the guide come's too late. The point of no return ha's been reached already. All word's ending with an "s" will sooner or later end with "'s".
I have categorized most of the MIT's OCW video lectures and lots of others on my blog:
Free Science Online
Well, I wouldn't go that far.
Incredible... If I didnt have to ship it overseas I'd order one right now.
Ok, those weren't from me. (Just check the source control)
I don't think there's any great mystery behind it. Having too many kids too young is just not a particulary smart move - thus, as IQ goes up, offspring goes down.
And I'm not sure exactly who you're referring to as promoting 'extreme hedonism'... it's just a bit of porn. Most people have some.
...or both?
This is exactly the reason that McDonalds is popular (and more popular than their peers): quality control. You get the same product tasting the same way no matter where you are.
I find it weird how those are the kind of mistakes I would never make (when I make them it is only a typo). Of course, I have millions of spelling mistakes because I'm not a native english speaker, but not those mistakes.
This is what I mean when you have Michael Weiner in your ear. Its bad for your mind. What opinion of the ACLU did you have BEFORE right wing radio infected you? You are wasting brain cycles, spend them wisely on something better than pundit radio. This goes for right or left radio.
dual commentary at its finest.
Not really, there's alot of us 'foreign nutjobs' reading and voting on reddit!
Note to self: don't be a grammarian.
Do Abu Ghraib and Gitmo ring a bell?
It's funny that you mention Hama while criticising Syria's protection of minority rights. The group that was revolting (The Muslim Brotherhood) was trying to set up a radical Islamic government, and take away the rights of the non-Muslim minority (roughly 10% of the population). The Assad government didn't step in until after the Muslim Brotherhood started assasinating Christian authority figures. The Muslim Brotherhood is in the same league as the Taliban and Al Qaeda. As ruthless as the counter-attack on Hama was, it is the reason that Syria doesn't suffer under extremist Islam the way that the rest of the region does.
Frankly, I would much rather live in Syria or Lebanon, which are secular, than in any of the other nations in the region, which are all theocracies. And yes, I am including Israel in that list.
The emotional-istas!
This is bad news for the Kook Left.
If they don't have Diebold to blame their election losses on, they might have to admit that not all elections they lose are "stolen."
Newborn baby do required special caring because their body still need to adapt to the new environment.
This is far more useful. It makes it clear that China is an emerging superpower and shows that there's a generally a lot of turmoil in the Middle East.
Only if I could bring a weapon.
You buy an item online that promises a price-protection guarantee but don 't want to comb the Web looking for the items you need to price. The link provides a great solution.
I wonder if this accounts for things like cheaper gas because the US is in Iraq, and what about military deployment for natural disasters (which have been slow for the past year).
TO: All
RE: Looks to Me...
....as if we'll have a new diagnosis for 'mental illness', if we take this guy's attorney at his word.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
Don't try to branch off from my original point. My point was that this guy has no proof that he was abused, therefore we are supposed to take his word for it? No way. You sound all high and mighty, but the truth is that he most likely was an innocent caught in a very necessary program of interrogation. And still, You haven't proven to me that he's telling the truth. Show me and I will believe.
If they could make more then $0.50 per day where they live in Ethiopia why don't they quit and move to the higher paying jobs?
Many of them quit growing coffee and start growing chat, which is a narcotic that is legally exported to another African country. The profit from chat is many times higher than coffee.
I just looked at foxnews.com - not a single word about Anna Nicole Smith on the front page, but articles about Walter Reed, and also an article about Edwards condemning Ann Coulter.
Very true, not only that, their eyes are so small and their hands are so tiny. Even while dressing them and changing the napkin require special tender caring. They are so fragile.
I re-inlisted 4 times for health insurance reasons, what's your point?
Or were they selling guns?
Bullshit to all three of the parents. This comic is brilliant satire, not straw man. I'm not a democrat, not even a "liberal", but TMW routinely nails the "conservative" political discourse in this country with near perfect pitch.
I've been amazed the number of times I've looked at strips from Perkins published several years ago and realized how the, at the time, absurd over the top parody became nearly literal mainstream political talking points within 12-24 months.
This particular 'toon isn't in that predictive class. It's perfectly descriptive of past and current manipulative false patriotism often exhibited by the current republican politicians, pundits, media propagandist, and even their idiot followers round the water cooler at the office.
I'm sure that the Albanian guards that found him unkept and beaten in the middle of nowhere, and his family who thought he had been killed were in on it too. It's all part of the 'motivation to lie' since he has gained so much from this.
Are you counting russias economy to the european or not? Simple question. The answer will solve it all!
I've been getting mine from the Mormons!.
Now I can tell all the missionaries who visit me that they can get free porn with that Bible they're carrying.
Does anyone know of a school with a lot of (spoken, ie not programming) languages on its site? MIT just has a few... not as many as the school I actually go to.
We have 'Chinese' buffets also but they aren't quite like true Chinese cuisine.
Actually, if they did it in the way Kring mentioned at the end of the article, I think it would be damn funny and totally in character for Hiro.
For the US, it's about $1500-$2000 per capita.
What's so gross about it? If they were able to interbreed and have viable off-spring, they were still pretty damn close to each other.
That Tesla doohickey was awesome.
Wow! I didn't know the majority of these.
Christ almighty
From the BBC:
"The case was discussed earlier in Berlin by the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and Secretary of State Rice.
Mrs Merkel said the US acknowledged making a mistake in detaining Mr Masri.
While refusing to comment on the case directly, Ms Rice said the US sought to rectify any mistakes made.
Both told reporters that intelligence work was an essential part of the war on terror, but should not break international law.
Before she left the US, Ms Rice admitted that terror suspects were flown abroad for interrogation but denied they were tortured.
She said suspects were moved by plane under a process known as rendition, and that this was "a lawful weapon". "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4504292.stm
The White House is 'neither confirming nor denying' officially, but unless you think that Merkel is in on it as well, I think we have to assume it happened.
Do you expect the US Government and the CIA to come out and admit they flew him to a torture friendly country? Why on earth would they?
And isn't the fact that he was kidnapped and detained without charge halfway around the world enough? How bad is bad enough for you to get upset about it? If it were your wife or child, how bad would be bad enough?
Is the autodial for American Idol voting included?
Globalization may be unfair but it's better than everyone being worse off.
The problem is that there are too many middlemen in the coffee supply chain, each taking a bit of profit. Green coffee beans may pass through a dozen hands before it gets to a roaster and finally to Starbucks. Starbucks isn't the problem. A market for a product is a good thing.
If this sort of thing bothers you, find a 'fair trade' coffee at your grocer or coffee shop. The difference being that the middlemen are cut out and the fair trade coffee is purchased much more directly from the co-op that grows it.
I wonder if these things take normal light bulbs...
I just don't have a need for it because I use Amara and ConfigObj.
Are you kidding???
Ethic minorities do pretty well in the U.S. There is an opportunity for anyone willing to work for it.
It could be improved of course, but Name a country where minorities do better.
you can avoid the lockups by setting Firefox to load PDF with the adobe reader as an external application instead of the plugin. tools->options->content->file types
Which is a valid message.
fine by me. though i'd go so far as to say it should be offered if those that choose to have it are the only ones paying for it's sucess or failure.
then docs 'services' would be 'worth' what the MARKET could bear. let's see how altruistic they are then.
Brief review of new DVD critical of the ex-gay movement
I guess you're not familiar with Mr. Burns?
Canada.
I see the problem more along the following lines. Krispy Kreme diluted their own brand image. People looked to them for tasty, just-made, dissolve-in-your-mouth donuts. Now they are selling a different product at the grocery stores under the same brand name. Their grocery donuts are a long-shelf-life recipe that is not even fresh if you get it when the truck brings the delivery.
And here are the numbers for both maps:
Absolute expenditure
GDP relative expenditure
The US (around 533B) spend more than all the rest of the world (around 367B) together.
[Numbers from Wikipedia]
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Not being a native English speaker can actually be an advantage for the first three examples because we probably learned to write those words at the same time as we learned their meaning, while native English speakers learned to write after they learned to talk. It's like that little "count the Fs" test where most people can't spot the Fs in "of" on the first go.
OK... I don't get it. The law is clear. What grounds can a judge have for saying this? I suppose that in this case the judge is merely denying the judgement, and a full trial could still be in the students favor, but even that seems contrary to the law as written.
http://www.desiurl.com/ed859
Noone denied he was detained, if you refer to my first post, you will see that I even said he was. I said there's no proof that he's been tortured.. that's in the realm of fantasy right now, until someone can prove it. Right now, everyone has just been jumping at the misguided opportunity to badmouth the US.
I don't know of a decent source control system that makes finding out who wrote it easier than just reading the source.
Not that I'd advise to breadcrumb all the time, but some tricky things are better asked/explained than figured out.
Don't forget "loose" and "lose".
Is Best Buy a repository for all the children of the corn who have suddenly wished away all the over 40 people as employees?
I've moved away from adobe reader, but that info will be handy for others that haven't.
Your original point wasn't in answer to any question. You claim that you indicate your preferences in order to have reddit better meet your needs as a news consumer. This can be accomplished simply by down voting stories which don't interest you. What did you hope to accomplish by your original comment?
Nice :) But I do draw a distinction between writing (what I'm doing right now) and "rigorous writing", i.e. someone's paying me.
I see Borders and Starbucks as being among many recent companies that blindly aim for efficiency and profit but end up value-subtracting their entire industries. For example: Save 10 cents per cup but eliminate half the customers?!
Common sense is dead. Simplistic, general-purpose management ruels.
http://www.desiurl.com/ed859
Thanks for that, Republicans.
Looks like the grammer nazis are out in full force. When are we going to start rounding people up and sending them to "correctional grammer camps"?. If you cant handle shortspeak/simple errors get off the internet and go hug your grammer teacher and tell him about all the horrible things you saw on the internets.
This guy has suffered becasue he is part of a collection
that believes in murder, forced conversion, un-democratic
institutions, terrorism, fundamentalism and so many other
bad things.
This kind of thinking is facist, frankly, and the antithesis of what you probably think you stand for. Very common that, in these dark days.
Damnit, I mis-spelled Buffett's last name. Oh well, so did tocfsend.
Because women have to put up with crap like this?
Or, more succinctly, their business plans were to lower expenses and quality as far as they can without losing customers. Oops, they both went too far.
See my reply above; he never said he was tortured. Do you refuse to believe government agents would treat a terrorist suspect roughly? Their burden of proof I suspect is a bit less than yours.
To be fair to Ruby, Perl 6 has a specification, if not much documentation. Then again, Ruby has been out for years and has a shortage of both specification (especially a core test suite) and documentation.
lol
Because only heterosexual guys need to learn math.
There was live coverage of the drama in happening in the court and thats ratings gold for any station. Walter reed is still unfolding as well. Its a bit soon to start pointing fingers.
Arguing the difference between 'Beaten' or 'Tortured' is not my point either. My point is that he has no proof of the alleged 'mistreatment' that could so adamantly be using as propaganda towards the US. None. Period. How are we supposed to believe him?
Bill Gates ? Competition/competitive ? You are having a laugh !
The Microsoft monopoly is a stranger to a free market, the only way it responds to competition is to use its dominant market position to eliminate it.
Microsoft products are bloated, bug-ridden, not that easy to use and for far to long they have had at their heart an archaic architecture.
Furthermore, Microsoft's past record is not one of innovation, it uses ideas generated elsewhere. It is a reluctant laggard, rather than being genuinely innovative itself.
The only reason they are popular is because Microsoft makes sure there is no viable alternative.
So, I suggest Mr Gates's experience in the field of competition/competiveness is rather narrow and his views far from authoritative.
I'd say it is funny that you figure its ok to kill 20,000 civilians (the Syrians bombed Hama, killing everyone in town, not just militants) to protect from radical Islam. If that's the case, I really dont see how you can criticize Israel at all.
Syria is indeed secular - the way that North Korea is. Syria is one of the least democratic nations in the world today. (Funny you mention Lebanon, which Syria occupied since the 80s and only recently withdrew from). Hinting that Syria, in any way imaginable, is more liberal than Israel has got to be one of the most amazingly ignorant Reddit arguments ever - as I said, not a small feat.
We looked at the GDP numbers, here's the Economist's democracy index. Observe the Israel's and Syria respective positions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
Great coffee, though.
Shut the F up, Donny.
According to leo, it's also a verb.
They all are:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erik_Naggum
no. you are thinking of a baggot
Perhaps not where you're from but in Seattle, where Starbucks originated, there was a market and there were already retailers providing the coffee. There still are quite a few non-chain coffee shops where you can get a much better product than what Starbucks produces.
From what I hear about these donuts, a lot of girls would suck dick to avoid them.
I thought we were fighting in Iraq to preserve Western Civilization, which, according to James Dobson, will collapse if we don't also defend the sanctity of marriage. How could we have let this happen?
tips for immigrants :
234: Please DONT lick the dollar bills.
Its going to be hard to hate us once we rule over them.
What's so terrible about picking tomatoes? You're outside, working with your hands, not much to think about. Remember the lessons of Office Space.
So...are these deaths being investigated. It seems like nobody is really trying to stop these deaths.
For that matter, there's a special place in hell reserved for those who would confuse the meanings/spellings of 'Their', 'There' and 'They're'.
My personal grammatical pet peeve is seeing people use superfluous apostrophes when pluralizing nouns. It seems to be rampant in outdoor advertising:
Come see our car's!
Three band's playing tonight.
Now we offer salad's.
AAAAGGHHHH!!!!!!
No, not around 367B. Russia and China are wayyyyy too low, and they're the other heavyweights. From the article:
*Note that for some countries (most notably Russia which is listed as having the third highest military expenditure of $50 billion here), no information was available to the Factbook's compilers; these countries were omitted from the list. Consequently, the total world expenditure is likely to be much higher than that given.
Comparisons between figures in this table should be used with caution. See the notes below regarding the figures for the People's Republic of China.*
Because they want to hurt arabs, that's how I explain it.
Why do they want to "hurt Arabs"? There are sadist in every nation, for sure, but not the majority of the population. Why is Israel different?
(snickers)
Your honor, I rest my case....
It's just an advice for people who want to communicate effectively. Ignore it, if you don't care.
Should we call out Team America or send up the Bat signal? I'm for either.
So I'm supposed to base my beliefs upon an assumption that the government agents are already guilty in some way w/out proof? Isn't this the same type of assumption that we are trying to get away from when convicting terrorist suspects? I gotta wonder what your thinking here.
lol sounds good.
I'm shocked that you don't consider his wrongful 'rendition' mistreatment. So you can kidnap a guy, so long as you don't smack him around? Is that official US policy?
Online news should save us money.
Operating webservers are much cheaper than publishing all those newspapers and then having them delivered.
We still need quality journalism. Newspapers just have to learn how to adapt to the new medium.
I can't believe the author is complaining about the lack of msm coverage of Coulter. That's probably the best thing the msm has done in a long time, and almost makes up for their over-reporting of Anna Nichole Smith. Coulter is a political shock-jock, the Howard Stern of right-wing politics. She adds nothing meaningful to the debate and makes her money by saying negative, shocking things, and nothing more. The only way to deal with her is to simply not report anything she says, to not give her the attention she seeks. This is something the msm actually got right, for a change.
I stopped masturbating to freedom and the American flag when communism fell. Regarding what can be done about this evil... we can sit around and wait until some middle-eastern folks get really angry about this shit and ... uh, nevermind. Just more horrible news we can do nothing about except mod the story up on reddit. Empowering ain't it?
How many people are going to die before someone says "let's kill him back"?
Putin might be wise to learn about Herod....
But they do have an audience ... http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/original/feb07ranker.pdf
looks cool
What proof do you have he's lying? The US government won't answer questions about it, or allow him to question anyone in court.
There is only one person to call during these situations...Jack Bauer.
The comment was a simple realistic assement of where the money would have gone if US Federal Government had 'extra' money.
Tax cuts on capital gains/dividends would likely happen and that would predominately benefit the already extremely well off.
I believe that the biggest gap in this country is between those with and without capital assets. It trumps education by a factor of 10.
Those that have them (and I'm in the business of servicing those who have them) have done extremely extremely well over the past 20-30 years.
Those that dont have, with very few exceptions, seen their relative quality of life suffer.
The solution is in getting those in the middle and bottom onto the wealth ladder. It's actually a very difficult thing to do, but we either do that, or we're soon going to look like Mexico or Brazil.
You're right, but that doesn't matter to Think Progress. Not to mention that it doesn't really matter. If the news was limited to truly important issues there wouldn't have been a mention of Anna Nicole. But it's a business and all businesses cater to their customers.
Also, every time I visit FoxNews.com they seem to have a redesign that is uglier than before. It has to be getting tough to make the site more ugly.
It's not OK that the civilians got killed, but 20 years have passed since, and the fact of life today is that Syria doesn't suffer religious extremists the way the rest of the region does. Yes the government is authoritarian, but it is also working on reform. The government of Syria today is drastically different from the one 20 years ago when Hama was sacked. There is also the matter of culture to consider. Israel's government may be more liberal than Syria's, but it's culture is drastically more oppressive.
EDIT: Typo
I want a room like that.
Just as Walmart has moved into small towns across America and put Mom & Pop hardware stores, grocery stores, and clothing stores out of business, so have giant corporate farms put Mom & Pop farmers out of business around the world: http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/
The business model is to undercut the local stores/farmers by sacrificing profit until they are out of business then raise prices once the competition is gone. The big guys have so much money they can survive the period of undercutting, the little guys can't compete and go out of business.
The giant corps then suck the profits out of town. The Mom & Pops would have saved, invested, and spent most of their profits in the community where they made the profits.
The Mom & Pops allowed community members to be business leaders and economically lead the community. After the giant corps shut the local owners down the only jobs created are low wage jobs. The former local owners themselves are out of work. This holds true for the coffee growers as well. There are no better jobs left.
And this is, indeed, the demographic that would not mind moving to a city that doesn't have libraries.
More shame for my country. :(
It's a little hard to tell from the article, but it sounds like Wal-Mart was all set up to record internal calls. This guy wasn't fired for snooping, only for snooping on the wrong people. Wal-Mart sucks. It's way past time to start boycotting those bastards.
he is not a scientist but an author and publicist. He is supposed to be political. Would you accept this article if it would be written on dailykoss or thinkprogess?
You're Sean Penn, aren't you?
which of the rights in the bill of rights grants all americans access to tax payer funded public libraries? there is an easy solution, if a community wants a public library, then they vote on it, tax the public, and build/support a public library. this is a very simple issue. my tax dollars in my area pay for the libraries in my area. my tax dollars should not pay for libraries in oregon. if they want more ammenities, then they can move out of the wilderness into civilized areas. end of discussion.
Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom!
Actually it is for Web Developer extension.
But anyway. I'm amazed how many blogs are simply unreadable, because of idiotic css styles, that make text flowing into narrow column.
A forum I read once had its style guide right: "Reading is a pleasure. Ensure that your writing is pleasant to read."
The above statement puts the onus where it should be; you're not doing anyone a favour by writing (unless you're Paul Graham?), they're doing you a favour by reading your work.
(and lots of your and you're in there too...)
Yeah, but spying on which members of congress?
Democrats? Why bother? Democrats didn't have any power.
When it comes out that the Bush administration was using the NSA to spy on congressional Republicans, that's when the shit hits the fan.
amen
I was going to say the same thing (in fact I wrote something similar while you posted your reply). Some errors that I make are -ible vs. -able, and confusing the British spelling I learned in school with the American spelling I pick up on the internet. But most of my mistakes don't involve spelling.
Funny thing is lots of these guys just leach off of government like oil companies, halliburton, Bush family, Cheney, Rumsfeld etc. Without the government they wouldn't be able to get their no-bid contracts. I guess that's why when they get in office spending goes way up and its unaccounted for in a warzone so well fuck it.
Be shocked then. But the intent of my earlier post was not to determine the amount of wrongdoing in the kidnapping. It was to show that you, nor anybody here can prove that he is telling the truth when referring to the beatings and ill conditions he cited.
Thanks ... at least you figured out sarcasm ... ... ...
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What use does a deaf child have for a service dog, particularly when he's provided with a human to help him with sign language?
Like it or not, books and libraries (at least as we know them now) are headed the way of the dodo bird in the end.
That's why the burden of proof lies on the accuser. Not that he's entitled to our courts of law, since he's not a citizen of this country. But that's a whole other issue.
It's common courtesy to define acronyms before using them. This thread wasn't about the TV show so why should I be expected to know?
I guess our military stopped protecting Hawaii
That's an often used argument, and a weak one. Every opinion poll shows far more support for Israel in the US than in Europe. The harshest critics of Israel - in Reddit and elsewhere - are European, whose tax Euros do not go to Israel.
You don't see the same Europeans mention the far-higer corruption in the Palestinian Authority (where their tax dollars do go, actually) or the fact that Syria has been occupying Lebanon for two decades, or the lack of basic human rights in Saudi Arabia. In fact, judging from the ignorance in the comments here, most of them aren't even aware of it.
It's quite odd how when a corruption story is revealed in Israel, and political figures are brought to trial, as they should be in any democracy, it's worthy of a story - yet when far worse corruption is the norm in any other Mid Eastern country, it rarely seems to be discussed in Euro media.
Nothing is ever free, even on the internet.
Commentary on Coulter's faux pas with the "f" word.
B-b-b-b-b-but Dowd is a Democratic--and on reddit, Democrats can't possibly be wrong!
no Oprah fan, I could just care less about Oprah or her pitiful fans. Anyone who is stupid enough to look to her for answers deserves whatever they get!
No, I'm a UNIX sysadmin and systems engineer. But I do a lot of research on the web.
Is this in some code that I'm too dumb to decipher?
I'm not sure what you mean. If you read it as Kerry insulting the intelligence of the troops, then I suppose it is indeed in some code that you are too dumb to decipher. If you read it as Kerry insulting Bush for getting a nation stuck in Iraq to the tune of $1 Trillion USD (so far) then I think you're doing just fine.
Thanks, fixed it.
As the camera pans over to show the figurine that Starbuck gifted to him, before she died ......slowly mounts the statuette to the bow and as soon as it is in place, the camera pans over to show the admiral's tears, as he looks to the sky in desperation ...He tries to breath, but it hurts, as a river of tears roll down the strong man's eyes.
Modded down because it's just yet another "whine about the fact pot is illegal" post.
I could have sworn that we saw this same article a few weeks ago.
Oh, and Canada, who is supposedly all pot friendly and stuff, turns away tourists with 20 year old drug convictions. Stuff that we'd actually consider forgettable here.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/23/NEVIUS.TMP
hear hear.
I like reading this old David Cross rebuttal everytime I come across a bitter Pitchfork hipster review that requires a dictionary and/or thesaurus to decipher. oldie but a goodie.
If it's that bad living in Iran, then, as the father himself keeps asserting, he's better off where he is now than deported back to Iran where the law reasonably asserts he belongs.
NSFW because it makes you laugh uncontrollably.
My favorite: "Oh, move over," Hermione snarled. She grabbed Harry's wang, tapped the lock, and whispered, 'Alohomora!"
Oh, baby!
I think this is curve jumping and paradigm shifting.
It's amazing how many people don't understand this one. I think it's a good commentary on safety when handling various (potentially) explosive chemicals that people don't know that Hollywood-esque explosions rarely happen unless actual meant-to-explode bombs/explosive devices are at work.
Gasoline, as I've been led to understand, is actually a fairly stable liquid. The vapors, however, flame up easily and create a very hot and volatile fire. That's why you don't really see cars explode if there's been an accident and a car is on fire. You might see the car get much more fiery and hot very quickly all of a sudden, but no lift-off-the-ground type of explosion.
Reddit loves misogyny.
I was confused by the last paragraph. How is a school considered private or an entity that conducts commerce?
I found http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/adaqa2.html which only includes private schools. It sucks that he can't have his dog, but a judge spent six days on this and noted other accommodations for the boy. What can this dog do for him that a sign language translator can not, at the risk of causing allergic and "oooh look doggy!!" reactions in the school? And I would LOVE to hear how they came up with $150 million.
The most silly "puzzle" of this kind I have seen was something like
1, 2, 3, 6, ?
where the rule is to alternate between *2 and +1, so that the next number in the sequence is 7. There might be a simpler solution that yields a result different from the official one.
Ann using the "f" word is much, much worse than Bill Maher wishing Dick Cheney had been assassinated.
Liberals have a right to say anything they want, other people don't.
Gibson is batshit insane. I am not saying it because of his little "cameo". I just wish he would stop making movies. As a Mexican I didn't want him to mess with our sacred cultures, but then I remembered one south park episode called the passion of the jew and then realised it was ok. I just hope nobody learns history from him.
Google is testing a version of AdSense that includes YouTube video ads.
he is part of a collection that believes in murder, forced conversion, un-democratic institutions, terrorism, fundamentalism and so many other bad things.
It's difficult to ascertain whether you are refering to Muslim or Western society without reading further.
Irony aside, what evidence do you have to support your claim that Muslims believe in murder and terrorism. It's interesting you make this claim when infact a recent study (2006) by the Program on International Public Attitudes (University of Maryland) found that 46% of the American poll felt terrorism was never justified. In contrast with some of the most populous Muslim centres, Indonesia 74%, Pakistan 86%, Bangladesh 81%. link to article on the study by CSM
Furthermore may I direct you to this study and accompanying article , which places you in the minority. That being individuals who believe tensions between Islam and the West are derived from cultural and religeous differences (29% of the survey).
Uninformed intollerant attitudes like yours are a fundamental driver of the problem. The majority actually seem to recognise the issue for what it is, geopolitically driven.
I really wouldn't want to be the guy who constructs a 65,537-sided polygon with only a rule and compass.
Indeed. Especially site that prevent you from even selecting and copying text. Select, drag selection to desktop and paste.
Back on reddit just in time to depress me right when I have to buy books for classes.
Langerin could be the hiv killer the world is waiting for
I really dont see how you can criticize Israel at all.
I can criticise them because they are promoting religious extremism the same way the Mulsim Brotherhood, the Taliban, and Al Qaeda are. It doesn't matter what the underlying religion is, religious extremism is unacceptable. I would argue that religious extremism in all its forms is the greatest threat to human society.
At least in Syria women can sit at the front of the bus.
Pretty much, yeah.
There might be a simpler solution that yields a result different from the official one.
Not in this case. Since you have to have "f(n)=" and something after the equals sign, you can't get simpler than a constant.
This is an Erik Naggum classic. Its a great read even if you're not a Lisp guy. My prefered language is Ocaml and most if not all of the things Erik says about Lisp also holds true for other advanced programming languages like Ocaml and Haskell.
Yes. It allows one to view Quicktime movies.
Seriously, is there an issue? I'd rather use Quicktime for movie trailers. They seem to be higher quality than WMV formats.
Why not put an end to this sort of thing, then, rather than driving half the population away from the subject?
e.g. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Israel's government may be more liberal than Syria's, but it's culture is drastically more oppressive
Huh?? Can you point just a single fact to back this incredible claim?
Cause it doesn't seem very oppressive over in Tel Aviv:
http://www.pbase.com/ilanphoto/lp2005
How can you possibly defend the actions taken for instance in Clearwater, Florida as enforcing the rule of law. It doesn't really matter if the law is on your side only because you completely and utterly bought them out.
Also, your saintly LR Hubbard must definitely take great responsibility for living on a boat full of little boys then too eh?
the government agrees not to call the soldier without good cause.
Seriously?
It is a poorly designed graph referring to "less than 10,000,000"
>except in Lisp one has to add what are often unnecessary parentheses
I'd argue that they are never truly unnecessary, but are often superfluous. The cases where you don't need Lisp to be regular probably outweigh the ones where you do about 15:1, but damn is that a useful feature when you do need it.
I agree. Also any editor worth its salt can auto-fill and indent trailing )'s.
Good quote from the article: [The Oprah culture:] It's a culture where superstition is "spirituality," illiteracy is "authenticity," and schoolmarm moralism is "character."
hi
"we need more secret sauce, set this mayonnaise in the sun"
Well duh! Didn't you know Bush is directly responsible for everything bad that happens?
It's all dazzling before my eyes
How does Rathergate support my view of a liberal bias in the media? Are you kidding? You completely dissected my sources? You're nuts. If you call that a dissection, it's a good thing you aren't in grad school - you'll never defend your dissertation.
Your selective arguing, and wishy-washy topic-changing is not worth of my time.
As is typical of most reddit users, and in particular, liberal hippies, you have decided to combat credible sources with your own 'credible' sources from verifiable crackpots.
Read the 'INTRODUCTION' pdf from that link you sent. People playing with giant acorns and posing next to giant stuffed bears. Yes, this source of information does indeed seem more credible and more worthy than anything a UCLA professor utilizing graduate students over the course of 10 years could come up with. In your own egotistical espousals and projections, you fail to realize your ramblings are 100% inline with your own liberal personality type. Thus, I will begin my own ramblings, to show you how easy it is to sound as retarded as you do:
It is amazing how all black-helicopter conspirists can always manage to find and beleive the writings of some backwoods country loner, rather than recognize broadfaced facts. Occam's razor never manages to cut through your completely 'reasonable' explanations of what is really behind the world's events, does it?
Bush and Bill Gates planned 9/11, control all media sources, and are hoodwinking 90% of the world, with the excepetion of YOU, and a handful of other amazingly bright individuals who have seen through all of the nonsense. You and the Alabama backwoods crackpots have singlehandedly solved all mysteries of the universe, and the rest of the public is completely blind! All of these 'researchers' are completely unknown becuase of oppression by the conservative media!!! Not because they are complete crackpots - that couldn't have anything to do with it.
Now you will reply with the obligatory, "you are ignorant, don't you know who [INSERT RANDOM UNKNOWN 'RESEARCHER' HERE] is???" or "See? you have no ability to argue at my level, or present coherent facts"
blah blah blah, save us both time, and don't reply.
human + chimp = george bush
Great, even liberal republicans dislike McCain.
And yet 76% of your countryfellows disagreed with you (I assume you never supported the war).
So in a broader sense, 76% of america signed up for this war, as stated in the article. Sure in retrospect that was a bad decision, but that doesnt change the fact that america reaps what it sews. Maybe the american people will be disuaded from future foolish wars. That obviously wasnt the lesson learned after vietnam, but as I understand it, the american public were educated that they won that war.
It's never to soon to start pointing fingers! I blame the Democratic nomination for President in '08 for killing baby Jesus! Oh the humanity!
Because I have Scheme to fill that niche. And Haskell to fill the statically typed niche. There is no reason to use python as it's too similar to languages I already use, but a tad less expressive.
it's tough to say because they're hidden by her sweater.
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This seems to boil down to a difference in opinion on whether or not you agree with our apprehending and interrogating terrorist suspects, not on the topic at hand.
Bill Maher may get his wish yet. Perhaps Mr. Maher has been employing the techniques detailed in "The Secret."
I am presently a resident of Medford (the county seat of Jackson county) and I've watch this whole "crisis" play out. Insofar as I can tell, this whole situation is a result of lack of long-term planning. The county was banking on the continued Federal revenue and was caught off-guard when it stopped abruptly. Yes the community does want a library and many people are working towards passing a levy later this spring which will provide the necessary funding.
"Gasoline, as I've been led to understand, is actually a fairly stable liquid. The vapors, however, flame up easily and create a very hot and volatile fire."
I second that.
I once saw a safety instruction video where a guy pushed a burning sigaret in a puddle of gasoline and nothing happened
I'd have thought most Americans would struggle with 'mobile', never knew 'lumber' was different.
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Can you point to a single non-white person of non-European ancestory enjoying those freedoms? Cause the pics don't seem very representative of the population.
isn't bud beer originally beer from the rep. of chezc ?
Because if I need to inter operate with existing software, I can use XML. For everything else, there's s-expressions.
That was retarded.
It loads about five associated "services" which run full time; there is an unnecessary "Q" icon in the tray which does nothing beyond advertising that Quicktime is installed; it likes to periodically and very vocally update itself.
(... it's been some time since my last scarring run-in with Quicktime and I forget the rest; the pain however has lived on)
Yes, exactly. One of the authors of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language clearly doesn't know squat about contemporary English.
Ferrari offered to fix the Enzo that was crashed on PCH in California for $200,000 to $300,000, but that car was pretty totaled...
This would probably still be $50,000 or so to fix this Bugatti I would imagine...
In Famundo we target only newer browsers (FF, IE6+ and Safary 1.2+), so pre-compressed files works for us.
Safari.
Javascript might have momentum, but it still doesn't have any really good implementations, and it is still useless for anything outside of DOM manipulation inside the browser. Not to mention people want to see it get replaced inside the browser as it is. We'll have to see what happens with it in the future, but it is popular currently only because AJAX is popular.
I just wonder what would happen if Python were suddenly a viable alternative inside the browser. I have a feeling most people would jump ship from JS. On the other hand, if JS ever becomes useful for general-purpose programming, I wonder how many people will use it instead of their current programming language.
This can be condensed into:
Pay down debt.
Invest.
How can you possibly say he's not entitled to your courts of law after your government treated him so poorly? And how can the burden of proof lie on the accuser and then you go on to say he's not allowed to use the courts?? What the hell is he supposed to do?
Ugh, I hope Germany jails those CIA agents so something has to happen.
"Me fail English? That's unpossible."
-- Ralph Wiggum
Discouraging Copy&Paste programming seems like another plus to me, although I will concede that it isn't as important of a principle for quick scripts.
I am learning Python, and started by crunching examples from code lifted from somewhere into run-python mode inside Emacs 22. Boy is it frustrating having to copy and paste Python code and re-indent into the REPL. Especially confusing if the first line of copied code is pasted after the >>> REPL prompt. I defused that by copying an blank line. But now it displays lots of trailing REPL prompts ...
Do you know how to load the contents of a buffer into REPL at global namespace in python-mode for Emacs?
Very funny. Nice gem.
Sorry dude, just promise me you'll vote in '08
Eventually the submissions and comments will be tagged.
A down vote is too ambiguous very often, a downvote represent more than one thing or something entirely different in different contexts. A down voter may not like the title, the source, the submitter, etc. My comment is an enhancement to my downvote statement. I specifically don't care about game console news, and more specifically not the marketing/PR minutia that encompasses so much of modern "tech" journalistic media.
My whole interaction with Reddit is designed to create a completely transparent long tail profile, that can be at the minimum used as input to a more useful news/info aggregator.
I have outlined how this would work in several feature enhancements to reddit in the feature sub reddit.
grandpa is that you?
I do use scheme. However, I use it less because no one follows the standards completely, or they are too non-performant.
IMHO there are 3 good scheme options:
1) PLT -> This is what scheme should be. Beautiful in every way, with one big exception: It is probably near the top of the list of the slowest possible implementation of any programming language.
2) Chicken -> In order to get standards compliance of things like numerical tower, you have to use non standard module constructs.
3) Gambit -> So close, but define-syntax is an ugly kludge. That's a mighty important part of the language to be tacking on as an afterthought.
The saddest part is, because of lack of compliance to the standards, these front runners can't run each other's code except for the most trivial programs, despite the fact that scheme is such simple language to define! R6RS will help a lot here, by making standard module semantics, but my fear is that, since they haven't adopted R5RS yet, the major schemes will only pick and choose what they like from the standard, and call them selves compliant anyway.
Given that Nearly All Binary Searches are Broken, one might argue with your point that search is done right (On the other hand, no one in their right mind will be doing linear searches over sorted arrays of size 2 billion anytime soon).
But I think the point still holds with the decision of binary search vs linear search. Let's say you are in some point in code, and you have a 10 element array. You are going to want to do a lookup for some key. You could rewrite the calling code to change the data structure to support fast lookups, or to maintain sortedness, etc. Or you could just throw in a linear search. It's still easier than building a std::map.
It's called "marketing".
Javascript/ECMA has been the glue of the web for 11 years, way before AJAX. Yes the latest boost is because of AJAX but its more than just a scripting language nowadays. Its syntax makes it a clear favorite. It will be a LOO-OH-ONG time before anything replaces it in the browser.
Ruby is hot (marketing) but personally I think it Mono was more up to speed people would like C#. I think any non C type syntax language has a huge uphill battle...
Javascript has been the worker holding things together on the web for some time, a good language is one that ougrows its initial design and can roll with it. Its used on many satellite systems as well such as smart cards and directtv because its so useful and small.
FWIW, fat does not equal stupid.
I like python but the frameworks tend to be really spaghetti maybe I need to spend more time with them.
Rushkoff is a media theory professor.
Part 3 of 4, 8 minutes, one of the better bits - the others are all worth watching of course. My favorite idea is, ADD as a defense against the constant grab made for people's attention.
Especially since you don't have to be alive for it. Seriously, Osama was on dialysis before 9/11. I'm not sure how long the average dialysis patient can live, but surely 6 years is stretching it (especially if you're having to fly in from the boonies of Afghanistan for it).
6 of them were mormons
Billy?
I thought this was going to be a dubbed clip of Conan the Barbarian and Ace Ventura.
I'm sure he does, I just think he chose unfortunate examples.
What does that even mean? Are you saying liberals should have no right to complain when someone like Ann Coulter goes around spewing hate?
Look dumb to grammar nazis and people who have bad reading comprehension maybe.
Wow we got some big Weiner fans here it seems by the modding.
first in a series on re-inventing your website and business
for n in xrange(1, 101):
s = ''
if not n % 3: s += 'Fizz'
if not n % 5: s += 'Buzz'
if not s: s = n
print s
edit: indentation
The first amendment dictates that we can say what we please, however common decency dictates we'll be held responsible for saying it.
If you had $1.6 million to spend on a car, I'm sure you can afford to get it custom painted yourself.
Harry took the wang. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised the wang above his head, brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls
LOL
Fuck, I almost accidentally reported your thing instead of clicking reply!
The thought of trying to do filtering has crossed my mind before. Then I think about how that would cause a loss of serendipity, which is maybe the entire reason for visiting a site like reddit, and I don't know what to do.
For a great view of digital video see Collateral (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369339/). Shot on DV it is beautiful. The night time scenes, including in the building, were shot with available light. They were able to shoot on top of a parking structure at night and get both the lamp and the lights in the near-by buildings, no post processing at all. DV is the future.
You get extra style points for not bothering to read angryblueman's comment before replying.
"...yet I can't get health coverage."
I still dont think this is a big deal. Trust me, reading 12 hundred pages of pdf on non-linear differential equation modeling of control systems isnt as intuitive as one might think. For real online curriculem, go to berkley's webcast.
... using oil money we send over there.
Oh the webs we weave..
Thanks to Captain Obvious who finally figured that one out.
A lot of research is going into making JS the assembly language of the web. Using it as a compilation target is a good idea to me.
Precisely because I believe our system of government is solely in existence to provide protection for its own citizens, and only it's own. I don't want my tax money going towards lawyers to defend against every outside lawsuit that every foreign activist can come up with.
Unfortunately the answer is apparently yes. It might have been better worded though: Does anyone with some semblance of rational thought or even a 4 year-olds perceptiveness and political savvy think fox news.........
Wouldn't a grammar Nazi who uses "could care less" have poor credibility amongst her fellow Nazis?
Oh my God, Oprah made your wife upset? And did she cry a little, and then call her lawyer to sue for damages? Jesus Christ, there are so many fucking crybabies out there. Hey listen, it's Oprah's show and she can do whatever the fuck she wants to do, and say whatever she wants to say! If you don't like what you see and hear, you know where the door is, or change the channel. God, people are such idiots! Oprah has the right to decide she believes in John Edward just like anyone else has the right to believe he is a sack of shit. But Good God, don't come on to the net crying about how Oprah didn't kiss your ass like you thought she should.
It's worth looking at this and where the jobs actually are:
Checking out the following might be worthwhile.
http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/
I keep tabs on my own jobs market. SQL is in far more jobs than anything else. As far as languages go, Java leads by about 2:1 over C# and C++ (each with about the same number of jobs). This pattern has kept stable for ages.
I wonder how much ExxonMobil paid him...
A hilarious list of the best local TV commercials. I was glad to see Eagleman on there, but it should have been higher.
should read: "Every Single Media Outlet Devoted 12 Times More Coverage To Anna Nicole Than Walter Reed"
My wife is slow too. Good tips.
Billywitchdoctor.com more... comfortable... working with chicken.
I remember being impressed by this guy and I still find this a
great read, but is there any evidence that he has done
anything useful in Lisp?
5 years later, it seems a bit pathetic to me.
One can only hope [for his speedy recovery].
Direct image link: http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/5749/veyrondam11024xi3.jpg
That's an almightily expensive accident! Do who know who this one belongs to?
PDFs are easy to save and search through. They are also beautiful when printed (well, usually...).
People who favor HTML over pdf favor presentation over content. That seems like a pretty bad trade off to me.
HTML is great for quick references and dynamic content, but if I want to really read something, I want a PDF.
Cowbirds do not mess around. If they tell you to raise their kid, you had better raise their kid.
YOu can also code in JScript.NET in .net. Its not the same exactly but it makes for easy transition from whatever language you come from.
Of course I will vote. I couldn't call myself a citizen and not vote.
Taxes what a ripe off. We pay because the Goverment doesn't know how to balance their check book.
responding to myself with a slightly more compact version:
def is_numeric(num):
for is_type in (complex, long):
try:
is_type(num)
return True
except ValueError: continue
return False
American beer itself is an urban legend.
Medford isn't really a lumber town. Maybe 20 years ago but not anymore. The number one sector of the economy is Healthcare - because we have tons of retired people moving in. The number two sector of the economy is construction. (I think #3 is tourism) The population is growing at a high rate and real estate prices have seen 15-20% growth for the past 10 years.
There was a bill to increase property taxes last november to pay for the library system. It didn't pass.
The original point of the timber money was to provide services in economies that were dependent on timber money so that they could adapt. The economy here has now made the transition and should be taken off the dole. Its up the people of region to decide if they want to keep their libraries.
There are a lot of allegations about mismanagement at the county level. They knew this money was going away but we are just now starting to ask the tough questions about how to go forward.
The article mentions the opening of the Talent library. Is it responsible to open a new library when the entire system is threatened? Since when is it a good idea to expand when you are loosing your money? Shouldn't you start figuring out how to reduce your operating budget before you ask for a tax increase?
This is a great tutorial on creating beautiful standards compliant web forms. A must read for anyone wanting to get into web design.
...and all the 'to' variants... but seeing how my post was downmodded I don't think anybody cares :/
bollocks
Well if it's a really big thumbtack... Or just well balanced. I think they meant to describe what a microgram looked like, which would make a lot more sense.
I think you are making two baseless assumptions. Firstly, that the Mandeaens beliefs don't hurt anyone. In my view theism itself is harmful to the believers. From what I read about this group, they don't seem too obnoxious, but still!
Secondly, it's easy to condemn the Moslems that are making them convert, but don't forget that they believe that they are following the word of god, and that by helping people to convert they are saving their souls. Some of the methods described do sound unacceptable, but do remember the Christian missionaries of the past, and indeed some 'Jesus camps' and similar initiatives today.
I think I already expressed my sympathy for people being hurt, if you go and look at my comments, including the edits I made. My core opinion remains though. Theism is a bad thing. Less theism is better than more theism.
He is certainly the champion of comp.lang.lisp flamewars. ;-)
I can't think of two more annoying people to watch discussing anything.
I like a good donut and all, but... I just dunno...
I don't know, it just showed up on the forums
'than' vs. 'then'?
I speak better English then you!
Drives me crazy.
I know a gal who pulled espresso drinks for a deli in her teens in the 70s.
What you meant was no mass-market espresso bars.
It's a good album -- even maybe a great one, but a perfect album? Sorry - I just can't guy that.
well. take the numbers with a HUGE grain of salt :) i essentially guesstimated/made them up, along with the %'s. my point was that it dramatically cut down on the amount of credit card spam i'm getting. (far better than the do not call list)
--vat
2.725 +/- 0.002 degrees Kelvin.
Oh dear.
The Kelvin scale, for those who slept
through high school physics
Ahem
First, it's not "degrees Kelvin", just "kelvin".
Second, it's "kelvin" - lowercase "k".
Maybe yours has a non-broken firmware? Is yours from Orange?
tru dat.
Even the most retarded Web-Two-Oh-asshat should be aware that executing random code from unknown sources is like eating from a McDonald's toilet.
Without readin the article, which will doublessly be full of valuable information and not crappy at all, let me assume that the problem is that it allows attackers to interact with the HTTP State Management Mechanism, known to the average Web-Two-Oh-dumbshit as Cookies.
Oh, waily waily!
Harsh language, but a good point. I was not surprised at Oprah's championing of The Secret. It's daytime TV, for heaven's sake. I always dread being sick at home with only the TV for company. And god forbid I should ever be in the hospital, unable to change the channel my roommate has put the TV on. I would either die from brain explosion or miraculously rise and run out screaming.
Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time you spend on it is worthless.
This particular line really made me think. Releasing code and advocating free software are very noble causes, but what about the sad realities of life? How long can you keep spending a significant portion of your time on a project that doesn't, in the end, help you stave hunger? It might be too rash a conclusion, but academia is the last place a person truly dedicated to the movement can survive (e.g. Stallman at MIT).
Yeah, right - the guy decided to set up and configure the equipment needed to do this on his own. They should admit that they authorized him to record calls.
Same old, same old with big corporate and big govt scandals - scapegoat some low level joe who was just doing a job to try to live.
Nonsense, a downvote is perfectly adequate in this context. The idea that the text content of all your comments will eventually be parsed and used to determine your preferences sounds improbable at best.
Is it your intention to add a comment to every article listing the themes or subjects within which you do or don't like?
Imagine everyone were to do the same, reddit would quickly devolve into an unreadable mire of lists containing the likes and dislikes of every user.
So THAT's how Deep Thought arrived at the Answer!
Aw man - you had to go ruin our 'deep socialist insight into capitalism' fantasy moment.
Well, mine :)
If you needed to be told that these things are wrong in the first place, then you're probably so dumb there is no help for you.
Aw heck (there aint no hell), tax the damned churches, those institutions that warn against knowledge and whose ministers dwell on sex being sinful, all the while diddling with the trusting children they see as sheep. Reality is free from hogwash beliefs - ideas around which we close our minds.
A small minority of US citizens sure is paying an incredibly high price to secure more suv-juice for the masses. And then they waste it at the drive through!
Here is the unfavorable book review of "Character Design for Mobile Devices":
http://books.slashdot.org/books/07/03/05/151241.shtml
Nice to see the author is a honest guy.
And how do you know what's representative of the population of a country you clearly know nothing about? There are many people of non-European origin in these very photos and many others, including some of Syrian origin actually.
Israel has one cabinet minister and several members of parliament who are Arab, the country's president is of Morrocan origin, the defence minister born in Iran, and many more examples. Do some Google search and maybe you'll begin to understand what you're talking about.
that reporter's hot!
Ever notice how Oprah is on the cover of every single edition of her magazine O?
I fell in to a coma after 9 pages. . .anything juicy in there?
Goddam! You know you are something of a reddit celebrity when they start changing their logo based on your blag posts.
Actually, the best thing to do is not get a tax return in the first place.
JLP at AllFinancialMatters
It's not often that I wish bad on a person, but you're an exception. I would like to see you kidnapped by a foreign government for a number of months with no contact to any family, friends or representatives. Then your kidnappers would just say, sorry, we made a mistake. Oh by the way, you're not a citizen of our country and so you can't go through our court system to find out what happened or to get any redress. Better luck in your next kidnapping.
It's not that I don't like you, it's just that you need some education.
The whole thing (the cheery animated text interface) is the visual equivalent of (looks like, draws a memory of) a moronic clip-art jumble sale poster (church sale flyer made with novice gfx skills) designed in the dark by a myopic divorcee experiencing a freak biorhythmic high ( the designer is bitter old (bad eyes) loveless and depressed, but forgot to take their valium and experiences a natural, yet rare, surge in energy levels).
Perfectly understandable to me. Painted me a nice picture anyway. I dont know who harry partachs is, but something like, "radiohead is the musical equivilant of emo kids drunkenly bashing synthesizers to try and emulate pink floyd", could work as a statement.
Seriously, this one is absolutely hilarious.
The news that Novell has released an Office Open XML (OOXML) translator for OpenOffice.org is yet another nail in the coffin of the office productivity franchise known as Microsoft Office. However, if the open source crowd is really serious about denting Microsoft's dominance in this space, what is needed is a little Evolution.
Cool ideas for future cars - made from agricultural products
Personally, I think when people follow the "its/it's" rule correctly it looks dumb. If you have more than one it, it's "its," and if you're talking about something that belongs to an it or if you're contracting "it is," it's "it's." Any semi-intelligent reader should be able to figure out which "it's" you mean by context. And nevermind the fact that "its" will almost never come up. There's really no reason to have an exception to the rules for pluralizing/apostrophizing (it's not a word, but whatever) words, and I think it's a dumb rule, and so I don't follow it. It's my personal crusade against the English language, I suppose.
Remember, he works mostly on proprietary projects.
OK? Obviously he can get insurance, he just doesn't like the rates offered him.
He also can get health care, either by paying for it out of pocket, or getting insurance.
How would "outlawing" insurance solve anything? Health insurance is an actuarial technique for spreading risk, not to take care of you for the rest of your life for pennies a day. If you are high risk, you should expect to pay more.
Do you not think your car insurance should go up if you are involved in car accidents? Or you live in a dangerous area of town? Or you drive a BMW instead of a 95 Camry?
You assumed wrong. This is about how external sites can use a CSRF attack to read JSON from your application in Firefox, even if you're serving up raw data structures and not using a callback or variable assignment. The trick is to redefine the Array() constructor (which Firefox lets you do) and link in the supposedly protected JSON with a script tag - your new Array constructor allows you to hijack the JSON.
I'm experimenting with Fark-style headlines.
not yet
Some interesting trivia about the history of social security numbers.
Not the Batsignal! Thats the Russian intelligence ministry!
http://www.ridingsun.com/posts/1136444340.shtml
I do realize it's not entirely accurate to call anything by Maddox an 'article'.
It's probably pretty hard to keep your cool 100% of the time while a bunch of people are trying to kill you and your friends. I can't say I'd be Mr. Diplomacy in that situation. Making excuses? Maybe. But some people might call it empathy. Iraq is surely one of the most absurd, frustrating situations American soldiers have ever been forced to deal with.
No, you're not wrong. You're just an asshole.
They talk about towers 1 & 2 not being a bottom up collapse, but don't mention it in the bulding 7 section, as it WAS a bottom up collapse.
They use seismologists claims to debunk the use of explosives. Traces of the commercially available and non-explosive form of thermite, "Thermate", was found in the buildings. Thermate produces enough energy to create molten steel, which was found in huge pools underneath the wreckage, months after the collapse.
There are also videos of 9/11 where you can see clearly molten steel pouring out of the bulding.
Poking fun at Global Warming
Its crazy to think you can effect people's grammar with you're article. After years of bad grammar, you cannot change there ways.
Your link is a subtile strawman: It points out that most binary searches fail in a special case, but most linear searches will fail as well in that case, so it proves nothing. Consider this line in a standard linear search:
for(int i=0;i 2^31 - 1 because the length with be negative.
That aside, you are wrong on several other points:
Is it really 10 elements? Not just today, but next week after the new acquisition is announced? There is a reason the C++ FAQ calls arrays evil. In the real world requirements change far too often to consider the 10 element array case. If your array has 10 elements I want mathematical proof that it will always have 10 elements no matter what. Otherwise I will assume that 10 is just today's limit, which will change long before release.
Clearly you have never used std::map. Having done so I can assure you that it is easier to use than an array - particularly when you need to add new elements unexpectedly. Yes, the syntax is strange, particularly if you want to iterate over everything, but you can look that up easily enough, and then just copy/paste. Everyone else does that too.
Honestly I can write std::map easier than I can write a working linear search. The search is easy to write, but I always spend far too much time debugging off by one errors. Otherwise my search fails when it should match the last element, just to name one seemingly beginners bug that trips experts up more often than they like to admit. By contrast, std::map combined with search just works.
std::map also is a tree structure with iterators in the most common implementation. I could write that on my own time. I think I had to do a simple one for one of my computer science classes. Why bother when someone else has done so, and worked out all the bugs (or at least all the ones I'm likely to encounter). Not to mention all the time they put into making it fast.
Of course this is easier in python because the syntax for dict is simple. I know that many other languages also have their own syntax for some such search.
The fascinated doe in the background sums up the mental greatness of the male in all species...
Ok I have to admit that is pretty cool hehe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:GRU_emblem.svg
I repeat, are you kidding me?
I said "Europe", and I mean "Europe". Can I be more clear?
And I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to get out of this: Regardless of whether I meant "Europe" or "the EU", the economy is larger than that of the US in either case.
So what if I said "Europe"? What would you say? What would you say about the economy? Exactly what point is it that you are trying to make about the economy?
And what if I said "The EU"? What would you say about the economy? Exactly what point is it that you are trying to make about the economy?
And how would me answering "Europe" or "the EU" differentiate your point with respect to the economy?
And finally, just in case it still is not clear to you, I repeat yet again:
I said "Europe", and I meant "Europe".
I own precisely one of these albums: James Brown Live at the Apollo. And it indeed is a great album.
lol, oh fishy. I am a highly educated software engineer if you must know. But thanks for the laugh.
uhoh! looks like someone has a case of the mondays!
Wars longer than 3 years lead to all kinds of proxy BS. We need to get the market in IRAQ up and get people to work. It seems the plan is actually chaos rather than order? hrm...
How is this "news" ?
It's the mob mentality at work. It's unfortunate but it happens a lot on reddit, whether the vote is up or down.
Can any quantum physicist verify whether they are actually making sense of just talking a whole load of BS?
That is not the Harris-Dawkings approach at all - it is a parody of it. Just to take one small example, Harris frequently compares different religions as having different amounts of 'goodness' and 'badness'. For example he compares the militancy and current inflexibility of Islam with the pacifism and flexibility of Buddhism. Dawkins and Harris and others certainly don't hold truth as an end, because being good scientists and rationalists, they don't believe they have any absolute truths. What they are after is an honest and open search for possible truths, unhindered by faith.
And what do you blame the last election on?
Wasn't this book called Dianetics several years ago? They should have at least kept the volcano on the cover.
Then post on Fark, not Reddit.
The article was a bit of a rant, but I love the picture of Steve Jobs holding the Kool-Aid!
As he talks and writes calmly, and at a measured pace, I think you are very wrong here. You need to look up his current long-term debate on religion with Andrew Sullivan - it is a delight to read (with respect to both contributors), and shows no sign at all of 'bigotry' or 'frenzy'.
You mean (n-1)(n-2)(n-3)(n-4)/25 +1. Otherwise you get 1/25, 1/25, 1/25, 1/25, 42.
That's already known to any self-respecting redditor over here.
Why gross? What do you have against hot, steamy, hairy chimp love? You're just jealous, that's all.
I was wondering the same thing. Apparently,
http://www.adionline.org/hearing.html
Hearing Dogs assist deaf and hard of hearing individuals by alerting them to a variety of household sounds such as a door knock or doorbell, alarm clock, oven buzzer, telephone, baby cry, name call or smoke alarm. Dogs are trained to make physical contact and lead their deaf partners to the source of the sound.
It sounds like the suit was not about whether there were acceptable accommodations in school made for these needs, but that time spent away from the dog made the training less effective outside of school.
I tried ignoring the bloody diarreah but that turned about to be a bad idea...
A very nice little game that plays quite well and makes some really telling points in the process.
Who knew UNICEF had it in them?
They should start mass-producing them so I can afford one. :)
pet grammar peeve not mentioned in the article:
"I would of if I could of"
Dammit people, what you're saying is "would've" and "could've" as in the contractions of "would have" and "could have".
also... I don't particularly hate this one, but "it's a whole nother thing"... since there is no word "nother", the correct sentence is "it's a whole other thing" or "it's a whole 'nother thing".
Fin
There's a reason for that. Free software has an economy that works on the academic model. The two are compatible because they're very, very similar. See Nikolai Bezroukov for more on the subject.
You may wish to read Michael Goldhaber's essays about the Attention Economy on First Monday. It will give you ideas about how free software might work in the future. Or at least, expand your mind enough that you'll be able to come up with ideas.
I felt like you, but then I realize we'd only realize that we have nothing to (or worth) controlling.
I guess I have to go reload Oakflat nuclear power simulator.
What if it isn't invisible, or camoflaged, but it actually dissolved, err... in reverse!
New website, with excellent content, sometimes a little close to the bone, but intelligent and funny all in one.
Rather NSFW, btw.
Psychotic Venezuelan
But if I bought a 1.6 million car I would assume the manufacturer could accomidate my color choice... good point though.
Maybe its a good thing though, otherwise we would probably see yellow or purple Enzo's out there...
Seems like an awesome way to underline their faith in their teachers.
I'm not an expert, but all the terms they were using made sense in context. According to wikipedia ("Penning Trap"), the paper they took this stuff from is here. Oddly enough it turns out I know someone who works in this group (though isn't an author on this paper).
Lisp is not the last language.
Java is the last language. There was no real language before Java. There will be no language after Java. Java is Programming.
OK? Obviously he can get insurance, he just doesn't like the rates offered him.
Let's assume you're an infallible omniscient being, and despite what angryblueman (the lying bastard) has clearly written, he can actually get health insurance, at the rate quoted in the article. That rate being $27,000 a year. If he makes $35,000 a year, then after taxes he would have to borrow money to make his insurance premiums. How he manages to pay for rent and food is left as an exercise for the reader.
Do you not think your car insurance should go up if you are involved in car accidents? Or you live in a dangerous area of town? Or you drive a BMW instead of a 95 Camry?
People do not need BMWs or Camrys or for that matter cars in general. People who are sick need health care. People can mitigate their auto insurance costs by driving more carefully or buying a cheaper car. This person cannot mitigate his health care costs by trading in his genes.
Your argument, in its essence, boils down to this: If you can't afford your health care, then fuck off and die.
Funny take on the immigration debate
A downvote is not adequate, precisely for the reason I have stated.
The idea that the text content of all your comments will eventually be parsed and used to determine your preferences sounds improbable at best.
To who? You? There will be a successor to Reddit, from Reddit itself or another start up. BTW the devs have already confirmed that tags are on the way. The US patent office is already working on utilizing the wisdom of crowds, to evaluate patent claims and will be dealing with the crowd's inherent process of self-credentialing and self-classifying. Why wouldn't Reddit or some other service take advantage of the data that Reddit is accumulating?
I add disapproval comments only to the submissions to which I I strongly object, as you would know if you had examined my profile. And please spend some time contributing and participating in the community more before pronouncing what works and what doesn't.
The strenght of Reddit is that anyone can say anything, and the crowd rates it. If people don't like my comment they can mod me down to invisibility, and thereby hide my statement from the conversation. Reddit while not the best conversation system is far better than what is currently out there. Including slashdot.
Johnny Trav is telling people that Justin Timberlake copies his dance moves . I know he was being playful. Timberlake's his type. John Travolta claims Justin Timberlake copied his dance moves from 1970s movie hits Grease and Saturday Night Fever. The actor is adamant he was the inspiration for Timberlake's choreography - but plans to raise the bar in new movie musical Hairspray.
I'm not sure I get the gist of the post. Could someone please explain?
"However, holding a grudge for things that did not even happen to you is bad; and, demanding an apology for it is even worse."
So you're suggesting that thousands of women have been making all of this up? It's been pretty well documented for decades now that this happened. You might as well deny Nazi death camps.
"Let's remember the past but not base our lives on dwelling on and crying over it now."
How can the past be remembered when it's being denied? The main point of getting an apology is to move the Japanese government past denial so that everyone, including Japan's future generations, can be taught that what happened is bad instead of white washing things like their textbooks pretending none of this happened. Could you imagine what would happen if Germany denied Nazi atrocities?
"if every married couple acted the way certain groups did then the divorce rate would be near 100%."
It's a rare occasion when a husband decides to rape his wife...
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People vote for the comments, those numbers are due to people. xkcd is the author of the cartoon that was posted in your pic.
-- hey down-modding people, if you look at his pic it's not clear what he means by 'hotness'. Mine was a reasonable first stab at trying to explain.
Finally, some sense in this thread.
I find it even more ironic that when the Bush dissenters paint the vivid picture of the straw man crap that the right pushes on people, they, themselves, are called out for using straw man tactics. I guess that ol' axiom about pointing fingers really is true.
I would agree that this comic is "boning itself in the ass" if, indeed, this exact scenario didn't play out in the exact same way during the McCarthy era. Only this time, instead of "commie," it's "freedom hater," "terrorist lover," or "anti-military." And there's a lot more fucking McCarthies.
It does seem like the actually plan for a success outcome in Iraq was not what was publicly stated. Tho I would like to be wrong about that.
I'd like to be wrong as well but its easier to steal big screen TVs in a riot.
Right. I just don't understand why the comment with 5 points is ranked higher (i.e. considered hotter) than the comment with 99 points.
To save money, Ms. Readling said, she defers visits to the doctor and stretches out her cancer medication, which costs her about $300 a month. She takes the tiny pills three or four times a week, rather than seven days a week as prescribed.
You don't ration out cancer medication. This woman is going to die.
Ah, my bad. It was posted more recently? Has more / more recent replies? But, now that I understand, I'm not sure I know.
Its nice to see a Daily WTF story with a happy ending.
aye.
There's a fair point there, but it's hard for me to conceptually disentangle the bad policy from its bad execution. Both come from stupid, where they don't come from evil. (Sometimes, malice really is the simpler explanation.)
I got curious about coffee futures contracts. The Mar 7 contract is $1.10/lb. The link you provided had an estimation of $0.60-70/lb, that page was last updated Dec 18, 2006, but I don't know what the market price actually was then. The world supply of coffee in 07-08' is projected to be short of demand and the futures price reflects that.
Between 75' and 89', the coffee price was set by the International Coffee Agreement which established a minimum price of $1.20/lb. It collapsed and the price of coffee declined in the late 90's, reaching a low of $0.41/lb in Sept 01' and stayed low til 2004.
In Ethiopia, the price received by the farmers is $0.08/kilo. That's about $0.03/lb.
Except it's not a Daily WTF story, since Daily WTF is now dead for no good reason.
/pedantry
What's worse is that they are totally convinced that it's 'fair and balanced' and THE source for "objective" news. It's not that there is a conservative bias, it's that all other news is leftist propaganda, so Fox just seems that way.
Last time I checked ONE spineless dink (Alan Colmes) scarcely represents a credible "balance" against an entire network of right-wing gorillas. That's what sends me over the edge: That they are lying and claiming not to be conservative is one thing, but to adopt a slogan that directly contradicts reality is cruelly absurd.
Never mind that Michelle friggin' Malkin is not a political analyst. O'Reilly puts on cock-gobbler shill Judge Napolitano and Michelle Malkin as Expert Panelists on a regular basis. All they have EVER done is agree with the guy. No input. No analysis. Literally "You're right, Bill" It's so fucking transparent.
And now Sean (You're a great American) Hannity has his own show. At least he cut the liar's pretense of being fair by removing the purposefully ineffective Colmes from the picture. Wonderful.
WHO is dumb enough to buy this stuff? WHO? Can any reader here defend Fox news? Please explain it to me.
Whats the difference between disproved definitively and neither proved nor disproved?
Philosophy.
Its not a diservice to the intelect to just abandon the discourse and pick a side. For instance I believe in free will. Its not intelectually dishonest to say I believe in free will, or that there is no god. I could put forward logical, and rational points, but why bother except for the conversation? as you say, there can be no definative answer. Those questions are by their very nature, extremely complex - dare I say, unanswerable and its completely unrealistic to expect most people to enjoy arguing unanswerable philisophical questions all day. Judging by your aggitation of this topic, I would say you do.
For most people, to say that there is no god, or there is a god, is enough. The finer points of the argument have all been explored before.
Get a Sony Ericcson.
You won't be disappointed.
Oh, so you can't see it!
Well, Samus_ made a few other comments including this one (which was made 5 hours before your comment):
Samus_ 1 point 14 hours ago
I can't say, it got my atention how half of the plant waved while the piece where tha animal is supposed to be was static but I thought it was because the creature was holding it. If it is an effect it's a very good one, it fades like dots, it can be faked that's for sure but, if it is, it's not a simple filtering effect. Another thing, what if it was not really translucent we didn't see the portion of the plant it was stepped in, maybe it was just camouflaged like leaves that look really really alike as it was the real plant we were seeing behind it. I'm scared :S
No need to thank me!
Or you're a qualifier in the Hacky-sack/Ultimate Frisbee Biathlon.
this is such an excellent article, I can't believe it's sinking without any votes. This right here is everything that needs to be said about atheism vs religion in society, all in one place. It's long but well worth it.
Man keeps his eye on the ball. He's mister USA as far as I'm concerned.
Grr, they don't say what the bill's name is, for us to promote it to our Reps.
That's the thing, nobody is looking. You and I are looking, except who are we? Two people sitting and reading reddit.
Well said, but we should not kick ourselves too hard for being powerless to do more. Saying something on reddit is, in fact, saying something. If we express our disgust to other people, and they agree, and do the same, and lots of people collectively talk to each other... then the mass of public opinion, the one thing the corporate puppe^H^H^H^H^H^H representatives in government still fear, will turn against this sort of thing. Each one teach one.
The system is corrupt, rotten, stacked against us; but over the course of history, rotten systems have become more and more restricted by the expanding border of what people, en masse, won't stand for. Voting may not be very effective, but bitching is effective a little bit, an iota, and if we all do it... enough. They can discredit, arrest, beat, imprison, torture, or kill anyone, but they cannot do these things to everyone.
True democracy won't exist until long after you and I are dead, but we can teach others, ourselves, our children to expect better. To demand better. You or I, we're only pebbles, or raindrops. But enough of us together can be an avalanche, a typhoon.
Yes, it's dark right now. But over the course of history, in the long run, we are winning.
funny that... Civilization started in Iraq... now it's being killed there too.
very cool website and show
I hate to speak for all athiests, but there is a certain set of shared ideas, in no particular order, and a completely incomplete set:
There is no reason for our existence. It's random chance.
On a long enough time scale, any phenomenon can be explained with science.
History is fallible
Religion will never die
In response to your question if I thought the flaws in human nature that lead to theism were dealt with head on, would God persist? Yes. They would. People need to believe in something bigger than themselves. Whether it be a God, or the State, or the Family or the Sun, or whatever else. 75 years is a hell of a lot of time to spend on this planet if all you have is repeats of COPS every night.
And therein lies the problem. To me, God exists because nobody has come up with a better mousetrap. In the capitalist world of ideas, religion is a really, really good product. It sells itself, requires no money, offers a social outlet, and makes the world a simple and happy place for simple and happy people. This would be a good thing if there was only one religion. Imagine how much you could get accomplished with a heard of methodists if nobody stood in their way? It would be paradise, as long as you were methodist and didn't question the system.
I'll point you to another interesting short story, whose ideas I toyed with as an adolescent without knowing the story existed. It's an Asimov story that allows for both God and Science to exist in complete parallel:
http://infohost.nmt.edu/~mlindsey/asimov/question.htm
Here are the per-capita numbers:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/mil_exp_dol_fig_percap-expenditures-dollar-figure-per-capita
Note: The numbers look about right, but I know nothing about that site so take them with a grain of salt.
I can't agree with you more. The thrust of the article is to publicly discredit stupid/evil policy from returning.
These policies will not (again) be discredited until they are tied to their reprehensible results. Insisting on the 'incompetence' of the Bush administration turns attention away from this linkage between policy and result. In fact, it insulates the policies while discrediting the men who are trying to implement them. It, thus, sets the stage for those policies to be enacted again.
while I would love to see gay marriage legalized, I think it is idiotic to vote for a presidential candidate based on this issue. It doesn't make the top ten list of issues that our next presidency will face.
No, it's not a start. It's business as usual.
I'd have thought most Americans would struggle with 'mobile', never knew 'lumber' was different.
How about we make the assumption that, at least on reddit, the Americans you find are nowhere near as dumb as they are commonly portrayed in straw man arguments?
Rosie O'Donnell and Tom Cruise?
That story is a total fake.
The picture has nothing at all to do with Disneyland.
It was taken in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, and has been published before, e.g. here:
http://pandagon.net/2006/03/17/when-mardi-gras-meets-mickey-mouse/
Read about the debunk at digg:
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Mom_and_Daughter_Banned_for_Life_from_Disneyland
OCaml has [...] too many needless "wouldn't it be cool if" features.
Which are?
that's assuming he's not receiving help from rich sympathizers and/or governments
A moment before my eyes, a lifetime on the thighs...
Also a bunch of netflix greasemonkey scripts linked here.
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
Give this a try:
http://www.codecguide.com/about_qt.htm
I liked that, but the 2003 Conan segment with Jim Carrey and Stephen Hawking was way funnier. I can't find it on YouTube or by googling - if anyone knows where that one is I'd appreciate a link! Thanks
$50,000? Looking at the picture, I would guess it's more like $200,000.
I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in 'Nam of course.
I wish he'd write more frequently. Seems like since his book, he doesn't really put any time into his website or his rants anymore :(
Here's another entertaining anecdote: I'm pretty sure that when I hit reply, The_Bears' post wasn't showing up for me. On the page resulting from my reply, there that post was, mocking me with it's "2 hours". :)
But the important part of my post, I thought, was the part where I mention that lots of people, not owning printers, would never bother to look at the print dialog.
esta muy bonita la cancion hagan mas canciones
Putin knows all about that tactic too. That's why he has guys watching his back.
Because he knows that can fail, he has guys watching the guys who watch his back.
Because that's not perfect either, he has guys watching the guys watching the guys who watch his back.
Then, of course, he has guys who watch the guys who watch the guys who watch the guys who watch his back. Putin never lets those guys out of his sight.
He has as much chance of being assassinated as you or I have of falling out a window, that is unless you are a reporter critical of Putin. In that case, you have a near unity chance of dying within the next 5 years. What's also near unity is the chance that the police will rule your death a "bizarre accident caused by mortal badger wounds."
I laughed Uncontrollaby and Now people are staring at me. Should at least have a warning...
Pink Floyd Animals one of the best album of all times?! It is not bad, but definitely not worth of being raised to such heights.
just as it would be impolite to ask "psychic man" for his input
Only because psychics are stupid.
The comment with 5 points is fresher, that's all.
The same happens on the main page; a story with 400 points posted yesterday is below one just posted, with barely 50 points.
I interpreted it literally, meaning he doesn't want to hear about the cats of super hot babes.
inhospitable climes
For the love of god please never shorten "climates" again.
This from the man who gave us Eraserhead. Thanks. Lynch is part of the school of modern writers who appear as gods because no one sees - or cares - that their whole bag of tricks consists of writing incredibly cool stuff...that will never have to be wrapped up with an ending. No, really, you can tell the most stunning and captivating stories as long as you don't need to have an ending that makes sense. I remember watching the pilot on TV for Twin Peaks with friends, and they were all excited about it and I told them, don't get started on this crap, it's Surrealism 101, and he'll come up with all kinds of cool crazy crap (blood on the donuts, llamas in the waiting room) and then it'll just dribble on and then end and none of it will be tied up. You, too, can do this...but why would you?
She gets a pass because most of America is into either new age religious b.s. or classical religious b.s.
The tricky one with this is when dealing with all-caps and acronyms. If you have a pile of compact discs, what do you have? CDs, or CD's?
I vastly prefer to not use the apostrophe in this situation, but it's my understanding that both are considered correct.
I've seen the HD episode that they're giving away, and it's far better than you think it's going to be.
The episode is a an old but great one called "Good Times With Weapons", and it's been improved visually AND been changed to a widescreen 16X9 format.
South Park might, at first, seem like a strange show to go into HD, but the surprisingly nice aspect of the transfer is the layers and the textures. It's like seeing the show for the first time, and getting it for free is a boon.
Enjoy!
You are going to use a government page to refute 911. That's not gonna work. When things like this happen the whole government is not complicit, its elements that have access to things they can exploit inside the government, they essentially hide within.
Let me ask you when a police office is found to be corrupt or a group of them is the whole police force in a grand conspiracy, or was it a few people that hid within the system and took advantage.
I am sorry how did Al-Qaida know that there would be 4+ terror simulations that exactly mimic'd the attacks on 911 if it wasn't for at least some inside knowledge or participation.
lol, 'generally'
How about criminal?
Wiley Coyote?
ROFL
you sound like one of those fundies that keep insisting that the sun revolves around the earth. When shown data that proves them wrong, they just keeping insisting "yes it does!"
that bottom one has a few good ones. heres the best
So there I was, hunched over Vorgen's dog. The car's grill kind of left this nice opening in it's abdomen, cause really, I wasn't about to fuck a dead dog in the ass, that's just wrong. Anyway, I was thrusting hard, and like hit something hard, I was all WTF, then realized I fucked through the dog and hit the cement. Was wierd.
$2500 Freerolls every month
The trouble is most psychics are far from stupid...
As a side-note I have always wondered if, when you ring a psychic, the first thing they say is: "I was expecting your call"...
Cheney's like Jason Vorhees -- he survives stuff that would kill anyone else ten times over, just so he can continue terrorizing the world.
Clearly there's a pact with the devil involved here.
but over the course of history, rotten systems have become more and more restricted by the expanding border of what people, en masse, won't stand for.
This is remarkably ignorant. The American people at the turn of the 20th century wouldn't stand for fighting off in a foreign war. They also didn't stand for a great many things from the rich and the politically well-connected. By many measures, the American political system has been on a steady decline for at least a century.
The problem is you're pushing ideology at the expense of clear thinking. An ideology of groupthink specifically. Something worse even than an ideology of the mass. Because at least a mass ideology would push people to organize, the first thing they do in places like Venezuela. What you're pushing doesn't even call for organization, merely sullen disapproval. You really think the people in power care for your approval? All you're doing is providing badly needed legitimacy to the system. Same with voting. It's not true that voting is "not very effective". It's negatively effective.
True democracy won't exist until long after you and I are dead, but we can teach others, ourselves, our children to expect better.
And the Christians can keep waiting for their Saviour. They've been waiting for 2000 years. Of course you'll say the comparison is unjust and right you are. The Cargo Cultists of Melanesia have been awaiting the arrival of John Frum (who will bring them cargo) for 70 years now. Yeah that's closer to it. Or do you really mean to claim that your salvationist sect is meaningfully different from all the Americans who've been waiting for democracy in the USA? I suppose it is since you're advocating an even less active component in your religion than those who have come before you.
Hmmm.... I thought about this some more and have to wonder: What if Christians are posing as atheists in a direct effort to make atheists look like fools.
I wouldn't put it past them.
Isn't it funny how the tactics of good Christians are often worse than the "evils" of atheists. If my suspicions are right, Christians give Christians a bad name and Christians give atheists a bad name.
Thousands more growing cocaine?
The Mac vs. Windows debate can certainly be fun. But Mac and PC has been working very well for me for some time, and recently I combined the two as never before courtesy of a slick, new Intel-based MacBook and Apple's well-executed Boot Camp beta.
I know what you mean. It seems that even hamburger tastes different to me depending on which store I buy it from. When my regular store closed, I pretty much gave up buying it because the new one I was using just tasted funny.
As rahblah above mentions, think "The Secret". Positive thoughts only on this thread, please.
Looking over you're previous posts I'll assume you're trolling and leave it there.
That's what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!
Java is the last language. There was no real language before Java. There will be no language after Java. Java is Programming.
Creepy. I wouldn't be too terribly surprised to find people who actually think that. :P
Modded up.
A free, open WYSIWYG wiki with real-time shared editing and the ability to do spreadsheet-style tabular data.
Something like a combination of EditGrid, Google Docs, and name-your-favorite-wiki.
ahah, word.
data Foo = Foo {bar :: Int, baz :: String}
defaultFoo = Foo {bar = 0, baz = ""}
This is what I'd call 2 steps. It's not usually a big deal but I've seen some code get pretty repetative having to define both the data type and its defaults for many large data types. It just results in a bit more verbosity in some problem domains than what's possible in languages where data records can be defined with their defaults simultaneously.
Not in any way a critical problem of course, but I think the question of this thread invites nitpicking.
I think the picture says it ALL.
Um, what picture? Theres not even a link to a regular print article. I hate these shitty blogs.. SUBMIT REAL ARTICLES PEOPLE!! From newsmen! not linkjacking wankfests that dont even have mother daughter breasts on them.
51 -- Goatse.
Was it to design a website that doesn't fail gracefully when javascript isn't enabled?
"Ever notice how most Mac users are skinny? It's because of all the calories they burn because they can't shut the fuck up about how great their Macs are."
"Skinny"? I prefer fashionably slim.
I think orgasm is Mother Nature's icing on the cake
That's an interesting phrase to use in an article about semen!
I dunno about the giant screens. But when I leave Uni, I'm so getting a hugh wraparound desk with 5 monitors like those dudes.
Just because I can. So pointless. So Beautiful.
Cheney with a peg-leg, arh.
kinda reminds me of my daily commute to work
LOL I had the exact same thought! We are so territorial.
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=hP2t-Wy6W5w
It was partisan politics. And it did sound elitist ...
It doesn't matter if it's unfair and obvious, it was still a dumb misstep to make in an election year.
Eben at The Panelist says to wait on buying Solarfun (SOLF)
If you want feudalism, the first thing to do is create chaos and devolve civilization.
All this fake debate about how "republicans need / hate government" is dumb because it makes no sense. And the first thing you need to do when something makes no sense is dump the paradigm.
Republicans. Love. Feudalism.
Hail Java!! Everything is an object!!!
Simply put, squirrels are typically peaceful animals. Though somewhat territorial, squirrels will most often live in harmony with other animals. In this video, a whitetail deer moves in on the squirrels turf and WHAM...the squirrels kicks butt.
I just loved the way they didn't stick with just one oil, but -- presumably -- whatever was the cheapest they could get their hands on ...
The concept is call dollar hegemony. Read Henry C K Liu's article on asian time online and you'll learn all about it.
I just looked at the site and didn't find any mention of Anna Nicole Smith or Walter Reed. What a difference two hours makes?
I thought he meant movies in gernaeral are dommed. The title is crap. "Films" in the civilised worlds refers to films as americans refer to "movies"
This doesn't seem like an obviously valuable skill, but it'd get you out of any bar fight anywhere.
As a chronic insomniac who has trouble getting up every morning, I want this drug, but I'm afraid of the long-term consequences of insufficient sleep.
What's it called, "not having unprotected buttsex"?
I coulda told them that for nothin.
hey
Conspiracy theories are just a smoke show to throw confusion.
And when the smoke will be gone and the only questions that will remains are the right questions yet to be answered, it will be too late.
Dead trees might be screwed, but Brand Name news is not. It's just too hard to filter out the bullshit. A brand lets you start well ahead of the pack.
This part is true. But Buffet spoke specifically in terms of investment opportunities:
... The economic potential of a newspaper Internet site is at best a small fraction of that existing in the past for a print newspaper facing no competition.
So, you're right in that people will rely on reputable sources. Buffet is saying that there will be very little money to be made as one of those reputable sources.
Side note: the purchase price of the paper -- what consumers are paying out of pocket for the print edition -- barely covers the cost of printing. The money in newspapers is made in retail and classifieds advertising, and here they are hemorraging badly as revenue flocks to monster.com, cars.com, apartments.com, craigslist (i.e. nowhere, papers are competing with free.) , etc.
Speaking of not wanting to read all 780 links from Google News -- that's what reddit is for. Social filtering is where the filtering process is distributed across all nodes in the network, and the good stuff theoretically rises to the top. This model, financially and even the algorithms involved, are still being experimented with, but it is clearly the way forward. In five years, it will be worked out. Good stuff will rise to the top ("good" as defined by a particular community of readers) and they will have worked out way stop the system from being gamed.
You should put a warning not to drink anything while reading this article. I'm still coughing.
the Feds ought to pay tax on the property they own
Are you joking? So the us.gov should pay Alaska taxes on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge?
did something touch a nerve?
I'm especially tired of looking at on-screen representations of the gap between the bottom of one page and the top of another; what good does this do for us?
Fixed in Reader 8 (View -> Page Display -> Show Gaps Between Pages). Adobe could've made a small fortune charging money for this feature.
Talk radio is for groups of people who can't muster the energy or interest to have their own discussions about current events.
Wasted brain cycles is about right.
Sure, but then you can't do them inline.
Ah, cool, I haven't checked out functools
Damn. You think you know what a passage means and those Talmudic bastards go and make it about the fucking afterlife.
If there is an afterlife and I meet the Talmudic rabbis, I will punch them in the ovaries. And I quite realize they're all men. I will punch them in the ovaries.
What losses?
We won the last election.
We'll win the next.
looking forward to future business together
How arrogant.
Everything is an object!!!
Except primitive types, of course.
"lumbered"?
And you're not a complete fucking asshole who spends his days fellating sheep.
See? I didn't call you anything just then either. In fact I stated the opposite ... you should thank me. (Excuse internet-style harshness / exaggerated point-scoring.)
Are you really trying to make the point that Ann Coulter wasn't directly implying that Edwards is a faggot?
But I guess you could say implying something is different to calling somebody something but I don't think that's really the point. It's still horrifically offensive and doesn't really belong in politics. Which should be about ideas and policy not pathetically childish, homophobic abuse; unlike the internet. :-P
However, in an isolated context your second point might be correct!
totally childish but i found myself nodding in agreement nonetheless. i used to be a mac person. i'm currently in recovery. whenever i get the urge to proselytize nowadays, i just talk about linux. even tho my main system is xp. which, come to think of it, in light of vista and the annoying bullshit attitude aspect of macs, is actually a pretty cool os now.
Too many exclamation points!
People are seriously entertained by shit like this? Give me a fucking break.
Wha...
Damn, that sounded so funny! But, it's actually true:
Crack cocaine, a form of cocaine base, is derived from powder cocaine. Unlike the processing of freebase cocaine, converting powder cocaine into crack cocaine does not involve any flammable solvents. The powder cocaine is simply dissolved in a solution of sodium bicarbonate and water. The solution is boiled and a solid substance separates from the boiling mixture. This solid substance, crack, is removed and allowed to dry.
Mmmmm, light fluffy batter. Mmmmm, sense of invincibility.
It was easy.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z8IuSiI8mrQ
And of course, Illegal Danish: Super Snacks
http://youtube.com/watch?v=y25XCwOBSUQ
Keep watching for the rave in Thrall's chamber at the end.
I guess it would depend if anything happened to the engine really... that car has a very complex W16 engine (imagine keeping the timing correct?!) and if it is messed up at all then the damage could be very costly... otherwise if it is just steering components and body work I bet it wouldnt be that much. The $200,000 - $300,000 estimate from Ferrari to fix the Enzo in the above mentioned crash was totaled. The car was ripped in two! that is why i went considerably less for my estimate...
EDIT: the ferrari
Here's a line from the movie by Walter that you haven't heard...
"... while we had ideological reasons for being in Vietnam, Iraq is a different story. This whole fucking thing ain't nothing but nothing except about oil."
Do you know where he says that? 3 points if you get it right!
Neal Stephenson fans, is this the start of the Diamond Age?
That particular assertion is only valid as long as you interpret the "free" in "free software" in the limited sense of "gratis." The value of time spent on free software development or use in no way compromises your liberty.
Also, there are commercial motives for doing free software development. Freedom is valuable to at least some users, and some of those users are willing to pay for the development of features in free software. Three quick examples: ArsDigita (now defunct); Google (still going strong) contributes kernel patches; IBM supports Eclipse.
Actually my wife's office is in an academic library, although she is not a librarian. She gets the perks of being in a library all day, and so I get some of them by association too :)
at 1 minute 14 seconds
WE'RE NOT WORTHY! WE'RE NOT WORTHY!
Sigh, fighting against poor spelling is often a thankless battle :( (and often a hypocritical one)
should read: "Every Single Media Outlet Devoted 12 Times More Coverage To Anna Nicole Than Walter Reed (you know, the U.S. Army physician who in 1900 led the team which confirmed the theory that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes)"
Wait ... that doesn't make any sense. Okay, which Lou Reed are we talking about?
More to the point, it's amazing what an 8.5 percent stake in Coca-Cola will do for the bottom line.
We're glad to have you. Now sit down, be quiet, and stay out of our way.
Nihilists? Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
Props on the headline. hee-larious.
Well, for starters, why not stop voting for Republicans or Democrats and start voting for third parties or for candidates that might actually have some principles?
Because there is no reason to expect that to have any impact on anything whatsoever.
Anything else I can clear up?
Springville High School needs a total redo!!
... Looks like your Macs aren't perfect after all, which leads me to my second point:
2 Fuck you.
I'm so ripping that off.
I think he's wrong about the Quicktime thing though. Unless they've changed it in the past few weeks I've been able to download Quicktime without iTunes. In fact, I'd be pretty pissed if I couldn't cos I don't want to distribute iTunes across the network at work, only QT!
... moo
^^ The best I could come up with ...
Awesome link!!! Can we put All Your Base on the front page next? Oh, I heard about this awesome Flash animation featuring a badger...
?? simple question still no answer!! If you count russias economy to the economy of europe then your whole comparison makes no sense at all. If you leave russias economy out you should also not count the landmass of it therefore "europe" would not have more landmass then the USA. SO RUSSIA YES OR RUSSIA NO??
Looks like America's favorite Balseraph just picked up another point of discord.
The Moon landing was fake too, right? Stephen King really did kill John Lennon. There's a whole wonderful world of bullshit out there for the dumb masses. Why stop at a guy lying for... water carrying?
Strictly speaking, Maher used an if ... then ... statement, which isn't the same as wishing.
This guy has suffered becasue he is part of a collection that believes in murder, forced conversion, un-democratic institutions, terrorism, fundamentalism and so many other bad things. I am not saying that every muslim is like that or every muslim should suffer for these things.
Are you saying he is, or he should?
Because he did.
Site is back up (at least for now).
Answer there are no verified instances of US govt sanctioned torture. There is and was no torture at Gitmo. And, the humiliation of prisoners at abu ghraib was not sanctioned by the US government. In fact, the perpetrators were tried, convicted and imprisoned. But it can be reasonably argued the US has sent foreign prisoners back to their home countries knowing they would face harsh treatment and maybe torture.
Why not fix the problems? Microsoft didn't give up at Windows 1.0
Funny how few of the outraged people also get outraged about all the businesses by the Canadian border that accept the Canadian dollar, often at a favorable exchange rate.
52 -- Rotten.com
I'm not American; a majority of my countryfellows agreed with me that the war was a bad idea (in fact, majorities in just about every country on earth other than the US could see this).
At the risk of a major tangent, I'd argue in brief that the current administration running the US government takes hypocrisy and mendacity to a new level, even by the standards of governments; and that the US news agencies as a whole did an abysmally poor job of reporting the issues - again, even by the already-depressing standards of the corporate media. (We can continue regressing the cause back through the crappy US education system and so on.)
Sadly, it is not only America that reaps what it sows. The over half a million dead Iraqis are part of the US harvest of death and despair.
I don't want to sound like I am rooting against the kid. Im not. I would also like to have my dog with me all day. But I feel "but they won't allow the dog in school" should have been a factor in the family decision on getting the dog. As for in the school day, I believe the sign translator can just say "the bell just rang."
Giving back the gift of sight awesome!!
Ok... Are you awake yet? I didn't think so.
He DID lambaste Israel for the attack on Lebanon. And he got called an Anti-Semite for it.
It said so in the article, if you could have been bothered to read it.
Thanks for the s/w
I heard he was going to just suck the blood straight from the newborns then discard them like old sacks...
What do people use instead? WxWindows?
Deleting in protest of Reddit's new anti-user admin policies.
Oh, come on now. A man can enjoy fine knockers for their own sake, can't he - never mind a fake story.
That's just like saying you don't like porn because the scripts suck and the plots are rehashed ...
This is what happens when you rely on government, especially federal government.
"No country where muslims are a majority is democracy."
Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Lebanon, Iran (Yes, Ahmedinejad was voted in).
"No country where muslims are a majority, supports even the existance of israel."
So you're saying that Egypt and Jordan signed peace treaties with a country which to them doesn't even exist?
"Let me ask, why does all these bad things dont happen to chinese people."
You wouldnt be saying that if we were in the 60's.
"We all know how US govt in the recent years have fallen into the hands of islamic-like charactors."
Actually, we all know how innocent Muslims in recent years have fallen into the hands of Nazi police-like American agencies.
Maybe I'm just HOT!
Did you stop to consider THAT!?
If they own the whole county (or what ever administrative unit there is), they would, in effect, be paying taxes to themselves. The problem comes when they own a significant area within a privately-owned region.
That's a fancy way of saying "thumb in a butt".
It's called competition. Can you document Walmart doing what you contend? Can you document one Walmart where it has been shown they set artificially low money losing prices, drove the local competition out of business and then raised prices?
The existence of the 'sort by' option on the right suggests otherwise.
Maybe its the bad singing and not the height or the "fame"?
No, I've heard about her deceitful invites (from producers on her behalf that is) for the 'victim' guests. Cuz after all, who wants to get suckered, right? They'll make promises of about how much time you'll get, that they'll mention your book etc, and then change things at the last moment and you're there to say 'yes' to one question or to get beat up on.
Besides which, I'm interested in anyone powerful promoting BS.
I agree with the sentiment. However, please no more big fonts. Ouch.
He shot money.
Yep. US needs Proportionate Representational voting.
uh-oh. looks like somebody did a gis for krispy kreme and didn't look too closely at the image they got back
I believe it's a Chris Rock bit, but I may be wrong.
I don't understand how people get these impressions about PDF/Postscript. If you want really proper typesetting with good support for mathematics, web browsers are still far, far behind. MathML rendering is getting better in Firefox, but MathML is a pain to produce, and you have to worry about your readers having the right fonts to support the symbols you've used, and even then, the selection is limited compared to those libraries of symbols and constructs available in LaTeX. There are ways to produce HTML from LaTeX, but they tend to produce comparatively very ugly results, interspersing text with images, and you run into the problem that the typefaces don't match and the browser-rendered text is almost always differently sized from that in the images, and the images are not properly aligned with browser-rendered text.
Until there's a LaTeX backend for producing HTML which produces beautiful results, PDF, Postscript and DVI will continue to be the formats for papers.
Thinking that these mistakes make a person look dumb is far dumber than the mistakes themselves.
Got a link to your stupid cool surrealism?
www.reallyannoyingshit.com loves apple
Well, that's a nice sentiment, but entirely out of touch with reality. What you're suggesting is the total contradiction of a core philosophy of training soldiers. Recruits are broken down and rebuilt to follow orders. That is the basis of the entire culture. Anyone who goes in the service and thinks they can pick and choose what they do is perfectly delusional. Never mind the implications of mass mutiny and military revolt.
You're either really naive or stone cold crazy. There's reasonable disagreement and then there's your position. Do you realize you just proved all the dumb right-wingers right? "See? They really DO hate the troops!"
Thanks. The Left really needed that.
You really need to get a better understanding of physics. The choices are not between a universe that spontaneously appeared or has always been there. Time is far more flexibile and complicated that that. And, the different choices are testable - different theories of where the universe comes from are being investigated with current studies of background radiation and future studies of gravity waves.
it's fine to fracture the occasional rule of proper grammar in order to communicate effectively
When I'm editing an article, I sometimes do a global search for "in order to", replacing it with "to".
Please, for the love of God, stop it. Ann Coulter is a useless gasbag. Ignore her and she might go away.
"Impact" is bad; "impactful" is appalling.
Ooops, the intelligence curve accidentally go flipped. As the illustration beneath the graph clearly (though there may be better examples) shows the correct correlation.
Indeed, kitty!! Kitty, indeed!!
Alas, ironically, no cats in immediate proximity of me writing this....
Which is why those who follow Jesus say, religion (including christianity) can't save you -- only Jesus does.
It's advice for bloggers. I think a benevolent effort, to give them a fighting chance to be read without most of the 30 year old or older (That seems to be the point where good grammar and spelling values ceased to be taught with any veracity) people in the audience, making faces at the screen and pressing "Back" on their browser.
You can use X over the 'net. http://www.becausewecan.org/node/23 Just so long as both machines are running X.
If you require a browser, you can use TightVNC, which has a neat web browser client, to.
My guess is it might also have to do with the total number who vote at all... my guess is that maybe 100 people voted that one up, 95 voted it down...maybe that has some sort of influence. It would make sense to me if it did.
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics. - Richard Feynman
that site looks like a scam... is he the lord of your life or is money?
It's not just dollar bills and Irish notes, Spanish cash too.
http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/article/590
She gets a pass because people mistakenly want to feel like they have some control over their anxiety. They want to believe that if they don't look at fat people they won't get fat (instead of getting up a little earlier every day to run and stop eating Ho Hos). It's easy.
Rhonda Byrne may be evil, but people are just stupid; and she smartly, yet guilefully, capitalizes on the ever-widening maw of American B.S.isms.
But if you know someone whose BMW happened to show up in her driveway because her thoughts attracted it there, then indeed let me know. I want her old parking space.
Didn't they try this in the 80's with cocaine? Bright lights big city.
I have you all beat. I use Matlab and other than its great data plotting capabilities, I hate everything about it. Using Matlab is like waking up and finding out that you have to repeat the third grade.
Its ERUV SHABBOS ... I'm only supposed to come out if its life or death
I'm impressed to see that this comments section hasn't devolved into the typical uninformed discussion about Pitchfork's staff's elite hipsterness. I know them, and they're great people.
donkeyqong- if you're going to be critical of music, why not be extremely critical? I've often thought about starting a music site dedicated solely to people who hate the music they're reviewing. It kinda seems like a pointless exercise to start a music review site and just praise everything that comes across your desk.
Tsk, tsk, you've obviously never heard the word.
An eGregarious person is simply someone who is very sociable online ;)
I think someone should produce a study to see if the number of grammar, punctuation and spelling errors increase exponentially whenever a person is writing about what constitutes good grammar, punctuation or spelling. That's the way it seems to me.
/me fights the urge to proof-read this comment
No, on reddit they don't read the articles. ;-)
YOU HAVE A LOT OF CATEGORIES BUT NOTHING ABOUT BOOKS. DON'T PEOPLE READ ANYMORE?
On binding multiple values to a single symbol, it looks like I was wrong on the details: you can't store multiple-value-binds in a symbol without deconstructing it first or you'll (silently?) lose everything but the first value.
Here's some short documentation on it from Successful Lisp:
http://www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/chapter03-09.html
I'm guessing they mean the back end, not the sharp end.
There are a lot of obvious ones in the first few pages, but later on is a little more interesting. (Examples: the FCC chairman at #11, and Cyworld CEO at #13)
YOU HAVE A LOT OF CATEGORIES BUT NOTHING ABOUT BOOKS. DON'T PEOPLE READ ANYMORE?
No, not exactly.
McDonald's is being overtaken not so much by changing marketplace measures of cost or quality, but rather by changing ideas about what is and isn't dietarily offensive.
Not that many years ago, only niche-market "health nuts" were truly hostile to the idea of a cheeseburger and fries washed down with caffeinated sugar water. Today, these items offend the enlightened dietary sensibilities of an ever-increasing number of McDonald's erstwhile customers.
During this perceptual change, the quality of McDonald's products has remained consistent. But the composition of those products is increasingly failing to be least offensive to the largest number of potential customers.
The fake story associated it with it is the only thing that makes this interesting. After that, it's just a picture of some tits.
I can't in good conscience vote something up that's obviously false. Unfortunately, the way things are getting around here, nobody cares what's real or not. Majority rule seems to decide, which is pretty sad. I'm sure it'll keep getting voted up.
To those of you who will vote this up, keep in mind that you're not voting up " Mom and Daughter Banned for Life from Disneyland," but "Cropped picture of a nice tits made up to look like Mickey Mouse and an old lady"
Also it assumes that commercial software takes less time to learn and use than free software. While that is often true, it's far from universal. Then on the flip side of the coin you have the chance of something superior being deprecated for marketing purposes, which only ever happens in commercial software. I don't think anyone ever regretted the time investment to learn emacs.
CDs, unless you're referring to something that 'belongs' to the CD, e.g. the CD's jewel case.
I'm ambivalent about the prescriptive v. descriptive grammar schools. I try to avoid pedantry, but personally lean toward the former only because I think it's important to use language in a conscious, logically consistent manner.
Apostrophes are useful insofar as they denote contraction - the apostrophe replaces the missing letter(s) - and possession. It's true that the meaning can be inferred from context, but my experience is that language is highly susceptible to misinterpretation in the best of circumstances, and anything that helps clarify what you mean is a good thing.
I don't know if I understand your question. Are you asking for links to the specific (donuts...llamas...) points I mentioned that were in Twin Peaks (the series, not the frickin' movie)? If you didn't recognize them, I take it you didn't watch the series, at least from the beginning? Go ask a TP fan - there are bucketloads of Lynch fans (does that make them a Lynch mob?) - he's an acclaimed director - I'm sure they'll be more than happy to share the kool aid with you. As you all can tell, I am SO not a fan.
Edit: It looks as if there are some clips here and there of Twin Peaks on, yep, you guessed it, YouTube.
"On the other hand, during one episode of penile-vaginal intercourse with an HIV-infected partner, the chance that you are going to get HIV is somewhere between one in 100 and one in 200," Laurence said."
Said so matter of factly, and yet, I had no idea transmission rates were that low. True?
100 upvotes and 95 downvotes sounds sort of improbable.
That awesome imagemap was generated by Freemind.
It does look like some pretty delicious Kool-aid.
Disclaimer: I'm typing this on a powerbook.
i have insurance through harvard pilgrim with rx at $268/month. ... i received a letter from my providor telling me that come april, the same insurace is going to cost me $320/month. if you want affordable coverage, don't settle in mass.
Yup. This is to be expected. As a healthy young person, you are forced to subsidize older and less healthy people. Thus, these older and less healthy people are able to buy health care. On the flip side, when you get old, or survive cancer, you will still be able to buy insurance, probably for about $320 a month.
In New Hampshire, on the other hand, you may pay $100 now, but you will pay through the nose once you get old and sick. You will pay the expected cost of your care, in fact, so it won't be insurance at all.
Now car insurance is something I don't understand ...
"After the franchise wars, all restaurants are now Taco Bell."
Thanks, mfhughes.
Not so! There's a very strong correlation between poor writing and idiocy. Can we be blamed for thinking that someone who can't write properly is probably an idiot? It's an excellent rule of thumb.
nice.
Yeah, but what guy wants his condom put on by another guy?
This is the girlfriend/wife/whatever's job!
You know, it's kind of ironic because my FIRST language was Common Lisp, which I taught myself in high school. And at the time I was the biggest Lisp zealot ever, preaching the glories of dynamic typing, map/reduce, code generation, etc. But as time passed and I tried to get more done with it, I moved on to other more 'conventional' languages like Python, Java, C/C++, PHP, and so on. And after all these years and various projects, I find Python to be the best fit for me. It lets me use just enough high level idioms that I don't pull my hair out when I have to create unnecessary 'interfaces' just to override a method, and so on. Python has (almost) all the features I'd wish for in my perfect language: ACTUAL cross platform support, every library I've ever wanted (graphics/multimedia/networking/threading/web), and a beautiful beautiful syntax. That being said, I sincerely, genuinely, DESPERATELY wish that there was a more modern Lisp implementation that had all the implementational qualities of Python, and I don't just mean a Lisp syntax frontend to Python (those already exist, I made one for fun), but a full blown Lisp (not necessarily CL) with all of its dynamic yet high speed compilation glory. If I had the skills I'd do it, but alas.....
I wouldn't be too terribly surprised to find people who actually think that. :P
You can find plenty of people who think like that in The Real World.
This is not Erik Naggum at his best; too much "I'm a world-renowned this" and "I have the credentials to say that". Get off my lawn!
no big surprise - Gamelab is the developer.
Well, it's not that bad.
If they've been reporting 12 Times More Coverage of Anna Nicole Than Walter Reed, then that means that they've been spent 92% if their time on Anna Nicole and 8% of their time on Walter Reed.
I use RealAlternative and QTAlternative. All the codecs, none of the nagging bullshit.
New Fullscreen coverflow doesn't work with multiple monitors or with Vista
A website that instantly brought several thousand new and interested users to my website every single day. The users it would supply would also be polite, helpful, not adverse to paying for services, and have lots of like minded friends.
i actually feel the opposite. when it comes to music, there's always something to hate. writing negative reviews can be done with half a brain. latent negativity is why most music reviews are dull.
writing reviews that highlight (motherfucking) redeemer elements of an album is a much more complex task, extremely hard to do on a consistent basis. it can't be done in a naive fanboy way, or people stop trusting your recommendations. but if someone listens to something, decides they hate it, returns to your review and shrugs, thinking "well, i guess that's accurate, but i still don't like it" then +1 for the album reviewer. that's how it should be done.
the closest i can come to this type of reviewing are the mini-reviews that aquarius writes up for their acquisitions. disagree or not, at least they inspire me to find new music.
http://darkdaughta.com/creation.html [NSFW]
reddit seriously needs tags
Say it with me: trade is not a zero sum game.
1 Reason we might be poorer than our parents:
The anti-globalization movement, making websites like this.
I'm going to say this straight up: it sounds terrible at first, but I really do think we might be a lot better off, as a country, if Cheney were not Vice President. And Cheney wouldn't be VP anymore if he was dead. So it follows that we would be better off if he was dead.
For someone who orchestrated a grand right-wing capitalist warmongering scheme that has basically fucked over our country politically, financially and socially for the foreseeable future, I wouldn't shed but a tear if he were to die tomorrow.
Here's what I don't like about PDF: the inflexible aspect ratio.
A typical PDF page is taller than it is wide; the typical monitor is wider than it is tall. So I can't fit a whole page on the screen without making the print painfully small. Or clumsily turning the page image and the monitor.
If the doc is in HTML, there's never any aspect ratio problem: the content just pours itself into the shape the browser window (and even while the shape is changing, amusingly enough).
Wow! All this for only $19.99!
Thats fine with me, they charge too much and it is too darn strong
I've been happily running Ubuntu for about five weeks now.
Speed! Control! Customizability! (Yeah, to be honest occasional frustrations, too...)
In my admittedly subjective opinion, there's a growing movement to make Linux more approachable and usable. Here's hoping...
But few textbooks.
ajax domain search
Don't forget Wild Wild West!
I'm just waiting for the obligatory post from some pretentious reddit asshole that says:
"The scary thing is, i could follow what they were saying word for word. I guess i better get out more!"
Ass.
be honest. how many reddit'ers have just wasted about $12.95 + s&h on amazon.com?
I hardly ever use the word conservative without prefacing it with "self-described".
That's because all manner of authoritarian, hate-filled, intolerant, half-wits describe themselves as "conservatives". In so doing, they're giving the "C word" a bad name. I'm thus obliged to refer to those individuals as "self-described conservatives".
Wall Street Journal story on how to turn an online community into a business.
It hit a wall in 1993.
I think it's worth distinguishing between rap and hip-hop, though. The CNN article seems to completely confuse these two genres. I have no problem with hip-hop, just rap. Why? They have similar lyrics, right? Well, hip-hop tends to actually have instrumentation of some kind, and discernable melody. Gorillaz. A Tribe Called Quest. Backyard Bangers. J5. The Roots. Del. Afrika Bambaataa. Some of Run-DMC's and Outkast's stuff. It often blends rock, soul, funk, turntablism, reggae, and electronic music. This is hip-hop, and it's awesome.
Present-day rap, on the other hand, is just sort of talking-yelling with an inner-city accent with one or two measures of beats that repeat without variation through the entire 'song.' It's stuff like--shudder--50 Cent, Mims, Lil Jon, or Chamillionaire. It's hip-hop simplified by an order of magnitude, run through a bunch of computer filters with some lyrics thrown in about bitches and niggers and hoes and bling, and sold by the RIAA as a cash cow. This is all rap is.
Rap is not music. It was a contrived, materialistic lifestyle. Imagine a rap video without scantily-clad gyrating women and Mercedes with ridiculous chrome wheels. It would hardly BE a rap video. And that, friends, is exactly why rap never did and never will go anywhere.
Wait, so the Federal government is disbarred from preventing you from speaking...but the States can? I'm...dumbfounded how someone could make that interpretation of the 14th. The 14th is the "trickle-down" Amendment - any rights guaranteed by the Constitution apply to State and Local as well as Federal law.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Does wearing sunglasses count? I need a way to still take a shower at the gym lol
your grammar and lack of punctuation has made my head start to ache. :(
There once was a VP near dead
From a clot inactivity fed
Could some deal be made
We can work out a trade
For a brain particle lodged in his head.
Haha, so true. My fiend has cats [...]
How can I get a fiend?
So does that mean that the "smell of money" isn't really the money after all?
The word you're looking for is "fuck". Censoring The Big Lewbowski is...well...really fucked up.
If that's what you want, try searching for meat.
This is a really good breakdown.
What I don't get is why Windows/Linux guys get so bent out of shape about "fucking Mac users"... I see more annoying articles about how annoying Mac users are than I do about how great Macs are.
Can't we all just, you know, use computers and get on with our lives?
(posted from a Mac, running XP and win2k as well - OS wars? What OS wars?)
This comment is another example of weirdness in the hotness algorithm. It's 43 minutes old with 6 points at the moment, and yet it's below two one-hour-old comments, each with 0 points.
This is remarkably ignorant. The American people at the turn of the 20th century wouldn't stand for fighting off in a foreign war. They also didn't stand for a great many things from the rich and the politically well-connected. By many measures, the American political system has been on a steady decline for at least a century.
You've construed me too narrowly. Over the course of human history, power has flowed away from kings and towards the mob, because what the average man on the street will cooperate with has become less and less broad.
Yes, America has been lied into facism, plutocratic war, torture, corporate hegemony. But here's the rub:
They had to lie.
They had to lie because "I am king, and I will it so" is no longer acceptable. That is the phenomenon of which I speak.
America is over. I accept this. But my loyalty is to my species, not my country, and it is of improving things for my species of which I speak.
Organizing is good. But organizing is merely a manifestation of the phenomenon. The true root of it is what I spoke of, of expecting some expanding ideal of justice, of identifying oneself as part of a larger and larger group which eventually encompasses the whole species, of expecting more and more rights, more and more egalitarianism, more and more legal equality.
Of being "spoiled" and demanding, and not putting up with anything less. That's what makes you organize.
I'm not waiting to be saved, I'm building a better world, even if it's only by mocking theocrats and homophobes, by refusing to give out my social security number to corporations I do business with, by talking about how screwed America is. Influencing others is not nothing, and no one who can talk and be heard is utterly helpless.
I don't like ads being posted as stories on reddit.
This is going to be the highest selling item on Amazon today.
Some of the comments are great:
"A must see for anyone that Ever took or plans to take calculus."
"If you want your kids to learn calculus in an entertaining way buy the Standard Deviants DVD for Calculus, not this cheap, ignorant shot at making a buck."
Is it just me - or does Standard Deviants DVD for Calculus sound like a porn film as well?
It's entertainment. Nobody said Oprah or her staff had to be nice now did they? There's a reason she is the richest woman in showbusiness, and it didn't come from being nice.
i'm not a christian, but i have to say that that is one of the most interesting things i have seen as far as USB and SD go. nice.
I've reported some stories now too :/ Didn't even notice it was different until I realized there was no happy text box to type in to.
I'm telling you, man, 2 years of library school was totally worth it, if only for the guarantee that all my future jobs will come with Lexis-Nexis access.
The puppy curve has a steeper slope
svn blame/praise/annotate
A quote that better sums up her post is: "Maybe very few people are capable of not believing in God."
Either way, go read it!
What?! No! Really?
You know what happens when Brits assume?
...They lose colonies! >:)
All kidding or wishful thinking aside, most people who have serious heart attacks experience personality changes.
A couple of different souces were quoted as saying that Cheney's personality underwent a noticeable change after one of his larger heart attacks.
More to the point, many of Cheney's longer-term friends were and are puzzled at his change from reasonable pragmatism to seeing terrorists under every bed...
It's from Chris Rock: Never Scared (2004).
Here's a clip of it, the joke shows up in the second half... not for the easily offended:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GXb7-efd4M
Dude, you've got to be kidding me... That is AWESOME! In reply to api and heasmo: I think you are making a large logical leap in equating porn to hedonism to opium. I think porn can be healthy, no? Besides they are not really exchanging an idealism for another. I think it's just a symbollic act that says: you don't have to be afrid. It's not like you have to sign up for the Church of the Spanky Pornographer.
I seriously didn't think anybody would notice; I'm sorry.
He lost me at hello:
"Hey, valued customer - do you want a free phone?" At first I wasn't interested, but he went on and on about how popular and great the Samsung E900 was, then promised me free texts at weekends for life if I said yes. So I gave in.
Children of Men, if you want to see one in theatres
That's just X over the internet. I already do that. I want X over the web so I can do it from work. And I don't want to have to tunnel ssh to do it.
Thanks alternet for making it a simple either/or choice!
Ahh...
So he isn't a real man because he doesn't hate Jewish people ENOUGH!?!
I think I heard that line before somewhere in history...
So there aren't any instances of US government sanctioned torture for which you have a verifiable data. How about one news article from a main stream press source of your choice which clearly supports your contention?
Google "abizaid report" and torture or prisoner or death. There is no mention of "more then a dozen prisoners had died under US custody and the armies own coroners ruled the deaths murder because the prisoners had died from being beaten to death." in any way, shape or form.
Useless? Hardly! I went dual-screen, now I can waste time twice as efficiently!
The states all have their own bill of rights and freedom of speech, so they can't infringe speech under their own constitutions. They did retain the right to regulate speech however.
While I agree, that might not really cut it as a political argument in present-day America. Present-day right-wing politicos have mastered technique that Hunter S. Thompson wrote in a dialogue that went loosely like this (obviously in satire):
Pundit1: Tell them candidate X f&cks pigs.
Pundit2: No one is going to believe that!
Pundit1: I know that. I just want the electorate to hear the words 'Seriously, I don't f&ck pigs' come out of candidate X's mouth.
linkjacked from here
We could play "Global Thermonuclear War".
They got sick of you trying to figure it out, so they actually have 9 or 10 different comment sorting algorithms that are cycled on a randomized basis.
From my experience, seems like this is actually the case
I love the Deftones... chino You have the most spine chilling voice EVER.<333333 please come to LA it would be awesome to see you live :)
So is this one; the one you posted was sux'd for being a repeat. just so you know.
how to hide navigation panel (on the left part) of Acrobat (reader) 8 automatically?
Hey if I see the picture and read text on my monitor it's true end of story. This story is absolutely true, I saw it on the internet.
Grab an Indiana Jones movie or two as well. Nothing says steampunk like a fedora.
He's missing the larger picture. All mainstream media outlets condition people to accept propaganda, Fox is just more blatant about it. So called "respectable" newspapers support the Bush administration all the time. The Washington Post just posted a journalistic blow job on Robert Gates. Check it out here.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/04/AR2007030401005.html?nav=rss_politics
This kind of propaganda is more effective than the Fox variety because it's more subtle.
What's the price of a few of them? I don't want to email them and bug them if dozens of redditors are going to be doing the same.
Since when did stay-at-home, midwestern housewives become liberal?
Problem is most psychics are not cons as much as they really think that they are psychic.
Having written a Lisp compiler for my compiler class in college, I can honestly say that I hope Lisp dies a horrible death. Unfortunately, since I know people who are still writing Fortran-77 code on OpenVMS, I know Lisp will never die.
I still see the code I had to write for cons, car and cdr in my nightmares sometimes.
If that's the case there's probably some "sugar tits" spliced in somewhere.
"Stupid user base aside, I will never own a Mac."
Have fun with Vista, buddy!
I do like Maddox. However:
Waaaah, boo hoo! I can't drag and drop! Dumbass. Looks like your Macs aren't perfect after all
How is their inability to drag and drop the Mac's fault?
In doing research for this article, I decided to reinstall iTunes, a program I hadn't used since version 4 (now on 7).
Obviously, it used to suck, and the problem you're having is with the ejecta from said previous installation.
If I want to manufacture biological weapons with my copy of iTunes...
you aren't allowed, because the US controls the use and export of software from within its borders containing encryption algorithms. Not Apple's decision.
Finally,
Ever notice how most Mac users are skinny?
Really, there are plenty of valid complaints to lodge against Apple. Don't go pretending the people on the Switch ads are representative, normal Mac users, however.
If I'm in a cyberpunk mood I'll listen to the stuff on the Matrix soundtracks and Juno Reactor.
But what if I'm in a steampunk mood?
Didn't read the article, did you?
Right. Because Christians are a hated minority in America.
But who would run Halliburton?
complete filth, brilliant
By running a successful social bookmarking site and offering 100-point bumps (pun?) to XKCD and Dilbertblog, apparently.
Another angry PC user. How very predictable. How very tiresome.
The sign was put there to mock his being "king of the Jews" that he said to Pilate as well as speaking about his heavenly kingdom within earshot of the Pharisees. The pressure for his death came from the Pharisees because in their eyes Jesus was committing blasphemy by forgiving sins and claiming himself divine. This is why Pilate asked them what crime he had committed, because he never broke any Roman law - crowning himself king to depose Caesar - but a trumped up charge by the religious elite to remove a perceived threat.
The two other men were not zealots, they were thieves and they certainly didn't follow Jesus by any means. Insulting Jesus while they were hanging there with him, the Gospel accounts one later repenting.
The disciples, and the rest of the Israelites, had a false idea of what the Messiah was coming there to do. They thought the Messiah was their warrior-king that came to uproot the Roman occupation and drive them out, restoring the Promised Land to it's rightful people. That wasn't the case, which is why you see the disciples running away after Jesus' crucifixion and hiding in the Upper Room or returning to their former jobs as fishermen, for example. It also begs the question, "Why would this small group of men and women go from hiding and fearing for their very lives for knowing Jesus - to boldly proclaiming the message of a dead man three days later?"
On the sword issue, the lines you're quoting are from just before Jesus is arrested on the Mount of Olives. From my understanding, the context of that verse is Jesus knows he is going to be arrested and crucified, and the swords are for the Apostles' protection in the coming days when Jesus is no longer with them. Jesus fully expected trouble from the law, and was always promoted self-defense which is why he rebuked Peter when he cut off one of the arresting officer's ears.
I found a couple sites that can explain it more thoroughly, here, here, and here.
No conflicts? I would be interested in how Christian beliefs in the virgin birth and the resurrection fit with verifiable science.
Sing along!
Fuck tha police
Comin straight from the underground
Young nigga got it bad cuz Im brown
And not the other color so police think
They have the authority to kill a minority
Fuck that shit, cuz I aint tha one
For a punk muthafucka with a badge and a gun
To be beatin on, and throwin in jail
We could go toe to toe in the middle of a cell
Fuckin with me cuz Im a teenager
With a little bit of gold and a pager
Searchin my car, lookin for the product
Thinkin every nigga is sellin narcotics
Youd rather see me in the pen
Then me and lorenzo rollin in the benzo
Beat tha police outta shape
And when Im finished, bring the yellow tape
To tape off the scene of the slaughter
Still cant swallow bread and water
I dont know if they fags or what
Search a nigga down and grabbin his nuts
And on the other hand, without a gun they cant get none
But dont let it be a black and a white one
Cuz they slam ya down to the street top
Black police showin out for the white cop
Ice cube will swarm
On any muthafucka in a blue uniform
Just cuz Im from the cpt, punk police are afraid of me
A young nigga on a warpath
And when Im finished, its gonna be a bloodbath
Of cops, dyin in la
Yo dre, I got somethin to say
Fuck the police (4x)
M. c. ren, will you please give your testimony to the jury about this fucked up incident.>
Fuck tha police and ren said it with authority
Because the niggaz on the street is a majority.
A gang, is with whoever Im stepping
And the motherfuckin weapon
Is kept in a stash box, for the so-called law
Wishin ren was a nigga that they never saw
Lights start flashin behind me
But theyre scared of a nigga so they mace me to blind me
But that shit dont work, I just laugh
Because it gives em a hint not to step in my path
To the police Im sayin fuck you punk
Readin my rights and shit, its all junk
Pullin out a silly club, so you stand
With a fake assed badge and a gun in your hand
But take off the gun so you can see whats up
And well go at it punk, ima fuck you up
Make ya think Im a kick your ass
But drop your gat, and rens gonna blast
Im sneaky as fuck when it comes to crime
But Im a smoke em now, and not next time
Smoke any muthafucka that sweats me
Or any assho that threatens me
Im a sniper with a hell of a scope
Takin out a cop or two, they cant cope with me
The muthafuckin villian thats mad
With potential to get bad as fuck
So Im a turn it around
Put in my clip, yo, and this is the sound
Ya, somethin like that, but it all depends on the size of the gat
Takin out a police would make my day
But a nigga like ren dont give a fuck to say
Fuck the police (4x)
Im tired of the muthafuckin jackin
Sweatin my gang while Im chillin in the shackin
Shining tha light in my face, and for what
Maybe its because I kick so much butt
I kick ass, or maybe cuz I blast
On a stupid assed nigga when Im playin with the trigga
Of any uzi or an ak
Cuz the police always got somethin stupid to say
They put up my picture with silence
Cuz my identity by itself causes violence
The e with the criminal behavior
Yeah, Im a gansta, but still I got flavor
Without a gun and a badge, what do ya got?
A sucka in a uniform waitin to get shot,
By me, or another nigga.
And with a gat it dont matter if hes smarter or bigger
[mc ren: sidle him, kid, hes from the old school, fool]
And as you all know, es here to rule
Whenever Im rollin, keep lookin in the mirror
And theres no cue, yo, so I can hear a
Dumb muthafucka with a gun
And if Im rollin off the 8, hell be tha one
That I take out, and then get away
And while Im drivin off laughin
This is what Ill say
Fuck the police (4x)
Fuck the police (3x)
Ever heard of msconfig? If you don't like something starting up with Windows, turn it off. Not a big deal and should be regular maintenance for everyone.
Really? Care to back up your claim (or opinion) somehow?
Let's see how quickly we can get this down to zero points.
Why the obsessive need to phrase it so scatologically?
I guess that's one way to kickstart a declining population base.
I know of very few McDonald's managers who would understand the humour. Most McDonald's managers would find the answers unintelligible, even slightly frightening...
I have been signed up here for weeks, submitting hundreds of Xbox 360 games! I am just about done adding them all!
OMG. I own 9 Macs... and I love this page! That parody is the funniest thing I've seen in months.
Do they need a giant multi-screen control room to monitor and troubleshoot the operation of the giant multi-screen control room?
There are at least 6251 answers:
http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/?q=signed%3A1%2C1%2C1%2C1
Because anything coming between me and that sweet, sweet snow is gunna get dusty
Where else can you get a "full body latte" with a happy ending?
Wow, this is a pretty ignorant stance on trade. It is obvious this person has no knowledge of economics. Glad to see it is placed in the "trashbin" of reddit.
That was a nice, explanation, but it's just not the case. Its arguments are faulty, since "its" is the possessive as well as the plural.
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I did not mean to say that the men Jesus was crucified with were his followers. However, their being called "thieves" is an indication that they were in fact zealots, as it was common to refer to zealots as thieves during that time period.
As far as your arguments go, I believe they are sound, but I also know that there are counter arguments from reputible sources that say Jesus was in fact put to death because of a percieved threat to the Roman state.
As far as I'm concerned it is a mixture of both your arguments and sources and others.
Thank you for your respect and candor here on the site. You are a model for what discussions on reddit should be.
I eat fruit such as a monkey
is perfectly acceptable English, though not contemporary. "Like" and "as" are the same word--think similes; "such" is extraneous in most cases (as this one.)
You know you're in boston when... There's a CVS and a Dunkin Donuts on every corner and you use them to give directions.
OK so also: You know you're a bostonian when you have a dunkin donuts coffee in your car and you're tuned to AM1030.
"watering down?" what a fucking loser
Again the US government does not sanction torture. And there is no evidence the US government routinely sanctions torture or that it is in any way routine. Rather it investigates allegations of torture, where there is evidence of torture court marshalls are instituted, those charged are tried and if found guilty they are punished. Investigations are reviewed and in the particular article you referred to superior officers kept the case open because they didn't believe it was properly investigated. "Senior officials at the Criminal Investigation Command's headquarters took a different view. On April 15, 2003, they rejected the field agents' proposal to close the case, sending it back "for numerous investigative, operational, administrative and security classification-related issues, which required additional work, pursuit, clarification or scrutiny." Four months later, the headquarters officials reassigned the case to the task force that eventually implicated the 27 soldiers." These actions do not indicate any sanctioning of torture rather they show how seriously the US government is in preventing torture.
Damnit, I mis-spelled Buffett's last name. Oh well, so did tocfsend.
tofocsend
No way man, my friend is one of the members of skull and bones and while "vacationing" in iceland went to see the "smoky sun"
...Believe...
because they are from Miami see "cocaine Cowboys"
INSIDE JOB
Yes. I was very glad the legal system worked when Mary Sue Hubbard was successfully prosecuted for "spying, wiretapping and breaking into government offices."
Enjoy being their slave. Don't worry though. Wishful thinking will make you discount any pain you feel from your slavery as "bad thetan thoughts." Or haven't you got to the level where they start talking crazy alien bullshit yet?
You'll REALLY love the COS when you spend your $500,000 to find out that Hubbard was really just a reincarnation of Jesus and the whole thing was a grand fight against the Devil.
THAT is the "science" of Scientology.
Enjoy, hapless fool!
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I really don't know what to say.
I've based my life on their teachings. :)
I linked to Consumerist site instead of directly to Mother Jones because I liked "Get Rich Slowly"'s summary.
Diabetes keeps rising at somewhat alarming rates. More and more studies seem to prove that this is becoming a huge problem. What are people doing about it?
damn, I could have sworn it was going to be 44.
(hint: what's the ASCII char code for ",")
=P
They're news on television and on reddit. Are you complaining about reddit's supposedly abysmal content standards as well?
Dear Grandpa,
I'm glad to see you finally got your computer online! I just wanted to let you know that the internet collectively stopped putting a dash between ass and hat in 1999.
Love,
Kankerfist
Careful. Read the article on the CSM study again. It's misrepresenting the results of a flawed survey. Americans were asked a question worded differently (is "bombing and other attacks intentionally aimed at civilians" justified) from that asked of the Muslim populations (are "terrorist attacks" justified).
Given the fact that the USA is dealing with an insurgency in Iraq, it's understandable that many Americans who support the war would be loathe to answer the question in the negative. This is because they are well aware that the insurgency consists of civilians taking up arms against American soldiers. Consequently it's easy to see why supporters of the war might suggest it's acceptable to intentionally bomb/attack civilians. It doesn't mean they think it's ok in general, just that in some cases it may be justified, e.g. where the civilians are considered insurgents.
Quoting from the article: '24 percent [of Americans surveyed] believe these attacks are "often or sometimes justified."' So they lumped 'sometimes' together with 'often'! To me, those are completely different categories. Worse, in reporting the results they put the word 'often' first, in a way that seems to imply that 24% of Americans are "often" blood thirsty terrorism supporters. What bullshit.
Well, yes, but it's the idea of the thing. I was just suggesting that total votes/controversy might play into the algorithm.
I'm complaining about television, I would expect some more serious news. Maybe I don't watch television enough anymore though to have a realistic idea of television news.
No way! Every time she flaps her hate-hole, the right looks that much worse. I can't wait 'til she calls Obama a n*gger.
Keep goin' Anne! Keep goin!
Once again, my peeves are that people seem to think "a lot" and "no one" are supposed to each be one word.
Perhaps we should issue them brooms instead of guns?
oops :(
did not realize
Een christlijk forum achter de site van FunkyFish.nl, er wordt diep gepraat over geloof, relatie en fun en dit gecombineerd. Word lid want het is leuk, boeiend en intressant. Het idee is ontstaan na een grap op msn vanwege dat de site offline was en we wouden zo graag op Funky Fish om te chatten, bloggen en meer dat we besloten hebben een forum te openen. De beheerder van Funky Fish vindt het een leuk plan en staat er achter hij is zelf ook lid van het forum. Wees welkom ook al ben je niet van Funky Fish je zal met open armen worden ontvangen, en er zijn pittige discussie's en leuke onderwerpen en diepgaande ook zijn er forum games die ook zeer aantrekkelijk zijn.
...because crack heads don't have $10 bills.
Yes, they don't seem to lack for ideas of different things to measure (the 'awards') - I wonder if these characterizations are previously published metrics or, they just made them up with their own strong network-analysis fu.
I used to have occasional janitor envy. Until one day when I saw that someone missed the toilet taking a crap. I realized I could walk away from that mess in disgust. No more envy.
This shows how strange Reddit is. Raldi posted this article to my counting at least three times trying to get it popular. Another prior to him, zummy also posted this article and was it buried within obscurity. I guess the fifth time is the charm.
Rebuttal: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/10/con-allegre-ma-non-troppo/
Get a Sony Ericcson.
You won't be disappointed.
Until it installs a rootkit on your computer or you try and contact their "customer service".
You have an extra, comma.
Now that you hit the Powerball, it's time to figure out how much you have to pay in taxes. It's hard to determine exactly what your tax liability will be, but you can rest assured, there will be a tax liability! That means, you will have to pay taxes on your winnings. Some taxes will be taken directly from your winnings and others you will be responsible for. So, that's the trick. How to know how much money to hold on to for taxes? Uncle Sam will want to take a cut of all earnings. Some of that tax is taken by the lottery commission and filed on your behalf. That's called a withholding tax. The balance of the winnings is added as regular income to your household income and taxed at the rate you traditionally pay.
Meow!
...confusing the British spelling I learned in school with the American spelling I pick up on the internet...
isn't an error.
The second video supports the assertion I made here.
If that puzzles you, have you seen the stats 'awards' page? I'd love to know how they measure each of those - and whether they came up with themselves or, there's a paper out there that gives ways to measure.
arn't these just macrophages and we've known about them for millions of years? how is this news?
You can't install Quicktime anymore unless you download bullshit iTunes.
I just installed quicktime today without installing iTunes.
Would you marry a rapist. At Cathedral of Faith, Tampa James Howell threaten to rape me. His son Jireh, 9 year old said" I will rape you to protect you from Joel-his older brother.
Are we still living in Bible days when raping of women were okay and men are still considered good catches. Would you rape a ma accused of rape or who has raped in the past? Joel stated to me"I rape you in the spirit and the next time it will be in the nature. Is church a place of horrors, do you give these type of men second chances? Why are these women staying with violent men? It is ridculus these women wnat men who are inner-city, barely educated and there are good men out there.
Unfortunately there isn't much activity on the radar at the moment, but it is quite excellent to see a storm track over the entire United States.
Damn I thought you meant Conan the Barbarian, not that plastic faced carrot top in a monkey suit.
shhh... its okay, chavez, the CIA is trying to kill us all. just go back to sleep and in the morning you can get back to raping the Bolivian economy.
Anne Coulter and Howie Mandel?
Several times in my community I have seen people standing on street corners waving professionally crafted signs that loudly proclaim "CONDO'S FOR SALE". I am sure that there are at least two such signs that have been created. It depresses me that not the person who ordered the signs (who is probably fairly high up in his or her organization) nor the person who made them noticed what for me is a glaringly obvious grammatical error.
Didn't this company go out of business yet? Stocking 3 day old donuts on grocery shelves, how did it ever go wrong?
repost
hari kiri.
say 'suicide', asshat.
A simple style guideline I've found especially poignant for programmers: usually, asides aren't, and parentheses can be replaced with em-dashes. For example—and this is just a test—I might do say something about your mother—not a tramp (or hobo) at all—where you could not catch the meaning of the message without reading it in its entirety, including the faux asides.
Is there anything that crazy ho won't say? She's like the Paris Hilton of the politics set.
Suck it! vs. Valid point!
That's supposed to change for a more traditional syntax, iirc.
Yep, and I'm sure it's far better than the retard you most generally sound like.
The only ones who might disagree are those who share your idealogy and prefer to ignore facts. I'm not too worried about them.
Looks like you could use some cocaine.
Wow! This is like the zombie right wing talking point that never dies.
So this will be the third time I have refuted this.
The second time was here
Reposted from above:
This is a repost from the last time I refuted this canard.
Clinton fired all 93 US Attorneys in his third month as President.
Actually it was Janet Reno, and it was within her rights as attorney general. While it was dramatic it is kind of natural given any new party to the oval office after 12 years of the previous party's appointments.
The thing at stake here is that its the middle of these peoples terms and that Section 520 of the Patriot Act is being used to both bypass the Senatorial Confirmations and the 120 day limitation of temporary appointments which would come from the circuit court.
You can read my responses to these identical insinuations on the previous thread here
http://reddit.com/info/ypwe/comments/cyrl6
As well as read all the relevant law here
http://reddit.com/info/ypwe/comments/cyr4g
and if you are so inclined you can watch the video or read the transcript of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) discus on the Senate floor 24 days ago, here.
http://reddit.com/info/ypwc/comments
Further Clinton's firings did not occur in the middle of massive corruption investigation of Clinton appointees. They occurred in his 3rd month in office during his first term. As I mentioned before the California attorney was in the middle of an investigation of the former #3 director of the CIA, and several republican congressmen!
Not if you are voting on a VOTE UP IF YOU LIKE CHEESE, AND VOTE DOWN IF YOU HATE GOD! post. Those are fun. Yeah.
Again? Ok, I am beginning to think that Coulter and Edwards are in cahoots now, for publicity sake.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice ...
... can't get fooled again.
Number of replies always makes a difference too. The most active discussions will tend to dominate the comments page.
Question to you: Who has been proven to be a liar in the past?
Bush regarding WMDs in Iraq? OR
al-Masri regarding him being tortured?
We here on Reddit have brains!!
An open letter to Sir Richard Branson regarding the Virgin Earth Challenge.
This is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps!
Maybe I'm being overly trusting here, but what it sounds like happened is they had two similar looking cars, did work on one, charged them for that car, then it turns out that the person's car was the other...
Or it could just be this is rather obscurely written...
The plot thickens...
I can honestly say that I hope Lisp dies a horrible death.
You can 'honestly' say that in any case. However, writing a compiler for a language does not add to -my caring- that you say that. I'll wait for: 'I have considerable, actual programming experience in the -languages- CL or Scheme, and not as directed homework, and I hope one of them dies a horrible death.'
Andy Dick and Fran Drescher?
"I could've fish 'gain t'night, but I think I've chicken instead."
I wish people would stop seeing contractions as some mysterious, uncontrollable artifact of language—they're simply [series of] words with letters elided mid-word. Thus, Go[o]db'y'e is i.e. "God be with ye" and such.
Also, the "a whole 'nother" fragment is perhaps splitting the word "another" using the word "whole," not using the article "a." It might also be a valid use of the misdivided word "nother," which has just as much place in the language as "newt" or "nickname."
David Lynch is into mysteries, these were not good mysteries no? I bet they had you saying just what the fack? Try Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, it will take you a while to figure it out. Lynch doesn't make watch once movies.
Except in all those new-fangled CSS web-pages in which some overly clever web-designer artificially limits the width of paragraphs. Blogs are some of the worst offenders.
Who's whose? Hu's. (That expands to "Who is whose? Hu is.")
You mean, you get 1/25, 1/25, 1/25, 1/25, 1.
so they just started printing. Everything. Source code, screenshots, log files, hexadecimal dumps, emails, resumes.
Brilliant.
Or you know they could always stop holding newborn infants for ransom. Assuming we're talking about Japan.
The "hot" algorithm for comments should probably not be the same as the one that boils articles to the front of the site. Comments are a 'smaller' universe, so the points on a comment should count a lot more than the 'freshness'.
My eyes kinda suck, so I'm usually magnifying everything I read. Zooming HTML pages is always hit-or-miss, some things zoom, some don't; and the page is always out of proportion in parts. PDFs are scalable vector graphics. 'nuf said.
We let our farmers and factory workers lose their jobs because we want them, and the country at large, to be doing bigger and better things.
No, sadly, we don't want them (and most people) at all.
This is not a phenomena that is unique to computer programmers;
This paragraph intrigues me. What non-programming analogues exist for we.hates-software.com?
I support this amount of military spending.
Coffee People FTW, until Starbucks bought them.
I like this: "so while this technique is an entertaining party trick (if one is at a particularly dull party), "
Why wont the democratic congress pull out of Iraq? why are they such warhawks?
Sure, or I can go thorugh the registry's myriad places where things can start from. Or tinker with services.msc. It's just... too much trouble somehow.
attack of the clones!
my advice
I was introduced to the Language Log some time back, and after reading it for a while have become convinced that, although some things like "would of" annoy me horribly, the state of general language knowledge is so poor that being annoyed by some pet peeve is equally likely to be a sign of my own ignorance as the speaker/writer's.
Case in point, here's a nother interesting article.
Excerpt:
The construction a whole nother has puzzled linguists for
decades. It does not abide by the rules of traditional
grammar and rarely appears in written English, yet it is
found in nearly every idiolect. ... The phrase a whole
nother exists in the English language because of a
combination of rules in the English language that govern
infixation, reanalysis, syntactic blending, and the noun
phrase.
Write once, read many.
So rather than making everyone else put more effort in to reading anything you've written, how about putting the effort in when writing it?
This is especially true when writing anything in a situation where you want something from the reader, be it advice, a good mark, technical help, or just for them to click the little advert next to the text. If you want something from me, as a reader, you'd better be willing to at least put in a minimum of effort when writing the request.
You must be new to Maddox I see...
Wow... That's straight up pornographic... NSFW, in case anyone, um, minds.
Because Vista is obviously the only alternative.
*nix
Hell even XP (which I think is what a lot will stick to)
I'm going to print that article out and tape it to my wang.
Yes you can d/l it, but they don't make the link very obvious. Also, I like how ever media player feels the need to start up with your program to make it "faster" -- which really just makes your whole computer slower. Good job guys!
Being that the irreligious [1] have a higher rate of suicide, compared to religious people, it stands to reason that at least some subset of that population is mentally unstable. Unless you'd like to claim all people who commit suicide are mentally stable.
[1] http://www.adherents.com/misc/religion_suicide.html
the depth of your critical analysis of the arguments presented in this article leaves me speechless. one can only imagine how advocating protecting our industries from foreign predation, ensuring other countries use fair trade practices, and taking steps to resurrect our domestic industries could be construed as contributing to a position of "ignorance" with respect to "trade" and "economics."
Look closely, he's got a second point and its a pretty good one...
Oh god, this has to be another one of those 'throw shit together to get traffic for your site' posts. (Can't find the reference for this, where the guy admitted it.)
I don't know what the fuck that is but the link is going straight into the Awesome folder.
edit: Also it looks like this is making the circuit on the freebie tgp sites for some time, not sure how old it is.
Good god, I hope you're kidding about them asking you that.
awesome
You can also make maps with words you pick.
So you'd rather give a Vice President Giuliani or McCain or (ohmygod) Brownback a nice platform to run for President? Cheney's influence is on the wane. Let's just hope for him to finish his miserable term in obscurity.
THIS ARTICLE IS SAD BUT TRUE.I HOPE PAMELA GETS HELP.SHE IS SUPPOSEDLY DONATING PROCEEDS TO "EMPOWERING WOMEN", BUT SHE'S RUINING A SINGLE MOM'S LIVELIHOOD/CAREER (ME) TO DO IT!!! THAT IS N-O-T WHAT I WOULD CALL "EMPOWERING WOMEN"!!!!
seems like pamela's a wolf in sheeps clothing trying to cry "WOLF!!!!"....
CIAO ALL!!!!!
ILIANA
Thank you
Nikon D40x is the 10MP successor to the 6MP D40.
If you don't read Maddox you probably won't get his style of humor. Granted, though, that this is def. not one of his more funny articles.
Have fun with Vista, buddy!
He can't. The necessary hardware to run Vista at Full Shininess is too expensive.
Man, I wish you could honor your bet.
lol I was just telling someone today about how C# would let you do things like this, but I had no idea it was so hideous.
I guess I won't tell anybody that anymore.
Part of it is that one user submitted the comic in advance of it actually being posted. I, for one, hate that.
I'm not so much "pro-mac" as I am "anti-windows".
I'm just amazed at the sheer number of complete wankers who missed his point. PDFs are not for reading on screen; you have to be brain damaged not to concede that point. I guess you can't really judge a blog by the quality of its commenters.
Majority rule seems to decide, which is pretty sad.
So you're suggesting we make Reddit a constitutional republic, then?
I concur. I recommend that everyone upmod this non-paid-for reddit front page success.
Yes. HIV is notoriously weak. The average rate is about 1 in 1000.
shudder I -really- hope these are photoshopped
zummy posted it well in advance of the comic actually going up. At least raldi actually posted it today.
Mmmm. That makes me hungry.
Seriously, I get the point, and I agree that if you're not willing to see what really happens to an animal, don't eat meat.
I've no problem hunting and butchering my own kills. But I love animals. They're delicious.
I think he will at least try to suspend the Constitution. Thank God for the second amendment!
there is a special kind of irony when someone goes on a long-winded rant about how they can STFU.
i guess maddox's site revenue is down after failing to update for so long. nothing spells spiked traffic like an anti-mac rant posted to digg and reddit.
As far as your arguments go, I believe they are sound, but I also know that there are counter arguments from reputible sources that say Jesus was in fact put to death because of a percieved threat to the Roman state.
True, this isn't really the best medium for lengthly discussions and I'm aware of a lot of counter-arguments and there are counter counter-arguments, and on and on it goes, lol. So I'm happy to leave it here as well, thank you for pushing me to further research my own beliefs and for the discussion.
He was telling African-American men to take responsibility for their children. Unfortunately, many African-American children grow up without fathers, like Sen. Obama.
He didn't mean to say anything about abortion. You're reading too much into it.
I didn't know they could shovel shit that high
You mean, a conspiracy theory beyond conspiracy theories?
eh? as you wish. His examples seem perfectly fine for my dialect of English. So the issue with them being classics is what exactly?
The carriage went at a hard pace straight along, then we made a complete turn and went along another straight road.
Other than the word 'carriage', there is nothing remotely dated about that sentence. The only other use of "old classics" is when he wants a lot of data, and then he just cites statistics. But since he introduces it with the following quote, the nits you've picked seem pretty inane.
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage points out a book by Jacques Barzun which recommends against it on one page and then unthinkingly uses it on the next!
cheers.
The title didn't say "films;" it said "film." We sometimes produce "films" using "film."
You can go into Reading Mode (Ctrl-H), but that also hides your toolbar. Otherwise, I don't know.
An excellent boat-related funny video collection. If you love boats and shame, this is for you. Enjoy!
It is obviously SFW, the genitals are tastefully censored.
I can write perfectly illegible code without using any of your fancy monads, thank you very much.
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Most reporters are hot.
Clearly it's Jesus juice
Except weathermen.
"Committed suicide" is a bit sensationalistic and wishful schadenfreude -- what is with this perpetual disdain for anything successful?
The ACTUAL article, sans editorial re-headlining given here by the submitting Redditor, reads to me like any natural "a good thing grew quickly and lost some of its soul" business story.
So, where's the story?
Zummy's posting as far as I saw was an hour ahead of raldi.
hate maddox. no vote.
"This just in, the Impeachment resolution has just passed the New Mexico Senate Judiciary Committee, the last of three hurdles that party leaders had thrown in our way before the resolution could appear on the Senate floor for a vote. Now all eyes turn to New Mexico as its State Senate will vote on whether to impeach Bush. Here's the running commentary from a patriot who was sitting in the Judiciary Committee and live blogging ..."
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=911+Mysteries+-+Demolitions
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6529813972926262623&q=conspiracy
Are both informative as well, hopefully provoking thought in those people who have accepted their governments' spoon feeding.
R.I.P Rap. Won't miss it.
Awww! Who's the pretty kitty?! You're the pretty kitty!
Bungie Studios is hiring for Halo 3 game testers in the Seattle area - would you drop it all to move out there to be a Halo 3 tester?
It is delicious Kool-Aid. You must drink it.
Because people snort nose candy with dollar bills?
That explains how something so banal made it to my computer screen. Must have been really really good cocaine.
Talk about taking the collectivism thing a bit too far...
The article is about code generation, not 'metaprogramming' in the sense that it's usually used around here. I noticed that the Wikipedia article on [metaprogramming](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaprogramming_(programming)) supports this usage, but it feels outdated to me.
I go to school studying CS part-time as I am fully employed as a software engineer in a very large IT company. All the traditional full-time students are really stressed out over finding jobs when they graduate. When Big Business feels they aren't in control of the labor game, it's a crisis, even if it's not...
It is odd to think that this is how Christians were (are?) not too long ago.
Christianity is less comprehensible than Islam, and therefore leaves more room for interpretation, so different Christians act differently, but it's more or less as borglike as Islam. Note that there are NO surviving pre-Christian religions like Mandaeanism in Europe. The fact that hardly anybody is bothered by this anymore just shows how successful it was.
Also, if you've ever lived in the Bible Belt, you'd just say "are."
I don't care if you believe that the Universe is the result of The Creator popping a boil - just don't force me to say I believe your make-believe bullshit.
I think it's the nature of religion that the aggressive ones win. Most of the religions that were replaced by Christianity and Islam were mind-your-own-business religions, but they're gone (and the remaining ones in places like Africa are in decline). It's basically analogous to the race wars that you feel make sense, except that instead of groups of people fighting for resources, you have ideas fighting for neurons. Naturally, the ones that try to win will be the ones that win.
New Zealand Whales in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf. Who knew?
Okay, it seems I did misinterpret your comment. It happens. I apologize. I still don't understand how emphasizing "fit" shows how absurd any implication is, but I'm not going to get into the same discussion I already had, so I can live with that.
Excellent catch. Huge story.
Have you ever seen and ads on Maddox's site? Where's his revenue coming from?
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Obviously Chimpy McHitlerburton is shutting them down after they failed to deliver the '06 majority!!!!!!1
Duh. Everybody quits programming after being exposed to Java.
Some awesome tradeshow tips.
I don't agree with your suggestion. There will always be bibliophiles. Humans are, by nature, acquisitive. They want to hold books in their hands (and, if rich, store them in libraries) rather than search for PDFs to read on a hard drive.
Perhaps many libraries will close, but they will never disappear.
How many micrograms per gulp, may I ask?
You'll ask him won't you, since you know what he "means" I take it you know each other quite well. It would of course be best for him to state the matter clearly himself.
How can anyone miss the meaning of "conception?"
It is a simple either/or choice. Burn corn or eat it - pick one.
How do the majority of communities around the country pay for their libraries (and other community services)?
Property taxes.
They've had a free ride for quite a while. And even when they got warning that the ride was going to end soon, they didn't start preparing (well enough). They tried to float a levy, but too many people said no. Now they ALL get to see just what exactly they were saying "no" to.
Riiiight, because the Daily Mail enjoys such a fantastic reputation in reporting science.
It's real physics, but they're just quoting. They obviously picked a paper, and rehearsed reciting certain portions of it, with someone coaching them on where the emphasis goes (I only spotted a few mistakes in that regard).
Of course, the whole routine kind of falls flat because they didn't bother to find how scientists actually talk about things. We don't recite equations or proofs at each other. That's what papers are for. In conversation, we tend to approach things on a conceptual level, or by analogy.
(Disclaimer: I am not a quantum physicist. I am a computer scientist who happens to like quantum physics.)
nothing new about it
What are you saying? Windows Vista is absolutely wonderful! Why, it's the single most important thing Microsoft has ever done for the Linux community.
Ah-ha, a shallow and tacky fake story! Just what I was hoping to read today on reddit!
Can we get back to our regularly scheduled programming now??
DonsGreenStore.com is trying to bring the price of LED light bulbs down.
This kid is trying to raise enough money for a Mac Book Pro and like Leah Culver's project is going to etch names and logos on the case. Cool thing is he will also put names of individuals who donate money and not just companies logos on the case.
NOTE Before you attack the kid for "copying" Leah he does give her credit on the "credits" page
nothing spells spiked traffic like an anti-mac rant posted to digg and reddit.
Only if Bill is cutting him a check direct. Otherwise it's windows rants that generate the real traffic.
who needs cocaine when you have dollar bills?!
Like, I have not upgraded the CPUs and motherboard on my system because I would gain nothing from a faster CPU. 100MB/s disks and a 100Mb/s network connection are still the major bottlenecks for my work, not to mention the /amazingly/ slow bandwidth to and from the human brain.
ding ding ding .
My only problem with that is that a faster CPU means faster program compilation. I don't know how relevant that is to Lisp, but it affects me majorly, since most of my programming is in Obj-C.
"Does anybody know major war, where fighting troops, winners or losers, are better off afterwards?"
Actually, yes. The GI bill after WWII probably did more to weaken class boundaries than any other single event.
"If it were good move, rich and powerful would put their kids in the army."
If you can already afford college, then no, it doesn't make sense. On the other hand, for people who aren't already "rich and powerful" it used to be a pretty good deal. 4 years in the army and you got free college, plus 100 times better chance of getting into many competitive jobs such as firefighting, air traffic control, and such (not to mention by far the best linguistic training in the world if you were a linguist, the Monterrey language institute is excellent).
Yes, fuck you, I get it, ha HA!
It is sad how the education system has slipped so much that articles like this make the front page of aggregators.
Notice the radio buttons: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html
My equal opportunity offender of choice is still South Park.
Funny idea, but sounds way too rehearsed.
You wouldn't hit a guy wearing glasses, would you?
s/hit/impeach
s/guy/vice president
s/wearing glasses/with a deep venous thrombosis
But what about a relationship like one developed with Deep Throat, or other whistle-blowers? That was more of what I was getting at. I would argue Woodward and Bernstein did just as good a job at reporting as I.F. Stone, and the clout of the organization they were in made a huge difference.
There's a website with pictures of wrecked exotic cars? Now I've seen everything!
self._
Its going to be changing the way the CableTV works
Reddit really needs a radio button or something. I mean come on.
How about superfluous quotation marks? I never got a picture of it, but I've seen this sign in a student union building:
NO "SLIP"
NO "ID"
NO "PACKAGE"
"!!!"
No lie.
Remarkable when a pinnacle of the infrastructure of Western civilization is just GIVEN AWAY.
The MIT OCW URL should be on a pamphlet in a drawer in every hotel and motel room in the world, on top of, or -- ideally -- replacing the Gideons' contribution to humanity.
Maybe it's because Apple puts commercials on TV every day, in my face, to tell me I'm a fumbling unpleasing fool who struggles to get his computer to work correctly, even though I don't have any significant computer (or social) problems?
Apple spends tens of millions of dollars baiting people. Some ignore it. Some rant about it. And some just swallow the bait.
I guess you like that taste.
Rather than voting for third parties why not just refuse to vote? At least that way you're not playing your part in the charade.
Ty Pennington and Nancy Grace?
"Of course, the whole routine kind of falls flat"
Except I'm pretty sure the target audience was not quantum physicists.
variants, labeled/keyword arguments, default parameters, functors, metaprogramming/syntactic extensions a la camlp4.
Finally, some independent thought on the subject.
no, not really.
When some people start asking inconvenients questions, it's somewhat easier to discredit them by creating a big "category" which you call conspiracy theorist and then put them all in the same "Non-experts"/insane/fool/non-patriotic boat.
but hey, don't panic.. it's just my little conspiracy theory ;)
I have yet to meet one of these "Mac users who won't shut up about how great Macs are" I frequent a Mac messenger board hosted by IGN.com, and out of all the boards I visit, the Mac board is not only by far the most civil of the IGN boards but out of any board on the internet that I've ever visited.
Now, if you are interested in Mac computers and who want to talk about them, then yes, you will have a hard time shutting me up. I guess that's sort of the distinction between a geek and a nerd. A geek is into nerdy topics but knows when not to speak of them.
And Maddox needs to give his act back to Dennis Miller.
I thought this story was simply on the tone of the sociology experiment where it was discovered that people would exchange their computer passwords for as little as a chocolate bar. In this case, I was assuming that people would give up a bible —perhaps their only one—to get porn.
if you want quick and dirty file configuration instead of XML.
Also better than slow and dirty.
Seriously, why 'dirty'?
My gripe with YAML is that a minor typo can altering indentation, leaving you with a file that might still load, but be transformed into a wrong data structure, and i know of know simple way to test for this.
Not a big issue with smallish files, but large YAML files become prone to these sorts of wrong-but-parsable typos.
I think the ownership status of Iraq is arguably private.
What I think is crazy is the "retroactive fee raise" back to 2006. I always thought there were laws to prevent retroactive raises like this
I think I know one of those girls.
HTML has been around for almost 20 years now.
Holee crap. I. am. old.
I'm sure the kids would be much more grateful for freedom from daily violence, rape and corruption.
At least Saddam could keep 'em under control.
Yes, but what about the huge amount of economic output they facilitate? Per unit of economic output, they're probably one of the lower emitters of CO2, quite unlike a Hummer H2.
Most telling quote:
"This [shipping output of CO2] is nearly double Britain's total emissions and more than all African countries combined."
Population of Britain - 60,609,153 - CIA Factbook
Population of African Continent - 900,000,000 - Wikipedia
did you actually read the title ?
This article completely fails to mention the Puritan neurosis which ran rampant in New England, peaking during the Salem witch trials. The roots of political correctness in America lie in the Christian obsession with behavior.
You're not supposed to respond to it. It's rhetorical and funny but not debatable.
Common enough topic for a "self-help" blog: How to overcome worry. But it is the assumption behind the issue that I want to address: "Is worry wrong?"
He was critical of Israel, fucktard. Way to pay attention--even after having it pointed OUT to you you still didn't read the article.
I guess this guy finally gets his answer.
Pretty difficult game.
And arrays, don't forget arrays.
Please put NSFW on these
I'm surprised they weren't paired up with 250 geeky white males.
Its a personal drinking contest of mine. Every time you see a cute Asian girl with a dorky Caucasian boy: take another drink.
Hi, my name is RRedit and I'm an alcoholic.
Ah HA! You jinxed the article, and now it's on page 1. WTG!!
It's actually 250 couples, 500 people. Come on, people!!! How could you possibly hear about this and not also hear that it's FIVE HUNDRED PEOPLE. Did the blogger just look at the pictures and guess there were one hundred? There are to many sloppy ignorant bloggers in the world. Let's not encourage them.
Mod down.
It can be tough. Over the decades I've done eight or ten public domain / open source projects. They were all tools I wanted or needed, so I wrote them and gave them away as a karmic pay back for all the tools I've downloaded over the years.
But while that works for Palm Pilot astronomy software, you can't develop operating systems that way. I have a lot of respect for people who have that kind of dedication, but I assume they aren't raising families.
This is perhaps the worst article ever submitted to Reddit, including the title.
So I guess the point is that many people can see it? IOW, what's the resolution on some of those things and would it fit on a 30" lcd?
The article title identifies the content as one-hundred women having sex in the same room. How could that be SFW if SFW was an issue?
Huh? You want to clarify that?
Yep I remember 7th grade too.
This isn't exacly the most rigorous analysis I've ever seen, but it is written in language I can understand.
I have NO idea what you are talking about but it is not in reference to what I have been saying.
First ... when did I say anything about thousands of women? Not to mention rape???
Second ... I NEVER said to deny the past ... I merely said that people not actually involved in said incident, have no business whining about it and demanding an apology from other people not involved in said incident.
Lastly ... my reference to married couples is referring to when couples have arguments, and if they both hold grudges then the argument is never settled. And again, NO rape mentioned by me!!!
That's just a weird thing to say, and I'm not quite sure how your compiler writing back in school has anything to do with Lisp as a language, or even Lisp compilation.
(BTW, most anybody that took a decent languages class wrote a "Lisp compiler". I know I did, and quite frankly, cons, car, and cdr were so far from being the major issues I had that I'm almost positive you couldn't have done it right.)
Interesting that Erik has quite a set of opinions about the holy grails that CL could bring to computing if only its champions would develop these great applications, all while downplaying the role of the "Big Boss" in selecting against CL for new projects, yet in another Reddit linked posting of his from the same year (2002) he says that he's not interested in sharing his own code because it would cut into his own paycheck.
As someone who's only dabbled in Lisp myself and have nothing against it, I must say that if this is representative of the top members of the Lisp community then it clearly illustrates why Lisp hasn't taken over the world, and never will no matter how good it is.
thanks for the info, it's nice.
but also hide other toolbar isn't comfortable
and even a Ctrl-H is too heavy for every document.
I have to read a lot of PDF everyday, and this navigation panel don't bother me before acrobat 8...
I'm a Mac user for Logic Pro (see Maddox's points 1 and 2), and I hate the Mac cult just as much as any PC user does.
I like Macs. Heck, sometimes I even tell my friends why I like Macs. I don't go around thinking I'm superior than Windows users, though, and I do like a lot of things about Windows, too. It's nice having 2 operating systems, and I'm waiting for some spare time to try out Ubuntu.
Oops. So I do. I bow to your superior mastery of punctuation.
a mi mismo
I think 250 japanese guys do, too.
it was implied...
Alcoholic my ass. Dying of cirrhosis maybe.
he can actually get health insurance, at the rate quoted in the article. That rate being $27,000 a year
That's quite an assumption, considering the woman in the article has cancer. However, like the woman in the article, he can also get a job that offers group insurance and be insured. Kind of like how I can't afford health insurance on my own, so I got a job that offers it to me. What a concept!
Your argument, in its essence, boils down to this: If you can't afford your health care, then fuck off and die.
Do you live in the US? The government spends billions to insure that doesn't happen. The feds and states have free health coverage for the poor, it's called Medicaid and Medicare. Is it top-notch from the best doctors in the world? No, but we can't all have the best. At some point it's your own responsibility to take care of yourself, whether you have a genetic disease or you've abused your body for years. But nobody is being left to die in this country without hope. (despite the sob stories they tell)
Gilbert Godfried and Pauly Shore?
You present a fair argument. Although it's woth pointing out that all participants were asked the same worded questions. Unfortunately I couldn't find the original study by PIPA, the CSM article is merely Kenneth Ballens interpretation of it.
On the issue of civilian/insurgent I think your reasoning is flawed though. While the individuals engaging in the insurgency are drawn from the general population, as you would expect, by definition as soon as they do so they cease to become civilians.
I suppose it boils down to your interpretation of 'civilian'. A Civilian is defined as a non-combatant, as such if you're bombing civilians your bombing the general populous. Obviously in a conflict such as the one the US is engaged in in Iraq distinguising between civilians and combatants is not always straight forward, but thats the distinction that has to be made.
No, I get you. It's gratifying to hear announced, "60% of the American public believes there was some form of govt. involvement..." (or whatever the statistic is). Called 'conspiracy theory' or not, the suspicions are kept alive. There was so much s*** that went on that day, you're right, we need answers.
Exactly - our corn-fed society. You failed to mention that the corn industry is also supported by our tax dollars in the form of subsidies.
Anybody actually interested in the history of it would make some reference to the term's usage in Maoist writings; one of the essays in his "Little Red Book" (when was the last time you saw one of those laying around?) was called "On Political Correctness", and it was through dissemination through Leftish communities in the '70s that the term came to be used in the American media...leading eventually to the backlash of which this nearly unreadable article is a prime example.
Curiously, the self-righteous anger that comes through the article is remarkably similar in tone to the haranguing tones of the Left literature of the day which advocated Political Correctness. Atkinson, while denying the symptoms, seems afflicted by the same disease.
Smells fishy to me
Not true. What about Peets? And in the Boston area, what about Coffee Connection (founded by an ex-Peeter)?
Contest - Complete the following aphorism:
A hundred couples having sex in a hundred rooms will eventually produce..
Marijuana enhances many things: colors, flavors, sensations....But you are certainly not fucking "empowered". When you're stoned, you're lucky if you can find your own goddamn feet. The only way it's a performance-enhancing drug is if there's a big fucking Hershey bar at the end of the run. Then you'll be like a Swiss ski jumper going, "I'm there!"
-Robin Williams
Very well said. It disappoints me to no end the continuous misunderstanding and confusion between rap and hip-hop. Rap is everything you said it is: contrived capitalistic propaganda. I think that the mainstream rap movement has hurt the credibility of minorities and reinforces negative stereotypes throughout. I think that if it is true that rap is dying--so be it. However, the underground hip-hop movement is as strong as ever and represents a true cultural experience that outranks rap upon all levels of creativity and ingenuity.
come on, how about an update?
h-town,
Continue to delude yourself if that makes you feel good. Using political influence to interfere with ongoing federal investigations is a crime. The government can't just pull attorneys, mind you REPUBLICAN attorney's out of office because they don't like what they are litigating. You really think Wilson and Domenici are in full spin mode to defend "legal" activities? You think Lam's prosecution of Dusty Foggo and friends aren't huge deals? You think McNulty who actively buried the AIPAC spying scandal is operating out of the greater good here? This thing goes up to Gonzalez and beyond.
You were in denial the last time I refuted this point to you - apparently you are still in denial. You really think that the Executive Office for United States Attorneys resigns because his office did some "legal activities", before the hearings even start?
What's it going to take to wake you up?
is this a good read? i spend most of my time investing in interesting psychology and motivational reads.
Maddox is a Linux guy, if I remember correctly.
Sorry Lou, I don't want to upset you. I thought your comment was a bit ironic in light of some of your past uses of strawmen so I was just making a little joke.
As far as the EULA goes, I'm really just setting some guidelines for our discussions. Think about it, all you need to do is either reply without breaking the agreement, or not reply. All the agreement says is that you will not call names, change topics, be a hypocrite, or make ludicrous claims that you can't back up. You don't want to do any of those things anyway, right? If I did those things, I think you would not like it, would you? Didn't Jesus teach us to do unto others as we would have them do unto ourselves? You want to live by Jesus' teachings, don't you?
I am a little puzzled at why you are so concerned about word count of the EULA. 800 words is pretty brief, really. It really takes little time to type 800 words, and it takes little time to read them. If it were 6000 words, I could understand some concern, since it might be too complex to follow the intricacies of the license. I really did try to keep it short and to the point. Also I'm not flooding the board at all. The whole point of putting the agreement in a separate story was not to flood the board.
Take a deep breath there, friend. Then take another one. No need to be upset. (Maybe it's time to switch to decaf?) Posting while you were upset caused you to come close to violating the EULA, and you don't want to live with the consequences of that, do you? That would not be cool. We can both be civil, and keep to those terms and conditions, right?
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Wow, and I thought that was just me.
The Bible has:
Abraham fucking his sister
God mooning Moses
King Solomon having a thousand wives and concubines
God ordering that a guy's wife be fucked in public by his neighbor
Lot fucking both his daughters
Toilet play
Ladies grabbing fellas by the "secrets"
King David collecting two hundred foreskins
A specific price you have to pay a father after fucking his daughter
Advice on what to do after you have a wet dream
King David knocking up another man's wife...
... and then ordering that that guy be sent off to get slaughtered...
... so that David could marry the broad.
And that's really just the tip of the iceberg, off the top of my head.
Why would any good Christian need porn?
You nailed it.
The outrage isn't merely that the Justice Department abused its power to hire and fire. The real scandal is that it rewrote federal laws to do so, yet nobody seems to know who did it or why.
And next, how quickly and thoroughly it will be undone.
You can taste them? What browser are you using?
Microsoft's web stress testing tool is good for stress testing dynamic sites.
A lot more pubic hair over there than you find in the states.
edit: grammar
simple question still no answer!!
I've told you multiple times that I said, and meant, "Europe".
even foreign countries too
Dane Cook and Carlos Mencia?
They seem to do this wherever they go. They did it in Boston 10+ years ago when they bought the Coffee Connection (my old favorite coffee store). And if my memory serves me well, it's from CC that they got Frappacinos.
If sales of rap/hip-hop records are down it's not because teenagers have grown concerned about the social impact of violent lyrics. It's because rap is a one-trick pony which the music industry has banalized.
Thanks for the notice. I wonder if Repo Joe will cut me a deal on it next weekend. Maybe I can get it for a song . . . say, $500k?
My wife takes Provy, as do I.
She's a Narcoleptic, and the drug really helps keeps her functional. She takes the meds 6 times a day, to counteract the Nacolepsy. That 1200 mg over a single day, to keeps her awake. whereas I take 200mg a day to counter act prozacs' side effects of lethargy. If it wasn't for the Provigil, I would be asleep a lot of the time. It's given me my life back, and made me feel ten years younger, mentally.
That's one mans opinion, mind you. On the down side, the meds are kinda cost prohibitive. Averaging about 8 bucks a pill.
I've seen some discussions of the matter that get fairly deep, and I've come to this conclusion: mathematics is the only singular noun ending in s that people ever abbreviate. At least I can't think of any others. Physics is short enough that it doesn't come up.
Anyway, since we never abbreviate singular nouns ending in s (outside of mathematics) we're at a loss for a consistent way to do it, and we end up at each others' throats. (Our I guess to be counsistent with British spelling, I should say "at each outhers' throuats.")
Uh, Lynch's work is amazing... but furthermore, any points on topic you have? Like why analog film is better than shooting in high def digital video?
Billy?
Have ever been to a turkish prison?
Yes, when I come across articles about a mass orgy, I too am shocked that I can't look at it in the conference room at work.
You, too, can do this...but why would you?
You gonna be OK? Maybe I misinterpreted "You, too, can do this" to mean something other than "you, too, can do this".
Its easy to look at art after it has been made and call it "crap that anybody could do". The less you actually do, the easier it is to make statements of this nature.
plastic faced carrot top
It's easier just to say "ginger".
He's right. Shooting in film stock has been bogging down the industry for decades, and costing independent filmmakers a huge portion of their budget. For example: to shoot in film, you have to buy several reels of stock, have it edited and mastered, and if you want any visual/audio effects done by a studio, it'll end up costing between $300,000-$500,000, not to mention that you have to keep everyone in your movie on for extra weeks because you have to check everything you've shot at the end of the day and possibly re-shoot it the next... whereas if you shoot all in HD digital video, and just use After Effects and other video programs, you might spend around $10,000. Gee, which is better?
This is why Robert Rodriguez only uses digital video. Once Upon A Time In Mexico? All digital. As technology progresses, film is going to look worse and worse and get more and more expensive.
defending fox is like defending Bush: it just lets others know the extent of your ignorance
from the comments section (yes I read the text on this page)
don't know how to react to it, but I do think 'sucks to be the cleanup crew'
lol
I find the rap/hip hop distinction contrived. I understand what you mean, but they share much in common, including the same roots. I don't have a problem with either of the terms, just the implication that they have no relation. Rap/conscious rap, or commercial rap/underground, or mainstream/backpack, etc are all names for similar things, but I don't think there is enough difference to make them completely separate genres of music. Nickleback and The White Stripes/[ some underground band i don't know of that's even awesomer ] both play rock music.
I also take issue with the "Rap is not music." In my opinion, music is any sound (or lack of sound [thanks for complicating things Philip Glass]) that the author/creator intends to be music. Describing a whole genre, no matter how bad you might think it is, as "not music" conveys no useful information, and only polarizes the debate.
My guess is someone probably turned off the execute option on the file for a moment, so it just displayed it.
Not to be too much of a zealot my own self, but have you given NewLisp ( http://www.newlisp.org/ ) a fair try? I do Python during my day job, but all of my private projects have moved over to NewLisp. It seems to have most of that Lisp-y goodness, but with a fairly complete library and a cute "compilation" feature that can make fairly small stand alone executables (actually seems to be the NewLisp exe with byte code attached, but whatever). That last one was the winner for me -- have you ever tried to make something easily distributable for people who don't have Python already installed (no, "use gnarly almost-working dump of the parse tree" or "just use free install maker X" doesn't count).
I've used it for some reasonably interesting (nontrivial) projects as well as general scripting. I've posted one of my recent utility NewLisp scripts at http://hotwax.infogami.com/prepare . It's not much to look at (and completely overcommented to boot), but I hope it serves to show how one can write easy scripts which are usually considered Python's (or rather, Perl's) domain.
(Disclaimer: Just because I said that I am using Lisp doesn't mean that I am any good at it... ;-)
The term 'politically correct' exists only to allow people to dismiss criticism without having to make a case. It's intellectual sloth.
If someone tells a racist joke, for example, and gets called on it, they can just say, "Oh, don't be so PC!" and that's supposed to end the debate right there. They don't have to defend the joke or the racism, they can just dismiss it all by calling the criticism 'political correctness' and go on being a prick.
Well, he's right, besides, they already tried once. I don't really like the guy, but it is generally understood in the intelligence communities and elsewhere throughout the world, especially South America, that the CIA was behind the coup attempt in 2002.
Oddly enough, when Chavez referred to Bush as "the Devil", I didn't see a single news outlet remind the viewers that Bush did try to murder him.
Rap is something you do, hip hop is something you live.
Remember when mainstream hip hop music had beats? And basslines? And not just random thumps and clickety-clicks on the 2 and 3? Remember when you could dance to hip hop and marvel at the skills of Rakim, KRS One, and CL Smooth?
Those were the days. Some good acts still carry the torch, but mainstream "rap", which seems to be more a marketing channel for rocawear or whoever's clothing/shoe/bling thing, nobody cares about the music anymore. That's why you can put a couple of wannabe divas on your record who can trill their voices for an hour to cover the fact that they can't carry a tune, put it through a chorus filter to make it sound less godawful and sell a million of them. It's why Ron Artest has a record label.
Go underground. The good stuff's still out there, just a little harder to find.
There was no real language before Java. There will be no language after Java.
Java is the Borg.
Save the water from your shower. We might be able to sell it. Rare blood type rinse water.
Spears definitely needs to get out of the spotlight for a while. I can only imagine that the pressure of not being able to go anywhere without papperazzi constantly about must weigh heavily against the positive aspects of being a celebrity.
Although, come to think of it, ARE there any positive aspects?
"Rap" is used pejoratively among a subset of fans in the same way that "emo" sometimes is. In the end the distinction is pretty trivial.
Profit.
Sorry, I find that paragraph unreadable, but thanks for the effort. I understand the use of dashes and if my aside was any less of an aside I would have used a dash.
P.S. I think you overpunctuate. :)
So, you wouldn't prefer her to Dubya?
I read the WMJJ annual PICC report discussing UNIASS scenarios coming up within the next 5-10 years. If you doubt that, consult the WHINI group's consensus white paper on ME2U. Very compelling for those of us in the ACRO-minded crowd.
I don't see a download that doesn't require Coyotos, I tried to grab via rsync and ended up getting build error because it couldn't find libsherpa.
rtfa
Sorry. I forgot about the one French geochemist who's research is worth that of 1000 other scientists.
No, no, I wanted you to read the quote.
Here, I'll put it up here again:
And if you don't [get an education], you get stuck in Iraq (...)
Please tell me how this reads as "Kerry insulting Bush for getting a nation stuck in Iraq."
No, decent Americans need more firepower.
Clearly, whoever downmodded you missed the point.
Lou, I am certainly no troll. I assume the reason you think I am not good at trolling is because I actually am not doing it, and you are mistaking something I said as trolling which in reality is something else.
I am afraid that the guidelines came up for a reason. I don't reply to you often, but when I do, certain patterns emerge. Disturbing trends. I'm not trying to annoy you at all. This is my way of helping you to be a better internet citizen. You want to be a better person, don't you? Don't we all want to be better people, really?
Finally, I am afraid that you have violated section 2 of the EULA by calling me a "dumbass." That was a mistake, right? I'm hoping you will agree so that you do not have to go through the embarrassment of violating the EULA and all that is entailed with that.
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Try this: Startup Monitor
I read the first few rounds of the Harris-Sullivan debate. Pretty boring, but I think that's mostly Sullivan's fault.
However, I wasn't referring to anything but the op-ed linked to in this article when I said that Harris is descending.
Woodward is a classic insider, sucking up to people in power to pick up tidbits and castoffs. His writing embraces exactly the kind of mystique, glamour, and sordidness that I hate about most political reporting. His recent embarrassment at not bothering to disclose his involvement in Plamegate even as he publicly criticized the investigation typifies a career spent getting close to power, not truth.
Deep Throat was W. Mark Felt, the deputy director of the FBI, who was deeply involved in the byzantine machinations of the Bureau and bitter at being passed over for directorship after Hoover died. Like most big political events, Watergate was not a triumph of the little guy over The Man but a triumph of one sector of power over another in one of the periodic rifts among America's elites. Woodward was not championing journalistic values but cynically picking sides in a family feud.
So are nuts, wheat, peas, and a zillion other products. Our society, that being the God Lovin' American Nation and all that, does place some value on food independence. We might not have oil independence, but we do have an abundance of food. I think that goes a long way to explaining this. There is a vested social interest in keeping farmers in business.
Just in case we need them when it really hits the fan. In the meantime, we'll load it onto barges and float it on the ocean.
It is certainly the Dawkins approach, and as I indicated, the direction that Harris is going.
An honest and open search? Read the Harris op-ed, and tell me those are the words of an open search for truth.
Well looking at the history of leaders that nationalize their oil industries, yeh I would say there is a 99% chance this is possible.
I guess it's better than sucking down stem cells directly from aborted fetuses, like Chris Reeve did in South Park. You get more from living newborns than dead fetuses.
Popcorn and cornbread, corn on the cob, corn chips. That's seed corn you're talking about. People do eat corn. But most of it goes to make yummy steaks.
Don't forget David's "special" friend!
I ordered a Dell computer once by phone and they asked me directly if I was gonna make bombs or bio/chem agents with it. I said yes to see what they said and the lady just laughed nervously until I told her I was kidding.
Given that it was Dell, I bet you missed out on a discount.
How about you make sure your vote and everyone else around you counts towards making sure the Administration that allows this type of shit to happen is held accountable some day in teh near future? That's not a Big Ask.
I believe the greater majority of Americans are decent and just people who deeply resent the abuse of liberties done in their names across the world. Make a Difference Today and spread the word.
It's dynamically scoped. Doesn't that totally screw with debugging and modularity and all that crap?
Also, as for distribution, Chicken Scheme produces ready-to-run Unix and Windows executables.
Oh my slash fiction from hell!
Aww.. I thought it was about the "hotness" i.e. sexyness of reddit commentors. Well there goes my dashed dreams :P
Yeah, then TightVNC is what you want. See this page: http://www.tightvnc.com/winst.html#start_java
lol
"....in part because the huge macroeconomic forces that dictate corporate behavior impel them to expand too fast and too wide."
macroeconomics??
wow. more sex than the average redditor will see in a lifetime!
At the expense of being easier to read? That's what Python is optimized for.
Odd how it's only used to describe critics of the right, isn't it? The abuse of language crosses political lines -- think 'pro-life' or 'clear skies initiative' -- but no one would call a right winger PC.
Was just going to write that.. Deviants are anything but standard. I blew my imagination, but the cover for Standard Deviants is just boring normal math cover.
You might want to try Opera. Hitting + scales the whole page, including images and even flash.
You know I have looked at NewLisp, and it didn't really seem mature enough to provide a general purpose environment. But moreso, it didn't include some of my favourite lispisms.
In Common Lisp (I'm not sure about Scheme) you have nil which is simultaneously logic-false, the empty list, and the tail marker at the end of a list. These things all fit together when you write recursive code that acts across lists, because you can treat logical false and empty lists identically, which can save you alot of code. From what I saw NewLisp did not include this small but significant feature. But that was just the first thing I noticed. Maybe it's worth another look.
Farmers don't make it a goal to feed people. That assumption gives them too much credit. They're only out to make a buck, just like the rest of us. They just happen to do it by producing food.
Lou, are you feeling alright? What you just did makes no sense. You just openly violated section 2 of the EULA. Why would you do that? Sigh.
Well, given that what's done is done, as per our agreement, please state plainly in writing an apology including the phrase "you are rubber, I am glue, I made an error insulting you." You know what the consequences are if you do not, and I am sure that you will feel better if you comply this time. Remember what happened last time? You don't want that again, do you?
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This is a good summary of the Obama Clinton visit to Selma. I personally heard Senator Obama's speech broadcast to the steps of the church.
Diane has simple and easy advice on keeping your kids healthy.
The "World" already knew this.
from the comments "isn't it a tad bit disturbing to anyone that ... Python is growing rather like PERL and PHP, accumulating moss as it rolls along?"
Yes, very disturbing. The freap and bloat is #1 in my list of "five things I hate about python"
I have admined Unix for over thirteen years. I have run SunOS, Solaris and Linux desktops over the years, and hated it, especially Linux. I finally balked at Vista, and installed Kubuntu. There are still some annoyances, but I think it's something I can live with now.
I'm not a programmer. Is this server side code that one would not usually see? Do you think this actually reveals something about the way the handle users depending on the user authority (something reddit is confusing about in their "stats" sections". Is it revealing how they rank stories? And if not, where do i go to learn more about their crazy system and how something becomes homepage news?
macroeconomics??
Uh...yeah.
In volleyball, teams rotate their positions each time they win back the serve.
Do they do the same thing in this game?
Does the attorney general happen to remember who the governor of New Mexico is (you know, the person who will appoint a replacement for Sen Domenici if he resigns)? There must be a nasty paper trail if they are willing to sacrifice Domenici. If Democrat Bill Richardson gets to appoint a new senator then suddenly Joe Lieberman is going to be wondering why no one is returning his phone calls...
NewLisp is a step back 30 years or so.
Ubuntu has many of these problems, and it's actually one of the easiest distros to use. I use Arch Linux, which I readily admit is much harder to maintain if you haven't already used Linux for a long time.
But these kinds of things don't really bother me as much with Linux, because we already know that Linux costs time, but, compared to a Mac, a PC running Linux costs very little money. Macs are expensive enough that I would have expected all of these little details to get ironed out.
It doesn't bother me that other people use Macs. It doesn't even bother me if they talk about them all the time (though if they have nothing else interesting to say, that will get old fast). But I personally don't feel that Macs save me enough time to compensate for the extra money they cost.
Ok, so on the whole shipping producea more CO2 than airlines. The problem is that this is not a fair comparison at all. I would think a fairer comparison would be CO2 output per ton of cargo, the cargo being cars, food, people, etc. I would wager that with this fairer comparison, shipping would come out WAY more ecologically friendly.
Hah. Too bad our leaders actually think this way.
We're helping them by helping us exploit their resources! Yeah, they hate us cause they're jealous, not because we're economically exploitin em!
The fact that it costs so little to help so many of those suffering in the world, yet we don't, shows how little we truly value these people's lives. And it's not their fault for having been born in a mess of circumstances! Yet too many of use act like they ARE responsible for what shit lives they have.
We've come to justify our unrestricted free trade, which benefits the fat cat billionairres and political powermongers, but hurts most of the rest of humanity. By believing that the magic of the market fixes everything, we respond by saying 'well, the market aint perfect'. Well, there are much better ways to bring the rest of the world up to a civilized standard of living. But it'll be argued that, yes, uninhibited free trade helps the third world children who work from daylight to midnight! It's the free market, its the answer for all of life's ills!
It's the Christian way, of course.
Anyway, that's a rant for another day...
/shakes head
Like integrated graphics... oooh...
I agree. This crisis is a real test of the New Democratic leadership in Congress. Hopefully they will act honorable. We may not agree on much. But I think we both have respect for good government when we see it from either party.
Perhaps he didn't want to say it as rudely as: "Don't think that fatherhood ends when you pull out."
You sure that's the right one? That looks like a write off to me.
Pubic hair rocks, especially oriental pubic hair.
And it's "than", not "then".
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What definition of "metaprogramming" do you have that differs from the article's?
You disappoint me Lou. I had hoped that you might be a little better behaved this time. Well, we both know about section 6 and what you just said means semantically. I had hopes that you might be more civilized, but you seem to me to be a bit lawless. As per section 6, feel free to get the last word in, as I will not be replying again to you in this thread. But remember what your reply will mean, and do not tread lightly.
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And they hired him! It must be true because I read it on the Internets!
I think just suggesting this treatment might be enough to cure some people.
I would guess that the average reddtor sees lots of sex. ;)
That's quite an assumption, considering the woman in the article has cancer. However, like the woman in the article, he can also get a job that offers group insurance and be insured. Kind of like how I can't afford health insurance on my own, so I got a job that offers it to me. What a concept!
No, not really. If you have a gap in your coverage of more than 63 days, insurance companies can refuse to cover pre-existing conditions. Known genetic conditions and cancer qualify as that. Specifically, hemochromatosis is an automatic decline. That means he can't get coverage, no matter what he offers to pay.
Possibly, if this woman with cancer who was making $60,000 a year decided to make herself destitute, she could qualify for Medicaid. When I was unemployed a few years ago, I couldn't qualify, but maybe things have changed under 4 more years of Republican government. Either way, I'm sure you'll agree that this has a stifling effect on entrepreneurship.
But nobody is being left to die in this country without hope.
False. According to the Institute of Medicine, about 18,000 people a year die because of a lack of insurance. The system is broken. It's time we stopped treating it like commodity insurance.
It's dynamically scoped.
Believe it or not, that's one of the least criticisms against it.
They should have delivered a one-frame-per-page demo. You could bend the pages and flash them to animate it. Hell, that simulator would work "in the field" they should get the military to buy their new "Paper-based Field Simulator(TM)"
I saw some undercover reporting where they checked on work done with secret marks on supposedly opened/replaced parts, and in many cases, the claimed work was not done at all.
couldn't he have at least shaved the beard and whitened his face?
"Hara-kiri", and no, that's not how it works.
Patched 3 of the exact same type of PCs today with the Windows patch... 3rd one failed, no effect. Can't rerun the patch.
So it's best to check once you do the patch. Turn the clock to 1:59:30 am and see if it jumps to 03:00:00 on the minute.
The other interesting thing was having to have WGA to get the patch from Microsoft. Let's repeal Daylight Savings Time.
Sounds right to me.
Does the father become legally liable for child support at conception or birth?
Bush's approval rating was just measured at 29 percent. No Republican presidential candidate wants to be associated with him, let alone be his VP. Especially not McCain, who has hated Bush since the 2000 election.
...a joke on Reddit.
I like how he is bitching about not even being able to run iTunes and he is running Windows 98, at the best. O hey, windows 98...its year 2 thousand and fucking 7 now. as in 9 years ago people were using windows 98. And besides, you aren't even supposed to be able to run iTunes on 98, you need at least windows 2000 SP4.
Not just EULAs, this is typical legal contract stuff.
People need to get an RSS feed instead of posting every new xkcd comic that comes out.
This is the age of digital. Do you honestly think books and newspapers will be circulated just as much 50 years from now as they are today? E-books that you can read on a screen in your hand area already available, they just haven't caught on.
No surprises there, Microsoft's core competency has always been in its legal department. Engineering? Only so-so.
Wait, I thought atheists had all these morals and stuff. I guess objectification of women is OK when you don't have a well-defined value system.
PDFs are meant for print, hence the ratio. HTML is meant for the browser view port, hence the flexibility (let us not forget the flexibility is also dependent upon the nature of the given page itself).
Now why would you say that? I'm very liberal and I find all their episodes pretty damn funny.
people would rather vote for a religiously devout microcephalic ax-murderer than for the most admirable atheist
This is, as usual, over-zealous hyperbole. Replace "atheist" with "religiously orthodox person" and you have instant hypocrisy.
Are we going to reject the Gandhis of the world? Was Jimmy Carter's Christianity a problem? It's unfortunate that those who insist on a black and white view of the world get the most attention. When we can stop forcing people into pigeonholes, then we'll be able to accept an moral atheist as well as an intelligent Christian.
"#convert a dict to a str deliminated by : and ="
What exactly does deliminated mean? And why can't this code be disgustingly messy like my code?
Im not sure, but I think you're engaged in metaprogramming if you write code that acts on itself (at runtime) to produce the program that's actually executed. Ruby metaprogramming falls in this category. A compiler definitely doesn't; a compiler is an ordinary prgram, that transforms one representation of a computer program into another.
Modern editors (anything younger than oh, about half a century) have this feature known as "buffers", where they don't actually write your changes until you tell them to.
I just updated my home PC. It's likely I just missed the AM / PM setting on that 3rd PC at work. Which frankly is a relief.
Now I wonder if the time mode of the PC makes a difference? Can they be set for 24 hour time vice AM / PM?
wow, the dude thought $50,000 would be enough to have a manhatten police station blown up! If the price was that low, I think 1/2 the stations would be blown up by mid level gangsters that would love to pay that and then put the deed on their resume
"Americans"?
Jiffy Lube is LEGENDARY for this. For years I have seen repeated undercover stories where they marked the parts with UV Ink. it was something like over 80% or worse of the Jiffy Lube places they went to visited.
Ask around at work, or hell even go to the dealer. Dealers tend to be more honest even though they are horribly over priced.
I do believe that's "brillant." :)
For functional tests, we use Selenium RC. This article explains the technique.
The CIA needs to be seriously reformed. The ridiculous stuff it's done around the world (assassinations, coups) has hurt us a lot more than it has helped, and virtually all of the experts on the topic know this.
The fact that few people know little of that stuff (myself included, quite frankly) shows how:
A) The government tries to keep it out of political discourse as much as possible (and our two-party system excacerbates the problem)
B) The American media is in collusion to do the same (they won't want to be accused of gasp treason)
C) How we Americans, like anybody on earth, don't like to hear about or think about much less talk about our 'moral disgressions', unless it reaches a danger point where our credibility in the world truly rests on it (or there is a mass movement within the populace).
Ordinary people can't do anything about A and B, but we can do something about C.
I like, "Here [iTunes] is, just working:"
It's an error from windows, I thought he was reviewing mac?
You're asking judges and lawyers to decide how much automation in terms of decision making in their line of work is allowed without one of them. Of course they side with protecting their profession.
I might be in the minority here but I've never found it difficult to make a decent living with open source software. For starters, open source work is your calling card that can land more contract work. Secondly, most software is built for in-house purposes and is so customized that it will likely never be boxed up and sold on a shelf... unless it is some secret algorithm which holds your business secrets, you'll get the benefit of having other users to use/test/develop if you open source it. Finally, most of the money is in services and if you can customize software, develop systems and train people in them, you'll never go hungry.
There is something eerie about someone intelligent believing in Christ or any other "revealed" religion in this day and age. I for one would much rather have a closet Christian in the white house. Someone that know it is needed to play along but not really taking it serious.
If the US justice system can give a man 200 years for 20 pictures of minors I think this perv got off easy.
You might be thinking of introspection, which is related to metaprogramming. In any case, how would Ruby's said program production differ from the article's at all?
(Also, of course compilers (any other forms of programmatic program transformation/manipulation) are metaprogramming: they practically define the term.)
You totally missed the point of the article. Sounds like you are taking this a bit to personal.
He was applying the problems to OS X because the article was about APPLE computers. The point was that apple isn't so perfect, not that it was worse than any other operating systems.
In fact the portion you keep referring to was simply his rebuttal to the claim: "It just works".
From the article: "Inhofe repeated his view that man-made global warming is "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," and he quarreled with a Bush administration proposal to list polar bears as a threatened species. "They're overpopulated," he declared. "Don't worry about it: The polar bear is fine." His staff handed out supporting documentation, including the claim that "MARS HAS GLOBAL WARMING DESPITE ABSENCE OF SUVs.""
The guy is a fucking lunatic. He should be nowhere near the senate, as he forms policies for the rest of us.
I present to you Donald Knuth. One's beliefs or morals usually has very little to do with their actual intelligence.
I can already tell that I'm going to have to take a blue highlighter to my physical anthropology textbook to mark out the sections that are out of date. Campbell & Loy "Human Kind Emerging" 8th ed. (c) 2000.
human-chimp crossbreeds... sapiens-neandertal crossbreeds... spear using monkeys....
All seem like good cases for devolution.
Shhh, don't say that out loud eobanb, the feds may at some point come after you. *wink
In truth, though, I wonder if people like you are under surveillance? It's certainly not out of the realm of possibility...I'd be a bit more careful.
Did they completely ignore the fact that sex without a condom is more pleasurable for women as well, which could potential result in more uplifting sexual experiences? They're kind of jumping the gun by claiming it's semen.
All that is great started out small. I am not the only dreamer. Vote me up if you want Bush impeached, prosecuted, and jailed along with all of those in his administration.
I really appreciate this link..but I am also looking for some real lite game..i mean browser based games
Well it's not just us, it's called a Brazilian for a reason.
Also, I would say it's just less common in porn. In porn everyone is waxed or shave but my personal experience and of most or my friends (We have talked about this) is that the lack of pubic hair in porn isn't quite as common in real life.
bsg fcuking blowz donkey dick
a damn good story to tell the grand kids
Bitmaps don't really scale, though you can fudge it. I've seen this bite back in bad ways.
http://www.eliteskills.com/free_education/
Languages are at the bottom. See if any of that works for you.
Kanji, personalized kanji and vocab lists, Japanese/English/Kanji dictionary
Are they choreographed?
At this point I think Oprah could give a flying fuck about her audience. It's all about the money, baby. She sold out years and years ago, and she's laughing all the way to the bank.
I agree with the moral point. Morality is innate and does not come from religion. It is the other way around. Religion to be successful need to co-opt the moral sentiment that was honed through evolution.
On the intelligence I still find it unsettling that someone as intelligent as Knuth subscribe to this.
I doubt it, you would have to turn your head so much that not only would you get neck cramps, it would be inefficient.
Doesn't really make a difference... Watch Cops sometime. It's a baggy. Think about it, a kilo brick is fairly large and there are a 1000 grams in kilo.
I'm sure this would make a lot of people unhappy, but freezing the built-in classes (and not allowing them to be rebound) would render this method of attack impossible.
"place to go where the only other people there are the kind that don't mind paying $3 for a cup of coffee"
you must mean stuck up cunts like you
What exactly have the Jews as a race and a people done to deserve the ire of you or him? He picked on Israel, which I know is your Big Thing. What else do you want?
Hmm.. That suggests that anon's interpretation was correct. How disappointing...
Very well written article. I can't understand why Newsweek would adopt a blame-the-victim perspective.
This is a very cool idea!
-Wilson also said she was trying to HELP Iglesias: "If the purpose of my call has somehow been misperceived, I am sorry for any confusion. I thought it was important for Mr. Iglesias to receive this information and, if necessary, have the opportunity to clear his name."
Behold! the language of a venomous snake. Wow!
You mean Mann Coulter?
god i love japan.
You ain't no mac user. You're a depraved individual.
Only after they remove the Christmas tree.
Stick that in your pipe an melt it you useless 1 mouse button usuing bastards!
I'm not talking about the registry nor services.msc.
msconfig.
That's giving it way too much credit. "New"Lisp is quite possibly something primitive neanderthals would have sneered at.
Here's how arrays are implemented. Try not to laugh ... too soon:
"dereferencing" of "arrays" occurs by taking the symbol and concatenating the index to form a new symbol, which is then looked up.
Arrays aren't first-class values; they're just symbol-mangling.
How does the author justify this? "... our symbol table implementation is really speedy!"
Wow.
It's just richard trolling again. Fans of the original wiki (Ward's wiki) see him coming a mile away.
I'm still looking for a decent argument why we're not screwed. And how the hell did unfunded liabilities grow from $20 trillion to $50 trillion in six years? I don't think he's making this up, but I just don't see how that's possible.
yeah, if you have the macdonalds appetite of a 12 year old
Vista cant run fun yet
Apple puts commercials on TV every day, in my face, to tell me I'm a fumbling unpleasing fool who struggles to get his computer to work correctly
i would pay money to be like john hodgman. i don't understand how those ads convince anyone that they want to be more like justin long
very few open source developers actually work at arsdigita, google or ibm.
NSFW is required
Agreed.
Lisp and its proponents have always taken a drubbing for their scorn of 'inferior' languages, especially when the track record of stupendous programs to back this up is a little lacking, and the vague, almost nonsensical claims of the various evangelists make it a target of easy scorn. But I think that the full potential of what lisp offers, and what all of these raving lispers are raving about, has not yet been fully realized. The potential of what can be created with systems that work with raw code, that can dissect and compose code in real time as easily as executing it, is far beyond what people are even able to imagine right now, but you can sense it there, out beyond the perceivable, waiting to be realized and fully conceived. Systems which adaptively generate and transmogrify other code that is running are going to play a very important role in all of our lives (if we live that long, pending worldwide catastrophe etc), its just a role we can't quite grasp yet. That is why lisp coders go on such long rambling incoherent espousings, because they don't know what it is yet, they are just reaching, out in the direction of where they sense the (insert definite image here) to be, the way a cell travels up gradients of trace sugars emanating from nutritive motherlodes. That is why no one can point to the badass lisp program: it has yet to be written. And it doesn't even need to be Lisp necessarily, just a system that is built in a structure that can be manipulated by that system. Close the loop, and the promise of self-automated, self-learning, adaptive cognizant programs will be born.
(Now I'm ranting just like a lisp coder).
The difference between faith and hope is that hope acknowledges the possibility that things could be different than what one reasonably expects.
You could hope that there's an atheist friendly afterlife, with no Almighty God policing things.
Of course, the logical extension is that there could also be Godless afterlives far worse than anything mankind has ever conceived or imagined. Makes you wonder which is more likely?
To me, it's easy. God's the Chief Programmer. All code has to be debugged (1st law of creation). There is no cosmic recycle bin for bad code. Just a place to archive it away and to quarantine the nasty bits.
Funny isn't it, how much coding there is in RNA, DNA, microbes, etc.....
why is that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_thinkers_in_science#Living
is a good list of people that are scientists and have devoted a significant amount of time to promoting Christianity. Good number of evolutionary biologists on there, and even a transsexual.
See also Freeman Dyson
I find that as you go up the intelligence scale, you do get more diverse opinions than you would at the lower levels. I know brilliant people with all kinds of religious beliefs, including atheism.
Loyalty to people == feudalism.
No, mindless and abstract loyalty to people == feudalism. I have plenty of people I am loyal to, but that's because I know them personally, they have earned my loyalty, and they reciprocate it. And I think just about anyone here can say the same thing.
Where would reddit be without tittiesgumption pointing out the obvious?
coffee is for the exact same type of idiots as cigarettes. these pansy caffeine addicts should have coffee served in a baby bottle so they can suck on the nipple and regress to their infancy of sucking on their momma's tit
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I think that's the idea.
Reminds me of the Boeing Control Room.
It looks kinda like the Florida Department of Transportation Distric 4, except brighter and it covers 2.5 walls. All the workstations have tri-monitors (I believe they were 24"), and up near the front are a couple quad-monitors.
And that's basically all I get to say thanks to a NDA
translation: he hates the working classes as much in his own country as he hates the people of iraq
It makes sense to me. They look at how many up votes an article has in the last n time units and order it by that. The actual amount of votes is irrelevant.
What's to be confused about?
or what 4.5% stake in Berkshire will do for YOUR bottom line
"1, 1, 1, 1, tits."
Been suicidal and seriously depressed in my younger days. It's a bitch.
I have the power to forgive sin; something I got from Jesus. I forgive all suicides.
No worries! Relax, let a little peace roll in.
I guess it depends on the circles you run in. In my field work I've mostly encountered very trim or totally bare.
The question that's burning in my mind: How can a company that makes safes be that inept at securing a machine physically? ... ... Maybe it's time to check and see if their safes... are.
Yoga has been practiced in India for centuries Yoga is one of the six schools of Hindu philosophy, focusing on meditation as a path to self-knowledge and liberation. In India yoga is a means of spiritual attainment which is central to the dharmic religious family and in the West it has grown popular as a form of purely physical exercise Indian yoga has influenced other religious and spiritual practices throughout the world.
the drag queen of hate speech
You can take Stalin away from Russia, but you can't take Stalin away from the Russian.
I... I don't understand. How is this even worth discussing? Wow...
o/~ bobcat, you make me purr. you got the hottest beats and the softest fur.
Gotta love programmers!
that's awesome. he's a madman. i like it.
How did he shit on all muslims? As he says - "(the cartoon) was an assault not upon Islam but on the distortion of the Muslim religion by murderous fanatics"
Are you implying that all muslims are terrorists? Or is it that no muslims (terrorist or not) are ever allowed to be criticised? Either way, screw you.
In some ways, the reality shows, starting with surviver were a first step at making "content" out of the total control of the show producers.
I've found that itunes will install without QT if you already have QT Alternative on your machine - the QT installer won't come up. Doesn't matter to me, as I don't use itunes anyway.
This is a very matured article on this debatable issue..
That kind of thinking is why democracy fails. I'm sure you're an intelligent person (I like to think redditers are above average), but that's not enough. People have to be informed and interested to make the system work. That's why society's elite, the overconfident and overpaid, get what they want and we don't. They know that they can use the system; why don't you?
but mom is holding her own in teh boobage category, that alone gets my up vote
My poor brother...he's only 16
It may have been better to emphasize "Do" instead of fit "fit", yes.
Ah yes, Baghdad Bonior. I'll bet he felt really stupid when they found those huge stockpiles of WMDs.
The article was a bit of a rant, but I love the picture of Steve Jobs holding the Kool-Aid!
Oh Yeah!
I wouldn't say they vote more, but I would say there are more of them to vote.
Ever thought of changing your profession?
this kind of language is in EVERY software eula. along with how it's not certified to be used in a nuclear energy plant, air traffic control, etc.
I thought 3COM discontinued Kerbango a long time ago. What's it in the iTunes EULA for? Is that what provides internet radio in iTunes? Seems odd.
no, this is cool
No sane person ever said that Ubuntu or Windows Just Work, or overcharged accordingly.
Ever notice how it is her magazine? Kinda like the way Apple magazines always have a picture of an Apple product?
this bitch is just a rightwing whore who will do anything for a nickle including plagiarism
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Paper_confirms_Coulter_plagiarism_0702.html
And by youtube he means NOT youtube.
Sandstorm in the dessert? That must taste terrible.
Christ the Saudis fund everything around the world. The neo-cons should take over Saudi Arabia, not Iran. They'd have more support, too, since everyone hates the Saudis.
alot annoys me too, but i can't help laughing when i read "noone". i always pronounce it new-nee in my head.
Owner of website is happy to see first email address (though its fake) in the DB. Good to know that someone is looking at the site.
That cartooning son of a motherless goat will die...
useful tips about many other salt useful
Just use KPDF. It loads quickly and has all the basic features of acrobat with none of the pain.
The perfect opportunity for a Republican to come in, turn things around, and win popular support.
Or they'll just throw Condi in for a couple years.
But seriously... Cheney will probably be VP until the very last day of this administration.
Dupe: http://reddit.com/info/183yn/comments
BORING
God, you're a moron. His article was about freedom of speech, and he obviously felt a greater amount of pressure from the Muslim and liberal communities than he did from the Jewish one. And why don't you answer my fucking question for a change instead of the one you want. Why should he "shit on all the jews"? Last time I checked, any acts of questionable morality by Jews were confined to Israel ("true evil of our generation"??? Are you out of your mind? Pull your head out of the sand. It's too bad you're such a fucking lunatic, otherwise people might actually listen when you bitch about Israel), so what else do you have against the Jewish people?
Are you a junior high school teacher?
fcuk salon.com - too stupid for me to read
Girls kissing and everything else that leads to!
In my field work I've mostly encountered very trim or totally bare
Shit. I need a new job.
That picture does have a certain "I've still got meat and 2 veg between my legs" look about it...
Great, now Maddox is going to visit reddit and kill all of us thanks to you benny. Jeez. Thanks a lot.
The page that was linked to was total satire.
Evolution for Windows exists, it's easy to install and it works! No sooner had the ink dried on an article I had penned bemoaning the fact that OpenOffice.org on the Windows platform does not include an equivalent to Microsoft's Outlook, when a poster pointed me to a very exciting non-project.
Just a note, MotorTrend: it's a good idea to mark your edits, so people know the original context that's being replied to. Otherwise it's misleading and forces the rest of us to quote you.
Good article.
Ahh. It makes sense, now. That was my fault, I see it now. :)
Tiresome like overly defensive mac users?
zing!
Poor writing can be an indicator of idiocy, but I wouldn't be quick to call "it's" when you mean "its" poor writing for example. I foremost look at a person's ideas and how they're expressed and organized, which I would think is a greater indicator of intelligence than whether someone may have been hasty or careless and tripped on their phonics. I constantly write "you're" when I mean "your" and vise versa, but I usually take the time to proofread and correct these mistakes, and I still miss a thing here and there. I'm certainly not an idiot, just a phonetic speller. Are idiots more likely to make these mistakes? Probably, but you can (and should) figure that out from their content.
People had a problem with Google having access to 1GB of email data... What would they say about an operation like this. It's just some guy... Oddly enough with an @yahoo.com address. Sounds like a scam. Especially considering where it's hosted at, ixwebhosting.com. I'm guessing he sprung for the $12.95 unlimited hosting plan, that will surely take down Gmail.
According to WHOIS:
Paul Natekin
3219 Rosewood St
Mount Vernon, WA 98273
bash.org top 100 has a lot of hilarious stuff, but this particular one I never understood the humor of. I recommend this link - http://bash.org/?top
Ha, okay let me clarify my statement. In my field work I've mostly encountered very trim or totally shaved.
People should be careful not to take the writings of a certified nutcase like erik naggum too seriously.
please fuck around on the internet on your own time.
Many popular treatments are purported to reduce cellulite and stretch marks. These range in invasiveness from gentle body wraps and massages to expensive surgical procedures.
What has not been measured is the impact that some of these therapies may have on your overall well-being and psyche, which is also of vital importance. For example, although lymphatic drainage may not be the definitive panacea for cottage cheese thighs, it may very well make you feel relaxed, invigorated, sleek, and sexy
The download, at least a few months ago, was hard to find. I had to use google and I only knew to look because someone on a forum mentioned its existence. They want you to have iTunes and much like Microsoft with Windows, are leveraging their existing user base. Except they aren't evil when they do it...
This just in... nobody cares.
Yeah he had to start selling clothing and I'm sure his profits aren't stellar. I think xmission (his host) isn't hooking it up as much as they used to.
Dude, you have such a dirty mind! I was talking about hedges - I'm a gardener!
mac sucks. windoze sucks. linux sucks. ALL software sucks. progammers suck. computers suck. and most of all: you all fcuking suck
He's really excited to be holding it.
Is this like car companies trying to build a better car by looking at how bicycle?
Reading his account of his phone throws something into glaring relief for me: we're really not that far from the world of Idiocracy are we?
Think goatse with a zoom...
But if they're not, you're just blowing hot air.
Wow, that was a completely useless article.
I'm not sure which is scarier, goatse or the pic of coulter in the linked article.
Also: kudos to these companies for their swift response.
Jesus, get informed will you? He could very well be using windows xp with the classic theme enabled. At the very least he is using windows 2000. Look at the gradient. (could be ME, but I doubt he is a masochist)
There is so much great hip-hop gettin made. Sage Francis, Aesop Rock, DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, J5, Roots, De la Soul, Blackalicious, Deltron 3030, Kool Kieth, and many others.
It just isn't getting any radio play. They play that backwards redneck bullshit instead.
yeah, like 10 to 15 years ago.... mom is probably dead by now
Wow... that's even worse than I expected. Bravo.
Yes. In fact, the chances of HIV infection increases if you have STDs that have open sores, such as herpes.
By itself, HIV is one of the most fragile viruses out there.
I don't know how long you've been here but titles are not nearly as informative as you'd think. I anticipated an article and got porn. I don't think a (NSFW) tag is too much to ask.
It can be, if you only want to use one of them but don't succeed. Presumably, for his job he only wants to use British spelling, but on the internet, whatever.
NSFW is also valuable in the home. It's one thing to read an article about this but it's entirely a different animal to have your wife see a room full of naked women on your screen.
No, it's $935.64.
Oh great, an internet tough guy.
There is some good rap getting made, but like most things that catch a wave the concept will be beat to death by those with the ability to do so. Ludacris' new album is pretty damn good, but generally I agree with you. Ignorant rap is going to keep an audience, but I think its general popularity will fade.
The commercial benefits of loyal customers are well known by brand managers. The cost of acquiring a new customer is six times more then retaining an old customer, therefore ensuring loyal customers is commercially important.
I doubt Bush will be impeached, but I appreciate some folks taking the time to make the statement.
It could very well be written in C and worked just as well.
The point is, they picked the right tool for the job (as clearly lisp wasn't doing it for them), and wanted to tell people about it.
That would be NSFH.
You people still need to grow up. Naked people are not offensive or surprising.
They all break down somewhere. Decimal can't represent 1/3 losslessly, but fractions can't represent sqr(2) losslessly. The advantage of decimal representation is that you can ensure an arbitrary degree of precision by requiring a certain number of sig figs and doing all adding starting with the smallest pair of numbers.
I got what appears to be the full source code to the reddit web site
dude, i guarantee you that the full source code to reddit is more than one page... and it doesn't take a programmer to figure this out... so stop be a fcuking moron
Good, they're scared. We must be doing something right.
Or trying PCLinuxOS? Although Linux 'experiences' vary widely, I've enjoyed greater success with that distro than I've found in trying out several successive releases of Kubuntu... however; in your defense, I would certainly be the first to admit my lack of expertise - I went directly from 98SE to Linux last year, trying distro after distro, until settling upon this one.
My favorite one on Bash has to be this:
erno: hm. I've lost a machine.. literally lost. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
From: http://bash.org/?5273
To each his own I guess but suffice it to say I would not have clicked on the link had I known it was pictures instead of an article as I'd rather not look at them. Much in the same way you might rather someone put a (NSFW) or warning tag on a link to goatse. I'm not going to flip out about it but I don't think it's too much to ask for a common internet courtesy.
What an excellent article.
Thanks for posting this.
I used to drink with a couple of guys in advertising for whom the distinctions between a logo and a logotype were very important.
A logo is an all-inclusive term used to refer to any symbol used to represent something. A logotype is a logo made out of type.
If one wishes to get more technical, a:
Mark is the symbol portion of an identity
Logotype is the lettering portion
Signature is the entire identity system as a whole
That's the funniest troll I've ever read.
thank God CNN dropped their stupid multiple screens which they had used in an attempt to look like the web. TV is TV.
well-defined value system
like hatred of homsexuals and forbidding women to become priests. fcuk your hypocritical religous ass
He pays for the site out-of-pocket and has never run an advertisement.
yes they are having a great deal of fun
The point is that you can typically change the style sheet using the click of a button in your browser of choice.
I'm a gardener!
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Just out of curiosity, but why is it so much worse to procrastinate by looking at naked people, as opposed to clothed ones?
Interesting FAQ
Quick, prove the universe has just always been here
dude, you're a moron. no one knows squat about the origins of the universe. the difference is that atheists can admit this, while you pretend, threaten, and lie lie lie
I find Bloviating Assholes extremely offensive. Do you see me whining about how other people fail to put [BloviatingAsshole] tags on links?
It's not our job to help you censure what you see. That's your job.
No, I bought it new with no strings attached.
Looks like a great site for getting into software libre.
dude, are you fcuking retarded? they're equating the bible with porno.... or actually that porno is superior to the bible
Google is going to choke in the next year or two for buying Utube. Google is going to choke in general, but Utube will just make it worse.
possibly a fair point as I wasn't thinking about the fact he was running a ramdisk - ramdisk may or may not be faster than OS filesystem cache, and i've seen cases where fsync has non-deterministic performance on a ramdisk, so you never know.
You're probably right though. I'll only add that my own benchmarks do not follow what this guy/gal experienced, although postgres is a bit slower for inserts/updates.
rap isn't music, it's what loudmouthed idiots do when they can't play an instrument
Seriously, though, don't take your car to a Jiffy Lube unless you have a crappy car. Go to a reputable mechanic. You may have to pay a little more (most often it's about the same), but in the long run it pays to have more experienced mechanics work on it.
Yes they are.
It is when you mix and match. Pick one standard and use it exclusively.
Let's have classes for men where instuctors are nude (like the nude news)
and for woman we could have very romantic and drop dead handsome men.
Surely in an age of easily bored young people this would help them learn?
Unfortunately, the article is three years old. See how well Bush took the Pentagon's advice?
And Hannity will blame Far Left!
The funny thing is our great great great American grandchildren will be living on alpha century while the earth becomes a nuclear wasteball.
But you really cant justify what is right and wrong when it comes to politcal methodology. There will never be something like innate morality unless only underthe false belief that there is.That is what captialism is like as a domineering force, in the end you cannot blame fat cats for being the scumbags of the earth because if they werent they would fall behind and their company would falter and bring down all those people in the process. And instead of middle class we would be what? Lower class? Because of morality?! Nobody wants to be the lower class. But hopefully by earsing morality we can make great strives in improving our society to a point were we wont take morality for granted.
Also think about this: Countries throughout history have always restorted to war with one another until a powerful unifying force swept through and brought unity to an area. Alexander, Ceaser, Napeleon , Conquers yes but also unifiers as well. Thier empires brought down by their short lives, time itself or the scope of their conquering was too small for whatever reason. Thats the mentality that the superpowers at the top see, perhaps one day be that unifying power of the entire world.
I think it may be naive to believe that these countries want to join hands and have a sing along when the world is at stake.
The title says one hundred couples.
(And in reality, that's two hundred and fifty couples.)
The only time I see mac ads are when I go to the apple website. However, yep.. the ad compaign needs to end. People tend to catagorize mac users as thinking their elite. I use mac at home, and pcs at work... but I ultimately prefer my mac. And not just cause it's pretty :)
writings of a certified nutcase
And how seriously should we take the writings of someone who uses language like 'certified nutcase'?
Goatse (and pretty much all other internet shock sites) fail to shock or even faze me anymore. I no longer need warning tags on those.
These are pictures of people naked. You've seen naked people before haven't you? Get over it.
Nope. Just straight sex between loving partners.
There is something slightly disturbing about a judge whacking off whilst on duty...
That cartooning son of a motherless goat will die...
As will we all.
Errrr, wasn't the story "YouTube ebraced the TV Networks"? what happened?
And in Arctic news, the continuing Moose insurgency downed another US helicopter, bringing into question the stability of the 'polar'ised region once again. Ever since invading in 1867 and exploiting the region for oil, coalition forces have endured attacks from various Moose terrorist cells. President Bush told the press Tuesday that 'the Mooslems practise a religion of peace. But we must not allow the evil-doers to win. Victory will come. We must stay the course.'
I just google "quicktime standalone" to get the only QT install. I like itunes, so these days I just grab the package, but the standalone is, and always has been, available - if not obvious.
Despite the silly title, the article has an excellent overview of what seems to be driving high-level language fans nuts.
Maddox does not need vista only condoms to sleep with your girlfriend.
most of the bands you list are the black equivalent of redneck bullshit... they're all just a bunch of corporate manufactured angst about pussy
You're right.
There are reasons why now actually does count. If you are finding yourself too much in the delay mode, try to think of positive and encouraging reasons to go forward now.
tell it to magic johnson
"user generated content" is such a buzz now, I wonder if there is a web 2.0 buble burst, will it become like an obsene term?
godfried and coulter
i logged in just to give this a bump. if its old, i've never seen it before. i do agree that both a) it would be better if we just ignored her; and b) she is being used as cover for a lot of repressed misogny. but give me a break - its henry rollins, for fucks sake.
That's the big secret. Nothing more. Create a language as beautiful as you want. But without the necessary libs and comprehensive documentation: No chance. Slow: No chance. Not competitive if compared to other languages including tools like IDEs: Again, no chance.
Interesting. Ruby, for example, has be chided for lack of docs, shortage of libs, slowness, and no obvious IDE.
Yet many people have flocked to use it. Many of those from Java.
I'd say the reason is that Ruby (via Rails, in many cases) solves a particular set of problems for good number of people, and does so better enough than the alternatives.
(And that's the reason Java, Perl, and PHP took off when and as they did: they solved problems that mattered most to a good number of people at the right time.)
they should try discussing humor and how to be funny cos they're both boring vapid fcuktards
I'd be surprised if these did not exist.
He's got a point about John Negroponte too. Negroponte was US ambassador to Honduras in the 80s, where he was heavily involved in supporting the Nicaraguan contras.
Fair question. Although they'll never put out anything better than Dummy, I'm excited to see how their sound has changed since their last album.
OMFG! Look at the formatting of that code; it hurts!
I can't find the quote atm, but formatting of lisp and scheme code is not a matter of preference, it is a matter of shared culture. People shouldn't break that.
and he's queer too?
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You haven't actually listened to them? Deltron 3030 is rappin about the future and robots. Kool Kieth is all about pussy, but the rest are not focused on genitals in the slightest. Francis is angsty, but not in any way a record exec would appreciate.
When I refer to redneck bullshit, I am referring to ghetto rap music. It is redneck bullshit. Pigment isn't an important factor in this classification.
Linking to rafb.net is a good recipe to see the page being inaccessible in a couple of days.
CONDENSED VERSION: Market forces drive programming language adoption. Languages, IDEs, documentation, libraries, and performance drive programming language adoption. GHC's guts disgust me. Haskell is poorly documented. I like Eclipse.
macs rule period!
In Catching The Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity Lynch discusses this extensively. He isn't (or wasn't when he wrote the book) a big fan of high definition video. He liked the SD.
Pretty good book. A little heavy on the TM sales pitch, but that is easy enough to get past.
I can think of more hideous offenses than the ones he listed. For instance, 'teh' drives me insane. I know it's not techinically grammar, but spelling is just as important in my opinion.
My grammar has gotten significantly worse since I moved to a country where English is only spoken by 18% of people. I have forgotten how to spell words I have been spelling since elementary school. I hope that means I'm getting better at learning a third language...
well who'd have thunk it?
If a third party gets 15% of a presidential vote, he can be included in the official debates.
That is a big deal.
Go vote.
as i've posted before cats rule. And as i've posted a minute ago, macs rule period. Speaking as life time cat owner and a home mac user since 1999.
Wow, what a shitty game. I know they are trying to make a point here, but a $20,000 home? You're breaking my balls, UNICEF... And to think that I was going to Trick or Treat for you...
Rap ain't hittin no wall, it's the white men trying to keep the niggaz down. :)
Is that because it implies that somebody who should have much better uses for their time and intelligence didn't, um, have any better uses for their time and intelligence?
Cam != DVD
i didn't need to see that.
i just voted on every comment here, and i'd never noticed that the score changes as you vote! cool!
and people wonder why cats show such disdain...
Not too many information about Shanghai Shares
there's irony for you: the company that's riffed off countless people and companies accusing someone else of being shady.
ms, how about you embrace your head and extend up your anus
Proof that the link between education level and intelligence is correlative, not causative.
That's odd, our web stats seem to contradict you. People are eating this news up. It must be related to the fact that a majority of americans support impeachment.
Amusing Freudian slip from the video:
"..detonating an IUD"
Whoa. That must be one heavy bat nerd-boy is swinging.
(If you are quitting next week, then just do the copy-and-paste)
Not very good advice. If you can't do it properly, you should rather leave it to someone who can.
...by "delicious" you mean "craptastic", right?
I use Matlab and other than its great data plotting capabilities,
Have you tried R?
What has that got to do with anything?
"Our love story" but it is a Japanese song with Chinese subtitles.
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britney isn't the anti-christ, she's the anti-smart
It would be amazing if "dexter" could jump higher than R2D2.
To be honest, the fanboys was the biggest reason for me to stay out of Mac camp for years and I still hate the fanatics, it's just a computer, live with it. Rest assured, Mac has a lot of issues, just ask any MacBook user.
me too. but you're not giving her enough credit... she's worth well over $150M and she's still making ~$20M/year from businesses she owns, product endorsement, royalties, etc, etc
she's going to be another child star tragedy that spends her days with drugs, booze, bad "advisors" and then either ends up in prison or chokes and dies on her own vomit
a Free game site having thousands of games and videos, worth visiting
Are you sure that is a PS3 ad? No image of the PS3 is shown nor is the damn thing even mentioned.
A detailed video tutorial on how to use the incredibly-handy free Adobe Kuler web service to help choose colors and shades that best work together, whether theming Wordpress, or creating graphics for motion and print. Kuler can generate swatches based on a set base color, or simply browse through the myriad swatches shared by other users.
Seriously. It was a fuckin' joke.
...the most incredibly fetid humid smell you can imagine.
The new Acid 0.3.4 beta
Missed the step about linking it on Reddit.
http://WWW.ASCIIARTFARTS.COM/ FOR THE WIN!
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic takes place just a few years after the Mandolorian Wars, thousands of years before the events in the Star Wars movies we know and love.
To my knowledge System.arraycopy() only copies one-dimensional arrays. If you pass a multi-dimensional array, it copies its first dimension only - which results in a shallow copy, not a deep copy as required by this algorithm. Sure you are right, the inner loop could be replaced by System.arraycopy() - I gave it a try and this turned out to be very slightly slower, probably due to the method-call overhead in comparison to just assigning nine array values manually.
But please correct my if I misinterpreted something.
If you notice, Conan was looking to the left of Jim, not directly at him. They were obviously reading from teleprompters.
Did they screen the girls before allowing them in? They all look in pretty good shape.
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Well, the expert system got something wrong - or at least the defendent said so. The article doesn't elaborate, I wish it did. Even if the machine was right in this case, I wouldn't trust anything important to something that doesn't have common sense, can't notice something is out of whack and correct itself. So, I agree with the judge.
oh snap!
By studying stem cells in the fruit fly, scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) have identified one of the mechanisms that govern how these cells divide. They studied stem cell division and discovered that one of the key factors lies in the behaviour of the intracellular structure known as the centrosome. The study appears this week in the scientific journal Developmental Cell.
I think the author hit nail on the head.
The only point I might question is the speed issue -- I'm a fan of speed, but there a fair number of domains where the trade-off of runtime speed for development is attractive. (Which is of course one major reason why Java got going in the first place).
The larger the factor, the smaller the relevant areas though.
'the future' - almost there.
And I recommend Adam & Joe go Tokyo. It was a really good series. In fact, it's perhaps the most awesomest show evar (really)!!!
XML, for instance, I have called "a giant leap in
no direction at all" and I really do have the
credentials to say that.
Erik also wrote somewhere else that lisp syntax is better as a markup language than XML syntax. Interesting thoughts. It would definitively be more readable, but also more flexible.
I have actually worked with Erik on a couple of projects here in Oslo, but he normally seems to prefer to work alone.
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Anyone have a link to the full report?
It's the new pro-active policy for dealing with potential insurgency - kill them before they grow up to become insurgents.
That kind of thinking is not why democracy fails. Democracy fails when the system is gamed so your vote doesn't count for anything.
Picking between two unappealing choices is not democracy. Voting for a third party without proportional representation is also not democracy. It's a charade.
Being informed and interested is not enough in itself to make the system work. Do you think that the opinions of everyone in [insert despot country] who are informed and interested are suitably reflected in policy?
SKY IS THE LIMIT
Interesting how everybody's appalled that she referred to John Edwards as a faggot but everybody's quite cool with abusing her, similarly, as a man / transgender.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ann+coulter&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
I like the fatty guy with glasses, seems his dream got fulfilled finally ;)
Optimizing date/time calculations (the whole thread)
Related note; has a Long and Painful History of
Time at his website
Awesome skater game
It could be a news article about it.
This is very true. About the most solid track record an employer can find is open source contribution. It's far more reliable than a CV or even an interview.
Think of it as your portfolio. You can demonstrate working in a term, project leadership, design and coding skills.
I suspect there is a rising trend amongst employers to look for open source contributions among programmers. I also suspect that this trend is much more marked amongst the "good employers" (i.e. the ones you want to work for) and is hence even more valuable.
My experience (won't go so far as to call them benchmarks) does not follow his either. And my initial thought was, bet he's got an fsync issue.
In asia there are very few overweight people when compared to USA or even Europe. A mixture of healthier eating habits and of a fortunate genetic trait. Therefore, I'd guess you don't need a lot of shape screening if you already screened for middle-to-upper class urban people in their twenties (the kind of person who'd find it interesting and dare to take part in this).
I seem to remember Naggum mentioning that he has a nasty version of some colitis-type of disease.
Very easy to use this website. Well done
These differences in spelling are damned irritating, especially when working with people from different countries. You look unprofessional unless you use the exact right diction. I propose we pit our nations' respective best grammarians against one another in a battle to the death, and sort it out that way. To the winner go the right to use u's in places where they don't belong.
It's allways the evil Putin, is it?
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I mean upgrade of course.
Use this link to download directly: http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/QuickTime/061-2831.20070301.qTS15/QuickTimeInstaller.exe
The QuickTime download-page is a pain in the a**.
When he drew that cartoon he shit on all muslims all over the world for simply being muslims. When he shit on gays he shat on them simply for being gay not for a particular act a particular person did.
No he didn't. He shat on Al Qaeda and its ilk for being terrible muslims. What Would Mohammed Drive? Certainly not a Ryder truck bearing a nuclear weapon.
And its not a scam...
Coulter must be sitting at home going "Oh noes! Take away anything but my banner ad revenue!"
Meh. All this proves is that corporations have spines of jello. The right wing can mount such campaigns with equal ease. I'll call it a victory when people stop treating her as a controversial public thinker, and something more like GG Allin.
I for one welcome our new Lisp-dialect-hacking female overlords.
It sounds a lot like he's proposing some sort of JSON like thing except that you allow objects and you just eval() the resulting string.
It's great as a document format, but has some serious security side issues.
Some are teens, and some are more what you'd call "grannies".
Looks like the Spanish are the real crack heads - 94 out of 100!
It doesn't sound like you have a real handle on what "speed" means for your application
How could you possibly determine that from what he wrote?
On the shootout, SBCL is way ahead of both Mz and Chicken.
Just because something doesn't have to be Real Time doesn't mean the equivalent of interpreted scripting language speed is okay.
A downvote is not adequate, precisely for the reason I have stated.
A downvote is perfectly adequate within the context of the current reddit system.
To who? You?
Yes to me, obviously.
There will be a successor to Reddit
Yes, there will. When that successor appears and if it is capable of rating your preferences based on comments in the way you suggest (again, highly unlikely), then comment in this way on that system.
Why wouldn't Reddit or some other service take advantage of the data that Reddit is accumulating?
Perhaps they will, but to use reddit in order to train such a system, one which doesn't yet exist and which will work in some way you imagine, is pointless and simply adds noise. The fact is that we have no idea how future reddit-like systems will work, to try to anticipate their methods and act on them now is futile.
you would know if you had examined my profile
I did examine your profile, I noticed that the vast majority of your comments add something to the discussion, sometimes I agree with you sometimes I don't, but the quality of your posts is usually such that it furthers the discussion in some way, in this case you didn't.
please spend some time contributing and participating in the community
I have done, that's what I'm doing right now. Does the fact that I'm only a recent member or am unable to spend as much time participating as you somehow make my opinion less worthwhile? Are you really this elitist?
before pronouncing what works and what doesn't
I didn't make any pronouncements. The systems for training reddit is documented, modding works, writing "I don't like this" type comments doesn't.
Reddit while not the best conversation system is far better than what is currently out there
On this at least we can agree.
hhahaha
No don't stop it.
no but i can tell you're a mexican
it's a toll free 800 number to call dell. why did you need to use skype. are you a mexican jew or something
Amazing actual real god's honest truth application - except it's only a joke.
http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/mcdonald.htm
It's not an error, it just looks crap.
who were the pussies that voted you up. reddit is overrun by noob faggots who don't know who maddox is
I knew before I clicked that the most awesome part of this article would be all the people bitching about the lack of "NSFW" in the title.
Yeah, I hope you get fired and divorced, and I hope your poor kids grow up with mental problems and bizarre fetishes because you clicked "(200 points) A Hundred couples having sex in one room" expecting it would lead to an article out of the Wall Street Journal.
Serves you right.
I wonder if it's a two-phase commit.
you should google "quicktime alternative"
It's so good to see Pruned on the front page of reddit. What a great site.
There's one other: extreme, comprehensive stupidity. Stupidity so mind-bogglingly intense that it may be contagious.
and yet you ended your post w/ !
Dumb, ugly and mean -she's the whole package.
What an opportunistic loser than woman is.
I'm going to enjoy watching her get swept under the rug in the next few years.
Good fucking riddance.
Looking back over the wars we've fought, I can't help but seeing a monetary motivation for each and every one. Everyone thinks that the US Civil War was fought to free blacks. Everyone thinks that World War II was fought to free the Jewish people and destroy the evil Nazis. Sigh.
Maddox is actually very likely to be running Linux
It's a little less of a joke when people in the street call you a faggot.
I rather suspect there are quite a few (of us) programmers who spend enough time on the Web to participate in such things, while most guys who walk into a house and tut-tut over the poor quality of the work done by the drywall hangers who added the new room probably go home after work and watch football and Survivor until bed. In other words, that's not really a representative sample.
Imagine, if you will, a conversation in a bar. Several construction guys are sitting on stools so accustomed to their occupants' presence every stinkin' night that they have permanent butt-prints as unique as fingerprints. One of them speaks up:
"Y'know, it's like every single contractor in the world thinks all the rest of the contractors suck. It's not unique to contractors -- I've heard programmer gripe about others' code, too -- but it's like a natural law or somethin'."
Mostly, the other guys nod and say things like "Yeah, now ya mention it, I have noticed that."
One of them just squints at him for a moment, thinking, then says "I don't buy it. I've never heard programmers BSing in this bar about how bad other programmers are."
There are a great many things programmers have in common that are not so common to other professionals. Among these is the places we go to hang out and commiserate.
He certainly enjoys the safety of his internet connection, however.
Actually
He went on a signing tour across the US for his Alphabet of Manliness recently
It's pretty much trivial to find his (real life) picture on the intarweb (hell, there's even a stupid gif of him on his book's page)
He doesn't give a fuck about you, though luck but you're the weakest sauce.
This is the first codinghorror post that I've wholly enjoyed. /me tucks this one away.
(Although, many people can reduce their 'website''s bandwidth to -zero-, by having someone else host it. Especially for these adless technical blogs, I'd just go with LiveJournal -- which has, get this: -threaded- comments. An amazing innovation, never-before-seen in modern times! Unearthed by teams of archeologists from the ruins of PRACTICALLY YESTERDAY. Much as reddit's karma system bothers me, sometimes, I've never once been tempted to comment on these threadless horrors. Ahem.)
log4j makes me write comments like that.
It's always been like that actually, I don't recall ever having to download iTunes to get QuickTime (and that's without considering QT Alternative)
It specifies "Acts of God", but not Shiva or Zeus. We may have found a loophole.
You can find plenty of people who think like that in The Real World.
The Real World's boring, and the pay stinks. ;-)
Ewokalypse Now!!!
This sounds like it could be the greatest screenplay ever!
It does however read like it's been 'shopped - but that doesn't make Ewokalypse Now! any less funny!!!
What, you mean a sense of humor?
A big, resounding, "YES" to the breakdown you stated. This is where I was trying to make my point about the lawyer, with the "default positions" perspectives. Admit it, you were just pulling my leg, you knew what I was saying the whole time, didn't you? You cheeky devil, you... And here I was slapping my forehead in frustration, trying to think of why I wasn't getting anything across to you..
Awesome. I'm glad we have an accord of sorts. I can't say I understood what you meant, rather I think that I may have assumed that you were being a jackass when it seems you weren't.
This calls for a drink, I think.
Cheers! This one's to you.
...something like "artist's responsibility"...
That seems quite fair to me. You're are right, if someone is trying to convey a message, especially a political one, they should strive for clarity above all else; lest their message fail it's audience.
I know that it's just a comic, but it's the snowball theory, and I'm not on a one-man crusade against atheist comics, it just seems like it in this comment section.
You're quite right, I briefly perused your comments and must say that you tend to offer some insightful commentary. Better than my ventures into instigation and insult (for laughs I assure you).
It's lawyer talk, you just don't understand it correctly.
http://newlisp.org/
http://archub.org
http://r-project.org (internally Lispy)
http://www.ucs.ed.ac.uk/usd/stats/lispstat.html
http://lush.sourceforge.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoLISP
and emacs Lisp too.
This is what I hate in Lisp. When people write substantial new libraries and stuff, they write them in their own non-compatible and slow Lisp implementations. Apparently writing your own Lisp interpreter in C from scratch is so much more fun than looking the Lisp code that others have written.
And the selling point is that the new slow Lisp language is so much simpler, smaller and easier to learn. Duh. Apparently just using subset of Common Lisp is not neat enough. Scheme is too big and complex. Right?
Nobody writes Perl, Python or Ruby interpreter over weekend. This is why there is lots of libraries written in those languages.
I have just spend two weeks integrating and rewriting Common Lisp, R, lush, and old lisp-stat code. Aarrgh. All the numerical and statistical computing goodies spread evenly across different implementations.
edit: Small clarification. I am not complaining the difficulty of porting between different Common Lisp implementations. What I hate is the fact many big and interesting projects decide to implement their own small incompatible Lisp interpreters apparently for no good reason. They are just tiny and self made, not as good as standard ones: CL or Scheme. Analogy: you write your own non-standard C interpreter that runs your own kick-ass statistical library. Others can't link to your libraries from C.
You make a valid point, one worth pondering for sure. What about our current situation though? If we, as a people here in the United States (or insert your country here) decided all together to dissolve our government would we survive the greed and tyranny of other countries? I am skeptical that only some can play this 'game' whilst others are still governed, organized and armed.
a cat is hunting a pigeon on my cherry three!
This is originally from the quite excellent screenwriting advice blog "How to Write Screenplays, Badly".
In its original context:
http://jerslater.blogspot.com/2006/09/on-indy-movies.html
Well, assuming the screen shot is real, he may be dual booting.
This is why the comparison to Real is so bang-on-the-money. That's precisely why Real got it's bad name; hiding away the lite edition, consistent nagging software. I'm sorry, but I'm not paying Apple for a media player just so it can stop nagging me or to enable full screen. Let me guess, when you create an iTunes account, do they automatically sign your email up to half-a-dozen newsletters?
Forget Quicktime. It jumped the shark about five years ago. I instead recommend BSPlayer and of course Quicktime Alternative should you need to play some of the more obscure Apple formats.
I thought this was pretty interesting.
Then I saw that it was written by Erik Naggum. Now, I'm not so sure.
I disagree with this article. The people use the language they use simply because they get paid for using that specific language.
And companies? They pick languages based on available workforce, it's a nasty cycle that keeps languages like c++ and java as the major languages.
The real reason why Java is still the number one language in the market is that it gives the highest overall productivity.
I would guess that Java is the number one simply because it's improved C/C++. It's basically the same language - people who can code c can code java. Workforce problem solved!
Giovanni Sollima in concerto a Palermo
I totally understand, rock's been suffering in much the same way since the (mid maybe)90's. I've seen some interesting stuff pop up in the last couple years. Here's hoping.
Object a = new int[10];
There's another important point: what many language geeks call "superior languages" are actually maverick languages, the best example being CL.
A language which lets you do everything you could model clearly is like a form of government which lets you do anything whose consequences you're willing to handle: anarchic.
Now, there are some contexts in which anarchy is the best option: mainly when there are very few citizens/developers in the group, and everyone has a deep sense of civic responsibility, and the civilization/development process isn't intended to survive on many generations of citizens/coders. But these situations are very very far from being the general case.
following this analogy, the title's question becomes:
Why do most people seem to prefer paying taxes and obeying laws, most of which limiting and some of which downright stupid?
The answer is: because they want to interact together, and do stuff that Robinson couldn't do.
I completely agree. QT alternative here as well though I prefer media player classic.
Good point, had skimmed over that final bit. Includes the German Parliament.
It's still funny though ...
Ewokalpyse Now, a mash-up waiting to happen.
They used to hide the non-iTunes version deep within the site. It used to take a google search to find it, then they finally added a footnote to the main page. Now it's a checkbox on the main download page apparently.
Perhaps now they are just beginning to realize how offensive this form of herding customers is. I stopped using Quicktime several years ago for this, among other reasons.
pathetic
"I could care less"
If you can care less, it implies that you care, at least a slight amount.
compare with the British phrase...
"I couldn't care less"
Which means that "it is impossible for me to have less interest or concern in the matter, since I am already utterly indiferent." (from Michael Quinion's POSH)
If you want your lazy phrase to work, you need to start your sentence with "As if I could care less."
Cmon, thats gotta be a fake. No lawyer could possibly have a sense of humour
Cleary explained several of the stackless paradigms. Besides it has one of my favorite examples:
"Hackysack is a game in which a group of dirty hippies stand in a circle and kick a small bean filled bag around."
I'm so glad we've evolved to the point where we can copulate in public and feel no shame. Yay humans.
From the article:
Britain and Ireland are so thoroughly divided in their histories that there is no single word to refer to the inhabitants of both islands.
Maybe there is no single name for the inhabitants of the two islands but there is a name for the group of islands of which they are the two largest members and that is The British Isles.
I don't know the validity of this, but in the early 90's I was working with two friends on a comic book titled "Lycra Women and Spandex Girl" and Dupont sent the writer a cease and desist letter. Not only that, they removed every copy of the first and second issue off the stands of every comic book store in the US.
Edit: Here are the two characters.
Yeah, it's all in his imagination... the CIA trying to kill a democratically elected socialist leader in central/south america?
That's hilarious!
The term I hear most often on US TV shows is cell phone. I think this is what SeguroKC was referring to, rather than a deliberate slight against Americans.
I could be wrong.
Mp3s
via: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070305140927.htm
Science article (subscribers):
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/315/5811/493
Anyone know what the Pt content is for Pt/C catalysts?
You will need to authorize the pop up. However its worth it. I have never seen full screen streamed video like this.
But it does explain some of the background to poor investor confidence in the Asian markets and the subsequent impact on the other global exchanges....
Stop press! Breaking news:! rich white girl taking cocaine. could it be true ?!
Buzzflash is an unknown source to me, but this appears in the NYTimes as well.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/washington/06inquire.html
It doesn't specify which god, so I guess it's a case of "insert any deity of your choice".
It's pretty simple, if you dish it out, expect it back... Personally I couldn't give a monkeys what she says about anyone, I'm sure her opinion of me would be pretty low but heh ho...
They used to hide the non-iTunes version deep within the site. It used to take a google search to find it, then they finally added a footnote to the main page.
Really? I've always seen that radio button, for as long as iTunes has started to be bundled with QuickTime.
Looks like The Wayback Machine agrees with you though: the oldest versions (April 2005) have a Quicktime-only link for 98/ME only, then the QuickTime-only radio disappeared around September 2005 and the W2k/WXP QuickTime-only radio only appeared with QuickTime 7.1.5 in mid-march 2006
Mac: It just works, except where it doesn't.
Linux: Always works, even when it's not what you wanted to.
Windows: Doesn't work, except where it works.
Don't worry, the global warmings is an issue that the Bush administration is very concerned about. Deeply.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnXCJySzIuw
Is it so hard to understand that deadly force might be needed to protect yourself or your loved ones even if it puts you at risk?
Let me put this way. What this preemptive invasion has to do with protection? It's this kind of "we need to feel secure!" thing that allows for these abuses.
Utilitarism always ends like this: in the name of a broader/popular necessity, those who are in charge do whatever they feel to.
No, you're thinking of cake-aine.
The name that is hidden with a marker, under the signature, is "name goes here".
I call fake.
http://blog.netscape.com/2007/03/05/the-rebirth-of-my-netscape/
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reflibman's a pretty kitty?
Look at his (I'm guessing his) username. Do you thing tittiesgumption actually, um, minds?
The grandparent sentiment is right, but he got the relationship wrong. Rap is a subset of Hip Hop, not an independent thing. Rap is the spoken world element on top of the hip-hop beat.
Rap is no more. It ceased to be back in the days of Paris, NWA and GraveDiggaz. Now it's just a market segment discussed in some sterile boardroom each morning. Hip hop lives on however, especially the UK scene e.g. on labels such as Ninja Tune.
For the likes of 50 Cent, I suggest we just call it what it is. Pop Music.
Like the shoes.
It seems to me that most IQ test questions are of the same kind, underspecified graphical or numerical problems where you're supposed to find out what the questioner is thinking.
I suspect people will do much worse on such questions if they believe that the questioner is much smarter than them. I also suspect this is the point.
Hopefully I don't forget in a couple of hours.
The last censored field says: "Name goes here".. why would that be censored if it wasn't fake?
Wrong subreddit, my friend.
There was an older, longer story about this somewhere else - Wired, I think, or maybe from NYT. Still, upmod, as it's a good practical summary.
Even worse, they are stirring other organizations to sue their competitors.
Go_tt_fried, motherfuckers.
not to mention a huge missed opportunity for a whole range of other product placement..
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I read it too, but can't see anything I would consider bigoted or frenzied.
Do you also hate English because it has dialects?
Wow, submissions heading to the homepage without NSFW or [Video]...what's happening here?
/i don't give a shit but other people's bosses do
I don't really agree with all of this but there is some good advice (that's already been said 500 times before). He's got a coupe of things that I don't agree with:
"10. Decide to do optimization in-house. -
Probably possible in the past, but now with ever increasing sophistication of search engine algorithms, this is an area best left to an expert." - bull#$%^. Buy 2 or 3 of the quality books on SEO out there (you can read most of them quickly), put out a site with good content, and you'll be fine. SEO isn't some complex, undocumented "problem"; it's a logical process that, if you understand things from the search engines' perspectives, you'll go far. Quality content is what matters far more than SEO.
"4. Believing all search engines are the same." - They aren't different enough to use different strategies for designing your pages and writing content though. What the books will teach you is what sort of things the search engines generally want and don't want to see. they want quality content without a ton of spam, keyword stuffing, et al - they want pages that people would read and that's the same for all search engines (or at least the ones that you would care about).
I agree.
What's interesting, is I was about to write a comment elaborating that fragmentation like this reduces the network effects [*] of a language, and that network effects dominate all else (the main lession in the Internet and technology age).
But then I stopped to wonder why network effects haven't consolidated the common lisps or schemes?
I think it's down to the culture of the lisp/scheme world being strongly biased towards language writing:
the unique point of the language is syntactic extension via macros, normally the preserve of language designers
implementing a basic lisp/scheme is very easy (and is worked through as an extended example in the influential book SICP)
the lisp/scheme user community is made up of more able coders, a higher proportion of whom are able to consider taking on such a task
lisp/scheme have enough warts that many people are motivated to try to resolve them (whilst maintaining the 'core essence')
It seems like the lisp world has been through a unification once (hence common lisp). The scheme world is a bit better shape in this regard (with the repeated RnRS process).
But, it is a real problem. Differing implementations increase the barriers to both finding other people's work and contributing your own and also dilute the pool of contibutors.
Whatever one might think of perl as a language, Larry Wall carefully constructed a robust culture, which in turn begat CPAN which has always been perl's jewel in the crown.
I know about the existence of asdf, srfis, snow, slib and planet and eggs (and probably others). The multiplicity of such endeavours is also part of the problem.
(edit - formatting)
Is there some curse on Netscape that makes them unable to "get the internet"? Every 1-2 years, they try to jump on whatever cool new bandwagon is around (except that bandwagon is almost a year old, wheels almost falling off, driver not quite sure where he is, etc), and then act all surprised when they get called out for their stupidity.
Yes, he is
You might if you worked at a newspaper which took contributions from people in N different dialects and had to produce N perfectly-comprehensible regional variations of your newspaper.
It's a O(N^2) problem, which can be reduced to O(N) by increased standardisation on the part of the N dialects/implementations.
And it's O(1) if there is a lingua franca which suffices to communicate the ideas you need, and is made use of. Which is how every human grouping has worked. In this sense, the problem is twofold: the common lisp standard doesn't suffice to solve many modern programming problems and as a consequence lisp coders don't (can't) write code 100% using behaviour specified by common lisp.
(edit - add last para)
Nobode is interested in a Joost username ?
I currently use mostly Java, and not because it is like C++. I was after a language that I could get from more than one supplier, that was cross-platform, that had reasonable performance that was sufficiently OOP, that was maintainable (others could easily work on my code), and that was free (although not necessarily open source). Java matched those criteria - Smalltalk didn't (too many incompatibilities between implementations, and fast versions were too expensive), and LISP, Haskell etc. were simply too obscure.
(And I just can't understand why articles like this still insist on reporting Java speed as slower than C/C++. For any program that runs for more than few seconds (to allow the Hotspot compiler to kick in), this is just plain wrong; indeed, Java can be faster.)
I love this page... http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=bomb_iran
anyway, never heard of the guy before, thanks kingbenny for the link!
Paris Hilton and Stephen Wolfram
Another moron. Try reading his site, he is a linux user. PHOOL!
Yes, those abortion-doctor murdering little scamps truly pale in comparison to fundamentalist Muslims.
Right. 80% of the population is now a "hated minority".
Maddox needs to write one up for the Ubuntu "linux is cool now too" crowd.
On some monitors you will be able to read it here:
http://mirrors.openhost.dk/tmp/lucas.jpg
Also scary that that person is responsible for selling a whole freaking house.. not just scanning your groceries.
ssshhhh, its funny to watch them try.
7 tips to prepare your blog
Wow, if I had one of those I could open like every single link on the reddit front page into a new window....
It's not the virtuous path.
I simply disagree with this. It is not virtuous to withold judgement on The Secret when it is so clearly nonsense. A marketing scheme does not offer an accurate phenomenology of the universe. You, as a scientist, know this whether you admit it or not. You've said that philosophy is basically crap. So is this.
"The Secret" has been around in that form since at least the 50s. It's not a new idea. It's just taking an old idea and repackaging it.
In fact it's a downright ancient idea.
You're dismissing it based on cosmetic trimmings and the source. It's fine to ignore it, but to dismiss it outright without investigation is intellectually dishonest and not becoming of either a skeptic, atheist, scientist, child of the enlightenment, or whatever you want to call it.
If you know nothing about something the fair and balanced approach is to say nothing. Spouting off opinions without investigation is the style of a gossipy celebrity magazine, not a scientifically oriented person.
elephant in the room: platform independence
In other words, Ruby has found a niche. Question is: will it be able to venture outside the niche?
Apparently this car is worth more than $1.7 million. Don't want to be the poor guy who smashed it..
The muck thickens.
Not that that would be any better. The problem is that somebody can post something called "Definitive proof that Iraq has nuclear weapons" and then, when somebody points out that it was written by Dick Cheney in February 2003, he'd get voted down and the story would still hit #1, as long as enough people believed it.
YES, I know my particular example would never happen with this audience, but the process that leads to that happens all the time, as with this submission.
"Mom and Daughter Banned for Life from Disneyland" now has 68 points, and it's fucking fake. Two things could have happened: 1., People aren't taking the time to read the comments and see that this has been uncovered as a fraud. Or 2., people are voting up a picture of tits. I don't know which one says more about the reddit community, but either one is pretty pathetic.
Why do most people seem to use inferior programming-languages?
Like Ruby, you mean?
Wrong analogy. For computers all different Lisp dialects are different languages. Common Lisp cant talk to Scheme and vice versa.
yeah give me 500 million in stock options i will stick not with $1 but half that.
No offence, but I guess that you could say the same about operating systems, GUI libraries and the like. E.g. while porting a network C/C++ application from a POSIX system to Win32, you have to make the code dirty by using preprocessor directives (or additional network-access layer). IMO using Lisp's #+ and #- is much better.
Another thing worth mentioning is that usually you don't have to spread the code using implementation-dependent features across the source -- usually you can limit the usage of such things by separating them with an appropriate interface.
(BTW, there are different hardware platforms too, and we don't complain about that, do we?)
New ventures, life long philosophical questions. Some one give me a wine.
Speaking as a male mathematician, we are not a misogynistic group of people. We may be inept with women, but that's not the same thing.
Finally, someone agrees with me.
Plus, even though they may help you to reduce your carbon emissions a bit, the turbine manufacturer had to increase theirs to produce it in the first place. Swings and roundabouts.
No. For "easily bored", substitute "easily distracted", and the problem becomes abundantly clear.
You counted?
satanist never mentioned Windows.
cool footage from spiderman 3
Cocaine + Crumpets = ...
imagine the smell in that room.
Sheesh. That was quick. You spend almost as much time on the interwebs as I do.
On what is your dismissal of philosophy based? Your years of philosphical study? I'm assuming you took the time to fully investigate all thinkers from Plato to Hegel before making your judgement. Otherwise I'd be forced to declare you intellectually dishonest.
The psychological value of positive thinking is well understood. The "law of attraction", on the other hand, is bunk. No further investigation is required to know that thoughts do not affect the physical universe through "vibrations".
Dear lord, a soldier being violent in the middle of a war, this is indeed news!
Your comment is far more interesting and important than this article.
Good grief. There's almost no single defensible statement in the entire article.
A friend of mine put it best: "[This article] explains exactly why people use inferior programming languages, even though the intent was to say that they don't."
It's just a matter of time until the TSA imposes a bone-headed, draconian policy.
I guess the problem is these folks are actively campaigning against religion.
Softwares to optimize play on lotteries games with wheeling systems: loto ,keno , super7 , banco , euromillions , thunderball . Download the shareware versions with free wheels .
I do not think I would ever use such a thing, unless closely looked at by some software verification specialists!
Civilization poisoning?
I don't think that the author missed this point. There are at least 5 "British Isles" references in the article.
Your reference to Wikipedia is almost correct, though, in saying that the term "British Isles" is "sometimes considered objectionable". In my experience, it is nearly always.
Huh. You must have misunderstood my critique. #+ #- imply that you use different implementations of the same language (Common Lisp probably). This is completely OK. But I can't do that when I integrate Common Lisp code with Lush or lisp-stat. They are different languages. When you port C/C++ app from POSIX to Win32 only critical difference is the network library. Your code is not changing much. If I call Lush code from CL, It is as easy as calling C or Python from CL. Usually easiest way is to use textfile or sockets to transfer data. FFI might work too, but only for C types and structs. Conses and arrays don't go trough. Lot's of glue code, lots of :(
China will soon become the number one English-speaking country in the world, the 28% of the population in India with the highest IQs is greater than the total population of North America...
PhpBB2
The line about Common Lisp being a "piece of cake" compared to C++ had me practically gasping for air.
I recon, let dexter calculate how high he jumps and anticipate the landings so that he can land with a bit more grace. Those stocky knees aren't going to win him any gold medals :)
Start of the third year. Mom and the two small children died of cholera last year. Dad and the big boy strive to survive, but have not enough money to make it through the season. Besides, dad has malaria, and the kid tuberculosis.
This game is too real.
A language which lets you do everything you could model clearly is like a form of government which lets you do anything whose consequences you're willing to handle: anarchic.
Right. A turing machine is anarchic.
Let me make a note of that.
why do asian chicks ALWAYS throw the V with their fingers for photos?
My point is that he can't even bring himself to compare any features of the operating systems, because he know that Windows sucks balls. To write a proper Mac rant, you need to bring up Windows features - and there are some good ones - but he can't do it because he hates the OS.
I'll come back with my favorite 12-year-old insult: fartknocker.
(hee hee he said fart!)
This is how things work in a free market. People and enterprises which don't please their customers are punished by the loss of business. You can say anything you want and you will be judged and rewarded based on what you say. It was a joke, but a stupid one.
Fair enough. I think, like uber, I don't mind the explicit selfs, I don't hardly notice them anymore. If they bother you, though, I guess they just bother you.
I could just see the lightning of pure evil emanating from the lawyers hands as he delivered the PS of that letter.
bs and silly
I never said that all mathematicians, or all male mathematicians, are misogynist. I think there's a few that want to keep the subject as a boys' club, and a lot more that don't care because they don't see the problem, or it doesn't directly affect them. Which is how stuff like "Bikini Calculus" gets made.
Anyone with a subscription want to copy & paste?
Where's the proof? Not in the statistics the author is using, but here are some from a recent article on "prostitots": "A study published last year in the journal Pediatrics concluded that .... repeated exposure to sexual content in television, movies and music increases the likelihood of becoming sexually active at an earlier age .... Specifically, the study found that 55 percent of teens who were exposed to a lot of sexual material had intercourse by 16, compared with only 6 percent of teens who rarely saw sexual imagery in the media."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16961761/site/newsweek/page/3/
(Note that there were some racial differences that I cut to save space -- full quote above.)
The author is right to criticize the APA's report for not including any statistics, but the ones that she chooses to use -- and ignore -- show bias as well.
If you really think that all Turing-complete calculi are essentially equivalent you are either:
a mathematician; which is fine, but this is programming.reddit. You might prefer to hang out on science.reddit, as people here tend to focus on concrete aspects of things, which you don't care about.
someone who can't grasp the distinction between useful categorizations, and practically meaningless ones. Which would put you at such a huge disadvantage when it comes to write programs worth anything, that you can as well write them in ASM, or in Brainf**k, or or as a FSA for a Turing machine indeed.
No, certainly not. But this was a badly-done cartoon, I think, because it's far too easy to conclude that his message was exactly the opposite, because people (like Jerry Falwell) do say things like "Mohammed was a terrorist" in all seriousness. So what positive effect could this cartoon possibly have? If its intended audience was radical Muslims, it failed to convey its message effectively. If instead, it was targeted at ignorant Americans, to remind them that Islamic terrorism is in conflict with Muslim teachings, it also failed, because an ignorant person is likely to see this as endorsing the association of Islam and terrorism
I'm impressed also, and glad it did some good. F*** Coulter. (No--not you, personally--I wouldn't wish that on anyone.)
First of all, the notion of "Inferior Programming Languages" is debatable.
Except, obviously, for VB/VBScript, which are absurdly inferior languages that makes me want to shoot the computer everytime I use them. Yeah, I work with VB/VBScript all the time.
So, was the scandal here the reasons why these 8 attorneys were fired? Because from what I can tell the President and Attorney General can fire US attorneys and appoint temporary replacements which last until the end of the President's term in office.
If I recall correctly, Clinton and Reno fired every single US Attorney . . . all 93. How is 8 such a big deal?
And with regard to the change from 120 days to the end of term, 89 US senators voted for it less than a year ago, including Obama and Clinton. I've heard people mention that this piece of legislation was "snuck" in, but for the love of God, if you're voting on a bill, just as if you're signing a contract, you need to read that shit.
You do have a point--and you know she's still appearing on Hannity's radio program this week. Wonder if HE will ask her to own up to that comment and apologize?
Hahahahahahahaa! Let me go see how that new monkey launching pad in my ass is coming along.
First, explain who you're quoting.
Why "Nobody writes Perl, Python or Ruby interpreter over weekend?"
Because it is too difficult and, almost impossible.
Why many write their own Lisp/Scheme interpreters over weekend?
Because it is too easy.
And this is the very power and beauty point of Lisp.
(PS: Scheme is NOT too big and complex.)
Oz/Mozart does the same.
There are no dirty words only dirty minds.
Should I have added NSFW? or was that obvious and hypocritical?
English is not my first language. But point taken. Thanks.
Oops, the language police is coming...
Having been following the diatribes of erik while he was at his best back in the days when comp.lang.lisp was still interesting I can with full confidence say that he is a complete nut. Totally crazy, paranoid, insane. That may sound harsh, but its the truth.
Except, Paris is hot.
Yeah, I pretty much gave up on reddit having an NSFW area, unfortunately. Makes all the sense in the world to have a filter. For instance, if the title has certain keywords, or if the scan of the website has certain words, or if it has links for (numeral).wmv or (numeral).mpg it seems sensible that it automatically gets routed to nsfw.reddit.com site. But nooo, not reddit. But that's not the only glaring change that reddit ignores. For instance, I think the << Prev link should operate on Javascript history.back() principles, but they evidently don't. They'd rather run up their bandwidth bill than improve like that.
It was to show that you, nor anybody here can prove that he is telling the truth when referring to the beatings and ill conditions he cited.
You must be very disappointed that the courts have denied the Bush Administration and the CIA a chance to vindicate themselves, then.
Sorry, it takes me a while to log on to the data base I access it from.
But there's an excerpt here:
http://www.institutional-economics.com/index.php/section/ben_bernankes_diary/
You really should have saved this for something else.
Nice. "For how long will the U.S. forces continue practicing terror in the country they came to liberate and supposedly root out terrorism from?"
my dismissal, for unwilling acessing porn at work :p
Buy Vista?
+1. Right. pbkobold needs to recognize that much of America was founded by a mix of Southern genteel society, puritans, and religious Irish, Scottish, and German immigrants, mixed with religious Africans and religious Native Americans. The Protestant Work Ethic (and for that matter a Catholic one too) is strong in America. And, when mixed with capitalism, a democratic society (at least it used to be a lot more), and safety, work here gets done and we don't have time to stare at lovely nudes all day, not working. And, now that PC has taken root in the workforce, this is what we must live with.
An interesting article on search engine rankings and how to get a site up in the top of google and other search engines. What techniques to employ and what do you actually need to do to achieve a good search engine ranking
No, I'm pretty good at what I do, which is mainly networking anymore. For a desktop, I have always found Windows to install easier and run better than Linux (until recently) on the desktop. I never run it as a server. I just really don't want to spend four hours trying to track down ScanLines for my monitor just to get the windowing system to run-- as I have had to do in the past, but mercifully did not have to do with Kubuntu. I even have my Verizon EVDO card working under Kubuntu-- it didn't work out of the box, but it only took about 30 minutes to track down an ubuntu forum post detailing the config. Still not as easy as the Windows install, but it's at liveable levels of pain now, and I only expect it to get better.
A great deal of computer scientists could stand to add a whole lot more mathematics to their diets. BTW, that's why Lisp is popular with mathematicians. Too many damn programmers understand the machine, and not the model.
Read and find out which one is best based on selling price.
A funny story about drinking in Japan.
-1 dull.
The politic climate in Russia is awful now. But to be fair - what was that critical to Blair reporter's name who was found in bushes in England a couple years ago?
Only 34 up votes for such wonderful news?
That's like Greek and Roman slaves arguing whose masters are less cruel.
My preference of BSPlayer is mainly down to the features it has, like the ability to change the aspect ratio which is handy when the clip has been made incorrectly. It also has the ability to fix audio-skew, meaning you can watch videos that are out-of-sync without going insane! :-p
Is a confirmation pop up window that you can't close for almost an entire second really necessary every time I push a button?
You are about to call: "Home"
[Cancel] or [Allow] ?
You think that's bad? I got an IP violation notice from freakin' OpenBSD because I had a cafepress t-shirt that said "Proud parent of an OpenBSD contributor".
All profits were to go to OpenBSD, but in 2 years I haven't sold a single one.
Yeah, I pretty much gave up on reddit having an NSFW area,
There was an NSFW subreddit, but it got abused with porn submissions. Unfortunately, it is obviously very hard to agree on what constitutes useful (but still NSFW) links.
I believe it disapeared again since March and only resurfaced in the last six months.
It's easy to just write the woman off as an idiot, but the sad thing is she's really not. Something has gone sadly and frighteningly wrong with her.
Several years ago she was skilled in and passionate about dismantling & mocking exactly this sort of childish nastiness in politics. She has now become the red-faced, knee-jerk blowhard she used to despise.
Maddox does not need condoms to sleep with your girlfriend. He will pawn her....
Giving you all those cool array object methods, right?
ABC's decision last week to greenlight a half-hour pilot program based on Geico's popular cavemen characters highlights the blurring line between advertising and entertainment, as well as the trouble the network has had in launching successful sitcoms.
My ex in there, somewhere...
Ruby is used by most people?
The Pentagon's job isn't prediction, it's being able to cope with any scenario. I think that the article reads too much into the report. I'm sure there are hundreds of reports which are written to show how the US should respond in different scenarios.
I had exactly the same thought.
Japanese hospitals hold newborn infants hostage until the parents have paid the hospital bills. This is just one in a long, long, long list of annoyances that make it unlikely for Japanese to have children of their own.
France has a positive replacement rate by the way. It achieved this by handing parents lots and lots of cash. Letting hospitals ransom babies is the last thing the French government would allow so it's a good barometer.
In any case, the point is industrialized nations aren't doomed to have population decline. The USSR had a healthy population growth because parents were given every conceivable advantage in society, from better jobs to choice appartments.
Because, unfortunately, most of the times, a sucky language with a million users and libraries is several thousands times better than any uber-cool language with ten users where you have to rewrite everything you need yourself. (reposted)
Sadly, it is not true.
I do say that about OSs, GUI libs, etc.
#+/#- is a kludge, and, as mentioned, already implies you're using the same language.
I'm not sure how hardware got in to this, but if I'm a HW company I really only complain about the lowest-level of differences, like "How do I talk to port 0x29a?" or "How do I do DMA?" The driver code itself doesn't change much (if at all).
That picture should come with a permanent warning not to look too long into those eyes. She is Medusa!
Again, why? Are they sending federal children to school, or checking out library books?
That is for 2005, the wiki article uses figures from 2006.
And an educated guess is that the figures has gone up somewhat from 2005 to 2006.
phooey. i figured the standalone download meant it would compile by itself too - guess not.
The attack conveniently ignores safe harbor. Despite the payments going back and forth, legally copyright on youtube isn't Google's problem, it's the problem of the people who post.
No doubt George W Bush expects the same loyalty from the people he has personally met which he has put into positions of power.
Whatever, it is all very targeted marketing.
Seriously. She is a fucking idiot.
Sample of 1. Learn something about statistics.
Exactly.
Did the title mention a cat in the previous posts?
Bow woo-ow wow worrrw WO-OW
Please read Anna Politkovskaja's books. Please. Just read her books. Look out of America and beyond the EU, and read Anna Politkovskaja's books!
Then you can decide if your country is more messed up than Russia.
fcuk google
I'd say the reason is that Ruby (via Rails, in many cases)
Ruby had 1/1000th of the users before Rails appeared.
Not just fake, but more importantly, not funny at all.
babies, stupid!
I have long suspected this. I prefer to eat an apple or other fruit when I rise. It takes no brewing, it rouses by raising your blood sugar, and it nourishes.
Trash.
Java gives you the highest overall productivity?!?! Even with my whiz-bang IDE (which helps a LOT) I'm still less productive.
Developers are most productive in what ever language best fits their way of thinking.
Too bad it hasn't lost its grip on North America.
Thanks, I think! ;-D
I think it's partly a point of view issue.
Before reading kawagner's article through, I will suggest that one should give serious consideration to the possibility that people are gasp acting reasonably according to their situtation and opportunities.
They might not have the spare time to pick up Haskell (I'm doing it on the bus, I should know) or [insert your favourite language here]. Without a certain opportunity to spend time at sites like programming.reddit.com I should think it would also he harder.
They might be seriously good with their own preferred language. They may have such a stunning repertoire of conventions, idioms and tricks (a.k.a design patterns) that they manage to solve problems in their domains quickly and efficiently, so that it would be a waste of effort to learn to do things differently.
They might be working in a domain where you don't need a stunning repertoire of conventions, idioms and tricks to be productive, because the platform in question provides them with the building blocks they need (as opposed to the building blocks for doing metacompilation or partial evaluation or automatic insertion of run-time checks in C code. It seems it is not easy to provide both kinds without sacrificing one for the benefit of the other.) Believe it or not, Delphi might be a good choice if you are designing a medium-size windows database application for small businesses.
This is at least a possibility. It could of course be that most other people than slava_pestov are simpletons.
[edited to be kinder to kawagner after I read his article!]
Beauty (and perhaps species) is in the eye of the beholder!
i don't need to do any of that shit... i just post obnoxious insulting material and that reduces the readership to practically zero. voila! no more bandwidth problems!
They nerfed the programmers! We're all going to develop accounting systems in Visual Studio!
The quote you included from the article about Java being 1.5-2 times slower than C++ is completely incorrect. The Java compiler is better at optimization than the C++ one, so the code often runs faster! What it will never beat is hand-optimized C++ and also hand-optimized assembly. But you need a guru programmer to take them to that level.
The only real performance issue with Java is VM startup time.
I came to VB late, having used dozens of other languages before. It is, without a doubt, one of the worst languages I've had the misfortune to use.
Sometimes sharing insight is more valuable than sharing code.
Haha... anyone who is that consistently pissed off at the world must be a linux user j/k
Instead of spending money buying and developing more weapons we ought to put the ones we have to better use.
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VLC or mplayer all the way
Try calculating the square root of -1 in google and in microsoft calculator. This is why google will rule the world.
I sure would not want an upper after seeing her. Something to give me dream-free sleep, that I would take.
I prefer to eat an apple or other fruit when I rise.
Usually when I wake in the morning I've already risen.
If the first amendment entitles one to freedom of speech could you not argue that this includes the death threats he received in response to the articles. In which case why is he complaining about the death threats ? Isn't that protected by the first amendment also.
Can we please say NSFW, for those dumbasses who clicks it by accident.... like me.
If you're gonna do business with a religious son of a bitch.. GET IT IN WRITING. His word ain't worth shit, not with the good lord teaching him how to fuck you on the deal
[ William Burroughs ]
I agree, that's definitely what it says. Then there's the font, which i doubt a lawyer would be caught dead using. Similarly, have you ever seen a legal letter with a "PS" at the end?
It's like they're not even trying anymore.
But... but... coffee tastes so good...
What a total pantload. I can't even tell if this guy is defending "inferior" languages like Java or not.
Why is Java so popular?
1) It's cross platform (although most other are also, except .Net)
2) Multiple powerful IDEs available
3) Large amounts of libraries and codebase/examples
4) Huge industry backing
5) It was out first. Duh. Choosing between Java and ASP? No real choice there.
6) It's scalable. This is one of the big ones for me. Ever seen an enterprise-level architecture consisting of PHP/Python/Ruby/etc? No, they don't exist. Sure, they're great for individual systems but do not scale to an enterprise level. And as long as they remain at this level they won't ever be anything more than a "blogging" language.
True enough; but as I mentioned elsewhere on this thread, the military is what passes for social programs in the US. For many Americans, the choice is between the job training that comes with military service and minimum-wage destitution.
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The man is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people. If there is a god, he will be dispatched ASAP.
However, IMHO, what's happening here is that they are preparing a way out for him to bail with should it look like impeachment is on the cards. He'll get away with it for "health reasons" and Bush will take all the heat despite him essentially being Cheney's patsy.
Oh, i see another Hot Coffee scandal coming...
An atheist will look at an outlandish video on GodTube and think it represent a mainstream Christian view. A silent moderate Christian does nothing to dissuade this misconception and should therefore not be offended when it occurs.
Silence = tact acceptance.
Moderates of all groups [atheists, Christians, Muslims, Jews, etc.] need to be vocal lest their more fundamentalist brothers cast their entire group in the same light.
In this case offended Christians should leave comments on GodTube videos they don't agree with. Something along the lines of "I'm a Christian but I don't believe the earth is just 6000 years old".
His view has nothing to do with the vast personal profits he is making from people seeing terrorists under every bed...nothing at all.
Nice price!!!
Is it just me, or are all the links to salon.com broken? When I click on it, I got http://www.salon.com/news/cookie756.html?URL=/opinion/greenwald/2007/03/06/cult/index.html?source=rss . Only after manually shortening it to http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/03/06/cult/index.html?source=rss it worked.
O'Reilly?
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yeah that sounds about right. what do you expect from someone who weighs over 300lbs, a one thousand calorie daily intake?
but i don't merely critize, i've got the answer to her problem: bicycling. when lance armstrong was riding the TDF, it was reported that he consumed about 7000 calories... so put this tub-o-gue on bike for a hundred miles a day and her weight problem is solved
This is an excellent video. Not sure why it's being voted down.
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For anyone who really loves great cars and is willing to dream big!
That's strange. I seem to recall this one time, I think it was called "being in college", that would completely and utterly disprove that.
How about just three practical principles that might actually guide your next design.
Afford proper use.
Don't afford improper use.
Minimize need for docs.
All this and more from The Design of Everyday Things. Please don't blog about design until you've read this.
That's what I got from your comment, I didn't think you intended a slight. Not all Americans--even on Reddit--re as sensitive about their national identity as senzei ;)
Also, having been to London, I heard 'mobile' all over the place. In fact, I keep waiting for Virgin Mobile to do more business on this side of the ocean.
Where do you think continuing money comes from if not her audience?
For this usage of "hip hop", (arguably the more correct one) replace "hip hop" in my post with "hip hop music".
George Michael on Tour
....of public toilets across the world in search of gay sex
Good point - I just counted and he uses the name 7 times.
Here I am sitting in the Antipodes, so I'm not sensitive to how objectionable the name currently is, but if Wikipedia can be believed (and in this case it points to references) the name has been used since Hellenic times, well before the Tudor invasion of Ireland, and the 'British' bit is thought to have come from a celtic language. I guess the controversy comes from the fact that 'Britain' came to be used chiefly for the isle of Albion.
a stage magician or something
You mean like the guy who posted this article?
Stickiness.
Rikers Island inmate wants to talk vigilante justice into his own hands.
i'm homeless by choice too.... but no worries, i'm sponging off my girlfriend
more asians running around with video cameras.
I thought it was slime.
I know plenty of "motherfucking godders" who demonize people a lot less than you do.
They all look so busy. Except that last guy with the slippers...zzzzzzzz...
Good, clear article that solidly establishes its point.
I agree that programming is a form of design. Just as painting is a form of design constrained by the physics of canvas and paint and eyes and popular concepts, programming is a form of design constrained by available programming language definitions and libraries and popular concepts.
Qualification: Just as someone can run a painting factory that mass produces paintings by a formula, so can someone run a programming factory that mass produces programs by a formula. The catch is that not many software needs fit into formulas, and those formulas end up in canned packages (never to be programmed again): Photoshop, Webpagemaker, Excel, etc. Or, they end up in ever higher-level progamming abstractions and toolkits (Ruby on Rails, ASP.Net, J2EE, etc.). That is, any program that can be "constructed" gets constructed once (or twice) for everyone to use. Then, on top of that, we're back to programming as design for everything else.
...a gallon of semen.
oh, come on- front page porn?
Actually it's not misleading, it's enlightening.
Instead of posting a current report and having redditors drone on and on predicting that the Bush Administration will ignore the findings, we can just read the article and be done with all the bickering since we have 3 years of subsequent Bush Administration denial on the record already. It's spectacular!
We know. http://reddit.com/info/185wx/comments
sqrt(-1)
Did you do this after reading the article about the autistic physics guy in jail? I did, and was just as impressed (:
Are there any uglier production cars out there?
Wow. OK, I get it now - you have a mental problem. You create a quote - "crap that anybody could do" - out of one word I said (crap), and the phrase your said (anybody could do) and then assign it to me. This makes sense now - you wouldn't have anything to argue with me about otherwise. Far be it from me to stop you from talking with your imaginary friend. Yes, I'll be OK now...for I see you are not.
"If you knew how cowardly your enemy is, you would slap him. Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy." - Edgar Watson Howe
Maybe her appearance wouldn't be harped on so often if she acted like a decent human being. I don't feel sorry for her, as she's been askin' for it.
I've seen many funny signs and posters in China with direct translations into English, abused in every way thinkable and unthinkable. But this one beats me. It is the idea that I just can't get into my head that anyone actually formulated.
Case number 0xCAFEBABE?
Dude, wait until you see what the Germans can do with just 20 people!!!
Yes, but it sounds weirder as an intransitive verb. At least to me.
No, but if your boss walks up behind you, he or she isn't likely to say, "Hey, I bet that's an article about naked people instead of an article pertaining to the research you're supposed to be doing!" Whereas with PICTURES of them, it's a little more obvious. It seems like this point should be obvious too, but I guess it's not.
Beliefs which are impossible to document are false. Would it be acceptable to convict criminal defendants on the basis of what is obvious but impossible to document? How can one rationalize believing in things which are admittedly impossible to document in some reasonably verifiable way?
In light of Cheney's diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, yesterday, here's a look back at the largely unreported story of the VP's radical cardiectomy in January 2006. An eyewitness to the surgery said Cheney's heart was removed because he wasn't using it -- and he needed to lose a little weight.
And though I'm still a fan, Olbermann has devoted more time to ANS than I'd like to see. That's the segment of Countdown I ignore while doing laundry, usually.
That said, Olbermann doesn't ignore the real news.
What defines a "win"? 600,000 dead? A sea of radioactive glass? US corporate control of the oil fields? A puppet government? The total subjugation of the entire country?
So I guess "Mission Accomplished" just wasn't good enough for these 28%?
Ok then, if we're just talking hardware, then "Mac" users are PC users too, as Macs are now PC's as far as hardware's concerned.
It wasn't even my comment, I was defending Seguro on the basis that I thought Senzei had taken his comment as an insult. I now realize I could be doing senzei the same dis-service, his comment could be read as a joke rather than a rebuttle.
How does anyone communicate effectively via text on the internet? Perhaps smilies indicating tone should be made mandatory on all posts!
Incidentally, every time I hear the word mobile I still think of those things you hang above a kids bed. How cool would a Virgin Mobile be? Now that would do some business!
Given Mr. Alishtari's support for the Repub party I would think that Coulter would like being a front for terrorists.
http://wonkette.com/politics/afghanistan/how-terrorists-become-republican-senate-inner-circle-members-238265.php
harry potter seems like a pedophiles drunken dream
No other animal when in distress or danger magically commands or prayerfully begs the environment to change its nature for the organism's specific benefit.
Pigeons disagree.
Anyone care to expand on the Darcs issue?
I think people like to throw around the word "enterprise" as some sort of proof that a language won't scale.
Google uses Python internally, for some very "enterprise" tasks (as in high user load). YouTube uses Python on the backend. Something tells me that YouTube is using more computer resources than some random "enterprise".
And on your point #5, Python is older than Java.
4 (with a smattering of #2) is the real reason Java is so popular.
She didn't pull "faggot" out of a void. It was a reference to the Grey's Anatomy flap, wherein a black man called a fellow cast member a fag. Furthermore, she's obviously not saying Edwards is gay, but that he's "pretty" and "not very masculine," which is the usual non-sexual definition of "faggot."
Really, I don't enjoy the lady's ranting (mostly due to her "Xian" and otherwise typical Republican perspectives), but just shut the fuck up, you faggots.
Courtney Love and Tori Spelling?
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From the article:
"U.S. intelligence sources stated that the "same people" who have continually protected Perle and Feith since the 1980s were also protecting Dickerson and Grossman. CIA sources, including those who served in Istanbul tracking nuclear smuggling in the late 1980s, also confirm that the Turkish-U.S. nuclear black marketeering ring was directly tied to the Abdul Qadeer Khan nuclear smuggling ring in Pakistan, an operation that sold sensitive nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea, and Libya. The ATC and ATAA in Washington is directly tied to and supported by AIPAC and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) reported a U.S. counter-intelligence source. In fact, JINSA is an "Aegean" member of the ATC. The source said that Valerie Plame Wilson was targeting the ATC and Turkey at the height of her counter-proliferation work in 2001, but special interests associated with AIPAC and JINSA, which the source claims control ATC, scuttled Plame Wilson's operation by exposing Brewster Jennings as a CIA front company."
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I think they've got it confused with a complexity issue with a corner case merge operation.
Particularly sad, since there's no explanation of the bug, how to reproduce it, references to any bug entry in the darcs bug database... sounds like a magical vapourbug...
Strictly musically speaking, rap is incredibly boring--single chord if any, no melody, few changes, sampled instrumentation, etc. Music is not rap's strong suit--if you argue the music angle of rap, you're gonna lose.
This is missing the point. Rap is a spoken word art form, not music. Some people are music people, some are lyric people. As a music person, rap bores the ever loving crap out of me--and truthfully it's agitated presentation often annoys me. However, if I sit back with the intent of just listening to lyrics, or read a lyric sheet, there's plenty of interesting content.
Don't take it as an insult. Rap is an outlet, a form of expression. Rhyming and "making music" are two different things, though, and rap does itself a disservice by not stressing that it is more spoken-word than anything else.
" Many of you say paternalism is to protect the very stupid. Would you support Would-Have-Banned stores with an min IQ rule? If so, what would that IQ be? "
Yeah, well, that's a pretty broad brush to stroke with. In this day and age, giving a singular definition to satanism is like giving one to christians. brainburger is right in that satanists in previous centuries (up to about the 19th) were theists, but from Lavey onwards you'll get a pretty wide smattering of religious philosophies. I'd hazard that most practicing satanists these days are primarily antinomian and epicurean at heart.
I found a great unclaimed money database that is easy to use.
I had no idea that there was so much unclaimed money and unclaimed
property just sitting out there. I don't think the public know that
all the states are required to report lost and missing money and property.
All you need to do is do a free search at this website to see if any of it is yours.
all i want in a phone is a phone. nothing else: no text, no music, no ringtones, no games, no color display... i don't even care if it has an answering machine feature. just a plain old fcuking phone!!! why is that so fcuking hard to make?
9 gigabytes a day is really a very low bandwidth usage these days. If that is causing problems for your hosting provider, you might consider switching to a different provider. It is fun to say that at max it saturated two T1 lines, but the truth is that a T1 no longer represents a significant amount of bandwidth.
"Proud parent of an OpenBSD contributor" == "My Child Has Never Been Outside"
Ahh-oops, should've proofed my own comment! Touche'!
haha, I love the crazy person pic of her they got (as if there are any other pictures of her, but still)
Is there any reason I should care?
While I would agree that the title made this one fairly obvious, I don't understand the vitriolic responses to someone asking for a NSFW tag. You all act like it's about the person making the comment being squeamish and upset by nudity, when it probably has a lot more to do with the person's BOSS not caring for their employees looking at porn at work.
NSFW is just a nice little warning that lets people know that if they click the link and the boss walks past, it could be a bad situation. I don't think that's too much to ask for.
This may apply to DRINKING the coffee, however, pouring it on your face will make you very alert.
You have apparently never dealt with schizophrenia in a clinical setting. It certainly may be something else, but schizophrenia is the most likely cause -- if indeed the reported behavior is real.
last time she got blood on her iron. she won't redo it for live television.
Moore wrote that Oprah should be the Dems candidate in a book he wrote (Dude, Where's My Country) before the 2004 election. The primary argument as I remember it is that she would be largely immune to the sort of smear tactics and compassionate conservatism BS that Bush has used against traditional politicians.
Has Moore continued to propose her as a candidate since then?
Hey over-30s crowd, have you overdosed on finger-pointing?
p.s. YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!
Not to defend the Bush administration, but be rational people. This was developed as a worst case scenario and was never meant to be released to the public:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4379905/
We can't jump on the administration for not looking at global warming, and then when it does, we can't fault them for looking at all scenarios, but failing to "release" what is certainly a worst-worst-worst case scenario. That would cause an unbelievable amount of panic (see this post) without any real purpose.
or the bug up her ass
or the bug up her ass
Ok. I found this on the corner cases:
There are two related corner cases that you have to watch out for. The first is when two people separately enter identical or near-identical changes into their separate darcs repositories. For example, if two people each get a copy of a file, put the file into their respective darcs repositories, run "darcs add" on the file, and run "darcs record", then the result will be two separate patches which each add an identical file. If two or three such duplicate changes apply to a single file during a darcs pull, darcs might effectively "lock up" as it tries an exponential number of possible combinations in an attempt to resolve the multiple layers of conflicts.
The second corner case is when there are multiple successive "conflict, merge, reconflict" changes between two people. This happens rarely since, as we have seen, darcs eliminates spurious textual conflicts and requires user intervention only for unavoidable textual conflicts. However, it can happen, and when it does, darcs will again effectively lock up.
I added the link to his blog comments.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/e239591cbc9eb18d
Second paragraph.
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Except that it takes a lot of energy, mostly from oil, to make our farms as productive as they are. All the automated farm machines run on oil products. Farm products are shipped great distances in vehicles powered by oil products. Heck, the huge amounts of fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides that the farms apply to the soil are themselves oil products.
Farms use water and the sun to turn oil into biomass. Does it really make sense for us to convert that biomass back into an oil replacement?
Is it just me, or does the author incorrectly treat "the free market" as an entity all by itself?
My understanding of the concept of a free market is that people can choose what goods and services they provide or consume. Thus to imply that conservation and free-market are incompatible is totally wrong.
Furthermore, free-market economics assumes that each individual acts in his own self-interest, so to say
it would be, by definition, irrational economic behavior to produce energy so cheaply that the total value of the world market for energy goes down.
is totally wrong. If the total value of the world market for energy goes down, but the value of my share of that market goes way up, then it is totally rational for me to produce cheap energy. Cheap energy, just like cheap labor (think automation and robotics), is in a few people's economic interest, even though the global value of energy or labor goes down.
Lastly, the article doesn't really offer a practical alternate economic policy, leaving me to wonder what the point was.
the thing that pisses me off, is i get dragged down with all the pretards, after getting educated, saving my ass off, and victimizing nobody. somehow i still get stuck with EVERYONE's bills.
A good quiz to determine your risk of heart attack!
Brilliant piece.
If you change OpenBSD to Linux and license the text under the GPL, it will get downloaded mightily but worn only in specific settings. And then Microsoft may sue you.
I guess I'd eat her just like every other woman. Unless there's something, well, different about her...
Should have read your link first, cause I've never watched lost and spent a good 15 minutes trying to figure out the pattern.
no it didn't.....
http://www.salon.com/news/cookie756.html?URL=/opinion/greenwald/2007/03/06/cult/index.html?source=rss
the motherfcuker want to set a fcuking cookie. fcuk them
Quick! Get this to #1 so we can see if the site goes down! rubs hands maniacally
He hates Linux too... maddox hates everything.
Pretty neat!
You're missing the point. WB is not saying that an army of citizen journalists are going to take over. He is saying that the newspapers are screwed because there is enough GOOD ENOUGH information online offered for free (some by competing newspapers, some by TV stations, some by government-sponsored agencies like BBC, and some, yes, by "citizen journalists") to ruin the business. It has to do with specific dynamics of competition.
To put it another way, even without citizen input, newspapers with online presence would destroy each other because there are no longer barriers between their target audience. Airline companies have beein destroying each other's profits forever without a bunch of guys with strap-on wings giving people rides.
multiple partners! those freaky aussies...
Hehe, yeah, chemistry class in high school taught me that oxygen is pretty corrosive... i guess i should i give up breathing.
Very likely because of the length. Not that I care, because it's now searchable in reddit, and if I need find it again, I know I can find it instead of finding bunches of barely related results in search engines.
Jimmy Carter didn't make secret DEATH OATHS OF LOYALTY to his church. Mitt Romney has. See: http://www.rethinking-mormonism.com/mitt-romney.htm
Mitt Romney is no moderate Christian like Carter or Kennedy. Romney has made secret death oaths in the Mormon Temple and as part of those oaths wears special underwear as a "constant reminder" of those oaths. Do we really want him running the country?
98% of people have had songs stuck in their heads. What do we know about them and what can we do about them?
Exactly!
Of course, it could be possible that wepack is referring to the advertisers that are the subject of this story...
In that they're responding to criticism from their customers and are acting to repair their reputations and protect their businesses.
FURniture is MURder.
I am staying the hell away from Illinois.
This is by choice not necessity. I've found it straightforward to write code that can be used on the main common lisp implementations.
In particular, if you are using popular cross platform libraries such as GTK or SDL and OpenGL, and interface to them with CFFI, then things work pretty well.
it's from drinking the coagulated blood of iraqi children that usa soldiers kill and butcher
Therefore: Profit!!
Don't jokes have punchlines?
That paragraph stuck out to me, too. We're the only species to make bread, use currency, or vote for our government. Perhaps we should reject any leader in favor of wheat, money, or democracy, too.
Dear Dismayed Americans,
... since I've been researching the National " REAL ID Act... I've uncovered quite a bit of "discouraging" information that I've wanted to share with you (and Bruce).
But now, what's become even more discouraging is the fact that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 has now declared that the "United States" shall now regard all Americans as either (A) a U.S. citizen; or (B) "an alien".
Having never truly understood the definition of "United States" citizen, I've taken a few months to examine this question, with interesting results. Confirm them for yourselves.
Long-story-short, by declaring that the "United States" will now regard all Americans only under the definition of "United States" citizen, it means that this Act declares that an American will no longer be considered as a Constitutionally recognized State National of any of the 50 States.
Please understand, before there was a United States there were/are the States (which are sovereign Republics/Commonwealths); just like any other country in the world).
So, if you decide to renounce your U.S. citizenship, you do not, lose your nationality, from the State in which you were born.
For example, if we look at this Military Commissions Act from a European persepctive, this declaration is tanemount to telling Italians, French, Germans, etc. that their "Italian", "French", and "German" nationality has been replaced by "citizenship" to the European Union.
Consequenly, as this declaration may be unconstitional, it begs the question... "How the Executive branch of the U.S. governement possesses the authority to make such a declaration?
Why?
Because if this Act is accepted, it appears that this Act eliminates the independent Sovereignty of each of American States!
So allow me to share with you what I've discovered...
Liberal Communist AntiAmerican Faggots, is what these companies are!
just don't vote for frauds. anyone who pretends to know any god, is a fraud. anyone who uses that fraud as an excuse to alienate and abuse and destroy others is evil. EZPZ.
or continue as pretard sheeple and go RIGHT DOWN THE TUBES in a couple decades.
the FIRST quality a leader should posses is the ABILITY to know what 'knowing' IS. and what it ISN'T.
Consider the plot of the movie: The Matrix...
Morpheus: I imagine that right now, you're feeling a bit like Alice. Hmm? Tumbling down the rabbit hole?
Neo: You could say that.
Morpheus: I see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that's not far from the truth. Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Neo: No.
Morpheus: Why not?
Neo: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
Morpheus: I know exactly what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Neo: The Matrix.
Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is?
Neo: Yes.
Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television [ http://www.fcc.gov/ (?)]. You can feel it when you go to work [ http://www.eeoc.gov/ (?)] when you go to church (The 1st Amendment http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment01/)... when you pay your taxes (http://www.irs.gov/). It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage (The 14th Amendment: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment14/). Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.
Morpheus: Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
Goes to show how dangerous Islam truly is. And don't give me this "it's only extremists" junk. The Quran instructs all muslims to kill those who don't follow Islam.
You might not use it because it is like C++ but you use it because "others can easily work on your code" which is just an euphemism for "lots of other people use it" and that fact is rooted in the similarity to C/C++
Hannity and Colmes
snopes++
The 6th mistake is making dumb lists of stuff that everybody should know already.
See, if we hadn't nuked Japan when we did, this is the kind of terrible tyranny we would all be subjected to!
Oh, wait...
Shit.
What - give up and pander to the naive?
This calls for a AI R&D project - detect and block comments from people who don't get it :)
The Java compiler is better at optimization than the C++ one
Sorry but without specifying a specifc C++ compiler statements like that are just bullshit. I am not defending C++ here but even I can spot obvious problems with your argument like that.
it shouldn't have a grip on latin america. or anywhere, looking at what happens to things they ('we' - im one of the powerless americans unfortunately swept along down the tubes) grip.
Google uses Python internally, for some very "enterprise" tasks (as in high user load).
Google also uses Java in the back-end. C++, Java and Python are their 3 production languages.
See, smarter programmers would want to shoot the language designers ;-)
I'm with him with regards to the political cartoons and ones right to offend.
However, it strikes me as intellectually lazy and inconsiderate to use his small town as a template for a novel.
c# IS crossplatform, and to some extent .NET also is
that this kind of thing has resonance and is growing is hardly shocking. they speak to a fear in america nowadays, and so long as they aren't confronted and argued with rationally and with real facts, but are instead ignored or assaulted (like the 'Halifax incident' the article mentions) they will continue to grow. So long as "our national debate" and our politicians continue to ignore the issues arising from illegal immigration, it'll continue to get more mainstream, until they get so powerful they solve this problem in their own way, and not in a way any of us will like.
Hate speech not only survives in the darkness, it thrives. Bring it into the light, where it dies.
--vat
yahoo is php - most visited site in da intarnet
Anyone know if there is similar data for years past? It would be very interesting to see how various countries have trended over the years.
Questioning individual people's dedication to protect the Constitution is one thing, but this guy is making the world black and white. He's like Dawkins: he says no devout member of a religion should ever be a leader. You love your religion? Get your ass in the lunatic evangelist pigeonhole!
I think it will be more then a niche. I used Python for about 4 years
straight for work.. not just playing around. Now I'm using Ruby.
If I had to choose between the two I'd have to flip a coin.
I like both well. They are close in some respects. It didn't take
long to map what I knew about Python to Ruby. I switched to Ruby
because I needed a web framework and Rails seemed like the best choice.
Another tip: caching. He doesn't mention caching, which isn't all that surprising -- it can't help with his problem (bursts of traffic).
I have a lot of large js files on my work site that can't really be compressed any further (one big js file with scriptaculous + prototype.js mushed together, a few with stock symbols, etc). I put them all on their own virtual web host along with the static images, and set the expiry on them to one week. That helped speed up page loads considerably.
Your point is dead on. I opted for the broadcast TV version (in the US at least) because people always cry about NSFW stuff on Reddit (in the US at least).
Updated in real time ...
There's almost no single defensible statement in the entire article.
Not true.
Take "The language is only a small piece a (should be "in", I guess) the big scheme."
Article is +/- based on that idea and it's true. The rest is elaboration on where, in author's view, some languages fail. Particularities may be debatable, but the gist is true.
Assuming I understand the difference between static/dynamic scoping properly, I haven't really had a problem with it. With respect to variables, I try to avoid them (since I'm being "functional" and all that...), but if I use them inside a function I'll "declare" them in the function's arg list which guarantees that they're private to the function (or so it seems!).
You can do something like lexical scoping with their "contexts", which I tend to use as namespaces.
Again, it's not been a problem with what I've done so far. Largest application has been a thing that builds dynamic websites from a structural description (~300 lines), most interesting thing has been implementations of various motion blur algorithms (~100 lines). So I am, obviously, just getting started.
Oh and as for distribution... Chicken (yes I looked into it!) requires an addition C compiler. Newlisp (although not doing a traditional compile) doesn't need anything else. How convenient... ;-)
as a web designer, I'm always looking for google information, this make it a whole lot easier.
I'm with you. After seeing Python, I thought it was a stupid idea. Then I learned Haskell and i realized it was a good idea that Python had done badly.
Fair enough. I just thought you were being a prude. Apologies!
Wow...thats really great
Now will Brits stop making fun of Americans for being fat?
wow...dumbass
This is actually a very old metaphor. I remember some girls flipping out over "Look how nicely her garden is weeded!" when reading a translation of Lysistrata in high school.
you're kidding me right? C++ will kick Java's a$$ in perforamance in nearly
every case. I've seen a few floating point cases where it was close
or Java won but those were outliers. C++ is usually orders of magnitude faster
to the point of no contest. That's one of the reasons why Sun had
to suspend writing Open Office in Java and switched to C++.
Heck, I've written Python programs that kicked Java's butt.
geez. we should stop killing them.
Sweet! But wait...the only way to win is not to play. Doh!
There was an NSFW subreddit, but it got abused with porn submissions.
I actually got sick of it because of all the articles about flowers and puppies.
I didn't mean to imply that Google only uses Python, my apologies if that's the impression I left.
Mostly I was trying to give a counter-example to #6, where they said that an "enterprise-level architecture" using a P language didn't exist, and that the languages couldn't "scale".
also, we lawyers don't sign our names "john smith, lawyer."
it's "john smith, esq."
certainly a fake, and i don't understand why someone created it. it's not even remotely funny, and it's not even remotely authentic looking.
The article doesn't say how they measured "alertness".
What is this nonsense? The pharmacology of caffeine is well understood. It interferes with adenosine to suppress drowsiness. I can believe that if you're well rested and not drowsy caffeine will not aid alertness, but a cup of coffee definitely shakes off the yawns and makes you more alert.
We firebombed Tokyo every night, killing gads of civilians. And then we vaporized two cities with weapons of mass destruction. I think they call that 'war'. In the grand scheme of things, we're being pretty careful. Sorry, people die in wars, always have, and not just the soldiers.
Yeah, but nobody would buy that one.
Oh, wait.
If you clicked it by accident, what good would [NSFW] do?
I think we should all conserve enegry by reusing our mucus.
perfect case of why you should never put such policies/systems in place.
And the hardware to run OSX isn't expensive?
A digg.com submission. Enough people who don't know what they are doing will come on by and stress test. So just post a top 10 list of some sort.
Curiouser and curiouser
No, no, I wanted you to read the quote.
I've read it several times, and wow, actually I've even watched the comment being actually spoken in context on C-SPAN! Amazing! Quoting one little line doesn't change the fact that Kerry was talking about Bush and not "Teh Troopz". If I'm giving a speech about how smart Darkmeerkat is, and in parts of the speech I say something like "certain redditors are pretty smart" -- do you think, just maybe, I'm talking about Darkmeerkat? Yes, I would have been.
It's not rocket science or some code to be deciphered.
This thread is amusing. I can't tell who is being sarcastic and who isn't.
i say the only way a nonmurderer stops a murderer type, is the 'freeze' out. just ignore them in every way. all of them, everywhere. don't vote for them, don't talk to them, don't trade with them, let them know you don't tolerate ANY of them...either they will simply become even more maddog murderers (definately some at least) (and be dealt with using traditional defense strategies), or they will want back in the flock. EZPZ.
You might need to be an Erlang programmer to be as tickled by some these examples as me :-) They aren't supposed to be cryptic or overly clever -- they're just -good-, and idiomatic.
The reason why the firing may be a scandal is because at least some of the attorneys were investigating possible acts of corruption, e.g. the attorney investigating the Duke Cunningham case. As far as I know, Clinton/Reno didn't fire any attorneys while an investigation was in progress.
The last president to fire an attorney in an effort to derail an investigation was Richard Nixon. The firing of the special prosecutor investigating Watergate and the forced resignation of the US attorney general and the US deputy attorney general was a big factor why in the end Nixon had to resign. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre)
you're an idiot.
http://reddit.com/search?q=made+meat
Seriously, don't insult the chimps like that. What did they ever do to you?
My interpretation of the article is that everyone's needs are unique. Some have to be concerned with the availability of a readily available workforce and go with Java, some may be concerned with turning over inhouse GUI apps as quickly as possible and chose VB and some want uber-flexibility and chose CL.
The point is that there is no such thing as an inferior language, it's relative to what you're needs are. Politically, I'm a Libertarian and agree with all of their political stances. However, if I could wave a magic wand and implement all of the freedoms that Libertarians want overnight would I? Hell no, society couldn't handle the freedom. Programming languages are the same way. Some need to focus on speed, some on low-end cheap labor, some on the ability to quickly paste together separate libraries and some just want to show a random quote on their web page.
why do not use cable tv?
Caffeine,
Caffeine...
Speediest molecule that you've ever seen!
I don't believe I'll ever leave
My caffeine!
Sweet caffeine....
Going in there with the flash tracer myself, it looks like that stuff has already been removed. I don't see a single trace on the site.
Certainly though in sites I've launched, there are plenty of traces. Check out mtv.com (not mine) if you want a shit-ton. Nothing too fun though.
i listen to luxuriamusic.com...(space age batchelor pad music)...i started in about 2000. they went off the air in '01 or '02 due to some sort of governmental assault (i switched to live 365)...came back on the air in about '03 or so...i've been listening (and contributing $$ annually) ever since.
i'd hate to lose them again. you just can't find that sort of music on the airwaves. and im long SICK of that crap.
sounds like they want to LIMIT us to what it was like in the olden days. just a few formats...none interesting unless you're the slavoring horde pretard sheeple type...a few mega stars....everyone else starves.
According to the Institute of Medicine, about 18,000 people a year die because of a lack of insurance.
How do you die from lack of insurance?
http://r-project.org (internally Lispy)
In R's defense, I understand that it is more APLy.
You can't call yourself a thinktank if all your ideas are stupid ... Bill Maher explores this idea a little further in this streaming video.
Now I know where I can get much fun, nice pictures and wallpapers. It made me happy when I saw this: http://www.brainparking.com/view/topic.cfm?key_or=752998.
Okay, thanks for clearing that up. You're wrong by the way.
I have never heard of a single case of hospitals holding a baby ransom. The parents are of course free to leave with their baby whenever they want. Where did you get that story from?
In addition, most city wards, towns and villages offer large cash bonuses for new parents, similar to the example of France you mentioned.
Yes, those evil CJS thugs, who also happened to publish this article.
BBC - Bad Bad Cience
obama ftw
what
This is my idea -- in the comments on a post about why direct carbon offsets are idiotic.
If you (unfortunately must) start using the really procedural parts of the language, it feels a lot like scheme with curly braces. In fact, I believe the language's creator creator acknowledged as much.
It's all about economics...
Reddit readers voted 3 times more up votes for the "100 Couples Having Sex" story than for the "Fox News devoted 12 times more coverage to Anna Nicole" story.
OMG, that's a heartbreaking picture.
Here's another one for you: Activist, anti-Bush lawyer "falls to death" at hotel
Yeah, rap is commercial garbage now and the proof of this is...that it wasn't as commercially successful last year as it was the previous year.
Love that logic. I'm sure the top albums of the year were, of course, artistically sound works of brilliance and not, oh, NICKELBACK.
Why is this comment being so aggressively downmodded? It's so obviously true.
Speak for yourself. I take a multi vitamin.
if there's any justice remaining in this country, these guys will win.
--vat
It seems like nobody is really trying to stop these deaths.
Sure seems like it: Activist, anti-Bush lawyer "falls to death" at hotel
"Friends and associates expressed disbelief at the news of Sanford's death and that it was ruled a suicide, saying Sanford seemed happy and had made many plans for this week and in coming months. Mills said he and Sanford recently decided to open a shared law office to serve Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, something Sanford was looking forward to doing."
I'd say maybe just careless for his own sake... how could he not expect some backlash?
At the last section I was refering to why c got replaced by java, not why people pick Java as their language. I don't think that any programmer who has started programming during the java era will select java because it's like c/++.
Here quote from the FAQ
The design of R has been heavily influenced by two existing languages: Becker, Chambers & Wilks' S and Sussman's Scheme. Whereas the resulting language is very similar in appearance to S, the underlying implementation and semantics are derived from Scheme.
Use of 'email' as a count noun irritates me, but I know it's a lost cause.
And Rails is a fast and easy development framework, which supports Karsten Wagner's thesis.
Let's Reject Any Religiously Orthodox Candidate for High Office
Good example of "throwing the baby out with the bath water"!
The site's down. Anyone have a mirror?
"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." -- Twain
Trekkies in search of the final frontier should stop by Tony Alleyne's Voyager-themed apartment.
Title says it all....
What I find unsettling is the huge number of people (of all religious and non-religious persuasions) who never think about or question their own beliefs. I am much happier to find someone who disagrees with me, but has thought carefully and continuously about their beliefs, than someone who agrees with me but never questions anything.
edit: which is to say, I think the argument that "intelligent people become atheists" or "intelligent people become Christians" (and I've seen both arguments presented) is fruitless. I would say "intelligent people know why they believe what they believe, and are always willing to reconsider."
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Of all the cookies out there, this one's not very heinous.
take care of them emotionally? the FIRST thing a sick person should KNOW is THEY are handicapped and should APPRECIATE ANY help they get, because it is NOT mandated.
if you get sick AND mean, you should be kicked to the curb.
this sounds like some ploy to scam more money out of the 'system' (MY pocket) to me.
i cared for my mom for 2 years after a stroke, she was in insufferable BITCH who (covertly) claimed abuse by me. so that nanny cams were installed and monitored by her church/police. (no charges)
when i discovered this, i kicked the ungrateful CUNT to the curb IMMEDIATELY...(my replacement lasted 2 weeks)...i just moved in with her as a favor, since i was a batchelor living in the same town...and she didn't want to stay with a stranger (we heard stories). anyway, suddenly i was accused of everything (behind my back) from stealing money (i had power of attorney), to engineering the DMV revocation of her driver's license (doctor had to send the paper work to them...i had NOTHING to do with it). as for the 'stealing' EVERY bank statement, and every bill receipt, were in neat piles in front of her chair in the TV room (where she spent all day)...she didn't bother with evidence...she's 'psychic'.
she wouldn't do her therapy either. so what was origianlly supposed to be a 6 month gig, turned into 2 years....NOT ONLY THAT, but the doctor who said someone had to live with her temporarily (driving, shopping, cooking, etc) said, after the 2 years..."immediate family shouldn't be primary care givers"....THANKS for the 20/20 hindsight 'doc'!
been 5 years now since i left, and i still feel like punching her fucking lights out if i ever come across that fucking bitch again...and she's my mother!
and yes she was ALWAYS a delusional 'queen' bitch sort...who read bullshit books entitled: "men bad, women good". mercy for her, while she goes around destroying those around her.
Yes he has.
Oprah Nixes Presidential Campaign, Thwarts Michael Moore
By Lynda Johnson
Sep 17, 2006 \t
Could talk show queen Oprah Winfrey win in 2008? Michael Moore said at the Toronto International Film Festival that the Democratic Party needed more movie stars-turned politicians, he insisted, calling on talk-show host Oprah Winfrey to run for president.
"I think we should get Oprah in the Oval Office," he said. "Every 4 p.m. she could still do her show."
Source
I've got the music from Damien in my head now.
mmm interesting. :-)
interactTCP port f = withSocketsDo $ do
servSock h) $ accept servSock) -- ???
er, say again?
EDIT: OK, nevermind -- I see the correct code when I look at the source of your page. I don't know why it renders in this insane way for me.
if all it does is bring you "back to normal", i'm still all for it. i'm a dedicated coffee drinker so "not being a regular consumer" is not an option.
sponsers like Pontiac
Eh... I'm not sure why you insult me. My comment is more directed at disproving the teacher, not you.
5) It was out first. Duh.
Compared to what?
6) It's scalable. This is one of the big ones for me.
Java is far from scalable, in fact java supports massive concurrency quite poorly (ever tried to solve deadlock bugs on large java system - argh!). If you want to take a look at scalable language, see Erlang.
Blech! Love the smell, hate the taste. I use it purely as a (supposed) performance enhancer.
Sad, very sad... maybe Starbucks needs a Happy Meal? They should have seen it coming though, trying to mass market "character" is futile, and an oxymoron.
Just when I'd almost given up on the Haskell Hacking feed!
Please, go on, fascinating stuff!
Good for your heart, good for your penis. :-)
THis site taught me how the courts are really just a money making operation and that if you have any confidence at all you can beat nearly any ticket by using the methods of this site alone.
Ninja Tune++
The taliban leaders we were after actively traveled with children just so the the military would have to make such a decision.
They've always put children in the firing line.
I think our commrade should not be so clumsy
need a tool to scan OAS environment
I think it's safe to say that the US has tanked in the last 7 years. I have no numbers to back that up, but dollars to donuts says that will prove to be the case if/when numbers are found.
It's interesting -- I'd just decided to go cold-turkey on caffeine today. Short term, caffeine seems to make me more alert and motivated (alert when I'm sleep-deprived, motivated anytime). Unfortunately, it also makes me stupid in the long-term, by upsetting my sleep, mood, and quality of my plans.
The problem for me is that the perceived benefits are immediate, but the drawbacks take a few days to set in. So, every time I go through a stretch of reversing my sleep schedule, and wanting to quit my job, it's a surprise. Then I'm like "oh yeah, I started drinking coffee and coke last week." Mental memo.
I didn't see those in there.
Look in the paragraph that begins:
But there are other problems in certain languages. For example Haskell:
T'was brillig?
Could it just be that the people who don't drink coffee don't need it to make them alert, whereas those who do drink it, drink it because they need it in the first place?
OH MY GOD!! I spelled his name wrong???!!!
I guess it's time for this motherfucker to get back to C-Lister spelling school.
"nothing with mass can travel faster than the speed of light"
i've always thought this was suspect when i took physics years ago. even came up with an example (im no physicist...got an 'A'though)
in a vacuum (space i guess), a spinning hub (x thousand/million/billion, etc rpms), a very fine diameter 'spoke' of some strong material of radius 'y', a particle on the end of that spoke.
seems like there is now some finite combo of (formula) hub RPM, and spoke diameter, and material type/strength, and spoke length (radius), at which the particle would be travelling the speed of light...and beyond. (spinning round and round out there on the end of the spoke)
yeah i know, they say the NRG required would be infinite..so you halve the spoke diameter and double it's strength...and you have more headroom...everytime you run up against a limit, just increase RPM and/or halve the diameter of the spoke, double it's strength, increase it's radius, etc
you may have to create some exotic materials, but so what, there's plenty of electrons and junk to use.
don't laugh unless you're qualified...and only use understandable terms for refute please (and don't just parrot someone elses formula as proof) to 'prove' me wrong.
It seems like Boratspeak.
Articles and views like this confuse price with cost. You may not save much money by using sustainable energy or by switching to a low emissions vehicle, you may even pay more money to implement this change, but you will reduce cost or long term impact of our actions on the environment. We should be less concerned about the cash in our own wallets and more concerned about the long term effects of human actions on the planet.
but its the truth.
No, "it's" not. It is purely contemptible, cliched, worthless, poisonous psychobabble, and it is an evil stain on popular thought and popular rhetoric. Do not engage in it.
no kidding!
let's stop posting stuff that is 7 years old ...
The EULA in question is 787 words long.
$ wc -w nemo-EULA.txt
787 nemo-EULA.txt
$ exit
THis site taught me how the courts are really just a money making operation and that if you have any confidence at all you can beat nearly any ticket by using the methods of this site alone.
It almost sounds as if this is not your site.
Also, I hate it when people speed gratuitously.
interactTCP can now be used to write any kind of server
No, it cannot -- it only serves for a strict subset of servers that e.g. C can implement, using few abstractions. However, it will do for many interesting servers.
EDIT: well, some foolish person downvoted me rather than ask what I meant by this simple assertion, so: using interactTCP , you cannot write an echo server that responds to nonlinear messages -- something a C implementation would have by default, rather than go to the unnecessary work of taking things in lines. You can test this neatly with netcat, typing some characters and then hitting C-d to send them off, sans any manner of line termination.
Indeed. And I wonder how many people who are applauding this move were also deriding the radio networks and their advertisers who pulled their sponsorships after the Dixie Chicks fiasco. Free speech is free speech, regardless of how vicious or thoughtful the words that are said.
definately entrapment. as a matter of principle, you do not set up people who may have a character flaw to expose that flaw who would not given the absence of the stimulus. IMO.
Could Beyonce be advertising breasts?
aasss
Why do you have ethics?
the second pic looks like she has some sort of adhesive on her right boob.
at any rate...hollywood sure is scraping the bottom of the barrel. but then look at who their major market is. slavoring hordes.
everyone see and and click it there are cricket shedule and photos
Agreed. This is really one hell of a read. I'm sure the fact that I'm left-of-center has affected how I read the article, but I'm glad someone put into context how absurd it is that Bush is perceived as a war hero while Kerry took so much criticism for his Vietnam-era actions.
There are two sides to the debate
This is the same bullshit faux-balance that corporations continually interject into debates over their business interests, and journalists fall for it again and again.
I predict that browsers of sufficient sophistication to run even today's web applications will never be able to prevent the surreptitious transmission of private data from trusted server A to untrusted server C if client B has access to A and will click on arbitrary links from C.
This is, perhaps ironically, a lot like the problem the MPAA and RIAA have. If your customer can see the bits, they (or their browser) can copy the bits over to someone else. There are 100 ways to do this, all of which have legitimate uses and would be hard to part with without massive loss in functionality.
Not sure about this research - I certainly feel more awake after my second cup.
Details the possible origins of the secret
Surely, you must have a problem with coffee...
If he's not, it'll be because of apathy. We've got lots of support (in the form of lip service).
Yeah, I was pretty damn annoyed when I read this. If they can do this, they could just put a 20 dollar bill on the ground and pounce when someone makes a move for it.
here's an idea, just ignore the things you're not interested in! and quit pretending you're the keeper of 'interest' for the 'people'!
honeypot
Folks, XKCD just isn't that hot. It's as simple as that.
Mmmm, a chart which defines Mormons as a "cult" largely based on how its doctrine differs from the author's own definition of Christianity. Could the site be hosted by an ultra-right-wing conservative christian crazy organization? Sure enough, how about that!
Why do most people seem to worship inferior gods?
I think the title needs to be clarified somewhat.
The article states that a morning coffee won't make you any more alert if you don't drink coffee regularly. It quite clearly says that it actually has an effect on those who drink a lot of coffee because it reduces withdrawl symptoms that build up overnight (unless you're hooked up to a Starbucks IV drip).
So if you rely on coffee to help you be alert, the first one of the day helps. Which is one of those "No shit!" pieces of research...
But if you don't drink a lot of coffee, and don't get the withdrawl symptoms building up overnight, it doesn't have an effect on you. Or at least it has no more of an effect on you than simply drinking a glass of water or eating a piece of toast.
So for me the research is a slice of PR, and doesn't actually tell us all that much. As with so many science press releases and studies nowadays, which is a shame.
I must admit, finding ways to come up with 8 meters of documentation sounds ridiculous enough to be rather fun.
This ignores svk -- and so does the 'conversion chart'. I had no idea that this VCS was so obscure.
ya Japan is a great country
I would contend that the bulk of the work in developing linux is done exactly that way (lots of people taking on small tasks from time to time according to their opprotunity and particular talents).
The bulk of the work in developing an operating system is not in writing the code, but in bug and performance testing it. For every hour spent writing code in the kernel, there must be thousands of hours spent debugging the kernel and deploying it and measuring its performance.
That is where the bulk of the kernel development work takes place.
Teen Bukkake 23
what's dan quayle doing these days?
maher's slightly less libertarian than I am. but about as close as it gets on tv anyway.
Where is the outrage from this group over the Bill Mayer comments wishing the Vice President was dead?
he's cute.
I advocate the death penality for this case
i'd like to see some DNA screenings of the bone collection.
see who's related to who.
and how the whole mary/god DNA thing worked.
People do indeed lump all lisps into the same category in many instances.
How long have you had a drinking problem? You should get help. ;)
It wasn't mentioned in the article, but they all later went on to commit suicide.
Well, I have found it convenient for my own uses (which I'm sure are not serious or interesting enough to impress anyone). Since you are already very comfortable with Lisp, it may be missing or doing in a different fashion too many things for your comfort. The implicit array access and slicing might make up for the "nil" thing though...
For me, however, it's been a pretty good experience. Yes, it has problems, but nothing that've gotten completely stuck on, unlike my experiences with AutoLisp, CMUCL, xxScheme and friends.
The documentation is readable and includes examples. (I'm looking at you CLHS!)
It can be run interactively or "compiled".
Lots of little features help reduce "code noise", like the implict accesses described above.
It's very small and lightweight.
It plays nicely with the host operating system.
An IDE (not terribly fabulous, unfortunately) is provided, but not required.
It's fast enough to be competitive (arrays could definitely use some work though).
This gives me a decent chunk of the power spectrum from scripting to applications. I was able to start playing with it quickly (didn't need to install a million dependencies) and do interesting things, but it has also continued to support me without dropouts ("oh, you should move to Lisp X for Feature Y") this far. It has also helped me with figuring out other Lisps as well -- Emacs Lisp used to be completely impenetrable to me, but now I can even write bad tic-tac-toe programs!
I may still someday decide that I must have "true" lexical scoping because what NewLisp offers is so laughable -- but at least I will be that much farther up the learning curve because NewLisp made Lisp approachable. Until that day, however, programming is such a small part of all the different things I do, that I'm just happy to be able to get some of the benefits that Mr. Graham described so glowingly with so little pain.
I personally feel old, and you?
For some reason, it is those journalists who are disliked by the authorities who die in this country
Well it's not going to be the ones who write about how nice Mrs Putin's hair is, is it?!
That's certainly my experience.
I've gone through spells when I drank 8-10 cups a day (quitting that was two weeks of hell) and spells when I didn't drink any at all. I currently drink about three or four cups a week. I've found that coffee only gives me a boost if a I didn't get enough sleep and b) I'm not drinking it daily. Otherwise, as the article notes, the morning coffee just takes the edge off my caffeine hangover.
When I'm getting more or less regular sleep, I find an apple in the morning perks me up quite nicely.
why can the president appoint us attorneys anyway? shouldn't that be non-political?
Most performance enhancing drugs work this way. You get an extra oomph now and pay for it later.
the devils in the details
yeah, i haven't figured out how that's working. i suspect various cheating is employed, it's the neocon way.
Those photos have been on the front page about 3 days ago. And stop spamming reddit with this lame archibase website that does nothing but copy images from other websites without adding any value whatsoever.
Indeed.
Her mother Cheryl, a 42-year-old care assistant, said Natalie had tried everything to lose weight, including endless diets and regular sessions with a personal trainer.
Evidently, she hasn't tried eating less.
CARM isn't ultra-right-wing conservative Christianity. It is just your standard Protestant Christianity. The definition of "cult" they are using is:
A religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.
By definition Christianity, and every other religion for that matter, is exclusive. So any deviation from it is considered at best false with some elements of truth in it.
And Mormonism is a cult, don't you watch South Park?
I am going to go on the all new "better sex life" diet!
It quite clearly says that it actually has an effect on those who drink a lot of coffee because it reduces withdrawal symptoms that build up overnight (unless you're hooked up to a Starbucks IV drip).
Yes, so all it does is return you to normal after the negative effects that an overnight lack of coffee had on you in the first place. It doesn't make you any more alert than a non coffee drinker, who obviously doesn't go through the same withdrawal symptoms.
And sugar pills can't cure diseases... except they do anywhere from 2% to 20% of the time.
beware of ANYONE who pretends to be the end all spokesperson for any religion, gender, race, species, etc.
Do we really want him running the country?
In the 1960 campaign, people asked the exact same question of JFK.
Being a venal, papist Roman Catholic, people thought Kennedy would take his orders from the Pope and thus his election would cede the United States to live under the jackboot of John XXIII.
That "secret death oath" is actually the oath one takes to obtain a temple recommend to enter an LDS temple, something that thousands of Mormons do every year, and carries little significance beyond that of the Affirmations of the Faith that every Catholic recites at Easter mass. I'm sure you could find a ton of quotes from the official Catholic cathechism that make Catholics sound like mindless enforcers for god's morality as well, yet history has shown they tend not to act that way when president of the United States.
Seriously, with your talk about "death oaths" of the LDS church, you sound even more ignorant than the religious folk.
It is funny that you say done. I personally think that you can never stop faith. That is not in anyone's control.
The project, known as Top Secret, is looking for artists, writers, designers and audio technicians from the ranks of ordinary gamers.
doesn't require programmers anymore?
Not only a shill, but a ripoff of pickthehottie.com, which has been around for years.
What a fantastic picture!
Twas zaliiggg (L)
Good info on how to go about to keep your sky channels if you're currently with virgin.
It keeps happening, over and over again. Iraq, Afghanistan, what's the difference? It's not like anybody really cares.
Until Microsoft starts enforcing their patents.
hot
All home computers are PCs (Personal Computers). The only things that are not PCs are servers and mainframes.
This reminds me of the (very nerdy) story of a plan to travel to a distant star. No doubt by the time that the rocket was halfway to its destination, it would be passed by a faster rocket launched much later but that benefited from the lessons engineers learned by building the first.
Sustainable energy innovations are similar in that many will take numerous, inefficient iterations before they are perfected or even workable, but ultimately this trial and error is an essential part of their development and certainly not a reason to give up.
No doubt George W Bush expects the same loyalty from the people he has personally met which he has put into positions of power.
I'm sure he does. But, frankly, that doesn't present much of a danger in and of itself. What's dangerous is the mindless loyalty of all of the millions of people who don't have any personal knowledge of him. People who believe we should "support the President" simply because he's the President.
A handful of authoritarian bureaucrats, by themselves, have absolutely no power. Their power comes from the compliance of the populace.
I will tell you, once you accept me as your personal saviour.
If you think the Mormon church is scary, try the U.S. military! Indoctrination begins in boot camp...
So let's also reject any military veteran candidate for high office. Oops, that includes Carter! But it also includes Bush, so I guess that's a net positive.
comment on what, i cannot understand
Nobody vote this up. Coulter doesn't deserve the breath she breathes.
This article has some fantastic points, glad to see not everyone his blinded by the "light".
don't worry, I think I can find a study somewhere that says breathing oxygen is good for you.
but don't hold your breath.
When I came to college, I had 5 years of C++ background (including participation in programming contests like ACM, topcoder, etc). I thought I knew C++. My C++ teacher was on C++ committee, he was like CPP god. I felt stupid when we talked about programming with him. There's so much to C++, especially the STL part, you can't imagine.
So, don't think C++ is simple. It is on the surface.
Hm. A motherless goat is a biological impossibility, so if this man is indeed the son of a motherless goat, he does not exist. Since he obviously does exist, at least in the capacity to write and draw, he must not be the son of a motherless goat.
Unless of course you meant that the goat's mother is merely dead, in which case the man deserves sympathy, not hate. Having a grandma die is tough on most people.
Ever seen an enterprise-level architecture consisting of PHP/Python/Ruby/etc?
You're posting on one...
says it all really
I think your supposed to snort the coke...
want to earn money at home a bit bored
how true !! I almost did !! fortunately i discovered paul graham and eric raymond and also idlewords.com. now i paint ...
Yea, O(0) algorithms are very hard to code and even harder to debug:)
Because disagreeing with the President's foreign policy is equivalent to calling people 'faggots' (?)
I find tips my friend.
Riddle: How do you know this is a british poll?
Lisp and Smalltalk IDEs have always had these features and been superior all along. Smalltalk implementations are typically the best IDEs ever. Most of the Java IDEs just struggle to make the language less retarded. I've been using functionality in Emacs for years, which Java fanatics rave about having in their IDEs whenever they get around to "inventing" it. Sure, lots of information about programs is undecidable statically, but dynamic languages can query the runtime.
So, I don't think it's IDEs you should pin-point. As someone else pointed out, Ruby has a crummy IDE support and is still popular.
I second that.
I have been almost entirely focused on using, experimenting with, thinking about, and deploying open source tools for the last 10 years.
My expertise there is a large part of how I put food on the table.
For most of that time, I was working as an electrical engineer doing network performance measurement and optimization for a satellite network provider.
My first step in that direction was using tcpdump on linux boxes to instrument our network to replace the Network General packet sniffers we had been using. That was back in 1997, the NG sniffers were expensive and a real pain to use; tcpdump was free and by comparison, infinitely more flexible and easy to use.
One I had done the initial network instrumentation, I started writing software to analyze the logs to measure our network's preformance. Eventually, my system was producing realtime measurements and plots of the network's performance. There is no end to the questions you can ask about how a network is performing and the interesting programs you can write to answer those programs. For the next 9 years, my job was to continue extending the network monitoring system I started. Even after I left them last year for another employer, they still pay me hourly to help them from time to time analyze their network.
Every step of the way, I was solving real problems for my employer using open source tools and languages.
If you want to be paid to work with open source software, all you need to do is solve a problem a company cares about. There is no end to the problems companies need solved.
The key is to work on problems other people/companies care about. That usually requires experitise beyond pure programming, and that expertise takes time and effort to develop.
If you expect people to pay you to work on a problem you primairly care about because you find it intellectually fascinating, you are going to be bitterly dissappointed.
I don't know what sort of problems the bulk of the article's author career has been spent solving, but I found the fact that he dismissed Perl so easily very telling. Perl solves real problems for lots of people that lisp didn't/doesn't.
Vista is da' bomb!
If it was such a great gig, we wouldn't need Mexicans to do it.
Hasn't this shit been up on the front page before?
Yeah, I was really puzzled by the whole thing.
When peak traffic on my blog got to be more than I wanted to supply, I just moved the whole thing over to dreamhost. Now I update the blog locally, and rsync the static files over when I want to change them.
James Randi is full of shit, and he obviously has a conflict of interest since finding a real psychic would make him a million dollar poorer.
Is that real or Photoshopped? Either way, I laughed.
How delightfully ironic.
Not necessarily. There are benefits to knowing more than one language.
get fat, don't get fat, enjoy...live till you die. take responsibility. when you're a child you PARENTS not the government is your guide. get the village OUT of the family.
she'll be saved many of the 'horrors' of a sex life as an obese female! who's to say it doesn't work out best this way for HER?
Agreed. Greenwald is usually good, but he manages to tie an awful lot of threads up here. This post functions as a sort of "Modern Conservatism for Dummies." It explains so much so economically.
Can that hysterical poster be real? I'd rather believe that Greenwald was fooled than believe I live in a country that doesn't see how absurd that is.
Help a dog out.
I am actually looking for one of those, can you point me to a good bank or something?
My first cup of coffee might not wake me up...
...but my second surely will.
ehhh... never mind, I got the links from the website! thanks!
This was humorous? Not.
Anybody with half a brain can review the published reports, news, interviews and analysis dealing with global warming and come up with an answer.
If you can't do it, then you're just fucking stupid.
love it!
that is so metal.
Does this mean you won't be sharing any of your creative works with us? Come on sport, quit slapping yourself and give us a taste.
Is the Baby going to be a serial killer or a good person? Are the vegetables the last of their species on earth? Is the baby especially delicious and am I particularly hungry? Your hypothetical situation is difficult to answer without a context.
Since domesticated livestock is so altered by breeding that it would not be a viable species in "the wild." If the world suddenly went vegan we would be morally obligated to sterilize them and let them live out the remainder of their lives or destroy them all and be done with it.
Ethical and Moral concerns are subjective. Whose morality? What part of history's framework of ethics? What if the Genesis commandment to "subdue the earth" is used int this context?
My point is that choosing or not choosing to pollute may ultimately be irrelevant. As individuals we have choice, but as a species with 2 million or so years of hindsight it would appear we are predisposed to pollute, breed, consume, create great works of art, and wreak terrible acts of cruelty on things around us... that as a species we have no choice.
because many of them use it as a tool to scam what they want from a man. rather than something they enjoy. cause mommy taught them that. my dad married a piece of ass (miss "insert statename here")...mom married into a prominent family (dads) and abandoned her blue collar roots. BIG mistake. as she was a petty social climber, who thought 'class' was something one buys. dad was an architect (his dad too) but into the design NOT the money.
My guess is the average American cares 12x more about Anna Nicole than Walter Reed. Sure, there may be a political spin to it, but Fox is giving their viewers what they want. It might not be a legit news station, but it's a damn practical strategy.
I have a new policy. When I go to the new page, I vote everything I see up. Everything. I hope to give these posts a second chance.
good clean website with a lot of of information. my brother needs a loan for his car. this shud be helpful
hmm. how does this post keep getting bumped up (to 3), and mine are down to 0? cheating?
Looks like a frog to me
"I conclude that the writer was so in love with the sound of his voice that he forgot to pay attention to what he was actually saying."
Exactly what I was thinking after reading this:
...what they should really have done, if there was any justice in the world, is smash the desk to pieces, select the longest wooden splinters they could find, then drive them firmly into their imbecilic, atrophied, world-wrecking rodent brains.
The author cares a lot about renaming, which seems odd to me. How many times do you rename a file when using a VCS?
Point taken, perhaps: everybody's tacitly quite cool ...
Now, this would be a ratings killer:
Advertisers dump on Ann Coulter.
Cleveland Steamers for the win!
Your example is acceptable -- you can find it in Shakespeare and the Bible -- but it's archaic. Who speaks like Shakespeare anymore? Who wants to write as he did?
Contemporary use does define the language. I don't argue that. However, it doesn't mean you should not try to speak more precisely than others do.
There is a difference between "like" and "as". It is the difference between similies and metaphors, between resemblance and membership. "Like" is almost a subset of "as".
similie == like == "similar to"
"Bluebeard dressed like other pirates"
"Bluebeard dressed as other pirates (did)"
metaphor == as == (IS something, plays the role of something, is a member of a group)
"I dressed as Bluebeard for Halloween"
"I dressed like Bluebeard" (true, but so did all the other pirates)
"I graduated as Valedictorian"
"I graduated like a Valedictorian" (huh?)
"I introduced myself as an expert"
"I introducted myself like an expert" (but are you?)
Me and you?
hmm. when you look at what the >30 crowd is providing in the way of a future (WE PAY for YOUR COMFORT...and yet NOTHING for us <30's when it's OUR turn)....it would seem even the worst pretarded sheeple xtian would GET that RELEVENT point.
the jig is up, we refuse to support the theiving lying murdering forebears.
narcissism? it's called JUSTICE you morons. typical of you to blame US though. it's always NOT you.
Speaking as an editor and film producer, the production values are high. I watched the first 1:46 and it does look to have been put together by a group of people with a considerable budget behind them and obviously a lot of experience in producing good quality product. The problem however is that high production values and pornography are essentially incompatible - porn needs to be gritty to be sexy - polished productions are nowehere near as engaging.
If you had actually looked to see what the parent of my comment was, you would have understood what I said. I said not one single OTHER PROMINENT religion.
For those wanting to see the site in English:
http://www.frankbuchwald.de/engl_v/serie_e.html
followed by 0xDEADBEEF
I also think that a lot of mathematicians could stand to learn how to program.
God? Hardly. Don't think he had anything to do with it.
And the second amendment is basically useless if the people refuse to utilize it. Which they have. Kind of like free speech, letting it erode away into "free speech zones" and permitted (literally) "political dissent", but still thinking your first amendment rights are intact.
A lot of people hide behind the second amendment while everything melts down into a nothingness.
And there is no need to suspend the Constitution - this is a patriot myth. It's already been 'suspended' for all intents and purposes. How else do you think all the malfeasance has been permitted to run rampant these many years?
Those that believe we still operating under the limits of the Constitution need to look around and wake up. It's a paper tiger nullified by the Supremes and executive orders, and now, hundreds and hundreds (over 800) signing statements. No "suspension" needed.
There's no such thing as a religiously orthodox atheist. Atheism isn't a religion.
gonna be funny when all those worthless chicks have to eat their shoes.
Can we get back to our regularly scheduled programming now??
Only if you will agree to use Haskell or Lisp from now on.
Somebody needs to introduce the poor guy to the phrase "This page intentionally left blank."
It may be, but this doesn't demonstrate it.
It's like in a multiplayer game where everyone's padding to make themselves look better. :) The department looks good because arrests and convictions are up, the offices appear to be doing their jobs, and the general public gets this warm fuzzy feeling that all is well.
To add a plugin, just add a function.
- It's just javascript, so anyone can do it.
Thank you! I can actually read the original post - the reddit'ed links to a site that is so full of ads (and very tiny margins) that I gave up trying to read the content...
When you meet an intelligent Christian, and you feel "eerie," the feeling is coming from you, not the Christian. The best solution is not to embrace your unreasoned feeling.
If you really want to get rid of the "eerie" feeling, you could educate yourself enough to understand why an intelligent person would find religion valuable. That way, you would no longer be gripped by an irrational aversion, and you would probably enjoy life more.
that won't happen to me, im sane, and perfectly positioned to handle a huge windfall just like that! so rest easy. i'll be fine. really. don't call me. im fine.
Q: If birds move in flocks and cattle in herds. What is a group of bankers?
A: Wunch. A wunch of bankers.
It certainly raises blood sugar, but for many of us that just means a drop not much later. If it's sugar for breakfast or nothing I feel better with nothing.
Very disturbing video.
He's clearly mentally ill beyond any kind of repair. I'd sure as hell want to know if he was living in my neighborhood and I had a young son. Personally, I don't perceive this interview of him as harassment, as the blogger seems to suggest. Maybe if he was hounded day after day, but even then, I think I'd have a hard time working up a whole lot of sympathy for his plight.
meh, it knows Euler's identify but not Euler's formula.
e^(i*x) returned normal search results.
How do you die from lack of insurance?
Gee, you got me there. Why don't you read through this and let me know?
about search
yeah exactly. 'win'? that's the pretard's way of 'thinking'.
there is only who is left, no right nor wrong. --whomever
which happens every day in washington.
Doesn't that make deployments problematic when there's new JS code?
edit: Oh wait, duh, just give it a new file name
Eeek, I resemble this article!
"It makes perfect sense. One hardly ever sees flying saucers on Spare the Air Days, and I never saw one leave as much as one thin little vapor trail last year when I was down at Michael Jackson's ranch"
HA!
Of course the US attorneys President Clinton fired were in the middle, beginning and end of investigations and prosecutions at the time President Clinton fired them! The work didn't just stop because a new President was elected. President Bush can fire and appoint US attorneys at his complete discretion the same as President Clinton. And though I personally was not pleased with President Clinton firing all US attorneys and wondered what was going on, I didn't go into scandal mode without evidence of wrongdoing.
I was just attempting (poorly) to say her opinion was valid if you think the way she does. An opinion can be valid and wrong at the same time depending on how the individual looks at it.
a bad way to say it perhaps...but it isn't the same as a different opinion.
Articles and views like this confuse price with cost.
Actually, let's not beat up the reporter here. It's not just journalists who cannot see the true cost of C02 pollution - neither can the free market.
by switching to a low emissions vehicle...you will reduce cost or long term impact of our actions on the environment
Hold on a second. If you have a perfectly good, average car with reasonable mpg, it is not a good idea to rush out and buy a brand new low emissions car.
Any CO2 saving due to using less gas will be more than offset by the huge sunk CO2 cost in creating the new car, and junking a working car (or worse, leaving it on the road!).
All government appointments are political.
80% of all americans are fundamentalist christians?
Towards the end - "moderate coffee consumption of four to five cups per day is perfectly safe for the general population and does have a beneficial effect on alertness and performance even in regular coffee drinkers"
4-5 Cups a day is moderate? that seems one too many for one not to go into withdrawal symptoms.
When in office one cant avoid coffee. The weekend seems like a good opportunity to flush it out the system. The Monday coffee would then be the best, and the Friday one the worst, .. hic!
Finnish is clearly superior to English. Let's all start using Finnish, we'll save so much money. Why aren't you speaking Finnish yet?
Troll:
A word to describe someone with the opposite of a 'liberal' viewpoint, even absent the presence of malice or baiting. (Valid only on the internets)
Hate: never out of style!
Wow, India and China were the richest in 1500 and soon they will be again.
$85/mo for 100 mb port, 1500 GB bandwidth, 160 GB SATA, root access, 1024 mb ram. layeredtech
See the David Beckham Adidas Video
im suprised he can fill a stadium. are the tickets already selling?
Worth the wait, too. Beautiful work!
Research team has discovered that the liver produces a substance named cardiotrophin-1 when it suffers stress or damage; for instance, when the blood flow is interrupted. The scientists have demonstrated the powerful protective action that cardiotrophin-1 has on the liver.
My experience has been with hysterical PC users! 15 years ago when I was choosing a computer system for my office and told other business people I had gone with a Mac, I was greeted with near hysteria, told Apple was sure to go out of business, begged to stop the purchase, warned how sorry I would be--NOT! I was able to first learn how to use the computer and software on my own, initially network the office's five computers, and learn how to troubleshoot. As a 50 yr old female with no computer experience, I doubt I would have been able to accomplish this with a PC.
Israel is viewed most negatively in the Muslim countries of the Middle East
Impossible!
A four-year study of 25 patients with follicular lymphoma, performed by specialists from the University Hospital, University of Navarra, Spain and the CIMA, was presented at the Spanish national congress of hematology and hemotherapy
my 2 cents here, after working for some dotcom
if you try to 2. Turn on HTTP compression; it will decrease your bandwidth usage, but increase processor usage because every page needs to be pre-compressed by apache/httpd before being sent to the client. Depending on where your bottleneck is, you might want to consider your best option. Plus that if you compress the page server-side, it needs to be decompressed client-side, which might slow down rendering on older computers. Plus you can't flush() things anymore; make modules appear as they are downloaded in real time, since the whole page has to be fetched/decompressed before rendering.
secondly removing spaces from css/Jss files is great, unless you want to change the code later on. so save your css/js files before "optimising" them.
A New Zealand scientist has offered a schoolboy $100 for his six-legged frog
Dunno, seems to me that the author is arguing his right to piss off people and then acts surprised when they answer angrily.
My brother in law did come down to the Imperial March... played on a harp.
Yup. Her personal business model is only minimally based on ad revenue. This isn't very painful for her.
Just like chumming for sharks, this is filibuster bait.
funny
I wish it was real
"...these scientists are mostly liberal athiests [sic], untroubled by the hubris that man can destroy the Earth which God gave him."
From the Conservapedia article on Global warming
Thats what i would figure too... but here is the article...
Its toward the bottom of the article
Coulter insisted last night that she did not intend the remark as an anti-gay slur -- that she did not intend to suggest that John Edwards, husband and father, was gay -- but instead only used the word as a "schoolyard taunt," to call him a sissy. And that is true. Her aim was not to suggest that Edwards is actually gay, but simply to feminize him like they do with all male Democratic or liberal political leaders
A man would have laughed off the taunt and maybe made a self deprecating joke or comeback, but pretty hair had his wife ask for cash.
good, i want to see some real estate 'investors' and flippers LOSE THEIR ASS in the market.
ME GUSTANO MUCHO !!
Are so many people really this clueless about basic personal finance decisions? Whoa!
Recently in another post, a redditor suggested that personal finance be taught in all high schools (or earlier). I think that's an idea whose time has arrived!
Just so you know, if you put a backslash before the # that begins that second line, it'll solve your problem.
Thanks. I wanted to post this yesterday after I read it in the (paper) Times, but I couldn't get it out.
Am I the only one who didn't realize that the poster was implying the solar eclipse was a pair of devil horns?
See, this is where Dawkins parts company with plenty of smart skeptics: he thinks humans are just another animal species. This is only trivially true. Most smart atheists people agree, "What a piece of work is man!"
http://www.digg.com/offbeat_news/Just_another_beautiful_Sunday_for_church_oh_wait_pic
Submitter could atleast have chosen a different title
BJAX, obviously.
Duh.
There are two problems with posts like this one.
First, the author isn't very well informed about any of the systems. And who is? Who really understands git and bazaar and hg well enough to write with authority about how they compare?
Second, moving code onto multiple disconnected and often offline systems creates a kind of socially NP complete problem. If anyone can do anything, you can't possibly expect to get any work done, and we just expanded the definition of anything. The systems make choices about the kinds of workflow they will excel at and you need to understand and follow that workflow to really "get" the system.
Suppose you discovered subversion in isolation, but didn't find the update command for 3 weeks? You'd be writing some pretty stupid blog posts for 3 weeks. Subversion's workflow is all about that update command, and the workflow it implies. (I hate it. Long live git!)
Git's is a far worse subversion than subversion, but if you want a lot of code reading and review happening on your mailing lists, you may have found the tool of your dreams! I did.
I recently heard a pastor speak on the issue of finances: "For most people their money problems are not an issue of income, but an issue of income management."
There will always be people who are poor due to their circumstances (layed off, disasters, etc.) but I think no matter how much money you make, the tendency is to spend it before you have it... none of it gets saved, and we go into debt far to quickly.
Think of when you were 5. $5 was a LOT of money!! That was FIVE chocolate bars!! Or... FIVE packs of baseball cards!!!
And then when you were 12, $100 was a lot of money... you could buy the BIGGEST lego set at the store!!
And then when you were 17 $1000 was a lot of money... you could buy a cheap car! Or a sweet guitar!!
And when you were 20 $5000 was a lot of money... you could pay for a year of school, or maybe to go Europe in the summer instead of working!!
And after you get out of college and get a job, $10,000 becomes a lot of money because it would make a nice down payment on a house.
I think this kind of progression is natural. The problem is, nobody is really content with what they have and we only think we'll be content when we get to the next level.
If people aren't happy and wise with their money when they have X dollars, why would they be happy or wise when they have X + Y dollars?
i wish Amerika would adopt some EU 'productivity' or maybe tahitian...just work to live, not live to work.
not rape and exploit everything as fast as possible.
much more time off to just LIVE.
"Olbermann doesn't ignore the real news."
Except this time. Which just goes to show Olbermann will whore himself out when he needs to.
That would explain a lot, if you're right. The lack of stability in 2.6 has been killing me, personally - I write and support device drivers for HPC interconnects and the churn in the kernel code for supporting DMA has been making my life hell. We've got large swathes of code dedicated to "If we're on 2.6.9, do it this way. If we're on 2.6.10 but this function is missing, do it that way. If we're on 2.6.10 and we have that function but it's broken, do it another way...."
Very clever. You must be proud of yourself. But you must have missed that I never brought education into the matter to begin with. 'fishy' did after childishly offering nothing more than a mild threat instead of adding to the current subject matter. I will be the first to tell you that you are correct in your statement about intelligence and education being correlative.
Now.. back to the subject. Answer this. Where's your proof of this German citizen being beaten and abused other than the fact that he was indeed kidnapped? I'll answer for you: You don't have any proof, other than this angry mob syndrome everyone is displaying right now.
Atheism is as good a religion as any other. Religion is the sum total of answers given to explain humankind's relationship with the universe. Atheists believe the universe just has always been here or maybe it spontaneously self generated from nothing or some other theory not involving a creator. These beliefs are no more or less provable or valid then any other religions.
In my grade 11 math class we learned about interest and amortization but I don't think it really hit any of us how relevant it would be later in life.
>"Those that dont have, with very few exceptions, seen their relative quality of life suffer."
That is highly misleading. And something that hardly ever gets challenged.
"Relative" can mean so many things can't it?
Thats like saying Sally started off with one bucket of gold and Jack Started with 10.
In 15 years Sally now has 3 buckets of Gold while Jack has 45.
"Sally has less now then she did before."
"Relatively speaking", Sally hasn't done as well as Jack, therefore she "suffers"
The majority of "Rich" are in the business of putting the majority of "poor" to work, and without either, the economy hits the shits.
I am NOT saying the "poor" shouldn't be helped out more, I am just saying the "tax cuts for the rich" is a bullshit copout to appease sheep and get votes it has no real tie to anything remotely truthful.
And before anyone gets the wrong idea, I will have you know that I am in the LOWER middle class, hoping to get higher someday. I do not feel like the government is cheating me, especially when I didn't pay any taxes for the first 28 years of my life. (like 99.9% of the "poor")
There cannot be a "Tax cut for the Poor" as the poor do not pay taxes.
You can't "cut" what you don't have. But you can take what you don't own.
The truth is "relatively speaking" that the poor get more services, and are servered better now than at any time in our history, things are and will continue to get better. It certainly isn't perfect by any means, but we are not sliding backwards.
When I made my comment to you on this:
>The rich "need" it."
It was because you put in need it, you sounded like a whiny uninformed sheeple towing the standard rally cry...
When you say crap like that you belittle any possible argument.
There was also an article about this in the New York Times yesterday.
I think Larry Sanger's comments on this are incisive and informative. Larry Sanger was cofounder of Wikipedia.
And the bible instructs Christians to kill adulterers and to stone those who eat shellfish. What is your point?
This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota. LOL
I noticed that too--it's seems to be a standard media tactic to report on a study measuring some odd quality without mentioning how it was measured.
Is it just me, or is the concept of 'alertness' something that is at least quasi-subjective?
Are you supposing that the ability to gather a million users and libraries is independent from the language's intrinsic features?
I really don't think so, I'm quite confident that Lisp can't, by design, gather a large community and make it work together to produce great libs. And that's not only an issue of "moron coders are a dime a dozen".
yup - the frog is dead in the water now
You mean, reddit should be distinct from digg?!??
what, did you expect a graph?
The size of the US next to Canada in these images brings one thought to my mind:
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
Pierre Trudeau
Not Guilty?
Vote me up if you love kittens and puppies and bunnies.
Wrong. On the shows I've seen, he dedicated a segment to that, but a separate segment to Walter Reed.
a herd of wildebeest sweeping majestically over the plain?
It will be announced any minute now.
Who would be outraged about that?
the frog has its own web site "ribbit.com"
What's wrong with having a nice haircut? Reagan did. About the only nice thing about that old, demented faker too.
Interesting point, though I think he was trying to reap victim points afterward and not "stoop to her level".
I was going to leave a comment to the same tune. The page is great, I've been visiting it for years. This one is really pandering, because it's not that funny, it's just stabbing for a reaction.
It sounds like you had a bad experience. Would you like to talk about it?
Not true. It's just that the calculator is numerical, not symbolic.
Try replacing x with a real number.
A man would have laughed off the taunt and maybe made a self deprecating joke or comeback, but pretty hair had his wife ask for cash.
Thank you for reinforcing Glenn Greenwald's point.
BSPlayer is adware.
"This version has an client-side software application Whenu Save! that deliver a limited number of behaviorally targeted and contextually relevant coupons, ads and comparative shopping results directly to consumers desktops"
Is it possible to search for text (e.g. Ctrl-F) on a flex/flash page?
BULLLSHIT!!!!! I mean in my own experience, i can not start a work day without a cup of coffee. So how do this stupid scientists measure "alertness"?
I am actually surprized that N.Korea rates so high -- I would say, "Mighty good PR people Bush has". I would think the majority of the world is more concerned with the sphere of influence of the USA than that of N.Korea. I know in Canada, N.Korea hasn't infulenced our political choices over the last 20 years. My guess, outside of Japan, S.Korea, and China -- most nations would say the same.
Precisely, beginning with "A man would have..."
Those FreeBSD advocates are taking it a little too far.
I hope people keep in mind that while the sun is a possible cause for global warming, human acts like greenhouse gas emissions are still scientific facts. That is, it's still a damn good idea to curb emissions, seek renewable energies, and cut down on manufacturing useless shit.
Please add a (NSFW) tag at the end of the title... can't tell if it's a pictureless article, or something that could get you fired.
I think that this was an interesting post. Indeed, the discussion around Coulter's "joke" should not focus on Coulter-- for her approach is well known-- rather, like this article, the focus should be on why folks laughed and what it means that many folks laughed...
Imagine an article that identified who laughed. Imagine an article that asked those who laughed why they laughed. The responses would be illuminating and/or interesting and/or pathetic...
Really, who cares about Anne Coulter? I want to know who at the conference thought such a joke was funny and why, so that I can decide not to support them.
Ouch, man, that hurts to look at. That's what I get for clicking on your link!
And yes, fantastic writing.
Ha ha, thanks. Hrmph. Darn markup.
If the homeless man gets to fight back with a tire iron, I'd order it on pay per view.
rise? are you a vampyre?
lol, how ironic and funny...
awesome moon eclipse compilation
Now.. back to the subject. Answer this. Where's your proof of this German citizen being beaten and abused other than the fact that he was indeed kidnapped? I'll answer for you: You don't have any proof, other than this angry mob syndrome everyone is displaying right now.
We shouldn't need absolute proof to begin an investigation; the allegation coupled with the evidence (that he was kidnapped by US intelligence) is sufficiently damning that the US should come clean if it has nothing to hide in this high-profile case, assuming it cares at all about the goodwill of its allies.
Of course, that would be much more convenient. Der.
Number 8: The original version of Back to the Future that starred Eric Stoltz rather than Michael J. Fox.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future#Casting_and_filming
That's a standard force majeure clause.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Wow, it sounds like the situation with your mom really hurt you. I truly hope you're able to find a way to heal from this.
Unfortunately doctors aren't so great at seeing what's going on behind the scenes (remember you've been steeping in this for a lifetime). The thing is they're right when they say immediate family members shouldn't be the ultimate caregivers in such circumstances (such as psychosis or brain damage that may occur due to a stroke).
The reason that the police and church responded the way they did is that in nearly all substantiated cases of elder abuse, the mistreatment occurs in a domestic setting.
http://www.elderabusecenter.org/default.cfm?p=statistics.cfm
The most clear analysis of Conservative motivation Ive ever read.
Like Libertarianism is actually about false independence. Like Homophobia is actually a reaction to personal feelings of same-sex attraction. Like Religion is arrogance masquerading as humility.
Is Conservatism a reaction to feelings of powerlessness.
Its not strength, its the inability to deal with co-dependence (the necessity of communities), justification for selfishness (guilt) within the community (that gives), and feelings of weakness. Why do conservatives hate community? Because they want to hide that they are not willing to give as much as they take. This makes them feel guilty... this makes them hate the community itself for causing cognitive dissonance.
STUNNING article.
Unfortunately this is not only a thing that happens only in the US, and not even CNN has "balanced" news at all.
You'll find real news in the newspapers, Try one week reading everyday's paper, and watching the news at night and you'll see there are two totally different worlds what are described in both sources.
Actually, some of those are covered under acts of God. An act of God is basically any catastrophe for which no human can be held liable, so that would at least cover norovirus and hauntings.
It is a bad habit among many to uncritically accept negative views of religion as well reasoned. It is a terribly reasoned article.
Proposal: "Let's reject any religiously orthodox candidate for high office."
Reason: "Why? For one thing, its time for politicians to accept responsibility for their actions instead of attributing them to divine advice or counting on supernatural intervention."
Hidden premise: All religiously orthodox people count on divine intervention and do not accept responsibility for their actions.
Two problems with the premise:
First, it was hidden although it is the crux of the argument.
Second, it is false. The best example to show that it is false is the Mormon religion, since the article points to Romney as a specific instance to which the general principle should be applied. Mormons specifically believe in accepting personal responsibility for their actions.
In sum: poorly reasoned, obfuscated, and poorly researched.
My meaning was don't join an army if you can't stomach the thought of having to go to war or at least be in a combat zone. Armies exist as a deterrent, and failing that, a means impose and enforce a particular point of view. This isn't the Peace Corps or Medecins Sans Frontieres.
that sounds like the punchline to a joke
The article also completely neglects those that would save hugely by using a domestic wind turbine. The middle of a windless city, obviously, would not be a good site.
I still don't know why domestic hot water isn't the focus of RE efforts, since that has a very high ROI.
More interesting will be if DNA analysis establishes relations between the contents of the ossuaries with the names jesus, mary, joseph, matthew, and james.
a slut recruitment tool superior even to a non-union indie-film cattlecall.
If you don't mean to say that all reddit atheists are assholes, you should be more clear.
Accept it: despite what our mother and our boss may have told us, most of us are quite average.
John Hargrave on "Checking Out"
And Sandy Berger, who actually committed a crime against national security, still hasn't taken the lie detector test that was part of his plea agreement.
Oh, I get your trick now - you fork the original thread, and then stick with your point, and then never address that you created the argument in the first place. That's actually kind of clever. Do you find many people who fall for that? Oh, be sure to keep asking me to show you my creative works. When you argue in your head with is that the strategy you use, asking them to show you which movie they've written? Or do you address the actual points they've raised? Because one method is discourse, while the other is just sophistry.
Oh, don't forget to ask me for a link to my creative works again.
The good news is that now 13 CIA agents are wanted by interpol and now can no longer travel abroad.
How originial, taking a cliche and switching it around. Nothing is impossible...NO WAIT! Impossible is nothing...yeahhh!
Your a bitch. Get it?
All of the above flourish in silence.
You vote this up = we step outside, I shoot you in the face. Dick Cheney style.
I call it badly reasoned, waffling, and relying strongly upon shared political stance (left leaning).
The author has left off the most important point, namely: what if the others are worse?
Well, as a nonorthodox and nonfundamentalist New Age type, I do tend to think that most people advertising their services as "psychics" with extraordinary powers are in fact not psychic, they're just after fame and money. There probably are people with such abilities, and perhaps such abilities are latent in us all, but at this time in human history, most people don't manifest such talents.
I'm not surprised to hear about Oprah's dishonesty because we live in a pretty sleazy age. ([sarcasm] I blame liberals and Jews for that! [/sarcasm]) But don't think for a minute skeptics are never deranged sleazoids. Do some online reading about self-proclaimed quack-buster Dr. Stephen Barrett, for instance.
"a cat-in-the-hat hat! a cat-in-the-hat hat! it's coming for me, man!"
If we, as a people here in the United States (or insert your country here) decided all together to dissolve our government would we survive the greed and tyranny of other countries?
Maybe so - in a way, the U.S. government in the beginning wasn't much of a government at all as far as its ability to protect U.S. citizens from foreign invaders. Americans survived nonetheless. I think what we find in history is that any body of individuals who refuse to be governed will always win out over some centralized invading government (just look at Iraq for proof).
I bet it's total snake oil. My understanding is that you can't use entanglement to transmit information, except in as much as you can draw inferences about the state one portion of the system collapsed to from measurements on the other portion. That's not effective for communicating extra information.
That's implicit, since this is a public board, captain obvious.
Considering that I kept giving data and examples to prove my points, and you kept simply screaming "physics and chemistry" while plugging your ears, I'm figuring I came off better than you did here.
I'd use it all the time if said VCS actually supported it
Wait here... I'm going to complete college again.
What I meant then was:
-(n-1)(n-2)(n-3)(n-4)/24+1
I think Vietnam can go both ways. You could say that the impact of American forces in Vietnam was working, as evidenced by the rapid steamrolling North Vietnam put on the south as soon as we left.
On the other hand, what was gained?
I am not convinced that just because 76% of Americans believe it to be a good idea makes it Right. When you're in control, you control the agenda, including the news. The president has unprecidented access to media. You can get your message out easier when in power, than when not. So that 76% agreed proves only that, in the face of evidence to the contrary, the messenger is more important than the message.
This has lost it's title and link.. :(
I second this one. The world is ready for a new wiki, with Ajax and stuff.
I went off caffeine about 7 months ago. I noticed I definitely feel a lot better now. Here are a few of the benefits I've noticed:
I'm less tired, because I sleep better
I don't get headaches any more
I can get by on less sleep (surprisingly)
I'm more calm now
Because I'm more rested, I'm a better programmer.
Those are just my personal perceptions, but having gone on and off caffeine a few times in my life, it's pretty consistent for me. Being able to get by on less sleep was surprising to me, because I always thought caffeine made it so I could stay up later. For me anyway it works in the reverse, caffeine makes it so I never get as good of sleep so I'm always running on empty and I don't have any reserves to pull from. YMMV.
One thing to be aware of, my caffeine withdrawals were very severe this last time. I ended up going to the doctor after about two weeks of very severe headaches. He said it takes 3 weeks for caffeine to work its way out of your system. So if you are going cold turkey like I did, you may have headaches for a few weeks. If I was going to do it again, I would step it down more slowly in three week increments.
it's pillz, i'm sure, not mdma caps, so he'd still be getting the amphetamine buzz...
Kim Jong Il is certainly not better than Bush, but he sure has less influence. So he can be considered less dangerous. Makes sense to me.
Fitzgerald/Spitzer in 2012.
Yes
dude. you just have to meet the "right" people.
the sahyadris, thats very near where I live :) does this mean that this guy is found only in this area? cool!
He totally like deserves a mac, i mean hes like a columnist,the new Windows-right-wing-Ann Coulter.
Since it can't be scientifically proven man causes global warming, no action should be taken on unverifiable global warming theories. Of course, efforts to reduce pollution should, reduce waste and improve energy and other efficiencies should continue.
I think it would be much more prudent to require a basic finance class during college. Myriad college students graduate, and although they might understand math, science, literature, art, music, computers, athletics, etc.....they have only a vague idea about filing taxes or getting a car loan, which are things a huge number of them will probably have to do within five years.
I'm 20 right now, in my third year in college, and by almost any statistical measure, I'm on the bottom of the poverty rung. You'll get no sympathy from me for these people that get a chance to put more money into their IRAs, but then blow it on an expensive car that they have to then pay ridiculous insurance on instead.
Don Quixote is cursed!!
It's the complex interactions with your system that aren't well understood. The problem is that caffeine stays in your system for weeks. It doesn't go away over night. So in my experience, when you are on caffeine you don't get as good or as deep of sleep at night, which makes you more tired during the day. So as the article notes, caffeine is a self reinforcing cycle that at best will get you back to where you were if you weren't on it to begin with.
Too bad he's just a fall guy for the administration.
Most of whom probably believe in The Real World, a concept which inexplicably excludes all but the most mainstream ways of getting paid.
I think what the article means is that they committed a suicide of integrity, and of the spirit that defined the quaint euro-cafe that they once were. It's a 'cultural' suicide in which the personal, community like atmosphere that initially defined Starbucks is dead. It has been replaced with the impersonal zombie like corporate veneer that attempts to emulate it as cheaply and efficiently as possible yet fails miserably.
people would stop equating race with culture
The two are rather strongly correlated, even across nations.
It gets this right:
(e^(((e^(((e^(((e^(((e^(i * Pi))^(1 / 2)) * Pi))^(1 / 2)) * Pi))^(1 / 2)) * Pi))^(1 / 2)) * Pi))^(1 / 2) = i
At the reception, cake pieces are cut in radians.
This wasn't written by Dawkins. And I recall him saying that man is unique in being able to transcend the evolutionary pejorative and act altruistically, so I'm not convinced he does think that.
I stand to be corrected.
what, no slow-mo replay?
Am I the only one that read this as:
"Washington Is Losing Its Grip" on Latin America?
As in...sanity?
In reply to "c hore" hahaha.
caffeine stays in your system for weeks
Um, no.
The point wasn't that its affects aren't physiological. Of course you feel better in the morning when you take it, because it's smoothing over the withdrawal feelings you are having from not having it. That's the problem with all addictive substances. They give you a high for a while, but after regular use you have to take hits of it just to alleviate the withdrawal symptoms.
Let me put it another way, if I was regularly banging on your hand with a hammer (enough to hurt, but not enough to break anything), if I stopped you would feel a lot better than you normally do with me banging you with the hammer. Yet you wouldn't feel better than you would if I was never banging on you with the hammer at all.
Sorry, had to mod you down for being uninformed. VERY uninformed.
Most LAMP stacks use a shared nothing architecture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared-nothing
It's an extremely scalable architecture and allows Yahoo and many of the other industry to handle the number of requests that they do.
Looks like you have a few more CS classes to take....
When did it hit you?
That's a real shame. He didn't do anything wrong, and this whole thing was just Fitzgerald's witch hunt so he didn't leave empty handed. Richard Armitiage was the person who leaked Plame's identity, he admitted it and everyone knows that.
But the point of this whole investigation wasn't to find out who leaked, it was to get a conviction against someone in the administration, no matter what it was for. Hopefully Bush will pardon Libby.
... only to a person who is on a first name basis w/ Coulter.
Its better than people believing everything they see.
So you're referencing an unnamed high school science teacher, a vague recollection at that, and you insist that someone else back up their arguments with a peer reviewed journal.
Will, My Mom Said So, suffice?
Thank You
ONE scientist's CONTROVERSIAL (according to the article) theory. Take it with a huge grain of salt.
Woohoo!
Hey - found something .... interesting.
Check out the "War Deaths" and "Military Spending" side by side.
You'd never think of the connection....
suck it, conservs!
Jim never drinks a second cup of coffee at home.
I'm not sure what you think impeachment would gain. Real people are interested in REAL things... better jobs, health care, education, the war in Iraq. Impeachment doesn't fix those things.
her name is next door nikki and shes a porn star...end of mystery
You said it man, nobody fucks with the Jesus!
I didn't realize originality was a criterion for submitting stuff.
The same group that is attacking Coulter for her comments should be attacking Mayer for his. At least Coulter did not wish for someone to be dead, unlike Mayer.
wow, great rebuttal. The wit of that retort is a wonder to behold.
How about this, the effect of caffeine is in your system for weeks. It takes three to four weeks for your body to readjust to not having caffeine if you are a regular drinker. If you won't believe me go read some of the research on caffeine with drawal.
No matter what she says, no matter how much she "profits" from this, all she will ever be is the shadow of Jerry Springer!!! JERRY! JERRY! JERRY! JERRY! JERRY! JERRY! JERRY! JERRY!
Jerry has a sense of humour, and he has no problems with being a man.... two things Ann could use!
I defy the Reddit kook echo chamber to accurately describe what, exactly, Libby was charged with and convicted of.
We do know, however, that former Clinton employee Sandy Berger plead guilty to stealing and destroying embarrassing Clinton national security documents from the National Archives, and that he still hasn't taken the lie detector test that was part of his plea agreement.
Fuck this article, yes it will!
Indeed. I wish it were a lack of education, but a lot of people who spout this nonsense know perfectly well that the genetics of race and the social elements of culture are not the same thing.
There is never a reason to be "proud" of being white, or being black, or being Asian, or any other race. It's a genetic set you belong to by chance. You didn't do anything to attain it, and it doesn't somehow elevate you to the level of (or degrade you to the level of) anyone before you who shared the same genetics.
Preserve the work of Shakespeare and Milton, absolutely, but don't claim it's a "credit to the white race". There's no such thing, and categorizing historical figures in such a way (for any race) only exacerbates the problem.
Well... another solution comes from fitting a polynomial of a greater degree than 4
the points would be:
(1,1)
(2,2)
(3,3)
(4,6)
(5,whatever you want it to be)
China perhaps, but India still has a long way to go!
That was freaking great! Thanks for linking that.
None of them related to the Bush or Cheney family, by the way.
I don't think he used "anarchic" as a synonym of "chaotic." I think you have some reading to catch up on regarding political theories and systems of governments.
This guy is out of his mind if he thinks that an academic language like Haskell has any potential at all for the mainstream. Maybe smalltalk is earier to learn (for already functional programmers) than java, but Haskell sure is not. More to the point, 95% of professional programmers out there right now are imperitive programmers, learned in c++, java, and all that other jazz. To find a way to sway them over to functional languages is like jesus trying to part the red sea... it just ain't gonna happen: leave it to those who should be doing it.
My first reaction exactly, they took this one from the new Ozzy Osborne record cover.
They have patents on some of the libraries, like ASP.NET, but C# itself is as open as JavaScript.
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-334.htm
... or you can just type "square root of nine" into Google
Nope. But that's a valid point :-)
Does this really surprise anyone? Bush pretty much has never been able to go anywhere outside the US without sparking widespread protests and riots concerned with his very presence. Name a single country (except maybe Israel) where even a third of the population has a favourable stance towards Bush. Right, there are none.
The article seems to use the term 'Latin America' and the proceed to talk about Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, which are all--bingo--in South America. As the article points out, the economy of Latin America is in fact very weak. The US could surely do without them. But it would be a huge blow for most of South America to line up against Bush too. Sadly, that is exactly what they are doing. Or maybe it's 'happily.' I'm fine with anything people can do to try and shake Bush out of his terrorism-privatisation-militarisation-Jesus-CPAC-PNAC-NAFTA-ethanol dream world.
Who cares ? I drink coffee because I like it.
As for plusses - it's a diuretic, so it helps with removing excess body water. You get a more "chiseled" face... also
some coffee before a cardio work-out helps get your heart pumping more efficiently.
Don't worry, you look fine.
To me this is an extension of everything ebay has taught the public about auction theory.
LOL that is some funny stuff!
Well, if you were to limit yourself to pre 1.2 JVMs, what you say is true. However, recent studies suggest that the gap is narrowing and that Java might even come out ahead due to limitations in the optimization of pointer code in C++.
link
A google for "java 1.5 speed c++" produces lots of data to back up my claim.
Here's another, and it's corresponding Slashdot discussion
I'm not sure what you're saying here. Yes, immigration is driving the growth of this movement. But are you saying that talking about the issue will end the growth? That's absurd. Dialog can't resolve the tensions because they are over real things like jobs and neighborhoods and crime. It's not a matter of misunderstanding.
Either the immigration stops or slows, or this sort of race based nativist movement continues to grow.
"The US is the most pro-religious among the world's industrialized nations, with polling data consistently showing, for example, that by wide margins, people would rather vote for a religiously devout microcephalic ax-murderer than for the most admirable atheist."
What poll was that?
Finally, someone who can debate.. You are correct in the fact that allegations are enough for an investigation. The question now is, where do we draw the line at? What kind of allegations, and from what source should we take each allegation against the US government and investigate it fully? You will find that we cannot investigate all of them so there must be a line somewhere. So the credibility of the sources comes into play here. This is why I believe that we must use hard evidence to filter them out.
It's also cool to note that Google can do some pretty arbitrary conversions...
Who knew that 9 leagues/hogsheads = 0.493 mpg?
Emacs. But it would be a lot of work and wouldn't make any money, so you do it.
Did you not read the article? He lied to the FBI and interfered with an investigation that was being conducted to determine who leaked classified information (i.e. Valerie Plum's secret identity) to the media.
PS - You have been defied.
My bad.
*singing* ...just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, the medicine go down, the medicine go down...
Even if it's fake (likely) it would be great if Lucas would set up a sub studio for allowance of satire considering the impacvt his movies have made upon our culture.
mental illnesses maybe
He didn't do anything wrong
Uh yes he did. If you can't read the article, at least look at the image.
If CL is on par speed-wise with C/C++, why don't we see numerical computations done in CL? Why do engineers and physicists use Fortran or C/C++ (and more recently, Java - and in the future, Fortress, probably)?
Your claim just doesn't pass the reality test (and all you would have to do is read comp.lang.lisp).
It would really be better for CL if people started by acknowledging its shortcomings (there are many).
This is actually true. I heard about this last year when a buddy of mine who works for a law firm in L.A. saw it an e-mail forwarded directly from Lucasfilms.
It takes three to four weeks for your body to readjust to not having caffeine
Wrong again. Takes a day.
Seriously, does anyone even pay attention to the BBC's "scientific" articles anymore?
Of course, by then you can have had some oatmeal or other very sustaining meal. That first bit of fruit is no substitute for a complete breakfast. But have it before your ablutions and it will see you through to breakfast.
I thought he was gonna get off when the jury two days ago asked the judge what exactly he is he being charged for because they didn't understand the charges.
I sense a pardon being issued at some point in the near future.
Nope!
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=(e^Pi)-Pi
(xkcd reference!)
Why is that, for instance, that some people write financial applications in Java for real-time financial stocks analysis (such as, for instance, Bloomberg)? I think you have had limited experiences in your life.
And another surprising poll results from BBC(Bias Broadcasting Corporation) shows that 99.9% of HAMAS members hate Jews and experience recurrent night dreams, where they see the president of Iran walking between the radioactive ruins of Tel-Aviv.
Which is ironic, because arguably Hamlet didn't.
Not only that, but the crescent moon is the symbol of Islam!
So what was he charged with?
BTW, Valerie Plum was NOT covert.
We've secretly replaced Reddit with a group of people who can have a calm, rational discussion on the role of religion in public life. Let's see if The_Bears notices.
Good thread, everyone.
In "War Deaths", what's the black African country that's so large?
If we're to judge one group by its high achievers, then we should judge all groups by their high achievers.
It's nonsense to compare the best of one group to the average of another. It's nonsense to compare the worst of one group, to the average of another.
or (-1)^(1/2)
Lucasfilm => LucasArts years ago. So if it's trying to be obvious, it's not fake enough to be funny.
Article on the top 10 ways to speed up your computer
Perhaps the most famous "unseen" film is "The Day the Clown Cried," starring Jerry Lewis as a clown imprisoned by the Nazis who entertains Jewish kids en route to the gas chamber. http://imdb.com/title/tt0068451/ for deets
I agree. But the number-crunching applied mathematicians haven't even heard of Haskell (they're over there, programming in Fortran 90 these days, or C/C++).
The only mathematicians who were really interested in Lisp were the people involved in computer algebra, AFAIK.
Quick, let's downmod this guy to make ourselves feel powerful.
Richard Armitiage was the person who leaked Plame's identity
His crime wasn't the leak, but the obstruction. You can't explain his lies by saying his memory was faulty.
Hopefully Bush will pardon Libby.
I don't agree with the hopefully part, but I suspect you will get your wish.
Power comes in many forms. You seriously think having most of the Supreme Court justices, the heads of federal agencies, and the attorney general's office, all personally beholden to GWB doesn't give him power? Do you seriously think that having the majority of Americans sullen and angry with GWB makes one bit of difference?
an educated guess is that the figures has gone up somewhat from 2005 to 2006
Not by 50-100%. There was a substantial rise in military spending for the Iraq adventure, but that's more or less steady state from 05->06.
Hardly. Mono sucks for non-Linux. And will Mono ever have the type of investment for optimization of garbage collection as Java? Their garbage collection is run-of-the-mill. I bet Microsoft research will have people working to achieve something like Hotspot Real Soon Now. Conclusion: stick with Java. Mono isn't going anywhere for real (oh, just your average desktop application).
Brilliant and hilarious. Needs more cowbell, though.
In fact, I thought of Islam before I thought of the horns.
Rails is written in Ruby, not the other way around. All of that baklava-sweet syntax and metaprogramming is very rubyish. Sure, Rails is the killer app, but it gets there by working with the language instead around it.
There is another one.
1927 Metropolis.
Although you have the movie mostly reconstructed, there are scenes you will never see.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0017136/
... He didn't do anything wrong...
So perjury and obstruction of justice are not wrong?
What a wanker
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Talk about taking one for the team. :(
Who said anything about high achievers? Let's talk about average behaviors.
1) Crying never killed anyone.
This is Dr. Spock bullshit. If you don't care for your baby when he's crying he will grow up to be a detached, shy human being. I don't think I need to give specific examples of this.
6) The TV makes a good babysitter when you find yourself out of options.
I don't think you even need me to tell you that this is also bullshit. Author's comment is in the comments section:
Did I mention I hate children? Hate em hate em hate em. With the exception of mine. Before I had kids I never wanted any. After having 3 I don't want any more. My body has been sending me threatening letters.
That's the basilisk death stare. She's about to strike.
That's because Kerry intentionally threw the election:
http://straintheory.blogspot.com/2007/03/breaking.html
these houses are a plague in burbs. love this one trying to be so artistic. looks like a paper mache (sp?) project. ugh!!
lunar eclipse, actually (grin)
This frog is so ugly that I hate it even more than aye-aye and wasp put together. I hate them so much. I don't care how ecologists will think, but I would like their species wiped out on this planet. I just want to gather them by spreading some nuts and when a lot of them gather. I just would burn them with hot oil. I would like to watch them melt and die!!!
"Quote directly copy/pasted from article linked that you already read."
-Asinine acronym to show my reaction.
Who wants to wager before sentencing Libby will be dead in a bathroom motel not far from DC but probably a seedy place he never visited while he was alive.
According to the article you have some form of caffeine dependency. I think this article is trying to point out that one shouldn't have to drink coffee to feel capable of working at peak performance.
Hey downvoters, did you actually watch the video?
I agree. They probably have a secret alliance with polar bears to divide up the world.
please fuck around on the internet on your own time.
Either find a place to work where your boss is a grown up or stop squandering your employer's resources surfing random shit on the net.
You don't need a little tag; you need to act responsibly and stop whining about how other people don't make it easy for you to waste time at work without possibly being embarrassed.
a really badly written [beating the averages] (http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html) ?
wow... impressive. I've been reddit for a while and I was starting to think reasonable mild mannered atheist didn't exist.
a really badly written beating the averages ?
The two are rather strongly correlated, even across nations.
What is that supposed to mean? Can't an Asian-American write great novels in English or an African-American be a piano prodigy?
I see nothing in American culture that cannot be preserved and enhanced by assimilated immigrants of any ethnic background.
The Force is strong with this one...
A few things...
"The underlying premise of the modern conservative movement is that the entire Democratic party consists of a bunch of fags and dykes who are both too effeminate and too masculine to properly lead the nation."
Quite a stretch from just from one remark. The "modern conservative movement" has not needed to rationalize why the Democratic party is unable to lead, they have more than enough proof with our current congress. To say nothing of the fact that you really have to be an Upper West Side cocktail circuit regular to think that half the country walks around thinking that every Democrat they meet is homosexual.
"Meanwhile, Jimmy Carter, who actually graduated the Naval Academy and was assigned to real live nuclear submarines, is mocked as a weak and snivelling coward who should not have a ship named after him."
Jimmy Carter is thought of this way because of how he acted while president not because of his military service.
For a quick and horribly biased overview of how most Americans remember Carter see here:
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/jimmycarter.htm
and he hasn't changed much:
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/12/21/why_wont_carter_debate_his_book/
And btw the Left had no use for Jimmy Carter until he started using apartheid and Israel in the same sentence.
I hate Ann Coulter as I do the rest of the Limbaugh/Hannity
crew but this article is really just a desperate rationalization of the Lefts failure to convince Americans to vote for their political agenda.
placebo is a cure, right?
Seriously, 3 years of studying Mars' climate compared with decades (centuries with ice core data) of studying Earth's climate? It's too quick to make any sort of conclusion.
That's just what I thought when I heard about this. I don't know if her star is fading, though. More likely she's just seeing how far she can go and how much money she can rake in by being controversial. As long as stuff like this continues to bring her notoriety, she'll keep doing it and getting more brazen, until one day she'll be running around with Phylis Schlaffly with no underwear. Then when she shaves her head, that's when you'll know her star is fading.
This is not the senior administration official you are looking for.
I'm real people. I care.
Impeachment doesn't fix those things. But neither does Bush. In fact, he seems to make those things worse.
Putting the usefulness of impeachment aside, the man has broken the law. You probably don't agree, but there are some who feel that if we let this President get away with the things he has done then future Presidents may feel they can do the same.
One of my favoritest college programming assignments was to implement a basic Make program. In the last early morning hours before the assignment was due, I was making Make with my own Make.
There's a point in there somewhere.
They feel the need to ask or unfairly accuse because it gives them a sense of being special...
I figured it out, that is was photoshopped, I am so special..
wOOt
Everyone seems to be thinking "devil's horns" but the first thing that crossed my mind is that the church is dwarfed by a giant mosque behind the clouds with a little bit of its crescent sticking above them.
Twain is responsible for all the best quotes.
Kind of like Vince Foster (or anyone that criticizes Putin) . . .
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/FOSTER_COVERUP/foster.html
The C++ compiler can only guess at how the application will be run. The java runtime compiler uses the actual runtime information. Due to the presense of this information, the C++ compiler cannot directly compete.
Can C++ code be optimized to be faster then java, sure. But how often is it cost effective to take that approach, rather then letting the computer do the work for you?
For most applications, given the same amount of development time, the java implementation will be faster.
Here's a tangential observation: when Dick Cheney sugested that the Democrats' plan for Iraq (such as it is) would play into al-Qaeda's hand, Nancy Pelosi expressed outrage and demanded an apology, whereas Barack Obama joked that if Cheney opposed it, it was probably on the right track.
My point is not to delve into the gender behaviour aspects of this contrast but to point out that the best way to respond to screeching, growling dogmatics like Cheney or Coulter is with light-hearted derision. Degustibus mucks up the point by writing "A man would have" (as if a woman couldn't have responded maturely and confidently), but still follows up with some sound advice.
Just curious.. are you going to bookmark this so you can send it to anyone religeous who happens in your life?
SEE....
They recommend a Pinot Grigio to go with spaghetti?? Wha?
I guess I shouldn't knock it 'til I've tried it...
ONUR
My god, you mean that HUGE FIREBALL may be causing us to HEAT UP?
I don't believe it, I prefer to blame capitalism.
Number 8: "Ubik". Nobody could make it look good on the screen though several attempts were made but the book itself is just awesome.
Bush did not lie about WMD's. Please walk with me down memory road to what Bill Clinton said about Iraq's WMD's in December of 1998. http://www.cnn.com/US/9812/16/clinton.iraq.speech/
"Bush Lied" is a talking point, not a place from which to begin a discussion on the completeness of the Bush Administration's case for war. And it certainly is not an argument in support of the Bush Administration lying about its anti-torture policy.
Slow gui code? I wrote a server that got around 80k messages of throughput with 10k clients in around 45 seconds on a uniprocessor UltraSparc II 450mhz w/ jdk 1.4. The code was heavily multithreaded as well - would have run faster in a single thread on that box.
a very well written article making an important, convincing point....but it is DRIVING ME NUTS that the writer keeps saying "emasculate" when they mean "DEmasculate".
Ann Coulter does not emasculate democratic males. That would mean she reinforces their masculine identity and power. She DEmasculates them - portrays them as effeminate and devoid of power.
It's a mistake that gives the opposite meaning of what the writer intended. We know what this writer means from context clues, but argggh.
Caveat: Kaspersky reports a trojan on the page.
Nice to see a majority of people have figured Israel out, finally.
Oh what a relief. Now maybe this will get a few more threads unraveled. It was obvious watching the trial that Cheney was behind the leak. My prediction is that Libby will suck it up and do the jail time until Bush pardons him.
too.... much.... time....
Ah yes, anyone that disagrees with the liberal talking points must be a nut case. Fu**ing elitists.
My guess is that a pardon will become necessary only if he receives an "unacceptably" long sentence.
I'm thinking he'll do a quick stint in a Club Fed facility and be out before you can say "Former Vice-president Richard Cheney".
(By the way, did you know that Cheney's middle name is Bruce? Fits him about as well as does "Darth Bruce Vader"...)
how do we punish? refuse to pay taxes due to incompetence? I mean, come on. That $2mil wasn't going to be used for jack. It'd have gone right to Iraq on pallets and given to the people we shipped out in response to in the first place. There are about a thousand and a half bigger and better issues we as taxpayers should worry about than a 2mil lawsuit that will hopefully help set a precedent.
He's mad because Oprah spurned him.
3% of the CO2 is human produced. What do we do about the other 97% naturally produced CO2?
Should we panic and cry in the corner?
I thought all liberal males were gay?
I was wrong all this time?
Damn!
Good going boy. We need lot of people like you who are simply willing to die young and frustrated. And truely, I admire you that you do not want to live long and happy.
Tip #1 should have read, "Upgrade to Linux"...
Okay, we're almost there: Why are sponsors willing to pay her money if not to rent the eyeballs of her audience?
I'm guessing no one is getting past "rabid liberals" and missing the point. Hence his first post gets modded up, and that one down.
the post title should be Seven suckass Films We'll thankfully Never Get to Watch
procrastination can become more compulsive when you have such an appealing alternative to working
With Hillary as your candidate?
You misunderestimate what a mean, ugly shrew she is, and how apparent it will be by the time '08 rolls around.
No, it's better if we know our subject before we write about it. Read up on "carbon cycle" and get back with us when you have a better understanding of it.
Or better: give it a parameter: script.js?foo.
I meant the system in general, not any specific compiler. Why muddy the water with detail?
Opinions on baby-rearing are a dime a dozen... as long as there's no outright child abuse going on, arguing about child rearing methods seems silly.
I don't blame anybody.
I'm just saving my dollars to contribute to the next Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
PS - John Fraud Kerry STILL hasn't signed and submitted Standard Form SF-180 to the military records center to release his ENTIRE military record to the public. That's all SBVT wanted. The fact that a candidate for Commander-in-Chief of the US military refuses to allow the American public to see his US military record is troubling, to say the least.
What a strong and powerful article. This should be read by all. It truly details how the the right-wing emperors have no clothes.
Spitzer/Fitzgerald, 2012.
Here's the answer to that...
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/326.php?nid=&id=&pnt=326&lb=hmpg2
>"No one is less tolerant than those demanding tolerance"
How very fucking true.
Too bad the left can't see that.
i c u skurkin
As they like to say, global warming has happened before...
Two cavemen talking near the opening of their cave:
CM1: ook uug ugrrrr: Damn, it is hot
CM2: ahhh yyyyaa ughhh suucca guumma ca-ooga: Thank the black monolith that next time this happens there won't be people living in uncooled caves.
Later on that same planet...
Two "global climate change" has-happened-before-ers lying dehydrated in the vast desert formerly known as Minnesota:
GCCHHBR1: Damn, it is hot
GCCHHBR2: Thank jesus that the next time this happens there won't be anyone on earth except sinners.
/got nothin'
Um, athiests believe in explanations which are supported by science, and they disbelive explanations which are not supported by science.
It's part of Coulter's style that the insults she flings are usually so devoid of subtlety or wit that there's nothing available to hang a snappy comeback on.
The technique is easily demonstrated: "degustibus is a poo-poo head."
Now show us what a man you are. Make a "self deprecating joke or comeback," bearing in mind that it must work for the same audience that thinks the "poo-poo head" crack is actually funny.
I must say [...] it clearly illustrates [...] no matter how good it is.
When someone offends you, you may: withdraw from that person; put that person on notice; alert others to your offense; make sulky, dismissive comments like these.
I like how the anti-agw people point out that 150 years of data is not enough to determine whether there's agw, but 3 years of data is plenty enough to disprove it.
The fact is that there are natural cycles AND there are man-made effects on top of those. If you wear a sweater in summer, you're going to get hotter than you would if you didn't. Just because it's the tilt of the summer Earth that makes it hotter in general doesn't mean your sweater isn't making you even hotter.
Mike, one side of the debate needs to hold the burden of proof, which side should it be and why?
Fixed:
Is that real or was it enhanced with Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) Elements software?
Now you won't get downmodded.
http://www.adobe.com/misc/trade.html#photoshop
hey, i've got an idea... you get your own team to follow the people following you when you pick up the bag to take it to lost and found, anyone following you gets a hole in the head.
are u running for maddox 08?
Yea, I know what you mean, right here with ya brother...I see they just blew up a crowd of 100 innocent shoppers.. oh wait, no that wasn't the "abortion-doctor murdering little scamps", it was those pesky "Peaceful Fundamentalist Muslims" again..
DAMN! I get the two mixed up ALL the time.
PS How many Innocent Muslims killed = 1 Innocent Abortion Doctor killed?
Is it 1000 or so? Is that equal?
Basically this tool allows you to generate license keys with expiry dates, which are binded to domain names. This is useful if you only want a script to function on your customer's domain and no where else.
Thanks for the pointer (I haven't read it yet). But, as I remember from a presentation, the problem was that the Lisp GC was totally out of the question, because it was so slow, so they creatively worked around that, coming up with a C++ solution.
There was another study, I think it was on reddit I came across it, that found meditation did more to improve alertness than coffee.
Not necessarily. By definition, they do not believe in God, but they may or may not believe in explanations supported by science, and they may or may not disbelieve explanations not supported by science.
And he's Russian. And probably a Cossack, judging by his name.
edit: However, after reading the second page of the article, I think he's right about the coming cooling cycle. It's just a hunch, but in 1983 Whiterock Lake froze over here in Dallas, and at the time they reported that the last time this happened was in 1927.
So my hunch is that there's a 56-year cycle which would put the next Whiterock Lake freeze in 2039, and it would mean that the top of the heating cycle would be in 2011, assuming it was symmetrical. So in two or three years, the cooling should begin.
But that still doesn't mean there's no such thing as anthropogenic global warming, it only means that at this point natural effects overshadow man-made effects. In 2006 we added 29 billion tons of new CO2 into the atmosphere, and by 2039 we'll be adding 43 billion tons per year. So the freeze of 2039 probably won't be as deep as it was in 1983, and certainly not as deep as in 1927, when they drove their Model-Ts onto the lake.
I can't believe this bitch went to Cornell. Whoever let her in must be sitting there hitting his head on a desk and thinking about how bad the head was. Did not worth.
She's just a freaky anorexic attention whore... that's all. She just has major major issues. How she EVER got published to begin with, I have not a god damned clue. That publishing company must be making bank, though.
This isn't a lack of originality, it is just copy paste.
I don't think "somenickname" should just do that.
"Why do four out of five dollar bills test positive for cocaine?"
Maybe because people snort cocaine with them? Are there any other mysteries of the universe you'd like answered?
>"It's also about having a reasonable quiet, clean, non-smelly place to go where the only other people there are the kind that don't mind paying $3 for a cup of coffee?"
You mean "other people" like jackasses who think they are better than everyone else while at the same time spending 4 times the amount on caffine that they need to?
He was charged with LYING TO THE FBI AND INTERFERING WITH A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION. Capitalized for the dense.
You mean the African-American African country. Some people just don't get PC.
Wait...
"so you don't kill your children in the first years of their life"
You're NOT supposed to... be right back.
That's what I saw. I didn't see horns till the 3rd look.
OK - your first post sounded more concerned with the 2m... you're right, we should be concerned about the illegal wiretapping. And given the astronomical rate we're burning through money I'd say a $2m hit is worth it if the case helps further the anti-wiretapping process. We spend more than that in - god, in like a few minutes, isn't it? In Iraq? I forget the exact figures.
*Seattle Times ranks it at $100,000 per minute in Iraq
6) The TV makes a good babysitter when you find yourself out of options.
VERY bad advice. Kids should not have access to a television with cable untill at least gradeschool where they would be pop culturally disadvantaged.
Ive seen kids left infront of the tv. It kills their spirit. Why bother even having kids if you just want them to drool infront of the tv instead of learn.
Holy copyright infringement, Batman!
No, no, what happened was this.
I think I heard a hog being stabbed through the heart somewhere there.
Good-looking golddigers meeting ugly rich dudes. Perfect business model.
p.s. fake paris hilton is mad ugly
Coulter insisted last night that she did not intend the remark as an anti-gay slur -- that she did not intend to suggest that John Edwards, husband and father, was gay -- but instead only used the word as a "schoolyard taunt," to call him a sissy.
Uh, so why didn't she just call him a sissy? Oh that's right, she was looking for some attention, again, and inflamatory remarks make for better headlines and hits to her website.
The article doesn't mention Germany's (EU-leading, Middle East-rivaling) 77% negativity towards Israel, as seen on page 5 of the full report (PDF). Also refer to page 8 to see who hates the US the most! Don't mean to spoil the surprise, but the top two are in the EU.
but the obstruction. You can't explain his lies by saying his memory was faulty.
What lies?! What did he obstruct?! He was asked from whom he first learned of Plame's identity over 3 years ago! He has no motive to lie about it at all. We're talking about a timeline of a few days from over 3 years ago. The goddamn jury just this morning had to ask the judge what exactly Libby was being charged with!
From where did you learn about Plame's identity? Did someone tell you? Did you read it in the washington post? Are you sure it wasnt the nytimes? Did you see it on CNN? Are you sure? What, you don't remember what exact day? Guilty!
negative. he's already deposited the million dollars. it's not technically his any more, he cannot get it back.
I don't think you even need me to tell you that this is also bullshit.
I was going to say it myself. TV is toxic.
google - "define:emasculate":
"Definitions of emasculate on the Web:
deprive of strength or vigor; 'The Senate emasculated the law'
remove the testicles of a male animal
effeminate: having unsuitable feminine qualities
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Emasculation is the removal of the genitalia of a male, notably the penis and/or the testicles, either by surgery, violence, or by accident (see castration). By extension, it also means to render less of a man, or to make a male feel less of a man by subjecting him to humiliation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emasculate"
Got it?
The article was pretty much just a plot summary til halfway through, then it got really good. I really like how he's tying in these notions of narcissism (though he doesn't spell it out), etc. The cult of "The Leader" and all that. But I still think the culprit is just happily wallowing in all this negative attention, like a pig in shit. I also have to agree that the Edwards camp would have been better off if that hadn't immediately turned this into a marketing opportunity (and I feel like Edwards does deserve a lot of respect, unlike most Dems).
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/help/calculator.html
Go to the bottom and look at the examples, specifically the 4th one down.
Downvoting.
It looks like France is one the only countries that was rich in both 1500 and 2002.
you know, that's the reason i don't like bill maher so much anymore. i saw him live and he made reference to the fact that we in the audience must hate her, but that she's quite lovely while in the throes of an orgasm.
i was sitting a few rows back but i think i might have splattered him a little with my projectile vomitus.
Sorry, I've lost interest in this thread. Did you know your screen name in Japanese means cat meat?
Amazing. If I was found guilty in a court of law, I hardly believe that I'd be let go on my own recognizance. My ass would be back in the slammer.
I suggest you read the entire 3 page article yourself and try to explain to me what he did wrong.
Ann Coulter does not emasculate democratic males. That would mean she reinforces their masculine identity and power. She DEmasculates them - portrays them as effeminate and devoid of power.
I don't follow what you are saying. Emasculation is the removal of the genitalia of a male. I can't find a defintion of "demasculate" (although people do use the word).
280 ppm before the industrial age, 380 ppm now and still rising. Put that into a calculator.
A large part of the greenhouse effect is natural, caused mainly by water and carbon dioxide. Without it, the earth would be 33C cooler. It's what we are adding to it that is the problem.
But, as my sibling suggested, look it up yourself. wikipedia is a good starter.
Do these fake programmers actually exist? Writing down something other than code is like writing intermediate math steps in some unanalogous language, like informal english: 'two-quarter somethings is not quite the number I want'.
EDIT: Oh, this author is also YA 'OMFG PEOPLE ARE WRITING THE FIZZBUZZ PROGRAM WHAT INSCRUTABILITY IT MUST MEEEEEAN SOMETHING'. In this continued reaction, I see the soul of the non-programmer, which turns out to be: infatuated with hopeful programmer-filtering voodoo, prone to sweeping but shallow judgements on scanned-but-not-read material, and inclined to noisily agree rather than silently think when it comes to uninteresting but popular issues. I can't guess yet on where this person might 'not yet be', but perhaps someone else will agreeably blog about the matter.
just a quick correction, mcdonalds invested (and eventually divested) in chipotle. link
1) Your percentage is an order of magnitude off. ((380 - 280ppm) / 380ppm) * 100% > 3%. See here.
2) the naturally produced CO2 keeps the oceans from freezing over.
EDIT: goddamned math.
As a patent examiner, this seems like an interesting idea. I just hope the system doesn't get abused and subsequently ignored by examiners. The jokes are already going around how Microsoft might hire people just to give examiners references on Google patent apps. But hey, who doesn't want to show up in the morning and somebody has done a portion of your work for you?
I think ldsgems is referring to a different oath than just the affirmation of faith. Although it is no longer part of the ceremony (but it was when Romney first went to the temple), Mormons used to indicate (gruesomely, in my opinion) that they would rather die than break the oaths/covenants they made in the temple.
The rest of your post stands, though. I think it's perfectly reasonable for someone to say that their integrity or their word is more important than their life, and they will stand by a promise despite any personal loss, including death. Certainly the secret service and a large portion of the military also believe that life is secondary to honor or responsibility.
ldsgems has a big hangup with death-oaths, and uses every opportunity to mention that Mormons in general, and Romney specifically, make them.
"then they will have to invent entirely new words to describe the unrelenting white-hot horror we will rain down upon your pathetic heads. I trust this makes our position on such matters perfectly clear."
HAHAHA...I nearly spit...fake or not, I don't care, that's hilarious, I'm going to have to use this line sometime myself!
I think that it is less stressful and more personally satisfying to pay attention when you are driving. After reading all the suggestions, this seems far easier.
Because Python, Haskell, and Common Lisp are so tied to a specific platform?
Who wants productivity anyway? It's not the worker who gets the benefits. I read a statistic of how much profit a company makes per hour of white collar work in the States, it was something like $30 / hour.
I'd rather live in Europe, get the vacation time, enjoy life, than get used up for someone else's wealth. No need to burn up the planet to make rich people richer.
It's for people like these that I sometimes wish there was a Hell...
Edit: i am referring to the whole club, not just the scapegoat
what a tangled web we weave: AIPAC + MIT + ISI + DOD + DOJ + DIA+ richard perle + valerie plame + CIA + FBI?
very interesting story. wish it had some links to the FBI investigation as that would help its credibility.
One of the things I like about reddit is their core base of programmers here. When a submission like this is posted, it's great to read the responses. Sometimes they are more informative than the article. Both are pluses with this subject. I'm planning on building a new web site and this will be very helpful.
/cheers!
Dum dum dum dum ...
wow, someone seriously needs to move out of the parent's basement.
On what do you base this?
You're mixed up.
kako da skinem spotove od PCD i ako ih neko ima nek mi posalje na djordje_ma@yahoo.com
It was obvious watching the trial that Cheney was behind the leak.
Really?
Armitage admits leaking Plame's identity
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/08/leak.armitage/index.html
Yet he wasn't even charged! Because it was "inadvertent"!
Since you obviously have no clue what this entire investigation was about, Libby's conviction had nothing to do with the leak, you know.
http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2007/03/06/GR2007030600582.gif
Deadlocks are a class of bugs that are hard to diagnose by definition -- your system being written in Java doesn't reflect one way or the other on that. It would be more accurate to say that Java's concurrency mechanism are standard. Erlang is simply best of breed in that area, or at least in the sub-areas of stability and clustering. Show Jini to an Erlang guy and he'd probably puke.
Opium farming seal lovers no doubt.
Thank you for not putting "awesome" or other superlatives in the title.
It can't be scientifically proven that antibiotics work. Therefore, we should stop using them.
oh. ok, I stand corrected. That's what I get for not looking up a word before ranting about it.
Yes, I knew that. Did you know your name means "justly famous news photographer"? ;)
And once again, 2 very important facts about the Taco Bell situation are completely omitted:
The store wasn't even open. It was closed for remodeling.
Construction workers had opened up a hole in a basement wall and did not seal it when they left for the night.
I guess that's not contributing to the sensationalism, though.
OMG RATS, TERROR, RUN, FEAR!..
I would guess Democratic Republic of Congo (funny how some country names are so ironic).
my honest opinion here is that based on the expanse of the universe visible to us, if you want to find an IE logo or pretty much anything fairly eliptical in nature in, take the time and pray there's a high magnification telescope at your disposal. spend a few decades searching, find something, tilt your head a little bit and you'll be happy.
I gotta say, all the weird mispellings really made me wonder about the reliability of the lawyer.
Well, I think it's one thing when Cheney is questioning someone's patriotism--which is absolutely laughable AND insulting. But calling someone a "faggot"...I mean, come on. Hate crimes are committed against gays every day. How about the old man in Michigan who was beaten to death with a pipe because someone thought he was gay? That just happens to be the violent symptom of a disease that breeds this type of "humor." And for every one person who commits a hate crime there are thousands, millions of people who, on some level, view gays and lesbians as odd and unequal. This too is a symptom of the disease and puts "jokes" like this in a sobering light. If you read this and disagree remember what the big JC said: from the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
I agree with Greenwald 100%. Ann Coulter is just the tip of the iceberg. If she is indeed offensive, what does that say about the people she represents (those who support her "work") ? And why do these "tough" conservatives clamor so much for protection? They seem to be the most scared demographic in America. They're terrified of everything--other races, other religions, terrorism, sexual preferences, Canada...
And here's Ann Coulter, a "strong" woman who needs protection. Isn't that the essence of the conservative party these days: we are not 'faggots'? We will protect you? If Ann Coulter is so tough why does she bow to those who preach protection? She embodies it all so well--a "tough' woman declaring which type of man is strong enough to protect her. How does that work exactly?
The only real performance issue with Java is VM startup time.
Don't forget memory usage
No. Reading your comment at the top of the comment page was my first exposure to the idea.
20 years ago, 95% of professional programmers were procedural programmers, who didn't get all this silly hype over objects.
Hybrid languages that support a mixed object/functional paradigm like Python, Ruby, and JavaScript are already the rising stars of the programming world. If these languages bring functional techniques to the mainstream, who is to say that a significant chunk of mainstream programmers won't go the rest of the way and use a pure functional language?
Hillary Clinton lied under oath during Travelgate. Bill Clinton lied under oath during Monicagate.
This just proves that the criminal "justice" system is meant to criminalize anybody who opposes Demorats.
I think that's "An average of 9 out of 1000 people die in the world Per Year.
Why exactly isn't Cheney going to jail?
Not had Peets, but I have friends who rave about it. The only really good chain coffee I've had was Tim Horton's in Canada. Wonderful stuff.
Ditto the Orson Welles cut of The Magnificent Ambersons. I didn't fully appreciate that movie until my second or third viewing; now it's one of my favorites. I'd love to see the full-length Welles version.
Voted down for being link jacked. Link to the source please, no need to pad a theif's stats and AdSense balance.
http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/
now i understand the surpopulation problems in Asia
Thanks dipshit, can you be more specific?
I know he was charged with obstruction of justice, I don't need a definition of "obstruction of justice", I'd like to know exactly what he did that obstructed justice.
py2exe does the same thing.
In light of this, I find it hard to believe that these people are really as dangerous as the government says they are.
I believe he is not.
I like this one a lot. It's the smiles on everyone's faces that gets me.
Appropriate place to plug in the response from the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide.
Because . . . Cheney was not on trial?
You can't conclude anything from one paper until
the rest of the scientific community evaluates it.
You can't conclude anything at all from press accounts.
Well, this is certainly better than an acquittal, but the real culprits are still getting away with treason. With even the jury believing Cheney/Rove was behind this, I'm wondering why Fitzgerald is only getting a perjury conviction and not treason.
One juror, Denis Collins, said "there was a tremendous amount of sympathy for Mr. Libby on the jury. "It was said, 'Where's Rove, where are these other guys?' "We're not saying that we didn't think Mr. Libby was guilty of the things we found him guilty of. It seemed like he was the fall guy," Collins said.
Libby will spend a year in a minimum security prison then Bush will pardon him. End of story.
what should they do? put them up in hotels? or even more expensively, in a hospital room?
Isn't V838 Monocerotis something you take to get rid of yeast infections?
You are in fact quite correct,
Sorry, I hate kittens. Downmodded.
Generally you have to be convicted of something before you go jail.
Unless you're a terrist.
I'm guilty of that i mean during the weekends i try not to drink coffee and i get this slight headache i know is from caffeine lack but trust me, I achieve such good performance at work i rather see myself as a caffeine-depending person than as a slow person.
I disagree, but my 4YO is well adjusted and is limited on tv time per day...mostly stuff like animal planet and Disney preschool (no commercials).
you and me both. but im stuck in the US.
I'd say you're making quite a stretch to start with "The "modern conservative movement" has not needed to rationalize why the Democratic party is unable to lead, they have more than enough proof with our current congress."
By assuming the Democratic party is "unable to lead" you don't have to debate any specific policies or proposals. That's the kind of empty rhetoric the conservatives use that is being described in this article. You're so far up the horse's rear you can't even see out!
Huh?
Grow some bacteria in a dish. Put antibiotics on them.
"Here are five mistakes to avoid when blogging and writing web copy."
Your and idiot. This will have no affect on anyone. I seen grammar far worse than this. Its insulting to think their are that many mistakes in my postings.
28) Let sleeping babies lie.
Should be Number 1!
Well, if that is where he put it, no wonder he needs to share his advice with you.
From the inimitable Home Star Runner: "Oh cwap"
been a long time since i've seen that number. not too long though.
Sigh. I forgot that irony always has to be marked as such.
Sorry, I hate to let you in on the secret, kaptainlange, but you're not actually a real person. Everyone else is... just not you.
As for what the President has done... if you truly believe that removing the figurehead will fix the problem... you don't understand the problem.
You're not kidding, WarOFF's submissions are all for Archibase.net and are all essentially spam. I wish there was a big block button.
Didn't they do this back in the 80s and in the 90s? how about making a decent gas car first.
Yes, like julesjacob says, a parameter. I believe flickr used to do this, but now I mostly see different filenames. This one's funny:
The Wikipedia entry on V838 Monocerotis is quite interesting.
Because they are required for cooperation, and because I have empathy.
As for why I have empathy, I'm not sure, but it probably has something to do with cooperation having been successful for my ancestors.
You do not need magic to explain ethics or morality. Cooperative behavior readily emerges from co-evolutionary models, even simulations and game theory models.
Of course, you can ignore ethics yourself and sometimes be rewarded for it... at least temporarily. This is true regardless of the origin of ethics. But people who ignore ethics are constantly being battled by the majority who use ethics to cooperate, which is why ethics continue to exist. It's essentially a social version of the arms race between parasites and hosts.
The idea that ethics come from magic is promoted by people who wish to divorce ethics from reality so that they can arbitrarily define ethics to be whatever they want. Usually their arbitrarily asserted ethics involves giving them a percentage of your income and persecuting the out-group.
didnt get it
Amazon ads are served out of your amazon cookie, dforbes. What books have you been buying? :)
And here we are back to the main point. bzr can take minutes to commit.
A lot of my file edits take a lot less than a minute. I'm not gonna keep a bunch of buffers unwritten and change the way I work around my vcs because it sucks. bzr being slow means bzr sucks as a distributed revision control system.
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Slow down..let's first get out of the spreadsheet.
If I want to manufacture biological weapons with my copy of iTunes, I will, fascists. Ditch this bullshit.
you misspelled "plane"
what am I missing?
Pretty much everything. Libby has not been found guilty of exposing Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. He's been found guilty of lying and obstruction of justice.
It may be my problem, but I am totally unable to parse your comment.
Yup, completely inverse. It seems that if you don't spend on the military you get your ass beaten by those who do.
But can you PROVE that the SO-CALLED "ANTIBIOTICS" killed the bacteria? Well can you, smart guy?
Perhaps they did and are disappointed?
People routinely say things that stupid around here. It's hard to satirize reality.
Thanks dipshit, can you be more specific?
The information he gave was very specific in my opinion.
Obstruction of justice
Misleading the grand jury about when and how he learned that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA, and how he disclosed that information to journalists.
False statement
Did Knowingly and willfully make a material false, fictious and fraudulent statement in a FBI investigation when he misled agents about a july 10, 2003, conversation with NBC's Tim Russert.
Perjury
While under oath, knowingly made a false material declaration to grand jury about his conversation with Russert.
Perjury
While under oath, knowingly made a false material declaration to grand jury about his conversation with Cooper and the other reporters.
How do you want him to be more specific? Please be more specific in your requests.
If you want more specific information, you have everything in here described in details and can even verify many information directly from the numerous linked sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Libby
PS: Also, stop the gratuitous insults and go wash your mouth with soap.
Actually, I'm going to downmod him because I hate almost everyone in the world. He just happens to have said something that annoys me slightly, thus drawing my attention and my meaningless-but-symbolic ire.
Pwn. u n00b.
You can do something like lexical scoping with their "contexts", which I tend to use as namespaces.
Yes, they are namespaces. But everything the manual says about lexical scoping is bullshit.
Oh and as for distribution... Chicken (yes I looked into it!) requires an addition C compiler. Newlisp (although not doing a traditional compile) doesn't need anything else. How convenient... ;-)
The point is that you can distribute the executable produced by Chicken without an additional runtime. A Newlisp program must be distributed with the Newlisp runtime. Most CL's and also Ruby, Python, Perl, etc. don't need a C compiler either, that's hardly special.
If, however, you chose to testify in your murder trial and
lied, your subsequent confession of guilt may open you up to
perjury charges.
Incase you want an example: Mel Ignatow.
Hell no, I'm overdosed on Sarcasm, my drug of choice.
I saw a two-headed chicken at a circus once.
"...then those cocks at Real Networks got greedy..."
yup, fucking A--when will MBAs ever learn? Oops, there goes winamp...
'Cult' is the 'N word' for religion.
Bitch, it's been time for a looooong time!
I played this for a while when it first came out. I think it's brilliant, perhaps more for social reasons than gaming reasons.
Long story short, to succeed even semi-reliably you're going to have to start thinking like a poor Haitian. First world assumptions like "kids go to school and parents work", "let's buy some toys" and "I don't want to work a crappy job" won't get you anywhere.
My only gripe is the UNICEF propaganda. If you volunteer enough to start building things like the library and the clinic you've basically won already; everyone will be healthy, happy and well-educated from then on. I've got a feeling things aren't quite this simple in the real world.
That aside, though: Kudos to Gamelab for creating a game that is challenging, fun and actually changes the way you see the world.
I don't dispute your characterization of hate speech, but I maintain that the impetus for both remarks flows from the same ideological reservoir.
To take a single example, the Dixie Chicks were blacklisted from a thousand Clear Channel radio stations, subjected to the ignominy of CD burning parties, and received copious hate speech and death threats because of their remarks about George W. Bush.
As far as I know they weren't actually attacked, but is the mass jingoist hate-on against them qualitatively different than a queer bashing, a lynching, or any other ritualized form of abuse against an identified community?
Fascists and bullies hate and fear the world, have difficulty identifying with others, and want more than anything else to feel powerful instead of weak. Read Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom for a cogent articulation of this theme.
looks like a murderer's take on what a nonmurderer is supposed to be like. completely inaccurate.
"16) The little hard heads of babies should be banged often to test the durability of the skull. Bumps, bruises, and welts are a sign of an adventurous child."
Correct me parents if I'm wrong, but I thought baby heads (top part especially) are soft. In some cases that can be a good thing too?
Come on people, wtf? If you want another Fark, go start one.
The best toys are things that were never designed to be toys (such as the cardboard box),
pots & pans, wooden spoons etc.
told about what?
Now the big question is... drum roll... will it drive more that 25,000 miles before requiring thousands of dollars worth of repairs?!? Will it (like every American car I've ever driven) handle poorly when you apply the brakes? Will it guzzle electricity as much as American cars needlessly guzzle gas? (... and I mean needlessly... my Maxima accelerates better than most American cars I've driven, has a bigger engine, and gets better mileage!)
I'm holding my breath!
correlation...causation....what?
In an age without photoshop, that is pretty usefull.
almost as usefull as misrepresenting what people acutally say. Bush's Whitehouse is well known to edit transcripts to remove embarassments and change what was said.
Just do a search on google, the Bush WhiteHouse has done this DOZENS of times.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=white+house+edit+transcripts+bush
Its not just soviet russia, its Conservative Whitehouse.
Fuck greedy Starbucks and their fucking stupid long coffee and pastrie names.
yeah it could just as well be, parents aren't too involved, kids free to watch movies, kids anxious, need something...
It's a Blue Meanie!
"Reason: You don't want someone who believes in the Rapture to have access to the Red Button."
Hidden premise 1: All religiously orthodox people believe in the Rapture. (not even close)
Hidden premise 2: Those who believe in the Rapture are significantly more likely to launch an ill-advised nuclear attack. (I doubt it)
"Reason: Anyone who believes in the supernatural does not have the level of critical thinking skills required to solve the problems we face in this country, most of which were caused by people who believe in the supernatural."
Hidden premise: critical thinking skills and problem solving are better evaluated by examining metaphysical belief than by examining evidence of solving problems and thinking critically. (nope)
It can also tell you that that song from Rent is off by a little.
It's only fair, after all the Republican get to control the "voting" system.
Nice!!!
Then why aren't they doing that now?
I was just going to post the same. Best...advice...ever.
p.s. fake paris hilton is mad ugly
That's what makes her perfect for the role.
Do you respect any reporters from the major papers in the last 200 years?
Sounds like not.
http://reddit.com/goto?id=17rz2
There's also a bluish shadow on the trees in front of the plane.
I have no idea why people are downmodding you. Personally, I enjoyed your comment. The honesty, the brevity, the passion, it is all there.
"the square root of minus one"
Hillary isn't my candidate.
Don't worry, little concern troll.
No one will underestimate the GOP's shameless venality again.
I'd like to see most rap "artists" have their heads smashed against a wall.
You're trolling now, Dr.Phil but I'll play along.
Even novices know that psychosis != schizophrenia. Major depressive episodes (postpartum or otherwise), mania, drug withdrawal reactions, brain tumors all can elicit psychotic symptoms. She could also be malingering.
You have apparently never dealt with schizophrenia in a clinical setting.
Only for about the past 10 years, mostly in a state psych hospital environment. I've had more than one patient tie bedsheets (or shoelaces or a hospital gown) around their neck and had one who did almost exactly what Brit did sans the writing on the forehead. Definitely was not schizophrenic, certainly was a borderline though. Schizophrenics don't give such blatant and dramatic warnings to their self-injurious behaviors as Britney did. They just up and try to run through a window, seemingly without provocation after mumbling/giggling quietly to themselves for a few minutes.
Who needs starbucks! fuck'em and their overpiced stupid long coffee and pastry names.
In the end, they're all the same garbage, you just pay more for it. If anything, it did create a brand new generation of grade schoolers hooked on coffee.
I was never able to read articles on salon, until I enabled javascript just now.
then your civil wrongful death suit is guaranteed to not go well for you. plus they might stil get you for littering.
Anybody find it ironic that a bastion of the left is attempting to censor the speech of somebody that they don't agree with? I don't see how this is any different than any other attempt at a chilling effect on free speech, such as the Church of Scientology sending cease and desist letters, or the religious right boycotting Disney for it's pro-gay HR policies. While I certainly don't think that he's doing anything illegal, I do find his behavior to be hypocritical.
Nah, it just proves the real weapon of mass destruction is the machete.
we should start by getting the word out to men that alcohol is likely to impair their ability to respond appropriately if a sexual partner says "no."
I think we know that already; I suspect some guys know that and use it as an excuse. What would be new and useful (and which is advocated in the article) would be to hold men accountable for their actions and get the word out that "I was drunk" isn't an acceptable excuse for criminal behavior.
Somebody needs to tell britney spears about rule number 31.
There are others that share the belief, such as: Richard Lindzen (Professor of Meteorology at MIT) and Hendrik Tennekes (former director of research at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute). My point wasn't to name names or get in a discussion about global warming, but point out that there are people with differing views on the matter and the credentials to back them up.
While some news sources may provide a bias and poorly done piece on global warming doesn't mean it doesn't merit debate. It seems that most of the debate about global warming is framed from the political bias of the presenter, rather than the science behind it. Hendrik Tennekes was dismissed as research director after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming.
There's probably too much politics involved to ever get a truly neutral debate, on the news or otherwise.
Of course, I used past tense in the headline. So, well, I'm sorry, downvote me.
Quite the opposite. You found an article I found interesting, and I appreciate that. Thanks :-)
Anyway, I agree that suicide is an apt description - but, as you observe, if anything, Starbucks is in the act of committing the kind of suicide the article talks about - they're not dead yet (and so they might still save themselves).
it comes from pretardation (pretend understanding).
In twenty or so odd years, half of that Chinese wealth will be spent on blow-up dolls.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/13/60minutes/main1496589.shtml
the whole list sounds like it was written by a moron who hasn't ever had a kid of their own
Apparently you haven't heard of LINQ yet. MS/.NET is investing heavily in functional programming. Even VB is going to have lambda expressions.
people really need to know about this.
Me too! I constantly complain about the baggers at my local store. It's a nice place, but they seem to have some of the most dim-witted people asking the "paper or plastic" question. Normally, I am something of a "different strokes" person, acknowledging that there are different levels of smarts and skill in the world. There are jobs I couldn't do (anything requiring getting truly dirty I'd suck at).
But bagging groceries is stunningly easy, and something I've done. It takes just a minimal amount of planning and a few simple rules. Yet, I still get home with 3 lbs. of groceries in 47 plastic bags with my eggs upside down and bread smelling of the fabric softener that was placed in the same bag.
She has no business commenting how anybody else looks, that's for sure.
Didn't think about translation difficulties, good point. Ideally any human translator would know local idioms, but automatic translators may not handle them well, creating more work. I'm assuming that most texts are automatically translated to give the translator a jump start? It would be especially helpful for technical materials. The companies I've worked for have only provided English documentation, although that could be changing soon.
But if you don't drink a lot of coffee, and don't get the withdrawl symptoms building up overnight, it doesn't have an effect on you. Or at least it has no more of an effect on you than simply drinking a glass of water or eating a piece of toast.
No, I don't think that's what it's saying. Though that may be debatable because it's a poorly written article with very little actual information.
What I think they're trying to say is that a person who drinks coffee regularly will be generally no more alert than someone who doesn't drink coffee at all. For someone who doesn't drink coffee regularly, having some may make them more alert; for someone who does drink coffee regularly, it will just counteract the withdrawal effects. Of course that's all somewhat vague and unscientific, but it's in keeping with the style of the article. I'm sure the actual studies are more specific, but I already know basically how caffeine works from personal experience and have no interest in reading them. A near-duplicate of this article pops up every year or two... this has to be at least the third time I've read it.
That is one scary witch.
I wake up with a rise.
Are you referring to Rove and Cheney - the people who got away with the more significant crime and left Libby to take the fall?
Really? What evidence do you have to support that? Wikipedia claims it takes 1 to 5 days, and if you search on Google there are numerous articles where people and doctors discuss it taking several weeks. My personal experience is that it took about 3 weeks for me.
So, again, what's your basis for saying it takes one day? At this point I'm going to assume you are either trolling or too lazy to read.
nice.
ever see that thing edwards does? kinda like pointing (what he uses it for), only he uses his thumb pasted alongside his curled fingers, instead of index finger. is that a gay thing?
How about considering these before buying a ticket:
Your chances of winning are equal to being hit by lightning twice a day every day for the rest of your life
Lotteries are geared to take your money and ensure you buy more by teasing you with easy to win $2 prizes.
Lottery advertising is geared to make you think you can win instantly and ignores reality. (chances of winning and 'know your limit' warnings are in fine print)
...and I feel the need to correct this line:
"Some things to consider if you win... "
To this:
"Some things to consider if you are an idiot... "
The underwear gnome corollary:
Reduce Coulter's revenue by .01%
???
No more Anne Coulter!!
Played around with it a bit, but my professor uses Matlab, and our primary neuroimaging analysis package, SPM, requires it too.
No escape for me. :(
if paris were poor she'd be hot.
as she is, it'll be interesting to see what sorts she finds to wed her.
as far as this dating thing goes, i can't imagine any male other than a COMPLETE social/sexual loser being seriously interested.
No, it is a much broader reason than that. Java has a C syntax, but is also structured in a way that will be familiar to Pascal and even Visual Basic developers. It is the combination of procedural+OOP style that goes all the way back to Simula that seems to make Java so easy to pick up.
If you've ever been out in NYC or San Fran, then this is not that far fetched.
The pardon will happen when Fitzgerald goes to Libby's attorney's to make a deal with him - "No jail time if he testifies against others in the administration."
Pretty, um, bold to draw conclusions based on two data points of a random lake. Fortunately, we do not have to rely on those data. See, there a temperatures reported from all over the world. See for example here, and try to fit your 56 years cycle theory.
Considering the recent history of people being sued for monetary damages for harm caused by a crime that they were acquitted of committing, actually confessing after acquittal seems really stupid.
Oh my god, BARF. Anyone who went to this is a terrible person, and I don't care if they went "ironically". Plus, I've been to NYC plenty of times and the women there are way hotter than these pieces of shit. I mean, do millionaires really have that much trouble meeting women?
I wonder if they would have messed it up like the Matrix sequels?
white kids from lower class families more likely to both watch R-rated movies and smoke; black kids probability of watching R-rated movies not influenced by class?
Wx is nice. The GTK+ bindings are really nice as well. They both have a UI designer (glade), which makes creating graphical apps quite painless.
Right. No blow jobs, no problem.
I was interested by the article, then disappointed when I realized this was from 2004. Then I thought about it a little more, and looked up a few interesting details
As early as next year widespread flooding by a rise in sea levels will create major upheaval for millions
2005 was busy for hurricanes
The article is generally crap, though. The report was deliberately looking at a worst-case scenario. Articles like this, which read it as being the Pentagon's idea of what will happen made it easier for officials and conservatives to completely discard the whole thing as ridiculous.
The original report itself is far more interesting and disturbing than the Observer's narrow reading. Google "Thinking the Unthinkable" and take a peek at the PDF. It's only 22 pages long.
That's all well and good about Avocado's number but how does this relate to Anna Nicole?
Helloooo, Satan. ;)
Yes, the self abuse and the method is not typical.
The 'I am god', 'I am the anti-christ' delusions are often associated with schizophrenia.
I don't have your experience in these matters.
No further comment.
Is this landmass based or per capita based?
From a PR damage control perspective, the credibility of the source is not as important as the publicly perceived credibility he is afforded in the media. In this particular instance we have a very high-profile case that has already reinforced the growing distrust of US foreign policy, and the US in general, among Europeans and is likely to do much more damage before it's over. Given the available information, their current silent treatment only makes sense if they're trying to hide something, and the Europeans are smart enough to realize that. If this guy was really a lying media whore, chances are they would have already gone public to refute his claims expressly.
Sure, just not the ones who carve their niche by schmoozing with the people they're supposed to be watching.
Why would we update the law? The double jeopardy rule is there for an extremely good reason - there was a history, in Europe, of people being tried over and over for the same crime until someone convicted them. Given the problems we already have with false testimony, faked evidence and so on I like the system we have.
Better that 99 guilty men go free than an innocent man be convicted, eh?
plus Sibel Edmonds.
Want to double the fun? Put regular household objects (no sharp edges) in a container. Tip the container over in front of your toddler. With your kid, put the stuff back in the container and tip it over again. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
I have no idea why this is so entertaining.
It covers 2.0. But I have a feeling we will never see 3.0 features, like LINQ, make it to the standard.
I think i need to check this out with my car. I had it serviced recently!
I was alluding to this story but I had forgotten the specifics. Thanks for the link.
No, Richard Armitage leaked Plame's identity. He even admitted it.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/08/leak.armitage/index.html
The documentation is readable and includes examples. (I'm looking at you CLHS!)
The CLHS is a specification, and is very helpful once you have a basic understanding of the language. Newbies should start with Practical Common Lisp.
Also, the NewLisp manual might be unhealthy for you. It misuses terminology that is well understood by the rest of the world. If you can't recognize that, you're probably a fairly inexperienced programmer and your NewLisp experience will make it harder for you to learn it right later.
It can be run interactively or "compiled".
Every CL I know is interactive and has a compiler.
Lots of little features help reduce "code noise", like the implict accesses described above.
Does that mean that the code:
(a b)
could mean a) call function a with the value of b as argument, b) access element with index b in array a, depending on wheter a is an array or not.
Please spare me this sort of syntactic sugar crap that saves me two characters to type. Give me real abstractions instead!
NewLisp made Lisp approachable
IMO, NewLisp is closer to PHP than Lisp. If NewLisp learns you anything, it's a bad programming style.
to get some of the benefits that Mr. Graham described so glowingly with so little pain
To be honest, I think you'd be better of with Ruby or Python (since you don't like CL and Scheme).
(oh, just your average desktop application).
That is the same place we won't see Java anytime soon.
Nobody's buying Blues albums like they used... whoa! is Blues dead?
I think these sales drops are just part of Hip-Hop's evolution.... the natural cultural selection. Labels have just pumping/pimping out shallow rap albums out as fast as they could. You will find crappy/mediocre standards in any subculture/genre.... as soon as people get sick of Nickelback-type drivel, is rock going to be dead?
As a subculture, Hip-Hop is not going anywhere... there are amazing aspects to it and the tried and true aspects just get continually improved upon (ie: an expanding global hip-hop scene, amazing graffiti artistry...).
... yadda yadda yadda...
as it was said so eloquently(maybe too eloquently) in "Style Wars":
"rapping and breaking became the prime expressions
of a new young people's subculture called "hip-hop"
.... graffiti is the written word.... there is the spoken word of rap music... and then there's the acrobatic body language of dances like "breaking"..."
As the verdicts were read, Libby blinked and "it seemed as if he was somewhat surprised,"
About time someone started paying the price for lying.
ow, that hurt my eyes.
Exactly, he lied under oath while the Plame investigation was going on. Further the obstruction conviction means he tried to actively impede the investigation.
http://reddit.com/info/4jxe/comments
Well thought out, well written.
I didn't think about it all that hard.
Murder is the highest crime against man and perjury is the greatest crime against mankind.
OK,
Let's start with the non-binding resolution on Iraq. Not exactly a profile in courage. They couldn't even muster enough votes to stop the surge.
Nancy "Drain the swamp" Pelosi is nominating luminaries such as William Jefferson to head up Homeland Security.
The two major Democratic contenders for '08 spent last weekend in a Southern Church trying out their new fake southern accents (btw what ever happened to separation of Church and State). Did you say something about empty rhetoric?
I could go on but I'll stop here.
I guess this might be a good starting off point for converting a good-quality Java code base into Python instead of rewriting in Python.
My guess is that if your application is good to begin with, you wouldn't be looking at changing to a different language.
He doesn't, that's Steve Ballmer.
you forgot Bill Clinton should burn in hell
I also know for a fact that Python was used for at least the first 65 million YahooMail users (because I wrote some of the code...)
Let's all cheer for the blood clot's move up the stream. It's only a few inches away, just like in football. Go bloody go!
"(just weeks after announcement of Google Apps ... hmm ...)"
Yeah! Because Google's apps and book copyrights are related in... I mean, that fact that the MS guy ranted on aabout Google's apps... I mean... What does this have to do with Google's apps?
If you bookmark just this:
http://www.salon.com/news/cookie756.html
as your link to Salon, you don't need to have javascript enabled (or adblock turned off either). You also don't need to wait through any ads. :)
That's the page you jump through just after the ad and before you get the full article. It sets the day-long cookie. There's no guaranteeing that they won't change it some time. But for what it's worth, it's been the same for at least 3 years now.
There was an article on this within the past day.
Your: send person genitive/possessive
You're: verbal contraction, you are
bu-but.... Reddit /is/ my RSS feed!
I agree with you 100%. I thought what you were saying was, "the best way to respond to screeching, growling dogmatics like Cheney or Coulter is with light-hearted derision." It's hard to respond that way when, too often, it's a life and death issue.
But I know, to a certain extent, we simply empower the Coulters of the world and give them what they seek. I understand that. But on some level, like Greenwald was saying, we have to admit that Coulter is NOT the issue, the issue is the millions of Americans who support her. My problem is not really with Coulter--but the idea that 'faggot' is remotely funny to anyone (much less a mess audience).
Yes, she contributes nothing constructive to the political process. It's like calling Bush an idiot- no matter if you think it's true, what good does it do to convince those who think otherwise that maybe you are right?
She is the little 3rd grader in all of us that says mean things sinply to be mean. Those that like her typically don't like the people about whom she is speaking, so she's funny to them. However if you can produce one ex-godless liberal she has converted, I'd shit my pants.
In fact, it's done so well, you almost wonder if he's employing irony.
I like inverse euler as an acid test, and it passes:
((e^((i * 3 * Pi) / 4)) - (e^(((-i) * 3 * Pi) / 4))) / (2 * i) = 0.707106781
yes, i really see that parallel, one man killed at least 20 million and the other wrote a book explaining the fallacies of religion, you really hit the nail on the head.
edit: how the hell do you get upmodded for this bullshit? george w. bush sounds a hell of a lot more like stalin than dawkins ever could, yet everyone would immediately see such a comparison as idiotic.
Pete, meet repeat.
It's way smarter than you thought...
http://www.google.com/search?q=the+answer+to+life+the+universe+and+everything
(Doug Adams tribute)
people would rather vote for a religiously devout microcephalic ax-murderer than for the most admirable atheist
I assumed he was taking a jab at the recent (USA Today?) survey that showed ~60+% of Americans unwilling to vote for an atheist.
Just like the Democrats revising their stance on Iraq since 2002.
And what happens when it passes the New Mexico Senate?
Uh... Nothing. New Mexico doesn't have jurisdiction.
Sounds like dad stopped paying your starbucks bill :^)
I think ldsgems is referring to a different oath than just the affirmation of faith. Although it is no longer part of the ceremony (but it was when Romney first went to the temple), Mormons used to indicate (gruesomely, in my opinion) that they would rather die than break the oaths/covenants they made in the temple.
These kinds of things tend to get toned down as the years go on. I mean, Catholics went from conquering hordes with blood and steel to just proselytizing to them; as annoying as it might be, it's a high improvement over forced confessions of witchcraft.
I just think Mormons get a bum rap, even among the god-loving folk. Their ideas are well within the standard deviation for wackiness among religious people, they've never engaged in wholesale slaughter for their beliefs, and have been the victims, as a group, of some of the worst persecutions, by both society and government, this country has ever seen (consider Missouri Executive Order 44, for example). They're no better or worse than most other major religions.
It's not the pills themselves doing it.
The Bush Adminstration is the master leaker!
yes, there was a lunar eclipse a few days ago, but...
The similarities between military spending and toy imports are not coincidental. Yet another reason why we shouldn't let Ahmadinejad get a Wii.
...
I'm sure you agree with Ken Starr then.
Bill Clinton knowingly and was proven to be lying. It was about nothing important or relevant to the investigation and he had motive to protect his image/marriage/etc, but it was technically perjury. Starr wanted a prosecution, and he got it, didn't matter what it was for.
Libby gave a false statement, according to Tim Russert, irrelevant to the investigation of the Plame leak. He had no motive to lie, if he lied or told the truth it did not protect or hurt anyone. There was no conspiracy. He simply remembered a fact incorrectly from 3 years ago. But Fitzgerald wanted blood, and he got it.
The whole thing was politics, not justice, from the start. Just like the Martha Stewart conviction.
And what counts as a confession? What if it was said in jest?
The short version: Eat granola and soy, but also eat or do not eat an unknown amount of fat. In other words, date skinny chicks. (but not too skinny)
What a strawman argument. No American cop would abuse a suspect in order to coerce a confession out of them!
Deleting the feature from revision control was a bad idea, but removing it from the current version was not. Every line of code takes maintenance effort. The smaller the code base is, the easier it is to navigate, understand and enhance.
I actually disagree with this article quite a bit. If the code is dog shit, you need to step up and identify ways to improve it. Renaming a few variables in one file isn't going to be helpful, but maybe taking a couple of days to rename ALL of the variables is useful.
richard dawkins is god!
The most ridiculous thing I've read today. We ought to burn the book-banners.
She was fond of asking every date, "What are you passionate about?" She was less fond of the inevitable answer: "Having emotionless sex with attractive but vapid females."
Does it get any better than that?
I know of a few people doing this and it strangely works
I hate the smell, love the taste and can't stand the effects of caffeine. I guess we're antiparticles.
It's a matter of timing, title, and topic.
If they won't kill each other, a population with a disproportionate amount of young males usually means war.
Come on, dude. "My link" goes to reference.com. It's not like I'm making it up. I don't even know where you're going with your goofy-arse "anything less than human" B.S. (You do realize those definitions are not ANDed together, don't you?)
There is no contention on whether or not your "shuffling" is intelligent. It's not. It just happens. Sometimes it's productive, usually, it's not.
You seem desperate to divorce intelligence from self-awareness but incapable of discussing intelligence in a way that does not imply self-awareness. You want to ascribe intelligence to a process and use that word in a way outside its normal definitions.
What I was originally attempting to tell you was that the way you expressed yourself regarding intelligence and evolution just feeds into the common misconceptions about evolution being a directed, goal-oriented process--this organism/feature "is designed" to ...
Obsessed as your are with your particular notion of intelligence, I don't see any point in discussing it further. On intelligence: I'm arguing that evolution is not intelligent in the conventional sense. You're arguing that it is intelligent according to your niche definition.
Even attempting to define intelligence in your terms, I think you're still turning a blind eye to the astonishing quantity/frequency of failure (for organisms and ecological systems). Have you ever seen the statistics on the number of species gone extinct? How much failure/fragility is acceptable before one accepts a process is not-so-intelligent?
Yeah, who cares if they develop autism?
Enough about that. I want to know when the velociraptors are going to come after the reddit alien? I mean, that super soaker won't protect him forever....
Slo-mo replay at the very end of the video. It's brutal.
Ok, I mean x86 based when I say PC. Non intel based Macs, getting rarer, are in fact quite different, much to their detriment and hence the change.
do millionaires really have that much trouble meeting women?
What's even sadder is that these guys are so desperate to meet women that they're actually paying to meet the worst kind of women - shallow gold-diggers.
Not always. Most countries in South America have very little military spending and also very few war deaths.
Discussion continued. What a waste of time talking at this clown.
the more you practice solving the problem in your head the better at solving problems you will become.
Yes, in your "head", and how will you share this information (like in a big project, some kind of REAL software for REAL programmers) that is in your head without using a pencil or some kind of tool to describe your architecture without showing the million of lines where your piece of code is hidden?
Maybe so - but I do find that the "experts" on child rearing are the married couples that don't have kids yet. If you ever have any questions on child rearing, these are the people that certainly seem to know everything.
They pull this shit every time there is something out there they don't want to get front page coverage.
And his name was not Bush or Cheney.
Because numerical computations are different from generalized computing. I've been looking a lot at it recently, and there just aren't any super-mature libs for Lisp for matrix math (in my case). But that's not the same thing as saying that more general computations aren't as fast as C/C++.
If you want a better comparison, check out OCaml, which is easily competitive with C/C++ in the numerical arena.
If you like WoW at all, you'll dig some of these podcasts. Check out this overviwe of the 12 or so best ones going.
Christians are responsible for saying what "Christianity" is. Its their damn fantasy. Some crazy comes along and tries to alter that fantasy -- I'd say the mormons are particularily insane. Christianity as a doctrine is defined by Christianity. Its that simple.
Coming along later and saying "oh, i found this that says christianity's version was wrong" ---- ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS ALL FANTASY ---- is totally insane. You have absolutely no logical faculty if you cannot understand this. It makes my head hurt just trying to explain it.
Mormons are simply as wrong about the world as Christians.
There is no supernatural God. A person named Jesus was not his son.
AND the single crazy facet of what mormons believe (That the First Nations and America is somehow the christian promised-land (or some crazy shiat)) is EQUALLY (extra?)insane.
Being a recovering Roman Cathloic myself, I see this particular flight of fancy 'cult-like' too.
In realiy, the leader of the Mormons pulled a fast-one, he didnt find no fracking christian scripture in his backyard in America.
Sorry.
BUT, that doesnt mean Christians are any more right. They are ALL members of a cult.
This is why the jury system is broken
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003554231
Listen to what the jurors are saying:
"We asked ourselves, what is HE doing here? Where is Rove and all these other guys....He was the fall guy."
'We wish we weren't judging Libby...this sucks."
He also said that they found Tim Russert of NBC "very credible" and the defense "badgering" Judy Miller may have hurt them as some jurors developed "sympathy" for her. Even though she admitted having a "bad memory," the fact that she had notes counted a lot in her favor, he said.
You have jurors with an agenda from the start. How can you have a fair trial?
There are an Avogadro's number of people who seem to give a shit about Anna Nicole.
Except for all the research which shows that detachment parenting (aka neglect which probably won't qualify as "outright child abuse" in your fucked up worldview) reliably creates psychopaths. So if you want to create the next Jeffrey Dahmer, go right ahead. I just hope you're little Jeffrey's first and onvictim.
And of course, television is one of the causes of autism.
I mean hell, it's not like there isn't a ton of research in the field of pediatrics and developmental psychology to back ourselves up on? Let's let any bozo determine what's the right way to raise children. Just like the christofascist bozos now determine whether "evilution" is correct. It's not like objective truth exists, right?
Not all Americans--even on Reddit--re as sensitive about their national identity as senzei ;)
Maybe not, and it certainly does look like I was offended by that comment completely out of context, guess I have seen that generalization enough times to start being jumpy about it.
Sorry SeguroKC, no offense intended, please regard that as a general comment about posts on reddit.
Yeah, why doesn't he marry it then, huh?
Some of these I have listened to before. I will be sure to check the rest of them out.
They're hard by the time the baby is mobile enough to toddle around.
"First, since Avogadro's number purports to count the number of atoms in some theoretical specimen, its value should be an integer, as any schoolchild would expect."
last i checked, Avogadro's number was an integer....
Actually, I wasn't whining about it- I was just pointing out that it's not that hard to add the letters "NSFW." Are you some corporate exec? You seem really worried about people fucking around at work.
Pretty good, but honestly it does seem a little overwrought to say 'I am not a faggot. I am a man.' Twice.
And there's a reason for that. They've done the research and they've determined that raising children properly is a lot of hassle. This has been empirically proven by the way. The more you know about childrearing, the less likely you are to want children.
There's a lesson in this for you: just because there's a correlation doesn't mean it works in your favour.
That's right. The US hasn't been the same since you let the damn Irish in. And what have they ever done? I mean, wasn't America a god-fearing Anglo-Saxon nation, and goddamned proud of it? And then all these Irish show up and start taking all the Anglo-Saxon jobs, like police chief, or mayor, or president, and the next thing you know the Irish are everywhere.
And the Irish love crime. And drink. I hear they also commune with devils at night. They beat good decent folks with their shellaillaghs, get young women in a family way, kick puppies, and eat children, all while dancing with their legs and feel alone.
And the Italians. Don't even get me started on the Italians.
Remember, kids, irrational hatred is always the fault of the people being hated.
Yep, I've seen several marriages break down after a baby has been born, it really can test the marriage and tear it apart if it's not right.
A website that leaves a cookie? Unheard of!
Oh, so now you know what causes autism?
Could you let the whole fucken world know, cuz we've been wondering for awhile now.
Autistic children do have a propensity to watch a lot of tv, but causality is very doubtful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain
Did I miss the joke?
Hence the use of the word "hunch". But look, my hunch has more data than Abdussamatov's "theory"!
Did anyone else notice that the 4-cycle engine animation's ignition sequence is wrong?
In the four stroke engine animation, the breaker point is being shown open most of the time and then closing to create the spark. In reality, the spark is produced when the breaker is opened which interrupts the current flowing in the primary winding of the ignition coil. When this occurs, the collapsing current induces a high voltage in the secondary winding of the coil, which has very many more turns. This causes a very large voltage to appear at the coil output for a short time which is routed to the spark plug and causes an arc to cross the spark plug gap.
Do you make all your choices based on what you think the rest of our species would do?
That's not a very good way to judge interestingness. It can be a helpful way to predict potential interestingness, but it's not a good after-the-fact tool.
Javascript might have momentum, but it still doesn't have any really good implementations, and it is still useless for anything outside of DOM manipulation inside the browser.
Java was designed to program toasters and the implementation was inferior to the competitor's (Smalltalk, Lisp, anything else?).
We live in a cruel world.
There is some truth to what you say... Eric Naggum is a bit of a puzzler for me... He's obviously very smart, and know a lot about programming. And it's not just book-learning, he's been there and done quite a bit. I have a lot of respect for his technical skills.
However, he can be tremendously insulting. Probably one of the most insulting things I have ever read was written by him, where he ended up condemming someone to hell. I'm an atheist, so I normally don't really care about stuff like that, but the way this was written... He just came across as a very smart person who gets his jollies torturing kittens.
I think what it comes down to is that someone with a lot of skill also has to take the responsibility that comes with that.
1) Lynx is okay, but people who use text browsers tell me there are better ones.
2) Pine is in the opinion of the security officer of FreeBSD coded in such a way as to make security problems likely. Use Mutt, which is coded better, and in general better anyway.
3) Editors are like religion. Everyone knows there is one true editor that everyone should use, but what the editor is, nobody will ever say. Too bad this idiot didn't take that advice, instead inviting a flamewar by telling me his favorite is better...
4) Either he can't count, he removed 4, or I'm blind. Take your pick, I'll endorse any of them.
5) screen - about time he found a useful program.
6) I have a better idea, just refuse to bother with Microsoft Word documents. The only time I've found this advice not to work is when I'm at work, and there they force me to use a Microsoft Windows machine with Microsoft word installed.
7) As soon as you learn anything about presentations you will learn that presentation tools tend to make your presentation worse. If you are not willing to spend months learning how to give a presentation correctly, don't use computerized tools. A chalk/white board is better because it is harder to abuse than computer tools. Of course if you are willing to learn how to do presentations right, computer tools can be helpful.
8) I find my life is better by not using spreadsheets. They are useful tools, but most people abuse them for things they do not do well.
9)There are half a dozen open source databases. MySQL dominates, but it shouldn't. In every honest comparison I've seen MySQL comes out on the bottom. It took years before they admitted that data integrity was important for data storage.
10) cool? You can take a nice easy to read ASCII file and transform it into something much harder to read and call it cool? I know ASCII has problems if you don't speak English, but this tool doesn't help there.
Most of the points are debatable, but I don't see how you can add them up in his favor.
Oh right, because it's a total coincidence that there's been a rise in autism in the last few decades. They just "happen" to like television.
Television watching has been condemned by pediatricians. Is that clear enough for you?
It's a porno video. Obviously, no fatties.
The conservative movement has jumped the shark.
I think what he's saying is most ideologies are simply defense mechanisms. They serve unseen phobias and issues. It's similiar to the article I read on why people believe in the supernatural--a theory is that it's just easier to believe. Now, say what you will, but I think it certainly is easier to believe. It holds less space in your brain to be religious than to try to cope with the complexities of fate. Many movements are just over simplifications that pose answers to problems. They, of course, don't solve anything, but people think they do and often, that is exactly the need they are serving: free my brain up, please!
"Unrelenting white-hot horror we will rain down upon your heads"? Fake.
How do you know it wasn't written today and posted seven years ago? RTFA!
cool stuff!
I forgot Godless, her favourite adjective. Why not rearrange into LCFAAG (Lib. Comm. Fagg. AA. and Godless)?
Oh. Seems that I failed to see your irony... how ironic ;-). (See my comment below).
That's funny. You write the word "porn" as if it were a bad thing.
Use "Common Lisp" then, it's a standard.
God's browser of choice!
I'm wondering why Fitzgerald is only getting a perjury conviction and not treason.
Because in America, the legal definition of treason entails levying war against America or directly aiding its enemies. Not even the most zealous prosecutor would claim that Libby did that.
.....Must.....Understand.....Physics.....
It's just neocons trying to pull a fast one again. I guess they figured out by now that if they had a man mouthing off hateful shit about gays or making accusations, that most people would just assume he was gay -- they have a hell of a track record established so far. So instead, they get a 'woman' to call people 'faggots'; thinking somehow this can't possibly backfire on them (again).
A bunch of manly cowboys hiding behind a woman to do their dirty work. Such admirable folk.
Let's hope that 'might' becomes a 'will' soon.
Nerd Alert!
Our religion is kind and peaceful. Unless you say we aren't, then we'll fucking kill you to show you how peaceful we are! That will show you!
I'm a conservative, and stopped reading Coulter a long time ago. Not even as much because of her vitroilic style as for her inability to ever see the other side. This charge applies to either side of the political spectrum. Molly Ivins had no credibility with me, or Eric Alterman. Camille Paglia and Peggy Noonan are good examples on both sides of people willing to see more than their own side.
Think about it, for those of you who are liberal. If you only read people who agree with you, or if you do read others but only to dismiss, ridicule and hate them, then you will never find the truth. You will only be as much of a sheep as the conservatives you berate as mindless fools. There's hate speech on both sides (see Bill Maher, Arianna Huffington, Al Franken), although no one perhaps is so flagrant and annoying as Coulter.
Personally, I'm always worried I'll adopt an opinion merely because I'm biased, and try to be above all things, fair.
It can in internet debate! Almost anything can equal stupid in internet debate.
Justice has been served on the scoundrel!
Films we'll never get to watch:
Decent Star Wars sequels that bring back the magic experienced during childhood.
I loved it! Everyone will see or feel something different because of who we are.
They happen to like television, because by definition they are anti-social and like repetitive patterns.
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NOTHING is all bad and NOTHING is all good...Balance in the Force, Luke.
How many kids do you have?
Economist banishes people to the status of plankton in an attempt to get neoclassical economics to encompass the idea that those on the bottom of the economic ladder might have an impact on the economy as a whole.
That's all well and good until you realize he was talking to the students. He wasn't talking about Bush, he wasn't debating anyone, he was "urging students to study hard."
No, but apparently you are for completely misunderstanding my very simple two-sentence comment. Read this, then come back and try again.
Our second child has used his head as a wrecking ball since he was six months old. I think that's what they meant. Usually they tag the forehead or back of the head - not the soft spot - which is more towards the top of the head.
i know! it's just so funny and ironic! :-P
Our heroine overhears a dramatic story about a man whose dog was bit on the scrotum by a rattlesnake.
This is going to be an unpopular opinion around here I'm sure, but why exactly did the dog have to be bitten in the scrotum? If this book is targeted at kids, wouldn't having the dog bit in the leg suffice?
I'm not sure what age group this book is aiming at, but why not just avoid the whole problem and go with something a little more mundane?
it wasn't declared a WAR till Ray-gun was in office. him and his monkey faced cunt of a wife.
Is that part of my Microsoft?
That can be fixed by simply changing LineBuffering to NoBuffering.
The real reason why Java is still
the number one language in the
market is that it gives the highest
overall productivity. Of course this
isn't true in all areas, but it has
to be true in the areas where the
majority of developers work. But >what are the reason for this?
Hilarious assertion. He honestly believes that the reason Java has won out is because of it's overall productivity? Any productivity gains that the language provides gets killed by their over-engineered frameworks (J2EE being the biggest offender).
The best technology does not always win out and we have tons of examples for that (Beta lost to the VCR, keyboard layouts, etc).
Large corps and the US government have billions of dollars invested in infrastructure created on the back of Java, does he really think it's easy for them to look away and go another direction? Java is hanging on the coat tail of a 10 year legacy (for which it was probably the most productive at that time) and a billion dollar corporation.
Typing is mental overhead. Unnecessary abstractions are mental overhead. Bugs are generally proportional to the number of lines of code, so generated code is only adding bulk to the source base.
You want a language that is succinct. You want to type less but without losing meaning. You want the language to be readable.
So yes, Java may be an industry leader (has great development tools, lots of libraries, and a large backing), but you have to be nuts to think that it gives the highest overall productivity gain. Programmer spend an overwhelming amount of time creating code, and Java is just not as terse as the other academic languages.
Less code, less setup, equals more productivity and a reduction of complexity (thus leading to less bugs). Here is a study comparing the productivity of various languages.
http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/%7Eprechelt/Biblio/jccpprt_computer2000.pdf
Java continues to win out but that's more of an issue of momentum and less because of technical superiority.
...I thought Armitage admitted to the leaks?
The people use the language they use simply because they get paid for using that specific language.
Not always. A smart programmer will choose a language based on the problem domain. I use C++ and Java for most of my projects (games and other applications of a graphical nature) because they offer the path of least resistance.
what are you if you can't stand gangsta/hiphop/holier than thou, though talentless culture?
No, I was expecting cos x + i sin x, but, as joshdick said, it only does numeric calculations, it doesn't solve symbolic equations. Too bad.
If paris were poor she'd probably be living in a trailer supporting 6 children by 5 fathers by a network of welfare scams.
Then again maybe that's your definition of "hot"...
But why is it easier to believe? Without that explanation, your theory is hollow. As it happens, we know why. It's because most people are incapable of holding the complex explanation in their minds.
Coulter's real genius is distracting progressives from actual issues. I don't think it's any coincidence that she made her "faggot" remark just as the Walter Reed story was developing and the Libby jury was in deliberations. Greenwald is playing right into her hands, one by giving her more publicity, and two by not writing about something more important.
then let's tally the original purchase prices less the resale value...
http://www.govliquidation.com/
Ha, me too. If I ever do jury duty, I hope I witness something like that.
I think the liberal movement (of which I am a part) owes Anne Coulter a debt of thanks. We lose elections in large part because we are successfully portrayed as a bunch of pansies by the right. She has brought this powerful unspoken fact out into the open and I honestly think she has done us a favor.
Liberals need to reconnect with our adventurous, two-fisted, brawling roots. We need to reconnect with our Norman Mailers, our Ken Keseys, our Lenny Bruces, and our Hunter Thompsons (yeah...I know the sprout-munchers don't want to accept such rabble rousers into the pantheon but tough they are ours!).
Liberals are too often associated with vegetarian, pacifistic, touchy-feely wussies. It's time to show the rest of the country that liberals can also eat meat, shoot guns, ride motorcycles, and fight hard for principles dear to us.
Assuming we're talking about kids older than three or so, having a dog bitten on the leg by a rattlesnake is not nearly as interesting as the scrotum.
I've got kids aged nine, seven, and six, and I don't see any problem with "scrotum." It's better than most euphemisms would be!
There are no repetitive patterns on television. To a toddler, the images on it move rapidly in completely nonsensical and incomprehensible patterns. TV is all bad. And I have 7 kids thank you very much.
looks like im forced to install the 'genuine windows advantage verifier" whatsit plugin (they must have a neocon coming up with their app names now)
interesting one of my home pc's is XP SP1, the other is SP2...looks like there isn't anything for SP1.
Global warming hysteria is a method to move the world away from free market capitalism and toward socialism. Global warming theories fail the application of the scientific method and statistical analysis.
The earth has warmed and cooled thousands of times over the millions and billions of years it's existed. And now based on 150 years of data we've declared this particular cycle is caused by man. And then let's talk about how good the data set is. We're evaluating fraction of a degree C changes. So, just how accurate and precise is the data from 100 years ago, 200 years ago, 500 years ago........? And then let's evaluate the models, not one, zero, none of the computer models accurately reproduces the known results with the known inputs when run for the best documented past. Hey but would you wait to get proof you have cancer before you start life threatening cancer therapies?
I think you should post that as a story. Serves as a fairly good retort.
I don't get it.
And I'm waiting for the singularity.
Coulter is a dyke.
The waves of Irish and Italian immigration created a situation where something like a fifth of native born Americans were in the KKK. Immigration was essentially stopped in 1924 by the backlash and there was a long period of assimilation.
The current wave of immigration was started in 1969 and is unprecedented in length and scale. All previous immigration waves were relatively brief and followed by long periods of low immigration and assimilation. Appealing to America's tradition of immigration indicates ending the current wave.
An important difference between the past and today is that America is now full from an ecological and infrastructure perspective. It is impossible to be an environmentalist and support further population growth, and all our population growth is coming from immigration. Regarding infrastructure and space, talk to someone in their 70s. The beaches and roads were not always jam packed and spacious housing in a convenient location was much, much cheaper. There are too many people now.
I love 'proofs' by expectant schoolchildren!
i agree w/ the author in regard to frameworks/overall design.
if you can't fit the basic object model of your application in your head at one time, then you haven't created a design that's simple enough for you to code well.
re: the rest of the code: i dunno. it's hard to "grok" the "tao" of code when some of the client requirements are ridiculously stupid.
It probably the ad nauseam volume of posts about the exact same thing. Today it happens to be Libby Libby Libby. There's a point at which you just stop up-modding posts about the same stuff that's already on the hot page.
I'm calling it: Adobe wins. It's not what I want, but it's the only possible outcome. The ideal solution would be for all browsers to already support what HTML 5 will eventually become. That's not exactly possible without bending time and space. We would also need all CSS, Javascript and DOM implementations to be 100% compatible with each other. Not plausible. Many developers will try to keep on working with the AJAX tools that are popular today, but other developers will be churning out apps so easily in Flex that they'll have to look for another solution.
Microsoft's WPF/E may become common in the enterprise, but for the typical "Web 2.0" stuff we see these days, people won't touch it. Linux has enough buy-in among the tech crowd that it just won't make sense to use a solution that isn't supported in Linux unless it's measurably better. I don't think it is.
Since it's so hard to get penetration anywhere near that of Flash, any open solutions will have to be based on platforms people already have installed. OpenLaszlo outputs Flash or HTML. Flex runs on Flash. WPF/E will presumably be installed on pretty much every Windows machine out there. There's no open runtime with a large install base.
Except, at some point in the near future, Java. It has nowhere near the penetration of Flash, but if people start building compelling applications with it, maybe it'll happen someday.
Maybe it's time to give up and buy a Flex book?
But he's not a Jedi yet.
You probably got the grade:
A. For having a novel idea (insanely hard to come by, especially in schools)
or
B. Because your teacher was an idiot (sadly, not that hard to come by)
The problem is that you're envisioning a linear world, where every speed is essentially the same. In other words, you're trying to use Newton to refute Einstein. In reality, two major things happen as you get close to the speed of light:
Local time slows down. Hence, any force added will take progressively longer to have an effect. This is why you can't get a rocket to light speed, your engine gives you less and less acceleration as you get closer.
Your mass increases. Hence, it will take more and more outside force to give an increase in speed. No amount of toying with spoke length will change the fact that you need infinite energy, so if you only apply finitely much energy at any time, you will never finish your thought experiment. If you increase the energy input to match what is required, you will eventually need an infinite power source.
The comment was a simple one liner, not an expounding of political, social or economic theory....
And, I assure you, from where I sit, the bottom 90% of the country IS sliding backwards.
The bottom 90% in the United States, which you describe yourself to be in, has deluded itself into thinking the way this country is set up is working, or will work, for them.
Unless you have capital assets in amounts excess to 2 Million USD outside of your home, mainly in equity, you are NOT on the 'winning' side of the United States.
The vast majority of labor in this nation is coasting on the inertial expectations of college educated baby boomers who grew up in a very different country and 'expect' a certain standard of life as 'normal' as long as you have 'skills' (ie, a college degree).
"The truth is "relatively speaking" that the poor get more services, and are servered better now than at any time in our history,"
Two examples of the opposite would be the tremendously rising cost of a college education, and the unaffordability of health care.
Include the shift towards low end 'service sector' jobs, the elmination of Defined Benenfit pensions, and it looks a whole lot more like people are getting screwed.
I dont care personally that we are headed for Mexico's bifrication, I'm on the other side of the fence, and my business is in servicing those across the 20 foot concrete wall that seperates 'them' from everyone else.
If you can make it - hopefully you'll choose us for you money management needs!
Best of luck out there.
Brandon Berg claims that the single land tax is a silly idea.
huh? Care to explain why you think Mormons are polytheist and how Mormons are not LDS?
Now just imagine a war on global warming, with nucular weapons and stuff. Just imagine.
For some reason, I can't get Quicktime standalone to work with Vista, but if I install the iTunes bundle, it works. As I just wanted QT to watch an RoR demo, I can't be bothered to trace down the problem.
Easy buddy, she admitted she was wrong
I've got no idea what you are talking about. But yes, I 'know' what a snark is.
Interesting read for the first half, but I started getting woozy by the third page.
Okay, done. Thanks for the encouragement :-).
EDIT: added link.
The article states that a morning coffee won't make you any more alert if you don't drink coffee regularly.
Actually the article states the reverse:
"If you're not a regular consumer, you might get something out of one or two drinks. But once you're a regular consumer, you're in a cycle of withdrawal reversal."
But you're right that getting back to normal can also be seen as getting more alert... if you will.
That poster is hilarious. Can anyone find a way to buy it?
I've always wondered, does "land area" account for changes in elevation? (e.g. a mountain has greater surface area than its base would, flat)
That's not fair... America was only discovered 8 years before this. You gotta give us a little time!
This is Dr. Spock bullshit.
I don't think Dr. Spock said that. The cry-it-out guy is Richard Ferber.
nah, i got a 'A' for acing tests. the idea i came up with later...years later...though i was skeptical in class, i kept my mouth SHUT...you know...it's all for the 'A'!
hmm. i don't get how time slows down. how come time slows down?
in class we graphed an exponential curve arriving close to a vertical asymptote. i remember that...but was mass involved? or was it just energy required as speed increased.
so if you keep doubling your energy and reducing your mass by 1/2 how does that not impact the curve?
say you're right (somewhere) under the speed of light (using my example above). you're saying all the things i can do to manipulate power to weight have no impact at all? so time slows down by x amount, mass increases by y amount...so i change my increases of energy and decreases of mass correspondingly (same orders of magnitude) only times 2 or something..how can you not cancel out the effect?
it's kinda like a "more than you, no matter what you say. theory...infinity,infinity,infinity"
Yuck.
Why would someone resort to this?
From the pictures I saw, the majority of the women were not all that attractive, and in some instances, downright ugly. The income minimum for men is 500K a year with 1M in the bank. In Manhattan, you can live comfortably on that, but I don't think that is rich by Manhattan standards.
The women aren't beautiful and the men aren't rich, but they would like to be, so they go to this as some sort of self-affirmation. The truly rich and beautiful do not have a need for such ridiculousness.
Theology. It says it all.
Good info...thx for the tips :)
vim
I thought the best toys were the ones you could use to wallop your little brother.
I think (at the moment) at least 504 people don't care that he did.
Exactly. Downvoted for the title which refers to "scientists."
Wrong. This article is about one scientist and his views.
And here I was expecting this to be a good bit of satire against business people who think they can code. Nope, he's serious.
wtf 6 pages? can someone summarize this? Why is this important to non chemists.
the genetics of race and the social elements of culture are not the same thing.
This is only true in a narrow sense, if you restrict genetics to DNA. Which of course is not the most meaningful sense at all because that's heredity. And in terms of heredity what you are saying is completely false because heredity has everything to do with culture.
If you stress a woman enough, whether with beatings or starvation or just oppression, this causes changes in the womb environment which then get inscribed into the fetal brain. Changes which propagate down to grandchildren.
Great, now that you've commented, you can go and actually read the article.
Ex-employees are routinely instructed not to discuss their work at or former employer. And as prosecutors they have access to legally confidential information which must remain secret.
NONE of the images are stolen, ALL obtained permission to post, unless original is unknown. If you do not like the site, stay away from it. Let people decide for themselves.
werd!
But, they at least never have to wonder if she's only with him for his money .. the answer is pretty up-front.
Here's the thing: in US politics, the Republicans currently control the terms of debate. They're the ones framing the issues. To the extent that they lost some ground in the November election, it's because the split between their words and actions is getting too big for voters to ignore, not because they've lost control over the framework.
Psychologically, Americans are torn between narcissism and prudentry. They want to be titillated and simultaneously to feel outrage over the source of the titillation. The Republicans have managed to play off both sides of this unstable equation through a very careful, very savvy communications program. Thus Coulter is able to call someone a faggot even as she scolds her listeners about Christian values.
Until now, the Democrats have been playing catch-up, essentially playing right into the Republicans' trap, again and again. When Edwards reacts with something that can be described as petulance to an attack on his masculinity, he simply reinforces Coulter's slur among her followers. Look at that whiny bitch, they're saying about him.
In the example I cited earlier, the difference between the Edwards/Pelosi approach and the Obama approach is that the former accepts the Republican framework and tries to operate inside it, which simply reinforces the framework itself. The Obama approach weakens the framework by subjecting it to ridicule and exposing its shaky connection to reality.
There's nothing like laughter to break the spell a charismatic bully holds over his or her stooges. I wouldn't recommend taking this advice onto the street, but in politics, where you're prevented from knifing someone you don't like, it can be very effective.
Imagine the difference if Edwards had responded the way Obama did. The next time an interviewer asks him why he thinks he should be President, he could say, "Well, Anne Coulter thinks I'm a faggot, so I must be doing something right."
Alternately, he could examine the context of her remark for a way to highlight its hypocrisy. Something like: "So Anne Coulter thinks I'm a - let me make sure I'm quoting her correctly - a 'faggot'. To robust applause from the Conservative Political Action Conference, no less. Interestingly, CPAC grew out of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, which was founded by Terry Dolan, a militant homophobe - and closeted homosexual. Hey, you're welcome to your opinion on Coulter's sense of humour, but her sense of irony, however unintentional, is clearly firing on all eight cylinders."
Okay, so I'm not very good at writing political speeches, but Edwards is an experienced trial lawyer, so I'm pretty sure he knows how to make a case.
T.I.A. :(
Come on, dude. "My link" goes to reference.com. It's not like I'm making it up.
Never accused you of making it up. I'm merely pointing out that it's only slightly more useful than a definition pulled out of a 2nd grader's spelling glossary.
(You do realize those definitions are not ANDed together, don't you?)
That's not how I generally take such definitions. They're not exactly ORed either, many times at least more than one quality in a list is necessary, sometimes most of them.
But assuming they aren't, then yes, I think the evolutionary process meets a few of those. Particularly learning. When you learn things, the knowledge is stored in your brain through a mechanism still not perfectly understood, evolution keeps it in the DNA of entire species if not biomes.
It just happens. Sometimes it's productive, usually, it's not.
A statement that could be made about any person, actually. You're just an unintelligent entity who has all sorts of behaviors, some of them really complex. Right?
Many machine intelligences are no where near as complex or as sophisticated as evolution.
Evolution is presented an unending series of problems. All of them environmental in some way or another. It solves some, doesn't solve others. If a problem is similar to one it has solved in the past, it usually does a better job of solving it the second time around... the genes are often there, but only need to be repurposed or reactivated or enhanced somehow.
It is intelligent, but there is no design. It wasn't "thinking" that it wanted to create a bipedal monkey that could invent spaceflight back when there were only bacteria. It doesn't have a purpose, it just reflexively (for lack of a better word) solves problems it finds itself in.
What I was originally attempting to tell you was that the way you expressed yourself regarding intelligence and evolution just feeds into the common misconceptions about evolution being a directed, goal-oriented process--this organism/feature
On those charges, I plead guilty. I express myself poorly. I was just struck how the religious retards tend to assume that even if there is intelligence, that it implies design. Which is simply not true.
Even attempting to define intelligence in your terms, I think you're still turning a blind eye to the astonishing quantity/frequency of failure (for organisms and ecological systems). Have you ever seen the statistics on the number of species gone extinct? How much failure/fragility is acceptable before one accepts a process is not-so-intelligent?
A good question. One that is assuming that the intelligence spans a single species though. Even then, how many intelligent people go extinct, failing to solve the problems that would keep them alive? Me though, I'm of the opinion that the intelligence spans entire species, and is quite possibly global. Viruses almost seem to be more like messenger mechanisms, neurotransmitters in effect. If that were true, then the intelligence has never failed yet (barring the possibility that life became completely extinct and happened a second time at some point in the distant past).
Well i'm happy to see you've got the world all figured out.
Maybe one of these days you'll write a book and clue the rest of us dimwits in.
So, what happens when I report a comment as spam?
And can I only report it as spam? What about hateful or libelous comments? Can I report those, too?
where can I buy some of this placebo?
Job's is getting pretty chunky these days. It may be time to replace him.
it's true!
Hehe, yeah... and she'll know he's not with her for her intelligence and personality.
"If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations." - Erik Naggum
Wow, Israel was ranked worst than Iran.
He wasn't talking about Bush
Says you, hardly the person most qualified to determine what person 'X' is talking about. Neither am I, the person most qualified to do that is person 'X' himself, and in this case, Mr. Kerry has indeed said he was talking about Bush. Ergo, he was talking about Bush, and anyone who wants to say differently needs to bring out the mind-reading equipment for testing.
he was "urging students to study hard"
By pointing out what can happen if you don't -- Bush, one of the most inept presidents of our time.
I read the first paragraph, and got really annoyed at the 30 or so lines of simple "look what I've done I'm so awesome everyone better listen because I'm top dog!!"
I then scrolled to the bottom and saw Erik Naggum and realised why. He's a jackass
I don't know much about CSS/HTML, but the resume sending skills you require have been fully mastered by me. I can even send resumes to different addresses!
Yeh, good thing we have ice core samples going back 300,000 years so that we can tell that both are warming. Otherwise I'd not be able to just let my SUV idle all night for the hell of it.
Gold-diggers get all the bad press.
Why is it okay for a guy to look for youth and big boobs - yet women are not allowed to look for what they find attractive: Money.
ninjas only, sorry
500K per year is a lot of money no matter where you live. I'd definitely say you'd be rich if you were making 500K in Manhatten. $1 million in the bank is quite a few times the amount that the average American has that's for sure.
These guys definitely are rich.
ITALICS
Note to self: Don't watch scat porn with Acid.
Must be how Lent is being enforced this year.
Neato. It does money too:
160W * (7 cents per kWh) * 30 days
$2.50 per gallon / 23 mpg * 200 miles
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And throughput:
1.1 GB / 1 hour 45 minutes in kbps
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After playing with it for a few minutes you can see what it does and doesn't do. For example, arctan(1) works, fib(10) doesn't. Here's a short wish list:
Bignums up to a point. Try 16!, 52 choose 26, etc.
More importantly, it doesn't always work: Try 10^997 or (10^17)%17. It would be nice if it let us know that it's out of range.
Bit twiddling, e.g., 0xABCD & 0b110011001100, etc.
Use the last result in current calculation. For example, last result * 2
But regardless of what side of the fence you sit on, this line of thinking puts a higher precedence on the media than it deserves. The media is controlled by a select few parties that can and will determine what will be put into the forefront of public perception. The major outlets CNN, Fox, left, right, whatever, are all still controlled by a select few individuals with their own set of agendas, and who were not elected by the people. Don't get me wrong, the media has done a whole crapload of good things in this world. (divulging ethnic cleansing and other war atrocities) But most of those good things involve getting the truth out there in the open. The only truth in this story that I have seen so far is the fact that the CIA wrongfully detained this individual. The rest can be considered speculative and agenda pushing. But, to give the media full power to incite investigations without evidence whenever they see fit can not be the answer.
Hmm does a few months of Taekwondo training count?
when I first saw reddit I thought the CSS was broken or something...
when I realized what I was seeing was actually what was intended, I thought they were badly in need of a designer...
but after spending a few months on here (esp. reading the comment threads) and comparing it to my experience on digg (which I've now essentially abandoned) I don't know how I feel about this:
Reddit and Wired are looking for a designer. Interested applicants should be a CSS/HTML ninja and can send resumes/portfolios to redditjobs at gmail.
I sorta like the "design" we have now.
So, what happens when I report a comment as spam?
The same thing that happens when you report a link: it gets recorded, and we see the probability the item is spam based on the users who reported it. Obviously anything that involves "we" and not "you all" doesn't scale well, so exposing all this to you all is on the agenda.
And can I only report it as spam? What about hateful or libelous comments? Can I report those, too?
There's a gray line in there somewhere that's difficult to define.
You have clearly missed the entire point of the article, and the backlash against Coulter, and in fact what Coulter herself was trying to do.
Fitzgerald has been scared off by the six or seven firings of "overzealous" federal prosecutors over the past few weeks.
Any estimate of how many years reserve of uranium and coal the US has if we used them for all our energy?
It is congruent with your theory. I'm giving you a reference to back you up so you're on more solid ground!
By the way, when you're incapable of holding any abstract system in your mind then strange things happen. You get anti-nuclear eco-zealots who champion coal power plants. You get primitivists who want to end the human species to please Gaia. As you pointed out, you get religious freaks who think nature is some big daddy in the sky. You get people incapable of understanding statistics. And worst of all, you get people incapable of understanding themselves so they aren't able to detect the inconsistencies between their putative values and their actions, or between their ideology and reality.
It's Rationalism vs Intuitionism, Enlightenment vs Romanticism, abstract thinking vs magical thinking, and even Dabrowski's uni-level vs multi-level.
What's even sadder is that these guys are so desperate to meet women that they're actually paying to meet the worst kind of women - shallow gold-diggers.
What's even sadder is that these girls are so desperate to meet men that they're actually paying to meet the worst kind of men - superficial womanizers.
With telescopes of sufficient power, we'll be able to make out web pages from 20,000 years ago!
I and the other socialists of the world say "Curses! Foiled again!"
I sorta like the "design" we have now.
So do we, but we can't claim perfection. We'll always strive for fast + lightweight as long as I have something to say about it, but there are many rough edges and kludges that could use some attention.
I see a church attempting to summon a Greater Baatezu.
Also I noticed reddit updated their mascot logo with this theme; that was quick.
IDE??
On my Mac I've started using Textmate. It's becoming my killer app on OSX.
For everything else, there's Emacs w/ Python mode.
Check out this airport termal imaging video
The Death Camp of Tolerance
Are you saying this in response to the article written by David P Barash?
602,214,141,070,409,084,099,072 = 84,446,888^3
Chosen because it's a cube.
The 6 pages of spoon feeding ad hits in a nutshell.
And remember, plane crashes are always caused by gravity.
To clue you in, you'd need to be reading it. And it's pretty obvious you haven't read any books on the subject. At most maybe books written by a "guru" which seems to be the modern word for a quack and a charlatan.
Make your own phonebook maps
bullshit all over it.
i love this song.. its one of the berst songs by him..
Expecting Schoolchildren?
o_o
How young are these mothers going to be?
I agree the theory sounds fishy at best... but it's taken as one of the paradigms of our time. It's a limit problem... and as in most limits, which are typically theoretical in the sense that we imagine them but generally don't actually approach them, it sounds doable if we just keep trying... but it is a limit, simple as that.
For example... why can't we reach absolute zero? We can just keep cooling something... just keep cooling... but you will never be able to truly remove all 100% of the heat and be left with a truly unmoving void absent even blackbody radiation, except perhaps in the limit of the end of the universe... another bizarre limit issue.
As you spin your rod faster and faster... you can fight as hard as you want, infinitely hard... but you still cannot cancel out that infinite barrier (at least as far as physics is currently concerned)
Nah, he'll get the same kind of tough sentence Bill Clinton got and take it like a man.
Yeah, that would work. Theoretically. Our internal caching mechanism might be too stupid to catch that. Maybe I can get the builds to macro the release ID into the source or something... Anyways, thanks.
True, but we are just a small number of people in a single community. Imagine how many people see things like this often but never realize it!
OMG this oldie made it all the way to the reddit logo. Not bad for recycled content.
Because to some gay men the "f-word" can be the same type of derogatory slur that the "n-word" is to African Americans.
I think the author of the article made his point very clearly, and you appear to be choosing to ignore that.
Please gloat.
It makes me want to contribute more than the $100 per month I'm already giving the RNC and NRA.
How enlightened.
What's this "RSS" that you speak of? Is that like Digg?
So you worked with Wesley Chun then, author of the book that I first learned Python from?
eclipse w/ pydev + extras
um..... 2005
yes, but as Erlang newbie, I would wish to see some descriptions of what those functions actually purport to do.
I mean, can you explain,
what for might you use the "consult" function?
I am appalled that he didn't mention Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon.
At least some of those are the 2004 edition. This is the 2007 edition.
But... but... CLINTON!!!
lol @ "OMGz this is teh best screen saver evar!"
That would actually make this entire ordeal a whole lot less offensive. When someone whose been there says that word, it's not said with the same undercurrent as when a straight person uses it.
Ha! Even the reddit alien is shocked!
Most people who've done significant AJAX development will admit that the development story is a mess.
I guess I'm not most people. AJAX development, as I do it, with Ruby on Rails is a breeze.
Real programmers (or really people who just want to get things done) use the tools that they find help them. Some people find it helpful to scribble things down while they're thinking, others don't. Why should it be a sign of weakness? The whole premise of this article is ridiculous.
The best forums for MS!!!
These photos now seem the victim and props for an internet hoax claiming all this snow fell in Oswego NY. Indeed, the leeward shores of Lake Ontario have gotten lots of snow, but these are not the photos.
I can attest to the truth of this.
OMG SOMEONE MADE FUNS OF BUSH! LETS DOWN VOTE IT!
Let me guess, you have children?
If you look, you can see that the name blacked out on the bottom reads "Name Goes Here". A clue, perhaps?
Huh. Actually, I didn't even think about Islam or crescents. I saw devil horns starting to peek out from behind the clouds right from the get-go.
...to Novak, who published the information first. But the trial made clear the leaks were springing up all over the place.
We added report buttons on comments.
And now I click "report" all the time instead of "reply". Perhaps it would be better to put the "report" button to the left of "reply".
My God, she's full of shit!
huh?
Spitzgerald?
We used to say it all the time in 6th grade all the way up until we were out of highschool.
Some of us grew up.
And of course, television is one of the causes of autism.
Proven beyond all doubt!
Again? This is the same old tired article from 7 years ago
yeah, you missed it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_%28mathematics%29
they hand out religious PhD's like chiklets. it doesn't surprise me that he could fake it.
now fake a PhD in physics or any REAL discipline, THAT would be a feat.
just more PROOF religion is full of morons and conmen EXCLUSIVELY.
Therefore: Prophet!!
you just know there's some periods...and yeast infections and whatnot happening in a crowd of 100.
What is "Islam" doing on this list? It stands out like a sore thumb.
I've seen quite a share of baloney spouted by this particular author, but this one takes the cake. Or perhaps, "Haskell isn't a functional language anymore [because of the IO monad]"
These positions are begging for a Socratic Midwife not least because they have the potential to mislead a willing audience. Any volunteers?
But less, and less so, in multicultural societies, which is what we're talking about.
Actually, I don't worry about it. If you worked for me, I could give a shit what you looked at or when, as long as you're getting your work done.
BUT, work places where the kinds of things people say "Label this NSFW" for are indeed NSFW are also the sorts of places where if you're surfing reddit at work you are probably effectively stealing from your employer.
As, I said before, Grow up and take responsibility. I will not label anything NSFW. I don't believe I or anyone else can make that judgment for you.
I'm moving to Australia.
In the plague years, I saw countless nelly sissies face HIV and AIDS with as much courage and steel as any warrior on earth. You want to meet someone with balls? Find a drag queen.
Amen. Straight white men so often forget that it's DEAD EASY to live as a straight white man in America.
I hear what you're saying.. but I think you sport the warped view on the definition of a designer. Evidence is you thought Reddit had no designer, and quoting "design".
People have different tastes. But in my view, a good designer is one who has mastered the art of leaving away. One whose designs are up to the test of time. The people who you call designers, I call wanabees ;) I pinch right through their industrial habbit of adding noise and garbage. It's funny, you might think I'm rabbit about it, but if a newspaper or magazine would sport the design of many webpages, you'd probably immediately toss it away.
If you get to higher math classes, when faced with a problem, you have a claim to prove (not a set of mechanical calculations to carry out) along with a set of theorems and prior knowledge you may need to draw on. It can't be "done in your head" per se. He seems to be under the impression that math is computation and calculation rather than reasoning.
You don't need to include all the steps, but you do need to satisfy a skeptical albeit reasonable person that you have not engaged in any non sequiturs. For the average person the level of detail involved would seem pedantic. These are the same kind of people who will argue all day long that 0.999... != 1.
So the only really uber people are the ones who can do everything in their head, huh? I'd like to see him write a simple linked list in C without drawing pointer diagrams on paper and see how long it takes him to get it right. I'm sure he's so fucking leet that it'll be no problem at all and I'm just not fucking good enough for him.
At work, we've debated (and agreed) that in cases like this, the punishment should also be to have her re-productive organs removed. She has shown that she is obviously incapable of caring for children, and should not be allowed to have more that she can endanger.
I thought it sounded like some kind of Italian supercar...
Hosted VoIP, here's how it's done. Canadian telcos could learn something from this.
I don't know. If someone called your mother a bitch, or a cocksucking whore, would you just laugh it off, because they were saying she's not REALLY a bitch and a cocksucking whore, but SIMILAR TO OR RESEMBLING a bitch and a cocksucking whore.
Me, I'd be a little offended.
Thanks for getting that song into my head.. not!
I'm going to guess FireAntsylvania.
"The key to the experiment was that the pulse reformed before it could have gotten there by simply travelling through empty space. This means that, when the waves of the light distorted, the pulse traveled forward in time."
WOW!
The earth has gone through thousands of heating and cooling cycles over millions and billions of years. And now the claim is this particular warming cycle is caused by man? Prove it.
Yes! Especially to learn how to write clear and unambigous. Math notation sucks enough already, says a programmer & student :-)
The jurors also said:
"...Mr. Libby saying he was surprised to hear about Mrs. Wilson, we have about 34 post-it pages... 2.5 feet x 2.5 feet... and they were filled with all the information we distilled from the testimony... we took a long time to do that..."
"...what we came up with was that Mr. Libby either was told by or told to people about Mrs. Wilson at least 9 times..."
"...even if he forgot who had told him about mrs. wilson, it seemed very unlikely that he would have not remembered about mrs. wilson."
"...the belief of the jury was that he was tasked by the VP to talk to reporters. We never came to any conclusion whether cheney would've told him what exactly to say..."
Was he covering for the Vice President? "We actually never discussed that because that was not what we were assigned to do."
What do you think? "I really don't know. One thing about being on this jury..the people who were on this jury...there were some incredibly good managerial type people who just took everything apart into the smallest piece and put it in the right places... and it got to the point where you just couldn't...opinion had very little to do with it... you just came to the conclusion that wow, here it is right before us..."
"we had one unanimous decision right away..."
but each discrete step...double this...halve that...gives you a gain.
like the 'paradox' of the runner (i think they use a tortoise actually) who always only went half way, then half way again, so never finished the race...but the reality is, sooner or later, the only remaining distance of the race course is smaller than the smallest amount the runner can travel, so he finishes.
the speed of light is a fixed, finite speed. a goal that can be seen. a finish line.
i get infinity and all that, but i doubt that it takes infinite energy to get to a fixed point (volocity)
It was ambiguous. I fixed it.
More anti-conspiracy bullshit.
Do the women actually have to pay to do this? I assumed that only the men had to pay because the women were only expected to be hot.
We also switched from FastCGI to SCGI yesterday, if anyone's curious.
Not just curious, i'd like to see a case study writeup after you've run under the new system for a while.
The New York Times sticks a fork in the 'Peak Oil' theory. Expect the cranks on reddit to take no notice.
the kilogram
The "show me" argument is moronic. They're not denying rendition. The AG rendered an opinion that torture is legal. Do you really need to see the Rodney King video to believe it happened?
I see. Thanks for the response!
cool stuff to know yo'
Good-looking golddigers meeting ugly rich dudes
Stop right there. You've just explained all of humanity.
I hate to complain, but I too have accidentally done this. Perhaps the "report" button should be moved.
George Bush's America has fallen so low that there are soviet style show trials.
You comment on a thread about windows and DST and you try to turn it into a political thread? What kind of an a$$ are you?
Alternately, you could actually educate yourself about what child development research has taught us about the predictable results of different methods of raising children before making sarcastic, defensive remarks.
SPE, but i'm in process of switching to Emacs
Now you're just trolling.
Are you saying assassination does pale in comparison to street bombing? If I had added "Olypics bombing", would that have been a fairer comparison?
Totally - that was the best line in the article!
check out the featured essay, it's hilarious. try using the mp3 link to listen to it in that woman's british accent. *edit
Please switch the positions of the "report" and "reply" buttons. Replying is much more commonly used than reporting anyway.
That's why Air America failed--too much negativity, contrasted with actual insightful observations circa the Daily Show.
Guys are considered shallow for looking for focusing on hot women too. It's not all one-sided.
Actually looking for someone with wealth is probably a much better survival method/promoting ones genes than looking for someone who's hot, since beauty will fade but wealth can keep on growing.
This article would've been better if they'd actually described the "new vehicle design." As it is, the content of the article is pretty much encapsulated in the title, question mark included.
A profile of Anna, a crafter who sells on etsy.com
Nope. Since we don't build housing sticking out the side of mountains, the living area is the same. Look at satellite photos, no more houses can be built on a mountain than on a plane. If anything, mountains decrease population density (it's tough to build on them). More vegetation grows on a mountain, but that's not typically arable land.
Also the EU now includes former eastern block countries. The comparison would only be fair if Mexico would be counted in with the US.
That's not ironic, that's just a coincidence! "The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention. Now that is irony! "
/futurama
As a user of Windows Vista, I would like to ask all of you web designers and developers
I hope this is a joke. The web is supposed to be system-independant.
This chart? http://farm1.static.flickr.com/186/412746765_a3907c1413_o.png
Maybe when you posted that was true, but it's not now.
Looking from your votes, thrillingwonder.blogspot.com is your site. No wonder you're defending it.
No matter what you say, it's still useless ad filled spam based entirely on the work of others. Reddit should link to the source and reward the content creator.
just remember there are shitty lawyers. and 'help' is subjective at best. getting 'help' may be the worst move of your life. ESPECIALLY in Amerika.
the kind of sentence you get when you're found not guilty on all counts, like Bill Clinton got?
If you have a multi-million marketing budget, even a language designed to program toasters can become the NBL, no matter the deficiencies. Java is the proof.
"...for tracking down poor Rich again in February and whaling on him again."
What the heck is wrong with me that caused me to laugh uncontrollably at that? Somehow, it made my day.
My parenting is a little uneven, but the one unambiguously good decision my spouse and I made was to get rid of cable TV six years ago (we get no channels at all). Our children are both avid, voracious readers (well, our four-year-old isn't reading yet but will sit eagerly through seventeen stories) and have long, deep attention spans compared to their peers. Their capacity to entertain themselves creatively appears boundless.
don't they always travel forward in time?
Here's a hint: click on the "printable version" link on sites like these.
condoleezza rice drives herself? and she needs an interpreter at airports?
Recent reports have indicated that solid-state hard drives are being built with data throughput capacity of up to 62MB/sec. This is close to 100 times faster than conventional hard drives.
I'm as horny for flash based hard drives as the next guy, but that's just plain wrong. 62 MB/sec is beaten by all the drives in this review, for example. Now, if they really meant 620 MB/sec, freaking sign me up.
Here is exactly what he said:
I'm glad to be here with you. I really am. Thank you for the privilege of coming here. We're here to talk about education, but I want to say something before that - you know, education, if you make the most of it, and you study hard and do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.
Now, I don't see "George Bush," "the President," or anything like that in there. If I say "I think computers are useless," am I saying that Macs are useless, or am I saying that all computers are useless?
that's exactly the problem- Libby lied about it, and they caught him lying. they didn't convict him of blowing a covert operative's cover, just of lying about what he knew and when he knew it.
emacs
Confessions under torture are not admissible in court. Moreover, confession by itself doesn't mean anything without evidence. For instance, if you confess for killing OJ's wife, most likely nothing will happen to you. There will be an investigation, cops/FBI will find nothing, you will pay fine for lying.
Josh had better not get arrested at some little pub fight and ruin is career. He has too many strong and sexy years ahead of him!
French painter and sculptor, Bruno Schiepan is a contemporary artist who exercices his art on chairs ( Knoll Saarinen), furnitures, masks...
somenickname had a #1 post - this one: http://i6.tinypic.com/2hpod9j.jpg
I'm a CSS/HTML pirate, and I'm deeply offended by this blatant discrimination.
The "remember me" checkbox on the login form should have a label tying it to the checkbox so it becomes clickable. Otherwise, I think the design is great!
nice
Brian S. Laviage can't spell. How good a lawyer could he possibly be?
Some people approach the question with a fervor that can only be described as religious. Unless you've lost a family member, body parts, personal property of significant value or some combination thereof to religious zealots, there's no more reason to be vociferiously anti-religion as there is to be anti-unicorn. Yet some people will rant on and on about the lack of a god and how all these people with faith in their lives are mindless drones believing in a fairytale, as if the fact that some other people believe in god has any bearing on one's personal life outside the situations outlined above.
Like I said, I get worried whenever someone claims to have the truth, and worse, complains that others who are not necessarily doing anything bad without it, are somehow evil or stupid or subhuman. It's no different that religions themselves calling nonbelievers subhuman, unclean, vermin, etc. And it begs the question, does one take a stand on an issue because they simply find it correct, or because they're trying to prove it to someone else?
After this line...
With Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland leading the world in peace and prosperity,...
I pretty much skimmed the rest of the article. How can a person (seriously) compare those countries to the U.S.?
Population:
Sweden - 9,016,596
Norway - 4,610,820
Denmark - 5,450,661
Iceland - 299,388
Finland - 5,231,372
New York City alone has over 8 million people. We have more cultures in New York State alone than all these countries combined.
Major apples to oranges comparison here.
I actually like the design of Reddit. Clean is refreshing; far too many sites (Digg?) clutter everything with ads and graphics and fancy Web 2.0 colors and don't do a particularly good job of displaying the content.
Hmmm...Methinks you're the one having trouble understanding. You defended name calling on the grounds that "we" all did it in 6th grade. Some of us, however, made it beyond 6th grade, grew up, and stopped name-calling.
Apparently not all of us did, though.
One of the most critical aspects of trying to sell your jewelry online is good photography. However, being able to light a piece properly to show the true color an beauty of it can be difficult. A lightbox is a great solution. It provides light diffusion and a uniform background against which to place your piece. They can be expensive though. There is a solution, costing as little as $2 (or free if you already have all the materials), using a cardboard box, posterboard and some tissue paper. This light box can be used with any light source, and even outdoors.
Also added innocous "Public Safety" ad banner on the right as a soft landing to introducing consumer ads later.
I'm also curious why the switch in the first place. Does FCGI have scalability/reliability problems?
Your "world according to America" map is stolen from http://jigsawlounge.co.uk/kungfu/ and I doubt you got permission from them
I'm not daring the opposition to do anything. I'm asking them to follow through and introduce real legislation to back up what they say they believe.
The Republican leadership has supported the war for the last six years as has almost every Democrat.
btw I suggest you read up on Jim Webb, he wasn't exactly a member of the SDS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Webb
Think how the CSS/HTML monkeys feel.
Military spending of China and especially Russia are wildly off, as people pointed out about Wikipedia's information as well.
So if you ran into a critically thinking Zeus worshiper you would find that completely logical? You wouldn't perhaps think 'that is odd'?
My mum said she did it on Dr. Spock's advice :)
God forbid one of you two should actually come to the middle ground. The responsible thing to do is determine why the child is crying, and if it is reasonable to fix the problem, do it. If not, don't. If your baby is crying because they're in pain, need a changing, are hungry / thirsty, etc., by all means, do something about it and comfort them. But if they're crying because they want a second helping of ice cream, or want the toy you just took from them and put back on the store shelf they snatched it from, or what have you, let 'em cry.
To be perfectly honest, if I had to side with one of you, I'd prefer the detachment parenting method, simply because we can lock up / give the death penalty to psychopaths. The same is not true of the spoiled brats that, despite having all the opportunities in the world, grow up to be leeches on society nonetheless because of their overblown sense of entitlement, and those are exactly the types of people that come from parents that are afraid to let a kid cry.
Really, though, I think I'll just stay here in the middle (read: sane) ground.
:)
women had to pay $50, guys $500 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rYEp4MAkLo
;)
I think you're mixing up which investigation was "just politics" and which is seeking justice.
Ken Starr was a right-wing attack dog. He spent something like $80M investigating everything he could touch, most of it outside the purview of his appointment.
Clinton was a weasel and arguably lied (though I note no conviction). But his lie was inconsequential, and in response to a vicious political attack of no substance to the business of the country.
Patrick Fitzgerald has conducted a very clean, honest, and leakfree investigation staying very carefully with his mandate. To the extent we know him, he is considered a centrist leaning rightward, and did not come to the table with an outstanding political motivation.
Libby was quite clearly a player in the political hit job orchestrated out of the white house designed to discredit a public critic of Bush's illegal war plans. The hit was conducted by outing an active agent with historical and traceable ties to numerous ongoing operations. That's treason -- a very consequential act of grave import to the country.
Libby had many motives to lie, and obviously he did lie, and the jury agreed. Libby knows he lied, knows who he's protecting, you are a shill or an idiot if you can't see any of this.
Ooh! Let's try it out:
"As any schoolchild would expect, Kolmogorov complexity is not computable by a Turing machine."
Yes, that one actually sounds quite plausible. I believe you've hit upon a great method of proof!
I'm wondering if there are any plans to add a block button/tab? This one feature would perfect Reddit for me.
Edit: On consideration, I think I'd like a way to filter the closed vs. open comments by my blocking list as opposed to number of (negative) points. I have all comments showing, but would like it if those from people on my blocked list were closed by default and I then have the discretion to open them or not based on the discussion going on.
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Screwing up the rss feed for the home page? I used to get a nice manageable amount of submissions each day. Now, every time I get like 100+ or so, and many are repeats. It's hard to even look at the damn thing.
Oh well.
I think a lot of reddit atheists are atheists out of rebellion, and not a simple lack of evidence for god. It reminds me of a time I saw an evangelist in Harvard Square trying to proselytize to a crowd of Rocky Horror patrons; they were yelling back and forth at one another in monotone, saying equally unprovable things, and that's when it dawned on me that simply being an atheist, and accepting a rational point of view, doesn't make one rational.
I missed it the first time - it's an engaging read.
I don't understand two things.
1) She memorized the face very well, they had the sketch, she recognized the guy. And then, she didn't recognize the real rapist. How is that possible???
2) Why did they need DNA evidence 11 years later.
I did mess with that code, so it's probably a bug. I'll check.
EDIT: it was a bug, and now it's fixed.
By the time '08 rolls around, Hillary's war machine will have transformed Barack Hussein Osama into Dr. Martin Luther King's assassin and nobody will even remember who he is when they enter the voting booth.
It raced so fast the pulse exited a specially-prepared chamber before it even finished entering it.
Don't worry guys, it happens to all of us now and again. Doesn't make you any less of a scientist.
Should you hire an old guy?
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or AJAX 2.0
emacs, vim, kate, and ed. I have been known to have 3 of those open on the same file at one time - though I'm careful in those cases to only make changes in one editor at a time. (I never use ed this way - but there are times where I can have my edits finished in ed before the others start up, even on 2+ ghz machines)
Each has different syntax highlighting, which can sometimes be useful for seeing the structure of the code. In particular I find kate the most useful for printing code, but once in a while the easy code folding is worth it. (If emacs or vim can do code folding I don't know, it isn't important often enough to learn)
Using viper mode in emacs is cheating. When I'm in vim, I use vi keys, when I'm in emacs I use emacs keys, and in kate I use kate keys (mostly menus).
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Nitpick: the author of this article is David P Barash, not Richard Dawkins. It is hosted on Dawkins' web site, along with a lot of other articles on similar matters from many different points of view (including some articles which flame Dawkins).
Yes.
Oddly enough, the only Anna Nicole 'news' I've heard is people bitching about the Anna Nicole 'news'. I suppose this is because I don't have a television, have time to read only The Economist in addition to the BBC and don't listen to radio but I do, however, read Reddit comments periodically.
same here IPython + vim.
then turn on pdb in Ipython
and use this:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/498182
to get autocompletion in the debugger.
we can lock up / give the death penalty to psychopaths. The same is not true of the spoiled brats
Children grow up spoiled because their parents gave them stuff in place of love, not because their parents embraced them when they were crying.
Wing Professional.
If I were only going to consider free options I would look at Komodo Edit and PyDev. Both are a lot more powerful than something generic like Textmate or vim.
Well Known Safety Device, seatbelt, makes airbag scam a moot point. Wearing a safety belt is still better than relying on an airbag. In many cases airbags are more dangerous than safe, particularly if you are smaller than the average sized male driver they are designed for.
Airbags were only mandated in cars because politicians like Ralph Nader thought the common person was to dumb to convince to wear a seatbelt. As a result, thousands have been killed or maimed due to airbags. Thanks for looking out for us.
You were probably reminded when the article made reference to it in the first line.
Mmmm ... guacamole.
If it wasn't official before, it is now. I clearly blew it both with the title and in the way I tried to make my points with this article. I've added a "sucky blog alert" at the head of the article and welcome as much criticism and suggestions as people wish to give me. Tomorrow I'll see if I can't figure out how to better express myself in the future.
Go tony. We need Gordon Brown in there to help move the impeachment proceedings forward on this side of the pond.
I thought it was a bit dramatic for richard to suggest that letting your kid cry without immediate parental attention will reliably create a sociopathic serial killer.
There's variations in social/cultural norms and genetic factors across different families. To try and say that one method is the objectively correct method for all parents and children - in my opinion - is silly.
Well, the FOXs audience has always been populated primarily by the 45-60yr age group. Those aren't the people snarky college humor would appeal to. Excluding the College Republicans, coservative student are more apathetic than their peers. I don't think they even know about the Daily Show, much less that it now has a competitor. If FOX were serious they would play to their strengths and get an older comedian on board. If the world were that simple then FOX wouldn't be on air.
Emacs + python-mode + CUA-mode + tabbar-mode (I like my Windows keybindings). I'm looking for alternatives; Emacs is okay, but I really miss things like autocompletion, integrated debugging, and code-browsing.
d+
In The Origins of Virtue, Matt Ridley points out a number of instances of altruism in other species -- and explains why this behavior makes sense from an evolutionary perspecive. The reasoning is very similar to what Dawkins uses as a likely explanation for human morality and altruism, so I doubt that Dawkins believes altruism to be unique to man. If he does, I'd very much like to see him discuss why.
It's clear that he didn't read the article. He's obviously a visitor from Slashdot.
Gee, he did it. Libby did it, looks like several people were all "coincidentally" leaking this classified information. I wonder if there was, I don't know, a conspiracy to discredit Wilson.
If they're getting rid of government contractors and replacing the services they provide w/ regular employees who have pride in their job and a stake in their government, then yeah, I'm all for it.
WTF is this on science.reddit?
These paragraphs are by fifth graders who were asked by their teacher to reflect thoughtfully on the Pledge of Allegiance. (Be sure to read them all to get a picture of the diversity and depth of their thinking.)
The countries with the greatest military spending have the lowest war deaths ... that's craaaazy.
Hard to say. Keep in mind that LINQ is a broad term covering language features as well as libraries. So, Microsoft could release the 3.0 (language) features (lambdas, extension methods, query syntax, ...) but keep a patent on the LINQ to SQL library, which is part of the 3.5 Framework, for example.
We'll see.
i agree defending your own site is useless. Jigsawlounge is given credit and a link from the site - and yes, I have permission from Dr. Tricky who runs that site. I did not submit this post, so you are most welcome to link to the Worldmapper original. All I am doing is giving highlights from literally hundreds of maps there, with exclusive written permission given. Cheers, and try to have fun if you can.
Also on the same page is a Scheme interpreter in Forth (http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/oldstuff/#schemeinforth)
and a Scheme interpreter in Unlambda (http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/oldstuff/#schemeinunlambda)
Eyewitnesses are notoriously bad at identifying attackers (or people in general).
If I'm on a jury, I know I'll take that into account.
Not only that, but if you forward through the video one frame at a time, you can see Mel Gibson smoking a cigarette.
That may be the understatement of the year.
That's horrible.
Excepting that Foster did not die in such a place. But don't let actual facts get in your way. Just remember the mantra: Blame Clinton. Blame Clinton for everything, blame early, blame often. Meanwhile Shrub has ruined the military, destroyed our reputation, made us less safe, and polls at 30. And Bill could get re-elected if the law let him and he wanted it.
im interested
I don't think Maher, Huffington and Franken are fair comparisons to Coulter. Typically they are critical of actions, policies and hypocracy associated with the people they criticize. For example, making fun of Cheney for shooting his friend in the face and being critical of the fact that his daughter is a lesbian yet his policy is in conflict with that is not hate speech. Making a slanderous acusation as Coulter did or firing insults/acusations without any facts or evidence (as Coulter continually does) is Hate speech.
Please, go on, since you haven't given anything approaching evidence of the Democrats inability to lead.
The Democratic and Republican members of Congress who support bringing the troops home in a meaningful and measurable way were entirely aware that they have next to no power to do so in an immediate time frame. The resolution was the first step in officially renouncing the Executive Branch's decision to escalate troop levels in Iraq, again (This will be the second significant troop escalation in the past 12 months; the first succeeding only in raising the daily casualty rate of Iraqis and Americans). This is perhaps one of the more couragous actions they could have taken.
The next step in the process is to cut future funding for Iraq military operations. Representative Pelosi and other Democratic leaders are working towards this end. What many Republicans idealogues would like you to believe is that this does not support the troops and will cause them great harm. What will happen, though, as it did in Vietnam, is once the funding stops, operations will begin to wind down and the troops will start to make it back into the country. It won't happen overnight, it won't be without bloodloss, and it will happen on network television.
As for your luminaries and southern accents, I suppose Mr. Chertoff and flight suits are more your style? Even so, they bear little insight on how Democrats are or are not capable of leading this country.
Ha! From Wikipedia: "In 1996 Libby published a novel entitled The Apprentice, about a group of travelers stranded in northern Japan in the winter of 1903 during a smallpox epidemic.[14] After Libby's grand jury indictment, his publisher (St. Martin's Press [Griffin]) reprinted the novel, described as "an everyday tale of bestiality and paedophilia in 1903 Japan...[and] packed with sexual perversion, dwelling on prepubescent girls and their training as prostitutes": "One passage describes a girl being thrown into a cage 'with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons...."
That's painful.
how they get in the meat?
Mostly Emacs, Vim if Emacs is closed and I just need to make a quick change.
NSFW being abused to post boring porn was a bad thing. A low S/N can kill a social site, leaving the carcass only moving because of the infestation of SEOs.
someone mentioned that caffeine reduces blood sugar levels. That's incorrect. It increases it. Being a diabetic, I had to go through a 3 week exam with a diatician to see what was causing my sugar spikes. Overall not the best of diets, but caffeine intake was outragoues. If you're tired after drinking caffeine, you're most likely in need of sleep, or possibly have low blood sugar in need of food, not coffee.
Because lust is better than greed?
Once you start down that road you end up with parents who claim it's perfectly alright to beat their children. Saying that one method is the only correct method for all parents and children, is vastly closer to the truth than claiming that "whatever seems to work for you" (which frequently includes beatings and/or neglect, both of which "seem to work") is the correct method.
Now this is completely off-topic but does anyone know if the reddit team have stopped fucking with the reply / report buttons yet?
The words he said are not necessarily what he meant. Since the point of speaking is to distribute meaning and not words it is not terribly unreasonable to, if one is confused about what some words are meant to have conveyed, ask the source to clarify. This has been asked, and answered, on nearly countless occasions.
What is the point of you or I guessing as to the meaning of what someone said, when that person has been asked the same question and is the principle authority on the matter? When Bush said "Mission Accomplished" what did he mean?
The mind is malleable. I was in a car wreck once, and remember nearly everything that happened in slow motion.
A few months later, I found myself thinking about the wreck, but from within a different car. All the small details were the same, the soda bottle flying out of the cupholder, a candy bar flying by in slow mo, who I was riding with, but the car I was in was different in my mind, it was a different car that we also owned.
I remember catching myself and going "Nah, it wasn't THAT car, we still own it, the car that accident took place in was totaled and sold for scrap!" It was crazy to realize how real it seemed, but my mind had mixed up two seperate memories! You often don't notice this, you have to really pay attention. Memories are not perfectly engraved in the mind. They are malleanle like everything else. Even remembered dreams can get mixed in with memories.
Witness testimony can be very shakey. That is why it needs to be backed up by forensics.
The same thing could be said of slavery. Certainly there were nice intelligent slave owners. Maybe we should educate ourselves enough to understand why an intelligent person would find slavery valuable.
That would probably be fascinating and worthwhile.
Funny how the people who heard all of the evidence and the law unanimously disagreed with you. What the jury did, which is quite common, was ask for specific qualifications. The jury, unlike you I guess, did not believe his denials since there was so much evidence that the issue was quite important at the time.
As for his motive, that is a good question. I would bet it was to shield his boss from people knowing that Cheney planned on releasing classified information and endangering CIA operatives.
As for where I learned, I was not a government official directly involved in spreading this information at the orders of the vice president. If asked under oath I would honestly say I don't remember exactly who told me. I hope you can see the different between honestly saying you don't know and giving false information. If not, at least the jury could.
You're completely missing the point. John Edwards' campaign is making money off of this. Others are enjoying the opportunity to righteously bash Ann Coulter and her supporters. It's all for fun and profit, who's whining?
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As of 1:02 PM PST, the order of the buttons is report then reply, so it seems to be fixed. Yay agile development!
You are essentially advocating that hate-speech is ok, and that if the person on the receiving end doesn't like it, they can quit whining, kick the person's ass, grow up, respond back with something witty, etc.
Now, none of your ideas seem especially well-conceived, and they fly in the face of anti hate-speech laws that govern our behavior in society and the workplace.
You're either trolling, or talking without thinking. Your history of downmodded comments illustrates this.
I have nothing further to say to you.
Kindly realise that the links weren't there when I wrote my first post. My "common courtesy" reply was in response to the impolite link to "just f'ing google it."
Cheers,
-Luke
I also use Eclipse. It's great for Python.
Who cares?
No, it'll never go away, because hate speech along with the pov that supports it is part of human nature.
But when their representatives are shouted down, threatened with death, told to shut up, and go into the corner, their movement grows, like a fungus. and to the question of immigration, there are many who don't consider themselves bigoted or racist who sympathize with the pov they. represent. who believe that uncontrolled illegal immigration is not a good thing.
you have to stand up to them and say "no. you're wrong. immigration is a good thing, and here's why"
--vat
that is disgusting... I'm a little confused though. Is that the meat packing plants fault? Grocery store's fault, consumers fault... where are they coming from? That can't be the norm.
Right, Clinton lied about having sex. Everyone lies about sex. Starr investigated everything he could for years and that is all he got. What do you suppose an similar investigation would turn up for this administration? I suggest you give up the "Blame Clinton" spin, it just does not work. Clinton was not only effective as president, he as and is astoundingly popular. Shrub does not look good in comparison.
I would probably think it was odd because I have never run into any Zeus worshiper before. I might ask him why he worships Zeus. Since is he a critical thinker, he'd probably have a pretty interesting answer.
But is it turing complete?
Thanks. I guess I can understand requiring the $50, just to make sure they get serious attendees only.
Lied to the grand jury for the purpose of impeding an on-going criminal investigation. What part of that do you not see as wrong?
No, just a thing the NSFW subreddit was arguably not intended for.
Not right now, but in the past she has certainly said some equally disturbing things:
"When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors."
-Ann Coulter, February 26, 2002
"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building."
-Ann Coulter, August 26, 2002
"I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo."
-Ann Coulter, December 21, 2005
Wow these are mostly horrible things. I'd recommend to remember not to do many of them, e.g. TV, ketchup (a terrible food), threatening, jailing, locking behind doors, ignoring. A few are good advice (grandparents, marriage, hugs, clean floors) but the appearance of others ruins the lot.
Someone already made this, called it writely and got bought out by google.
Where did you get your information about their agenda? How did you figure out where they got it? What I see is jurors commenting about the evidence they saw at the trial.
In Manhattan, you can live comfortably on that, but I don't think that is rich by Manhattan standards.
A bachelor can live comfortably on $100K / year in Manhattan. Frugally at $70K. Thrifty at $50K.
EDIT: you will have very little or no savings, however.
Dr. Dre circled = No Picture!
That essay is the worst.
SFW? Lie detectors don't work. They are useless devices good only for newspaper articles. There is good reason they are banned from courts.
Did you RTFA? The article states that coffee does have an effect in non-regular drinkers; the newsworthy (yet, of course, somewhat obvious) assertion is that in daily drinkers, a morning cup of coffee just curbs the withdrawal symptoms.
And I have 7 kids thank you very much.
1, here. 6 to go to match the meme-spreading ability through generational means... I don't think I could handle that many :(
Alright then let me amend my question to --- why wasn't Cheney on trial? And don't say because he wasn't indicted....
Very odd how they don't attribute the work to the creators: Worldmapper
I'm so proud of how fat Ireland is in the Alcohol map :')
because if you like boys it's a good place to meet other boys, in other words, fitness centers are a meat market, not only for gays but for straights too. another reason I choose to work out at home
All this tells me is that if I'm going to eat pork, I should drink a lot of coke.
I used Wing IDE Professional for a while but switched to Kate since it's also suited for HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I put some Kate syntax customizations I made for Python here.
lol.
I think he would hate that.
Looks very useful, hope this is a success
Once you start down that road you end up with parents who claim it's perfectly alright to beat their children
You'll always end up with psychos that think chaining their kid to a radiator is valid parenting. That's child abuse, which should not be tolerated.
There's a pretty big difference between 1) letting your kid cry for 30 minutes before attending to him and 2) beating your kid regularly.
I agree with you that there is a general set of principles that's more-or-less "good parenting", however i don't think its nearly as black-and-white as "parenting experts" try to make it sound.
Some of my friends were raised in very abusive circumstances, and they turned out reasonably normal and well-adjusted.
I think it's deplorable to hit and abuse kids, but it's not nearly a 1-to-1 relationship "hit a kid and create a serial killer"... a lot of genetic and psychological factors play into raising a child.
I'd love it.
He is SO lame!
very nice
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Truth doesn't work by averaging. You can't say "A and B are extremists therefore A + B / 2 is the sane position" because this is utter nonsense.
The truth is that psychopaths are a dead-end so any kind of parenting that reverts children to psychopathy is a 0 on the psycho-social evolutionary scale. Meanwhile, children who have never learned interpersonal relations because their parents enslaved themselves to them (I refuse to use "spoiled" as if children were rotten cabbage) are first salvageable and second a necessary transitory form on the way to the next evolutionary stage.
When the Finns decided to ban child beating en masse, they raised a generation of children who had no concept of limits. Then that generation figured out how to impose limits on their own children without beating them. This is called Progress. And progress is messy. That doesn't mean you go backwards, it means you suck it up and fucking well deal with it.
To hear you talk, the solution to industrialization's coal smoke and poverty was to "partly" deindustrialize in order to go back to filth and lice.
Actually I think the guy makes pretty valid points. Which bits did you not agree with?
You're forgetting a very important thing when it comes to professional programmers: There aren't very many of them. To get the majority of them, you don't have to sway the existing ones. It would be sufficient to bring in a new crop of FP programmers.
Really, all it would take would be something like a myspace-sized site that allowed it's users to customize it using a simple FP language. If you can get something very popular among teenagers, that encourages them to program in such a language, then within a few years the flood of them will drown out the existing "enterprise" programmers.
Considering what digg came from ( http://web.archive.org/web/20050114053831/http://digg.com/ ), I hope spez & co. are careful how far they take this "design" business. I think it's great as it is, and although I'm sure a few touch-ups here and there wouldn't hurt, I would hope they can draw the line somewhere to keep it simple.
edit: link wasnt working for some reason
this article is just full of little gems like that
No wonder no one takes these petitions seriously!
I didn't say "A + B / 2". I said "A when A makes sense, and B when B makes sense." BIG difference.
*Edit: This is getting downvoted, so just in case it's because people think it's wrong, instead of knee-jerking because they just don't like it, here are sentences 2 and 3 from my original post:
The responsible thing to do is determine why the child is crying, and if it is reasonable to fix the problem, do it. If not, don't.
...
To hear you talk, the solution to
As per my quotes above from the original post, my solution to any problem is to consider it on it's own merit and solve it in the best way you can.
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I thought it was an interesting read, providing a bit of context for the recommendation. The background info about how other SI units are defined was interesting as well.
Be sure to read them all to get a picture of the diversity and depth of their thinking
I think you meant "Be sure to read them all to get a picture of the diversity and depth of their parents thinking."
I'm sure one or two of them have feelings one way or the other about the pledge, but most of those sounded like parroted ideas both left and right.
Can't see shit. Could be coke foaming up on fatty tissue or something. I didn't see them move, and it's too far away for them to be distinctly wormlike.
Can you talk about some of the rough edges and kudges? I think that would be of great interest.
There's a pretty big difference between 1) letting your kid cry for 30 minutes before attending to him and 2) beating your kid regularly.
Well, it may be the difference between your child growing up as a psychopath or merely a sociopath. No, I'm not being sercastic. The macho idea of detachment parenting is so pervasive in our society that people get offended if anyone questions it, but it's bad parenting, pure and simple. The evidence is quite overwhelming.
Cool, now I can be that author now.
I don't think she particularly cared about 'saving' any marriage, or about anything other than herself.
I completey agree. I do not know one person in my college C.S. department who has not expressed utter confusion when looking at LISP. How it "really" works isn't obvious, although it does "look" simpler and enticing. C++ is easier for people because it's entry points and declarations and variables are very explicit. In a world of computer abstractions sometimes LISP is TOO abstract for mere mortals.
Hmm..nitpick- "Catholics went from conquering hordes with blood and steel": please cite 5 examples for this wide-ranging slander of 1 billion people currently alive and millions in the past, among many rites and through the ages.
Scribd seems to be focused on PDF though, which could make all the difference.
I'm willing to bet he belongs to "Results" in Dupont Circle- trust me, it is.
You are right. I wouldn't write an application in VB.
Men who like youth and and big boobs = dirty old men.
Women who like money (and nothing else) = prostitutes.
Yes. At the income and spending levels I mentioned, you will have very little, if any, savings at the end of the year.
Forget about a down payment -- though if you have that, you could pay a mortgage instead of rent -- not sure.
He is implicitly suggesting that certain beliefs should not be tolerated in his version of society.
I think the author is suggesting that you should not inflict certain beliefs on everyone else, my rights end where yours begin etc. Not voting for leaders with the flavour of religious belief to base policy decisions of the country partly on faith would be in line with that.
Has Dawkins ever suggested personal religious freedoms be encroached?
I'm a convert from Emacs to PyDev+Extensions. Mind you, I'm working on very large Python projects with multiple developers. The ability to go-to definition, and then hit the back button is immensely useful, as are some of the lint type features. I don't use the autocomplete much. Other useful features are the ability to open any file in a project by name, regardless of subdirectory, and the ability to type in the name of a class and go to it immediately. The emacs bindings in Eclipse are decent, and are generally good enough that I can get around without much trouble. For someone who reads more code than he writes, I think Eclipse is extremely useful.
wow, powerful and well written
They are polytheists because they think that they will become just like God the Father when they die, and they will get their own planet to populate with spirit children (as this planet was populated).
So, we all become gods when we die, if we do so while a member of the Temple. Hence, polytheism.
Im glad to see Madonna as a concerned parent.
Then I'm probably mistaken about Dr. Spock. I shouldn't have said anything.
Please change the label of the "report" button to "spam" or "abuse" or something like that. Right now it is so similar to "reply" that I find I keep pressing "report" when I mean to press "reply".
I love how subtle sarcasm is not perceived on the world wide web.
Considering where Digg came from and what it has degenerated into, I think that of greater concern is to preserve and promote the spirit of the community here at Reddit. Digg started out as a tech news site, then quickly devolved into an immature child's playground. I worry that Reddit's going to devolve into that...
Take a look at the front-page link you mentioned in your comment, then take a look at the front page of Digg that I captured the other night. It is remarkable to see the two side by side and to see what it used to be vs. what it is now.
It's not always reasonable or correct to embrace a crying child. Love or no love, the type of parents who will not let their child cry create brats. Just because you hate to see your child cry, and you love them, doesn't mean you can't admit that it's the right thing to do sometimes.
Positive reinforcement of tantrum-throwing, whether in the form of giving them what they want or simply giving them attention in a positive way, is not a good thing, and is just as likely to produce the type of person that goes on a killing spree when they don't feel like the world is loving them enough as detachment parenting is likely to produce a child that goes on a killing spree because they don't or can't empathize with their victims.
Why is it so wrong to advocate that parents should analyze and handle crying on a situation-by-situation basis, instead of always doing this or always doing that?
Really, all it would take would be something like a myspace-sized site that allowed it's users to customize it using a simple FP language.
e.g. the use of Lua to write user modules in World of Warcraft. (Not an example of FP but an example of introducing programming to a wide audience of potentially non-programmers.)
I hate you.
Bad oggelbe. Downmod for you!
I found that site on reddit when this was posted many moons ago:
http://jerslater.blogspot.com/2006/06/on-follow-up-calls.html
ARRROOOOOOOOO!
Words have meanings: by definition, no private entity can engage in censorship.
Adobe can go fuck themselves.
/Use their programs on a daily basis.
Real builders don't use blueprints.
I stopped reading this when I got to here:
"In microbiology, for instance, scientists often frame viruses and bacteria as the enemy, and may focus on destroying them and be blind to alternatives"
I'm sure disease can be cured by understanding the virus's point of view. Assuming the bitch that said this values human life more than the bacteria.
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/porkcoke.html
The second legend this chain letter propagates is that Coke is acidic enough to force a supposed parasitic infestation from the meat. There are no magical properties in Coca-Cola that will cause some grotesque transformation in pork or any other meat. In fact, about the only thing pouring Coke on a piece of raw pork will produce is a yummy-sweet marinade for grilling or roasting. Read this article for more on the rumored health risks of Coca-cola.
If you think it may be true, try it at home. Unless the MythBusters do it some time that is...
Wow. That was a forehead slapping moment of stupidity on my part. Thanks for the re-education!
According to this administration, any responsibility for one's actions is unacceptable. Unless you're in opposition to the administration. Then you must pay!
It's a good stress test for the various tools. Having files and directories renamed challenges the assumptions within the tools and acts to flush out bugs and give you an impression of the quality and maturity of the tool.
Ironically, the tool which appeared to have the least issues in his tests is the one with the known "deep problem", darcs.
You know what would be really useful? A standard set of operations and workflow which we could apply to all the version control systems and see how they cope.
He's right about the speed of typing the tool name, too.
"If atheism is a religion, then not playing chess is a hobby."
Removing a president or vice president requires a 2/3 vote in the Senate.
Impeachment won't happen until enough Republican senators turn on the administration.
Hagel could be the beginning of the end. We'll see.
Acme
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/acme.html
Richardkulisz' reply may have been overwrought, but it wasn't fundamentally wrong. All things being equal, children grow up secure, confident, well-adjusted, outgoing, empathic, compassionate, and curious about the world when they are loved deeply, continuously, and unconditionally as young children.
By contrast, shunning them, abandoning them to cry alone, and shaming them for their tears teaches them that the world is a cold place and that no one cares about them, which tends to result in children who grow up insecure, introverted, lacking in empathy, and disconnected from others.
I love it!
What does it do that simply linking to a pdf file does not?
dirigible nailed it in his comment below - it's fake, and also not the best work to come from the originating site
It would be great to see who marked 'yes' to the axe-murderer.
Nope, not a joke. The OpenType fonts themselves are in no way system-dependent. Besides, I don't think there is a font that is guaranteed to be present on all Linux, Mac and Windows systems, so why not make the page look better at least for some of the users? It's not hard -- just add a couple of lines to the stylesheet.
There's a pretty big difference between 1) letting your kid cry for 30 minutes before attending to him and 2) beating your kid regularly.
Only in the sense that there's a big difference between raping a kid and beating them. Different forms of abuse produce different psychological problems. But make no mistake, 30 minutes is neglect and neglect is abuse.
If you do the exact opposite of everything the psychos that raised Hitler's generation then you'll be on solid grounds. What you're proposing is that you mix and match from among techniques that have been known to produce bloodthirsty psychos, and techniques that produce rational empathetic people.
Some of my friends were raised in very abusive circumstances, and they turned out reasonably normal and well-adjusted.
All this proves is you have no conception of mental health. Your first problem; your equating mentally healthy people with people who are "well-adjusted" to a sick, mentally unhealthy society. Hitler's generation was perfectly "normal" too, by their own standards. After all, what's a few psychotic delusions and hallucinations among friends? I mean, there are "a lot of genetic and psychological factors [that] play into raising a child" so it's not like we can say anything meaningful, right?
A leak is a leak. It doesn't matter if someone else did it first. Just because some dude stole a lady's car doesn't mean I can go steal her purse.
It's not 20,000 American dollars. One Haitian goud is about 520 American dollars.
"a good designer is one who has mastered the art of leaving away"
Hear hear!
funny
No way. Trinchinsomes are much smaller than that. Also, American pork is rarely infected with trichinosis, because American hogs are fed a vegetarian diet---corn, mostly.
My guess is that they left the meat lying around for a while, and that the "worms" are actually fly larvae.
Edit: Assuming, of course, that the whole thing isn't a complete scam, and that they didn't just toss some cooked grains of rice or something onto the meat during the fadeout.
Wow this is ignorant.
More like, we want to replace Reddit with people who have opinions and who can rationally speak on religion, instead of blind hate towards anything religion.
Those who preach tolerance are usually the most intolerant.
I'm not offended, i just think there's a lot more to do with it than a simple causal "A always causes B" relationship.
Beating your kids is bad, i agree. I'm not advocating it. But i don't agree that every kid who gets hit turns into a socio- or psychopath.
Quite a few of my friends grew up getting spankings and occasional beatings, and my father grew up in a big rough Irish-American family in the 1950s... they all turned out fine. They have friends, some have wives, they all can hold a job, most have college degrees and some have master's degrees.
If hitting your kids reliably created psychopaths, then you're calling one-third of my friends and both my parents psychopaths, and i simply do not agree.
Let's take this article offline...
Yeah... but I think it could also work on a significantly broader scale. Not that WoW is small potatoes, but it is a smaller niche than social networks.
Confessions under torture are not admissible in court.
Theoretically, no...
I think it's a good idea to suggest new font types, but not everybody likes Vista.
A culturist maybe. Nothing wrong with that as long as you realize that any individual member of a particular race doesn't have to subscribe to it's predominant culture.
It comes from ancient ideas about "hardening". Russian parents would plunge children into freezing water in the winter. Polish nurses would "wash" newborns with freezing water. German parents would regularly whip their children bloody (as Alois Hitler did to his son) and beat infants for crying. And meanwhile as all this was going on; no one would lift an eyebrow because they considered it normal! And that's what causes wars. Not just the abuse itself but the idea that it's normal.
People need to grow up and realize that nobody cares about their feelings.
Um. I do.
How fucking awesome is that? I didn't even stop to think it might be a bug (other places have me so conditioned that I automatically thought it was a "new feature").
Thanks much!
30 minutes is neglect and neglect is abuse.
All this proves is you have no conception of mental health.
I guess we both have our opinions and we're not really going to change each other's minds... i'm just going to have to respectfully disagree with you and leave it at that.
This is an awesome application for anyone that does powerpoint presentations. I use it all the time. I do presentations using a wireless remote and this makes it look so much more professional
Positive reinforcement of tantrum-throwing, whether in the form of giving them what they want or simply giving them attention in a positive way, is not a good thing
This is unambiguously flat-out wrong.
The best thing to do with a child throwing a tantrum is to stay close by, remind the child you love them and that you're there they're ready to talk, or hug, or hold hands again, and simply give them space to freak out.
Once the tantrum is over, you can talk about it, explain why the tantrum didn't change your mind, and discuss ways the child might try to communicate more effectively in the future.
This is not "positive reinforcement" of the tantrum by any means (I'll agree that 'giving in' to a tantrum by caving on your decision is a bad idea). Children throw tantrums because they don't have better tools for expressing their frustration.
Children don't like tantrums. They're scary, and the child feels both lonely after screaming it out and frightened of the force of their own emotions. They need the confidence to take ownership of those feelings, and for that they need your love and patience.
(I went through the tantrums with my older child and am currently going through them with my younger child, so I speak from personal experience as well as information about child development.)
he said you're a faggot
Thousands of people from all over the state of Texas descended on Austin Friday, March 2nd, registering extreme discontent with the Trans Texas Corridor.
Tell that to the Japanese. America is huge, we only have a 1/2 more people with a lot more land. We can hold more.
Consumer ads have always been there. Just not so often or glaring as most sites. And none of those tricksy inline Google ads which seem to be part of the story.
...tends to result in children who grow up insecure, introverted, lacking in empathy, and disconnected from others
I wholeheartedly agree
Usability?
This is interesting, as a naive observer I'd always assumed Numerical Recipes could be relied upon.
Out of interest what is hard about FFT's? Is it hard to implement correctly due to mathematic issues like accuracy?
Yeah, I was of the opinion that 1000 of 1000 people die.
Woah. That is uncanny.
"He then walked out of his office, after offering his co-worker Linda Tripp, the leftover M&Ms from his lunch tray...That was the last time Vincent Foster was seen alive."
See, there you go. Giving away your prized posessions. Classic sign that someone is about to commit suicide. Didn't you see that after school special where the guy gives his record collection to his brother then drives his camero off a cliff??? (I bet Bill and Hillary forced him to drink liquor and then pushed his car off the cliff because he discovered their super-secret recipe for pork chops)
Uh, because it's inherently wrong? Making decisions based on race is a no-no because it fails to take into account the individual worth(or non-worth) of a person. It's as simple as that.
I don't agree with most of Loose Change, actually. But the constant anti-conspiracy hysteria just convinces me that something is wrong with the official explanation. I believe that planes full of passengers were used, not drones or missiles, which puts me at odds with most of Dylan Avery's hypotheses. But having Larry Silverstein say word-for-word "they decided to pull it" (not "pull them") is just too damning. And the explanations countering that never seemed to come out until after Loose Change had become as popular as it had become.
That's why should always shoot criminals.
"That's him officer! The guy with the bullet hole!"
Holy carp ...Lost Highway? I downloaded and watched it THEN put my copy in the mircowave and fried that sucker so no one else will ever have to see that POS! It was BAD..........yuck.
there's a lot more to do with it than a simple causal "A always causes B" relationship.
You're right. There's a lot more to healthy parenting than we can ever get into on a discussion forum like reddit. I suggest you consider that.
But i don't agree that every kid who gets hit turns into a socio- or psychopath.
In general, neglect causes psychopathy and violence causes psychosis. I'm not going into sociopathy because I have my own conception of it (parallel to psychopathy) that's entirely different from the travesty mental health professionals perpetrate.
they all turned out fine.
That's what Adolf Hitler said. He grew up fine. No, better than that, the beatings were good for him. And look at his accomplishments! He made Fuhrer of Germany! How could anyone condemn the way he was raised when he claimed he was fine and he received social recognition and prestige! I mean, that makes no sense right? You'd have to give up the idea that people provide reliable reports about their own mental state!
Similarly, I can drive without a seatbelt and most of the time I turn out perfectly fine. But when the right confluence of factors occurs, my lack of a seatbelt will send me hurtling through the windscreen and crashing into the asphalt.
Detachment parenting, from neglecting children through emotionally abusing and beating children, dramatically increases the likelihood that they will grow up emotionally damaged. I can only implore you to educate yourself about the copious research that supports this thesis and shake off the idea that children can endure abuse and just shrug it off.
The only time I download QT is for FF plugins when setting up a new PC at work. I get there from the Firefox plugins site, which points to this download page which, I believe, makes the choice between Quicktime with iTunes and just Quicktime pretty blatantly obvious and easy to get. It is true that this was not the case even fairly recently, but for now at least it's stupid simple to get the iTunes-free one.
yet he shows itunes not working on a PC?
good one
The average Japanese spends two hours a day commuting on a packed train to get to and from a shitty box of an abode where he sleeps on the floor along with his entire family. When he goes on vacation to the mountains or the beach he can barely move the place is so thronged.
You're telling me this is something we should shoot for?
You're talking about refactoring. That seems to be a bit outside the scope of the essay.
Use Mac's: Textmate and Emacs (Aquamacs) with Python mode.
There is also an answer to that one.
The point is that the mechanism of greenhouse gases is well understood, and the carbon dioxide concentration has risen from 280ppm to 380 ppm. It the earth were not warming it would need an explanation. If it's warming but not because of that you would need to explain that as well.
Another thing is that observations indicate it's not an external reason: the lower athmosphere is warming while the upper athmosphere is cooling, and the night time temperatures are rising more than daytime temperatures. Both effects are predicted by rising greenhouse gases.
Someone needs to read the article linked here recently about coincidences.
shut the fuck up, you faggot
Lied to the grand jury for the purpose of impeding an on-going criminal investigation
HOW did what he supposedly lied about IMPEDE an on-going criminal investigation?
The criminal investigation was to find out who outed Plame, which ended up being Richard Armitage, who admitted it. Fitzgerald discovered this very early on, even before Armitage admitted it. But he wanted to prosecute a Bush administration official, so instead he starts looking at the testimony given to find inconsistencies, no matter how irrelevant.
The lies Libby supposedly told don't protect anyone. There was no motive for him to lie about the stuff he was asked.
All you liberals think there's some big conspiracy going on. Fitzgerald has already said the investigation is over. That's it. There will be no more inditements. That's all he could come up with.
shut the fuck up, you faggot
Geez, I thought it said "It takes two patents to raise a successful functioning child".
Interesting article -- I enjoyed it.
shut the fuck up, you faggot
I find the print version much easier to read than the click-click-click 7 page version.
shut the fuck up, you faggot
Faggot.
The article was a bit of a rant
You... don't know Maddox that well, do you?
shut the fuck up, you faggot
The thing that sucks about that picture is the original artist who took it had his name and contact at the bottom of the pic, but it got cropped out at some point.
You can find the original pic and the artist contact here:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030618.html
Couldn't find it via google. Someone on Digg knew, though.
Also related: Man takes to the air in amazing flying machine!
shut the fuck up, you faggot
Armitage leaking was probably coincidental to the VP office's coordinated leaking. It's pretty obvious by now that Rove, Libby and McClellan were shopping the info around to a number of journalists...and pretty good evidence that Cheney was very interested in Wilson. Directing the attacks? If I were a betting man...
The only thing I have on Armitage is the possibility that he wanted to distance State (he was DepSec to Powell) from the BS Niger charge - DoS INR (intel bureau) had vehemently dissented on that one (only to be overruled by Feith's office in DoD). He was doing CYA for his boss and department, while the rest were trying to discredit Wilson directly.
But our closest and most similar neighbor, Venus, provides a glimpse into what a runaway greenhouse effect can do.
Is that a laugh track? Oh man, its a laugh track. Classy Fox. Real classy.
just like religious drones.. revising & destroying biblical texts that harm their movements.
A leak is a leak. It doesn't matter if someone else did it first.
? Yeah, that kinda does matter. It's kinda more like murdering someone, the first person who does it is the one that counts. After info is leaked, everyone knows about it, so it really can't be "leaked" again.
Then I wholeheartedly agree.
how much did this trial cost the taxpayers? and how much benefit do 'we' get out of it? anything?
compared to what's happened/happening in amerika right now, i'd have to call all this effort an eggregious waste.
I thought there was an existing mechanism for sharing documents was called "the world wide web".
You should probably know that I automatically lie to any strangers seeking personal details from me.
"It (the story) raced so fast the pulse (submit button) exited a specially-prepared chamber (reddit.com) before it (the reddit peoples) even finished entering (reading) it."
I got this emailed to me from a coworker. It looks like he cut it right from neal boortz' site.
THE SUN MIGHT BE WARMING THE EARTH
Yup...that's the latest conclusion of those who dare to speak out against the Global Warming jihad. And there's new information that can't be making Al Gore happy. According to National Geographic News and a scientist...global warming is caused by.....the sun.
Imagine that! What have I been saying for years here?
Uh-oh....what now? Will Al Gore ever admit that he might have been wrong? Of course not...because the global warming movement has nothing to do with the environment...and everything to do with politics.
According to the report, simultaneous warming of the Earth and Mars by the sun suggest that recent climate change may not be caused by man. As proof, the report cites a NASA report that says the polar ice caps are also melting on Mars. Uh-oh...time to pass a climate treaty for Mars. Those Martians obviously need to cut back on their driving and install solar panels. But remember .. only advanced industrial nations on Mars will be affected. Developing nations will be exempt.
And there's more...scientists at the Danish National Space Center think global warming is caused by cosmic rays from exploded stars, not man. Are they right? Who knows. But the point is that there are reasonable people who disagree about global warming. This is something the media hides from the public. Anybody who dares to speak out against the global warming movement is derided as a Holocaust denier and a member of the Flat Earth Society.
But back to that Mars thing....perhaps Al Gore could move there and run up the light bill.
He is actually misleading people into thinking that this is National Geographic's view, even though the second page of the article reminds us that most scientists don't agree with this guy.
So sorry if the 's' on scientist is a little misleading, but just look how much this gets distorted by people with agendas.. I just wanted to get some good responses from the crowd here.
I also like how he claims the media hides this info from the public. If it weren't for crackpots like him in the media there probably wouldn't even be a debate!
1) Because that's the way the mind works sometimes.
2) WTF do you think?!
Can someone explain to me how these maps are created?
I'm looking at the house prices map and I notice that the US is enlarged, but Canada is shrunken.
My suspicion is that US housing prices are on average a bit higher than Canada, but not a great deal. Why then is the map so skewed?
Did they do something utterly meaningless like take the total value of all housing in the country and divide it by the area of the country?
I can't help but think I'd rather be alive than dead under those circumstances.
Apparently not playing chess is a hobby for Dawkins.
Non-criminals have bullet holes too.
Okay, so I'm not very good at writing political speeches
The comments you just made are powerful evidence to the contrary.
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/porkworm.asp
This kind of thing puzzles me more than anything else. Rollerblades are "inline skates", band-aids are "adhesive bandages"... you'd think the spam people would get bent out of shape at their name being used to describe a nuisance and something that's generally unwanted, but there's nary a peep from them.
They don't seem to get that if your product becomes the brand in its genre, that's a good thing.
I like Miguel de Icaza's solution - he has a google group for comments about his blog.
SPE, http://developer.berlios.de/projects/python
Tried pydev and Komodo Edit, but SPE still the most usefull for me.
Um. I was raised by my mother alone and I'm a pretty happy healthy functioning adult. My childhood was fine too. Downmod.
This is why I try to keep my consumption of caffeine light and irregular: some mornings I have a cup of tea to wake me up for my 8:00 class, most mornings I don't. That way when I have a test or something -- some reason to want to wake up -- the caffeine works.
http://reddit.com/info/187yd/comments/c18b2b
What's sucky about it? It's accurate to over 98 signifigant digits.
i just need my stuff in the bags, so i can get them home unbroken. and so far, it's been 100% successful.
i'd hate to know this person (author).
This whole thread started by me suggesting that parents letting their children cry unattended would not turn them into sociopaths.
Beatings and physical violence are quite another thing and i completely agree with you on the points you made above.
The lighttpd + fastcgi combo has always been on the buggy side, which isn't surprising considering how complicated FastCGI is.
I don't know what started it (load?), but we started experiencing many more errors than usual at the FastCGI level, so we decided to switch. So far, so good.
"You missed the part in the article that said evangelicals aren't much more knowledgeable than non-evangelicals."
I didn't say that it is fortunate that ALL evangelicals are gaining power (which wouldn't be accurate anyway).
"People cherry-pick from religious texts the parts that they basically agree with and ignore the rest. When was the last time you saw someone get excommunicated for adultery or bearing false witness? "
I don't think you read my post very carefully. People cherry-picking is the problem, which is why I'm glad that those that are more consistant are gaining power. For instance, I don't necessarily agree with everything the Sojourners say, but I respect their consistancy.
"Christianity is stupid."
Well you're a poo-poo head.
(...) if one is confused about what some words are meant to have conveyed, ask the source to clarify.
I'm not confused as to what Kerry said. He said that if you don't "make an effort to be smart," you "get stuck in Iraq." Nobody was confused as to what those words meant, just angry. The resulting PR wasn't "clarifying" anything, it was redefining what he said.
Also; I could've sworn I did indeed hear Bush say "Mission Accomplished" somewhere, but when I looked it up, it sounds like it's just a banner; Rumsfeld removed that statement from the speech.
I'm curious about Textmate -- why is it becoming a killer app for you?
Right now I use Emacs in Python mode on my OSX box. But even though emacs is my editor of choice, I know it's a bad relationship and someday it will have to go.
I've also played with eclipse + pydev. Some human-factors people really need to kick the eclipse devs into shape. That said, I've successfully debugged a sizable django project using this setup (and found it easier to use than pdb + GUD-mode.)
I think this is trying to say that all religions are cults.
Would you ignore an adult member of your family who was crying for 30 minutes?
I know a handful of people who WILL NOT SHUT UP about how great their Macs are. Every time I'm at their house, even if it's for something completely unrelated, they make it a point to mention how awesome their computer is. God forbid that I actually ask to check my email or something.
"You may be unfamiliar with this, since you're a PC user, but it's really much better..."
"Yeah, just fire up the browser, huh?"
"Look! It's animated even while it maximizes!"
Etc. etc. ad nauseum.
Damn. I was hoping it was a breakthrough of a group managing to regenerate any human tissue from a blood vessel.
Textmate. I personally do not like IPython.
For better or worse, I didn't even notice it until I read this comment.
googol = 10^100 (1)
googol - 1 = 10^100 (2) (according to Google)
(1) - (2)
1 = 0 (3)
white = 0xFFFFFF (4)
from (3) and (4)
white = 0x000000
white = black
well i'd have to say the mental trauma goes along with the physical, but can be acheived alone depending on the person being tortured. sociopaths 'think' mental torment is fake, probably because it doesn't impact them much (nothing 'moves' them)...all their 'feelings' are manufactured for effect.
Awesome, I can't say I've ever seen such a self-referential logo alien before.
Hey yo wats up me nuthin chillin but um.. i juss got this so i really don't know wat to say so um.... yall write me bakk iight bye.
giving them attention in a positive way
I worded that poorly, my bad.
The best thing to do with a child throwing a tantrum is to stay close by, remind the child you love them and that you're there they're ready to talk, or hug, or hold hands again, and simply give them space to freak out.
I agree.
Children grow up spoiled because their parents gave them stuff in place of love, not because their parents embraced them when they were crying.
I do not agree for all cases.
Of course you shouldn't just wander off and let a kid bounce his own head off the wall, roll down the stairs, etc., because they're having a fit. But there's a world of difference between teaching a kid that you will comfort them when are behaving reasonably but otherwise giving them space, and teaching them "tantrums = cuddles."
Children throw tantrums because they don't have better tools for expressing their frustration.
True to begin with. After a certain point, though, some kids express frustration in better ways. Some don't. The difference is that if you never give a kid any reason to change, they won't. Caving on your decision isn't the only way you can screw up.
Children don't like tantrums.
Of course this is empirically true. I've never seen a child manipulate parents via tantrum.
They're scary, and the child feels both lonely after screaming it out and frightened of the force of their own emotions.
So they're done screaming, crying, and hitting? They're acting normal again? But they feel down-n-out? Comfort them all you want, that's fine. After they're 'over it'.
I think whoever put this up is a fucking faggot and deserves to be shot for being an incompetent nigger face
iPython in a shell that has windows keybindings?
(I remember that shells with sane keybindings exist, but not what they are. Mac terminals have sane keybindings. Just saying.)
Or just give in to PyDev, I guess.
IMO, NewLisp is closer to PHP than Lisp.
OUCH!
or the number of finger joints on each hand (three in each of the four fingers, excluding the thumb), making it possible to count to 12 with the thumb.
Cool, never thought of that, I'll remember that.
hell, the real paris hilton is fcuking ugly. with her double sized forehead and half sized chin she looks like she has downs syndrome
You went out to the wrong places.
looks like a damn good idea to me..
Yeah I'm sure it is. But Rails' web helpers can only do so much. Once you have to drop into pure JS and are trying to do complex things with AJAX and have to worry about it working on multiple browsers, it is a pain in the butt.
It is much easier to do more complex things like that in something like Flash/Flex. That's why you hear all the hype about continuations and Seaside and such; its because AJAX can only do so much and once you get out of the usability of web helpers from Rails or other frameworks, it isn't easy, either.
What don't you like about it? (bias: I find it to be the most shockingly useful bit of python code ever)
s/female/loli/ and you're good to go.
Fascinating look into a very bizarre world. I feel really sorry for these people, who measure the value of a human being by the balance of their bankbook. Pathetic, shallow, hilarious! Enjoyed every minute.
Wow. I've never seen anyone talk about using ed (who is actually alive and not in a 1980's Usenet post, that is).
IDLE!
Just kidding... Eclipse + pydev, mostly because I use Java to pay my bills.
she even spells 'street'!! sheesh.
get a real job. your lifestyle doesn't impress me 1 bit iight? much ado about NOTHING.
Who's the Baby's Daddy would now be a matter of public record. Along with your insurance info, the doctor's info, the fees collected, and any idea of your right to privacy.
"design, leaving away" :P
Your ability to kick someone's ass does not even come into question. And your top-post arguments don't change the fact that calling someone a faggot degrades discussion and deliberately provokes negative emotions.
Link to a video clip: http://www.heaven666.org/huge-asian-orgy-4445.php
Nobody was confused as to what those words meant, just angry.
The fact that these conversations appear everywhere is a fairly strong argument that yes, plenty of people are confused as to what those words meant.
You mean 2.6 is not stable compared to 2.4 in its day (at a similar stage of development), or to some other operating system?
BTW, when I estimated thousands of hours of testing per hour of coding for kernel code, I wasn't trying to say that kernel code is so buggy as to require that much to work the bugs out. It mostly requires that much to not lose performance across a dizzing array of hardware when non-trivial changes are made to the kernel.
Although it is generally hard to catch some of the bugs that creep into a kernel that has to support such a wide vareity of hardware running in such a wide variety of possible configurations. As hard as that is, it is even harder to not suffer performance regressions.
Mmmmmaybe, but given the context (gay man active in the homophobic side of the political spectrum), it seems like a point worth drilling home.
If you live in a coastal city (like I do), sure, it seems like a non-issue. Try standing up for a gay man in, say, rural Texas (where I grew up), and see how fast you get your ass kicked.
nothing wrong with that, just remember you're also being cruised by the boys there too whether you know it or not, if that's not a problem for you. I'm married and have free access to a small gym near my home for residents only, and it's usually empty when I show up which is super.
You people don't actually believe that evangelicals are this big monolithic group that follows the same rules, do you? You're kidding, right? Have you ever stopped to think that the only evangelicals you come into contact with are the loud-mouth Amway-style moron salesmen of the evangelical world? The public face of a group isn't the same as the private face.
Also, Scribd seems to be for uploading and sharing documents, not for creating them.
Pydev on Eclipse, but sometimes I use IDLE
If an atheist gets hit by lightning, is it still an "Act of God"?
Textmate and the command line. CODE TEST CODE TEST is faster than anything else I've ever used.
I've read this before, but I don't understand it. When I run, my breathing rhythm is much slower than my foot rhythm. I try to keep them independent and breathe "into the belly".
I think the fascination with Textmate comes from the fact that it does 90% of what most people want emacs to do (not necessarily 90% of what emacs does), and it is significantly easier to get into in addition to being much more visually appealing and well-integrated with the platform.
I think a lot of people are still waiting for the 'emacs replacement' which works on multiple platforms and uses a more modern language like Python or whatever.
That's just my opinion of course; I'm not sure that's why he is interested. :)
People who do 'Foster Care' need to remember that they aren't adopting these children, but fostering.
Perhaps this person is just upset that the children were given back to the parent and not her's to keep.
nooooooo
The assertion that java is as fast or faster than C++ is just plain wrong. You sometimes read an explanation for why under xyz circumstances Java can be as fast or faster than C++, but it never works out. Look at the language shootout scores, or try any experiment of your own devising. I've written Genetic Algorithms in Java and C++ and compared them. Java always takes somewhere between 1.5 and 2.5 times as long as C++ assuming that they are coded in a relatively similar fashion. No matter how badly you abuse your Java it never gets as fast as the C++. Of course WHO CARES, you rarely need that speed, so unless you do they are approximately equivalent (as opposed to PHP, Python, or Ruby which are orders of magnitude slower than either Java or C++).
k-fed is single again, i'd bet he'd be interested
2nd, paris hot? are you high? stop beating off to anime porn and go get laid. both your vision and judgement are getting severly impaired
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It depends... If the adult cried every single day for hours at a time, i'm sure after a few weeks or months, i would let the adult cry for a few minutes before i went to see what's up, especially if the adult cried about the same thing every day.
But we're talking about children here...
That's really interesting that you love that.
it's independant of race. i just don't (never have) liked that whole urban gangsta persona/lifestyle...my guess its an ageism thing...i think the main issue is...the gangsta people i see (life and media)...strike me as talentless dolts who are completely unaware they are wasting their time and energy posing...and backing up their posing with being a thug. just what will investing in an attitude like that gain them 10 years from now? or will they abandon it? (is it growing up or is it a 'culture'?)
"the unique point of the language is syntactic extension via macros, normally the preserve of language designers"
But shouldn't the fact that lisp has such a powerful macro capability mean that there's even less need to invent your own lisp dialect?
Let me get this straight, alternet is accusing the Times of not being in sync with the majority of Americans.
Pot.Kettle.Blacker.
The day Fitzgerald walked in to this case he was told by the FBI that Richard Armitage had revealed Valerie Plames identity as a CIA employee. At that point, this investigation was complete. But, Fitzgerald continued questioning people for two additional years.
In the case of Kenneth Starr he started out investigating the death of the deputy White House counsel Vince Foster and the Whitewater land transactions. Starr's investigation indicated no crimes had been committed in these cases. Then, Starr decided on his own to investigate an unrelated issue, President Clinton's personal involvement with Monica Lewinsky. This led to the scandal and President Clinton's impeachment.
In both cases the independent prosecutors were unsupervised and able to investigate whatever they choose once appointed. Had regular supervised, prosecutors handled these cases both would have been closed once the initial investigations had been completed. This is why independent(or special) prosecutors should not be appointed.
28% ? I think the decimal got moved......try 2.8% =]
More appropriately titled:
"I was a dumb bitch who ruined someone's life, but I still think people should listen to me."
I bet everything I own that she couldn't distinguish between any two random black males more than 50% of the time.
The Dawkins site hosts opposing views as well, so I think Dawkins is more interested in getting issues discussed than simply passing off just ideas he agrees with.
The biggest things actually missed out in space opera (all of it, not just Hollywood) are the consequences of differences of speed and orbit, and the scale.
The irony is that accurate space war fiction would be interesting, if different. It would be a very strategic game, where actual engagements would play out silently and in less than an eye-blink, while the scheming and set up had taken days or even months, and where tiny margins - like a little extra wasted fuel - would determine life or death. Traps, stealth and prediction would be the tactics; the major weapon would be mass times long slow acceleration. Space war would also have a lot of psychological drama. A mishap in could leave you certain to die, but with supplies for months yet. The ability to reach someone and the ability to communicate would be completely distinct.
There's huge potential in there. I'm surprised nobody has tried to tap it, rather than going for the tired old "zap guns at close quarters and equal speeds" shtick.
I thought this is common sense for any stimulant. I only drink coffee for exams, then gradually decrease my intake to ease the withdrawal effects. If you want to naturally stay alert, the best ways are to exercise and meditate.
I don't think the article is suggesting "to give up", merely that putting one on your roof in a relatively windless area doesn't make sense.
Yeah, I definitely agree with you about that. I just thought it seemed like a weird phrase for him to latch onto, when I'm quite certain nobody considers him to be anything other than a man.
Memory useage is not an issue. The default standard Java runtime typically allocates a minimum of 64MB. But, that is simple to change (a single command line switch).
hahaha, and that's the way I likes it!
I'll say about Coulter what I always say about her. Don't Feed The Trolls!
The day Fitzgerald walked in to this case he was told by the FBI that Richard Armitage had revealed Valerie Plames identity as a CIA employee. At that point, this investigation was complete. But, Fitzgerald continued questioning people for two additional years.
In the case of Kenneth Starr he started out investigating the death of the deputy White House counsel Vince Foster and the Whitewater land transactions. Starr's investigation indicated no crimes had been committed in these cases. Then, Starr decided on his own to investigate an unrelated issue, President Clinton's personal involvement with Monica Lewinsky. This led to the scandal and President Clinton's impeachment.
In both cases the independent prosecutors were unsupervised and able to investigate whatever they choose once appointed. Had regular supervised, prosecutors handled these cases both would have been closed once the initial investigations had been completed. This is why independent(or special) prosecutors should not be appointed.
The reason why you're getting tired of those fonts is because Microsoft has a tendency to foist a whole new font set on its userbase about every five years, intended to make the UI look fresh and exciting, but these fonts typically don't age well and end up looking dated and frankly, like ass.
Emulating Microsoft's visual design tastes does not pay off in the long or even medium run; such emulation significantly contributed to the pernicious ubiquity of Comic Sans some ten years ago.
Sadly, the original ending was destroyed...lost forever.
What happens when you put together a bunch of crazy creative people with sharp sales people? Right brain people and left brain people? Imagination Vs. Cold logic? Read Farrukh's blog to find out...
It happens every day. It's how insecure or bigoted straight men police their world to keep the homos out.
cry more. This article was gay.
"on a site with a likely majority of atheists, I still see people who tow [sic] the hive minded liberal line of anti-racism."
The implication here is you expect that atheists should be racist? Where's the "independent analysis" that was used to come to that conclusion?
Atheists aren't likely to "believe" in something be it "god" or that "my race is better" just because, as you say "someone has told them it is."
I have yet to meet an racist atheist. Don't say "Communists" or "Nazis" or the Imperial Japanese because they are not truly atheists. They worshiped and "believed in" the state or fuhrer or emperor as if they were a God.
A true atheist doesn't "just believe" in anything; they require more than faith and racism is just that, a faith.
Last week, I traveled to Houston to beg Gov. George W. Bush and his parole board not to execute Gary Graham based on this kind of evidence. I have never before spoken out on behalf of any inmate. I stood with a group of 11 men and women who had been convicted based on mistaken eyewitness testimony, only to be exonerated later by DNA or other evidence.
Any guesses as to what Governor Bush did?
Check this site out. I was a big Jerry Lewis fan as a kid. But later on in his life he went a little nuts...
Subterranean Cinema: "The Day the Clown Cried"
Has some rare behind the scenes photos and clips.
It is not necessarily true that a purely FP language is the final destination for all problems.
We choose a language to solve a problem.
How come they didn't list "Judaism," then, if they were trying to be even-handed? Afraid of accusations of anti-semitism?
2001 days ago, "the world changed" and Osama bin Laden unleashed an attack that claimed 2,973 innocent lives in Washington, New York, and Pennsylvania. That morning, most Americans awoke to find that horrific event playing out on their television screens. Do you remember the chaos?
Not only did she admit that she was wrong, but she's actually actively trying to help people understand why they could be wrong, too.
What more do you want? Yes, she made a terrible mistake, but does that mean she's no longer a person?
Is he talking about that fireball in the sky that spins around earth/texas? I knew it, Jesus is coming!
"Todays languages aren't that different at all, productivity wise."
Stopped reading right there, cause it's obvious the author has not used "today's languages". Or perhaps they suck so bad that they are equally unproductive in all languages.
cough
http://reddit.com/info/188i1/comments/c18at4
whistles and walks away
You can bet the bank that Libby will get a Bush Get Out Of Jail Card.
looks great. can't wait
These lofts are the bomb.
Well the tortoise only finishes the race as time approaches infinity... unless you're saying that his steps are quantized in such a way as to make his minimum step greater than the remaining gap... but this contradicts the given notion that his steps get half as big each time... you have to break a rule thus, or have bizarro effects near the limit, to ever reach it before time reaches infinity
... most things in the language don't really matter in practice to a big degree and are largely overshadowed by the real important things: The availability of tools, libraries, documentation and the performance of the resulting code.
He forgot one really important thing, the availability of developers. Universities are pumping out grads who can write Java.
If you want to write a program in language X to do task Y, then you probably need to hire a developer who can write code in X and has the domain knowledge to solve Y.
There are probably 10 or more people who are proficient in Java for every 1 who is proficient in Haskell. Do you really want to make it 10 times harder for yourself to find someone to write your application?
I am afraid I agree with you that the post you are replying to is wrong, but not in the way you think. Recent research into Java VM performance shows that Java easily beats hand-optimised C++. The reason is that the JVM contains a huge amount of analysis and optimisation software that is better than doing things manually. There is simply no way that hand-optimisation can deal with things on highly parallel multi-threaded programs on multi-core processors.
(Also, it is a long established fact that hand-optimisation usually concentrates on the wrong things). Java 5 and Java 6 surpass C++ performance, which is why they are so widely used for very high-performance applications (such as high-volume trading systems). When you talk about Sun and Open Office, you are describing something from a very long time back. It is certainly possible to write Python programs that are faster than Java, but only if they run for a very short time (the JVM takes time to get started).
REAL programmers use the Helix code base.
"The next step in the process is to cut future funding for Iraq military operations. Representative Pelosi and other Democratic leaders are working towards this end."
Well I fail to see how "Representative Pelosi" and the rest of the Dems are going to achieve that being they can't get past the first step:
"The Senate gridlocked on the Iraq war in a sharply worded showdown on Saturday as Republicans foiled a Democratic attempt to rebuke President Bush over his deployment of 21,500 additional combat troops."
"The vote was 56-34. That was six short of the 60 needed to advance the measure, which is identical to a nonbinding resolution that Democrats pushed through the House on Friday."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,252580,00.html
"What many Republicans ideologues would like you to believe is that this does not support the troops and will cause them great harm."
"It won't happen overnight, it won't be without bloodloss..."
So it will cause them great harm...
"What will happen, though, as it did in Vietnam, is once the funding stops, operations will begin to wind down and the troops will start to make it back into the country"
Let's look at what else happened in Vietnam after we "cut future funding":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boat_people#Vietnam_war_boat_people
This is our mess, we need to stay and clean it up.
Anyone with the name like "Scooter" deserves to be ass fucked all day long in Jail.
As for myself, personally I wish Knuth's Computer Modern fontset were established as some sort of Web standard. Man, looking at that never gets old...
Camille Paglia and Peggy Noonan are good examples on both sides of people willing to see more than their own side.
If you define "their own side" to be the GOP, then yeah. Otherwise, no, I rather disagree. They are two good examples of total blindness to other viable worldviews.
There's hate speech on both sides (see Bill Maher, Arianna Huffington, Al Franken)
WTF are you talking about? Those are three irritating morons, but what hate speech?
I hadn't. I was surprised by the amount of detail in the graphic. I figured it was just going to be a big picture of a toilet.
Sorry, but you aren't providing counter-arguments. Simply saying 'you are wrong' is not an argument. If you wish to debate, please provide evidence to counter what I have said.
Me too. I just finished the Baroque Cycle series. His best yet (for historical fiction).
One of the benefits of living in a collective society!
He IS deh debul
This is an extremely accurate article. As uninspiring as Hillary can be, if she's elected it will mean a transformation of american politics. Because there's no place for female leadership in a political culture of faux manly men submitting to faux manly men. Same thing goes for Obama too though, since the other secret republican radical narrative is about nuking the ragheads.
Whohoo for instant feedback!
Fair enough. It's not an uninteresting subject at any rate, but for some reason all six pages glowed in shiny neon letters: pedantic. It must have been my mood at the moment.
I agree, it struck me as an odd thing to say at the time.
IIRC, it was just an offhand comment. So maybe he just said that because it was good enough for the purposes. And there's always the possibility that I'm remembering it all wrong.
Good point. We should also listen to all the gay people defending Coulter's remarks.
Cool. Imagine if humans could travel forwards in time...oh wait.
I thought it was boring. The girls sound like they're crying... I had to hit mute. It made sex appear a bit depressing.
Science doesn't have any answers for the creation of the universe, space, matter, time, life, intelligence, consciousness or any of the other basic questions about the origin of universe.
Malkin made her name supporting the American internment of its Japanese citizens. She's worse than Coulter.
I enjoyed the posts and the analytics are a great idea.
Wow....
i have much greater respect for jews and muslims now.
consult takes a file path, opens it for reading and then returns a tuple containing ok and a list of erlang terms from the file.
Why are you all so down on this? It's fcuking reality and always has been... that's why you poor losers have to settle for women who are 5's. Women who are 10's can get a guy who's rich so they're not going to settle for poor losers like you, and you resent it. Too fcuking bad, it's not going change.
The guys love the chicks only cos they're hot & the chicks love the guys only cos they're rich. What else is there to care about, personality or love? Please, love is for losers. Every guy on earth would dump his current girlfriend/wife and trade up for a younger hotter model if he hit the lottery. It's the way of the world.
Why is this important to non chemists.
Few times 'Right back atcha' has been as fitting.
I was curious. It took me about ten minutes. But I was going slow because I used cat (as in, cat > list.c) as my text editor.
If the author is the Kevin Barnes I worked with for a while, then yes, I'm sure he could write a linked list in C quite quickly without writing anything down.
There is simply no justification for imprisoning innocent children who pose no threat to anyone," said Vanita Gupta, a staff attorney with the ACLU's Racial Justice Program.
they're both nuclear. i think your predictions need work. (think hookers)
The author can do a better job a bagging groceries than the average grocery store employee. This is why he is no longer bagging groceries.
I suppose he could open a store where all of the cashiers have PHds and make 6 figures, but nobody would shop there because people want their food to be cheap and that means paying people less.
Who's talking about Libby...
There is no such thing as an inferior programming language; simply a language that is not suited to the task at hand.
... such as writing computer programs. ;-)
Memory useage is not an issue
You just threw 50 barrels of chum in the water. Good luck with that.
PS: THANK YOU FOR SWITCHING REPORT AND REPLY LOCATIONS, SPEZ OR WHOEVER. I WAS GOING INSAAAAAANE
easy to use, fun to browse, neat little stats on your posts. peachy!
IMDB says a rough cut was sent to Welles in Brazil as he was filming the stillborn It's All True. It's fascinating and frustrating to consider all the lost treasures sitting dormant and dusty in attics and warehouses.
Love the site. Long overdue.
Linking to a pdf file isn't social enough, apparently.
Love the site. Long overdue.
Yes, 500K is a lot of money, but I don't think it would make you rich in Manhattan (other areas are a different story). As a point of reference, I consider the top 1% to be rich. Certainly, there are those with a more or a less strict definition of the term, but 1% is a commonly used one and the one I use.
According to 2000 census data, the top 20% of earners in Manhattan make $365,826. I would imagine this number has grown considerably larger in the last 7 years.
I would like to see some data on the top 1%, 5%, and even 10% of earners in Manhattan, but I couldn't locate anything.
That's just because of leap days.
Hmmm. Reddit's hiring practice is RACIST: They are only hiring Japanese (Ninjas) for their current position. This is appalling. I am going to write the president, and I encourage all you reddit reader to do the same. Racism, is not a funny thing, nor is it a laughing matter.
Maybe it has comments or something. Hopefully it doesnt use adobe reader that crashes all browsers it touches.
You are qwe1234, and I claim my five pounds.
Seems to be a DX troll. The blog entry doesn't make any sense.
you couldn't kick your grandma's ass, you fucking faggot
Compared to 2.4.
In the 2.4 time frame, 2.4 was considered "stable" and all development work went into 2.5. They dropped that distinction in 2.6, which means features appear, change and disappear from the kernel with little warning.
And don't worry - I understand what you mean about testing. After all, I do quite a lot of it.
Technically true, but so long as they find the guy within a month or so, it should be pretty easy. Even in a huge city, the number of people even in the same ballpark of height, weight, skin tone, and location of bullet wound and caliber of your weapon to match the actual criminal will be very, very, very rarely be greater than 1 when you consider looking at the age of the wound.
If you want to get -reeealllly- technical and nitpick that the odds are not the same as certainty, need I remind you that when you shoot a person, they tend to bleed? Let me rephrase mynameishere slightly: "That's him officer! The guy with the bullet hole and the DNA that matches the DNA of the blood on my kitchen floor!
FTA:
The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday.
Last Updated: Friday, November 10, 2000
nice and current. Thats why I come here.
I wonder how the video was faked.
Why would any guy want to do that?? Curve is very, very good.
dear expert: please learn when to use compliment vs complement
If those cold items are really complimenting each other they belong with the mutton in through the looking glass.
That's a whole lotta talk on that blog with no link to the material that the blogger is talking about.
Poor analogy, though you might choose not to play chess, everyone has a set of beliefs about the origin of our universe without exception. Atheists believe in an origin without a creator. And that belief is speculative just like any other. Oh I guess I'd have to admit there a people without the mental capacity to think it this level, but other than those with impaired mental ability, everyone has their own speculative set of beliefs about the origin of the universe. Atheism at it core is not any more scientific then any other religion opps set of beliefs in this area.
Misleading titles, the law is that only professional journalists may record and publish acts of violence, it's an, albeit poor, attempt to curb "happy slapping" in which people are filming their friends randomly attacking their people and then posting it online.
It's not a blanket law preventing non-journalists from reporting news. It's still a stupid law, but not nearly what the headlines are making it out to be.
Is this the beginning of the end.
Everywhere? While I don't doubt you can find a conversation like that, I've never seen that, and for a good reason: This isn't about confusion! Most people did not hear Kerry say "people who don't make an effort to be smart get stuck in Iraq," and then think "Hm, I'm confused as to what those words meant. They think that Kerry is insulting the armed forces that protect our nation. Why? Because that's what he said.
always only went half way, then half way again, so never finished the race
The reality is you need to learn to integrate and to give up on the notion that integers correctly represent continua. When you integrate the infinite series of half lengths, you get a finite length. When you integrate the infinite series of compensations to approach the speed of light, you get infinite energy.
But you're not really grasping Zeno's paradox. The point of the paradox wasn't that you get an infinite series of steps. The point was that if motion proceeds by a sequence of 'now' moments then motion is impossible. This is actually true and Zeno's paradox correctly reduces motion into an illusion. The key point here is that Zeno meant his paradox to prove that reality isn't made up of continua. Modern physics has done the opposite, it has swallowed continua and the notion of an eternal 4-dimensional block universe that goes with it. Einstein really was a modern day Parmeneides. You can't get away from Zeno's paradox and smart people recognize this.
check snopes, people.
He isn't suggesting it you idiot. It is an article written by someone else that was posted on his website.
check snopes, people.
The fact that you'd be so upset at being called a faggot that you'd literally assault the person who called you one just completely illustrates the point of this article, which I'm absolutely positive you didn't read.
stop whining, you faggot
Perhaps because Cheney is arguably "above the law"?
Highest ranking official I know of - ever to be put on trial / sent to prison was Albert Fall, Secretary of the Interior under President Harding, for the Teapot Dome Scandal.
the van life gets old quick
I see what you're saying. Let me try to rephrase it using the author's example of variable naming.
The author says that changing a few variable names to a better standard is inconsistent and therefore you should just follow the same stupid naming convention.
I say that changing a few variable names to a better standard is inconsistent and therefore you should change decide whether it it worthwhile to change every variable in the code.
If you never stop and refactor your code, it will rot away and keep getting worse.
The point is that if those Russian Jewish violinists magically became African-American overnight, it would have essentially no impact on their musical ability.
You and kkrev are confusing correlation with causation. Stating that culture correlates with race is totally orthogonal to the question of the effect of race itself on culture, which is virtually none. Upbringing affects culture. Racism affects culture. Race itself does not.
to use emacs with any kind of efficiency, you have to get uncomfortably intimate with it. textmate gives you most of the power of emacs with a much more casual relationship.
Ridiculous! Why, that would make me a biter!
The article you read 7 years ago was news from the future. You are now reading an article 7 years from now. Or maybe the same article has appeared twice at the same time but released by two identical editors?.... grrrr "googlie eyes now..."
Never underestimate the need for a father. Can we all say "dysfunctional"? That's what so many people are today because of fatherless families.
Associate Superintendent Jeff Swensson told Eyewitness News off camera the teacher didn't know what was going on because another student acted as a "look-out." But once the teacher discovered the behavior, immediate action was taken. Swensson says the students involved were recommended for expulsion.
Hardly sounds like the teacher ignored it.
The glyphs don't come with tiny Microsoft logos, and your using or not using these fonts speaks only of your taste as a designer. If someone chooses to use Comic Sans on a corporate site, well, can we really blame Microsoft for that? :-)
You obviously haven't been reading xkcd.
Only, your opinion cannot be equally worth to me as tofocsend's, since I've read a lot on the subject as a fresh parent. You may continue maneuvering for space so as not to be flat out wrong.
whining whimp-ass pansy faggot
The article, the trial, and the person I was responding to.
Which is why the recent changes in UK law require startling new evidence to come to light before double jeopardy can be avoided. So you can't be retried just because you were aquitted, but you also don't get to confess after the fact and expect to get away with murder.
Double jeopardy is good, I think this is an improvement. Time will tell. I can see how police might deliberately withhold evidence in order to give the CPS a second chance should they fail, for instance.
"Oh no! A naked person! I am surprised and offended!"
Why do most people seem to worship inferior gods?
Why indeed, when mighty Zolthar, Eater of Time, shall devour them all!
When is it shipping? :P
To save us money Uncle Sam might try looking into Linux OS, OpenOffice, etc.. I won't hold my breath.
You are wrong. Read up on it, if parenting forums or psychological reviews are your kind of thing.
I suspect the author of the essay would agree with you, but within the context of the essay would basically keep the phrasing the same.
See . . . the thing is this:
When you refactor, you're doing a lot more than renaming variables. You're restructuring the code as a whole, eliminating redundancies and doing clean-up in a fairly fundamental manner. This is more than maintenance: it's overhaul.
Anything short of overhaul, and you should change only what must be changed, for a number of reasons. One, simply, is that changing more than that will make later refactoring more difficult. Thus, if you're not refactoring, and you don't have a specific critical need to alter some code, don't touch it.
I do agree, however, that one should fix one's naming conventions at some point. I just think that point should be during refactoring.
It is an idiosyncratic view on Mormonism held by certain sects that wish to exclude Mormons from calling themselves Christians.
I couldn't describe the guy who robbed and beat me, but they matched the bullet to my gun, so they must have gotten the right guy.
Stupid is the new funny, it seems.
really? when was the last time you visited?
"However, my main point is that these are just words. "
Pop over to Isreal and deny the holocost. Then tell them they're a bunch of whiners and that what you said were just words. I'm sure they'll agree with you.
Man that would so piss me off if someone put say, five bucks in a meter right infront of me, turned to me, smiled and walked away.
Except you are confusing the fact that functional languages are not new, never caught on and are very limited in practical use.
Very nice for math formulas, ok for some other things. Haskell is a true pain to work with to do anything else, all my colleagues can attest to this. It is difficult to work with if you are not familiar with functional languages and does nothing to remove complexity. Object oriented was the next step up from procedural, it made life easier, not harder. It removed complexity as C removed it from Assembly.
At the end of the day we need to realize that 200 lines of code may not be "simpler" than 500 lines of code. I prefer the whole story rather than just the Coles Notes.
The problem is, once a brand becomes TOO associated with a product, it runs the danger of becoming genericized and the trademark can be lost. That's why companies need to at least keep up the appearance of actively defending their trademarks.
On the one hand, I'm sure they're thrilled (off the record, of course) that people associate their brand with the product in general. But on the other hand, Escalator, Bikini, and Aspirin used to be brand names...
This is sort of a Matlab vs Maple or Mathematica argument.
You can do numerical work in Mathematica and Maple, but it is easier in Matlab.
People who like equations use Maple, people who like matrices use Matlab. You can use both for the same problems...
Anyway, Haskell and other FPLs are useful for reasoning about data structures and the algorithms that operate on them. They are simpler to express.
A lot of these AI centric languages were developed to solve AI problems... logical reasoning... theorem proving.. etc...
Hybrids are developing (like Python incorporating lamdba's) because they allow a mix of the mathematical and structured reasoning without the headache of reasoning about side effect free monads etc... The main limitation of FPLs is
IO and GUI development... e.g. client-server and the maintenance of system state. When a language is side-effect free you loose the capability to reason about a programs current state.
In general the traditional paradigm of "the model (Church-Turing) and the machine (von Neumann)" requires
mental translating. Different algorithms and different programming methods work well on either the model or the machine. Most languages operate on either side, but not both.. bridging that gap is difficult... and thus enter the hybrids.
Likewise, as more practical problems and languages become data centric or have data centric aspects they will incorporate FP style nuances.
Why because data is analyzed by mathematical methods and these are easier to reason about when expressed symbolically.
Hybrids like Python or even Java (with Jython and FP additions), or C++ with FP libraries, will succeed because they offer the best problem solving techniques of both worlds.
"Real" programmers don't write blogs about what makes "real" programmers successful.
You seriously think having most of the Supreme Court justices, the heads of federal agencies, and the attorney general's office, all personally beholden to GWB doesn't give him power?
Not if the majority of citizens do not, to some degree, recognize the authority of those people.
Do you seriously think that having the majority of Americans sullen and angry with GWB makes one bit of difference?
Not if all they are is "sullen and angry". OTOH, if they truly refuse to recognize this authority, and the authority of the government as a whole, then all of its power essentially evaporates.
Of course, that's an extreme state of affairs that is unlikely to happen. But it does illustrate my point: the President's (and the government's) power derives primarily from the "loyalty" of the populace, not from the titles and positions that particular officials hold.
As a side note, thses sort of things premiered before the iPhone.
And none of the 10 little snot-nosed witnesses did anything about it, they deserve expulsion too.
Maybe some racial issues involved here?
The Brady Bunch.
please do not speculate, try it. I did and it nithing happens.
Still dont drink coke try apple juice or anything else.
I see your point. She is a product.
I didn't realize how often people misuse the plural of "criterion."
Edit: With your new edit it looks like I'm some asshole just stating the obvious. It's supposed to look like I'm some asshole trying to correct the world one word at a time. Damn you tghw.
Oh brother........lets be a bit more parinoid can we? LMAO this is funny stuff. There are plenty of fools on both sides to go around thank you.
This is a fabulous blog post
Maybe not but I do believe this is the answer we're looking for.
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Good article, too bad his colleagues in the Senate don't have the balls to do it.
I shouldn't have read that, armed robbers get zero sympathy from me.
I'm not even sure I understand what you mean, but one would think that wealth is usually a better indicator of success than beauty.
Next question. If I go out in the yard and dig up some worms, can I pour Coke on them and get tiny little pigs?
Yes?
That's the genius of The Straight Dope.
I'm pretty excited about javascript, since it's the first language with proper closure support to go mainstream, which makes up for all its other design flaws. Programmers have to know closures if they want to build maintainable complex ajax apps.
Ye gods, I thought PDF was slow. This flash doohickey is glacial!
If someone peed in the coffee I'm sure you'd be much more alert... Someone outta do that to the RIAA employees.
moreclevershark: perhaps the parrot likes to engage in a little blood sacrifice to appease the gods of death metal.
This is Great!!
Because compilers aren't as fault-tolerant as the human brain.
I wish I had this in college. With Stanford and Berkeley swithing to itunes scholar ( http://itunes.stanford.edu/ & http://itunes.berkeley.edu/)this can be a new way to disseminate info to all those scholar grubbing college students.
Actually that's not true either. If throw in a couple of extra "stabs" into a murder victim even though he/she may be technically dead already, you can bet a prosecutor could get me as an accomplice or accessory - I'm still going to jail
Or put another way if I sell top secret info to the chinese , the same info that "Bob" just sold to the Russians, am I guilty of espionage or not?
But that's beside the point, its not like the legal hands of time stopped the very instant someone somewhere in this misadministration uttered the words "Valerie Plame". Not "everyone" knew about it, that was the whole point of gettting the word out to as many leak channels as possible
Lat point. Libby wasn't convicted on leaking anything, he was convicted for federal perjury and obstruction of justice.
Actually, that's just what the writer of the article was getting at. If it were just Ann Coulter who did it, that would be one thing, but everyone who laughed and clapped played a part in it too. And they, being a large group, have influence, and thus are not the kind of trolls that can simply be ignored.
Quick and easy spinach recipes that families will love.
Read article: "Lijun Wang, one of the scientists from the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, N.J., says their findings are not at odds with Einstein."
THEY DID NOT BREAK THE SPEED OF LIGHT
Which makes this another misleading headline looking for an easy grab. ANNOYING
Peer pressure at that age is brutal. Can you imagine being the one who told and possibly got two students expelled? At best you would be a social leper until HS graduation. At worst you would be bullied, tortured and be a social leper until HS graduation.
I was hitting report because it was where reply used to be. Glad you moved it.
There's a new social bookmarking website out called Kontrib.com. What's different about this site is - they utilize machine translation technologies to translate content into several different languages. Pretty cool take on social bookmarking actually.
it would be double sweet irony if bush got impeached for firing lawyers who were working on impeaching him
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And here's an extra one for good measure. These things being done under the auspices and imprimatur of the Holy See, by the faithful, does it not follow that Catholics did indeed slaughter in the name of their religion?
Does anyone else find the author's writing style incredibly irritating?
As a communist, I'm tired of hearing I worship the State. One of these days I should write an article of what the State means for Communists...
I'm guessing most people, including the author of that article, don't know that "faggot" was British slang for an old woman, and later for an effeminate man, long before Americans started using it as a slur for homosexuals. It's an unfortunate statement on our culture that most terms for effeminate men eventually come to be terms for homosexuals, but that seems to be the case.
Coulter's defense, as I understand it, is that she was using the word in its original meaning, which is indeed the meaning that most people intend when they say it. This doesn't strike me as terribly unreasonable.
Coulter says plenty of legitimately insane and hateful things, but I feel her critics are reaching on this one.
EDIT: If you don't like this comment, I'd prefer if you said why rather than just downvoting it. I'm interested in hearing any counterarguments that people might have which don't hinge on false or unsubstantiated assertions. Thanks.
EDITED EDIT: Actually, you know what? Downvote away. I prefer that to reading snide responses from teenagers who owe their self-righteousness to their ignorance. You guys apparently didn't know that "faggot" is slang for an effeminate man, and you're continuing to argue as though it wasn't. That's fine; that's human nature, I just don't want to deal with it.
Probably not. If you're in the puclib eye and your weird looking you'll get picked on. Just ask Janet Reno and Michael Jackson.
This list sucks.
I can't believe that RoR made number 1. Rails is last year's technology. The fact is that there are a ton of great languages out there for web development, especially Python + Django.
Secondly, NAND drives are not going to replace HDD for a while yet. Maybe in 2009. They're still an order of magnitude more expensive and although they have superior seek times, they have far slower sustained read/write times.
UWB is also not going to make it big in 2007, I'm afraid. 802.11n will, but UWB development has consistently lagged. Maybe in 2008? We're already three months into 2007, and there are still essentially no mass market UWB products on the market yet.
Hosted hardware is really nothing new at all. There have been grid computing and high-bandwidth hosting services out there for a decade.
And finally, the whole 80-core CPU crap from Intel is just hype and marketing. I'm sure we'll see 16 cores by the end of the year. But 80? Not outside of a research lab. Maybe in 2010.
My list would have probably included 802.11n, plug-in hybrid cars (the next generation of Toyota Prius for example), and fibre to the node (like AT&T's U-verse).
I agree. I'm glad you made that suggestion, and that they followed it.
Well, even beyond Rails' helpers, which I admit you sometimes have to go, Prototype.js gets you the rest of the way. I don't think I've run into any serious cross-browser problems with Prototype.
Flash/Flex never once attracted me, I haven't seen a case for it that I'd not rather solve by using AJAX.
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He pulls out a book of Greek Mythology and demonstrates how it explains everything and goes on to point out that we are living on Zeus' creation.
You would then walk away thinking that he was still a critical thinker?
What can't carbon tubes do?
Ahh and a few thousands years before it was 520 ppm? What does that prove?? The pre-pre-pre-industrial revolution was to blame?
Ah, I understand what you're saying.
Yeah, I mean, Timothy Leary served in the US army, and look how conformist and doctrinaire he was.
Idiot.
Bible-literalism, fundamentalism, right-wing extremism, proselytism and intolerance ... all qualities associated with evangelism but not with good and fair leadership.
Before you bring it up, I understand the word 'fundamentalism'.
It's not real Coca-Cola.
But knowing that it's fake doesn't make my skin stop crawling after seeing that video!
Like most languages, C++ is useless without the standard library, which in this case is the .NET framework. As far as I know, MS has never asserted that they don't have any patents on the framework.
Oh, well, if you want to start adding on all those conditions then that's a different story ;)
Pretty interesting.
Conversely, best case scenario, you keep your mouth shut and you get to see actual people having actual sex.
If I'm remembering being that age correctly, that would have likely provided me with enough, um, let's call them 'nighttime visualizations' to last me into my teens...
I don't know if the editor is good, but the project management seems professional and well-thought. I'm looking forwards to new developments, they are well documented.
:) When you can't perform experiments to determine causality, you go through the models. In this case, the model that autistic children happen to like violently moving patternless images is preposterous. I'd say the notion there's anything redeeming about the same idiot box that's capable of triggering epileptic seizures is dubious.
You should know that infants see the world as a succession of two-dimensional images, with no understanding of 3D objects. They haven't made the leap to extrapolating 3D shapes from 2D images. And Pascha is suggesting that autistic children find meaningful patterns in far, FAR more chaotic television images? It's absurd is what it is. On the contrary, it's far more credible that television completely fucks up their cognition with all this random crap. In fact, it's entirely predictable that this would happen.
-If these guys get their way-, the weight of everything in the universe will change?
Kind of risky messing around with the whole universe that way, isn't it!
;->
I'm pretty sure if she had had a gun this wouldn't have been an issue...
Oh I didn't mean to suggest that I thought degustibus was being ironic... more that his comment was self-satirical.
Just look at your response - you mock him principally by just quoting him.
It's like watching Bill O'reily... you think he's serious, but sometimes you just stop and think maybe he's just a really good prankster.
Until the age of two, I believe, the plates of the skull have not fused. This means that there is a bit of a give when the head is bonked. Such as a fall during the standing, walking, running phase. And there are a lot of those. A nasty bump or bruse on the forehead is a training injury, nothing more.
You'd be pleasantly surprised:
http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2007/01/i-got-a-proceed-and-permitted-letter-from-linden-labs.html
I guess I'm one of the 6 atoms NOT on the side of that cube.
But beauty is a sign of health.
(Of course the media as corrupted our idea of beauty... big breasts aren't actually useful, but fair skin and a healthy weight are still important.
Um there is a difference between an OPINION article and an EDITORIAL... editorials are the perspective of the editorial board of the paper
Opinion articles are published all over... and represent a slew of perspectives... sure the NYT could have not published them... but you have to believe they published plenty of opinion pieces with differing viewpoints too... so it ain't as slanted as this slanted coverage of 3 gor'am examples from the NYT is
Reminds me of the kayak.
Oh, well that makes it alright.
Seeing as there are 22 or so zeros after the decimal point before the 602 kicks in, I'd say there's little chance of revising AN up, even to one ....
lol sorbitol
Well, and this may not be the case for all people, but to me, 'gold-digger' means a person (usually portrayed as a woman but not always) who intends to end the relationship as soon as the money flow ends and / or cheat while in the relationship and / or expects the other party to die soon (naturally or otherwise). Cinderella, for instance, I would not consider to be a gold-digger, although you can't deny she went to the ball trying to get out of her miserable life. She would not have looked twice at the prince had he been cleaning the gutters as she passed in her magic carriage, but once the happy ending came around, I don't think she was planning on divorcing him and suing for half the kingdom within a year, or on having somebody 'whack' him, or somesuch.
One speculation regarding the early use of base 12 was that it best enabled the division of things among small groups.
Twelve things can be evenly shared by 2, 3, 4, or 6 people. Ten things can be evenly shared by only 2 or 5 people. Thus might relatively small social groups find base 12 to be most useful...
Mark is my friend from the south, an educated man.
Mark is black.
Mark is discriminated against in jobs because he is black.
Value judgement: I like Mark, and find no appreciable difference between his worth as a human and mine.
Thus, conclusion: The actions toward mark are wrong.
Abstraction: Racism as a general behavior is wrong.
(Sorry, simplistic argument, but I wanted to show a line of reasoning from a non-doctrine position.)
I really enjoyed reading this article! I am also a neurotic grocery bagger and I enjoy every minute of it!
I had to teach my husband the art of it so whenever he is along, he scans the items according to which group they belong in, then it is super easy for me to bag.
It is easy & it works for us.
It was 520 ppm when? Certainly not in the last 400k years. It did not even rise significantly over 300 ppm.
What does it do that simply linking to a pdf file does not?
What does Youtube do that linking to a video does not?
How is your "we" any different than the Al Queda's "we"?
Prof. Han Yong-mahn of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology is heading up several government-funded projects to find new methods. One approach his team is using is to create cells that act like stem cells by using human sperm and another is to reverse the process cells normally take in going from embryonic to specific cells.
He had probably just read the reddit posting about how manjuice is 'supposed to be good for the depressed ladies.
Just throwin' her a bone is all?
I will attempt to play the role of devils advocate, so don't point me down for this thought experiment.
Perhaps the detention of foreign nationals is unfortunate, especially children. Perhaps foreign kids that have no legal guardian in this country should be sent back to their country of origin at tax payer expense. Perhaps we should induct the children into the custody of the state such as any juvenile in detention would be, at tax payer expense.
Perhaps the parents will think twice about bringing their spawn to the USA, then leaving them here unattended so they have to go to foreign kid prison.
The fact is this is what happens in any other country, and is not illegal (yet)in the USA. The ACLU is challenging the legality, but we are operating in the assertion stages for now. You cannot say the place is illegal.
I for one think detention centers are a good idea for captured foreign people. They can be held until the resources are available to deport them. The message this sends to people who consider coming to America is don't, unless you are willing to suffer the consequences. Also, they should be sucky places to live too. The conditions of a place like this should be so bad as to be a deterrent.
/EO devils advocation.
Wow, that's pretty sweet. Some of the translations are pretty funny. Hmm... anybody know anything about Language Weaver?
Where's you're imagination? Best case scenario - "Who's next?"
Hint: "Two minutes later"
I first read the title as "Scientologists break speed of light."
Wealth is an indicator of success in gaining wealth, which tends to be something evolution doesn't care about.
No kidding.
It's interesting that someone can be SO interested in AN, and worry about it so intensely. The article makes me realize it's time for lunch. Give or take 3.714829 seconds.
So, when you make comments like this, do people say "don't mind him - he's just being belligerent"?
I did mean Libby, although my sentiment also applies to Rove and Cheney. Libby did leak Plame's name to reporters. He's admitted that. His weak defense was that he heard it from another reporter first, which wasn't true and doesn't make any difference anyway.
As far as whether willfully leaking the name of our CIA agents falls under the legal definition of treason, well, I think it's been established that it does. It certainly carries a higher penalty than mere perjury.
So I feel my original question stands: Why did Fitzgerald only levy perjury charges when it seems obvious to me (and the jury) that there was a coordinated effort going on to expose an undercover CIA agent?
whats machine translation?
Technically I should not be replying in this thread, but since I do have news that is relevant to this comment I think we can make an exception.
While I was amused at the irony of a rule banning the use of name-calling containing name-calling, I see that the term monkey-boy was upsetting to you. In the interest of fairness, I have updated the EULA to remove this term.
If there are other reasonable changes to the license that you would like to petition for, please let me know.
Canada has deployed troops in Afganastan.
This is the worst captcha ever:
http://paste.lisp.org/
I hope that's not true. I also don't believe he could be fired in the same manner of the other prosecutors--he's too high profile.
Ouch - the formatting on that page gave me a headache. Perhaps try a style that is less like a zebra crossing.
Pragma, this is fake.
You're welcome.
Few people care about throughput in GUIs, responsiveness/latency is by far the most important metric.
But the constant anti-conspiracy hysteria just convinces me that something is wrong with the official explanation
There was a reasonable amount of anti-conspiracy hysteria about the moon landings being faked too. The US Government at the time sure had a good motive for pulling off a hoax, yet having seen both sides of the debate I've come to the conclusion that the evidence for the landings being hoaxed is flawed.
I think the reason for more and more people speaking out against the claims that 9/11 was an inside job is that a lot of people died in 9/11, and you have some pretty offensive (not to mention downright ridiculous) arguments being fuelled by someone wanting to make a fast buck.
Putting emotional responses to one side for a moment, real debate should focus on facts. The National Institute of Standards and Technology have written a point-by-point rebuttal of most of the claims made by the conspiracy theorists which you can find here:
http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm
If it ain't Turing complete, it don't compute... completely... :)
It's slow to boot. And i do not like it's caching. (Yah it can probably be disabled).
When I look at that, I for one imagine a slice of carrot pie.
So ... what have the oilers done for us -lately-? AHA
I like this website.
Another instance of fabulous customer service from the folks at NWA...
WRONG. FAIL. Have you even been to Japan? I went there for an exchange trip.
1)Houses range from the small apartment size to large townhome. Not what we're used to, but completely livable.
2)The house I was in had a guest room.
3)yes, the trains are packed full, but not all the time, and the commutes aren't two hours for the average person. Plus, being packed in like that isn't nearly as bad as you make it out to be. If you're lucky, you can get a seat.
4)Sleeping on futons is better for your back than sleeping on a mattress.
5)Vacation spots in Japan are beautiful, spacious, and all-around nice. Went to a hotel which was full up because it was tourist season, and, for example, we were STILL able to get our breakfasts without any wait. AT ALL.
The only difference between here and Japan is that we probably wouldn't have the self-control to not go all "shoot 'n' loot" if our population density was as high as theirs is. :| Stop being such a jingoist.
Believe it or not Dawkins beliefs about the origin of the universe and mans place in it are no more valid than anyone elses. And of course Dawkins has every right to believe as he choses. But, the point is simply, no set of beliefs about the ultimate origin of the universe is more valid then any other.
Neil Stephenson will eventually be regarded as one of the great writer-philosophers of the modern era. He has a fascinating way of concisely framing his messages around easily digestible concepts, allowing the largest audience possible to interpret them without catering to the lowest common denominator.
Still curious; what features of textmate give me similar power?
For what it's worth, the things in emacs that I find indispensable (and I imagine this is different for everyone):
inline, incremental search
quick keyboard access to opening files and buffers [i hate using standard file-open dialogs when editing!]
flexibile screen splits and motion between them via keyboard.
Amazingly, that's about it. There are a ton of emacs features I use regularly, but at work I'm in Visual Studio and find that I only genuinely miss the above three! Apparently most of emacs is a distraction to me.
He writes a lot more about about JetBrains IDEA than Eclipse. IDEA kicks Eclipse everywhere except the wallet.
emacs and vim.
Current Senate:
Democratic Party 49
Republican Party 49
Independents 2 (usually side with Democrats.)
So, (for 66% vote) we need either 15 or 16 Republicans to turn coat - depending which way Joe Lieberman votes.
Maybe it's a good thing I'm already married, because I think that's pretty freakin' cool. :-)
I hope he owns the place though. Shame to do all that in a flat you're just renting.
Personally, I can't stand the word.
A lot of inaccuracies in the article. Not so much rocks shame as business as usual for the corporations.
Yes that's the answer I gave myself. Not much, but whatever it is is worth billions.
Python? You're soaking in it!
The maps are so unique I sense I've seen them at least twice before, and that's not deja vu.
no, psychics are stupid. they're just a little bit smarter than the people they con, but they're not smart.
Hmm - does this qualify as linkjacked? It provides a link to the lib-dem press release (http://www.libdems.org.uk/news/story.html?id=12126&navPage=news.html) which has virtually identical content...
Throw the movie Glitter in there, because... well.. it sucks
Nailem dumpem. I'm heading to to NYC this weekend. If I see any of them...
I know you're not implying that git can't be used for centralized workflow in the same way that cvs and svn can, but I think it's worth stating outright that it can and is used in this way. X.org is using it in just this manner and it's working out very well because you have the ability to work in a distributed way when you want to.
And I'm telling you now that I thought you possessed enough common human sense to know that I meant. They should be allowed to do whatever WITHIN REASON. Got it?
No rape, no bribery, no forced monopolies, etc.
If Al Gore wants to spend twice as much money (both buying electricity AND paying to remove the greenhouse gasses that are produced), then that's his business.
The net effect on the environment is ZERO, so who gives a care?!
Additionally, how is his purchasee of carbon credits going to "make life harder for everybody else"? If anything, it'll give some poor unemployed person a job planting trees.
This is absolutely correct. The mind tends to unconsciously "fill in blanks". Repairing, if you will, incomplete fractions of memory. Not just when we think back on something, but even when you are wide awake and walk around town, your mind will "help" build a more complete picture of your surroundings. And you won't even know.
This is why it is not unusual to have detailed memories, but "seen" from the wrong perspective, especially if the surrounding is a familiar one.
Yeah, he'd have taken it and used it to kill her afterwards.
They can be admitted if the judge rules it would serve the interests of "justice" to do so. Warrantless searches routinely get a pass nowadays.
When I said "slow" I sure as hell was not talking about "gui throughput", whatever that is.
DON'T USE BLACK BACKGROUND page... if you want to be taken seriously in the blogosphere/media/political debate... you can't have a black background, simple as that..
I agree it's arbitrary and sad, but it's true.
Congress needs to be pouring all it's resources into oversight and aggressive, subpoena-driven investigations of the last six years. The only way we'll sway the necessary Republicans is if a lot more of the GOP tactics and agenda are revealed.
That blows, Ferraris are expensive and boob jobs aren't (relatively speaking...)
The weird part is that he kinda looks like Michael..
http://imdb.com/gallery/ss/0329476/Ss/0329476/out_of_order-o001_030-m.jpg.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Stoltz,%20Eric
You obviously have never actually been in love.
You should try it. I'd live in a trailer for the rest of my life so long as my fiancee was happy and I could write.
the subject
The difference between you and her is that she has insight.
Hi,
Janet here.
Don't you guys have better things to do than to bash and ridicule someone you don't even know?
Got an anonymous email from someone the other day quoting a part my bio on my site and basically just said "bullshit". (By the way, some of the excerpts from reviews shown on this thread are NOT from my review.)
I just have to wonder...what kind of people are you? Miserable ones? Because, really, what kind of person wastes time bashing someone they don't know for sport--criticizing everything from music tastes to spiritual path, educational choice for a child to Myers-Briggs profile?
I mean, really! All this animosity because of one of my reviews!
It's sorta funny considering that I'm being bashed by The Secret lovers for my criticisms of the book (which have played out in the comments section at Amazon) and now I'm being bashed by others because I found the book (mostly) decent.
For example, why would I give "homeschooling" a bad name just because I happen to believe in the benefits of positive thinking (see http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/ for a "scientific" basis for such benefits.)
Would it change your mind to find out that my son was diagnosed on the Autism spectrum at age 3, went through a lot with sensory/development issues--and that I witnessed, first hand, a pre-school teacher yank him by the arm...then lie to me that he "fell"? And that THAT was one of the reasons I chose to homeschool? (Never mind the fact that I happen to have a genius IQ and am a helluva good teacher--and trust my abilities more than my local rural school district.)
While I don't advocate The Secret/Law of Attraction 100%, maybe you guys would like to consider what kind of crap you're "putting out there". Because you're not making the world a better place by bashing a woman you don't know.
At least, I'm actively trying to bring some consciousness to my corner of the world...
Janet Boyer
http://JanetBoyer.com
Freelance Writer/Reviewer
I know - the beginning plus headline makes it sound one way, the end, another. It could have been the school's version - but at that point I decided I didn't care enough to re-read.
I didn't realize that the Sun and The Observer were the same paper.
New York City Edit
www.nycedit.com
On a trip to the market, Haji Lawania says he drove his gray SUV into a hail of U.S. gunfire that shattered his windshield and killed his father, nephew and a village elder.
The three companions, who died Sunday in the aftermath of a suicide bombing in eastern Nangarhar province, are among 40 civilians whose deaths this year could be attributed to
NATO or U.S. action, according to an Associated Press tally based on figures from military and Afghan officials.
ok ig uess
what this man is essentially doing isdefending his right to smoke in the woods despite being aware that him lighting up could cause a forest fire.
Can I have your phone number?
She doesn't seem so bad, other than she's hoplessly lost in the farthest right wing.
Ignore him, he's a troll. Besides, I would imagine that it is quite difficult for him to find love when his vocabulary does not extend beyond 'pansy' and 'faggot'.
ah :) i see it now - it was still displaying the old logo when i read your post.
I like the design itself, but an HTML ninja is badly needed to flip out and kill large amounts of the code required for every single comment.
Yah! Powerful images always provoke self-reflection... like clouds in the sky.
I lived in Japan for two and half years, buddy. The solid majority of the population in Japan lives in the kanto or kansai plains in conditions as I described. The japanese themselves refer to their apartments as rabbit hutches.
Funny you anime fanboys are praising Japanese living conditions in a debate on immigration. Probably the main thing that makes Japan a mostly pleasant place is that everyone is relatively middle class and polite. Why? No immigrants or minorities...
This sounds like it might be a great place to go to school!
We are talking about prepubescent kids here, not porn. I think I would have been a virgin until I was 20 if I had seen this.
fagner
Ending the most popular film epic in history, Star Wars: Episode III, Revenge of the Sith is an exciting, uneven, but ultimately satisfying journey. Picking up the action from Episode II, Attack of the Clones as well as the animated Clone Wars series, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and his apprentice, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen), pursue General Grievous into space after the droid kidnapped Supreme Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid).
100% successful? What planet do you shop on? Too often the bagging geniuses put the leaf lettuce on the bottom under the potatoes. And they have a standard practice of using a "switch" cart to keep you from walking out with unscanned items, so there are twice as many carts as they need in the already crowded checkout area. Grr.
One way to stop these repetitive debates is to build a killer extensible app with a proper functional/meta-programming language, and let the users decide for themselves. By killer app I mean a program that's intuitive yet easily hackable, in the spirit of the lisp machines.
For example, any object on/off screen can be changed at the source code levels by the users, and changes reflected immediately at runtime.
Or even better, objects in a distributed network environment can have changes reflected in real time on all the hosts.
An evolved set of constraints to balance security and functionality.
One possibility is to build an MMORPG or even an OS based on the Croquet platform (which uses smalltalk).
Wow. It took you that long to think up that reply?
Is that what you do?
And as far as whether willfully leaking the name of our CIA agents falls under the legal definition of treason, well, I think it's been established that it does.
How? When? Because I'm quite certain it doesn't.
Please see this informative article about the legal definition of treason.
There have been fewer than 40 federal treason cases in American history and, if I'm counting correctly, only eight convictions.
My apologies if I'm repeating someone. I skimmed the thread but didn't read every comment in depth.
I think the author dances around, but doesn't quite directly address, one of the main reasons why programming languages become dominant in this age. To be commercially successful (that is, to reach a state where programmers can be confident of finding paying work using the language) a language has to be good at solving the kinds of problems that most programmers are paid to work with. For better or worse, most programmers make their money building CRUD apps.
That leads me to conclude that a language needs the following to become very common:
Good corporate backing, or a very large open source community
A good database library
A good web framework or GUI library, or preferably both
Thorough documentation
A good IDE
I suspect, but can't really prove, that the speed at which initial code can be written is more important than ease of maintenance.
More specifically with regards to functional languages, CRUD applications deal primarily in side effects (I/O, GUI interaction, database queries, etc) and only secondarily in computation. That may make the benefits of FP less obvious.
If someone were using the "your mom" jokes on me, I don't think that person's opinion would be very valuable to me at all. And I would laugh it off actually. I'm not one of these "IF YOU SAY ONE THING ABOUT MY MOM I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE OR WHAT TIME IT IS" type of people.
Which is great, because neither is anyone in this thread (or at least there's no evidence of such), nor is the person who wrote the article in question in this thread.
None of that addresses the idea that "it was just a joke!" should not be sufficient to allow a person to say absolutely anything they want in the political arena. "He's a fag" is not a taunt - which she's claiming her statement was - unless a fag is something nobody wants to be. That the simple logic of that can escape anyone astounds me.
EDIT: You claim to be expressing "an unpopular opinion", but what is that opinion? That "they're just words"? That doesn't work, because you said elsewhere that when someone uses hate speech, something should be done about it. Is your point that more than whining should be done about it? Well, people are getting companies to pull financial support from her and ads off her website, that's something I suppose. What would you suggest?
downvote for the fag bashing video
You obviously know nothing about ninjas. Watch this clip for a counterexample.
Well we work for about one and half extra MONTHS a year than our european counterparts... so this is not surprising... but we're freakin' losing it because of that.. we're not keeping our own government at bay... we're not happy, and we're going more and more fanatical
Considering that over 40% of rape accusations are false, the mind certainly does tend to "fill in blanks."
Also, later he claims that Ruby isn't strongly typed. Which it is.
Hmm. I suppose that's a fair point; I should have specified "Stalinists" or some similar designation to indicate the particularly ideological extremist version of communism that is associated with "bad" things. And stuff.
But being a good provider is an excellent indicator of success, which evolution does care about. Wealth would seem to be a good indicator of being a good provider.
I'm not suggesting it's the only indicator of being useful to evolution, but it's not exactly unimportant to evolution either.
The upload button didn't quite browse on my Opera browser, perhaps they have it temporary disabled. Another feature I'd like to see as an option where they do an occasional http request to see if a published pdf file on my personal website is updated, and if so, to pull in the new content.
The main benefit to a service like this is that if I have a document that is semi-public, in the sense that I share it with my friends and I don't mind if other people come across it too, then the possible extended exposure that it gets might open up more feedback and links to related documents to improve future versions.
It doesn't seem like the site will aim to help author at the source level, though. For example if my original document form is in texinfo there is no way for someone to post an additional section, or rework part of the document in a way that makes it easy for me to import it into my working set.
If it were 1998, these guys would already have gone public
I did vote it down. I don't have anything against porn, but having it as the top story is just inappropriate.
Do you actually like yourself?
I keep thinking how great Return of the Jedi would have been if Spielberg had directed it as Lucas wished. OR Robert Duvall playing Quint... or Spielberg not regretting having not been at the helm of Jaws 2.
But most of all Kubrick not finishing up on A.I.
The article is not very funny and not very useful either. I thought it would have advice like "When the kid breaks your prize china bowl, remember--people are more important than things." I've always found that one useful.
I don't know what you're talkin about... I've leaked twice already this afternoon.
"He's a fag" is not a taunt - which she's claiming her statement was - unless a fag is something nobody wants to be.
yeah, that was mentioned in the article too.
(edited so make it clear which point I was talking about, since another paragraph mysteriously appeared between my reading and my hitting "save".
I haven't read the article yet (I'll get back to it when I get stuck on the program I'm writing) but I had to say I love your "sucky blog alert". It made my day.
I always thought that was a goofy interpretation but I looked it up and even on their website they say so, point taken.
Seems silly to not think of Mormons as Christian while calling Evangelicals Christian, as someone that grew up methodist I tend to lump everyone that believes Jesus was the son of god as a Christian. Seems like everyone including the Mormons would rather not be labeled as Christians. Why do you have a hard time realizing that there are a bunch of denominations of Christians?
Oh yea, that's right, only your denomination is the correct one ;)
This was an interesting view of the question from the mormons: http://ldsfaq.byu.edu/view.asp?q=138
The timeline from wiki is pretty interesting too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations
YouTube videos play in 99% of Web browsers out there (it uses Flash), and you don't have to pay for bandwidth.
Also, 95% of all statistics is made up on the spot.
Simple misunderstanding. All she wanted was a bag of nuts.
The papers are being filed as we speak. ;)
Yeah, I read that. The attempt to break free of the frame would be a good thing, but those "comebacks" just aren't funny, and I don't think they're going to get any traction with the sort of people who thought the original remark was funny in the first place. Obama's remark about Cheney and Iraq was funny because it hit a nerve -- Cheney's Iraq predictions have been frequent, high-profile, and disasterously, infamously wrong. The same comeback to Coulter doesn't fit together the same way, in a a logic-of-humor sense.
And any reponse that even brings up the sexual nature of the insult is falling into a trap, anyhow. This was just a schoolyard taunt, as Greenwald points out, a way to say "sissy" in a more offensive way. The sexuality aspect is offensive, but it's also a tar baby. In the Republican frame, a response that even mentions that aspect automatically paints the responder as some sort of gay-coddling degenerate liberal, and a sissy, to boot, for even worrying about the feelings of a bunch of queers.
Not that I have a better answer.
The standards of beauty also changes over time and between cultures too. A thousand years ago in colder climates, it wasn't important to find a pretty wife as it was to find a wife that knew how to help you survive and stay warm.
Wealth always seems to stay consistent as a desirable attribute though among cultures though.
I find it interesting that you started all this by taking the "whatever, they're just words" approach - much like she did - and now that people are pointing out the clear flaw in that argument, you've shifted to a "well do something about it then!" position.
What would you suggest? What sort of intelligent response should be made, and where? I think the idea of getting companies to pull financial support from her is a start, though not necessarily effective in the long run. Surely you don't expect that she'll allow herself in any environment where the "intelligent response" can actually be made on TV with her present - she's not going to discuss it without a lapdog like Hannity there to back her up and yell at anyone who disagrees.
From the (seven-year old) article:
She says their experiment only disproves the general misconception that nothing can move faster than the speed of light. ... The scientific statement "nothing with mass can travel faster than the speed of light" is an entirely different belief.
From the Wikipedia article on the speed of light:
If information could travel faster than c in one reference frame, causality would be violated
So the two statements are in conflict: Wikipedia (and every physics class i've ever taken) says that nothing can travel faster than light, regardless of whether it has mass. I'd imagine if the article were accurate, Wikipedia would have been updated by now, and the scientists would have received a Nobel prize, and this would have been major news.
Therefore, i'm having a lot of trouble believing this article.
I agree with you completely. I wonder...if Coulter had called Edwards an 'Inbred Cracker', or a 'Nigger-Lover', would her water-carriers still be rushing to defend her? Calling someone a faggot seems to be okay, for some reason.
"Bible-literalism, fundamentalism, right-wing extremism, proselytism and intolerance..."
Stereotypes. Check out ww.sojo.net. My worldview certainly changed a bit when I found out about them.
Some of their current projects:
Evangelicals for Darfur
Words, Not War, With Iran
Tell McDonald's to Ensure Fair Wages for Farm Workers
Cut military aid to Colombia
Close the School of the Americas
I'm certainly not saying this represents 'most' or even 'many' evangelicals, I'm just saying that it isn't a uniform group so we shouldn't speak of them in absolute terms.
Also, I should have been more specific. They're gaining more power within evangelical circles, which is the good thing. Honestly, would it be so terrible to have a people with the sojo worldview in positions of power? Look at their agenda, then review yours, and see how far apart the two happen to be.
As long as you're not so poor that you're starving, don't have any clothes etc., you're really fine as far as evolution (or, more specifically, natural selection) is concerned. As long as your health doesn't stop you from having healthy children, your genes will be spread. So, choosing between a hot (if beauty can be seen as a sign of health) middle class person and a rich, ugly person, you'd probably be better off with the middle class person, at least as far as evolution is concerned.
When I looked at this post, it had 666 points...
I also do a lot of development in AJAX and don't have much problems. But I also use prototype, scriptaculous, sometimes yahoo frameworks. A lot of people works hard to make them the most cross-browser as possible and easy to use to make our lives easier.
Commenting ~5 lines of Prototype.js, I was able to make it work on a pocketPC running windows CE.. with AJAX !
There is no doubt that something betther will come and replace AJAX, but I really hope it won't be flex.
I really hate most flash movie player (really.. they suck). And did you ever benchmarked a flex application ? You should
http://blogs.adobe.com/mikepotter/2006/06/php_gallery_int.html
Let's quickly check memory usage of firefox 2.0
0: firefox opened with 6 tabs:\t\t98mb
1: gallery loaded showing 2 pics:\t138mb
2: clicked on picture #1:\t\t149mb
3: clicked on picture #2:\t\t157mb
4: closed page\t\t\t\t102mb
Will it scale well ? I doubt so.
Sure this is probably not a good benchmark, or maybe the guy is just a really bad coder.
Eric3
Fake.
The gas coming out shows in the thermal images as black, meaning it is very cold, ergo, it is from an aerosol.
Good try.
Sorry about that. I've marked the addition for clarity. :)
Did Cinderella really go to the ball hoping to improve her life? I thought she went because it was an event and she wanted to have fun.
I could be mistaken though. It's not like I've seen it recently.
Yep. Which is what they're doing.
At least gay people aren't calling each other faggo's or something, and then getting mad when straight people say it
Heh. You haven't heard many informal conversations between homosexuals, have you?
This reviewer misses the point completely. In the 2nd paragraph he names the "anti-religious faithful" missing the point that Atheists are not deluded into being "Faithful" that is the whole point, proof not faith is required to understand science.
He is just pandering to his pre-converted market.
I would upmod, but I think it's better left at 666 points :P
(Who else is intentionally doing this?)
The headlines imply that reporting any news by amateurs is illegal, it's not, that is what is misleading of them.
Not really, slave owners generally viewed slaves as animals and not human so they wouldn't feel bad about having slaves. I reject that reason and find it completely lacking. There are excuses for having slaves but no good reasons.
When I looked at it it was also 666, then saw someone voted it up to 667, so I voted it down to 666.
I suspect others are doing the same. We'll see how long it lingers at 666.
Another interesting example that I've noticed:
When I read a book, I have to visualize the characters as "real" people for them to be real to me. That means that I like to pick someone I recognize (an actor, a public figure, even someone that I know personally, as long as it is someone who really exists) and visualize the character as that person.
The interesting thing is that, after finishing the book, if I happen to see that person I have a strong memory of having seen them recently, even though it was all in my head. For example, if I imagine Joaquin Phoenix as a character in a book I was reading, and then the following week see him in a movie, I catch myself thinking "I saw him in something else recently; what was that?" When, in fact, I haven't seen him in anything at all -- except my imagination.
A small example, I know, but I think it's telling about how easily our memory can be fooled.
So if I went on TV, and said, 'I'd call inmike's mom a cocksucking whore, except right now she's sucking my cock for free', you'd just say 'haha, that unamerican is such a card! He know's my mother's not a cocksucking whore!'? Really? Or, 'Oh, that unamerican's just trying to be provocative. Ignore him.' Is that what you'd think?
believe me or not - I knew it ! Anyway, even if there where any worms inside, cooking / roasting would just make them a welcome nutritional addition.
And 50% of them are disputed immediately afterwards.
dupe, most likely linkjack http://reddit.com/info/qwm1/comments
Wow! Bumper sticker philosophy! Go get em Tiger!
You're right, except for the 'intelligently' bit. And the 'expressing' bit. You're a 9th grader witha computer, who likes to call people faggot. Does that mean you win?
Programming in Haskell alone is almost a fate worse than death. Programming Haskell with a team would most definitely induce suicide.
Nice piece, if making Hagel look better is the point. But it also tells us that he voted for everything expected. All in all, he's just another brick in the pile of bricks that used to be the wall.
Give it a try locuteass... at least you might wake up from your constant sniveling!
That's got to be the crudest version of that idea I've ever seen. "Fully recyclable materials" What'd they do, make a boxy shape out of cardboard and think "How can we sell this?"?
great idea, love the site.
It's hard to figure out how to post videos, and annoying to use RealPlayer or what not to view them.
True enough. There are many things she has said that were worth this much fuss, if not more. Maybe the media outlets just think she's a safe target now.
There was a market for ads on her web site to begin with??
are there no archived images for that digg site? all i get is unstyled html
Maybe, unless a wealthy person is more likely to engender children than a middle class person if all other factors are identical.
We'd need to take a sample of 1000 wealthy average looking men and 1000 middle class average looking men, and figure out which group fathers more children.
Technically, we should add in 1000 poor average looking men too.
You mentioned ugliness as a factor, but I wasn't going that far. I was only discussing wealth.
But it might be interesting to add in 1000 ugly rich men and see how many children they have too.
While we're doing this, 1000 rich geek males would be a good one to throw in also, unfortunately they'd have to stop giggling before the testing could start.
Congratulations, your comment wins the Most Sublime Satire Ever award. Especially if it was meant in earnest.
In other words, YouTube cut the Gordian Knot of video codecs.
Aaron Burr was famously charged with murder (though never tried) while Vice President. He was also tried for treason after his resignation.
Also, the impeachment process is procedurally very similar to a trial. So you could reasonably say that Clinton and Andrew Johnson were put on trial while in office.
They've been able to do quantum tunneling, a way to moving photons faster than C, for a while.
Is this the same phenomenon?
Ann Coulter doesnt have a pussy, she has a bucket...
I always wondered does this mean you could communicate at faster than the speed of light or am I not understanding something?
I love how in the beginning it claims to load 2 gigabytes of data.
Werner Heisenberg gets pulled over by a traffic cop for speeding.
"Sir, do you know how fast you were going back there?"
"No, but I know exactly where I was!"
Islam again. sigh
Screw jesus, he's dead. I'm appalled by it.
I think you need to reread my post. I did not blame anyone. I was just pointing out that Vince Foster's death has many unanswered questions.
You interjected the Clintons, not me.
give him enough money and Xenu can do anything
So, bloggers can post lots of happy news - just not anything important.
My point was that beauty (i.e. the natural kind) probably is a better indicator of fitness for having children (which is what matters, evolution-wise) than wealth, at least if you disregard those who are so poor that their children are less likely to grow up.
Not that we need any help, seeing as how we're spending our time browsing reddit...
Its actually Flash Paper, although they have covered the FlashPaper logo with "Scribd"
my thoughts exactly
"the average adult only uses 10% of his/her brain"
Wrong! (Using 90% - 100% of your brain all at once, is better known as an epileptic seizure.)
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percnt.htm
We do have great potential to increase our knowledge, and I applaud this list of 77 suggestions. It's a good article - but this 10% myth has got to stop.
This has popped up from time to time and everytime a person submits it with the title that she's getting lashes for getting raped but it's not the case. She's getting lashed for breaking their laws (that of being alone with a man that is not her husband) which is totally unrelated to her being raped. It's inhumane by our standards but in her culture she was breaking the law. If a person, that has a pound of cocaine, gets jail time after being hit by a car would your headlines be "Person get 15 years in jail for getting hit by car?" If you would, please stop posting.
Especially then.
That's the exact response someone in junior high would give. "If you said that to my face, you'd get hurt! Blah blah blah! WAAAAH!"
You can't really compare this to just any kind of memory. Traumatic memories are often fragmented (depending on the person's temperament to a greater or lesser degree) because the brain lays them down differently than 'nontraumatic' memories. Fragmentation is a symptom for the diagnosis of PTSD for example.
Some people may cope with trauma by inducing fantasy, and for some fantasy-prone individuals, the chimeric world seems more real than the actual one.
About 11 years ago I built an ecommerce site using perl and fcgi, which had been recently "open sourced" by open market. Back then it was extremely buggy. We spent about 4 weeks instrumenting it with strace and a bunch of logging and found and repaired half a dozen show stoppers. We tried to find someone to accept patches, but no one was listening. We decided it was essentially abandonware and transitioned to mod_perl about 9 months later.
Last year I started a Rails project and was astounded to see FastCGI was still around and being used, and it was still almost as buggy as it had been a decade previous.
Not only did she admit that she was wrong, but she's actually actively trying to help people understand why they could be wrong, too.
Oh, and the man she falsely accused is now her friend. That certainly speaks highly of his character, but I think it also shows that she made an honest mistake and has genuinely done everything she can to correct it.
I've heard 'enh' too.
The computer you are using exists because a man named Alan Turing did the maths to make it happen. He also, along the way, helped crack the German codes, which directly led to the Allies winning the second world war. Later, when he was convicted of being a deviant, he was forced to be chemically castrated, He committed suicide in shame (the apple with the bite out of it in the Apple Computers logo is rumoured to be a tribute to him...he died by eating an apple he had poisoned). One of the greatest geniuses of our (or any) time died early and ashamed because he was gay, and hounded relentlessly for it,
Homophobia is not okay, whether you mean it or not, whether you think it's funny or not. You say 'do something about it'; well, I am. I'm writing to her sponsors, and I'm calling you out.
Care to explain for those of us not knowledgable of the music industry?
No surprise there. They have an absolutely terrible human rights record.
Oh please stop being melodramatic. As I've said I agree it's a stupid law, but by being barred from filming/publishing violent crimes in progress doesn't mean you're unable to report on it or any other sensationalist news you want report on.
Funny, the adult store industry had that idea years ago... Of course, they just solved it by cutting the tips off of their bras.
Yay agile development + developers who care about their users!
Oh, I don't disagree. Health is probably a much higher factor than wealth. I'm just saying wealth is also a factor.
Libby gets a pardon as a thank-you gift for taking the fall for the manipulators above him.
Because I can use your body and play with your boobs, but you will still have it after I'm done. You take my money, and it's gone !
I like how the reddit graphic for the day is taken from this image now. :)
That's wrong!
I agree. She got the lashes for breaking their law of "not being with a man alone" or whatever and got punished for that. Now while that is a stupid law, if you read the article you can see that at least the application of law is consistent. I notice that the one-eyed writer of the blog item conviently overlooked the fact that some of the rapists were arrested and given jail terms of "10 months to 5 years" and the prosecutor requested the death penalty. Also the guy who blackmailed her also got lashes for breaking the same law as she did.
You must mean Utahraptors.
If the Giant Chickens come, the alien will just roast 'em on the rotisserie
Look.
In not a single calculation is Russia's economy added to that of the European Union. In any calculation of the economy of Europe, (part of) Russia's economy is included.
Regardless, the EU's economy by itself is larger than that of the USA. So whether you want to include that of Russia or (for whatever bizarre reason you're advocating) not, my statement is accurate.
I'm sorry that you think that all comparisons of the USA and Europe are, by their mere nature, inherently flawed. But you would do well to note that I was not the one making such a comparison. I was the one pointing out that the comparison that someone else made was incorrect.
Where were these girls, who like to have sex like this, when I was in school???
Incredibly irritating! It's a bad sign when someone goes on and on with a metephor about Robin hood vs. Zorro just to eventually concluded "no, nevermind, this guy is -beyond- metaphors."
NSFW : prank
it will decrease your bandwidth usage, but increase
processor usage because every page needs to be
pre-compressed by apache/httpd before being sent to the
client.
You've never measured it, have you? The negligable amount of CPU is easily offset by the benefit of serving the pages in less time (meaning less concurrent hits on average).
Also consider that the amount of CPU which anything dynamic on the server side takes is many, many orders of magnitude higher.
which might slow down rendering on older computers
and it might be the straw that breaks the power grids neck. "unlikely" to put it nicely, even on my pentium 60 Mhz it made no difference.
Plus you can't flush() things anymore
Of yourse you can. Chunked transfer encoding and gzip work together without problems. Again it looks like you never bother trying it.
If you want to name a real drawback use this: Netscape 4.7 has problems with gzip compressed CSS files. That's more relevant than the things you named...
Yah LOL If I just wanted to share inane comments about stuff I would stick to this existing mechanism called "IRC"... LOL LOL
Reminds me of the old Warner Brothers cartoons where the parachute pack is filled with silverware.
Ah, so THIS is why China is overpopulated!
Absolutely. There's nothing more annoying than reading an article written by an author who is certain he is a Great Artist.
so you're saying Bill Gates is an alien, we just don't know where from yet... hmmmm
I'm just waiting for a bag left in a subway station as part of this program to set off a panic and shut down the subway system... on Friday, during the evening rush. Nothing like tens of thousands of pissed-off New Yorkers stuck on the island.
I'm melodramatic? All I'm doing is quoting Odebi. Take it up with them.
And this is the very power and beauty point of Lisp.
It's also its biggest drawback.
So, bloggers can post lots of happy news - just not anything important.
Could you provide a link to that? I can't find this quote.
That's disgusting
Er, so men of high status and women of beautiful appearance are the real evolutionary strategy? I'm sorry, but where did you get this "real evolutionary strategy" from?
High status includes wealth. You can provide for you children really well if you are wealthy. In fact, the wealthy and prominence tended to go hand in hand in cultures.
Beauty in women isn't the same thing as reproductive capability. Health would be more appropriate than beauty. In addition, beauty is only an evolutionary virtue in some cultures. In some cultures, beauty was nice but it was far more important that the women could do her part to insure survival than she could look pretty.
why? I don't understand. There doesn't seem to be anything special about this animation. Did the author mean to say this is my favorite weather radar site/visulization and not that this particular animation is the shiznag?
I was raised by my mother alone and I'm a mess.
Excellent review of the facts of the current oil production situation.
MPC has those features as well. I've heard it said that they are very similar. They just have different interfaces. MPC doesn't have a playlist, it can only play what's in a folder or in a pre-generated playlist file. I'd be very interested in BSPlayer if it had one.
Even "science" takes some amount of faith to believe. It takes a lot of faith to believe, as Dawkins does, in the probability of genetic alterations through natural selection.
I'd add the advertisement in Rolling Stone magazine for, I think, Warner Brothers(?) Music round 'bout 1969. The photo featured a central-casting hippie scowling defiantly above the caption "The man can't take our music".
Of course the multinational corporation that ran the ad was "the man", and it had indeed taken the music, safely productized it, and imprisoned it deep within the bowels of the company's Dissent and Rebellion Products division...
thanks, that may be the best response I've got all day :)
Duly noted.
EDIT: Sorry about that, I didn't realize which one you were going for. Either way, mission accomplished, right?
also cunningham and gibson's neuromancer... damn that movie would have been good
The broad drafting of the law so as to criminalize the activities of citizen journalists unrelated to the perpetrators of violent acts is no accident, but rather a deliberate decision by the authorities, said Cohet. He is concerned that the law, and others still being debated, will lead to the creation of a parallel judicial system controlling the publication of information on the Internet.
LOL
No? Screaming things like BUT PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENTS ARE DONE ALL THE TIME...WAAAAAH SO THEREFORE GLOBAL WARMING EXPERIMENTS ARE DONE! SO THERE! isn't a lame ass justification?
Moron. I don't delete or edit my posts because I'm not ashamed of them. If I edit a post, I always include an EDIT statement.
The fact that you mention it means that you've at least thought about it. It even suggests that you've gone ahead and done it. I wouldn't be surprised.
Nothing I've said above could be considered a strident defense of my words. At the most, they are statements to you that your arguments are as weak as your worm-riddled mind.
Edit: Here's an example of my editing a post. See? I've included the edit description. You've gone from attempting to distract a valid argument about tax cuts to dismissing entire fields of science to giving up and redirecting the argument to be about the posts themselves.
At this point, all you are capable of doing is screaming that everyone is going to see how nasty and mean I've been to you, and that I should panick and change my posts before anyone sees.
Next, you'll go tattle to mommie. At that point, you'll have regressed to a 3 year old.
Look everyone! I'm insulting the moron! Now go tell on me. Moron.
What does it do? There is no content what so ever on that site.
Not just stolen images either, the "Construction of the World's Highest Bridge" article is text pulled directly from a BBC article. Seems as if thrillingwonder can't be bothered to write its own text either.
I'm afraid I'll have to bring you in.
Try: I wioll haven be afraid I willing haven been bringing you in.
Being proficient in Java doesn't make you proficient at solving problems and programming.
Neither does being proficient in Haskell, it's just exceedingly unlikely that you could learn and appreciate Haskell and not be able to code.
(Didn't someone recently write that 199 out of 200 job applicants are worthless? I bet all of them are "proficient" in Java, having been pumped out of some "university.")
You beat me to it. Also, 60 can be divided by 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30 as well.
And 60 and 24 are both multiples of 12 (I include this for the math-challenged.)
Waaahooo! I love the NAU !
Help China get cheap goods from a Mexican seaport overland via Mexican trucks and drivers through to Canada with no economic benefit or tax revenue at any locale that it passes through in the US! Who benefits? Companies that can rip the biggest scars across the earth - AU mining companies, Bechtel, Halli.Halli..Halli...*Halliburton* same old, same old.
nice user name.
base 12
My theory is that it is much easier to divide a circle (using a compass-like device) into 6 equal parts, then twelve parts, then 24 etc.
Twelve hour sundials were just easier to make.
I'm hoping I'm not the only one who thought she was talking about... something completely different.
way to ruin it :(
lol
I still don't see the jump from not being able to film/publish violent crimes video to not being able to report any news your headline claims nor any violent crime that the article's headline claims.
s/replacement/alternative
Oh, I'm sorry, I meant to say
M-x replace-string RET replacement RET alternative RET
Shut up. Emacs is still awesome.
having sex with not you
Works for maddox!
Why would he? According to Fox News, Libby has been found NOT guilty.
Eh. I'm not sure of that. It's pretty easy to divide anything into quarters, then (for a circle), eighths and 16ths, but dividing something into 6 or 12 equal segments seems harder to me.
Unless there's a technique I've foolishly overlooked?
Oh nevermind, it's voluntary marketing malware.
This software is for FREE and does not contain any viruses.
While it tracks how one website relates to another
it does not save any information about you.
I agree- I really liked the first sentence. But after two paragraphs I was completely unable to finish the article.
I started playing with simplified reddit markup a while ago, but never made any significant progress. But from what I've got there already, you can see it's already way lighter and more mobile friendly than the current tag soup; with some fairly simple JS/CSS tricks, it could be made to look identical.
(No, I'm not available to apply for the job, unless you can wait until Sept 2007...)
The dirty pedophiles, doing something we are biologically compelled to do!
Think of the children!
They only say they're fair and balanced. Truthful and accurate are never mentioned.
Bullshit.
Let's see: Azureus; OpenOffice; JEdit; Eclipse; Maple CAS; Bloomberg's finance app; etc. etc. etc.
Yup. Java's never present on a desktop.
"Worst" is probably too vague a term (my apologies for using it originally). Your CAPTCHA is "least effective" mine is "most likely to induce a seizure."
I'm not sure which one is worse...
Assuming that the web pages are written in large print and you only need to be able to distinguish pixels 2mm from each other, in order to make out web pages from 20,000 years ago we'd need a telescope that's between 3.595000792e16 and 7.379212152e16 meters wide. That's between five and twelve billion times the radius of the earth.
Diffraction's a bitch sometimes, isn't it?
The only truth in this story that I have seen so far is the fact that the CIA wrongfully detained this individual.
Dude, that is more than enough to warrant a serious investigation, regardless of what else he is claiming. Do you realize how big a deal it is to kidnap essentially random citizens of your allies on foreign soil? Even if you adopt a hard-line "I don't give a fuck about anyone else" attitude, you surely realize the negative effects this could potentially have on trade, intelligence exchange, diplomatic and strategic relationships, etc.
Your fallacy is saying that if the US agrees to investigate this particular case then it will have to investigate every other case as well. Not so, as this case does not fit within the usual legal framework, and thus principles like precedence do not automatically apply.
Star Wars isn't the lowest common denominator?
This is true. But there's another angle - these guys would routinely drop that kind of cash at a strip club. Here there's a chance of actually scoring with one of those stupid girls...
Heh. You should try Forth. They say "Standards are a wonderful thing: everyone should have one". And "If you've seen one Forth, you've seen... one Forth".
I can whip up a Forth interpreter in an hour in any language from PET/CBM Basic up. So can anyone else. So it really is easier to do that than to learn someone else's non-standard, idiosyncratic, poorly- or un-documented Forth system.
Not me.
I think the article missed an important link - it was natural for clock makers to think of dividing the hours into sixty minutes of sixty seconds because those were the normal divisions for latitude and longitude - and longitude is usually measured in hours, and the major reason for inventing precise clocks was the need to measure a ship's longitude.
Slipknot Offshoot Stone Sour Offers Up Political and Cultural Satire with New Video... included: Dubya with Mickey Ears + Abu Grahaib tortured Statue Liberty + Ipod Jesus + Dubya with Horns + Toxic Exxon + Dubya as Hitler x Ronald McD + Militarized kids + Dirty Harry w/ Gas Pump Magnum + defiled flags+ guns+ kkk+ nazis = anal on Anne Coulter & MORE
i love the stats
its such a guilty pleasure to go back and see how that paper you wrote for class is recieved (i've gotten a bunch of hits on my academic papers directly from people searching for philosophy topics) it warms the heart or what new random stuff is uploaded - great for non-brain numbing procrastination too.
hehe its fun to see the writting styles of the people you know too.
"We may contact you in the future with offers and promotions".
the speed of light is a fixed, finite speed. a goal that can be seen. a finish line.
i get infinity and all that, but i doubt that it takes infinite energy to get to a fixed point (volocity)
As you get closer to the speed of light, the mass of the object goes up and up, tending towards infinity. In order to further accelerate the almost-infinity mass, you need almost-infinity energy.
It's a race you can't win. The closer to the velocity of light you get, the more energy you'll need to accelerate further.
I never said there were good reasons for having slaves. It's the excuses that interest me, and how otherwise good, intelligent people could have brought themselves to believe in such irrational attempts at rationalizing something as evil as slavery. If we can recognize how they got themselves to swallow slavery, maybe we can guard against similar breakdowns in our own reasoning and morality.
Not very odd actually, half the undead and their evening meals visit reddit.
Similar to the time they declared that Mark Foley is a Democrat.
when was the last time you visited?
January. My sister and several friends live and work in Manhattan.
"The major problem is quite simply one of grammar..."
Am I the only one here who has seen this a long time ago?
No it actually takes a "tribe" or at least a very large extended family.
Any two people do not have the breadth of skills/knowledge/time/staminia to give the kind of care and teaching a human needs to become a well-adjusted adult. Esp young people (under 40) say. Most parents are barely mature themselves and have nearly zero experience at life.
There is a reason evolution made us tribal, social animals.
And this time... they'll use Kung Fu.
Dawn.
Joy.
Cascade.
From what I understand the whole point of the book as that she doesn't know what "scrotum" means and no one will give her an answer, so yes, the dog had to be biten on the scrotum.
Libby Found Guilty in CIA Leak Case
Not according to Fox News.
concludes with an interesting description.
And just hope that the person they shoot actually was a criminal. That is not all that assured.
The the distance between the adjacent marks on a 6 divided circle equals that circle's radius.
You just draw your circle with a compass and then 'walk' around it with the same radius setting. You then have 6 equal pieces.
I think you are very wrong, there are plenty of fm geeks. I bet some(many?) of them would go for that big time
Who was it?
I'm going to guess it was DJ Yella.
I'm sorry, Maple has a contract with the Numerical Algorithms Group since Maple 8. And we're on version 11 now. So that argument can be just flushed down the drain.
ghfg
And the proposed Gitmo rules would eliminate that protection. Evidence obtained via torture would be allowed.
more banning of everything in China
Rule of thumb: Any country that has more than one of "Democratic", "Republic", and "People's" in its official name is neither democratic, nor a republic, nor for the people.
What many don't seem to understand is that torture isn't usually about extracting an admission of guilt.
Torquemada's or Stalin's men may have wanted such confessions, but a modern torturer will want to know where you hid the weapons, who your accomplices were, and so forth. Once these facts come out, they can be presented as having been discovered some other way.
I'll bite: I am more familiar with Franken's work, so give us some examples of hate speech from him.
Answer to your part 2) There has been a recent movement to give DNA tests to imprisoned individuals who have been convicted on eyewitness accounts. I imagine the convicted rapist filed a request for DNA testing and possible exonoration.
Wow. That reads more like an advertisement than an article. Way to go Slate.
That and that Clear Channel worked to keep it off the air. It helps when one company controls so many of the radio stations.
Heh. Fun to think about, but very not fun if it actually were to happen.
That's a very silly double-standard.
IG NOBEL prize winner no less in 2006, and a decent rule of thumb at the end for groups of less than 20: divide the number of people by three if there's good light and two if the light's bad
Great way for students to share their work
yea..that sucks.
Well, what I'm trying to say is that you're complaining about how television is supposedly degenerating into something that resembles Idiocracy, but you seem to be assuming that reddit is already Idiocracy.
Voted down ... spam from a lawyer site
CNN.com: Scooter Libby found guilty on 4 of 5 counts
Meanwhile, according to Fox News....
The last time a president fired a special prosecutor who got a bit too close to the oval office was Nixon's "saturday night massacre" and it did not work out too well for Nixon...
In Pakistan a woman can be jailed for being raped. And if she accuses a man of rape and he is not convicted she would get more time.
I have some friends who used it for the recessional.
Java might be better at optimizing than C++, but OCaml's optimizing native compiler is fantastic.
'Doug McClain, on a detailed comparative study of C++, IDL, Fortran, SML, Ocaml, Dylan, Erlang, Clean, Haskell, Lisp, Mathematica for scientific computing: "And most importantly, the CAML version works, and it works properly every time.
I am assured, having monitored its runtime behavior that there are no memory leaks.
Furthermore, the quality of code generated by the CAML compiler has been analyzed by the Intel VTune system and it show no pipeline stalls, maximum parallelism between integer and floating point units, and machine assembly code that is as good or better than can be achieved by hand coding."'
Huh. I had never thought of it that way, but, yeah, if you arrange 6 equilateral triangles into a hexagon, they will fit precisely into a circle with a radius equal to the length of one side of one triangle.
Cool.
Ok. Then consider CLOS. Slow.
So, face it. CL is ok for most things, but people like to boast about it like it is a panacea. And remember: you can never talk about "CL" like you can talk of "Java", or "Python"; the vendor is crucial.
Yes, but how would her blood sample help them determine whether the accused man had raped her? It's not like she keeps his DNA simply because she was raped.
I have no idea what you are talking about. Just take a typical modern Java desktop application, like JEdit, and tweak the memory down. You will be pretty amazed how little memory it needs to run. It is crazy to claim that memory is any kind of issue with Java when it is the language of choice for small-memory and embedded environments. There are versions of the JVM than can run apps in only a few tens or hundreds of KB. There are optimising versions of the embedded JVM (that include Hotspot native code translation) that require no more than 1MB of working memory.
Dava Nakayama, Wes Chun, Anand Tolani, Brian Woods, and the whole Four11 crew. Yes.
Be glad that Prince chose to wore something other than his famous yellow body suit
After my nephew did a header down the stairs, my sister took him to the doctor. He had a nasty bump but was ok. Thing is though the doctor showed my sister that soft spot by literally pressing gently down on that top part backbowls indicated. She said that she could see the depression. Freaked her out, but that's where I got the story (and the question). Thanks.
Or more importantly, wake a sleeping baby at your own risk!
I also use ActiveState Komodo 4.0. The debugging is pretty good in my opinion, and it gives me the flexibility to work with other languages as well (notably Ruby and PHP). I've been happy with it.
Actually, in the right crowd that could help you get laid all the time, and by all the time I mean as often as the star trek convention comes to town.
Perhaps anyone who down-modded this comment could please explain why, when it is nothing more than a factual report on a default setting on the JVM and the existence of the '-Xmx' command line switch?
It has been around the 'net for years and I've never liked it either. Bleck! Hmmmm, bleck? Naw, still not as bad as meh! :)
You could always try the DVDs...
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B0006U6KIK/ref=s9_asin_title_1/002-3790624-5821654
Not enough ass-shots for my liking...
His name is Neal, not Neil.
Yeah, but, what if there's lots of money in the purse?
Top things that'll get your reddit post downmodded in minutes:
Make it nothing but a single list.
Don't make it funny.
Tell people what they already know.
Don't use any pictures.
Repeat items.
Use items more than once.
Don't make it useful.
Don't make it interesting.
Insult Linux.
Insult Linux users.
Assume everything is OK.
Good point. What DOES You Tube do. It really just brings a bunch of shit together. Nothing else. Poor quality vidoes in a little box. Now that I think about it, who the fuck would pay a billion for that?
I couldn't agree more. I just got done watching Ken Burns Civil War documentary and it was really fascinating for that very reason.
oh yesssir yessir
Let it Spread... Infect them with facts!
This also occurs with "bacterium".
If anyone wants to be a hero they can go looking for more words like this here.
And why are you assuming that modern JVMs, which are the results of years of multi-vendor development and research, aren't equally good? Theoretically, they have a major advantage over native compilers, as compilers are only a one-shot attempt at optimisation, whereas the JVM Hotspot optimiser can continuously improve the optimisation based on run-time profiling.
Kodos to the artist, creators and listeners of this song and video. But down with the label company
Kodos to the artist, creators and listeners of this song and video. But down with the label company
I am waiting....
Can't we just dial 411 and find out the damn number?
I think the biggest lesson from Katrina has little to do with this article.
Here's the Lesson from Katrina: Fuck around with building a city on the shoreline BENEATH the sea level at your own peril.
Nice! Too bad Pauli's principle won't let me put more than one orange arrow next to your name!
a bit slow to boot, I will admit. Still much quicker than Visual Studio/Eclipse/Emacs though, I'll add.
Worried? Who believes this shit?
I read a recent test where the Western Digital - WD *KS series beat the competition in many of the tests. Never was a big WD fan, since they didn't make SCSI drives but now its all SATA baby.
Holy Mary, Mother of God.
They were probably referring to the one count (out of five) of which he wasn't convicted. Which is so like them.
Oh the Fawcettity.
According to a nine-year study conducted by former Purdue sociologist Eugene J. Kanin, in over 40 percent of the cases reviewed, the complainants eventually admitted that no rape had occurred (Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1994). Kanin also studied rape allegations in two large Midwestern universities and found that 50 percent of the allegations were recanted by the accuser.
http://www.glennsacks.com/research_shows_false.htm
Actual rapes are underreported. Reported rapes include all the false accusations -- revenge, alibis, cries for attention, etc. Other studies put the number at 1 in 4:
"Every year since 1989, in about 25 percent of the sexual assault cases referred to the FBI where results could be obtained, the primary suspect has been excluded by forensic DNA testing."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1719
It was obscene to show Prince, a HOMOSEXUAL person (...) Thanks CBS for turning my son GAY.
Prince has screwed more chicks than your son ever will.
I mean, even assuming you're wrong about your son being gay.
Where's the toilet?
best video I've seen in a while
Rap is a spoken word art form, not music.
Could be. Depends on the intent of the author.
Some people are music people, some are lyric people. As a music person, rap bores the ever loving crap out of me.
As another music person, you're listening to the wrong rap. Rap music treats the voice as a percussive instrument. Rhythm can be simple or subtle.
I think it is a very interesting question as to whether making "photoshopped" an everyday adjective benefits Adobe. If you look at Kleenex, they now have to put "The ORIGINAL Kleenex" on their product, and it would seem that their name became too popular for their own good. Another example is Band-Aid. No one cares whether their bandage says "Band-Aid" on it or not -- they'll call it a band-aid anyway. But in Adobe's case, it would seem that the ubiquity of their product's name gives uninitiated image manipulators an obvious place to start. Any thoughts?
No deja vu here but then I don't read digg...
I would wager the blood vessels are enucleation points, and the bubbles make them stand out.
I'll do the experiment next time I make Cochon de Coca Cola.
somewhat relevent anecdote:
years ago when I used match.com, I had a nice well written profile but i wasn't getting any responses. So one day, I changed my "Income" to be $120,000+ - within a week I had half a dozen responses. All of them women that were 40+ and Jewish.
I had a nice coffee date with one, too.
You're mistaken. Mormons have "engaged in wholesale slaughter." Haven't you heard of the Mountain Meadows Massacre? Mormons murdered over 100 men, women and children. What other religion has done that in the United States?
What many don't seem to understand is that torture isn't usually about extracting an admission of guilt.
Ah, a 24 watcher? In the US, the purpose of interrogation in general is usually about extracting an admission of guilt. Torture also. The point is that you do not interrogate someone until you are already convinced that they're guilty.
BREAKING NEWS
BUSH DOES NOT PARDON LIBBY
of lying to fbi investigators
sigfpe commented on the blog, saying
If you want to be realy helpful, you really ought to point out exactly where the misinformation in NR lies.
I thought the issues with NR were well known, especially those pertaining to differential equations. Anyway, you can get an overview here:
http://www.uwyo.edu/buerkle/misc/wnotnr.html
I believe there are other errata-style pages around as well.
Copyright violation.
Who says atheists believe in a simple 'origin'? A day ago I pointed out to you that current physics shows that time is a pretty complex thing, and reveals that the idea of a simple 'origin' of the universe is too simplistic. I also pointed out that the physical models based on this different understanding of time are actually testable (and will be tested with future gravitational wave measuring satellites).
So, it does not reflect well on your understanding of science (your ability to think at this level) that you simply ignore this and simply label all beliefs about the origin as equally speculative. This is just plain nonsense.
Sorry, there is something more vile and tasteless and sinister about a gold-digger than a guy looking for a hot woman. Why? I can only guess, but I think it has something to do with the fact that gold-digging women are extremely manipulative and conniving, and at the heart of it callous bitches - all things that belie our image of femininity. On the other hand, it seems as if a guy is just being honest if he's looking for a hot chick.
I have no idea what your reply has to do with what I said.
Go Scribd!
So saying, "Today I read seven emails" is incorrect? What's the correct usage?
Needing her DNA is probably just a legal hoop you have to jump through to fill out the report.
Have you ever read Plato? He writes about the immortality of the soul and the afterlife. He seemed like a pretty critical thinker to me.
Coincidentally, third-party and nightly builds of V838 Monocerotis also have the encircling foxbeast removed.
no, they bought star office, they didn't start writing it themselves.
Seen it? - There is a lot more to Cinderella than Disney's version ;o)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella#Plot_and_variations
http://www.bobhuang.com/essays/essay22.htm
I enjoyed reading about it actually, I would like to learn more.
In most versions it includes an 'evolutionary' element - the evil stepmother who wants to ensure no resources are spent on a child not her own.
You're wrong, there are inferior languages. VBScript is inferior. It's not better suited for anything. It's sometimes your only choice, then, obviously, it's better suited.
They have to eliminate the DNA that's from her in the sample.
Let's get the party started!
theyre nothing special... youll probably only find them at your typical shady looking corner store in a random city neighborhood
Oh please, she didn't have a "defense" (read: she didn't think about uttering it at all) until after this blew-up on her and one of her "people" went on a fishing trip through the OED.
I seriously doubt that Ann-Man was using the term faggot in any other way than it was taken by the majority of the public who heard her say it. She's American, and she knows it's a pejorative slur.
Lancaster County residents of whatever political view -- conservative, moderate or liberals -- deserve intelligent discussion of issues. Ann Coulter no longer provides that.
Has she ever?
Just a quick poke around the site and I found these, I wonder how long this site will last if it allows blatant pirating of books.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/1987/R-Dawkins-The-God-Delusion-2006
http://www.scribd.com/doc/557/The-End-of-Faith-by-Sam-Harris-full-text
"Congress abdicated its oversight responsibility," he says. "The press abdicated its responsibility, and the American people abdicated their responsibilities. Terror was on the minds of everyone, and nobody questioned anything, quite frankly."
Um, excuse me, but a lot of us didn't abdicate shit. We had to sit slack jawed while our constitution was raped. The first time we got the chance to speak, I thought it was pretty clear...we voted a lot of the problem out.
I am sorry, but it certainly does. There are many well-established models for the possible origins of space, time, matter and life. You need look no further than any popular science book by, say, Paul Davies or Brian Greene to find considerable detail about this. As for conciousness, any recent publication by Daniel Dennett, Susan Greenfield or David Chalmers.
To claim that there aren't any answers here is just plain ignorant.
Please read and contact your congressperson to fight this.
I didn't realize the report button was new. I thought I had just suddenly turned into a klutz or something.
I prefer blech! over Bleck!. But meh never bothered me.
The audience, not the subject, smart guy.
If you think Star Wars is the worst movie out there, then your skills as a movie critic are on par with your ability to analyze grammar.
Atheists believe the universe just has always been here or
maybe it spontaneously self generated from nothing or some
other theory not involving a creator.
Nonsense. This is simply showing you have a very poor understanding of modern physics and cosmology.
So where does dignity factor in?
Sigh...I hate people too.
What a powerful article.
Here's the index page to the story.
Another gem:
This image [of Prince behind the curtain] only made him look extremely large which made the rest of us feel small, and unable to preform (sic) this evening.
I rise, shower, clothe, eat, and make my coffee.
Then I wake up.
Any of those people who gets together with somebody there will at least know what they are getting. I wouldn't want to get involved in that myself.
ACHILLES!
I think this is posted once every month....like a new moon!
If anything, I'm surprised that newspapers even still had her in circulation, as if she had any credibility before this. Her articles have been vitriol as long as I can remember.
Well I fail to see how "Representative Pelosi" and the rest of the Dems are going to achieve that being they can't get past the first step
Here, you are misguided. The House resolution passed, with bipartisan support; whether or not the Senate passes a similar resolution is immaterial.
So it will cause them great harm...
I fail to see how the daily loss of life during ongoing operations is Iraq is justification to "stay the course". How does removing the troops from an impossibly difficult situation cause them great harm? Are you alluding that there will be a larger number of America casualties if we leave?
This is our mess, we need to stay and clean it up.
This is an egregious misjudgment on your part. The whole war was a farce, built on lies, stacked with bogus evidence and propaganda. If the conflict were just and sacrifices equal for all America, the majority of us would support this war. The fact is that this Administration, through incompetence and hubris, has brought this fiasco on the American public. They should be doing all they can to really support our troops, by getting them the hell out of there.
Ranting aside, you have still failed to give evidence of how the Democrats are incapable of leading this country.
Never heard of him before.
Sadly, most people don't.
But give me a few thousand Jewish emigres from Russia, and I can get you violin players, professors, doctors and grandmasters wholesale.
I don't buy this. Cultures change, even when the race remains the same. 20 years ago, Olympic swimming was a Caucasian-only affair. Suddenly Chinese athletes started winning medals - they even started showing up in women's track and field where Asians had never competed at the highest levels before. You see a similar presence of Hispanics in baseball and for that matter of Europeans in ping-pong.
You mention Jazz as a black thing, and violins for Jews. These days you now see lots of Asian violinists in America and even more European/Asian jazz artists. Arguably, Jazz is now more appreciated in Poland or Japan than in black America.
Doctors and professors are even less of a 'genetic' thing. Silicon valley is full of Indian immigrant engineers whose grandparents may not have seen electricity.
As crappy as it can be at times, man do I feel I won big in the birth lottery to be born in the western world. (I'm a woman.)
I'm sure this technique works really well. Most of the viewers are probably not going to check other sources.
lol, good point.
While this may be true, it's not the case in this situation.
I wonder if he would be today? I find it doubtful.
Oh no it isn't.
You posited that he is a critical thinker, remember?
So, either: (1) I would walk away still thinking that he was a critical thinker and be correct, (2) I would walk away no longer thinking that he was a critical thinker and be wrong, or (3) the answer you supplied on behalf of the hypothetical critical thinker is not one that he would actually give.
Exactly one of the propositions (1), (2), and (3) is true.
If (3) is true, you have not posed the problem well. If (1) or (2) is true, which it is depends on (a) the circumstantial knowledge I have of the critical thinker and (b) how perceptive I am. You didn't supply the former, and this discussion isn't about the latter.
12: Bride weighs more than groom.
Go urbandictionary.com! Clearly the authority here.
The United States Historical Climatology Network data set:
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/data/ushcn/ushcn.jsp
What a smug comment saying he'd never get laid. I'm sure if he's got the money to do this, as well as the fact that he looks like he's in his 40s, he's been laid before.
I'm not in to Star Trek, but come on...there are millions of freakin' nerd girls out there to bone.
Thats too funny. I dont know who to feel sorry for, him or the parties hes attending. At least he seems to be having fun with it, thats what lifes about. Also the author of this article was very hittable.
You know, there are a number of people who've done similar things to their homes, but none so well. Those pictures are amazing; it looks great. Bravo, sir.
Men who use dishonesty and cunning in pursuit of a "hot chick" are at least as common (though I'd say much more common) as "gold-digging women."
Nothing new about Disney screwing up a good story. ;)
Thanks for the links. They were interesting reads.
What kind of mother lets her daughter walk around with a unibrow? I understand she's young, but DAMN! That thing is awful! At least save her from the torment of her classmates...
It sounds like the teacher and school got it dead right, even down to hiding the identity of the kids from the media.
How old are 6th-graders anyway?
Haven't seen 24, but simply read a fair bit regarding police procedure. There isn't much of a point in simply torturing a confession out of someone (at least in the US) because a confession alone is not enough to convict.
But once you've revealed where the bloody knife (or whatever else) is hidden, your fate is sealed.
I don't get it. What makes them think football fans want to see Prince? Or fucking Justin Timberlake for chrissake.
Think of the children!
The children were.
Depends on how you define religion. This isn't trivial semantics; Durkheim devoted a whole book to this question.
If you go by the common definition, it's not a religion.
If you define it as "your decision regarding the existence of the metaphysical", then yes, atheism is a religion.
If you define it as "your beliefs regarding the metaphysical", then even agnosticism is a religion.
If you define it like Durkheim did (a separation between the sacred and the profane), then it is not a religion — but people are turning it into one by making Science sacred.
Don't forget the other new hotness: Yes, we lead in data usage. The US produces and consumes thousands of times more of the world's data then any other nation in the world!
I propose "data credits" to even out the imbalance and we can buy data credits from countries who don't need so much data.
Rather than just posting a comment on the original article, which would have made actual sense, you had to go and submit an entirely new story. -Rolls eyes-
There are lots of destinations for lots of different problems. I certainly don't believe that functional programming is the One True Programming Paradigm or anything.
But I do think that when someone moves from an object language to a mixed object-functional language, continuing on to a pure functional language is moving further in the same direction. Whether it's the right direction for a particular problem is a different question entirely.
I would like to see a photo from the bottom of the pit, looking up.
Two parents, maybe. TIME. That's what is needed. Something that two working parents hardly have.
The Secular Coalition for America, an umbrella group of atheist and agnostic organizations, has pledged to make history on March 12 by publicly revealing the name of America's first ever openly atheist congressperson.
RTFA: Second page first paragraph covers this topic.
Because humans have 12 fingers, duh.
Because if there were more than 24 hours in a day the light and dark cycle would be thrown off.
And I don't find it doubtful. And if we were to discuss it, we'd be engaging in critical thinking!
My point is that you can't assume that critical thinking will necessarily lead to atheism just because it led you there.
Isn't the internet wonderful?
And here we are back to the main point. bzr can take minutes to commit.
More than enough time to install and learn Mercurial, then! :)
You're wasting your time growling at the symptom when you should be worrying about the disease.
Why is nearly all lisp work in nonstandard (or impure) lisps? Because both official lisp standards are something out of the pre-internet, pre-multiprocessing, pre-IDE, pre-seperate-compilation, pre-modular-libraries, one-app-owns-the-computer paleolithic. Because traditional sexp syntax is not as general as its proponents think; it barfs on types, and a lot of the modern state of the art involves detail work with types. Because the assumptions of traditional lisp make it very hard to compile to speedy stand-alone binary, and Scheme doubly so. Because macros are just conceptually dirty.
Because, in the end, all existing implementations suck badly in at least one (different) way each.
Therefore, dozens of lispoids speciate, each trying to attack some subset of the problems, and you're run ragged trying to copy code around.
All right 6th grade kids! Fight the Man and have fun doing it.
The "G" in God is capitalized, denoting the Christian God.
Doesn't the French constitution have a provision for freedom of expression? How can the government penalize someone for reporting a fact in a democracy?
You know that the person who wrote this piece has at least a modicum of intelligence when you see the word Schadenfreude being used.
http://www.engrish.com/detail.php?imagename=Nippless1.jpg&category=Toiletries&date=1996-09-27
Reopen the investigation
Right, Michael Jackson is otherwise normal.
That is insane. But it should cut down on the comment traffic, spam or not.
Shit, JetBlue could have jacked off all over me if they had just gotten me off that runway.
Yep, and he's the son of the first guy who complained. So in a way it all worked out. Sure his son is gay, but he's too consumed by inadequacy to do anything about it.
Yes, it's incorrect because 'mail' is a mass noun.
Do you go to the post office to drop off multiple mails?
Your doubts are noted. Do you have any evidence to support these assertions?
I ask because "faggot" is a slang term with several denotations. If you claim that you know what she meant more clearly than she does, you are taking a very difficult position.
And to tell you the truth, mass as we know it travels in both particles and waves as well. Look up 'de broglie waves'.
Good stuff. It's nice to see Redditors talking physics. Brings a warm fuzzy feeling to my heart. ^_^
wind turbines produce energy when it is windy. It has to be very windy for it to be cost effective. You have to know the wind patterns at the location, before you can guess whether one is worthwhile.
the headline is misleading because it references a poor site installation.
Here's a good retort: the U.S. Historical Climatology Network data set:
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/data/ushcn/ushcn.jsp
wow I liked the visualization. Pretty nice and cool product comparison interface
old enough apparently. maybe they were hold backs or dropouts and were like, 30.
So is it racist to call Halle Berry black when she's half white and half black?
Moron--the Crusades were an attempt to defend Christians from the Mohammedans who had conquered them. They were in no way an attempt to spread Christianity, but rather an attempt to check the spread of Mohammedanism.
As for the Spanish Inquisition--it's actually a tad more complex than is usually noted. Not that I'm defending it. But then, I'm not Catholic.
Right, your second-hand, circumstantial evidence of the lack of books in African-American homes is obviously because black people are stupid. It couldn't possibly be a sociological reason, like the fact that most blacks in America are descended from people who had no formal education and no money to speak of, and had to build up what they now have from nothing. And obviously the only thing that can affect IQ is genetics, not early-age mental stimulation. And obviously IQ tests are flawless in determining relative intelligence. And obviously all black people are the same, and since one black person is just as stupid as the next, it's appropriate to assume that no black person reads books.
You might not be a bigot, but you're certainly misinformed.
Jesus there should be some agency that makes them painfully correct their mistakes, so they're not tempted to do these things.
With hobe's link about Mark Foley though, you wonder if there isn't an active philosophy there, that there're enough people who can just be told anything at all, that it's effective just to say what Fox wants people to believe.
Let me simplify.
My argument is there are no critical thinking theists. To have one would be a contradiction.
If you walk away from a person that believes Zeus created the world and still think they are a critical thinker you are wrong in your judgment. Zeus didn't create the world and mythology, is just that mythology.
Did they do something utterly meaningless like take the total value of all housing in the country and divide it by the area of the country?
No, it's probably just the total value of all housing. Since Canada has a much smaller population, the total value of all houses there is also much smaller than the U.S
shit says it all
Has anyone seen my pencil erasers?
Could have been funny if (a) the laws had been better phrased, (b) the unnecessary and totally unfunny comments and explanations had been omitted, (c) a smaller number of laws had been selected.
I guess this is the equivalent of me keeping a portion of a garden hose running down my pant leg.
Tip: Don't wear shorts when trying this trick.
"You know, for the kids!"
OK, thanks.
my sister was in south korea over christmas. one of the shops they visited was a penis store. it had nothing but giant wooden sculptures of penises (penii?). i should try and find her pictures
not too bad :D
Of course it was a joke. Ann Coulter herself said:
"You wouldn't think I'd insult gays by comparing them to John Edwards, do you?"
Some hot photos there for sure - looked like a great show.
Number Eleven. MTV.
And so it was
Our beloved corporate gods
Claimed they created rock video
Allowing it to sink as low in one year
As commercial TV has in 25
"It's the new frontier," they say
It's wide open, anything can happen
But you've got a lot of nerve
To call yourself a pioneer
When you're too god-damn conservative
To take real chances.
It's about goddamn time.
In America, the word is a derogative slur for "gay man". Period.
Dude, it's 10^23, not 10^-23. A big number.
fixed
hang, on, what about when Rebecca Loos wanked-off that pig?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Loos
Why no cervix?
Huh?
AMazing. Much better than I thought!!
Nixon, actually, in 1971.
lucky card¬ so lucky card
who cares about security.. most people are just doing in in their home network... it hardly matters.
The problem with that is that you could have pulled these "basic and well-known facts" out of your ass.
Claiming that everyone knows something, and therefore no dispute is permissable is basically a bullshit argument. Telling me to go read a book on it is tatamount to telling me to go research your argument for you.
If you don't want to agree with my argument on evolution, then don't. If you don't want to argue about it, fine. But don't pull a crap argument like that.
Uh, yeah, he was found not guilty of lying to investigators. Without the before/after context of the Fox crawl, this link tells us nothing about their bias.
In a galaxy far, far away perhaps?
Awesome, chain letter bullshit. I swear I've seen this on MySpace bulletins.
little known? didn't they do this on the sopranos?
Admit it, you modded me up.
But I'm not always like this. One piece of pedantry deserves another.
I'm really rather fond of FreeForth. Completely ignores standards, because it has a better idea. I've never seen a more Zen language. It's so low level you can casually inline machine code (no, I didn't mean "assembly"). Plus the way it does immediate/postponed and interpret/compile is deeply clever. Totally useless, of course. It's the best sort of a toy language - one that tempts you with unrealized potential.
Last Updated: Friday, November 10, 2000 | 11:57 PM ET
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What a total deception, I was full of dreams and hopes when I saw that headline.
Faggots need to take it elsewhere?
What I would like to see is publishing of some interesting excel files -- excel can be incredibly powerful, and this could tap some people's creative prowess.
And what are you trying to tell me?
I tried a few stations. For a some there is a trend going up, for a few down. But it's not really interesting to look at individual stations if you are trying to tell me GW is not happening. You need to look at the global trend, and that is going up.
Yeah! And everyone knows that smoking is the leading cause of statistics!
". In my experience, it is nearly always."
What is your experience? Do you live in ROI?
Well, you have to understand that Tippi Hedren ran the Shambala Preserve. Still, I would have been very careful taking Melanie out on a date back then.
FOX News would be reclassified as an entertainment channel in the UK.
This is one of the clearest, well-written articles about chickenhawks I've ever read.
There's just something about seeing men killed that makes you not want to have it happen again.
And what reasons to they give for believing in science? In fact, science is founded on mathematics and logic (which are really the same thing)--but logic and math are founded on nothing but belief. You cannot have a comprehensive system which proves itself; rather, you must accept certain principles on faith.
Granted, these certain principles are generally things like 'there is a number one' and 'one can be added to itself.' Still, it's amusing that science is really just another belief system.
No, thats why we have the lowest war deaths.
Non-linkjacked reddit links:
http://reddit.com/search?q=worldmapper
Right. But did a greater percentage of environmentally-created psychotics exist then than now, or in the 60s when there was a real push against child abuse (to almost nonsensical levels?)
The whole reason they're suggesting this is because the mass (or weight, as you put it) is changing all the time due to the deterioration of the "official" metal block that is by definition exactly 1 kg. Setting a fixed number for Avogadro's Number and defining the mass of a gram in terms of it would handily solve this problem.
wow, amazing ! :)
Great idea and execution, congrats to the guys at scribd!
Q) What comes after Ajax
A) Learning how to program.
and this is how fucked up the "justice" system is here.
From the article:
Nate pleaded guilty to five of the fifty-nine counts against him and received a twelve-year sentence; ten years of the sentence is a mandatory minimum and not subject to parole. Giovanni Mendiola, by contrast, pleaded guilty to the murder of Brendan Butler and received a life sentence with a possibility of parole in eight years.
Hopefully, you don't have too many people, verbs, and nouns in the respective arrays, or that output would get LONG.
(edit: and SLOW)
I just replied to your similar comment here.
...and Scribd documents "play" in 99% of web browsers out there too, it displays documents in flash too. And ditto on the bandwidth.
That's fine, Fox doesn't check sources either.
when experiments show ethics to be evolutionarily based then we'll know they were evolved
until then it's just making shit up to claim they are from either evolution via natural selection, God, or any other hypothesis. Just because evolution is a great theory and has been verified for many many effects doesn't mean we can stop all testing and just assume everything else is evolutionary.
As soon as scientists stop testing, stop verifying, and stop looking for solid proof they are no longer scientists. If we start assuming all biological features were evolved via natural selection we stop being scientists and become theologists.
Speculation is fine as long as we are highly cognizant that it is purely speculative. For instance, Dawkins' book The Ancestor's Tale is rife with speculation of evolutionary processes but writing books and imagining various mechanisms, no matter how intelligently, is not what gets us scientific results. After we create these hypothesises we must test them.
Atheists who assume ethics evolved through natural selection are just as bad as theists who assume humans were created by God. As soon as you stop seeking you're lost. As soon as you think you have the right answer, you're wrong.
seconded. ipython + vim
But HTML plays in 100% of browsers, and text doesn't use much bandwidth.
While I might agree that these three have been put under pressure for unpopular views, I don't think that a former Grand Wizard of the KKK, a self-proclaimed "white separatist," and an anti-Semite are the best standard bearers for "the pro-majority crowd," nor models of tolerance and openness themselves.
Two and a half years? Really? And where these years spent in a sensory deprevation tank? You are in no way describing the Japan I went to. Everyone's middle class and polite because the government is busy making sure every child gets a good education(or letting them be productive in other ways instead of forcing them to keep in school) and keeping poverty down instead of spending billions on a war that had no meaning in the first place. Also, their culture values politeness and teamwork over aggresiveness and individuality. Someone who treats foreigners nicely in public and rants about "dirty gaijin" on their own time is valued over, say, someone who complains publicly about the influx of immigrants that is "destroying our culture."
Amish weren't even immigrants, they're one of our founding groups :P So much for "pure-blooded Americans."
I see, so if people don't agree with you, they obviously haven't engaged in any sort of critical thinking process.
And yes, there are many good reasons for believing in a God. If you can't think of any, it's probably because you're not thinking critically enough ;)
I can't believe for a moment that most Americans, even most of the world, uses the word as its old British meaning. Particularly when she was tying in the remark with a joke about Isaiah Washington. (FYI, Mr Washington fully apologized for his remarks and left little doubt of the context he was speaking in).
You are truly grasping for straws on this one...
The article misses an important connotation of meh: the thing being meh'ed about usually is held by the masses to be interesting, high-quality, and good. And the person saying 'meh' is saying, "Yeah, people think that was good, and maybe it could've been good, but it wasn't, really." In this sense meh has a sort of snobbishness.
I thought it was a bit slow and pedantic too, but there was a little more to it than that :) You should at least say: "We propose that we define" ...
This is inconsistent with popular usage.
Because the law is really specific and there wasn't conclusive proof that Cheney leaked the name. At least that's what I've garnered, and that was from DailyKos, which isn't exactly interested in keeping him out of jail.
Interesting opportunity here
Libby was nailed on 4 out of 5 charges. The innocence glass is either 4/5 empty or 1/5 full, and the optimists at Fox chose the latter.
When black guys at one of the high-schools I attended (Lincoln HS in Encanto, San Diego) would mess with the Laotians (they didn't mess with the Latinos unless they were ready to start a gang-war), the Laotian solution was to whip out some of the funkiest-looking kung-fu I ever saw. That would shut folks up for a day or two, generally, until someone else decided he needed to get his butt kicked and started all over again.
Your first problem; your equating mentally healthy people with people who are "well-adjusted" to a sick, mentally unhealthy society.
What would be this... objective mental health, in your opinion? Mine would involve an abhorrence of clothes (and therefore also cold weather), a daily chant of the golden rule and some meditation, a de-specialization of profession so we can live as "modern Renaissance men," and actually have creative outlets for our impulses, and an event sometime soon I'd hope would go down in history as "The Great Chronograph Defenestration."
I'm not sure yours would be at all similar, which is why I'm questioning there being some sort of objectively-good mental state to be in at all.
And in what way are Mormons "living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader"? Or Christian Science? Or Islam? Or the JDubs?
I love how this idiot organization defined Islam as a "cult". I think their real definition of "cult" is quite clear: "a religious organization directed by Satan to keep people from Our True Way".
Part of it is that Libby wasn't on trial for treason. If he had been, there would have been investigations into whether any of the CIA agents working for the front organization which Plame was in charge of were killed or captured as a result of her being outed from the leak. But I'd be surprised if there were any further indictments, let alone one for treason.
If trees could scream do you think we would be so cavalier as to cutting them down? Maybe if they screamed all the time for no good reason."
- Jack Handey
Not McClellan, Fleischer.
I can't find any solid evidence that it was "for their religious beliefs."
I'm bettin' it's self-aware by now.
Fox is right about 20% of the time, so they're just maintaining their average.
The black-white mean IQ gap has remained a stubborn one standard deviaition for the last hundred years.
Unless you find a way to make Ashkenazim stupider
IQ has a heritability of .5. IQ Differences between populations probably change much faster than you think. A century or so of selective pressure might produce big changes either way. Just something to keep in mind.
Around 11 or 12. Yeah.
And by balanced they mean the balance they use to weight the crack before they fairly split it between their "news entertainers".
No way, this has to be Dre.
the middle ground IS where the answer usually lay...good show.
That's all very interesting, but it doesn't contradict what I said.
For fuck's sakes, this shit is posted over and over and over. Reddit is NOT a USA media playground.
Do you mean Unix? I think Allegro will give a better experience on Windows...
But I suppose most developers use Unix/Linux, because that's what people use on servers, anyway.
Windows is very much hostile to developers, I think. It just feels weired developing software on Windows, IMHO.
Compare it to Macs (also proprietary): Apple gives a developer a ton of free tools, bundled. For free.
Might want to read again, I never said Ocaml was better than Java or C++, but just that everyone was arguing about C++ and Java, and seemed to forget about OCaml, which as I quoted, seems to perform very well (as far as which is better, well we all know you can never get non-objective benchmarks)
That's because it's so retarded that he was charged with obstructing justice and not with the official leak. (Or, alternately, that they didn't charge Armitage or Fleischer or Rove or Cheney or any of the people who ACTUALLY leaked the name.)
He agreed to take one in his plea bargain.
But Liberals don't have any integrity, so they are not required to keep their word, eh?
Real Story Behind CIA Leak
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,257162,00.html
To quote Stephen Colbert, the point is, there's still some water left in the glass.
Please don't post your PIN on reddit.
did you do this video?
the clinton investigation was also a waste of money
just because you think this article is right wing
which it isn't
doesn't mean it supports the clinton investigation easier
this is the problem with people who only see in "left" and "right"
you never get the point
"Hillary isn't my candidate."
You don't have anything to say about it.
The decision has already been made. Your betters have made it for you. They consider you to be trailer park trash.
They just might have something there.
You're completely missing the point of PDF then. The whole idea is a way to format documents that look exactly the same across all platforms, all browsers, etc.
Would you like to convert an ebook to text and then reformat it in HTML to look the same? I know I'd rather just post a PDF.
Just remove "concisely", and I'll agree with ya.
Haskell is very Math like. It's beautiful.
Depends on your point of view.
First 3D moving (lenticular) book for children. When you take by list, pictures going to moving.
Well, you know if anyone had forced them to justify the Foley thing, they would have said that it was an honest mistake by an intern (like the CNN Osama/Obama thing, which I believe really was just a mistake), or O'Reilly and Hannity would have made some joke about how you would just automatically assume that a child molester would be a Democrat, and even if he wasn't, the Democrats wouldn't want him to be punished, just "rehabilitated." Which is sad, since that actually is what I believe. The ones going to jail should be Dennis Hastert and every other motherfucker who played the Cardinal Law and looked the other way.
What are you babbling about? 2nd paragraph, 1st page talks about the Egyptians, not the quest to accurately determine longitude, nor do the Egyptians have anything to do with why we use 60 minutes per hour or 60 seconds per minute.
And here you are also falling for the stereotypes the neocons and Coulter are propagating.
Why is being vegitarian make you a wussie?
The meat industry is doing massive damage to the environment and our health.Recently, the meat industry has (sucessfully) lobbied to start using our best, last-line-of-defense antibiotics to treat animals (need to find that link again). Because human lives aren't nearly worth the millions of dollars in profits in the short term.
And why does not wanting to start unnecessary wars of aggression make you a wussie either?
I can and do ride bikes though. Mostly to save gas, but it is a lot of fun too.
I'm not expressing disapproval, jackass.
Anyone in Japan that can afford enough space has a bed. But most people can't afford more than a single room, so everyone sleeps on the floor and throws the futon in a closet during the day.
Yeah, it's a true fact that propaganda can ruin the fairness of an election as effectively as crooked voting machines. After all, just prior to the 2004 election 70% of voters thought that Saddam Hussein personally coordinated the 9/11 attacks. Duh.
Great video of a firefighter rescuing a dog after it fell through the thin ice at Sloan Lake in Denver, Colorado
Not anymore. I was born and brought up there and the majority of my family still lives there.
vim mostly. Sometimes use PIDA( http://pida.co.uk/ ), which I'm surprised no one has mentioned yet. It has been a while since I last checked it out, though it was coming along nicely last time I checked.
From the site:
"PIDA is an IDE (integrated development environment). PIDA is different from other IDEs in that it will use the tools you already have available rather than attempting to reinvent each one. PIDA is written in Python with the PyGTK toolkit, and although is designed to be used to program in any language, PIDA has fancy Python IDE features."
I was a member back then, and there actually wasn't much styling beyond that (my point in the previous post). It was just a thin blue bar at the top, and the menu items were off to the right (if I remember correctly). Everything was just text, the only real image on the site back then was the little digg figure.
*edit: Actually found a screenshot of the old site. Looks like my memory was pretty accurate.
Well said and written. Kierkegaard has much to offer us today.
Existential Center is our attempt to look at a way out of the "Present Age" through his eyes, and those of Nikolai Berdyaev.
is valued over, say, someone who complains publicly about the influx of immigrants that is "destroying our culture."
Oh, you mean not like Ishihara? You have no idea what you're talking about.
That is one scary frickin woman. Someone needs to give her an intervention on her hatemongering. I volunteer to be the person who punches her in the face.
For there are NO OTHER GODS beside Him.
Actually, He said thou shalt have no other gods besides him.
There are many fathers in the world. But I have only one.
I think it's interesting that the author of the letter chose the imagery of "white-hot horrors raining down upon heads" as he addresses a certain Mr. Whitehead. It's not often that menacing threats are chosen with such ironic artistry.
Yes they do, it's just that they only have one source to check with.
beauty is by definition indicators of health, fertility and youth, which are all related
wealth is by definition an indicator of high status, since anyone high status will also be able to leverage that into wealth
pretty fucking simple
also just because beautiful characteristics can slightly vary between cultures doesnt mean beauty doesnt matter. and the variation is only slight. essentially all men in all cultures like well proportioned bodies indicating fertility, smooth skin indicating health, and signs of youth indicating (duh!) youth
The guy can play six tables at once. That takes amazing concentration. I'd be interested in seeing how he does at the next WSOP main event.
Maybe the complainer meant that his son was happy, gleeful to have seen such a display of turgid manhood.
My argument is there are no critical thinking theists. To have one would be a contradiction.
Then you are in the wrong discussion.
Your disbelief is noted.
Linguistics is a difficult subject. The linguistics of slang terms is doubly difficult, since acquisition and usage among individual speakers is largely determined by connotation.
Given that it's not in question that an earlier meaning of "faggot" was "effeminate," and given that it's still used in that sense today, and given that Coulter says she was using it in that sense, it seems reasonable to accept her at face value.
I like how the Newspaper dropped Coulter because her writing "leads her political opponents to respond with name-calling and vitriol". In other words, she's not a harpy: she has a magic pixie dust which causes her OPPONENTS to be harpies.
Remind me never, ever, ever to subscribe to a newspaper this hideous.
Do this means Canada, Japan, EU is the "Axis of Goodness"?
I will bet you at least $100 that there is no possible list of useful (that is, not completely obvious) "child raising advice" that will not have this comment raised about it. I'd even propose making it into Godwin's Second Law.
Joe Liebermen will NEVER vote to impeach, sorry. You'll need 16. Even if every Senator in a contested state like Collins, Sununo, Smith and Dole and McConnell (to a lesser extent, but that would never happen, he's the frickin Minority LEader) voted to impeach, and the moderates like Snowe and Hagel did too, and even a few who will probably get axed in 2010 (Judd, Bunning, etc) -- even with all of that, you STILL wouldn't have enough.
The only thing likely to happen is that he would be impeached but not convicted, a la Clinton.
More remarkably, the news item traveled back to November 2000.
Lashes are usually spread over several days. About 50 lashes are given at a time.
How do you spread 90 lashes over several days if you give 50 at a time? Does "several days" now mean only 2?
following the link in the blog to the actual article:
Five months after the harsh judgment, her sentence has yet to be carried out, "G" said she waits in fear every day for the phone call telling her to submit to authorities to carry out her punishment.
The lack of global outrage seems to be due to the fact that she hasn't been lashed once yet. Just sentenced. I'll get upset when they actually punish her. Bravo to the blogger for completely omitting this important section.
He was found NOT GUILTY of lying to FBI investigators. Get your facts straight! I don't like FOX news either, but I don't and go posting crud on here.
Suddenly we've moved from 30 minutes to "a few" minutes. What does that say to you?
That's actually funnier than what Ann Coulter said.
Whoops, confused one worthless Press Secretary with another.
There are those that say the above statement contains a redundancy. I'm one of them.
// edit: oxymoron, redundancy...it was the end of the workday and I stopped caring a few hours ago.
Crystal meth is a hell of a drug, I say.
You're right. I'm a quiet, friendly man and in my freezer there's a pork roast. That's Canada.
Themselves and their preconcieved notions?
Of course you mean cucumber wrapped in tinfoil, right?
Good work.. thanks. So Kevin Rose didn't really do much at all? cause that looks fairly crap.
Probably the only time that something has been on both reddit and Sex and the City.
Wow, that was fast! Now I officially dislike nothing about reddit. :)
Ferraris don't pop and give you cancer. :(
Learning and repeating one particular procedure to solve one particular type of equation is not the point of learning mathematics. The goal is to learn the concepts and understand relationships.
This reminded me of the video posted a month or so ago about two elementary math textbooks that went out of their way to avoid the most direct methods for solving problems like long multiplication and division.
Yes, reducing/transformting a math problem to a known equation (or set of equations) and then solving those equations by a known, reliable process is how math should be done. The reduction/transformation part often will require careful thought and knowledge of general concepts, so I have no problem with the second part of the quote. However, I completely disagree that learning specific processes is not important, and when those specific processes are being tested the steps should be shown. When these processes have later been mastered and are no longer the direct subject of examination, then those specific steps which are part of a larger problem can be omitted.
Nothing would make me happier than keeping America America and keeping Europe Europe. I like living in a free-market society where I feel I can work hard, think hard, and make something of myself. However, I have no problem with the many people who prefer a socialist system that stifles creativity but values leisure and does alright by the little guy.
Why can't we all have what we want?
I'm not seeing enough subpoenas yet.
Hm, while I love the concept, I don't see it as having the staying power of Youtube. Maybe I'm just cynical, but most Americans don't "read". I mean, seriously, can you imagine the people who post comments on youtube using scribd? "wtf, lol, this essay iz stoopid!"
I suppose it has a different target audience, but who is it? Is it really big enough?
The only value the Press Secretaries have is that they make good material for the Daily Show and the Colbert Report.
Number 12 - Using Beatles and Nirvana songs in commercials.
xemacs + python-mode
In this game, each driver has $10.00 they wish to spend at the pumps. When a car arrives, use the cursor keys to guide Stelios to a pump and start filling it up. But make sure you return to the car in time to stop it at $10.00. A car left overfilling loses you money and creates a dangerous spillage at the same time. You need a bucket of sand to keep it safe. But you only have 3 buckets of same per game, so be careful when pumping the gas!
it's real because a few people i know know of him personally.... I hope someone helps him soon as he sounds very unwell!
I'm not at all surprised to hear that this is from Saudi Arabia... the ass end of nowhere, the country even Saudis can't stand to stay in if they can afford to set up shop somewhere else.
Even Afghans, I'm sure, wake up every day thanking God that they weren't born in Saudi Arabia.
Hey, it's what they do with charges in physics(current is described positively, even though negatively-charged electrons are what's moving; I just KNOW I'm explaining this crappily :P) It MUST apply to politics, because physics and politics both start with a "p"!
Why'd you have to go and do that?!
am I the only one thinking: hell no, there not one glass here, but 5, and only 1 of them has water in them .. ?
I can't help but think I'd rather be alive than dead under those circumstances.
Hmmmm 11 years of brutal anal abuse or death.
That's a tough one.
Do you have anyother pointers?
Then run for office.
My point is that ignoring a crying child is part of a continuum that culminates with what we conventionally label abuse. It's not as harmful as a beating, but it cannot be regarded as informed or effective parenting, since it is most likely to achieve the opposite of its ostensible goal.
Project Blackbox goes to New York. It was at Grand Central Station - I would have loved to see that!
Please by all means list some reasons for believing in God.
Shakespeare's genetic twin.
The poor fellow seems to be a schizophrenic. Posting this is cruel.
"beauty is by definition indicators of health, fertility and youth, which are all related"
Er, not exactly. I guess you've never seen a beautifal 40 year old, have you. Nor does one's fertility really show that well. Yes, I will agree that an 18 year old will often seem more attractive than the same girl at 35, but beauty doesn't necessarily enter into it.
"wealth is by definition an indicator of high status, since anyone high status will also be able to leverage that into wealth"
As I said originally, wealth is a good thing for evolution. What part of that didn't you understand? One having wealth tended to give one high status too.
Pretty fucking simple.
"also just because beautiful characteristics can slightly vary between cultures doesnt mean beauty doesnt matter. and the variation is only slight. essentially all men in all cultures like well proportioned bodies indicating fertility, smooth skin indicating health, and signs of youth indicating (duh!) youth"
No. Beauty often DIDN'T matter nearly as much as other factors. Beauty sure doesn't matter much even in current cultures where the parents arrange marriages.
Beauty, even assuming that they were only slight variations, was only important once parents didn't arrange marriages and the culture achieved enough success that survival wasn't an issue. People could then look at potential mates based on beauty rather than whether the possible mate will be a help or a hindrance to survival and bearing children.
But the fact is that even today, beauty is STILL in the eyes of the beholder. Even today in current world countries you can have WIDE variations of beauty, such as being fat is to be more beautiful than a slender woman. In third world countries, some cultures do practices which stretch certain parts of the body such as the lip or the neck because that's considered beautify.
The native american indian had a definite difference opinion of beauty than the settlers. Wide flat faces were considered beautiful.
These aren't exactly minor variations.
If you are going to be "duh!" nasty, I'll feel free to return the attitude.
Why? Explain why you think believing in a God is completely logical.
edit:
Btw. I started this thread with the proposition that a critical thinking theist is a contradiction so I really don't see how I'm in the "wrong discussion".
http://reddit.com/info/1865k/comments/c18avn
I don't think "TV" was referring to "cable/satellite TV." Remember Bugs Bunny? Have any old VHS tapes of'm lying around?
Ketchup is a good food in the same way that PB&J is a good sandwich, hot dogs are a good meat product, and Kraft Dinner is a good pasta: kids will consume these things with very little argument. Not that they're nutritional, but that they're a panacea for the days you just can't come up with anything else to make (for most of their childhoods, and perhaps into adulthood—especially for boys—they will consider these the best meal considerations, rather than the worst.)
Threats are, in my mind, on the same level as the use of the phrase "because I said so"—authority imposed without explanation. Being all ideological and childless, I'm hoping I can, at least for a while, communicate with my children almost Socratically.
The "jailing, locking behind doors, [and] ignoring" are valid arguments if want to have a life that is not your child (note that I didn't say "put your life first"—just have one at all). However, they are to be used rarely—and not for punishment—and, if it can be helped, should be replaced by the existence of a multi-generational household. This advice also ceases to be applicable once the child is old enough to care where they are at any given time.
On one of the two counts of lying to FBI investigators, Libby was found guilty, so Fox is batting 0.500 in that oh-so-narrow category.
The maps remind me of Ralph Steadman illustrations
The Native Americans were there before the Europeans, and there's archaeological evidence that the Native Americans wiped out an even older civilization when they immigrated from Asia. Define "discovered" as used in that sentence.
How about his comment on Letterman that Rove will be executed? I personally thought it was funny, but it's no only a little less full of bile than the things Coulter has to say.
I disagree with cruel...
At least someone is listening..
But I agree help is required.
New Jersey doctor Ahmed Rashed is always willing to lend a hand to a stripper in need: Hand-Stealing Doctor Is Fined. A young doctor who admitted to severing a hand from a cadaver as a medical student, then giving it to a stripper, was fined Thursday and told to stay out of trouble for 15 months.
I've been using Komodo for the past 6 months. However, I've recently found and am loving e text editor (Textmate clone for windows). However, if I were on a Mac at my day job I would definitely use Textmate.
My only experience with his fiction was Cryptonomicon, which I hated with a rare passion (the only other books to inspire the same ire in me were Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum and Nino Ricci's trilogy about that insufferable whiner Vittorio). I forced myself through the first two hundred pages since I'd heard so much about it, but the writing got more and more on my nerves until I just couldn't stand it anymore.
However, I always enjoy Stephenson's non-fiction, most famously his essay In the beginning was the command line.
Well I don't know. Dr Daniel Gottlieb Schreber's two sons went insane. One killed himself and the other, a judge, got committed to a psychiatric hospital where he wrote up his flashbacks of the tortures inflicted on him as a child. Why do I mention Schreber? He was the childcare guru of turn of the 20th century Germans. The parents of the generation of Germans that performed the Holocaust. Do you think that just possibly there could maybe have been a greater percentage of psychotics among the everyday Germans who tore Jews apart in the streets like starving wolves? The people whose childcare guru managed to father not one but two insane sons? By the way, that push against child abuse in the 60s is what ensured that Germans would engage in violence "never again". Almost nonsensical levels?
Paglia: How do you associate Paglia with the GOP? Did I miss something? She's a liberal lesbian, but doesn't worry about criticizing either side. Noonan has no love lost on Hillary for sure, but has offered praise of Democrats and criticism of Republicans. She has conviction, but isn't just rooting for the home team.
Indeed we samurai never get the honor we deserve.
I thought it was mild, i have no feelings about it
In a related move, the Universe decided to withdraw heat and motion from the atoms which make up Ann Coulter, saying "The quality of Ann Coulter falls below that which most atoms expect in their matter and energy."
What a ballsy story to write!
Maher's view that the world would be better off if Cheney had gotten offed represents a really irresponsible approach to world politics.
I've tried and rejected most of those (all except Maple and Bloomberg, actually, and I've seen the Bloomberg software running on a coworker's machine), mostly because of speed and UI issues that were directly related to Java.
Java doesn't make it impossible to have a fast, responsive GUI app with a native look & feel. It does make it very difficult. The only program I've seen that's done a decent job with it is IntelliJ.
It's splitting hairs. Saying he's not guilty of one thing is irrelevant when he's just been convicted of 4 others. It's like saying Hitler wasn't evil because he didn't kill everyone.
this game sucks! nothing to WORLD OF WARCRAFT!
Schizophrenia =( He needs assessment by a psychiatrist and to be started on a regiment of antipsychotic drugs.
I'd be more impressed if it (perhaps by a link on the GCalc page) generated proofs for everything it did.
Ive been to Pakistan many times and have never heard of anything like that happening to anyone whether I was inside the country or outside. Please forward us to any webpage saying exactly what Pakistani laws say about rape.
That's what I thought. It's interesting that many of the popular books have a backlash of comments berating the illegal distribution of their content. I don't recall ever seeing anything like that for youtube.
Thank you!
Yeah... but I think it could also work on a significantly broader scale. Not that WoW is small potatoes, but it is a smaller niche than social networks.
Granted this is pure speculation, but I think the WoW community is more likely to have a higher number of could-be-programmers (the FP converts procrastitron was looking for) than your run of the mill social networking site. It also creates more incentive to learn programming (gain an advantage in game) than social networking would.
Thanks for the info. I find my withdrawal symptoms take about 2 days to clear up, but I rarely get headaches.
And blech! is definitely more akin to meh! than bleck! which I guess is why I don't use blech! and meh! doesn't bother you :)
Including the lack of female companionship, the guy also went bankrupt doing this.
damned if you do and damned if you don't
Wow. On some level, you have to have admiration for the sheer magnitude of the scam. Hell, when I was reading it I started to think "that department is tiny, it only gets $0.5 billion" before realizing that means $500 million.
The guy that had to send his grandchildren out of the room reminds me of grandpa simpson.
I was simply offering up an alternative, something that the father could find himself thankful for.
Always look on the bright side of life right? Or rather always look at the more clad side of Prince.
I still don't like it. It still gets in the way.
My points were rather self evident. You're the one rambling.
Some immigrants are still working on it. They'll get it eventually.
I don't understand this attitude. The Know Nothing riots, the several waves of KKK activity, anti-German activities during WWI, the civil rights era, and on and on ... these were all torturous periods for this country. Why put the country through another such period? There is no reason for it. Just because the country has managed to overcome these painful periods of assimilation in the past does not make it something to seek out or be proud of.
For those of you who are possibly trying to juggle your finances, and not get eaten up by credit card interest, I suggest credit unions. The worst thing about banks is that they basically are NOT out for your own interest, their goal is to make a profit. Credit unions are for you. They don't have hidden fees. You don't have to worry. The information is there for you. Examples: right now you can get a 3.99 balance transfer at Addison Avenue cc for a year. If you're looking for a credit union, you can find one by your state here:
http://creditunionaccess.com/
They do no fee refinancing and home equity loans. Why miss with the banks?
always waiting till something happens to act is a little to late sometimes you should make clear that sentencing her because SHE got raped is not the right thing to do no matter if they carry out the punishment or not. living in fear of punishment is not the nicest thing considering that you have just been raped 3 hours.
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I think one of the biggest reasons certain people have in believing the "official" story is the government's massive credibility problem. Years ago you wouldn't get a laugh if you said "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." But people are so USED to the government lying that they're all too ready to believe that they're lying about 9/11 (and even about the moon landings).
Are you familiar with the feudal psychology?
Shouldn't that be: "Cascade. Dawn. Joy."? Or did this list come from some crappy ajax sorting library?
Dammit, what are you posting this stuff to Reddit fer? Now ya gone and turned me gay! I'm gonna have to get muself chikked fer H eye V.
Hrm... I haven't encountered that connotation before for "meh." Maybe that connontation is less used than the word itself?
If the calculator was symbolic, it still wouldn't necessarily use Euler's formula on that. The complex exponential form is perfectly valid!
As long as it has support for complex numbers, there's no reason why it shouldn't pass.
No. Proof outline:
The evaluation rules are defined in such a way that any expression is either a primitive type (like a float or a complex number) or can be reduced to a simpler expression. This guarantees eventual termination, and if Google calculator was Turing complete this would be equivalent to solving the halting problem, a contradiction.
Because of the complete absence of solid evidence for or against the existence of a Creator of the universe, you can choose to believe in one without any contradiction. From this follows all sorts of ideas about human existence, which are useful in their own right. That's the basic idea, at least.
This could go on for hundreds of comments, so I'm not going to get too into depth.
what Pakistani laws say about rape.
The Hudood Ordinance ***was** (ie, it's revoked now) the controversial set of Islamic laws introduced from 1979 by Gen Zia-ul-Haq.
They include sections prescribing lashing and stoning as punishments for adultery.
The Ordinance places an almost impossible burden of proof on women by compelling them to produce four "pious" male witnesses to prove rape or risk being convicted of adultery and face 100 lashes or death by stoning.
To the best of my knowledge, this law was amended (much to the disappointment of conservatives) in late 2006 (nov?) to a, relatively, normal set of laws dealing with rape.
Yes, Pakistan seems to be moving towards a more liberal society, but, much like the US (and UK, India, Australia, most other countries) the constant threat from religious (Christian,Muslim,Hindu..) conservatives will take quite some time to go away..
References:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6148590.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6358837.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/25/wpakistan25.xml
Jesus there should be some agency that makes them painfully correct their mistakes, so they're not tempted to do these things.
Clearly you forgot that this is the same network which fought a legal battle for their right to lie to the public (not the original suit, but the appeal).
You know, the mental profession has a not-bad conception of mental health along two dimensions. First rationalism and second, empathy. If you have both, pat yourself on the back and off you go. If you completely lack one or the other, here's this nice room we have prepared for you.
Yeah, and gravity is just, like, your opinion, man.
no comment
PyDev. But eclipse takes up too much resources on the server, so I usually just end up using vim or SciTE anyway.
Why can't there just be a SciTE with a left-panel resource browser with integrated SVN? Then I could ditch big bad ol' Eclipse for something light. I like SciTE well enough for most tasks, but I need quick access to all my files like in Eclipse, horizontal tabs don't cut it.
He was found GUILTY of lying to FBI investigators. Get YOUR facts straight!
In other news: Turns Out, Water Is Wet
"Here's what it was about: Does the vice president have the right to say, see that guy named Joe Wilson who is going around saying I sent him to Africa to investigate Saddam's nuke bombs? I didn't send him. His wife did."
"For a some there is a trend going up, for a few down."
Yes, in my state - North Carolina - there are 29 stations. Of those, in mean annual temperature 12 stations are higher and 17 stations are lower, 1822-2000
In SC there are 30 stations. Of those, 10 stations have higher mean annual temperatures and 20 stations have lower temperatures, 1807-2000.
In VA, there are 19 stations. Of these, 10 are lower in mean annual temperature and 9 are higher, 1837-2000.
In TN, there are 15 stations. Of these, 2 stations are higher in mean annual temperature and 13 are lower, 1854-2000.
In GA, there are 23 stations. Of these, 4 stations are higher in mean annual temperature and 19 are lower, 1836-2000.
In AL, there are 15 stations. Of these, 2 stations are higher in mean annual temperature and 13 are lower, 1854-2000.
In MS, there are 32 stations. Of these, 3 stations are higher in mean annual temperature and 29 are lower, 1800-2000.
There are many, many variables involved. Thank you.
This is a lot of load on the server for every user. Though it could be client-sided, I'd just suggest you (or someone else, or perhaps I) make a Greasemonkey script for the job.
Not popular usage in America. And since she is an American in America talking to Americans about an American I am going to have to go and assume she was calling him gay.
I firmly believe you're making a mountain out of a molehill.
You see, the report button is in the way. I repeatedly click it when I mean to hit reply. It's a usability loss, and it's far bigger than the gains to be made on this comment spam problem. Your comment threshold already does what's necessary: we bury trolls and spams, and nobody sees them.
Predictably this article has brought out the pseudoscience in people. I believe in evolution and natural selection as much as the next godless atheistic reddit denizen, but, for all those believers in the naive so-called "evolutionary" explanation of the behavior in the article, explain this:
1.) Why is it seen as unusual or noteworthy at all for an event like this to take place, if we're all "programmed" to act that way anyway?
2.) If all our behavior is set to maximize the spread of our genes, why isn't the world swarming 10-deep in human flesh right now, Soylent-Green style? After all it's not like we have any natural predators to check our spread.
Deadlocks are a class of bugs that are hard to diagnose by definition -- your system being written in Java doesn't reflect one way or the other on that.
Translation: I have never used STM in a pure functional language
bows
This news disturbs me greatly. I hope you all will publicize this action by the French government to your respective friends and associates so that making laws like this doesn't go unnoticed.
The grounds for the law are based on the governments assertion that people are committing violent crimes so that their friends can film it. While there may be a few examples of this happening around the world, the more likely intent of such a law is to suppress the voice of people critical to the government and specifically the gathering of evidence of violent crimes perpetrated by government agencies.
Too bad I can only vote you up once for speaking the truth.
hehe
you counter his statements by asking for proof but providing none of your own for the claims you are making
arranged marriages have little to do with attractiveness since the couples dont choose each other
most of the time the body manipulations that are attractive (like bleached blond hair, huge stretched lips and tattoos) are exaggerations of some form of basic attractiveness or they are differentiating factors that do nothing more than catch the predators eye. like the peacock's tail. it doesnt have to be sexy to be grab attention, although no fat unhealthy chicks have ever fooled a guy by bleaching their hair or stretching their lips.
the body isnt neccesarily correct in what it desires, it just responds what it's learned. for instance a woman may be barren but still very attractive.
just because some 40 year olds can be attractive because they still show signs of fertility, health and youth doesnt mean the system i mentioned is false. i mean the reason those 40 year olds are attractive usually has to do with modern cosmetics, plastic surgery, swimming pools worth of skin products, various shampoos, manicures, and clothing designed specifically to enhance.... fertility, health and youth signals!
how many elderly women are attractive? zero.. at a certain point all the youth, fertility and health points are used up
anyway sorry for being a dick, you're being a little presumptuous tho to ask for references on such basic knowledge which can be googled once you have the keywords.
So who are they marketing their website to?
I happen to know that eBay is basically running off of custom Java from reading other articles
Other evidence supporting this position is the number of (many trivial) bugs that the web application contains. Have you ever tried to actually sell something on that!?
Yeah, where are those other guys? If it's this obvious, then why isn't Fitzgerald going after Cheney or Rove? I know Rove doesn't have immunity, because we were wondering up until the last minute whether he was going to be charged.
Things have changed though. The current administration has gone beyond Nixon's power consolidation wet dreams.
same here, ipython + vim
awesome thax lop98
Not pretty enough. But thanks for the vote of confidence.
This is the sharpest bit, for me
To put it simply, either conservatism is happy to be associated with that atmosphere, or it isn't. I think the response so far suggests that the conservative elites don't want to go there, but the base has already been there for a very long time. (That's why this affair is so revealing, because it is showing which elites want to pander to bigots, and which do not.)
The elites - Cheney with his gay daughter, the atheistic neocons, Bush, the sexually ambiguous Karl Rove - for years have fed the monster of reactionary social conservatism. And they've alienated everyone else, so they can't afford to let go.
Even the most minimal, hyper-optimized compressed text content can saturate a 300 KB/sec link if the hits per second are coming fast enough.
Yeah. I mean, anything can saturate a gigabit link if the hits per second are coming fast enough.
Are you actually this thick, or are you deliberately twisting my words?
What country to you live in now?
Better help him quick. He might try to remove the device from his head forcably
the conclusn of teh exsperiment described n the papr is calld in 2 queschun bi the lack of propor exsperimental ctrls
Methinks you don't actually know what a futon is. It's basically a sleeping bag, not the metal/wood couch thing college kids use.
Re Foley - yes but wouldn't it have been nice if they'd been forced, on the evening news, to say "Earlier we reported that Foley, the Representative chased out of Congress was a Democrat - in fact he's a Republican."
Just to give it that much more attention.
As for being a mistake, it'd be useful if someone would tabulate which way the 'mistakes' go. The ones I've heard of have all been pro-Republican. But that could well be because I read almost exclusively left-wing stuff.
You said it before I could (that and the original has been on reddit at least once before). I know this is a pointless reply, but until the reddit designers realize that the total number of responses to a comment should not have any real bearing on its ranking, it is necessary to prevent this essential comment from being buried.
Java is fatter on cellphones than it is on a PC.
Here, let me quote The Carmack:
The biggest problem is that Java is really slow. On a pure cpu / memory / display / communications level, most modern cell phones should be considerably better gaming platforms than a Game Boy Advanced. With Java, on most phones you are left with about the CPU power of an original 4.77 mhz IBM PC, and lousy control over everything.
OHHHHHHHH SNAP
american football is just a bunch of guys wearing short tight pants chasing each other around and grabbing one another. Tight end?
Reason #1: Claiming memory usage is not an issue is insane. I actually laughed (at you) when I read that.
Reason #2: Your -Xmx comment was a non sequitur
Write a haiku about Ann Coulter in the comments section! May the most esoteric win!
what exactly do I have to eat to have sex?
the snopes piece doesn't have any references to support the idea that the video was faked.
also, the assertion that modern livestock are free from parasites is totally false. factory farms spend millions of dollars on treatments because these animals are riddled with parasites (although most are probably dead by the time the meat hits the shelf).
anyway, it's a fairly simple experiment...why quibble? - buy a piece of pig and a bottle of coke and post your results to youtube. that's what i'm going to do; sounds fun to me.
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So you're saying, by this standard, that "Hitler's generation" was neither rational nor empathetic? Personally, I'd say they were no less empathetic than any generation previous, who have slaughtered just as many millions (though never with the technology to do it on such a massive scale), and definitely more rational (the corporate PR department came into its own around that time, a cultural aspect requiring a great deal of ability to ration about human ambition.)
Are you familiar with the feudal psychology?
I don't know. I think I am, but you may have a different take on it than I do.
I think we're getting far away from the point I was trying to make, though, and that's partially my fault. I was simply trying to point out that having loyalty to people is not always a bad thing; in fact, it can often be good. Blind, unquestioning, unlimited loyalty to people you don't even know is, as you say, very feudal. OTOH, I have loyalty to my wife, my son, my parents, and my friends. And I don't see how that is even remotely feudal. The primary difference is that, as I said, I know those people, they reciprocate my loyalty, and (the one thing I forgot to mention) there are reasonable limits to it.
Does that make sense?
So should I post a bunch of annoying and useless comments then?
You can do all of that with a python tags file and vim or emacs.
Funny you'd mention it:
http://tinman.enemy.org/philo.html
Parody document reveals Youtube's policy on what clips to pull when and why - explains their erratic method.
While doodling with my Chinese abacus some years ago, I realized that it was capable of working in hexadecimal (base 16) as well as in decimal. This is because the Chinese version has two beads above and five beads below the bar (the Japanese version has 1 & 4 beads). So as a challenge, I did a few hexadecimal multiplications and checked the results against my scientific calculator. I thought about trying division but baulked at that for sanity's sake.
I strongly recommend reading the 40+ readers inputs into the author's missteps at the link. More informative than the "myths" in my opinion.
What were the graphics before and after the screencap?
C'mon, be fair and balanced and post those, too.
funny you'd mention it:
http://tinman.enemy.org/philo.html
Where does it say in the affidavit that GONZALEZ is employed by NWA? All I can see is that the perve perved on the adult female passenger on an NWA flight and that she identified him to an NWA flight attendant.
Stroller
Fascinating. It still doesn't contradict what I said. It is no reply to what I said. I did not say that it is untrue because it is idiosyncratic.
There are only 3 people named Jody Felix in the USA. Which one do you think wrote the letter?
Jody A. Felix, Adelanto, CA
Jody L. Felix, New Bedford, MA and/or Coventry, RI
Jody A. Felix, Manns Choice, PA
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THESE GUYS SUCK
"I wioll haven be afraid I willing haven been bringing you in"
I'm confused, is this English?
checks and balances.
SO THAT MEANS YOU SUCK! YAY!
NO! WAR FOREVER!
On a related note here's what came out of this aged meat...
sentencing someone because she got raped
RTFA
A religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist...
Is the definition of a cult.
... with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.
Obviously this part of the definition is conditional and doesn't pertain to Christian Science, Mormons, or any of the others because none of them live outside of conventional society - though some do have, or have had, charismatic leadership.
Because of Christianity's overt exclusivity - Islam is considered false, which is why they labeled it as cult. I personally wouldn't go so far as to call Islam, or any other world religion a cult (though I may disagree with them), and in my opinion Islam shouldn't be on that list. As there are cults and sects of every world religion. However, the others listed are all considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist off-shoots of Christianity, which is why they are on the list.
I think their real definition of "cult" is quite clear: "a religious organization directed by Satan to keep people from Our True Way".
That's the general "Christian" way of putting it. Though I loosely agree with the statement, claiming a world religion is governed by Satan isn't the most tactful way of putting it. Nor would it promote any kind of helpful discussion, which I find is ignored the further you push into fundamentalism.
You're thinking in terms of idealized rigid bodies, but that doesn't apply at these scales or speeds.
With and rotating rigid body (idealized), the tangential speed of some point on that body about the center of rotation is w times r (omega times r). Omega is the angular velocity, and r is the radius vector (from the center of rotation to the point (at the end of the spoke in this case).
Now think of a block of granite. Seems pretty solid, right? And yet, the earth buckles and can move in waves, like a fluid -- that's what happens in earthquakes. The earthquake waves travel at a finite speed.
Something similar would happen in any realizable form of your proposed structure. The influence of whatever's trying to turn the spoke would not immediately be felt at the rim particle. In fact, you would find that if some agent starts turning the spoke at the centre, that there's a time delay before the rim particle moves. In fact, you'd find that this influence travels along the spoke at the (finite) speed of light.
So, the essential problem is that you're assuming infinitely rigid materials in a situation where they don't apply. The spoke would bend in such a way that if it didn't break, the tip would still not exceed the speed of light.
Here's another example. The system you describe is a lot like the Earth-Sun system. The Sun is the hub, the Earth is the particle, and gravity is the spoke. If the Sun suddenly dissappeared, what would an observer on Earth experience? First, we wouldn't see the sun go out for about 8.5 minutes -- the time it takes the Sun's light to reach us. Also, we wouldn't fly out of our orbit until that time -- that's how long it would take the absence of the Sun's gravitational influence to reach us.
It's very simple to me and always has been. Racism is racism is racism.
Of course some blacks can be racist. It's absurd and foolish to insist otherwise.
Acknowledging the problem puts us ALL a step closer to solving it.
Removed previous serious reply, not feeding the trolls.
Am I the only one who made a "meh"-like sound when I was disinterested in something before I saw it in use of the internet? I always just assumed it was a common onamotapia.
Isn't the real story here:
manufacturers obscenely over-charging for replacement airbags
??
Stroller.
This is the funniest thing I've read today. It's a great way to end the day.
Furthermore, the few remaining "Kingdoms" outside the Middle East are among the free-est places in the world.
Good. God. Who upmodded this retard?
Pal, every single point you make is just unbelievably weak. I'm not going to devote my time to it. Oh, the hell with it, I guess I am:
This has popped up from time to time
Okay, according to the official etiquette rules on reddit, that isn't a problem. Thanks for objecting pointlessly.
the title that she's getting lashes for getting raped but it's not the case
While that is implied by the title, it isn't what it says, exactly. Read it again. However, I am quite certain that in Islamic countries women typically have normal social relations with men on occasion without being whipped. Clearly the punishment here was related to the rape.
She's getting lashed for breaking their laws (that of being alone with a man that is not her husband) which is totally unrelated to her being raped.
Obviously not the case. But hey, even if it was, "Getting raped" seems more like a crime than "being alone with a man". At least whipping women for being raped encourages them to put up a struggle, and so might have a net positive effect. Whipping them for "being alone with a man" is just flat-out, bat-shit, bark-at-the-moon crazy.
If a person, that has a pound of cocaine, gets jail time after being hit by a car would your headlines be "Person get 15 years in jail for getting hit by car?"
Sure, if it was common for others to walk around regularly and openly with cocaine without getting prosecuted. If getting hit by a car was the distguishing factor, yes. But your analogy is so tortured, that I'm afraid you wouldn't understand the rebuttal anyway.
If you would, please stop posting.
If you would, get your own motherfucking website and ban people from that instead, huh?
As a blue-blooded liberal, you have GOT to be fucking kidding me.
If you don't want a gun, that's great, just don't fucking preach this bullshit. It boggles my mind how the same people who support a woman's right to choose will immediately flip-flop and tell other folks how they should live their lives. grrrr.
I've love to see funky Laotian Kung Fu.
It's fake.
That smells like a shout out to Dick! sup homie!
Who did YouTube market theirs to?
Hey if a bundle of sticks with an adam's apple wants to call someone a 'faggot' they have every right. For people to reward such idiocy with applause that is truly disgraceful.
If you think the Prussians were any more empathetic than the Germans, you are out of your gourd.
Most people from single parent households - or households without a proper male influence - are walking disasters.
Wow, way to bash people without presenting any evidence whatsoever to back up your insulting claim@!
Jody Felix appears to be the FCC employee assigned to the complaint, not the person who wrote it.
It's only available on the black market, but I know a guy if you've got the cash (trust me, the shit is TOTALLY worth it. Killer).
How come there's such an article every year? :|
Surely the scientists know something about group and phase velocity.
That was the very beginning. The design was refined a bit (I assume the font was changed, etc.) to a nice balance (like reddit right now, I feel), until it got really popular and degenerated into Digg 2.0, and then 3.0.
I also love how their search engine is called "cRANKy." Google for old people! Genius! It'll make millions! Where's the pets.com sock puppet?
I was being optimistic after reading the first part of the story, and assuming this was a case of "two kids, who were already in a relationship, volunteered to demonstrate, and everyone was cool with it." Too bad that's not the case... I had a whole "Nobody's Business But Your Own" spiel lined up.
So hot man
I'm no fan of FOX news, but these posts berating them are becoming old. There's no lie or falsehood in that image.
It's time for her to go. She has nothing to add to the political dialog of our country.
She's merely a mean spirited bottom feeder who has fed off the post 9-11 desire for simplistic, brutal solutions to complex issues.
...and like Bush, she's been allowed a free ride for far too long.
The diuretic factor sucks ass when you have the window seat on a full flight though ;)
I'm not trying to trick you.
A music critic that described an artist as using cheap tricks that even you could do would generate similar curiosity. Why not create and enjoy success if it a simple formula? Since blow hards of this nature don't actually have anything interesting to share, I would expect to be disappointed by not hearing or seeing any new creative material. They might even be overly sensitive about their lack of substance and evade the questions with angry rhetoric about the nature of my request.
Yeah, but I just tried to reach the top knuckle of my fingers with my thumb, and it doesn't even come close. Try it. Can this possibly make sense?
The subpoenas can come AFTER they reverse the military commissions act and the new martial law clause NOW.
Brrr! Is it cold in here?
If you want to hear people scream out loud listen to the victims of terrorist attacks. The Buddhists in Thailand who've gotten beheaded. The schoolteachers in Afghanistan who die because they're teaching girls. The nun who was shot in the back during the cartoon riots. Listen real closely.
Great!! made me snicker.
Boom Boom Boom!
They were listing the other charges and the verdict of each.
the pets.com sock puppet is currently owned by 1800-BarNone and is often seen on television annoying the crap out of people.
What's worse is that it offers no advantage over SCGI other than (maybe) doing the wrong thing faster.
I came to the same conclusion after working with FastCGI.
She was blackmailed and then kidnapped.
If someone planted cocaine on you, would it be right for you to be sentenced to 15 years in jail? After all, you were breaking the law by "possessing" cocaine.
Awesome.
Aw, they're just trying to stay positive. There's so much bad news going on... Fox just figured they'd continue to avoid it and give the base a feel-good moment.
Anyone else think of the Dave Chappelle bit:
What's that on your shoulder Bob?
Oh....semen, hehe, flakes right off (scratch scratch). Crazy homeless guys, only in New York.
LIES. LIES. ALL LIES! PASS THE SUGAR.
There's a reason his wiki calls him "controversial," my friend.
That depends on what the reasonable limits are. Are you more loyal to your friends than you are to justice and universal human rights? Would you help a friend murder someone just because he was a friend? Assuming you got away with it, and that you neither liked nor disliked the victim? George W Bush would do so, I'm certain of it.
You know about dynamic range in music, right? Visually it's monitor contrast ratios. Well there's a dynamic range of emotions. Being in love is highest and transitory preference is lowest. And somewhere in between is all the rest.
Now my main constraint is that it is not okay to assign higher value to loyalty than to human rights. What that implies of course is that you can't love unconditionally too many people. Because then you couldn't assign a higher value to human rights.
In feudal literature (Iain Banks is a good example, the fucking psycho) it's common to hear people profess their love for their lord and king. This is of course entirely fucked but modern people undergo a variant of the same dynamic. Mostly they do exactly the same thing but they don't admit to it. They "fall in love" with the POTUS when they meet him face to face. Until then, it's like they're nursing a crush, what with always giving the "benefit of the doubt" to the guy, even though there can't possibly be any reasonable doubt.
The point though is that the emotions are just as real, just as concrete, in this supposedly "abstract" case. Because it's not very abstract at all.
The second point is that there's mathematics at work. If each person loves unconditionally only a single person and these people are chosen at random, then 100% of people can be stopped from committing atrocities by 99.9999% of people. If it's not random, as is the case if everyone loves the same person, or if you love too freely, then it becomes difficult for people to stop each other.
And he turned out to be an OFF-DUTY worker, who was then suspended. It is pretty common for airline workers to fly on the airlines they work for, since they get discounts or even free stand-by.
yay slipknot
Where, where?
Help bring Levi to Lynchburg!
That's cute. It also has nothing to do with anything I said.
PS: STM isn't even a silver bullet on paper, much less in the real world. It won't deadlock, but it can still livelock and thrash your system into a coma. It also adds quite a bit of overhead compared to mutexes. Erlang's shared-nothing message passing is a hell of a lot better if you want to play things slow and safe.
Interestingly enough, it's a lot like the map for" baptist"!
Who needs "accessories" anyway? ;]
I saw this a long time ago, love it.
BBC article is cited among the main sources in the post. It's permissible to use quotes if somebody said it better. Granted I should have made it more visible, thanks for pointing it out. Most other posts on the site use my own text.
Definitely has its roots in the Simpsons.
It is really part of the same phenomenon. They've homogenized the radio with bands that "test well". There are a number of bands that I would put in my favorites category that I didn't like on the first listen. Focus groups make a horrible proving grounds for music.
There is good independent music being made is every genre. It is more of a chore to dig up, but the effort isn't wasted.
Which is why, whenever I fly, I always wear my "Jerk off on me and you get a cock punch" T-shirt.
It's more like a foldable matress without the boxspring. It's a LOT thicker than a sleeping bag... :\
The author doesn't own the website anyway... so she wouldn't be picking out the ads.
But I can see why she's so full of hate. Must be galling to be one of the tiny minority of women that have to pay men for sex.
I feel really sorry for these people, who measure the value of a human being by the balance of their bankbook.
That actually makes perfect sense biologically. The ability to provide resources is essential for ensuring survival of offspring.
If you list the traits that you consider attractive, you will likely find that they can be categorized as shallow as well, and almost certainly will relate to qualities that will benefit offspring.
Your words need not be twisted to expose your bigotry.
And it is also dishonest to insist otherwise.
Are they going to prosecute the guy who leaked the story of Wilson's secret trip to Niger to find out if the yellowcake thing was real?
Ha! The fool -- he based it on Voyager! If he wants this to attract women he should have gone with "The Original Series". Look at how much sex Kirk had! The place needs some styrofoam rocks strewn about.
Heh!
Or the disgusting horseface that stares out of every mirror.
omg number 6 is hilarious!
As we are in the Lenten Season of the Church calendar here is an excerpt from a sermon titled "Need" and is based on the phrase, "I thirst" - the fifth Word from the Cross found in John 19.28.
Described in its patent filing as a "hype-generating mechanism with fully integrated Mac compatibility," the iLaunch is powered by Intel dual-core processors optimized to calculate a product's gravitas. Apple claims the iLaunch can garner the same amount of press attention as a major scientific discovery, high court ruling, celebrity meltdown, or natural disaster at 200 times the speed of a traditional media-fostered launch.
Brilliant.
I like how people use the world interesting...
I'd live in a trailer for the rest of my life so long as my fiancee was happy and I could write.
Just out of curiosity, why don't you? At a guess, I would think your fiancee wouldn't be happy about that... thus resources are important to her as well. If you got 10 times richer I don't think she'd kick you out of bed, either.
What if she gained 100 lbs, or was otherwise only 1/10th as attractive as she is now? Or what if she got 10x meaner?
You might stay with your wife for a while even if she became very unattractive, but I doubt you'd enjoy it.
OMG anybody else remember the MadTV skit "Gold Diggaz"?
Oh God, I've got that chant going through my head! "Where are all my Diggaz at?" MAKE IT STOP!
Oh goody! More election predictions from reddit's favorite halfwit!
-5 points 4 months ago by e-pluribus-unum
November 7th is going to be very difficult for you. Please
have the number of your local suicide hotline next to your phone so you don't do something rash.
You are truly beyond ridicule.
And it used to be one of their anchors.
I am not even sure why this article has been submitted here from my site. It's not intended as news, but as a compilation of the thoughts to ponder. The original link is prominently displayed and permission was given from the source to post...
...oh, and btw Reddit brings VERY little Adsense.
They were conquered by the Orkinman Republic several years ago.
Can't every paper that carries this bitch's column deny her the right to spew hate???
Please stop this shit.
Mexicans are racist, too. They did a drive by on my house cuz we were Asian.
Both the author of the article and Ann Coulter disagree with you. Here's a quote from the article:
Coulter's defense of the slur is that it was directed at an obviously straight man and so could not be a real slur.
Indeed, you appear to be the only person who thinks that she was seriously calling him gay. That's not what this is about.
The author of the article is arguing that she meant "effeminate by association with gay people." Coulter is arguing that she just meant "effeminate." Given that the word has historically meant both "effeminate" and "gay," and given that Andrew Sullivan isn't a telepath, I'm inclined to believe Ann Coulter when she's discussing what Ann Coulter meant.
The Senate Republicans will wait until the gangrenous stench is overwhelming, but if it's a choice between removing Bush and political death, they'll get out the hacksaw, down a bottle of whiskey, and bite the bullet.
It wouldn't save any money.
Prince wasn't fucking anyone.
This is a cool free service with tools to help you live a greener lifestyle by reducing your carbon footprint. Nice blog too...
good point... but what other options do you have for photo manipulation? MS Paint? usually looks like a child attacked it w/ a crayon... and everyone would be saying "meh... looks like it was Painted" which would cause more confusion... and anger.
Those silly Muslims going "Bar Bar" all the time. Why can't they learn to speak proper Roman?
They are vile creatures that have been known to SMOKE hashish and tobacco! Can you believe it? Smoking? Only a fool who goes "bar bar" could ever smoke.
Real Romans know the virtues of drinking over the evils of smoking. I think we should start a campaign to ban smoking in public places. That will show those "bar bar" types the virtues of the true Romans.
Knowing Cheney, this is probably the office of his doctor, you can see him extracting the infant blood in this picture.
(Here's the reference if you don't get it.)
I forced myself to watch the whole damned thing at one point not long ago. There are interesting effects to watching pornography for 1h46'...
What a ham-fisted attack on intellectuals. "Look at me, I was stupid and naive so everybody who was like me has to be stupid and naive as well."
EDIT - And how do her attacks on intellectuals jibe with Feminism, aka the Crazy Sisters of the Liberal Left?
She's more accurately attacking Moral Relativists, and we've had plenty of those in the intellectual ranks, but as today's Gitmo Loving Neocons show us, it isn't a cut and dried liberal or conservative trait.
Lou, you are not being a very friendly person. I think I am going to have to add to the EULA a requirement to be friendly.
"black racism" doesn't really make any sense actually. It doesn't exist because it can't exist. Racism is >defined< as originating from Caucasians, against African Americans. Check an encyclopedia or dictionary.
I hope I don't get in trouble for using the 'b' word.
So, judging by the logo today, reddit is officially endorsing the fact that the site is now more about pictures and videos than stories.
Hmmm. Well, since you've gone and deleted all your comments, I guess I won't be getting a reply here. Shame.
If by millions you mean hundreds, then yes.
I really liked Snow Crash and The Diamond Age but agree about Cryptonomicon.....I also tried to read it but the constant switching back and forth from the "exciting" parts to the "boring" parts drove me crazy. I think it might have been lots better by reducing the amount of info by about 200 pages =]. I wanted an interesting read, not a history lesson in detail.
"As an animal gets closer to going down, it loses its ability to rationalise what's in its best interest," Mr Larsen said.
The moose was distraught and has been since 9/11 irrationally fearful of aircraft.
I could recommend a therapist or he could just wait until Homeland Security is involved. The animal would of course have to be motivated to see a therapist for any good outcome.
There is nothing more tragic than an irrational ungulate.
reddit = tabloid?
If you don't use DjVu, you're an idiot, or maybe you were born with too much bandwidth.
"Shortly after Jobs' address, Microsoft announced that they are working on a similar product, the Launch-O, due to debut in 2009."
Don't jump the gun.
Let's see what happens to those manipulators first!
That must be a typo. Looked more like gothornot.
I worked for Butler & Smith (the then-importer of BMW motorcycles) in '75 so I had to like this post... only place I've ever worked where the boss bought us beer (Heiniken) to drink whilst working (and that included driving a forklift).
I actually agree with most (probably all, but I've skimmed most of it) of what you've said on this page, if not the delivery. If you actually think that any amount of reading can substitute for actual "hands-on" experience in childcare (and not just having relatives with kids or working in a daycare, I mean your-own-damn-kid-24-hour-a-day-no-break-for-you experience), then I pronounce you unambiguously childless.
Aside from miscellaneous clean up uses, file renaming in code bases tends to cover a very particular and simple refactoring, like renaming a class or module. It doesn't cover renaming a function or variable, splitting a function into two smaller ones, etc. It would be nice if SCMs supported semantic diffing and merging at this level (perhaps via plugins), but I don't find support for the simplest instance, that embodied in file renaming, to be too useful.
fuck yeah. This is a great video to pass around to those who need an introduction to the last 30 years of electronic music.
Orbit Downloader Now Support Firefox 3.
My daughter insists on having about 20 books read to her a day (and has since she was about 10 months). It can get a little irritating, but it is a request that is hard to refuse in good conscience.
I don't know. Looks to me like McCain can swallow his pride and embrace Bush if he thinks it'll help him politically. He could come in as VP and say he's there to fix things up. He only has to uncheney a little bit to make things seem like they're improving, and that's all he needs to then become viable in 2008.
Thats the second paragraph first page, my comment is about the second page! Here is part of the passage I am talking about in case our formatting is different:
The Greek astronomer Eratosthenes (who lived circa 276 to 194 B.C.) used a sexagesimal system to divide a circle into 60 parts in order to devise an early geographic system of latitude, with the horizontal lines running through well-known places on the earth at the time. A century later, Hipparchus normalized the lines of latitude, making them parallel and obedient to the earth's geometry. He also devised a system of longitude lines that encompassed 360 degrees and that ran north to south, from pole to pole. In his treatise Almagest (circa A.D. 150), Claudius Ptolemy explained and expanded on Hipparchus' work by subdividing each of the 360 degrees of latitude and longitude into smaller segments. Each degree was divided into 60 parts, each of which was again subdivided into 60 smaller parts. The first division, partes minutae primae, or first minute, became known simply as the "minute." The second segmentation, partes minutae secundae, or "second minute," became known as the second.
It's not NWA Day anymore.
Everybody, be sure to scroll down a few and read Maynard's post.
Really?
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/racism
or, if that's not enough
http://www.google.com/search?q=define:Racism
Trust me, there's no one more than me that hopes you're right. But they're probably going to face political death anyway, and if they haven't smelled the stench by now...
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/quantumzone/debroglie.html
(with thanks to blindmonkey)
Some people might get tired of these editors being discussed around here, but I think they don't get discussed enough, and I'm absolutely fascinated in the possibilities they bring forward.
I was wondering if some of you emacs or vi(m) users might explain a few of your favorite things (features, whatever) about the editors.
For those of you that once used emacs or vim heavily, and have since switched to another editor (Textmate or such), why?
He is implicitly suggesting that certain beliefs should not be tolerated in his version of society. This is no different than an Islamic principle, or the ideas of Stalin, only we've replaced Islam and Communism with atheism because now we are somehow more "enlightened".
ok, everyone think certain beliefs should not be tolerated in society. in fact, society is based on not tolerating some of these, such as belief in the right to steal and murder.
dawkins suggested that the american electorate choose not to vote for a highly religious candidate. if you think this makes him comparable to stalin, you are either losing your grip on history or on reality.
Those were the days. No war on terror. I had health insurance. Light was traveling faster than itself. Good times.
See, here's the problem, if I find out an article is 7 years old, that's after I've started reading it, even though I don't want to read it at all if it's that old.
And you're being downvoted cuz you're wrong.
(Vim) Just one thing? It would have to be modality and the orthogonal, combinable commandset.
Well some of us haven't seen it in 7 years, man. That's why I come here. It's like a high school reunion for the internet.
I think the problem with NR is the cookbook mentality it fosters. If you just want a drop-in procedure, I've had much better success with routines from some of the NETLIB libraries, both in terms of performance and numerical accuracy and stability.
Regarding the FFT, you don't have to compare with FFTW to make NR's routine look bad. Pretty much anyone could code a better FFT--heck, it only deals with power-of-2-sized vectors, so you're wasting 2x space and time on average, assuming a uniform distribution of sizes.
BTW, you can get surprisingly close to FFTW's performance using much simpler methods. See e.g. Oleg and Walid's paper A Methodology for Generating Verified Combinatorial Circuits.
There's an obviously misleading statement, which given their history and how obvious it is, is probably intentional.
It's basically the same language - people who can code c can code java.
But not always the other way around.
Today's secret phrase is... it doesn't fucking matter who reports it because this actually happened.
I'm not sure if it is actually an experiment testing people's willingness to believe that there is a real person on playing with them, or if people are just phenomenally stupid.
Only if Ann Coulter says it.
who gives a fuck?
inclined to noisily agree rather than silently think when it comes to uninteresting but popular issues
This is known as a "blogger." I'd love to see an article stating that blogging had an inverse correlation to programming aptitude (not ability, just natural talent.)
The real key is that this same BS result (no FTL travel actually occurred) has been resurfacing in the media constantly for the past SEVEN YEARS. It wasn't that important when it happened, and it's not news now.
Please downvote this crap.
While infortunate, this measure was intended to discourage the increasing phenomenon of so-called "happy slapping" and in a general way of gangs uploading videos of their "performances", hence creating an emulation. I'm not justifying it, only reporting the context.
This law also says that such videos are allowed when they are intended to serve as an evidence in justice. So you could still legally record the agression of Rodney King contrarily to what this article says.
For those who can read French:
http://www.juriscom.net/actu/visu.php?ID=907
Okay, according to the official etiquette rules on reddit, that isn't a problem. Thanks for objecting pointlessly.
Wasn't objecting just pointing out the fact that the bleeding hearts always put the same tired slant on this exact same story everytime it pops up.
However, I am quite certain that in Islamic countries women typically have normal social relations with men on occasion without being whipped. Clearly the punishment here was related to the rape.
Details which are lacking from the article, I don't know enough of the Islamic culture to know for certain and I'm not in the habit of making assumptions of cultures I don't know about based on my culture.
But hey, even if it was, "Getting raped" seems more like a crime than "being alone with a man". At least whipping women for being raped encourages them to put up a struggle, and so might have a net positive effect. Whipping them for "being alone with a man" is just flat-out, bat-shit, bark-at-the-moon crazy.
As stated I stated inhumane and barbaric by our cultures standards but it is their law.
Sure, if it was common for others to walk around regularly and openly with cocaine without getting prosecuted. If getting hit by a car was the distguishing factor, yes. But your analogy is so tortured, that I'm afraid you wouldn't understand the rebuttal anyway.
Try me. My analogy is fair, if you have a crime committed upon you while in the middle of committing a crime it does not negate the crime you have committed. If both parties are caught they should be tried and sentenced for their respective crimes, which was the case here, was it fair, not by our standards, but they are not basing it on our standards, they are basing it on theirs. If you have a problem with that, why don't you start your own country based on your own values?
X J V 999........what's hard about that?
I'm more of a fan of blech! At least it resembles an actual sound uttured by humans.
I like how emacs lets me control the weather, and travel in time.
Bah is very old. "Bah humbug?"
I didn't see the halftime show...can someone tell me, is there any way that the prince thing could actually be construed as obscene?
This is most interesting! Try it to see if it works. Works for me and some of those I've tested so far.
SLIME
Boob jobs are the rice-boy stickers of the het-sex world. A Ferrari fulfills its primary (ostensibly primary, if you like) functions extremely well. Take the wraps off a boob job, it usually looks bad, always feels bad, and is just generally depressing.
You are completely missing the point of PDF here. PDF looks exactly the same on all PRINTERS, thats what makes it popular with people printing text. PDF is a lot less popular for on-screen viewing than HTML, thats why people are always asking for PDF-warnings because lots of people just don't read stuff if it is in PDF format.
Anchors? No, the maritime term you seek is loose cannons.
Check a printed one from the mid 90's.
The way the text reads, it's factual. Just typical Fox-spin. The Libby trial was disappointing in that it didn't accomplish nearly what it should have anyway; I find it depressing that the trial makes such big news.
..."there is no other God."
...who has jurisdiction over this world and its inhabitants.
yes.
Well, Futurama was pretty good...
Who are the trolls you're talking about? I'm pretty sure that everyone in this thread is, at the least, sincere.
Edit: Okay, nevermind, you have a point.
I am an emacs fan, and the thing that keeps me on emacs is automatic indenting, hands down.
A runner up would be the fact that dungeon-style editing (as opposed to insert/command mode like vi) feels more natural to me, as do crazy shortcut keys (M-% baby!).
What I don't like about emacs is the fact that the functions it provides for making your own modes are horribly primitive, requiring people to do way more work to get it to work perfectly with more complex languages. Example: It's hard to do things like have HTML/JS/PHP in the same file. Multi-mode emacs has been done, but it is terribly complex. Even with just PHP, it still can't do multiline strings very well (<<> print 4/5
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Ah, it all makes sense now.
What in particular about your last post do you think I missed?
I don't find anything hilarious about nipples. Even fake ones.
There is but one key caps lock should be mapped to and that keys name is 'ESC'
OK, way late and I'm sure no one will read this, but for my own satisfaction I have to add: all I'm saying is she did get past OMGBJ and described some of her own thoughts about it, her own history and thinking and perceptions of what's changed. I think her concerns are at least partly about irresponsibility, or attitudes about responsibility.
Or made up in order to make some quick cash, as the case may be.
Once I made that change, I was able to get an echo back without sending a newline (just hitting ctrl-d after the input in netcat).
What am I missing?
It is hard if you want to make it efficient. Implementing a correct but simple and inefficient FFT for power of 2 vectors is about 5 lines of code.
A few months ago, after using Emacs and vi for years, I suddenly started writing modes in Emacs. I've used this for data entry for a study program, with simple modes that change my input method intellegently so that I can type traditional and then simplified chinese and then english without skipping a beat -- hitting just TAB or Space (outside of the definition fields) or RET , actually, all of these switching to to the next input method in the next field or line. I've written the aforementioned study program, which drills vocabularly with happy and free mixing of Chinese and English (even in the source code; no \u1234, just a line to tell Emacs the encoding I use). I've written data entry modes for odder systems that let me type in a fairly normal manner with pre- and post-processing to turn the normal file into the crazy fixed-width marked-up thing the program actually wants.
If you'd asked me before these few months ago, I'd've said that my favorite thing about Emacs was that it had many useful applications and modes. Now, however, I see normal, modeless editing under Emacs as only a place to discover how I'd -really- like to get some particular editing done. If you'd like to write a simple mode, I found it helpful to follow what dired.el does, of all things :-)
Although I use vi and vim frequently, and also really enjoy this class of editor, I have no 'favorite thing' about them.
What in the world is going on in Indonesia??
I know you're getting voted down, but I'll take a stand and say I'm with you. For halftime they should just show an old episode of The Simpsons or something.
Man do I hate pop rock.
ipython and vim
28,000 people? Worthless.
non-fiction-wise, I've only read "In The Beginninng...". At least, I think I finished it? Not sure. Not concise, that.
The dragon is a poor analogy when you talk about a god. Carl Sagan's dragon offered no evidence of its existence. With a creator, on the other hand, we have the universe, and we're trying to explain why it's here. In other words, God is an answer to the question "The universe exists. How did it get here?" Atheists answer "from nothing!" Theists answer "From something!" Agnostics answer "That question makes no sense!"
I would never say I have a "valid argument" for God. You're looking for proof, and you're not going to get any, for or against. All I can say is why the idea of a creator makes sense to me, and all you can say is why the idea of a creator makes no sense to you.
Perhaps you might want clarify what you mean by "a reason" and "a valid argument" first.
This brings up a good discussion. I have weird political beliefs. Having them, I tend to see bias coming from all directions. Your examples are pretty extreme, but I see slant in all directions (mostly left and right, but not always). I would guess that someone puts their biases and slants into something subconsciously.
For Vim, it's the speed with which I can simply edit text. For Emacs, it's the buffer handling, ediff, eshell, and the smart indentation. For TextMate, it's the syntax highlighting and snippets. I really wish I could have all of these things at once. Right now I'm using Vim, but I switch around every few months out of frustration.
I see eyes.
I love how their leading document opens with the phrase "fucking douche bag".
My feature request would be for the document embed to resize automatically to the bottom of the screen, like Google Video.
emacs simple completion guessing.
Not as good as IDEA or Rotten Tomatoes' Visual Assist, but still very useful.
Absolutely, lack of dual "command"/"edit" modes makes me not even consider lots of tools I'd really like to use.
Why doesn't everything just embed vim (or get embeded by emacs)
National healthcare would be even worse than the current situation. The scandal at Walter Reed shows exactly what we would get.
It is incomprehensible to me, given the unending stream of scandals and corruption coming from both parties over the decades, that anyone would ever seriously propose yet another government program.
I'm sure he could write a linked list in C quite quickly without writing anything down.
What would anyone write down?
Many, many people with sad lives don't kill other people.
xenuday is THIS SATURDAY!
I'd like to see him write a simple linked list in C without drawing pointer diagrams on paper
If you design something completely new to you and apparently complex, you might do this. But a linked list? That's a pretty boring diagram!
Describing anything as "real" in the sense of throwing down the gauntlet and putting people on the defensive (and also implicitly suggesting that you are "real") is a not-too-distant cousin of Ann Coulter calling someone a faggot.
I'm just sayin'.
Seriously? Lisa spells it out? Too funny.
This list is, of course, far from complete, but the examples presented are instructive. Common themes are:
profit vs. free expression
ownership of intellectual property
cynical exploitation of artists' work*
overpricing of media
Why, oh why cannot the shambling corpse of the record industry die out already? If anyone out there can come up with a model for music distribution that allows for: complete creative control by artists, open sharing of content, and a little profit to make it all worthwhile, they can become very rich. . .
*http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38780
How do you get points for a comment like this? If this is sarcasm it is weak. And I can't see anything amusing about mispelling terrorist.
I guess nothing says "I have perfect boobs" like nipples showing but your boobs regardless of how large they are will stay up in place perfectly
Why doesn't everything just embed vim (or get embeded by emacs)
Web browsers, especially, need to stop it with the inherently data-lossy text entry boxes. Lynx or w3m let you call out to a real editor; for other browsers I've an ~/outgoing that I write nontrivial 'text entry' in.
Your lack of historical knowledge amuses me as well.
The word "barbarity" comes from an old Roman joke that all of the non Roman languages sound like "bar bar bar" to Romans. Non-romans were called barbars by Romans.
I just think it is funny that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Best damn article I've read in a long time.
Did I ever say otherwise?
WingIDE pro mostly. ipython for interactive work.
ZOMG THAT POOL IS TOTALLY DEEP OR SOME SHIT
cough
As stated I stated inhumane and barbaric by our cultures standards but it is their law.
Fuck standards. Their law is barbaric and wrong. Maybe we can't do anything about it without causing more problems than we solve, but we shouldn't say, "Well, by our standards it's wrong, but who knows if our standards are the right ones."
Our standards are superior. Period. Try to convince me otherwise.
"Another, a hard-core science fiction fan, had been boning up on supplemental materials..."
Boning up, indeed.
What am I missing?
Er, nothing, apparently. My mistake: with two netcats on two machines, one exhibited the proper behavior and the other suggested something else. This is an abstraction failure that I remember from GHC's standard libraries, so I readily supposed that it was being repeated here.
perhaps you should try a keyboard with the proper placement of the control key.
Or just remap the keys on the keyboard you already have.
I have escape and caps lock swapped on mine, so I don't have to reach up to that far corner when I'm using vim.
"If you didn't believe in the existence of critically thinking Christians, that would have been the time to notify me."
Yeah -- people seem to take it the wrong way if you say their photos look "gimped".
6.2831853070 equal pieces, actually, but who's counting?
The funniest thing about it is that it still got a 61% D-. Does this really live up to 61% of the professor's expectations?
Also, the prof manages to mix up 'to/too' in his comment on page 3, which is not something you'd expect from an English teacher, even in a hastily written comment on a bad essay.
It's almost like they tried to come up with the worst idea possible.
You've got it all figured out.
(adding to your list..)
LTTE
Irgun: (Its worldview was "political violence and terrorism were "legitimate tools in the Jewish national struggle for the Land of Israel")
Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Bajrang Dal, the [then] ruling BJP [=> gov of India], and the umbrella organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteer Corps, RSS), all of whom collectively form the sangh parivar (or "family" of Hindu nationalist groups) = the groups most directly responsible for violence against Muslims ( more than 2000 dead) in Gujarat
(For more info about the Anti-Muslim Gujarat Riots watch this documentary by Indian (hindu) journalist Rakesh Sharma (long version), (short version)
3 violent sex stories on reddit today. you sick bastards.
That's what I'm saying: a boob job can attract the eye just like a flashy sticker. They both merely ape the superficial aspects of what is really valuable, while a Ferrari manages to beautifully, reliably join the thrill with the style.
Why would I? I agree. Try and convince them otherwise.
Running vim in an X terminal with mouse support works just fine. Try ":help mouse".
Isn't that part of how we're justifying Iraq, that the world "is a better place" with Saddam gone?
Actually, most girls are going through puberty at 11, sometimes younger.
I am liberal, and found AA boring. Too much opinion, not enough entertainment.
Not to say the CC boycott didn't play a major role. But even had that not been the case, I'm not sure the AA format as designed would've worked long-term without some major tweaks.
Or just remap the keys on the keyboard you already have.
Or just use Ctrl-] , which I use on most keyboards. Or Ctrl-[. This keyboard is strange enough that I can't consult muscle memory.
No, PDF's look the same on everything, which is the fricken point. Don't have font Groove & Beat installed? Well that's too bad I guess we'll just have to fall back to Arial, totally ruining the presentation/flow.
Also, good luck getting whitespace to be the same cross-browser/viewer/whatever. I don't get the hate of PDFs. Acrobat, sure hate on that bloatware all you want, but leave PDFs alone. They are a good thing!
Or just remap the keys on the keyboard you already have.
Or just use Ctrl-[, which I use on most keyboards.
BJAX, obviously.
And after BJAX, we find ourselves back at C.
You know, the One True Programming Language. :)
that's why you poor losers have to settle for women who are 5's.
You'd give your left nut to be with my girlfriend. Then again you seem like the kind of guy who spends your nights beating off to the bra section of his mom's Sears catalog.
I'm confused about the "10X meaner" question. Clarify?
If my boyfriend gained 100 lbs, I wouldn't be thrilled, it's true - how he looks is one of the things I really like about him. However, if he got ten times meaner (started kicking kittens or something?), I would certainly not continue to date him. No question.
Though I am a female, so maybe I'm not in the demographic pyc's argument is about.
I missed:
Arkansas, Connecticut, Kansas, Maine, Michigan,
Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Utah,
West Virginia,
Grrrrr.... I just reached a mental block at some point. I SUCK.
To replace Emacs, you must understand more about it than people who fuzzily want 'This -- but with $favorite_language' usually do. In this person's defense, replacing Emacs doesn't seem like the primary goal.
Danish Kaneria is the newest name in the long list of Pakistani leg spinners. He has been a regular in Pakistani Test Team but his inclusion in the WC 15 is not only surprising but also disturbing. Danish Kaneria did not play in any major ODI for a long time.
Maybe I'm being oversensitive, but it seemed a little racist to me. Whatever, it was lame.
My favorite show on Fox is....
HORSE APPLES!
I want to see this, but sight does not respond. unfortunatly that means I must downvote.(if you don't have bandwidth/stability to stay up then don't be posting your link around the internets)
I feel like this is begging to be put into a graph, instead of writing out who is higher than who. Almost felt like an IQ test question (Frank is taller than Sally who is taller than John....)
I am. Mine reaching perfectly. But I have long/skinny fingers.
It works, but for some reason feels incredibly clunky - perhaps I have the Ctrl-C/Ctrl-X/Ctrl-V thing hard wired in my brain in that context. When I have a GUI available, I use SciTE instead.
Read "Marriage (As a Dada Concept)" from The Real Frank Zappa Book for some very good child raising advice.
Err...to be more clear:
It's inhumane by our standards ...
No, it's inhumane.
As stated I stated inhumane and barbaric by our cultures standards ...
No, it's inhumane and barbaric.
Apparently, you agree with the stronger claims, but you stated the weaker relative claims ("by our standards"). If you agree that it's inhumane, you shouldn't feel it's incorrect just to say so.
if they didn't show half of thes in slow motion, you would not believe they are true....lol....i still have a hard time grasping it :)
The double standard that he talks about really bothers me, and the woman in the beginning obviously doesn't have respect for her husband. I don't have children myself, but I would never force anyone to have kids if they didn't want to, and especially if I didn't have the money to support it. I also think that most women would agree that having a child with someone who really didn't want to have that child, would be a horrible thing to do.
And I do think that while it is true that a family works better if it has two parents present, and that will probably help the child be more balanced later; I also agree with others you can still be a perfectly happy person with one strong parental figure. I think those who were raised by one parent become more independent. I know from my experience, because my parents divorced when I was very young, I was expected to do things on my own and deal with my own problems.
The joke would have been funnier if you played along =) Thanks for the above response though.
Anyhow, clearly I'm highlighting the rather extreme imbalance on this issue, specifically in the mid ninety's when it was suddenly not acceptable to use the b-word. In the circles that I have traveled, one would not dare discuss the idea of racism originating from African Americans; doing so would result in being labeled a bigot.
I believe that there was a reddit post a few weeks back about how Jessie Jackson didn't care about the assault of three Caucasian girls in Long Beach; I'm hitting on that same sentiment here.
If I get time I'll write something up on how the ancient Israelite time system worked. Or if someone can find this written up accurately please post a link.
line rider is a solid freakin game. but be careful its mad addictive, and not so good for work productivity :)
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Isn't "btw I suggest you read up on Jim Webb, he wasn't exactly a member of the SDS" exactly the kind of excuse for an argument being described in the original article? Trying to paint veterans as weak on defense?
You can do better than that.
Her fiancés all freak out when they see her penis?
After reading all of these "it was a great article" comments, I re-read the whole article, and it was crap. How many times do you have to repeat "go sell shoes" or "I will resist it"? It was an article without a point.
The title made me believe it was about impeachment, but it really just meanders through nothingness.
Hi, This is Captain Obvious hijacking fairlyodd's account.
The point behind these services:
Streaming - You don't have to wait for the whole file to download, you can peruse/view while the file downloads.
One small software install (Flash) - No need for an explicit install of a software such as RealPlayer, Quicktime/ PDFViewer, Word etc.
A large database of files made available by exposing easy upload options for the users.
Yeah, that Negroponte guy's a real winner ain't he?
Assuming this is not some sort of parody - that is, not for a class, I would give it an A+, as the student obviously understands the material, and presents it well.
If it's for some sort of stick-in-the-ass formulaic essay class, where you learn to be boring, he gets a C.
That looks fun...too bad I can't swim.
hot anne
That depends on what the reasonable limits are.
Well, obviously. That's kind of implied by the use of the word "reasonable".
Are you more loyal to your friends than you are to justice and universal human rights? Would you help a friend murder someone just because he was a friend?
Hopefully the answer to those questions would, again, be implied by the use of the word "reasonable".
Now my main constraint is that it is not okay to assign higher value to loyalty than to human rights.
I would absolutely agree with that.
What that implies of course is that you can't love unconditionally too many people. Because then you couldn't assign a higher value to human rights.
I don't follow your logic here.
In feudal literature (Iain Banks is a good example, the fucking psycho) it's common to hear people profess their love for their lord and king. This is of course entirely fucked but modern people undergo a variant of the same dynamic. Mostly they do exactly the same thing but they don't admit to it. They "fall in love" with the POTUS when they meet him face to face.
Even more annoying to me is the concept of "loving" your country. What does that mean?
The things you're saying here are very reasonable and make perfect sense. My primary objection was with your black and white assertion that loyalty is equal to feudalism, because this ignores all of the different types and ranges of loyalty that can exist.
The point though is that the emotions are just as real, just as concrete, in this supposedly "abstract" case. Because it's not very abstract at all.
Maybe "abstract" wasn't the best word, but I think you know what I was trying to say.
So if she had been MURDERED in the process, would lashes still apply?
Like so...
"Waaaaaa! Waaaaaa! Waaaaaa!"
I thought the leak was legal but the lying about the leak was illegal?
Why do leftists come crawling out of the woodwork to defend Islam? I dont get it. Yet theyll bash christianity unmercifully.
Wow. This was spectacularly vacuous. The style says "frat boy", more exactly "frat boy for the first 7 years of his undergrad program".
Islamophobia is well justified considering what Muslims do.
If you film violence on the streets of France, you become a criminal yourself!
Breaking News: Dewey Defeats Truman!
Depends on the crime. I would love to see this in a drug case.
On that basis the US is inhuman and barbaric for continuing having a death penalty.
So the US therefore has inferior standards, something I have long suspected.
I really like the speed of editing in vim (but it takes some learning). I also like column typing and quick macros a lot.
Back in January, we integrated a Wordpress blog into one of the sites we manage. The past two months have produced excellent results so far. Traffic is up for the site, and we are achieving good search engine results on the blog posts, sometimes ranking higher for a recent blog post about a product, than the product page itself. We are also achieving more inbound links and increased customer involvement in the site. I have seen SE traffic coming in to a post within 4-5 days of the post.
No one ever disputed that he was an armed robber... Read the linked page.
"Although he admitted that at the time of Lambert's death he was on a week-long spree of armed robberies, Sankofa maintained his innocence of Lambert's murder from the time of his arrest and throughout the nineteen years he spent on death row."
Wow, what's with all the bogus ups and spam accounts?
that's kind of hot
I struggle against my misanthropic tendencies, particularly the misogynistic component...but no, this woman is/was dumb.
How my eyes have been opened to the barbarity of Humans (pronounced Ferengi style-Hoo'mons)
Humanophbia is well justified, considering what Humans do.
I would have been a great deal more interested in seeing the burgers than clips of people buying them. I think I got like a 5 second pan of them.
I was wondering the same thing. Either she didn't mind him yanking his wank for a while, and was just bothered by his poor aim, or he was a miraculously fast spurter.
You mean Ctrl-[. Ctrl-] is a different, very useful key in vim (although I have mine remapped to do :tjump instead of :tag).
Nice try but just because I have my convictions doesn't mean I can't see the other persons perspective. My world isn't black or white, it's got a whole bunch of shades and a full spectrum of colours.
memo
To: all fox personnel
From: office of John Moody
Subject: Reality and what to do with it.
It's been brought to our attention that reality has a liberal bias, henceforth all Fox News Personnel are to avoid contact with reality, as such contact does not further our mission.
That's nothing. Jimi Hendrix made a guitar talk. Beat that violinists.
On that basis the US is inhuman and barbaric for continuing having a death penalty.
What basis?
I could be because Judaism also encompasses a racial group. I guess I didn't notice that it wasn't on the list.
Why would I even dignify this with an answer? I guess I'm bored. Why would lashes still apply if she was dead? Do people in your country get sent to jail posthumously?
My world isn't black or white, it's got a whole bunch of shades and a full spectrum of colours.
Nice. So morality is relative, then?
You are wrong, there are not inferior language.
Which person is inferior, a boxer, an runner or a computer programmer? There is no inferior person, only a person that is better suited for what you want to do (fight, run, or program).
If VBScript is the only choice for some task, then VBScript is superior to all other language, because those other language cannot even complete that specific task!
OMG! I saw this earlier today... But then I just came from reading an article at the NY Times about Cheney... And I looked at the picture again (since it's on the top), and the picture provokes a wholly different dark and sinister feeling.
Goodness how terrible it must be to be incarcerated in the cold jail. But you still have it better than some free folks. I wonder how cold you'd be if you had to sleep in an alley with only a cardboard box and newspapers for warmth?
Stop whining and do your time!
Except you are confusing the fact that functional languages are not new, never caught on and are very limited in practical use.
And yet for some reason they never went away, did they?
FP can solve some very tricky problems when the standard tools are not up to the task. Before Python, Ruby, and the rest of the "dynamic" crew arrived on the scene they were the best way to do rapid prototyping for people who could not cough up the bucks for a good Smalltalk system. Currently the FP languages are leading the concurrency charge and as every other language paradigm out there tries and fails to address this issue as new multicore chips are shipped en masse it seems like this may become the very practical use for FP languages.
I concur indeed!
They have a knee-jerk reaction against Judeo-Christianism and America, because that's the "evil" they grow up with, the "evil" they know best. So they automatically defend anything that's against those evils. In their naive, narrow minds, they just don't want to think there're things far worse in faraway lands.
And they have to show their tolerance and open-mindedness, that's the center of their identify, their sense of self-worth. What better way to do that than defending something like Islam and the wonderful culture associated with it ?
if you're arrogant enough to believe that you are the voice of truth and reason, then you don't know how small you actually are
1) papercuts from the edges
2) girl in cubicle next door will freak, thinking there's some pervy man next to her.
Please pay attention to what I was commenting on. I wasn't talking about Iraq. I was responding to biscuitgirl's comment that there aren't "any circumstances under which killing a human being, soldier or civilian, can be justified."
If you believe in that pacifist philosophy then it is easy to conclude that the Iraq war is wrong because by that reasoning all wars are wrong.
If you don't believe in that pacifist philosophy then you must argue for or against a particular action using some other criteria.
I don't believe in that pacifist philosophy and as such I don't think it provides any helpful guidance re: Iraq for or against.
This is a report by a EU Business group - consider the source.
Absolutely, hilariously obscene, an unmistakable two foot, knob topped erection complete with pelvic thrusting! And you worry about a tittie? I'd die without my fix of US culture...the good stuff, but strewth, you folks need some therapy.
4.5 years old. Give us an update.
BTW, WHO says DU is no more harmful than lead.
i dunno why, but "ejaculate" is one of those words that automatically makes me laugh
The irony is getting downmodded for stating something factual because other people are unaware of the situation. I see this time and again -- most people don't have time to read up on everything they hear about, and majority opinion is often underinformed opinion.
I've gone from vi (five years or so) to emacs (for about ten years) and back to vim (for the last four years) over the course of my career. I'm not sure just how expert I was at any of these, but do I feel more empowered by vim, now, than I ever did by emacs. That's not a reflection on what emacs can and can't do, of course. However, I do find it easier to remember more of the advanced vim commands than the equivalent emacs commands, and so I feel I have more of vim's capabilities at my disposal than I did of emacs'.
Emacs in python-mode with py-shell and comint.
I'm a singularity of truth and reason!
What I am wondering about is: why would smart men marry that kind of women? I mean, if you ended up with such a b!tch and you couldn't see better, then may be you deserve it.
gvim is your friend. Try it out.
Presumably what's needed to be a "credible" human rights body is an endorsement of torture, rendition to third parties that are well-known for their sadistic torture practices, and the kidnapping and "disappearing" of people worldwide.
Not really. Cause pretty much all the fighting in most of those wars are between lots of countries that don't spend much on the miltary. Of course, those are primarily countries that don't spend much on anything at all.
It's a trap!
That professor has the childish scrawl of either an M.D. or a three-year-old.
she is hilariously funny
she is hilariously funny
Also also, the prof has silly handwriting, and doesn't seem like much of a prof.
Totally, as long as he looked cute, I think this would be totally hot. From an SNL skit: I want to do something, logical to you baby.
What, 403 Forbidden errors?
Any girl he could turn on by saying "My apartment is designed like Star Trek" would be turned off when he said "...Voyager".
It's definitely an improvement, but if I have a GUI, why would I use vi(m)?
Some people I know, still haven't heard of Ninjai. That's unfortunate.
Canada is a large country, even larger than the USA. Yet, it has a population of about 1/10th that of the USA. So, average in all that extra land, and so many more folks in the USA, and you get the disparity.
Instead of swapping ctrl and caps, I suggest you get rid of caps entirely. Put
Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
in the Keyboard-section of your xorg.conf.
My favorite thing about emacs is talking about why it's better than vi.
It just is.
The day that a slur of any kind becomes perfectly respectable, esteemable, and honorable to the American public, is the day that we are no longer America.
Shut up.
Emacs works everywhere I do. Doesn't matter what platform, doesn't matter what GUI toolkits the system has available. I can get a terminal window and Emacs and get right to work, and my .emacs file is nice and portable.
Err to be more clear:
US law is barbaric and wrong. Maybe we can't do anything about it without causing more problems than we solve, but we shouldn't say, "Well, by our standards it's wrong, but who knows if our standards are the right ones."
My countries standards are superior. Period. Try to convince me otherwise.
Your point of view is that as thier laws have a level of violence greater than yours they are "barbaric and inhumane." New Zealand has no death penalty but otherwise has similar punishments to the US for transgressing the laws regarding accepted behavior.
Therefore by the logic of twoodfin New Zealand has superior standards than the US.
Emacs. Its python-mode is exceedingly good, I can launch an interpreter right there inside the editor, and Emacs integrates with the version control systems I use.
In soviet Russia, photograph manipulates you!
you should engage with the article if its reasoning bothers you. to attack ad hominem argues the truth of nothing.
Satan is behind the creationist movement.
Afghanistan was like this before Islam ever arrived. They simply merged their culture with Islam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncretic_religion
We declare war. Our soldiers wear uniforms and do not pretend to be civilians. Our military actions, successfully carried out or not, are intended to target the leadership, foot soldiers, and infrastructure upon which our opponents depend. Our soldiers are part of a government, which can be negotiated with or fought against.
War is not pretty or good, but there is much that separates it from terrorism, though innocent blood is certain to be spilled in either case.
Sadly, you've already mapped the apostrophe to that key...
Why, oh why cannot the shambling corpse of the record industry die out already?
Population growth. For every fan who grows up and decides to boycott their money-grubbing ways, 1.4 new, naive fans with an allowance take up the record-buying slack.
Great clip - but at 18 minutes it's too long for the average user to sit through. It should be in text instead with links where appropriate to the sounds in question.
Most likely they're watching you too. Be paranoid, very paranoid, because only the paranoid survive, man. I usually don't recommend this, but it's time to wear tinfoil hats now.
Uh... 'cause Bush fills his wallet with $1s 'cause it seems like more money.
free video upload
Okay, I'll bite: why wrap it in tinfoil?
Nifty column selection/insertion, etc going with C-Shift-V in Vim! It's all about speed.
I think we can have a much more interesting and nuanced discussion about the morality of capital punishment than we could ever have about sentencing someone for violating an "Islamic-based law" resulting in "90 lashes for the 'crime' of being alone with a man not related to her."
Maybe N.Z. has superior standards than the U.S. I could be convinced. But can't we both agree that Saudi standards are inferior to both?
Does early puberty also mean early mental development or is it strictly physical?
If fox lies, than they don't have the corner on it. What about the documents that CBS MADE UP to try and discredit the president. What about the time it was reported, even though the reporter knew it was a blatant lie, that the Quran was flushed down the toilet at Guantanamo, and people died because of that report.
If they were going through the charges and listing each one, as somebody said, than this is not bias. This is a screenshot that somebody wants to use against FOX News.
No it's not. It is so they can control women. Anyone who could support doing this to a woman who was raped is an INHUMAN monster who should not expect society to protect them, but who should instead be hunted down and killed in the most vile way one can imagine. Salt should be rubbed into their wounds while they are being killed.
That's what I thought when I first heard of this idea. It honestly took awhile to sink in. A long while.
Look at this this way - your argument is very similar to that made by the lot of us web developers when so-called "blogs" first emerged on the scene - who would want to use web software to post stuff when I could retain control by just writing it all myself in Notepad/BBEdit? We missed the boat on that one and blogger.com got bought.
The fact is, these guys are making something completely new. And it's not about the social aspects, it's about the fact that there's now an easy place just to share your documents and have them be found.
Pre-youtube, you could always post videos on your own web site. But they made it easy, and created a community around respecting (or disrespecting!) eachothers' work. And if I know another community that loves to comment critically on eachothers' work, it's the academic community.
This would be a great way for grad students and professors to publish their work on they web for free - and it's a glaring void right now. I think Scribd just filled it. Yeah them.
Suggestion for Scribd: lose the YouTube comparison. You aren't like YouTube and perhaps short of similar buyout opps in the near future, won't ever be. Saying so sets critical-minded folks like me in negative overdrive, just trying to find a way to disprove your claim. Instead- focus on the fact that you're doing something that no one else has done and believe that it has value. The first social document sharing on the web. Nice.
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Bwahahaha. Five charges, he's guilty on four, FOX singles out the fifth. I swear if soldiers set 50 civilian houses on fire in Iraq and a few insurgents died while walking past thanks to falling rubble, the headline would be "insurgents killed in successful raid".
This video and it's terrible loading has made me frown.
"As stated I stated inhumane and barbaric by our cultures standards but it is their law."
Excuse me, but some things are just plain wrong. By human standards. Those who don't want to apply human standards to other humans are, as far as I am concerned, saying that they aren't human and are therefore fair game to have them those evil standards applied to them. Those who don't not want to apply human standards to all, are not human and should not except to be treated as humans.
I don't buy the thesis, that six seconds of a 1969 b-side transformed the history of music. According to the video, it was used directly in maybe 3 songs. But aside from that it's all just sampling, it isn't just the Amen Break being reused over and over. Modded down for bullshit.
Or you could link the Original Artist's site. Jo Chen is a really awesome dude.
She's getting lashed for breaking their laws (that of being alone with a man that is not her husband) which is totally unrelated to her being raped.
The problem with her punishment in this case is that there is no set rule in the Saudi judicial system that says: women alone with a man = X lashes. The judiciary acts independently, and because of this, and a couple of other unrelated recent cases, a lot of Saudis have been trying to get their Ministry of Justice to codify stuff. See this news article from November (more here).
The blogger linked to for this story also makes the mistake of confusing Saudi laws and punishments with Islamic laws and punishments. What she was convicted of is not a punishment mentioned in the Qur'an or (to my knowledge) the Hadith.
An independent judiciary isn't a new thing in Muslim societies. While many (post-colonial, or post-Ottoman Empire) Muslim countries have some sort of civil court system, and laws based on what the former rulers left behind, many of the Arab peninsula countries give their judges a huge amount of leeway in deciding cases.
Lastly, the Fox News article linked to by the blogger doesn't mention a couple of other facts: she's appealed the ruling, and the man she was with was also raped.
Excuse me? The victims of what US bombing raids? Oh, that's right, you mean the ones perpertrated ten years ago by the playboy in the white house.
When was the last time you actually heard a news story from a major, somewhat credible news network about the US military purposefully going out and killing innocent people who weren't trying to kill them?
Good
I'm sorry, what does your GUI do for you that makes it more efficient than vim?
It didn't really happen.
sigh Just wishful thinking, I guess.
Thank-you Jean Baudrillard. RIP
Somehow I don't think these men have wives and children to support, for the most part.
I'm telling you, you'd better be glad you live in the west. At least here, we actually punish the rapers instead of the raped.
Joom, You must be one of those people who believe O.J. is innocent.
did that thing just wink at me?
"Napoleon told me you might be interested"
No it's not. It is so they can control women.
No, not really. In such cases, the man involved is also punished with lashes.
Good point.
It occurs to me now that there are two Ajaxes (Ajaces? Aiasoi?) in the Iliad. One is the famous one, and there was another character, usually referred to as Ajax the lesser.
Wikipedia says that in the Aeneid he is punished for his rape of Cassandra by being struck by lightning and impaled on a rock.
This is why you should never name anything after anyone in Greek mythology.
After Dark? I didn't see any flying toasters...
Better integration of debugger, and some text editing is just quicker with a mouse - I suppose large amounts of non-line-based copy pasting (paths in some configuration files springs to mind).
Ah. That makes sense. Just making sure I wasn't being obtuse.
7,800 soldiers die since 1990? No shit, close to a million friendly soldiers in that war. I wonder how many dies from car accidents in the 7 years since returning that this article is implying are from some toxic syndrome? This article is full of wrong info and misleading info.
This guy just set the land record for most monotone voice ever.
Yes, John Kerry? Listen, I've got some bad news for you... yeah, it's about your record...
Oddly, I was just listening to Straight Outta Compton. Those silly rappers and their silly beats.
What?
People don't cite Godwin's Law because we think it makes us brilliant or popular. We cite it to note that the level of discussion has reached unproductive levels of suckage.
Interesting news. need to lear more about it
This title is inaccurate. This is a political peice about something that the article doesn't give any evidence of actually existing. Instead it just says that it exists and fails to mention how it works.
No, Saudi Arabia again. Just because all Saudis are Muslims does not mean that their system of governance or their laws are 100% unadulterated Islamic laws.
Guns are like teddy bears for scared, little adults.
Unless the guy who was involved was some kind of transsexual your argument is wrong as the guy who lured her to the car got lashed as well.
Also I am surprised that someone who is so vehemetly against inhumane treatment can't see the irony in wishing that someone "should instead be hunted down and killed in the most vile way one can imagine. Salt should be rubbed into their wounds while they are being killed" because they don't think the same way as you.
You know, I think it's pretty sick that you actually have people who get on here and cuss people out who say what this woman says. But merely because she's been through it, they leave her article alone. I think, before you dismiss this as some disgruntled nobody, you'd better consider long and hard what your life would be like if this ever came to America, which is what the millions of Muslim protestors in the Middle East want to do.
I agree and that's why the graphic is so useless.
This would be interesting to me:
take every country and compute the average cost of housing per person
Put the countries in order based on the figure computed above.
The median country is drawn at normal scale. Countries which have higher average housing costs are drawn bigger than normal and countries with lower average housing costs are drawn smaller.
On this map, Canada and the US would probably both be inflated bigger than their size on a normal map and less expensive countries would shrink.
Outlaw polygamy, like the English did sati in India. After a generation or two, it'll fall out of the culture.
As a fan and regular user of both camps:
Vi: Keybinding, simplicity, ease of configuration, less confusing/bloated buffer/window/tab model, macro, folding, marks, tab-indentation handling, better cut/yank/paste model and last but not least the everything-just-works-out-of-the-box philosophy
Emacs: Minibuffer, intelligent autoindenting, modes (the ability to run shell/interpreter/whatnot associated to the file), coolness factor, better GUI, hjkl-independence (much appreciated as a DSK user) and of course extensibility
Both: Elegance, efficiency and awesome documentation
here is another video which disproves this story:
http://www.nonk.info/cool_videos/cool_videos/coke_on_raw_pork.php
in the Keyboard-section of your xorg.conf
If you don't want to mess with xorg.conf , or cannot, you can replace Caps_Lock anyway with one of two uses of xmodmap:
Use one: Caps_Lock? What Caps_Lock?
$ xmodmap -pke | egrep Caps | \
> perl -ne 's/(?<== ).+$/Control_L/; chomp; system xmodmap => -e => $_'
Use two: I would prefer that Caps_Lock mean Control_L
$ xmodmap|egrep '^lock|^control'
lock Caps_Lock (0x42)
control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d)
$ xmodmap -e 'remove lock = Caps_Lock'
$ xmodmap -e 'add control = Caps_Lock'
$ xmodmap|egrep '^lock|^control'
lock
control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d), Caps_Lock (0x42)
My mom uses those and swears by it. It's a little weird when she pisses on the side of the road during long car trips though.
M-x weather-mode RET
Well, if you're writing code by "large amounts of non-line-based copy pasting," then better integration of a debugger would come in handy. ;)
They could, but hate her or love her, apparently people are REALLY interested in this bitch. This has got to be 10th article about her on Reddit in the past few days.
It's only a matter of time. The big labels will marginalize themselves into pop-whatever because it's can be easily done by a formula and make money. No risk. While they do that they will leave a huge market gap for anyone willing to come along and take that risk. Example: iTunes. Could have been done by a big label, but they were spending too much time trying to crush online distribution. The next step, Emusic, Allofmp3, etc. The next big thing in music won't be done by the RIAA, because they don't take risks.
With Myspace and the three million other ways at distributing music, the large labels will become exactly what they should be, marginalized.
That's talent.
hii..try this
Thumbs up to IDEA and Visual Assist.
IDEA is the simply the best IDE out there IMHO (although it is Java specific and the plugin API sucks). It has vi and emacs mode plugins as well..
A few years ago I had to use a virgin Visual Studio install after having used Visual Assist for a few years prior. It was a real a WTF moment; the first thing that strikes you is just how crappy the syntax highlighting is in virgin VS.
BTW it is Whole Tomato not Rotten Tomatoes (which is a great site fwiw).
Vim used to have a Visual Studio plugin that embedded the gvim editor via OLE in VS. I never played with it and im not sure if it is still maintained.
IDEA and Visual Assist are both payware and probably the best toolset investments I never made (thanks previous employers!)
For perl/ruby/everything else I choose gvim which I run in 'windows mode'.
Andale Mono is the font of choice for all of the above.
I like that emacs can be vi. 8 years ago I was a die-hard vim user, then discovered that with viper-mode in emacs for vi emulation I could have the best of both worlds. Now I use the same key bindings and ex commands whether I find myself in my long-running pimped-out emacs or in vim at the command line.
Not only is it relatively painful for humans to read, there's a rather obvious algorithm for reducing it to an ordinary CAPTCHA. For each pixel, find the most commonly occurring colour across all frames, and take that colour as the colour of the corresponding pixel in the output image. The blinking of the solution characters and the intermittent characters in the background will go away. This approach could be defeated by making the solution characters change colour, but that would make it even more irritating to humans, and a simple edge detection filter on each frame before the process I described would defeat it.
One could also have the letters move and change colour, which would probably make things a bit more challenging, but readability is low already.
Use of a wide variety of strange typefaces would probably be more effective, and simpler to implement.
The interesting thing about time dilation, mass expansion, and length contraction is that they are more than theoretical. There are reams and reams of scientific data that show those exact phenomenon at particle accelerators. The amount of power required to get even an electron up to 99% of the speed of light is staggering. As you start adding 9's ie 99.9, 99.99, the power consumption required increases exponentially. Again, this isn't just predicted, it has been observed an measured.
Every time someone says "There's nothing new to explore or invent" or "We're at the pinnacle of human technology", the only thing I can think is:
"Oh yeah? Look up."
...so is BoingBoing; only I provide more in-depth reviews and themed articles, designed to bring wider scope of subject matter to attention in a single post. It takes more work, btw than simply annotated blurb and a link. This is also why I secure permissions to display material from owners. As for profit, every blog in the world has Adsense; how's it my fault that the site is popular?
Sorry, your slip is showing.
Get your facts right: the Independent Counsel law expired in 1999. Considering that Fitzgerald is a Republican and appointed by the Acting Attorney General to "investig[ate] into the alleged unauthorized disclosure of a CIA employee's identity".
This was no fishing expedition. Fitzgerald was investigating his original charge. A thorough investigation wouldn't have stopped at Armitage. And in fact, Fitzgerald found perjury and obstruction.
He also found out that Ari Fleisher actually broke federal law and blew Plame's cover. If there was justice, that guy should be in jail too.
So, next time, make a case that at least is similar. Otherwise people will downmod you.
(Edit: Typo)
Show us your face Cletus, We wanna see your face!
This is the main reason I can't bring myself to work in Eclipse for extended periods of time.
OMG there are BOOBS in the picture title Pool 5. NSFW everyone!!!!! (sarcasm)
Actually plenty of the "code" I write is R code, where there is a lot of copy-pasting (as code refers very explicitly to data, and is generally throw-away - its a stats language).
You must be a troll.
The Democrats are not calling GWB on his bullshit. They don't seem to have the stomach for real opposition to the war and other batshit insanity from the White House (ie: the "habeas corpus" comment from the Attorney Fucking General).
Nobody in DC really seems to be screaming "have you no sense of decency". Other than a few folks who everyone thinks of as, at best, fringe.
I have started to think that Impeachment and Conviction are no longer the way. The only way out of this mess is to support the Pentagon in a Coup... At least then we wouldn't have invaded Iraq. But in the long run they'd be worse.
The problem is that in situations like these, the cure is often worse than the disease. But we would, at the very least, get to see the bloated insect ravaged bodies of most of the current White House staff rotting on the White House lawn. That might be enough though.
At least with a miltary junta in charge we would at least be able to understand what the are doing and why. Wouldn't like most of it, but we'd understand it. Right now there doesn't seem to be any pattern to understand. It just doesn't make sense in the slightest.
In vi (vim): ex commands. Strong ex-fu allows quick editing of large masses of lines.
Want to indent everything? :g/.*/>
Want to grep, but see line numbers? :g/regex/#
Want to delete line number xyz? :xyzd
They have an upload function. What are the chances that a well reasoned (or any, really) response would actually make it on the site?
Among other things, it helps confirm that nobody switched the samples in the past 11 years.
What about all of the people who have faith but are left to suffer anyways?
Want to delete line number xyz? :xyzd
Want to delete the rest of the file? :.,$d
Want to remove trailing whitespace? :%s/ *$//
vim makes this nicer, as you can visually select a range and then type literal :s/^/%-- / to have that odd comment, with a range automatically inserted after the :
Glossary of common trading and investment terms, strategies, and concepts.
I SAY THIS THREAD GETS SOME CAN-CON! AT LEAST 30%!
WE'RE LEGALLY REQUIRED TO, SO I THINK THE AMERICANS CAN PUT UP WITH GORDON LIGHTFOOT JONI MITCHELL AND THE HIP FOR ONE STINKIN' THREAD!
A darkened brown room with Curried Soul playing for the 1000th time on a radio from the 70's that still works.
Wanna beer? I'm not gonna get all pissed on ya. Don't got the money. But I got enough for one.
awesome
Dunh duuuuuunh dunuhnuh-nuh-nuh-nuh
Dunh duuuuuunh dunuhnuh-nuh-nuh-nuh
Woodoodoodoo-doodoo-du-doo-doo
Woodoodoodoo-doodoo-du-doo-doo
(If you are Canadian you are legally required to listen to and hum this Canadian content)
So, this article warped forward in time 7 years where it became current news I care about?
15 years or so ago, the Bay Guardian reported on a study by one of the local universities (Berkeley?) that showed that free public transit could be a big boost to the local economy. This is based on the premise that people would not save or invest the money they had been spending on transit fares, they would most likely spend that money at local stores.
The mayor mentioned that the cost of collecting fares and trying to monitor for cheaters may equal or exceed the fares collected.
Also when downtown Seattle provided free rides, they found that loading and unloading were faster and routes were more on time.
I think it is a great idea and always thought it would improve the quality of life, get one bill off the backs of the poor who use it extensively and act as an attraction for tourist - the fares and system can be very confusing for tourist and newcomers - you have regular buses, express buses, double length articulated buses, electric buses, short "sport" buses for the hilly areas, LRVs (Light Rail Vehicles) on some street and below street [but above BART], vintage street cars on Market street, cable cars, transbay buses, North Bay (across the Golden Gate Bridge) buses, San Mateo County Transit buses, CalTrain (full sized train that goes to the South Bay/Silicon Valley) and BART.
Although I use SciTE for anything non-trivial, I find that DOS-era "edit" doesn't get in my way (although its been fairly slow since Windows 2000).
Eclipse + PyDev (+Aptana)
Honestly, if I didn't do almost as much javascript, CSS, XSL and java as python, I'd probably just use jEdit (if only for the split pane feature) or PythonWin or IDLE (if only for nostalgia).
Why does practically every editor make it a huge PITA to have two copies of the same file in two windows open at the same time? Maybe I'm a retard but I find myself wanting to look at something at the top of a file and the bottom at the same time. Only jEdit does that to my satisfaction.
Really useful it helped me on my site.
Yes, people do things that are horrible to women there. It's perfectly acceptable to decry the situation there.
But does that make the men there evil? No.
Does it mean we should force them to change? No.
Does it mean all Muslims act like this? No.
Does it mean we should immediately liberate the women? No.
Are all Islamic women against this? No.
Can religions be used for evil purposes? Absolutely. But so can money, or anything else good in this world.
Edit: When I say "liberate", I mean by force. Certainly we should say how horrible it is, and hold these people up as examples of human rights violators. But "saving" people from their own culture usually has horrible results. It has to come from within.
Grow up. Just like all the silly recalcitrant librarians ought to. I would have absolutely zero compunction about reading this to my kid. How infantile this reaction.
Liberal Nazis? What's next, Communist Republicans?
I would have, but I couldn't find the image on his site. Used to be there, boofor redesigns.
Why do people use the word "Tao" when it sounds so horribly pretentious?
Oops, my point appears to have dodged your head like a schizobullet.
Actually, yes it is.
Morality changes depending on race, nationality, gender, time period and many other aspects.
While we nowadays concider it immoral to torture people, it was perfectly fine to do so in the middle ages. While it might be ok to have sex with your sister if you are a member of certain native tribes in the south-american jungle, it might be not as ok if you are an aborigine. Abortion... sexual practices... age of consent... legal drinking age... use of drugs... equality of men and women...
What's moral and what is not depends on the perspective.
There in things get complicated. Our "superior" standards have recently allowed a psychotic nutbar out on parole (http://tinyurl.com/2ty2ac) who, shortly being released went on a violent spree. Unfortunately there are some people in this world who do not think like the rest of us, have limited empathy for others and are not much above animals, driven only by want and instinct. The difficulty is in seperating these people from the people who can actually be helped.
Because of this diffculty most legal systems in the world go with no physical punishment as if a mistake is made you have become what you hate (not that incarceration is a perfect solution either).
Like I said very early on I think thier law about not being with a man alone is stupid. However, it is thier prudish law, she (and he) would have been aware of it at the time.
Across the western world religious groups (mostly Christian as they have the loudest "voice") try to get laws to get everyone else to fit thier view of the world which at times I find ridiculous. Now over time these laws have slowly been overturned and to be fair the punishments are not physical however the same idea applies. There are arbitary laws in the world that have no real justification other than the opinions of concrete right and wrong of generations past.
In short, I don't think NZ or US laws are actaully superior (and I don't really think US laws are inferior). They are laws designed for a culture and people at a given point in time. As the culture slowly changes (which it appears it is) the laws will change to follow suit.
You said:
We firebombed Tokyo every night
Which one the following does it satisfy:
target the leadership, foot soldiers, and infrastructure upon which our opponents depend
You are qwe1234
No, wjv writes very differently. For my part, I wish qwe would return.
South Africa's crime problem and how it affects the people that live there. A nice fresh spin to this though. good article and awesome new blog
BRILLIANT PICTURE!
lulz
As far as these editors are concerned, it's not so much having a favorite feature. It's about which I hate less.
Before you downmod me into oblivion, allow me to explain: Both editors get the job done, and to some extent they do it very well, but this is 2007, and neither editor does an adequate job of integrating with my windowing enviroment: Poor clipboard integration, poor GUI integration (Have fun getting readable fonts in Emacs -- It's doable, but only if you hack it yourself or enable third-party repositories for Emacs 22), non-existent keyboard integration: Standard shortcuts like Ctrl-(X|C|V) have been around long enough for at least Emacs to fix it.
When I only have a shell around, I will still use Emacs, but for all other day-to-day editing, I'll use something else, for the reasons cited.
Add to it that I am a Javascript developer -- The only JS modes I've found for emacs are piss-poor, and other editors, like Komodo Edit does a much better job, and is much easier to customize for what I need.
Re: The Grey Album
I heard a few tracks from that--copyright violations are one thing. Taking great, classic music and spraying it with a lower bowel's worth of rotten diarrhea is quite another.
Nothing for me, I'm afraid of heights.
As long as Karla comes over too, you're invited to dinner for Chef Boyardee that sort of tastes like chicken. We can hang around in the den after. You can bring your kids.
She's got a degree in Psychology. No Shit, Sherlock.
You'll be charmed. Or else.
And so were many of our ancestors.
The sad part is that this was just copied from a mistake made by slashdot yesterday. Is this all reddit is? A re-postings of stories from other sites like digg and slashdot ?
Some people mentioned Erlang. I think it's to early to talk about it. Erlang really shines in the moment you need massive concurrency - but this isn't really important in most domains yet. But it will change in the coming years and so maybe Erlang will become a 'Big Thing'. But we still need good IDEs and better performance until then: Whats the use of scaling an app to 1000 processors if the result can hardly compete performance wise with a C++ solution running on only 10 processors? Remember, that Erlang is quite slow as long as the program isn't using massive numbers of threads.
Yes, when you only consider a caricature (Erlang? Parallelism!) of a language, it is very easy to dismiss like this. I'd prefer that you not mix your dismissive caricature with assertions like that last one, however.
In your defense, I think it probable that this paragraph contains the entirety of your understanding of Erlang.
I would really like to see Esperanto or Lojban as 'world-language' instead
Bah, anything but Esperanto -- it is only a 'world-language' in that Europeans who only know European languages think it simple and universal. Look, they say, my conlang has 12 simple rules that anyone -- who is already familiar with assumptions made by these rules -- can understand immediately! :D
Ha ha somebody spent a lot of time watching pigs copulating.
The fact that IPython does not behave exactly like python. =) (ls,cd magic etc)
Ralph Wiggum make us proud.
i think they have a point
What does it mean for the EU that it might admit a country that jails a man for referring to someone as "Mr."?
hmm, you take a paypal advance?
Hehehe... Some good tips! I'm going to need these soon.
Why do such a dignified people have to cover up what happened in the past. The Japanese are great, but shame is soooo much part of their culture it gets them in huge trouble with their neighbors when in fact the are so likeable.
Hehe
That's not true. Recycling of metals and glass is almost always worth it.
Really? I must be getting my information from the wrong places. I'll bear this in mind in the future.
You're assuming there is joy in it.
There is! At least for me . . . well, actually, I wouldn't know, as I've never tasted a kiwi. I assume they are good, though. Perhaps I've not reached that "no more happiness" consumption level yet.
Not gonna happen since it's been tried and it doesn't work too well.
Surely after fifty years of technological advances we could at least get closer . . . but I didn't think it would be possible. What about liquid hydrogen or the like? Would it be possible to keep it cool enough to use in a plane? If energy for creating the hydrogen was plentiful and cheap, it just might be possible. (Of course, the project I linked to failed, but I think that with the advancement of technology, such work may eventually be feasible.)
"services" which I've already accounted for and discounted as con games and pyramid schemes. . . . It amounts to three times nothing in terms of economic clout?
If you're right, then the US is in trouble. It's a possibility, but there are others who have been saying the same thing as you for decades and nothing has happened yet. If something bad does happen, we will probably just return gladly to our manufacturing ways of old, although the process will not be without some pain during the transition.
The point though is that the "fact value" of something isn't determined by intersubjective consensus.
Naturally. Something is true only if it is true. However, consensus is often a good signal when one is trying to determine the truth but lacks the resources to go and discover all the evidence directly.
Very much the same since both finance and the military are parasites.
Your metaphor is good. However, let's not forget that there have been moments in which a military has served its society well (see the Allies, World War II for one example). Whether this was by design or by accident, I doubt you'll disagree that in this case at least, the military served its host society. In the same way, the financial establishment also occasionally serves its host society.
vim! on linux/unix.
textmate on MacOSX
I hate those Rule No. 2: Don't forget Rule No 1. things. If forgetting a rule was an option, what happens if I forget Rule No. 2 and then proceed to forget Rule No. 1?
becauswe of u
the Japanese PM has the wrong history books in his hand perhaps.
At first I read that as "Systems Management Server" and was horrified
The woman's ordeal began a year ago when she was blackmailed into meeting a man who threatened to tell her family they were having a relationship outside wedlock
That sounds like she already met him before she was blackmailed.
This is why you don't buy music.
Agreed. Books are less conducive to cherry-picking than the 3 minute grabs of video that are permissible under Fair Use.
In an attempt to legitimise this the first thing I would have done as a founder would be to seed the collection with the contents of the Gutenberg Project and every book with an appropriate Creative Commons license.
And where is the global outrage against these atrocities fulfilled in the name of a constant backward religion, the religion of peace?
George Bush calls himself born again Christian. Should his action be a yard stick of Christianity?
There have been 600,000+ Iraqis that have been killed in the last few years. You are wondering why there is not enough outrage over a tribal societies justice system?
It's so opposite to the Germans. They are so ready to wear there guilt on their sleeves they are STILL moping and greiving 50 years later for their sins in WWII. I think most Japanese feel HORRIBLE about what happened but don't want to talk about it.
denial is a painful state of mind.
Beautiful!
Alberto Gonzales Exposed?
Not a good visual, dude.
It burns! It BURNS!!
up mod for the name alone. Yours in anger
Why? I download and listen to various things all the time. This was way cool to listen to when I'm putzing around online.
That's the whole point, you wouldn't bite it if it was wrapped in tinfoil
Our abject refusal to judge between civilisation and barbarism, and between enlightened rationalism and theocratic fundamentalism, endangers and condemns the victims of Islamic tyranny.
Shock and Awe, death of 600,000 Iraqis ..... are the fruit of the "civilisation", "enlightened rationalism"!
Lets not forget that Afghanistan was a functioning society until the "enlightened rationalism" of Reagan administration decided to use Afghanistan as "theater" to engage the Soviet Union and Communism. As the wars went on and on, the middle class left Afghanistan, until now were only the die hard fanatic (local and the imported ones) dominate the country.
Agreed, one could make more compelling arguments for Kraftwerk's trans-europe express and Chic's Good Times.
Liberals know very well that a lot of fucked up things are sponsored by Islamic culture. Being a PNAC-whore because of some simple-minded fear that their culture will conquer ours isn't the answer, though. That just makes her a shill for neo-con imperialism. I can easily imagine her joining Ann "godawfulfuckingcunt" Coulter in screaming herself red in the face calling for the elimination of liberals and Democrats for being "objectively pro-terrorist".
She wasn't punished for being raped.
The judges, ... decided to sentence the woman and her original blackmailer to lashes for being alone together in his car.
They were.
Five of the rapists were arrested and given jail terms ranging from 10 months to five years. The prosecutor had asked for the death penalty for the men.
At least here, we actually punish the rapers instead of the raped.
I recently read an article about jail rape here on reddit, which implied the opposite.
http://lr2.com/media/ledbetter.swf
http://reddit.com/info/8v31/comments
not to label all filipinos as whores but the sex industry in the country is quite popular.. just my thoughts
looks like the PM has opened fresh wounds by refusing to talk about it any longer.
So, the guy who blackmailed the woman gets lashed as well, so the woman should just blindly accept the lashing herself. Tell me again how that makes sense?
I am against inhumane treatment. I just draw the line at those who enjoy dishing out inhumane treatment. It's not irony -- It's practicality.
It is a weak provision nothing at all like the First Amendment of the US Constitution. It allows them, for example, to ban "hate speech" and "nazi symbols". I still agree with Chomsky.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
-Noam Chomsky
Thats a good point. You don't meet many poor uneducated Muslims living in America rather they meet college educated ones and well to do ones etc. Though its hardly the majority of what the Muslims are like at all. They are literally living in the middle ages when it comes to womens civil rights and they will never be modern with that sort of thinking.
No right thinking person uses BLOOD RED as one of their "full spectrum of colours" by which they see the world.
dupe and dead
http://reddit.com/info/8v31/comments
http://lr2.com/media/ledbetter.swf
I thought it was called bigotry.
Over last few decades education system has undergone a sea change. Distance education is one great option for the people who want to continue their studies while they are employed and are working.
i partly understand the japanese... not easy to keep apologizing for something done long ago by people you hardly know.
Actually most meat is free of trichinella which is the worm this video is supposedly showing. (The cysts of the pork tapeworm are visible to the naked eye). The only way to get trichinella is by ingesting undercooked, contaminated meat. This goes for pigs as well. Most modern pig farms do not feed pigs meat therefore it is rare for pigs to get trichinella and pass it on.
Also, trichinella has to pass through the very low pH of the stomach in order to be released from its nurse cell complex. Although coke is fairly caustic I doubt it is acidic enough to dissolve the cyst encapsulating the worms in 2 minutes since it takes hours in the stomach.
Since you want ref: http://www.trichinella.org/index_synopsis.htm
It's a little dense but it's all there.
No, that is whre you are wrong. In very many ways Western Laws and Culture is very much superior to those in the rest of the world. To deny that is to deny 1+1=2. You can say it all you want, but wishing will not make it so.
Saudi Arabia is an example of Religious Belief running wild and thus very much showing that they are inferiors to all normal human beings.
This fucker needs to be sent to the gallows pole.
Just one of many reasons why:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/080400-02.htm
Bigotry against evil. Damn Right!
Next you're going to be telling us how the Nazi's were so misunderstood and the Jews, gypsies, etc. should have just accepted the death camps as the law of the Reich.
Best hip hop blog on the net.
It is a lie. One definition of "lie" is to create a "false or misleading impression".
So, when some dude gets convicted on 80% of the charges brought to bear against him in court, and you report "Hey, look, he was found NOT guilty!", it is a lie, because is creates the impression in the listeners that we was innocent, which, of course, he wasn't.
I'll concede that vim doesn't integrate with gdb, but 'non line based copy pasting' couldn't be easier than it is in gvim. It doesn't sound like you've actually tried gvim yet.
What the heck is this doing on programming reddit? Please think for 2 seconds about what you're doing before you post things.
No. I'm sorry, but yes it is to control the women. Only an idiot couldn't see that. But then...
So she's waiting for Mr. Right. I don't think this makes her count as a hypocrite in any way. Does is make here less qualified? Somewhat.
You can't be on the side of the troops and of cheney and his cohorts at the same time:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/080400-02.htm
Those wounded/exposed to war in Iraq and their families, will live miserable lives thanks to cheney's efforts.
sound advice. if anyone needs it.
You're probably homosexual. Or heterosexual. Equally pathetic.
Freaky!
Assuming she is and always has been 100% female, would you?
And what about those 200,000 medical claims? I suppose they all slipped in the shower? Stepped on rakes maybe? If you can't RTFA at least RTFH.
Why are you so hostile? Have I hurt you personally?
Erlang is a quite standard dynamic functional language. The only thing which goes beyond this is it's model of concurrency. If I missed something then this is your chance to display your understanding and make me a bit more educated, so please go on.
Esperanto is a usable and easy to learn language. Sure, it's clearly euro-centric (and because of this I also mentioned Lojban which is much more of a world-language, but hasn't nearly as many speakers as Esperanto), but in the moment we have English as 'world-language' - and guess what: English is kind of euro-centric too. And it's also the native language of lots of people who have a big advantage compared to the rest of the world because they are born in an English speaking country.
where's Linux?
It'll be nice to see another emacs-alike, along with the older "Let's replace Emacs with an Emacs written in a modern language"-style projects like Climacs (or the Scheme or Guile Emacs). The focus on being a good example may differentiate it from the pack a bit.
Everyone knows this. Were you trying to make a (possibly ethical, I'm guessing) point about the sky being blue?
Why are you so hostile?
Don't imagine that I am hostile to you -- it leads to nonsensical responses like your "and guess what: English".
If I missed something then this is your chance to
mock you for knowing only this tiny thing about Erlang, but then feeling comfortable to make that "Remember, Erlang is" assertion? Why don't you hold your own assertions to this displayed-understanding, educating standard?
how about the koreans that made up most of the supposed jap units in the country? didn't they do any form of atrocities as well?
Does the RICO act then apply?
The Reddit title isn't the thesis of the piece. Its thesis is that sampling itself transformed music (which is obvious), and the Amen was just used as a clear example of this evolution.
Carl Sagan's dragon offered no evidence of its existence.
The reason I have is "there's no proof".
You see how my example fits so well?
In other words, God is an answer to the question "The universe exists.
You underestimate the abilities of my dragon, in my garage. By the way "there is no proof" of my dragon not creating the universe so that's why I know he did.
Atheists answer "from nothing!"
No, atheists answer "I don't know"
Theists answer "From something!"
No, theists answer from (insert their god here)
Agnostics answer "That question makes no sense!"
No, Agnostics say that is unknowable.
I would never say I have a "valid argument" for God.
On that we agree. That's my point. If you had one you would be a critical thinking individual.
...for or against.
No. There are lots of valid arguments against god. Especially a Christian god. For example we didn't have a world wide flood, the earth isn't 4000 years old.
All I can say is why the idea of a creator makes sense to me
Because you have Faith. It has nothing do do with being a critical thinker, in fact it's the opposite. If you had valid reasons you wouldn't have faith... right?
Perhaps you might want clarify what you mean by "a reason" and "a valid argument" first.
How about what a dictionary says:
reason
(n) : a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of argument; the faculty of capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals
valid:
(adj) : well grounded or justifiable, pertinent; acceptable, proper or correct
Dear prudish Americans*,
You're putting British reservism to shame! The next time I hear how 'reserved' us British are I'll make sure to point out all the fuss you made over a nipple.
Some people have tits. Most tits have nipples. Some people have cocks, and others have cunts, well, vaginas. Most people like putting cocks into vaginas, others like putting cocks into assholes, some people with vaginas like eating other vaginas into submission...
I'm not really going anywhere with this, as it's too early to form a constructive argument that doesn't just allow me to be vulgar, but what I'm really trying to say is just get over it! Grow up a little - you've all got genitals, you've all seen them before, the majority of you over the age of 18 have had sex before so it's nothing new. Your kids will grow up and have sex too! Shock horror.
Watch more porn, it'll do ya good!
(* - I'm only addressing the prudish, nipplophobic Americans. This comment is also perhaps a few SuperBowl's too late, but meh. And I use the word "Americans" reffering to the people of the USA. Don't like it? Tough.)
"Why is the question Islam or Israel..."
Because people can't think objectively. They have to take sides. Most conversations fall apart into a "us vs. them", "We good, them evil!" mentality.
People pick a slogan, or a mascot, and go with it.
for emacs: nethack-mode. Wait, wait, let me explain!
I simply can't stand the hjkl (partly why I use Emacs), and apparently in the roughly 20 years Nethack has been developed, the developers have never seen fit to include decent directional pad/arrow support in Nethack; I can use some Emacs Lisp in nethack-mode and solve that easily enough. In addition, some more snippets give nice highlighting of minor details like health, blessedness/cursedness, alignments, and that sort of thing. So it makes it possible for me to play one of my favorite games and in comfort (in addition to being able to retain better records, since the buffers contain the scores, items and so on).
yes, combinatorial explosion.
"Shock and Awe, death of 600,000 Iraqis ..... are the fruit of the 'civilisation', 'enlightened rationalism'!"
Really? When did Iraq come into this? Oh wait, we make everything about Iraq.
Hey you see the new Family Guy episode about Mohammad? IRAQ! IRAQ! GEORGE BUSH! IRAQ!
In a country far,far away!
What are you supposed to be?? A giant nerd? :D
From the site..
Caffeine increases the affinity and density (number) of type A118 and type A2A adenosine receptors.19 A migrainer is excessively sensitive to adenosine and excessively insensitive to excitatory neurotransmitters. These are exactly the adaptations caffeine causes. Caffeine, in other words, alters the nervous system in just the right way to make a person a migrainer. No wonder, therefore, that exposure to caffeine can be followed by a withdrawal syndrome indistinguishable from a migraine episode.
Good stuff. Thanks.
I'm afaid of heights, water, and I can't swim.
I'm fucked!
Why don't you simply explain what you mean? I'm not interested in meta-discussions or 'mocking'. Or are you simply trolling?
Is that a Family Guy quote?
OT: Ahh, thank Deity they've switched the report/reply buttons around. I kept clicking on the wrong one!
i have a comment
this is exactly my favourite thing as well... that I am in "command mode" by default and "edit mode" by request.
Some GUI advocates would argue that they are in control with their mouse or that context menu key...
but they are just being foolish!
because who wants to move their hand to flail a mouse around, rodents should flail by themselves!
and the funny little menu key still limits you to the commands of a menu, more than likely providing not near the control vi's keystroke commands offer (or if it did... damn that would be one mammoth menu which I wouldn't want to navigate any way)
I think your sarcasm detector is broken. Run a diagnostic.
Why don't you simply explain what you mean?
What don't you understand? Your assumption that "Erlang capital-IS parallelism" is wrong. Your "Remember" assertion is offensively wrong.
My point in that comment was not that I had run into a critical thinking individual. Quite the opposite. I was trying to put it into a framework you might be able to objectively understand. That is basically if you knew what you thought was a critical thinker and then found out they knew for sure that Zeus created the world you may not think they were still a critical thinker. You responded by saying "maybe he has a valid reason" so I gave you a invalid reason. You sidestepped the issue.
Maybe I should have been more simple. You think you know a critical thinker, they believe trees talk to them in greek. Do you still think they are a critical thinker? Might have been a better example.
Then why do the Neo Con's loving sucking that Saudi and Kuwaiti cock every chance they get? They aren't anti-Arab in every way. Heck Neo Cons very much approve of the way Arab's threat woman.
It is permissable to use quotes
You updated your site. I noticed the plagiarism when it was posted the first time here on reddit. Here is the cache on google. If you notice there are no quotes surrounding the entire first paragraph which is taken directly from a bbc article.
Firstly, you didn't properly quote the bbc article as being a quotation when you first posted this article. You used it as if these were your own words which is strictly speaking plagiarism. I doubt had the issue been raised you would have changed your article to include the quotation marks. Secondly, quotations are used as a reference to support your own words, your own work. A quotation should never stand alone. So it doesn't matter if you place a couple of quotes around the entire text and then provide an obscurley written note at the bottom of your page with link numbered 1,2,3,4.
Depleted uranium. NOT the breakfast of champions.
I can see it being attractive to guys. However, the fake nipples point totally awkwardly in a non-natural direction compared to real nipples.
there is a vi plugin for Eclipse... but it costs 30 dollars :(
why use Eclipse and its sacreligous GUI one might ask? I like the Bug icon on the Debug button, I named mine Freddy the Wonder Bug and he helps me stay calm on late night debugging sessions. Also the class browser is really nice for managing larger projects.
btw, why do I always get downvoted when discussing this? Are you downvoting me? if so that's really lame. If you didn't find this at least engaging you wouldn't be answering my questions. If you are downvoting these comments please stop, it really makes me think less of you. If it isn't you, I apologize.
Very condensed summary on agile software development methods. To be read if you would like to know what this agile stuff is about, but don't have much time.
So since she's never been married we can assume she's still a virgin, right?
just curious, but you aren't downvoting my comments are you?
sure, if you're a tard.
The Allah of the Koran may in fact be a pagan Arab moon god of pre-Islamic times. Here's the most objective article I could find on the subject with links to articles both for and against.
See also: the Satanic Verses.
So what's next? Women will set fire to their tits and then berate us for staring at their chest? Which makes me wonder, what would draw less of a lawsuit: patting or dousing said fire?
So if you're damned if you do and damned if you don't, might as well look.
If you don't want them looked at, ladies, don't wear things like this.
This is a new blog I'm starting. Its focussed on my experiences as I return to motorcycling
Poorly written and documented prose.
Zapata a black descendant because his hair looks like it? Anyone wearing a sweaty and dusty sombrero all day would end up with hair like that.
Totally useless, of course.
A non-totally-useless language that does not ignore standards but that also classes as offering a Zen language, with such low-level access that I casually inlined machine code (even though it comes with an assembler) in it: Quartus Forth, for the PalmOS.
Whatever you do, please don't bite.
Or, someone who claims to have experience working in TV stations will once again post to claim that it was an innocent mistake by a technician who has no political agenda.
Well... there is a vi plugin for Eclipse, but it costs 30 dollars :(
I'm a big fan of vi for almost everything... But for larger Java projects, I find the class browser to be pretty handy. And the auto code completion and real-time error detection is really nice as well.
and Scheme doubly so.
No, I'd say "and Scheme halvely slow", or possibly "and Scheme tenthly so". Scheme does a much better job of cute little unix executables.
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TWAT: the The War against Terrorism is making this country behave like Saddam's regime! And we're the civilized?
Why is there something wrong if so?
I could tell you, that just because they treated people inhuman doesn't mean they should be treated inhuman.
There is a difference between vengeance and justice.
Also: Godwin's Law applies.
BoingBoing directs its users to links it thinks its audience would appreciate. In this sense they are not stealing content they are directing visitors towards content just as Reddit does. They provide just enough information to spark interest. Your site provides the content and as an afterthought mentions the original source. You are not doing the same thing as BoingBoing.
Great article for guys. Some good advice given.
i use eclipse/pydev for django apps daily and would hesitate to change. you're right about the quirks, though - so much money into an app like eclipse and ctrl+o doesnt open a file! i like the concept of workspaces, but eclipse seems to choke on windows (yeah, yeah) sometimes and i have to re-create the entire bench. that is not fun. beats the pants straight off of textmate for serious project editing, though.
I wonder what he plans to do about it? If you ask me, another mistake Starbuck makes is diversifying too much. The music and coffee schwag, the pastries, etc.
this is very intriguing for my budding lisp aspirations and semi-vi-competancy...
I must investigate this viper-mode. vipers are bad ass.
Amen. More succinctly: "She looks undead."
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Why do people have a problem with this? Reddit is about whatever people want to see.
I call shens? Or maybe this guy's basement is super-dry and cold?
you know I think a lot of americans don't know about Korea's role. In fact I think very few understand what went on in Asia during WWII. Everyone in US learns more about Europe.
I predict that if Mr Bush is not indicted before his term is up, none of the politicians or journalists will "go sell shoes".
There are benefits?
Sometimes justice and vengeance are the same.
The poster of this comment obviously has no idea what they are talking about. Seriously if you had this apartment you would have an army of women online wanting to recreate their slash fantasies. If it had to include you to get into the house it would.
That's right. Forensics relies on objective repeatable evidence, rather then subjective memory.
You see how my example fits so well?
No, Carl Sagan's dragon has no reason for existing. In the example, the dragon has no effect on the universe. The point is that if it has no effect on the universe, and you can't prove that it's there, why does it matter that it's there? A Creator, on the other hand, is an answer to the question of "what made the universe?" To put it more simply, the dragon is a question that needs an answer, a Creator is an answer to a question.
For example we didn't have a world wide flood, the earth isn't 4000 years old.
This only shows that the Genesis story is not literal. Which isn't that strange since it contradicts itself anyway. (Cain runs off and gets married in a city after he kills Abel. Where did those people come from? Not Adam and Eve...)
No, atheists answer "I don't know"
Not quite: they may actually say many things, but what they all agree on is that "I know it wasn't a creator of some sort".
reason
That's a lot of different definitions. Very well, I'll pick "motive", a few of which I've given and which I feel are "pertinent" (which means "appropriate"). My motive for believing in God is that it makes sense to me that something must have created the Universe, because something doesn't come from nothing. I think that my own consciousness is a good indication of a God. I think that it is good for humanity to have some humility and worship a creator. (I do, however, see the possibility of abuse, but I then realize that anything good can be abused.)
And I know how you're going to respond: you're going to talk about Cartesian duality or some other philosophy stuff, and then say "it's been totally refuted" — when all you're doing is repeating the arguments of old philosophers and not actually refuting anything. There are plenty of counter arguments to Russell et al. out there.
You seriously underestimate the number of nerd girls.
I don't think you've made your point very clearly. Most likely, you're saying that we shouldn't outlaw local customs in countries we conquer. Well, how about sati (burning the widow along with her dead husband) in India, ok to outlaw, or no? Sure, polygamy is less clear cut but, souldrift was talking about how to change things militarily; I'm saying, with power, we could.
Is your point that we shouldn't outlaw anything? In that case, you're arguing with much more than my statement. Welcome to majority rule, a lot of things are outlawed everywhere, and even the locals don't like much of it.
But to your most-likely point, how often do you think the first wife is happy when the husband takes a second wife?
Hm, Erlang is rather slow when used conventionally. Just look at the benches at the shootout which are a very clear indication. And this is not very astounding considering the dynamic nature of Erlang. Erlang can only compete in applications with massive concurrency because only there it's very efficient model of computation makes up for those speed deficits. In areas where this is important, Erlang is a viable alternative or even superior to other most other languages.
I'm downvoting mine as well; I dont want to spam up this thread.
And here I thought we were talking about Islam. All your hand-wringing doesn't change the fact that Islam has a violence problem. And don't try to change the damned subject. We aren't interested in who else has been naughty. Right now we are talking about Islam.
As I live two floors down from spez, I know what he's really been up to... playing nonstop gears of war while reddit fanboys wait out in the cold for a database upgrade.
If you knew cats, you'd know they don't "stand" like that.
It's a dead (and stiff) cat.
I like Emacs's extensibility and the ease in which it can integrate with other programs (gcc, gdb, your shell, ...). It is also nice to be able to do everything from the same environment (edit code, email, irc, ...).
That's right you are anonymgrl... Oh wait.
Well, unfortunately, that whole paragraph is what exposes her for the emotionally broken whack-job she really is. Let's face it, most Muslim countries are full of pig-dogs that treat women like shit, only a dumbass would argue otherwise. But does that -single experience- mean we're headed for an Islamic armageddon? If you think so, that's an Olympic feat of speculative logic. The whole "OMG They're not even HUMAN" type of rants are so counterproductive, I can only assume the people who use these arguments must subconsciously want unremitting war between "Muslimland" and "Jesusland".
So the Muslims are a pack of violent, sexist pig-dogs. Shame on them. Let's harass them about it, vigilantly. But first, let's have some moral high ground to stand upon. They hate us for many reasons, but the West treating women as equals is not one of the hot-button issues that causes the dumbshits to drive airliners into skyscrapers.
Russia is one bad-as# country. I wonder what percentage of the journalists were ordered dead by Putin. OK, now I will go hide. I fear for my life.
It really just depends on the girl you want. If you want a bimbo, then no, this is not going to get you laid.
makes one wonder if we are indeed successful in protecting our right to speech
I'm sure that's still true for some primitive parts of our brain, but to the thinking person that has at least attempted to grapple with and possibly has overcome their primitive impulses, its no longer valid. Doubtful that either type of attendee at the event qualify.
I am sure that even at a primitive level these women's brains are more concerned about their own comfort and sense of triumph or superiority over other women than they are concerned with the well being of offspring.
Yes, that statement jumped out at me too. Gosh, it's not that Ann's a bad person, it's just how she riles up her opponents.
Sheesh.
video about globalwarming dangers
I'm sorry you picked such a lame title. It would have gone over much better with something like "Ann Coulter poses with gay porn star"
Edit: is it bad form to post this again with a URL like and a better title?
Whilst other songs, breaks and parts have been sampled ad nauseam too, the author has a point in that the "Amen Break" is featured extensively throughout hip hop, drum and bass, and a variety of other forms of music.
I wouldn't call his point bullshit, but your point is taken. It's hard to argue against the power and influence of this break though.
Amen. If the upper 1% of the mob wants pretty pictures, let them have pretty pictures.
LOL
Oh, please. Two paragraphs in and already they're starting with the buzzwords. If I want to be bored to tears by someone who hasn't read, or didn't understand, Fredrick Brooks, I'll go watch a Kevin Smith movie.
Cute, little, but slow. Go look on the "language shootout". SBCL's JIT is speed competitive with Haskell, but it eats RAM like Java; Chicken and Bigloo are more like the speed of interpreted Lua. I believe it's the re-entrant continuations that are particularly hard to compile to a hardware managed stack.
For me it's BackSpace, as in the Lisp Machines. I also remapped the key labeled "Backspace" to "Undo".
Drawback, maybe in some aspects, but it the drawback of freedom, you are free to tailor the language you are using.
It's to set off the metal detectors at the airport.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=derek+smalls+airport+security&btnG=Search
Democracy is working really well in Iraq.
You forget that the additional content is posted with the specific permission of the author. This becomes a feature article, which brings the author even more attention. In most articles the source is listed at the very beginning. If you do not like to see such articles/reviews on front page of Reddit, you can use your voting/banning power to get rid of it. However I have no power over people submitting the material from my site to Reddit. I am also surprized by what a humorless bunch the redditors are.
> Standard shortcuts like Ctrl-(X|C|V) have been around long enough for at least Emacs to fix it.
Emacs predates those shortcuts.
Does that really matter when most applications are not oriented toward the command line, and all of these other applications have agreed on a standard set of shortcuts?
Another stupid, misleading headline ... the article PLAINLY states the teacher responded immediately.
So, anonymgrl ... BAD BAD BAD!
An interesting blog coving some famous quotes of the great Ann Coulter
My fear of heights comes from a fear of falling and the soft splat as I find out if I bounce or not. I just don't have the same fear with water. I'm fat. I float. It's all good. The water won't suddenly turn to air and leave me screaming into the abyss as I plummet into its depths.
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Complaint 2: "My children were watching and now I have to explain to them what a wet spot is on a cum covered sheet."
Shouldn't she mean "dry spot"?
Ahem:
Scientists break speed of light
Last Updated: Friday, November 10, 2000 | 11:57 PM ET
CBC News
It really should have a meaningful name. What is a "report" anyway?!
The really excellent thing about this is that I had never really noticed the break before. But the Amen break is so ubiquitous that just from reading the title, "Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop", I was able to guess what the sample would be.
That's an option when you are in lead and project is small or you already have a team that can code with language of choice.
I too use Erlang for all my personal projects but at work use java even while I don't like the language - and I'm the one who decides what language we use.
It's just too risky to use some obscure language when there is no guarantee that you will be able to hire quality people who can program in that language.
Aw shucks, not for at least 3 days.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6416667.stm
I should have read her more carefully, she does attack moral relativism.
Well, there're two 'muslim attacks' and two responses. The overt one is the terrorists, and I agree about needing to have moral high ground before we take any action. And to me, that means pulling the plug on Israel. If they're still after us, then we can let them have it with both barrels with a clear conscience.
Another one she may be talking about is just Muslim growth in Europe, she may be saying that we shouldn't tolerate non-assimilation, because we'll end up with something incompatible with Western values. Whether she separates those out in her mind isn't clear, but I don't think we need to clear any guilt before acting on this latter.
Is it? It's the same with the n-word, there are people who can and cannot say it, because it's all in the intention behind the word.
To put it more simply, the dragon is a question that needs an answer, a Creator is an answer to a question.
That's where you are wrong, my dragon created the universe as I've already mentioned.
Not quite: they may actually say many things, but what they all agree on is that "I know it wasn't a creator of some sort".
I know I'm fighting a fine point on this but you are a little off. Atheists don't agree with any current religion or faith, but that doesn't mean that they wouldn't dissagree with some future God. If you presented evidence that your God or Gods created the world an atheists may or may not believe you. "I know it wasn't your creator" might be better.
something must have created the Universe, because something doesn't come from nothing
So why don't you believe in my dragon since it created the universe, I have as much evidence as the bible.
I think that it is good for humanity to have some humility and worship a creator
I think it's better that we are critical thinking humans, which is my whole point.
in respect to other countries, journalists are really outspoken. but as to the countries mentioned in this article, i doubt if the so called press freedom has been upheld.
Try Fark or Netscape.
This conversation is interesting. Finally a theist on reddit wants to actually discuss why they think what they do. I'm sorry you find it lacking.
That's a stupid argument. Polygamy causes severe human rights problems for wives in every culture where it is found (that I've heard of anyway). Teenage third or fourth wives of middle-aged men are subject to physical and emotional abuse from older wives, who have complete power over them but are often jealous. Marital rape runs rampant, as teenage women don't have the ability to reject their much older husbands.
The marriage becomes an incredibly unequal contract, in which one party is entirely beholden to the other for everything. Such social institutions are wholly inconsistent with the liberal morality of current international human rights law, and though cultural relativism is nice in theory, in practice it is absolutely horrible for the women involved.
To put this more personally: how would you like it if your daughter/sister/cousin/whatever (pick some teenage girl you know) was suddenly locked away in the house of a 50 year-old stranger, and completely at his mercy, and at the mercy of his 50 year-old wife.
Now to why your argument is stupid: You don't make any attempt to analyze, but instead pull out a smartass quip about abolishing Christianity. Whether Christianity is good or not, the specific institutions of the more mainstream Christian churches in the industrialized world bear very little resemblance to polygamy.
Not everyone watches the sopranos
If vi is a samurai sword, emacs is a sawed-off shotgun.
Actually, journalism in Russia is a SHAM. Most everything the public sees was PAID for editorial. And one not dare go against the regime or they are killed.
It's worse then communist days because it's such a sophisticated propaganda machine.
Thanks you very much for posting that link, the documentary was most enlightening. I had no idea there was such a powerful grass-roots Hindu Fascist movement in India. Guess it's a price democracies always have to pay. Where there is despair and hopelessness fascism will always rear its ugly head.
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Riiight so now inhumane treatment is "practical". I think you need to have a little sit down and work out where you actaully stand.
It seems that under certain circumstances you support what many would consider "inhumane" treatment.
You are against inhumane treatment but so long as people who agree with you are dishing it on people who don't disagree with your defintion of "inhumane" then it's ok?
"Sometimes justice and vengeance are the same." That is the exact kind of thinking that leads to brutal legal systems, which you are totally against, oh, unless you want to "get" someone who has transgressed the rules you beleive in.
Hm, Erlang is rather slow when used conventionally.
The conventional use that hurts Erlang on the shootout is the convention of cute little unix executables. Testing Erlang next to Haskell in this manner is not quite as plainly horrible as testing -linux-'s 'hello world' performance versus a hello-world machine by putting 'echo hello world; reboot' in init scripts and then rebooting a linux machine a thousand times, but it is analogously horrible.
these women's brains are more concerned about their own comfort and sense of triumph or superiority over other women than they are concerned with the well being of offspring.
Good point. Yet, as they will likely have offspring, said rugrats will benefit from whatever resources the gold-digger has dug.
"Gov. James Douglas, acting as Middlebury's moderator, tried to stop a vote on a resolution calling for President Bush's impeachment and withdrawal of troops from Iraq at the town's annual meeting Monday night, according to several residents who attended."
GNU Emacs 22 + python-mode
Before that, I used vim with a number of scripts I had to gather from vim.org to provide nearly the same features as the above combination does, but I did not find it to be as consistent.
Cannot agree with a couple of misleading items in this article.. non-fermented soy products appear to be detrimental to good health, and saturated fat actually has beneficial roles.
Two FDA researchers Daniel Doerge and Daniel Sheehan, have actually protested to the FDA about the FDA's approval of health claims regarding soy ( thyroid.about.com/cs/soyinfo/a/soy.htm ) Soy can also disrupt thyroid function, and can interfere with the growth of boys ( www.soyonlineservice.co.nz ). And rather than be good for your penis, soy's main phytochemical, genistein, has been claimed in a paper from Florida Atlantic University to have "induced significant testicular cell death." (refer: www.greatdreams.com/soy.htm ).
And as for the article's anti saturated fat, anti cholesterol stance, continuing the hysteria which has railed against saturated fat & cholesterol for the last 50-odd years, its confidence completely fails to convey the fact that the Lipid Hypothesis has not been proved at all according to genuinely impartial scientific standards. "The Cholesterol Myths" by Uffe Ravnskov MD PhD (2000) and "The Great Cholesterol Con" by Anthony Colpo (2006) both examine the various scientific studies in detail, and after reviewing these (more at www.thincs.org) it is astounding that anti-fat proponents can continue to write as if they are supported by science, instead of either a fluffy cloud of ignorance or just plain old industry-funded propaganda.
(Side note: the doctor from the Sexual Medicine Society of North America who dismisses libido-enhancing "nutraceutical" products (such as nitric oxide and ginseng) as placebos is quoted far from the mention of Viagra etc -the drugs are kept away in a distant earlier paragraph with talk of their financial success. With a little digging one can find that this society's meeting in November 2005 received funding support from big pharma, such as Ortho-McNeil, Johnson & Johnson, and three manufacturers of drugs mentioned in the article: Lilly (manufacturer of Cialis) Bayer (manufacturer of Levitra) and Pfizer (the manufacturer of Viagra) ( www.smsna.org/meetings/2005/nyc/nyc_program.asp). No comment about this, apart to say it's interesting, isn't it?
Good to time the programming procedure than the programs! This might give us idea of why some programming languages are very popular and some are not!
man but medieval weaponries are so f'n bad ass... every time I go to the mall I have to stop in at the House of Knives store to check out the samurai armour and wicked bad swords...
I have a feeling that if I bought one I'd get too excited and end up slicing someone's arm off...
that and I like to buy useful stuff :P even if it is bad ass to look at, I have no plans of medieval conquest
Not clear whether the author is simply not a native english speaker, or the article is machine-generated. Either way it's hard to get any sense out of it.
Do you remember that one time Moscow threatened to file suit against the animators of Dobby, the house elf in the Harry Potter movie.. because they said it was deliberately modelled after Putin?
That's a straw man argument. Bashing right-wing (generally anti-science, completely nutso) evangelicals is not the same as bashing Christianity. I'm perfectly happy to bash the nutso right-wing Islamic clerics as well.
The defense is of broad groups of generally-moderate people, who happen to live in tyrannical monarchies propped up by westerners looking for stable oil prices (e.g. the Saudis, some of the most terrible human rights abusers ever, and wonderfully chummy with western leaders).
The problem with these attacks on "barbaric islam" is that there are many Muslims who do not accept the barbaric legal systems promulgated by a few super-conservative clerics, and to lump them all together is simply racist.
Edit: s/racist/bigoted/ in the sentence above, if you like.
The web is supposed to be system-independant.
Tell that to the people who make the systems.
Windows, OS X and Linux distributions all ship different sets of default typefaces, which means that a web designer needs to take care in listing font-families to ensure that the list includes at least one from each platform's default set, and that they all have a similar enough style to maintain the typographic design across platforms.
Look I don't really care, it's just you're defending yourself rather loosely. Your argument doesn't make sense. You went to the trouble of getting specific permission. I imagine this means you contacted all content providers and have permission in writing. So then you got specific permission from the BBC to quote their text (as per what you just said). You went through all that trouble but forgot to do something as simple as using quotes or specifically mentioning the BBC at all? A source link is not a work cited link. Your argument is a little transparent.
Men who like youth and and big boobs = men
Women who like money (and nothing else) = women with very few interests
You should also complain to CNN, the NY Times, the BBC, the CBC, [several thousand online publications omitted] about this horrific phenomenon called "news" that children may be exposed to.
If you've got kids of your own, maybe you should be more involved with their computing time instead of berating everyone else for not shouldering your parental responsibilities.
You know what the "PG" in a "PG-13" rating means? Parental Guidance. Censorship is not responsible parenting.
What drivel. The knee-jerk reaction is against the anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-minority, misogynist ravings of loonies like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, and against the terrible policies of the leaders like George Bush willing to kiss their feet.
But even if we accept your premise as true, that liberals are only willing to condemn people within their own culture, your argument still is deeply flawed. I have a direct ability to affect outcomes in America. I can vote. I can go door to door passing out fliers, I can talk to my neighbors. When my government, or religious leaders in my country, or anyone who claims to represent me, goes way out of line, I should have the complete right to criticize him.
But I have much less credibility criticizing the leaders of another country. If I write a letter to the president of Egypt, condemning his country's piss-poor human rights record, he can (rightly) claim that I don't really know that much about Egyptian culture. And if I make threats, or invade, or insult him, it would be understandable for him to ignore me as an annoying self-righteous and disrespectful outsider.
Thus one of our chief goals as liberal westerners should be to encourage dialog and tolerance as much as possible, and help the oppressed members of other societies to share their voices, so that solutions can be worked out from within those societies. All popular religions have enough literature in them to support tolerant and diversity-friendly interpretations, because humans aren't really all that different a few layers down. So bringing to bear arguments from within the Islamic tradition, and allowing members of that tradition to argue them, we stand the best chance of ultimately solving such intolerance.
As any politician knows (or should know; the republicans are learning this pretty sharply right now), imposed solutions, and imposed political agendas don't work. The only way to enact real change is through dialog and consensus.
Note, I'm not completely bought in to the argument above. Some things are so heinous I think they must be stopped, even if it means dropping such cultural relativism.
aside: can any other Haskell implementation compile GHC? If they can't, does this point to deficiencies in their implementation or to deficiencies in Haskel98 -- such that GHC doesn't bother to restrain itself even bootstrappably to the standard language?
Do christians bash christianity unmercifully? No? But they do bash Islam unmercifully?
Here's how it works. You either bash all religion or you don't. Christianity and Islam are the same shit in a different pile, both have their idiot fundamentalists and both have a core of taking anything outside of your belief system and changing it so that it's more like you. And the xenophobia doesn't only apply to the fundamentalists, christianity and islam are both proselytizing religions, which means that these religions are built around converting nonbelievers so that they believe the same things you do.
But, despite these similarities, the overwhelmingly christian America consistently bashes islam and not christianity. Those of us who defend islam do so in a relative manner, not an absolute one. I defend islam from people who seek to attack it unfairly, by differentiating it's evils from those of christianity. Also, in as predominantly a christian country as America, where foolishness from christians dominates, it is entirely fair to focus more on the evils of christianity over those of islam, considering islam doesn't hold much sway here.
Now, of course, I shouldn't have given your comment any credit to begin with, as it's an idiotic painting of "the left," a HUGE majority of which is christian (~80% of democrats call themselves christians, if that's what you define as "the left"). But the left, overall, stands for fairness, and criticizing one religion in the absence of another, especially when that religion has such minimal influence in the domestic policy of one's country, is certainly unfair.
So, judging by the article, the main problem with (mostly large companies) open-sourcing their products is that it is hurting the companies which have commercial products in the niche? Pardon my ignorance, but I don't necessarily see this as a large problem which would need to be addressed.
I previously used gvim for all my coding (prior to SciTE - although I did use Cream in between). I still use vim - but only when I'm ssh'ed in to a Linux box.
And yet... if you talk to people who actually know typography, they'll tell you that Microsoft has, with the last couple sets, been consistently turning out really great screen typefaces.
And there's an interesting methodology observation in there: most of Microsoft's smaller or more isolated units actually produce really great work, but the monolothic core OS and core apps teams just keep spewing whale guts on everybody.
Let me rephrase that: it's off topic.
Very good point. If, "brainiac," the left is so fond of defending islam, then what would you define both bush administrations' support of the Saudis as?
A satirical obituary for Scooter. He was always my least favourite Muppet.
http://www.google.com/search?q=the+answer+to+life,+the+universe,+and+everything
Nah.
df07 had it right. It originally was a Greek epithath. I had heard that it was the Romans who invented it, but apparently they lifted it from the Greeks. I should have figured as "bar" wouldn't be a syllable that a Roman would mishear.
I have to grind my teeth to not take the notion that leftists have a "knee-jerk reaction against America" personally. In fact, if you read, say, this thread, you'll find that most of us find plenty of fault both in the "sexual and religious apartheid" AND America's transparently mealy-mouthed reaction (such as, say, the cuddling up to the Saudis while rattling sabers at the Iranians). Why must it be one or the other?
Just blurting out a claim and a percent figure without a source or explanation should always be downmodded, regardless.
photoblog containing photos from in and around india
In this particular case though, a rape did occur and a person did plead guilty to it.
yeah informative, but the guy just goes on and on and repeats himself, yeah, we get the idea, shutup and play it more.
What the fuck is this? Get off my reddit!
Isn't the whole article about why people of faith are not qualified to be leaders because they do not possess the skills to be critical thinkers and problems solvers in todays age?
I think the authress got what she deserved for marrying an Afghan (!!)
Singapore has what from a western point of view is a brutal legal system, also a government that is set on control (they banned chewing gum becasue of the experience from overseas where it was littered everywhere). It also has a low crime rate.
"Saudi Arabia is an example of Religious Belief running wild and thus very much showing that they are inferiors to all normal human beings."
In New Zealand we have laws that are purely there to make Christians feel better (compulsory Christian holidays where you are fined for running your business, special dispensations for Religious employers etc). The US still has anti-sodomy laws (though apparently they are non-enforcable), most western countires do not allow consentual marriage with more than one person and have limitations on the marriage of people of the same sex.
There are certain attitudes in Western culture that are not "very much superior" to the rest of the world. For example compared to the Eastern cultures Western treatment of elderly is poor.
Most Western countries have terrible histories of oppression of the native peoples and supposed "lesser peoples", often this oppresion was written in to law.
Cultures change and as they do thier laws change as well. Western Law used to be at least as brutal and unforgiving as anyone elses.
The people who live in and enforce these laws are not "inferiors to all normal human beings." They are living in the result of thier cultures history.
In this case she broke a law that she would have been aware of. She was then punished. The law also turned on the perpertrators of the crime including lashing the man who lured to the rape.
The punishments are in my view brutal but not inhumane. Remember not so long ago kids were still given "six of teh best" at school for transgressions, which in western society was acceptable behaviour, along with the old "clip 'round the ear".
btw. trust me, it's just you and me now :) Though, I can't tell you how much I appreciate you continuing the thread. I've been really interested in the discussion.
Nice! It seems like a terribly normal situation, unlike so many of the wackos posting here.
What? That's silly. That kitten looks totally alive. It's just lying down, and cats have joints too. It doesn't look like it's bent in the wrong place anywhere.
Amen.
Are you in Australia? I've had another person over there get the same message from my site a few weeks ago, when noone else was getting it. I'm not that computer savvy to know what it really means, or how to fix,if broken. My ISP said last time it wasn't broken.// HART aka PetLvr
That was true for the old way of benchmarking there, but it's not a big problem anymore. The programs are complex enough to go well beyond simple 'hello world' tests. And I/O-time is not important for the tests, too.
Benches like 'n-body' for example give a clear indication how a language will perform for numeric applications. A bench like 'recursive' gives a good indication about function call overhead and 'binary-trees' about memory allocation speed and dispatch over simple data-structures. It's an indication what you can expect from a programming language.
Erlang performs quite good in the 'tree'-bench and lousy in the more numeric oriented benches while the recursive bench is decent. Also array access seems to be a big problem. Also Erlang isn't very good in the fasta-bench which indicates poor performance in string processing.
All this is quite as expected for a dynamically typed language and Erlang is ok compared to most of the other d.t. languages. But Erlang simply can't compete with the statically typed languages.
Only Lisp seems to go beyond this. But in the lisp code you see lots of declares, so they simply use static typing which explains the good Lisp performance.
It's all about balance, people. Not children up 'til 4am watching, and not acting like it's the devil.
C'mon people- do you want a life without Mr. Roger's, Seasame Street, Mickey, etc.?
Well, if your dragon created the universe, but is completely undetectable, what's the point of it being a dragon at all? What's the difference between your dragon and my God and his God? Not much, and the distinction is honestly arbitrary. So if you really think the dragon created the universe, I would expect you to have some kind of explanation as to why. If you say that 2000 years ago, the dragon actually became visible, people saw it, wrote lots of words about it, and formed an organization to pass on this news, you'd have something there.
Also, fair enough — atheists will accept Creators if extraordinary evidence presents itself.
I think it's better that we are critical thinking humans, which is my whole point.
I see no reason why believing in God robs me of critical thinking skills, and the entire conversation has been about why ;)
You're a moron without children. Obviously she has a bunch of kids.
It's called 'humor' for a reason...
colonia
No, actually, it was to conquer the Holy Land. There were people in the way, sure, and the Christians wanted the land they held dear back.
Also, it's a really complicated situation. All sides have done awful things over there, and all sides have done good things, too.
The Spanish Inquisition is really complicated, too- it introduced things like trial by jury, and didn't have the wholesale slaughter people associate it with.
I guess by their standard beautiful women look like cocaine addicts covered in truckloads of makeup and dresses they bought with maxed out credit cards.
And lo and behold, it was only about forty-five minutes before I heard it again.
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That's what the transporter is for.
The downside is that his neighbor now thinks he has Alzheimer's, from all the empty pizza boxes appearing around his apartment that he has no memory of ordering.
Pigs are cool cause they make bacon, pork and ham. They also have the intelligence of a 5 year old child and can hold their breath for up to twenty six days at a time. You are reading this on the internet. Therefore it is the truth.
Reddit and Wired are looking for a designer. Interested applicants should be a CSS/HTML ninja and can send resumes/portfolios to redditjobs at gmail.
Please, please don't.
Nope. There are other denominations. It just happens that Mormons are not Christian- they don't baptise their children in the Christian manner, so, hence, not Christian. Also, their beliefs are polytheistic.
(They don't baptise in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, so they're not Christian). Everyone rejects their baptism and they reject everyone else's.
Thanks.
Well, He did make the heavens, the stars which He arranged, etc. So, He created the universe.
Oh oh! I'd like to also add that Michael Moore's television series, The Awful Truth, as early as 1999 (I believe), did a piece on the Taliban and how evil and repressive they were. As a comedy show, it focused primarily on the fact that they disallowed Afghanis from watching TV, and so Moore participated in a "TV drop" over "Afghanistan" (which was actually some desert in the US that they put a couple brown kids in for the sake of the camera - like I said, a comedy show, not meant to be real documentary stuff etc.). Also, when the Taliban blew up centuries-old Buddhist statues in early 2001, the outrage over the incident came primarily from "leftists," though the event failed to gather a whole lot of press in an America that really couldn't care much less about statues being blown up in other parts of the world. Finally, in my first year of college (in 2001, again before the bombings on the WTC), the most leftist professor on campus assigned a book called "Taliban," a fairly leftist look at the repressiveness of this particular regime, to his introductory Sociology class that I was a student in.
But of course, the fact that the left recognized and condemned the actions of the Taliban, a fundamentalist muslim regime, years before American conservatives had heard of their existence, can't have anything to do with your ill-conceived thesis, right?
yes, I have permissions from most content providers in writing (except the ones where originator is unknown, such as the images sent through anonymous mailing-lists). No, I did not ask BBC if I could quote this paragraph, but gave the link to source article at the end of the post. Thanks to your pointing out I moved credit closer to the quote. I appreciate that there are people keeping me on my toes, if I miss something. Exposure to 100,000 eyes a day makes every mistake very visible (even without hitting front pages). It also makes creators of content very visible, and they appreciate it. See comments on the About page. btw, this site is a total hobby, and i have full time job elsewhere and a wonderful family. Many things may go wrong when you only have an hour to post at night or with two little kids around.
Or it could be a deficiency in the GHC source code. Using new features gratuitously. :)
Well, if your dragon created the universe, but is completely undetectable, what's the point of it being a dragon at all? What's the difference between your dragon and my God and his God? Not much, and the distinction is honestly arbitrary.
That's my point. There is no difference. It's not reasonable. If you are a critical thinker you would have to presume that both my dragon and your god are just as mythical.
If you say that 2000 years ago, the dragon actually became visible, people saw it, wrote lots of words about it, and formed an organization to pass on this news, you'd have something there.
I do. but you have to give me a some time, namely 2000 years so my writing has some time behind it.
I see no reason why believing in God robs me of critical thinking skills, and the entire conversation has been about why ;)
My argument is that there are no good reasons to believe in god. To have a faith in God is contradictory of critical thinking. To have faith is to believe without logical proof. To be a critical thinking individual you cannot believe without logical proof.
I could relist the reasons why you have faith, but it's just faith, not reason.
Huh? Oh. You. Yeah. Lisa has an autistic sister in our version. Interested?
Definitely. We should have dinner next week to discuss me being in your movie.
Wait, really?
If CBS can be blamed for broadcasting the SupoerBowl, can't his son be blamed for opening his eyes, or the dad himself for letting his son watch at all?
i guess you are right. i was too young to know what really happened then but i heard from my grandparents that the garlic-eaters were very vicious.
Actually, Rugby is pretty much the same thing, only with shorts. My fiancee says they should rename it 'Big Pile of Men'.
Wouldn't it be just as easy to say that unless you can speak in tounges you aren't a Christian? Do Jehovah's Witnesses' baptisms count? If you aren't catholic are you really christian at all? After all the pope only really speaks for catholics.
Not at all. I'm all for a more open-minded America.
If it really makes you unhappy, and you prefer Windows-style keybindings, it's not as if you can't change emacs -- you can map the cut/copy/paste keys around. But I really suspect that you aren't going to wind up happy in the long run doing so.
I agree with that, because I actually do use emacs, just not when I have an alternative.
And I guarantee you that all the people out there with twenty years of emacs finger memory would not be amused if someone started switching their standard keystrokes around on them.
I can readily imagine :-)
Good point. Some people do take this route (e.g. Paul Graham implementing arc on top of scheme48, Qi on top of common lisp).
I took a quick look at scheme implementations whose names I recognised from this list of approx 60 (!) scheme implementations:
http://community.schemewiki.org/?scheme-faq-standards#implementations
My impression was that a lot of them were trying to implement scheme in different environments (on a JVM, compiling to C without trampolines, aggressively optimising, as a C/C++ replacement, as a scripting language embedded in applications, etc).
With most languages, if you wanted to do that you'd probably at least take the parser from another (reference?) implementation, let it generate an AST for you and then have your engine compile/interpret the program represented by that AST.
With scheme/lisp though, the "parse language to AST" step is sufficiently trivial that someone capable of writing a language backend probably finds it easier to start a new project than to do the integration work to make their back-end an optional part of an existing implementation.
It's kind of the opposite of gcc, where adding a back-end (spit out a different kind of assembly/machine code) is fairly easy (for some value of easy), but adding a new front-end for a language is harder.
I don't know if the same would apply to common lisp, since the language is much larger than scheme, anyone care to take a look and see what they think?
(edit - spelling)
Java might be better at optimizing than C++, but OCaml's
optimizing native compiler is fantastic.
The tone of that statement certainly seemed to imply that to me.
You can turn that off: find the 'automagic' line in your ~/.ipython/ipythonrc file, and set it to 0.
hahaha! i remembered that one. didnt expect them to go that low. did they ever pushthrough with the suit tho?
mozex has the nasty feature of blocking the entire browser till you finish and exit the editor. gets very annoying very fast for anything other than trivial one or two paragraph entries.
Edit: Looks like that has long since been corrected. Sorry for the misinformation
The problem is that, as people greater than me have said, no plan ever survives contact with reality. This was just another case of people that believe that having a plan means they should follow it to the letter; sadly, a bureaucracy will to that to people...
http://www.di.fm/edmguide/# (launch)
it isn't the prettiest thing and perhaps not too accurate, but it does contain a lot of info and samples
mnemonically?
Mnemonic \Mnemon"ic\, Mnemonical \Mnemon"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?,
fr. ? mindful, remembering, ? memory, ? to think on,
remember; akin to E. mind.]
Assisting in memory.
I use a slightly hacked version of webpy - try the following in webapi.py (about line 192?):
if not _capturedstdout():
if not __builtins__.get("__IPYTHON__active",0):
sys.stdout = _outputter(sys.stdout)
It might be worth getting this patched in webpy itself...
but thanks for pointer to the documentation! it's pretty well written and easy to understand.
That should be Thpeaking Ruby with a Lisp
Lisp is spared the phonetic spelling due to veneration
Fair point, and exactly what people would like to be able to do.
But what sort of applications are implementable within this standard?
Not ones that talk to the network, for example.
Basically, all that's really needed is a bit of modernisation of the features available in common lisp.
Perhaps a set of APIs like the scheme SRFIs. Perhaps a new revision of the hyperspec. I don't know.
But if you go this route and don't take the existing implementations with you, you just create more diversity.
However, if you managed to get some commitment from a sufficient number of maintainers of common lisps that they would support the newer "standard" then you might have a chance of gathering some consolidation behind the newer work.
That article is factually wrong. Let me give you just one example:
Even compiled to completely native code, Java semantic
requirements like range checking on every array access hobble it.
Modern Java VMs (even many mobile device versions) use a Hotspot optimisation process which can optimise out range checking after loop analysis.
It is not a non-sequitur, it is directly relevant. Java apps by default have a 'memory issue' because their memory usage is set high by default, and they grab a lot of that memory in order to minimise the amount of garbage collection. By setting the memory low, you can run Java apps in a fraction of the default. Indeed, command line apps can sometimes be run in just a few MB. So, to claim memory useage is an issue is certainly nonsense.
That would make it really hard to ever have a conversation. There are certain numbers we hear a lot -- about most Americans being overweight, or 1 in 8 women getting breast cancer, and so forth. If somebody blurts out a factoid, my reaction is to investigate it further -- not automatically try to squelch it. It's not really someone else's job to do the work to educate me, it's my job to educate myself.
Well, as a hobbyist you do a good job.
Cool! I'm always happy to see neat setups that people have with delicious -- it's a fascinating system, for all of the simplicity of the idea. And..., yes, I wish services like del.icio.us and livejournal would provide the same API for other users -- auth'ing to your own account, accessing another account, and just not having full priviledges.
I have a rough Erlang del.icio.us library, that URL also pointing to video.erl, an application of mine that I use to queue up flash videos and such to watch on a system that has flash. The usage:
See a link to a flash video.
In the EShell I always have visible somewhere in treewm, type: video:add("url"). (having already delicious:auth/2'd)
On a blue moon, wander over to my Wii and point it to my del.icio.us pushdown-stack
Watch the most recent video.
video:fix("anime-music-video (AMV) hell.", "anime amv movie") or video:fix("desc", "tags", "Really long, amusing video with apparently 51 separate editors.").
Repeat.
(Well, I actually haven't kept up with this, or cleared out my stack in the last three months. But it works well when I do it!)
If believing in an invisible dragon in your garage isn't reasonable, it has nothing to do with the fact you say it created the universe. The belief of a creator in and of itself is not unreasonable. The specifics might be. That's why I pointed to the tradition of Christianity — 2000 years ago, a lot of people saw some things that they thought were reasonable proof. Certainly the possibility exists that they were being duped; this is where faith comes in, because I have no way of knowing if Christ was a Lunatic or Liar.
To be a critical thinking individual you cannot believe without logical proof.
So why would you have faith in your wife not to cheat on you? Why would you ever have faith your friends? Humans do a lot of things based on faith. This doesn't mean that they aren't critical thinkers. In fact, it's very good in some cases for people to have faith.
In a nutshell:
I have good reasons to believe that there is a Creator.
The one Christianity presents makes the most sense to me as an individual.
I think having faith in Christ is beneficial to me.
this was my little sisters name for me , until she finally figured out how to prounce mine. Everyone else in the family had their really names, but mine was just too much effort , and so I was 'meh' for at least a year :)
Oh, I was there (I am not a diver, just had a diving "initiation"). I was stunned by the water quality.
If you dive (even if not), and have money to spend in Brussels, it's a nice place for a dinner (at least, I was hungry afterwards).
I think it's a safe bet that the day was invented first, then the hour, then the minute and the second.
If the figure in question is common knowledge or undisputed fact, why mention it at all then? The fact that it is not either of these is the entire reason for mentioning it in the first place, which is why it warrants explanation or a source.
bah
I'm glad I wasn't the only one...
Possibly the single most annoying word in the universe.
Those crazy sumerians.
Combined with The Prowler
Yes, youtube is a great way to share information. Unfortunately the real creators always get too little credit.
In this case, it is the work of Nate Harrison. The video and information about it are freely available on his website here, without ads and youtube ugliness.
Btw, the video is hosted by archive.org which also gets too little credit as preserver of information for the public.
So, yay youtube!
edit: To make this more of a statement I've resubmitted this story with the original link. We need less youtube and more original content!
Just like Anti-Americanism?
If you need a tonic, come and watch this adorable laughing baby for a few seconds. All negativity, despondency or pessimism will be wiped away immediately. This is worth your time.
Mrs. Richards: When I pay for a view I expect to see something more interesting than that.
Basil: That is Torquay, Madam.
Mrs Richards: Well, it's not good enough.
Basil: Well, may I ask what you were hoping to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom-window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains...
http://orangecow.org/pythonet/fawlty.html
Men are attracted to hot women, and women are attracted to rich men. But what makes the people at this event unattractive is their desperation.
To keep it fresh.
Hey, I made that suggestion via the feedback form a week ago! Next time I'll just bitch in the comments. :)
It doesn't block for me (Firefox 2.0.2, MozEx 1.9.5, Windows), I'm typing this in my external text editor and I managed to open a new tab and go check gmail with the text editor open.
For Firefox I would recommend It's all text
Some other obscure javascript functionality that will be renamed to something cool.
It's easily possible for people in the "in" group to use the term with hostile intention.
Accepting that someone is allowed or not allowed to use a word because of his or her skin color is the acceptance and institutionalization of racism. If you chastize someone for saying it, because that person is of the "wrong" color, you are engaging in racist behavior.
These terms are only going to lose their impact once everyone accepts that they are just words. Until then, people are saying, "I am going to go crazy and lose all rationality because of a couple of syllables you uttered". That's simply insane.
Why should it be any of the teacher's business, if it wasn't distracting anyone during an actual lesson?
STEPHEN LYNCH ROCKS!
I wasn't aware he'd been charged with that...
Sometimes people get lucky :) At least it's done.
Give it a go, fuglybear. The advice is reliable.
Sheesh. Nobody gets the Wayne's World reference?
"The video is no longer available". That's what I get, anyone else?
How my horrible experience at the hands of a misogynistic culture made me decide to generalise and blame a religion in it's entirety. Yay, polemic! Boo, rational thought and investigating deep-rooted cultural mores that mis-interpret the teachings of Islam as a cheap justification for continuing to oppress women. Yay, an article that stops me from thinking about my bigotry and prejudices by supporting them in an intellectually dishonest way.
Everything in the developed world is just hunky dory.
(Okay, so I didn't read the article before I made the comments above. Okay, so the article's not as clear-cut as my comments or the comments on this page would indicate. Apologies. But then the author is still conflating culture and religion, so I'm not too bothered; and they still relate to the article I imagined it to be :-P.)
I tried the same recently with McD fries. Didn't last long.
I saved my kid's generic "chicken" sandwich from school. Lasted weeks but now, after 17 months, it's been reduced to a pool of black oil. I think this could solve the energy shortage if I can just find a cheap and plentiful supply of chicken sandwiches.
I dunno, I'm more or less indifferent myself... shrug
Remarkable, how flipped out some people become over anything related to Lisp. You really should read a couple of his, ahem, "conversations" with newcomers and harmless, well-meaning posters on c.l.l. I have never seen how harmless little questions like "Hey, I like Lisp, but it doesn't seemt to support feature X!" could provoke so mean and personal attacks. Really frightning. No, Erik is batshit-crazy, full of paranoia and probably dangerous. Everybody should know that. His authorative style and the general consensus on c.l.l. to tolerate this has damaged the Lisp community and the public perception of it irrecoverably.
Wow, okay, I quit Society.
The issue is that you're focusing on the Windows platform.
On OSX, the cut&paste standards use M-(X|C|V), and all of the NSTextView have Emacs bindings apart from that.
And in Linux, most apps can use Emacs bindings...
So your demand would only work on the Windows platform, and either break everywhere else or break Emacs' cross platform abilities (as it would break the cross-platform compatibility of the keybindings, as mark7 mentioned).
Nobody has ever said that you can't.
bapak hang bodoh
I think you mean: "Meh? Feh."
Not just money, it does currency conversions.
Huh? Oh. You. Yeah. Lisa has an autistic sister in our version. Interested?
Definitely. We should have dinner next week to discuss me being in your movie.
That one comes in as a close second.
Flajector
wtf?
What does NWA stand for? Niggers With Airlines?!
I don't buy the thesis, that six seconds of a 1969 b-side transformed the history of music.
He's not really saying that The Winston's changed music with their open drum break, they didn't. However some of the people who sampled it did.
In the early 90's the sample was used extensively in the creation of Jungle/Dnb, which has transformed music, at least in the use of technology. It's the only sample I can think of that can claim to be a foundation block for a new style of music.
According to the video, it was used directly in maybe 3 songs.
Then it's wrong. There have been thousands of uses of it. For a very short list of more than 3 - The Breaks
How to write network backup software?
rsync -ae ssh backbot@somemachine:/ /backups/
or "hey there's this great idea we should impliment, some people call it 'the wheel'"
When I use Vim I feel like some uber-Unix guru because my hands are just flying over them keys. And I'm not using that puny mouse. Ahhhh, the disdain I feel over other users.
Though, to be honest, nedit is the best editor out there ... ie The least retarded and non-intuitive. But it's just not the same as a good clackety clack Vim session. Yummy!
Babies are so easy to entertain :)
Commonly-shared knowledge is the basis for any conversation. The reason to bring up something people already know is to remind them of it -- people do not have perfect and instantaneous recall of all facts related to any given matter being discussed at any time.
Additionally, in a large group, you don't know which people will be aware of which facts. Online, it's often as fast to Google as to ask for a citation.
If you already are privy to information that tells you someone is wrong, then downmodding is appropriate. However, if you recognize that you just don't know enough about a subject to make that determination, then it behooves you to look it up first.
As opposed to an opinion, a testable factual claim can be investigated. When presented with one, this is what I do -- with the result that I am aware of much more information than I would be if I simply rejected all new claims that weren't bundled with accompanying support material.
Faster than cmd-R in TextMate? ;-)
It's called a joke.
WHERE DO WE BUY THE PRODUCTS
That picture is brilliant!
Agreed. What I appreciate about this comment is the anti-consumerist, anti-establishment tone. belligerent demands more from his corporate labels, while using them as the medium for his thoughts, which adds a layer of irony. This comment says, "Fight the trend. Refuse to be fashionable. It's the only way to live." It's a call to arms against supporting what is popular just for the sake of popularity.
Misunderstood genius. If only more reddit comments were so insightful.
Why would anyone wanna do that?!
And in Linux, most apps can use Emacs bindings...
For GUI-oriented applications, that would be a violation of both the Gnome and KDE Human Interface Guidelines and so, no, Linux apps generally don't or shouldn't come with Emacs keybindings (as defaults).
My girl and I use the word all the time... even in non-internet conversations.
But I'm sure there are lots and lots of geek girls who just gets turned on by that.
Wow. This is amazing.
joke, trousers, Camouflage Trousers, funny, hilarious
That would make it really hard to ever have a conversation.
yet that would probably drastically higher the average level of most conversations.
(Question for the posters of this thread) What kind of editing/navigation feature do you miss in Eclipse ?
Possibly. It could be the case though, that she'd never met the man, and he intended to lie to her family.
Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same
way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and
brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish.
- Neal Stephenson
or this beauty from thien-thi-nguyen (alt.religion.emacs iirc):
Wherefor art thou, my var, unbounded and yet i thee value!
Alias not my trust, setq, or a let's grace!
Guess what? I caught the thread in the middle of it. Sorry.
If you believe in that pacifist philosophy then it is easy to conclude that the Iraq war is wrong because by that reasoning all wars are wrong.
It's not a question of belief: either one lives peacefully in coexistance with another people, or some friction happens. I guess the first option is far better.
Come on, we're in 2007, there's no sufficient reason for aggression in the civilized world anymore... even if one's country is fighting against perceived savages.
I'm suing for false advertising.
"hilarious" is not a word i'd use to describe that "joke"
Welll this is the typical sound japanese girls make in porn movies along with repeating dame, dame (means no or stop) over and over....
Kind of sad I think
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The problem with these attacks on "barbaric islam" is that there are many Muslims who do not accept the barbaric legal systems promulgated by a few super-conservative clerics, and to lump them all together is simply racist.
First of all, religion is not race. Stop calling people racist for standing up against Islam.
Second why won't those "many muslims" you are defending not do away with this evil religion. Those "super-conservative" are simply following Islam as it was intended. Islam is very clear what it is all about and not open to interpretation. This is said at the beginning of the Koran. If you modernize Islam it is nothing close to Islam anymore.
.. In any case, the word needs to pass into "widespread unselfconscious usage" before it will feature in the OED, he says....
interesting idea
So what if Christianity is no better? That doesn't make Islam any more acceptable.
Diving in the Galapagos is an incredible experience. With superb underwater visibility and warm water temperatures the entire year, diving here is ideal for novices and experts alike. In the Galapagos you can dive and swim with sharks, dolphins, whales, turtles, seals and the only penguins found near the equator!
have we become so desensitised to pornography that it is seen as a worthy cause for public funding?
Christianity and Islam are the same shit in a different pile, both have their idiot fundamentalists
How difficult is it to even consider that one religion or ideology is more evil than the other. Replace "Islam" in your comment with "Nazism" and its stupidity is clear.
Sure there are idiots in Christianity as well but the religion is very different and much more pacifist and loving. (and no, quoting from the old testament won't help your argument because that is not the core of Christianity).
Edit: I used to think exactly like you before so please don't my harsh words as a personal attack but I hope people will finally see the evil Islam is.
Umm... I hate to be a party pooper, but wasn't it a bit of light that went faster than the speed of light? The title is a bit misleading, isn't it... the SCIENTISTS didn't actually break the speed of light, a bit of light did. And besides that, a bit of light is LIGHT, so how exactly did they break the speed of light using light if the speed of light is set by bits of light? Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that they measured light moving at speeds not previously recorded?
This is rough stuff. Not very widely reported, either.
When I started to use juicing as part of my diet and nutrition program, I had no idea how effective it can be in a weight loss regimen. Down a rich glass of nutrient-laden juice before your main meal, and see this natural appetite suppressant in action. Or call on it as a craving curber when your sweet tooth threatens to spoil your efforts...
Coming from finland I'm OUTRAGED?! I thought we we're the world capital of alcoholics?!
...and... how the hell is China bigger than Russia on that map??!! What poison are the chinese secretly consuming in such mass amounts?!
You're talking about local customs not morality. Morality is constant and eternal even though we can never know exactly what it is and therefore what our customs should be.
Doesn't thisisbyus.com do the same thing with bigger payouts?
Foodservice professional.
A web site which considers almost all the football teams in the world. vote for your team and let it rise up on the list.
my homies and I have been using this word for years--of course we're Simpsons junkies.
They watch Sky News, which is the same network. Not quite as far right, but still pretty bad.
In an off the record phone conversation late Tuesday night an Idol staff member said.....
Fox news lies daily. They have fought court cases for the right to lie. They are a propaganda network. Seek out the film "Outfoxed" and I guarantee you will never use them as a news source again.
they ARE fair and balanced. they gives truth and untruth almost equal airtime. of course they are skewed to untruth, but that's just their "niche".
There are many geeks out there. Firefox and Opera rocks more than sex, it seems.
Condensed version of this and previous kawa articles:
I know there are many languages better than Java, but I'm too comfortable with my Java environment to seriously try something new.
I'm glad you taught me what is funny and not, so I won't make the same mistake again. jerk.
Question: why is Clean so very consistently faster? You can't blame the features of Haskell, because Clean mirrors them.
There's a million monad tutorials out there. Anyone have a good one on uniqueness types?
Oh, well that makes it alright then.
Not.
Yes, and if someone for instance would bring up the fact that there are 365 days to a year, there would be no need for a source or further explanation.
The claim that 40% of rape accusations are lies is nothing like that.
vi:
runs almost anywhere
no x server needed
I don't need three thumbs and index fingers to use it.
Ew. I think you got some on me.
A review of a bar in Yokohama. Sounds crazy.
about vim : quick setup and low footprint (yes, there are still environments where this is important).
about emacs: (dabbrev-expand ... )
I love how people use the word interesting...
I'd say that being free to confess is ultimately a good thing for society. It reveals where justice has failed, providing impetus to improving the process (eg. identifying corrupt / biased officials), and opening the way to overturning wrongful convictions of innocent parties.
In the absence of double jeopardy laws, the outcome would not be that Bryant and Milam would be convicted, it would be that they would never have confessed, leaving the case unchanged. The result of their confession was to ensure greater publicity, and show the case as an unambiguous miscarriages of justice.
Steve Sailer is a right-wing fringe racist with a hint of eugenics. Among the things he "studied" are how black females and asian males will "die out" from selective breeding because they're, in his words, too unattractive.
Do we have a recent influx of stormfronters on reddit, I wonder?
I agree.
Bamba district of Angola? And what would Portuguese slaves be doing in Mexico?
This article should have been made about the Portuguese. In the 17 century they had a population of 3 million, 300 thousand of which were African slaves, they were assimilated into the population as slavery was abolished.
physical and emotional abuse
... is already illegal.
Marital rape runs rampant, as teenage women don't have the ability to reject their much older husbands.
...Then why'd they get married? Forced marriage is illegal too, right? Presumably there are laws against marital rape as well.
Just because something sometimes has illegal consequences shouldn't make it illegal. If it's possible for three or more people to have a happy marriage (and it is), why should they be denied that?
I think it's the other way around - Adobe ruled the roost for a long time and MSFT is the one that started poking around and developing Expression, implementing XPS, and trying to make you record DVDs/do photos directly from the OS w/o needing additional software.
You probably missed a word of my phrase:
most apps can use Emacs bindings
I'm not saying that they do use Emacs bindings (or VI), I'm saying that they often can (and you'll note that on both guidelines navigation bindings are Emacs'... hell, GNOME's controls even have C-K, C-W and C-Y even though they're disabled by default see table 10.14 at the end of the page).
Our standards are superior. Period. Try to convince me otherwise.
While I agree with you, I'd like to see someone make a convincing case for an objective morality that doesn't make reference to some unknowable entity (e.g. a god).
"The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come." -- Joel 2:31
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Thanks
Jason
Second why won't those "many muslims" you are defending not do away with this evil religion.
Perhaps it's because they've recognized the difference between their religion and their culture, and know which is broken and which doesn't need fixing -- a distinction you are unable or unwilling to make. Islam is a scapegoat for you.
Those "super-conservative" are simply following Islam as it was intended.
No, they're following the interpretations they agree with. You can easily find "super-conservative" clerics who disagree on spiritual matters. I doubt that you'd recognize non-controversial "super-conservatives", though.
Islam is very clear what it is all about and not open to interpretation. This is said at the beginning of the Koran.
I don't know what translation of the Qur'an you've read, but that is factually untrue.
If you modernize Islam it is nothing close to Islam anymore.
The religion doesn't need modernization. There is no doubt that many Muslim societies retain pre-Islamic cultural practices that are antagonistic to Islam, and need to be replaced.
It makes sense... 10 fingers, one Hummer and a gun inside of it make 12, for example.
Why does everyone associate emacs with a GUI and having to use the mouse all the time? I'm as die-hard an emacs fan as you will find, but I always run it in console mode, and it's my observation that the majority of emacs users do the same.
WingIDE Pro. Emacs mode is built-in. If you are not using Wing, you are probably not as efficient as you could be if you did. Try it. (No, I do not work there, just a happy user.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unblack_Metal
The emacs feature i miss the most in other editors is the ease of marking regions of text and copy/pasting using only the keyboard. And programmability of course.
digg called, they are missing a member, get back there
Wow!!! Great article. I'll try some of that stuff myself.
The British Government are thought to be considering plans to restrict photography in public places including parks, This could make it illegal for people to take snaps in the street or in parks unless they apply for an ID card which identifies them as a professional photographer . please sign the online no 10 petition @ http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Photography/ as this is another infringement by Blair into our rights (UK citizen's only) Please pass this on to friends as we should unite against this proposal Regards ALAN It was in the LINCOLNSHIRE ECHO today !!
Seconded. I would like reddit to be an accurate, relatively unbiased source of information. I like to be able to get the gist of a story from the headline. Unfortunately headlines have become more and more sensationalistic - to the point of being misleading and even just plain wrong - as each person tries to get their story bumped higher and higher. I downvote inaccurate titles and encourage others to do the same. When submitting something, people should try to focus on the goal of making reddit's content better rather than improving their own karma or whatever.
this site is a good place to score fappable materialz.
Restriction on Photography: this is another infringement by Tony Blair into our rights.
Amazing vacation destinations, Tahiti and Bora are the idyllic getaways from the chaos of city life. Breathtaking sunsets, stunning beaches and luxurious resorts make these two islands the perfect tropical escape to retreat to.
It is not entirely made from beer cans. Take a look at the wheels and the nails holding the rear view mirrors.
The Kia Cee'd cabrio looks awesome. Check out those wheels!!
I wonder why there's no Lisp approach to the game solving problem. It (Lisp) sounds like the right tool for it.
Il quartiere arabo di Palermo: La Kalsa
That's a clumsy way to indent enverything. You can just use :%> instead.
thr irony is, that to NAIL karl rove et al. we would have to FORCE a journalist to reveal his sources...a funny twist of fate for anyone who values the freedom of the press.
Is it me? Or are the next two pages of pictures more interesting than the cat? (bottom of page "next" link)
Edit: for clarity.
To bring home the glory, Indian cricket team needs to put up a team performance in the World Cup, and not just the individual performances. Team India needs a sporting kick, as millions of fans wait in anticipation.
Phyllis Chesler's close mindedness is a shame to New York universities.
Love is blind, some say.
1) Are these worldviews are held by every Muslim?
No. Evidence: see what the scholars advise people to do.
2) If we suppose every Muslim in Afghanistan holds similar views, how is military action supposed to convince them otherwise?
The initial goal of the military action was to overthrow the Taliban/Al-Qaeda. That succeeded. The next step was to set up a proper representative government, and to pump money into the country for education, poverty alleviation, etc. That failed miserably. They got a fraction of the money they needed, which means they couldn't win the hearts of the population. Few public works projects, not enough funding for schools, and especially not enough funding for security, to keep the Taliban at bay. In the 4+ years since the Taliban were overthrown, they've gone from a disorganized and feeble guerilla army to something that kills soldiers and civilians every day, and burns down schools without impunity.
The governance isn't much better now, either. However bad the Taliban were, they were still better than many of the warlords they replaced. It's a colossal failure.
Perhaps it's because they've recognized the difference between their religion and their culture, and know which is broken and which doesn't need fixing -- a distinction you are unable or unwilling to make. Islam is a scapegoat for you.
Explain why you think Islam doesn't need "fixing". And no, Islam is not a scapegoat for me, I hope Muslims will abandon this evil doctrine as they deserve better.
I don't know what translation of the Qur'an you've read, but that is factually untrue.
You are either ignorant or lying. My guess is you are a Muslim and know very well what I am talking about. Lying to "unbelievers" is a virtue in Islam.
The religion doesn't need modernization. There is no doubt that many Muslim societies retain pre-Islamic cultural practices that are antagonistic to Islam, and need to be replaced.
This is true for only some practices such as honor killings and female circumcision. Most evil in Islamic countries does really come from Islam. Remember most Islamic countries were Christian, Zoroastrian or Buddhist in the past (all pacifist and loving ideologies), not bloodthirsty savages as in the propaganda many Muslims mindlessly repeat.
Basically the Clean compiler has a slightly better native code generator than GHC, on x86.
If you look at the shootout, (I know, I know, microbenchmarks, but that's all we have), Clean averages 1.4x the speed of C, GHC Haskell comes in at 1.5x. You can see the difference more precisely by directly comparing GHC Haskell and Clean.
It's worth remembering that there are in fact other Haskell compilers too, for example JHC and HBC, both of which outperform GHC for some problems.
The native code generator issues in GHC are transient anyway: work is underway to add a traditional SSA optimising pass to the GHC backend, which should let GHC properly optimise low level imperative loops. Given that GHC should produce roughly the same code as the Clean compiler.
Thats a LOT of clues!
Outlaw polygamy, like the English did sati in India.
Polygamy isn't the problem. In Islam, a man is simply not supposed to marry more than one wife unless he can treat them fairly.
Overall, over 95% of all Muslim marriages are monogamous.
I loved the grey album. To even come up with the concept was a stroke of genius, and the execution was fantastic.
But then that's probably because I'm not a Beatles fan at all, and see no issues with the cutting up and reworking of any of their music.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Baptism is a pretty basic requirment, and it's pretty clear how it should be done. If you're not doing this, simplest of entries into the Christian church, why should you be considered Christian?
Also, with the Mormons, they've only been emphasizing their 'christianity' for the past couple of decades.
And, I don't know about the Jehovah's witnesses- didn't they put 'a' into John 1 in the Bible, so that The Word was "a god"?
I get "page not found" error. You might try testing the links before you post !!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents
Sorry, but that's completely wrong. Wealth plays a huge part in evolution, the "Can he provide for our family" question. It's one of many factors considered subconsciously about prospective partners.
The same is true for many other species, especially birds which have some pretty complex mating rituals. If your nest doesn't have a ferrari and a pool, you aren't getting any.
doorie by atif aslam......its gr888
Most people did not hear Kerry say "people who don't make an effort to be smart get stuck in Iraq," and then think "Hm, I'm confused as to what those words meant. They think that Kerry is insulting the armed forces that protect our nation. Why? Because that's what he said.
Most people that I know's reaction was indeed one of confusion: "What was that? There's no way he meant what he said." And the answer was, not surprisingly, that no, he didn't mean what he said when he misspoke and was unclear in his choice of words.
And I'm really not even a Kerry apologist, I never liked him (voted Kucinich in the 2004 primary).
Heck Neo Cons very much approve of the way Arab's threat woman.
Source?
When Spez was a boy he loved the ninja turtles, little did I realize how this would manifest in his career. Power Rangers are probably next...(or firetrucks).
It has relatively little relevance. As long as you're not so poor that you run the risk of not being able to have children, or not having your children grow up, it's irrelevant. So, as long as we're dealing with lower middle class people or above, wealth is irrelevant for your ability to spread your genes, and thus irrelevant for evolution.
Excellent title!
give them some credit, its a very rustic looking pommel horse :)
ed does syntax highlighting these days?
Jokes usually make assumptions or factual assertions. In this case, people differ on whether the joke's assumption is accurate or not. Whether you like it or not, the joke's funny factor does depend on that assertion having some truth to it. If there isn't a meaningful quantity of truth to it, there's no joke to speak of. Saying "it's a joke - laugh" isn't going to make someone laugh if the point of the joke doesn't figure in the first place, which for various people here, this one's doesn't. You can't make someone see the funny truth behind something they don't consider true in the first place.
FOX is bullshit and this guy's blog is even more bullshit. This dude is straight up an Islamophobe. Probably a republican too.
Intriguing, I want to subscribe to your newsletter.
worked for me
i don't get it. how is this different from FILE | SAVE AS ???
Explain why you think Islam doesn't need "fixing".
I haven't seen any evidence that Islam is the cause of the suffering the author wrote about. However, as evidenced by the fact that other Muslim societies do not suffer from the same problems as the author experienced in Afghanistan, I'd say the culture is broken.
And no, Islam is not a scapegoat for me, I hope Muslims will abandon this evil doctrine as they deserve better.
If you believe that Islam is the source of their suffering, and not their culture, show us how.
You are either ignorant or lying. My guess is you are a Muslim and know very well what I am talking about. Lying to "unbelievers" is a virtue in Islam.
Heh. Well, I am a Muslim, and I'm not lying. All you need to prove that I am lying is to point to the verse(s) that back up your point. C'mon, how hard can that be?
(Unless there are no such verses.)
This is true for only some practices such as honor killings and female circumcision.
Really? How about women not being able to drive in Saudi Arabia? Religion or culture? I'm sure there are dozens of similar examples.
Most evil in Islamic countries does really come from Islam.
Again, show us.
Remember most Islamic countries were Christian, Zoroastrian or Buddhist in the past (all pacifist and loving ideologies), not bloodthirsty savages as in the propaganda many Muslims mindlessly repeat.
I seem to recall a Byzantine (and later, Christian) Empire duking it out with a Persian Empire over large swaths of northern Middle East/Asia Minor for several centuries. Sounds pretty "pacifist" to me...not.
Looks great, too much illegal content and no obvious way to report it though :(
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/peter.wienerroither/pwafos/dd5v05.htm
Includes another picture and a blended shot of the path of the eclipse, so hopefully this will pacify the is it / isn't it fake crowd :)
huh? same old, same old. looks pretty much like every other honda & toyota... a veritible cornicopia of sameness
Wow! Why didn't anyone tell me about this before?!
That's actually one of the more (most?) important differences between Haskell and Clean: Haskell has a large and active community, busy writing tutorials and documentation.
Or the cares-about-truth-in-media circle-jerk.
Though you're right that this could be out of context.
You've never been to a con, have you?
It has to be Diet Coke and you have to place a bed of Mentos under the meat.
Duuuh!
That page deserves a seperate post...I just wept.
So she's waiting for Mr. Right
dude, she's 45 years old. if she thinks she's going to attract her "soulmate" or whatever she's fcuking dumber than i ever imagained. she looks haggard now, just imagine how bad she'll look in 5 years. yuck. who wants to sign up for that.
You found an "objective" article on a site named Answering Islam? If there ever was a chutzpah...
with all the magic star trek technology, they could just beam the urine out of the bladder and let it diffuse in the vacuum of space
shopping, special, accessiores
haha! no I should not laugh at this.......someone could have got hurt badly....and it would not have been the driver of this car...seeing as this car probably has some kind of very strong rollcage in place to protect the inhabitants even if the car dropped of a cliff.
Here are some samples of the most popular breaks doing the rounds. http://banach.lse.ac.uk/DRUMS/drums.html (site back up again) Highlight for me is the opening beat of 'When the Levee Breaks' performed by the late great John Bonham.
This code is pretty odd, but the variable names make it inescapably awful. Please keep this in mind, you people that think you have 'elegant, readable languages'.
At times I wondered if it could be voice synthesis..
I can't read this script, it seems to be encrypted.
Jobs said. "Apple's goal within the next 12 months is to make me totally obsolete."
This comment earned the Apple CEO another, slightly longer, standing ovation.
lol
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"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
Hunter S. Thompson
Wow - airplane food is getting really bad.
about time. it's irresponsible of public institutions to send money to some dirtbag convicted monopolist in another country.
What was the answer when these same people asked if Clinton committed a crime? He lied to the grand jury... IT WASN'T ABOUT THE BJ.
So would not a consistent person come to the same conclusion: that whether a leak occurred or not, if he was lying, isn't that a crime? How dare they?!!
This has Eazy written all over it, and so does the passenger now.. "So bring your ass in here and give me some, so I can bust a nut"
To this day I have yet to find a distro of UNIX that does not have vi as part of it.
That's because it's in the POSIX standard.
sadly the camera doesnt capture the truck that hit the kitten 10 seconds earlier, leaving it in rigor mortis in the gutter.
My girl has more Medieval weaponry at her place than I do...
If we don't provide the example of a tolerant people, our action makes our words hypocritical.
Further, I think the most dangerous assumptions are those that state "you can't talk to these people" and "Islam is not a religion of peace." Given those, any barbaric treatment of an entire culture is permissible.
I refuse to accept those as premises.
Erlang getting started hint: unlike almost every other language, the stuff in lowercase is constant and the stuff in Title Case is variable.
Please quantify how likely that would be, and how much improvement could be expected. Please show your working-out.
I can customize anything I want with the extensibility provided by elisp. Sure it takes time but what free software doesn't. For example I'm today looking at the hack reported by Bill Clementson on accessing google calendar from emacs. Do other editors support that. Has VisutalStudio or Eclipse announced support for that yet? I mean why should I have to leave the comfort of emacs and my work in order to go check if there's a respone to my Reddit rant? -- Bit
I am writing this in emacs via the It's All Text plugin to Firefox
Hey, that's pretty good, cheers!
"Star-Trek style sliding doors"?
What, servants stationed behind them to move them at the right time?
"see the evil Islam is."
With that kind of talk, this "clash of cultures" will never be resolved.
Because macros are just conceptually dirty
Care to elaborate here?
Go read a book on it and you might think differently.
I realise that the present no. 1 Just another beautiful Sunday for church....oh wait (pic) is popular, but it's been there for at least 18 hours. Change already!
That was what I thought. It's difficult to tell from the article.
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Straight outta cockpit!
Take action, Nancy. Investigate further!!
Especially not for Christ's sake.
What did you guys dislike about Cryptonomicon, OOC? I loved it so much I've read it multiple times. I have to agree about Foucault's Pendulum, though.
this is very old...
speed limits are set purposely too slow so the government can exploit it's monopoly and generate revenue. plain and simple, they're stealing from their own citizens. police have ticket quotas that are the income source for their own salaries.
You originally said bombing raids. Now you take media reports, which can be unreliable as to who was responsible and claim that U.S. forces killed more than 8000 people PURPOSEFULLY. At least that's the implication. I said when's the last time you heard about them doing it, ordered by their commanders, en masse? They don't. I would take an educated guess that ninety-five percent of those deaths were because the soldiers were being fired upon and could not distinguish who was friend and who was foe, but had to eliminate all potential threats. Also, in Iraq, somebody who looks innocent when they are dead, might have been carrying a machine gun that got carried off by somebody else. The terrorists don't wear uniforms. Also, explosive devices are weapons used almost exclusively by the terrorists.
> I happen to know that eBay is basically running off of
> custom Java from reading other articles
Other evidence supporting this position is the number of
(many trivial) bugs that the web application contains. Have
you ever tried to actually sell something on that!?
Yes, last I heard, almost nobody manages to sell or buy anything on eBay ...
I don't think Clinton said I didn't get a BJ, he said, "I did not have sex with that woman".
I'm sure those words will lose their power as soon as people stop yelling them while tying a gay man to a post to die or when jumping him while he is walking down the street. I await that day with baited breath, but until then these words will retain their power to intimidate and harm.
That is from the movie Gymkata isn't it?
As a recovering Catholic I am very familiar with that particular cult's perversions. The feminine is seen as filthy, unclean and of the good old devil. Nose, knee ,toe, teat, vagina...so what? Remind you of anyone else? And if the resurrection brings eternal life, as they say, why worship the cadaver on the cross?...I think they find it sexy.
Yes, it's a public H.S....the Catholic ref. in the penultimate par. set me off.
What book?
Those photos need to be in a fark photoshop thread
Sorry to spill your kool-aid, but PHP is faster and more
scalable than Java
Yeah, pass the crackpipe, please ...
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=php&lang2=java
web programmer
Oh? Then you're excused.
wondered if it was an algorithm change or due to more redditors. The votes for the top posts seem to have gone up a lot recently.
Tell me why I should spend 18 minutes watching that stuff.
As a song goes :'I thought about life, and I thought about death, and neither one particularly appealed to me'.
At least on release from goal one can (sometimes) get some compensation, or can go and make friends with the person who put one there.
Just to share with you guys
bush is running the country like a fascist dictator. if the democrats don't impeach the sonofabitch then they're equally complicit in robbing the country of freedom and liberty and overthrowing the constitution
no plan ever survives contact with reality
I had never heard that phrase until just a few weeks ago, when Tony Snow started spouting it. I believe it to be made up to excuse the poor execution of the Iraq war. It's a fallacy too.
Some of those about the Snickers ad are too funny. "I didn't expect to see gay sex on television!". Their lips barely touched, if they want to see gay sex I suggest they google Falcon Studios.
From the complaint on the index page:
"CBS Sports producers knew, that when the former penist named Prince brought out that guitar it wasn't going to be good" (emphasis mine)
Really nice Freudian slip there. :)
Well, I can see that, but then we'd have to change possessive cases to "her's" and "he's" instead of "hers" and "his" just to be consistent and avoid mistakes with those, and that would really look stupid.
Would the school have accepted "front bottom"?
She would have been unlikely to have her gun in her bed, and if she did, it would pose an unnacceptable risk to her family members (if she had any).
I can understand why USians like having guns for protection, I can't understand why they don't recognise the increased risk of being shot that the availability of guns presents.
I like a lot of features of Emacs. But the feature I miss most in other editors is dynamic-abbrevation, or M-/
Vi has something similar with Ctrl-P in editing mode.
Whatever happened to personal responsibility?
Okay, I misread you - but you still missed the point - I did read that part and THAT'S WHY I WROTE MY MESSAGE because the author failed to properly make the connection between minutes and seconds of longitude to minutes and seconds of time - via the centuries long effort to invent a way to calculate your current longitude.
I'm curious. 8 of the all time 25 top posts are from the past month. I'm not sure how this reddit algorithm works, but if the stagnation is due to increased users/voters then maybe things need a little tweaking.
Could she take that other bile-filled, pseudo-journalist, Michelle Malkin with her?
Fine. It wasn't about whether he "had sex with that woman." Same point. Same thing here.
wow!! that is the most lame retarded dating article ever. the stupidity is profoundly creepy and distrubing
If you think my response is appropriate for anything (or even makes sense), I think yours may be.
Got it. I was truly confused about that. Curse my nonlinear reading style.
format c:
"When a student is told by faculty members not to present specified material because of the composition of the audience and they agree to do so, it is expected that the commitment will be honored and the directive will be followed," Leprine said. "When a student chooses not to follow the directive, consequences follow."
Is their justification.
What could possibly be wrong with The Vagina Monologues?
Beeing X in the wrong country and doing something Y is free to do in the same country is an increadibly common crime, the X-Y combinations are sometimes rather interesting as well.
Sky watchers across the world have seen some days ago the first total lunar eclipse in more than three years.
Sex is physical. The mental part we artificially attach it to sex later because of society's pressure.
So, what does this CAPTCHA say? I really can't read it. I must be a machine.
Obviously you are too grown up. for many of us, the word "nipple" (especially when said out loud multiple times) causes a response that ranges from a snicker to riotous laughter.
try it. say, "nipple nipple nipple nipple"
So they were suspended for disobeying. All right.
Why not vagina? I can understand why not pussy, cunt, or twat (the classics); or why not spaz hole, axe wound, minge, flange, or sideways sloppy joe; but vagina is the most Latinate and sublime, the sterilest term there is, coming from the Roman word for sheath. In medicine we say, "Do you have any pain in your vagina?" because any other word would be too icky or vulgar. But vagina fits the bill.
And if it was just any reference to genitals that got the principal going (or off), then I'm not sure why he would allow an excerpt from such a play in the first place.
(Which play, by the way, and in a literary and not a genital way, ick.)
as long as the garden hose isn't turned on, nobody would know you were bluffing...
Not to mention the rather unavoidable time it takes for changes to happen peacefully.
I started saying it, unfortunately, after a South Park episode where that's Cartman's response to nearly anything.
I dunno. Meh.
-t, --list
list the contents of an archive
Yet another failure to RTFM.
Exactly my point there are models, theories , beliefs for possible origin of the universe, not provable science in their explanation of the origin of the universe. When the science goes to the time(?) before the singularity there are no answers. We do kinda OK after the big bang, if you overlook dark matter, dark energy, the unexplained acceleration of the universe, but don't have a clue for before.
The success of Practical Exercise Therapy in providing the 'how' of therapeutic exercise is built on in this new and updated edition.
And poos. Don't forget the poos.
Curious to know how they handle copyrighted content. They just go with a one liner in the upload page saying not to upoad copyrighted content. I am not clear how youtube handles copyrighted content. What is the technology behind scribd like programming lang etc., guessing its python
"I saw how poor women in chadaris were forced to sit at the back of the bus and had to keep yielding their place on line in the bazaar to any man. "
In US, black people were forced to sit at the back of the bus and this was not too much time ago. Is this the fault of christianity?
How superior? Tell it to the high school senior in Georgia who is serving 10-15 years in prison for accepting a blowjob (she admits that she initiated it) from a schoolmate. He is 18. She is 16. I bet he would gladly accept lashes for a get-out-of-jail-free card right now. (Sure, we are comparing apples and oranges, but I just thought to mention that before you get too righteous. Yes our system is better, but still too screwed up to be bragging about our superiority. Peace.)
I have met the man who did this in a bar
Did you want to do sex with him?
I know Singapore and am not familiar with any chewing gum ban, but then I don't use the stuff. But I do know that I can walk anywhere in Singapore and feel safe and there is no sense of dictatorial oppression.
Oh for pete's sake!
Our little cat uses this exact pose to lie in her favorite spot in the house -- the warm spot of wall/baseboard below the heat vent.
CAT NOT DEAD, JUST CUTE!
BTW - hidden danger of cats here:
http://xkcd.com/c231.html
And slice 'em up
Why limit it to red herrings like religion? How about critiquing nation-states which are actually going around and attacking whole cultures? For example, the US probably spends about as much as the rest of the world combined on military. And it invades other nations. Not to mention that domestically, it imprisons its own citizenry at the world's highest known rate, in places where prisoner rape so common, it's joke fodder for late-night talkshows.
The US and UK even overthrew Iran's democratic parliamentary government (which had a secular prime minister) and installed the Shah. The CIA was so successful, the next year it overthrew Guatemala's democratically elected government.
So why not look in the mirror?
Or by arguing about "the evil Islam is", are you really just trying to justify the extremist militant policies of this nation-state, and the ideologies supporting its atrocities?
Yeah we wouldn't want to call an ideology evil once it qualifies as a religion don't we? That wouldn't be politically correct. I am sure people like you will defend Scientology in the future.
Once you go to the time before the singularity all theories are speculative and unprovable. An understanding of the current universe and big bang still leaves us with nothing which stands up to the scientific method pre-big bang.
What i find interesting about this post is that times have changed -- in the days of Usenet, asking this question would lead to a total flamewar, where there would be so much mudslinging (to mix metaphors) that any hope of gleaning a kernel of truth would be lost.
But it seems that in the Reddit community of today, people are comfortable enough with both editors to know that they each have their strengths and situations and can discuss them without venom.
Perhaps this is because vim has made vi easier to use and more featureful, and faster computers have made Emacs' bloat and speed disadvantage barely noticeable.
Free gallery and search art
Maybe so, but America is not that far behind. Only in OMG-Janet-Jackson-flashed-her-nipple! America could something as puerile as a bunch of people saying "vagina" repeatedly on a stage be considered revolutionary, anti-establishment or even noteworthy. The rest of the civilised world is still convinced that there has to be some sort of a punchline coming eventually.
Could you resubmit this with the correct link?
Great blog and web site on Jamaican Jerk Cuisine and BBQ in general. Very cool looking jerk shack. I want one.
You actually type all that every time you want to go into weather mode? Dude, it's like a one-line change to .emacs to map it to C-*.
sort of strained to get both phrases.
First, without any desire to defend Islam, I fail to see one argument in the article, that connects her story with Islam. So women are oppressed, but is it
*because of Islam,
*despite Islam,
*(probably most true) that hasn't much to do with Islam?
Second, the naivety of that woman is in stark contrast to her vocation (Professor of Psychology).
Look, at the very start: "In our two years together, my future husband had never once mentioned that his father had three wives and 21 children." Well, what was she thinking? She should have known how life is there, particularly, for her own good, in the family she married into. I am guessing the guy who tricked her is from a rich family, so his father will have had many women. That's how it works there, you idiot! Also... So she didn't expect what came, but did she at least ask anything?
All in all, I read "I got screwed, Islam is at fault!" My guess is that she was swept away by a dominant male. Being with psychology background, probably even more by the fact that he was so different. When all came crashing down, she blamed... Islam!? Not the husband, who clearly tricked her? Not herself, for being so stupid to fall into the trap? Not the general state of society there?
What a stupid woman!
Your whole comment is a straw man. I completely agree that the US overthrows governments and that it is wrong. I opposed the war in Iraq even before it started it is 100% wrong.
Ah, but what if it were at least as good as a human in that respect?
I could see the practice of law stratifying into an elite who can make arguments, convince juries and find the required legal theories to advance their clients needs. And an underclass that do little more than front for expert systems.
nipple priapism just makes a woman look stupid and deserperate
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Standard shortcuts like Ctrl-(X|C|V) have been around long enough for at least Emacs to fix it.
Why are those darn Greeks still using the Greek alphabet? English has been around long enough for them to just switch over to our alphabet. Don't they see it's better?
Then do you criticize my nation-state (the US) with the same intensity that you criticize Islam?
Font showoff. :)
DOS EDIT
...except that's it's closer to 20%, with a broad definition of sexual assault (not just anal rape). (One study shows 3.5/1000 incidents.)
Collecting data in prisons is very difficult, however, but "statistically speaking" he probably wasn't and/or didn't.
The site would be substantially more interesting if it were hosted in (now sadly defunct) Sealand, or some other place beyond the reach of the USA's infinite copyright extensions.
Fick dich ins Knie!
As a Westerner, the Quran seems to be written in verse form. The English translatations seem to be open to a lot of interpretation.
It would seem that Waahabism fundementalist interpretation and a misunderstanding of Jihad are the source of much of the problems the Western world has with Islam.
I also think it ridiculous that defenders of Islam always point to the behavior of Christianity 300+ years ago. Those were primitive times and the dominant thinking patterns were fuedalistic. Are they implying that Islam is still a fuedalistic religion?
Anything hormonal can start early, so the desire for sex can be there of course. Perhaps (and this is just a guess, could be wrong) even some emotional development, but even that wouldn't be anything complete... more of an early start than anything like maturity.
yawn
Whole Tomato made my whole computer slow to a crawl, even after I turned off most of its features. No thanks.
Yes, but that is not the discussion right now. I think the US is in fact helping the spreading of Islam a lot by its actions.
I would have left the dot off the i .. it's not necessary when reading "Come in", and it gets in the way for "Go away"
I've been saying "meh" for at least 7 or 8 years. No way this is a new phenomenon. Did the author run out of things to write about?
Because we have to have some type of Ally in the Middle East.
If you recall, we were allies with the Soviets in World War 2.
In times of strife, you take what you can get.
tl;dr lol ^_^
I also prefer Emacs, but it's not installed on every system.
vi is like masturbation: it's always there.
coulter is an old shrill spinster
DSK?
Investigators are probing a Wal-Mart employee's interception of phone conversations and text messages of other employees and outsiders, including a New York Times reporter.
Claude and Debra both in paper (that's so fucked up)
i hope Claude never tries to be a smart ass agian!!
She memorized the face very well, they had the sketch, she recognized the guy. And then, she didn't recognize the real rapist. How is that possible???
She says at some point "he is black and I am white", so I guess that for some of us white people blacks still look all the same.
We can't stop here, this is bat country!
Interesting, and thanks for the honesty. I don't recall having encountered that particular position before. (I don't agree with it overall, but that's another matter.)
Man, that Neal Stephenson guy can write.
Goddamn that is the most ignorant fucking thing I've seen anyone say all year.
"Some people call it over-kill. I call it just-enough-kill."
Good grief, someone save me from all cute cat-pictures on this intarweb of ours. The tubes must be clogging up from all this fur.
at flapjax-lang.org/compiler, there's a link to a compiler, but it's a python script, not haskell. am i missing something?
I would certainly expect a Greek to use the Latin alphabet if he was working in Latin or a language that inherited that alphabet.
Keyword research software that makes it really easy to find niche keywords. Uncover hidden niche keywords!
Emacs popularized typeahead find (a.k.a incremental search), at least among Unix users. Firefox recently picked it up ("find as you type") and is doing the same for the general public.
and your point is???
It is good to see Linux gaining ground.
There is no point in using ugly words.
no it doesn't.
M-% replacement RET alternative RET
FORUM
Here's how it works. You either bash all religion or you don't.
Here's another quote: "You either bash all science or you don't". So let's say someone finds that a long-held truth in Chemistry (for example) was just a mere illusion, Chemistry is part of science, Physics is part of science, we have to bash all science (see first assumption), which means we also have to bash Physics, shouldn't we?
It's not voice synthesis per se but definitively TTS - the kind where you use a huge database with recorded speech units.
Uh, i don't think the analogy can be stretched this far, but my point is that by the time Ctrl-X/C/V got popular, Emacs had already been using an equally-good (arguably superior) cut/paste system for a very long time.
Saying the application should change presupposes that the users want such a change. But just like the Greeks have no interest in abandoning their ancient alphabet, Emacs users don't really miss Ctrl-X/C/V.
I mean, newbie users might. But that's like how newbie drivers like using their left foot to brake, or how newbie cyclists like training wheels. By the time they learn how to make Emacs use X/C/V (BTW, it's really easy), they've already realized that they don't want to.
7 Mar 07
Very interesting
No one can tell you about emacs and vi. You have to see them for yourself.
Clinton also didn't do any jail time.
http://www.sucks-rocks.com/rate/reddit/digg
Not bad.
Don't forget the lack of protective gear, and the post-game drinking and drunken singing.
There is, but the majority of America wouldn't get it anyway.
Worldwise indeed
"Judge not, that ye be not judged."
Somehow this reply had gotten lost in my inbox, sorry for not replying sooner, I'd just come across this comments page again linked from elsewhere.
Don has hopefully addressed your concerns with regard to finding practical uses of monadic DSLs.
The efficiency issue that the arrows paper brings up is real, but is only a concern if you really have domain specific knowledge that you'd like to apply to those functions in order to do simplification. The idea behind arrows is to work with things that have types that look like (A input output) (where A is the type defined by the DSL, and input and output are type parameters), rather than (input -> M output).
Some of what would have been functions can now be special constants, or values with another representation altogether. Arrows still ensure that every pure function of type (s -> t) lifts to an arrow of type (A s t). The combining function (>>>) which chains computations end to end can do analysis of what is being combined in order to make things more efficient, so long as these are not just lifts of pure functions. This analysis is application specific. For many applications of nondeterminism, there's not much that is obvious which can be done. That's not to say that there aren't important examples where you do get benefits, and arrows are often the right thing for those. Arrows are also really good when you need a good deal of introspection on your code. (In fact, arrows are almost ideal for circuit-description, and I suspect that if Lava were coded today, there'd be an instance of Arrow in it.)
Oh, and where'd you get that they were using unsafePerformIO? I don't see mention of it in that paper, and grepping the source code for Lava didn't turn up anything.
It's just that things like the list monad and other nondeterminism monads are still quite often the right tool for the job -- specifically in those hard cases where the best you can do is to prune your tree as you go.
any religion with a dress code is going to be severe
Drums are the easiest instrument in popular music. If you need to rip off drum sounds, then you need to get out of the business altogether.
"Fox news - How Bush saved the world from terrorism and 100 other fascinating true stories"
The airbags themselves are a scam.
First, there is nothing wrong with Pop Rock.
Second, what makes you think that only football fans watch the most viewed television event in the nation? It's the Super Bowl. Everyone watched the Super Bowl and playing Prince, or Janet Jackson, or The Rolling Stones makes sense. Because those artists appeal to a wide variety of people.
I have it set so that typing jj is equivalent to ESC. It's a real wrist- and time-saver.
Just add "imap jj " to your .vimrc.
WTF?? downmod to hell you bastard!!
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Struts Its Stuff on AT&T Cell Phones (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Is that a wrapper script that just calls the real compiler? Src here, http://www.flapjax-lang.org/download/flapjax-source.tar.gz
Stalkers like you are scary. They have the same psychological profile as serial killers.
I bet if the FBI ran your DNA through CODIS we would find out that you belong on death row.
I can literally feel society crumbling around me... penis!
not only was it a crime, but it was evil and stupid too
Remember most Islamic countries were Christian, Zoroastrian or Buddhist in the past (all pacifist and loving ideologies)
Someone may ask, if christianity is so peaceful, then how can you explain Abu Gharib? Rape and murder over there? So-called Crusade against Islam? Why are christians dropping terrible bombs on civilian people in Iraq and Afghanistan?
By saying "peaceful" do you mean "peace of mind" without thinking these "small" details..
Should've said "twat".
Are you from nigeria, by any chance?
"sideways sloppy joe" you made my day
Is it the Republicans' fault that Democrats are stupid?
If one were to use the theory of evolution to try to answer the question of why there are three major races of human beings, one would have to conclude that the races are at different stages of evolution. To say that we are at different stages of evolution is to say that one group has advanced superior to the others.
Yeah, and if one were to use the theory of Quantum Electrodynamics to try to answer the question of why electrons consist of quarks, then [insert some invalid inference from false premise]. Brilliant this.
Y A W N
Hey, they were just trying to fuck the police.
hahaha
Wow; I am still in shock that people were so bothered by the Snickers commercial. That's... nuts.
Is this the fault of christianity?
Segregation was not all that infrequently defended with Bible quotes about the "curse of Ham" and what have you. Black people were descended from Noah's bad son, so it was OK to disenfranchise and terrorize them.
But it would still be stupid to blame Christianity for segregation.
First, there is nothing wrong with Pop Rock.
This pretty much makes most people not want to read the rest of your post.
She's looking harsh.
Yeah, and their nuts hang out a lot more.
Cucumber in tinfoil in pants at airport security was a gag in This is Spinal Tap.
OMG don't click the link. I was scarred for life moe than enough when it actually happened.
Why is it seen as unusual or noteworthy at all for an event like this to take place, if we're all "programmed" to
act that way anyway?
Because we hate to be reminded of the animals we are. Most of us view ourselves as being special or different from the animal kingdom.
We see videos of birds creating and decorating nests to impress potential mates. And we don't like the fact that we do the same thing.
If all our behavior is set to maximize the spread of our genes, why isn't the world swarming 10-deep in human flesh right now, Soylent-Green style?
Because it takes 9 months to give birth, then another 16 years or so before the child is likely to produce her own kids. It's quite a limiting factor.
Also, things like the medieval plague set the population growth back by centuries.
A comment I made earlier today is relevant here.
I don't really understand why an advanced mail transport can't be agreed-on which can properly identify all senders with a pgp signature. Then any sender who spams could be reliably blocked.
Of course users would have to abandon SMTP in favour of the new protocol, but so what? Adopters would get properly blockable email, and anyone not adopting would be unable to email the adopters.
why do people ask stupid questions
Those things have absolutely nothing to do with Christianity. It is just companies behind those actions trying to make money.
Me too... except I still reported a story until I noticed they had been switched.
I haven't heard too much defense of the tenets of Islam coming from the left, merely pleas that Muslims should not be slaughtered in the streets like cattle.
I can't really understand where this country is going. And how ironic it is to see that its president wages war "on terror" against the very same kind of middle-aged thinking that's already at work in the US.
empeachment? bring 'em on
FALSE!!! speed of light still intact
In the Symbian world the situation is that opposite that despite the growing Symbian market share, Nokia's own bloggers notice that during the last couple of years the third party fail to cope with the changes and the usefulness of the 3rd party apps is diminishing.
It's the FreeBSD daemon...
Fair question. I felt that: the writing was awkward and flowed poorly; the extended metaphors were clumsy and forced; the text as a whole to be bloated and sloppy (I agree with Fiji5555 that it could have lost 200 pages easily); and the story itself was simply not very compelling, especially the modern day thread with the startup (I did rather enjoy the profile of Alan Turing and Bletchley Park). Maybe really exciting things happened past 200 pages, but I gave it my best shot and just couldn't plow any farther into it.
By contrast, I really enjoyed The Code Book by Simon Singh, a history of encryption and decryption. It was lively, tersely written, and excellent at explaining esoteric terms as well as exploring how encryption affected the society around it.
hoi
Macros break the "language as virtual machine" abstraction and introduce a second level virtual machine which complicates code analysis and understanding. They mean the code that gets executed is not the code you wrote, but some arbitrary derived code. They're an abstraction that's prone to leak under stress. They're powerful, but you can get nearly the same power with higher-order programming and lazy evaluation.
What?
No, you aren't understanding. The idea that there was a singularity is long gone, and even if there was, you simply can't even talk about a 'time before'. These aren't trivial to explain, but there is no need for a creator, as there is simply no point at which a creation happens. The centuries-old debates about 'first causes' and such are now redundant.
Screw that. I'm pushing for like half or more.
Pansies.
http://reddit.com/info/16ixq/comments :) (I'm pretty good finding links :P)
I want this for Visual Studio.
Oh wait a minute.
Checking breasts...
Still there...
That's ok.
So says Jesus?
No, you aren't understanding. The idea that there was a singularity is long gone, and even if there was, you simply can't even talk about a 'time before'. These aren't trivial to explain, but there is no need for a creator, as there is simply no point at which a creation happens. Also, there certainly is provable science involved. There will be telescopes launched within the next decade which will be able to look at cosmic backrgound radiation, and even measure gravitational waves directly, that will be able to choose between the different models. That is science!
The centuries-old debates about 'first causes' and such are now redundant.
Prince knew exactly what he was doing which is why I have such great respect for the man. There was nothing wrong with what he did, quite the contrary.
The performance in the falling rain was inspirational, uplifting, cathartic and rocked.
It was a triumph not only for the artist and all those who had a hand in pulling this show off but for all of us who would rather create beauty than hate.
the next page is much more interesting... where the elephant KO's that minivan
And if, as hexix points out, this was part of fox going through all of the charges then it isn't. It is hard to draw a valid conclusion from a single frame grab without the context of what preceeded or follows it. If 10 seconds earlier it said he was guilty of 4 out of 5, then followed by this part explaing the one that he was not guilty of and later followed by the charges he was guilty of then they are not creating a false or misleading impression. TV is TV, it is not print media. You need the whole context to draw valid conclusions.
US navy is funding research into Star Trek-like weapon!
See my post above. There was almost certainly no singularity, and even if there was, the phrase 'time before the singularity' has no scientific or philosophical meaning (a singularity is a point at which time loses meaning).
One way to look at some of the models of the early universe is to imagine that time changes direction slowly, like longitude lines on a globe as you head North. At the North pole, you can't go any further North, but that does not mean that there is some weird singularity there, and nothing odd happens there either. In the same way, in the early universe it could be the case that time changes direction smoothly to become simply another space dimension. There is no singularity, and no point of creation.
ARMAGEDDON!
oh no
xDDDD okey I love randomness :P
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING!
Um..it's Prince. I've watched bland interviews with him and he still exudes potent sexuality. And he's been like that for nearly 25 years. Anyone that doesn't expect sexuality when viewing Prince is lost. (As for calling it obscene? Salt to taste. One person's obscene is another's bland vanilla.)
The business idea NOT the post!
probably cost your links dont work
That's fine. I don't exactly expect people to like that statement. People would rather hate on Pop. Alot of people do.
http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/category/fuxing/
Work is worsjip
Work is worship
good point. what if people had this understanding of other cultures..
http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/2007/02/15/im-in-ur-tube/
torture czar
my links definitely work. did you find some that didn't?
In my view it's the extremist positions that are the problem, not the religion as a whole--precisely the same problem I have with extremist Christians. Why should I treat them differently?
"People like me" want to know.
Wow, that is one lazy presentation. It doesn't even say whether such things as alcohol consumption is per capita or total (but it seems from the shape of Russia that it's total)
edit: The site linked to isn't much better at this one.:
Territory size shows the proportion of worldwide alcohol, adjusted for absolute alcohol content, that was drunk there in 2001."
Alcohol adjusted for alcohol content, lovely. But if it wasn't for newspeak like this, I suppose talking about the health benefits of alcohol would be much harder.
There was a posting on here a while back which stated something along the lines of "It's impossible to tell the difference between real Creationist writings and satire".
I'm beginning to think the same about Conservatives and satire. Seriously, if I ever had to create a character in a novel, I don't think I could come up with anything as bizarre and extreme as some of the people I've encountered in online message boards.
Conservapedia (which sounds like a charity set up to help endangered paedophiles, but I digress) is a pretty good example of Republican thinking (you see the same techniques employed by Faux News, Creationists, rifle owners, white supremacists and so on):
Make a factually incorrect statement. e.g. A conservative[sic] encyclopedia you can trust or Fair and balanced
Attack your enemies in any way you can. Show how they are the opposite of what you are claiming to be. The more attacks the better; it takes time to defend spurious allegations, and the fan-boys will have already made their minds up anyway. e.g. Read why Wikipedia is 6 times more liberal than the American public or Learn the injuries to health that Wikipedia conceals about abortion.
Always have your supernatural deity on your side. After all, we only get our morals from invisible spirits we can't prove, all those Godless Communists have no soul and are going to hell. After all, we only do what the bible says is right because the bible is 100% accurate, infallible and says it's right.
Don't listen to those morons who try to argue some issues are complex shades of grey. Life is black and white, although we obviously have a preference towards white.
Actually I'm going to stop there because Stephen Colbert has done then better than I ever could.
That's idiocy. There are hundreds of similar incidents each year. Are you naive enough to believe they all make it on the news and foolish enough to believe Al Sharpton or Jesse Jacksons make it to all of them?
Interesting that it had almost nothing to do with the word itself:
"Principal Richard Leprine said Tuesday that the girls were punished not because of what they said but because they disobeyed orders not to say it... 'When a student chooses not to follow the directive, consequences follow.'"
The issue is about "insubordination" -- the girls decided not to subordinate themselves to authority in this case. Institutionally, punishment must follow failure to comply with the directive.
the onion - where every article almost finds a joke and is almost funny, but always turns out boring and stupid
Not sure what you're talking about. Most leftists I know despise any faith based dogma, Christian or Islamic. In fact it is the right wing nuts that form unholy alliances in America to push through things like abortion restricting legislation or gay marriage bans.
stag krakow, cracow, poland
Do you treat Scientology as the money making scheme it is? Then why not treat Islam as the totalitarian system it is, or at least respect people who see it as such. Oh and that downmod is real grown up.
Yes, glancing at it, it seemingly just sends the source to a web application which is a wrapper around the real compiler.
Are people voting all these comics up because they think they are funny, or just because they're political comics?
Maybe it's just me, but I've found very few comics posted to Reddit to be funny recently. Bah humbug.
she's not aging well, or she's a meth-head. maybe a little of both
The articles fails on the, "Oh no, the REAL racism is what I've suffered and it's the worst racism of them all!" notion that is very pervasive. Point out the racism you've experienced, but don't belittle what others go through.
What's with the gear restrictions?
To be fair, the school just shouldn't have let them read from The Vagina Monologues instead of saying "Don't say the 'vagina' word."
Also, this is my personal opinion but, The Vagina Monologues are retarded.
"My vagina's country." What the fuck does that even mean?
Christians killed all the Gnostics, except that those ideas (and a couple of strategically buried Gospels) still exist. Apparently not.
In the same user friendly way it does everything else. ed does not try to make you sick with ugly colors. Just simple black and white (sometimes amber and black; or green and black).
Ssshhh! The whole point of pious Conservative thinkers (Haggard, Coulter, Bush, Popoff, Cheney, the list goes on and on) is that you should do as I say, not as I do.
How exactly is "this" going to "come to America"?
Dear OP,
I hate you. Your post caused a vociferous and abrupt "awww!" to escape my lips. Being that I am my company's IT Manager, I have lost sufficient BOFH cred due to the eruption being heard by cow-orkers. My LART is no longer a tool of fear. Damn you to the deepest, darkest hell where there are no kitty pictures ever!.
it's up to 9 and just 5 secs ago it went to 12
Strange shiat
he girls decided not to subordinate themselves to authority
Which makes their reading of The Vagina Monologues all the more poignant.
people do not need religions to be ignorant and fanatic. i believe people would find some reasons to argue on, get divided and declare war on each other even if there were no religions, in fact even if all of us resembled each other like amoebas. this is human nature.
hi a
Wow, you're reading some web page that cherry-picks phrases from within verses to prove its point! Most people cherry-pick individual (badly translated) verses!
Sadly, it's just as I thought: you have confused the Qur'an with Islam. The Qur'an contains many verses that tell Muslims to obey Allah and His messenger, and with good reason. Muslims are ordered to pray, but nowhere does the Qur'an tell Muslims how to pray, or how often. Muslims are ordered to give charity, but nowhere does the Qur'an say how much, or when.
We have to rely on external sources (the Hadeeth and Sunnah) to figure out what to do, and to provide context for the verses. That's where the interpretation begins.
Incidentally, you may want to write to the faithfreedom author and point out that he meant 2:2, not 2:1. It's probably a little embarrassing to claim that the Qur'an is a clear and easy to understand book, when verse 2:1 is three letters ("alef lam meem") that most likely no human knows the meaning of. 5:16 also isn't what he quotes it to be. 5:15 (and the verses around it) compares the Qur'an with the scriptures of the Jews and Christians, and is directed at them.
Straw man argument and you know it.
Hey, they were your examples of "pacifists", not mine.
What is NLP and what is it good for anyway? check this out if you want to know the basics...
Downloading universe... Done.
There are no "white" people either but we're not insecure enough to care about the word.
Bingo.
Football Boot News on the Champions League win by Liverpool over Barcelona
When that tongue hits you in the eye you got another thing coming.
great cricket catching vid too
Yeah.... this will never happen. You people really need to give this shit a rest.
I'm still pissed off that Java won :( Every time I get the opportunity to work on real Smalltalk projects I still wonder about the collective sanity of the development world.
Ultimately, we hold an awful lot of power--can't we rise up and start forcing the business-side of decision making to make better choices?!
We should take a cue from Terry Pratchett, and establish a Tyranny (with provisions for kicking out our tyrants if they don't do as we like, of course).
yeah -and now it's 11. Is there some sort of karma gremlin? Maybe it has to do with comments
slideshow: http://www.csmonitor.com/slideshows/2007/gangs/
It'll never happen until the day it happens. Enough just has to happen to make 16 Senators agree. The hope is that investigations could dig up enough dirt to lay out and force people to face what he's done, to get this to happen.
Enough killing going on on your home ground, and there won't be much money left for fancy high-tech weapon gadgets.
Is it the people's fault that the Republican pols and FOX news serve the same wealthy masters?
Shouldn't you commit seppuku?
Yet marketing is precisely why Java succeeded (well, I'll admit it is a "better C++" but that's like saying that poo tastes better with a good catsup.
My phone number is useless. It doesn't spell anything at all; too many zeros.
I believe it's total consumption, not per capita.
Note that in the late 80's/early 90's that Smalltalk was actually a very popular development environment and lots of systems (commercial) were built on it.
I would argue your statement that Java is "more powerful" than C, but I suspect we would be arguing semantics.
Note that Kay's NSF grant is using Piumurta's (sp?) built-on-straight-C environment.
Why are you drooling kooks so obsessed with Fox News?
ABC/SeeBS/NBC/CNN/NPR/PBS/NYT/WP/LAT/Newsweak/Time/etc. aren't enough for you?
I take it you only believe in free speech for people you agree with.
Scribd? That's the best name they could come up with?
I quote natrius:
The similarities between military spending and toy imports are not coincidental. Yet another reason why we shouldn't let Ahmadinejad get a Wii.
I love the bra-less look. My girlfriend things I'm crazy, but I think its sexy. I love when she "lounges" without a bra, its great!
Someday we will have the opportunity to visit those places and suddenly all of our petty differences will fade away as mankind realizes that we are part of a community much larger than any of us can even imagine!
"Principal Richard Leprine said Tuesday that the girls were punished not because of what they said but because they disobeyed orders not to say it... 'When a student chooses not to follow the directive, consequences follow.'"
the principal is an obvious liar. the sort who 'thinks' his obfuscation and sidewinding is sufficiently covering the REAL issue. what an xtian PRETARD. like so many vermin in this CUNT-tree.
it's all about 'acceptable' excuses to abuse with this sort. believe me, i grew up surrounded by pinheads just like him.
there is NEVER a period where they are satisfied either BTW.
they LOVE the catch-all 'failure to submit to my authority' BULLSHIT.
What about liquid hydrogen or the like? Would it be possible to keep it cool enough to use in a plane?
I don't know. It all depends on the economics.
If energy for creating the hydrogen was plentiful and cheap, it just might be possible.
The only decent way to produce hydrogen is at very high temperatures (>1000 C) using thermochemistry. Then you get a "fantastic" 50% efficiency. Electrolysis is much worse. I'd put my money on coal or natural gas reformation.
there are others who have been saying the same thing as you for decades and nothing has happened yet.
Yeah, Paul Erlich and his ilk of anti-human catastrophist doomsayers. Yech. The key difference is that they're predicting the end of all humanity. I'm predicting the end of the USA.
If something bad does happen, we will probably just return gladly to our manufacturing ways of old,
You would need copious energy resources to supply your new-again factories, resources which you don't have domestically and can no longer import from elsewhere. And even if there weren't a collapse, even if right now you tried to substitute domestic production for cheap imports from China, all you would achieve would be a massive increase in inflation. US inflation is already in or near the double-digits, so the new situation would be hyper-inflation.
Inflation is good so long as it isn't high enough to devalue utility bills and it is more than compensated by wage inflation. But this is exactly the kind of inflation which the USA resists on ideological grounds. And not at all the kind of inflation that would result.
there have been moments in which a military has served its society well (see the Allies, World War II
When the USA conquered Western Europe.
In the same way, the financial establishment also occasionally serves its host society.
So has clear-cut logging and other environmental disasters. In the short term they've served their host societies.
The linkjacker didn't bother to tell us, and the site they were lifted from wasn't much better.
There is lots of science from just after the moment of the big bang or singularity. All the data so far confirms the big bang or a single point in space time when our universe was created, singularity. How, by what or from what are all open questions. Please site the specific science for the origin of the universe from before the big bang. Please document the scientific conclusion the search for first causes are redundant.
COBE was launched years ago and did confirm based on cosmic microwave background radiation that there were irregularities in time (actually space-time) which lead to the formation of the universe. The COBE data confirmed the predicted irregularities but not their origin. And we currently have detectors LIGO And Virgo hunting for gravitational waves. And the early data looks good but is very sparse. Confirmation of both "wrinkles in time" (as Smoot called them) and gravitational waves as predicted by Einstein will not answer the basic questions about the origin of the universe. Nor will their confirmation indicate there was no point of origin for the universe. Rather this data supports the theory of the big bang.
> physical and emotional abuse
... is already illegal.
Not against your husband's new trophy wife, in many polygamist regions
...Then why'd they get married? Forced marriage is illegal too, right? Presumably there are laws against marital rape as well.
Not in polygamist regions, or at least not laws enforced when they conflict with tribal custom, in places like Afghanistan.
Just because something sometimes has illegal consequences shouldn't make it illegal. If it's possible for three or more people to have a happy marriage (and it is), why should they be denied that?
Because any social institution which has such an imbalance of power, where one member has literally no power and the other(s) has absolute power is immoral and inhumane. Presumably it's 'possible' for someone to be another person's slave and both to be happy, like it's 'possible' for a child prostitute to be happy, but these cases should be stopped, because happiness, while theoretically possible, isn't the real-world result.
A step by step tutorial on how to quickly setup your wiimote as your mouse or Mac remote control
too bad his 'eyes' weren't opened to barbarity of RELIGION and all forms of fraud used as an excuse to abuse and destroy others' lives.
I have decided to give away my Nintendo Wii. I have racked up a pretty serious credit card debt that needs to be paid off. My girlfriend and I are also trying to move to North Carolina so she can continue her education. I need to pay off my debt so I can make the move. The good news is that you have a chance to win it, no catch.
Vaginas are dirty little things. I applaud our proactive school administrators in their crusade to rid the world of the scourge of vaginas.
neat.
Yeah, I feel pretty silly now. I'd totally forgotten the break when I wrote that comment.
I first learned vi (note: not vim, but vi) mostly because I worked at a place with a crazy sysadmin. If you installed emacs, even in your own home directory, he deleted it.
Then I moved to vim and was happy. But become unhappy when my editing pattern changed -- instead of spending all day in a few files, I was editing and comparing files all over the place. I went cold turkey and started using Emacs. I thought I had nirvana.
There is an interesting dynamic appearing with those who grew up with consoles and don't like to take our hands off the keyboard and those who aren't bothered by going back and forth between the two.
All that said, I've been using Textmate on my Mac and I hafta say it's becoming my killer app on the Mac. Note only am I editing just as well on that after a few weeks than in Emacs (after five years) but I'm understanding my Mac better too. I think I could setup Emacs to do the same sort of things that Textmate's Bundles do, but I don't have the time to fiddle with it. In Textmate, there is no fiddling.
I already answered that on my blog, but I'll give you the short version:
Emacs: the absolute control you get with Emacs Lisp over all things in your editor. You can change and create anything.
Vim: The keybinding and the "self-contained" nature where most people never need to download (or know about) any third-party modules to do tasks (e.g.: filesystem exploration, spell checking, folding, remote file editing.)
Are you suggesting that as people get smarter, that are less likely to vote GOP? I'll agree with that!
bush (among others) needs a prison cell, not a spanking. and not in country club prison.
what's the punishment for treason? defrauding the public by an elected official? war crimes?
Recently at my University, the VP-Internal of our Student Union resigned over an uproar for his decision to limit a performance of the Vagina Monologues. The student body felt strongly for free speech.
Hrm. That is unbound for me. Are you using Gnu Emacs?
The next step was to set up a proper representative government, and to pump money into the country for education, poverty alleviation, etc. That failed miserably. They got a fraction of the money they needed, which means they couldn't win the hearts of the population.
Which makes me wonder, wouldn't be actually easier (or cheaper?) to just pour the money with certain conditions (e.g., "you will become a more secularized country") in the very beginning, without military action (which are costlier in lives and money)?
Edit: Hm, I didn't thought about the weapons industry. My bad for the empty rethoric.
Yes - Scientology is crap. There's more to Islam than "Evil," however, so it's not a valid comparison. I downmodded because your comparison is crap, and therefore so is the argument. What's your problem?
EDIT: It is possible to speak out against the injustices committed in the name of Islam--and unfortunately they are far too many--and still remain faithful to the deeply spiritual tenets of Islam.
It doesn't matter to idiots and liars, it should matter to anyone concerned with the truth. It was only a "misstep" because there are so many idiots and liars who are not concerned with the truth. That's the point. A political misstep is different than deliberate dishonesty and willful idiocy. Someone should be allowed to flub a joke without being accussed of hating the troops, ESPECIALLY when he served himself.
His slashdot text on Beowulf writers and Dante writers is brilliant. It should be mandatory reading for all artists, whether they think of themselves as popular, niche, classical, fine or whatever.
Wow, you're reading some web page that cherry-picks phrases from within verses to prove its point! Most people cherry-pick individual (badly translated) verses!
Nah, just wanted to give you a quick example. I read the Koran but it is too much work to go hunt down all those verses myself right now.
Incidentally, you may want to write to the faithfreedom author and point out that he meant 2:2, not 2:1.
Yeah i noticed that too, doesn't invalidate it though.
Hey, they were your examples of "pacifists", not mine.
They were not, I was talking about before Islam even existed. Before Islam some extremely advanced cultures existed in the middle east, nowadays stupidity reigns supreme.
Vagina. Penis. Anus.
Cue disgust and incredulity from pathetic, idiotic, myopic, childish Americans. You fucking people make me want to tear my eyes out and punch myself in the brain.
The fact that your post has nothing to do with what I said proves just the opposite.
(They don't baptise in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, so they're not Christian)
Instructions for a Mormon baptism from their website give a short statement which includes the words "I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."
teh meh. TimAY!
You're such a cnut.
;)
Lets not forget that Afghanistan was a functioning society until the "enlightened rationalism" of Reagan administration decided to use Afghanistan as "theater" to engage the Soviet Union and Communism.
ha ha ha ha ha!
So your thesis is:
early 13th century AD: Afghanistan, invaded by Genghis Khan and turned into the balkans of the East = "functioning society"
13th-18th centuries: Constant warfare among Uzbeks, Safavids and smaller Afghan tribes = "functioning society"
19th century: Anglo-Afghan wars and British partition = "functioning society"
1978: Great Saur Revolution and then Soviet Occupation in 1979 = "functioning society"
1980: Reagan elected president of US = TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF AFGHAN MIDDLE CLASS
That's a brilliant political thesis. Really. Spot on. Though did you know that Operation Cyclone, the CIA funding of mujahidin to counter the Soviets, was begun in 1979 by Jimmy Carter, not Reagan? Kinda blows a hole in your nuanced "Reagan is teh suck" reasoning.
Quite a nice idea for an ambigram. If you've never seen these before, Google for ambigram turns up lots of good results. I recall there's also a good section on them in Douglas Hofstadter's book Metamagical Themas.
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'serving' your country by becoming a parasite. the PRETARD way! sheesh. note to self "next life, no pretards".
Yeah i noticed that too, doesn't invalidate it though.
Really? So what does 2:1 mean?
They were not, I was talking about before Islam even existed.
Most of the Roman/Persian wars were before Islam even existed.
Make that "users who do not want to learn a different way of working." I have a friend who is a Windows administrator and he uses GVim for all his text editing. I showed him the simple configuration to use the Windows clipboard as the default register, so the y and d commands can be pasted in another application with Ctrl-V, and vice-versa.
If you REALLY want it though, both Emacs and Vim have Win32 compatibility keybindings. The reason they are so unpopular is because they are so inferior to the already existing mechanisms.
I hope they sue the school. Too many idiots teaching in schools lately.
Earth to Microsoft: Google is rich because it provides a service - finding things on the Internet - and does a better job than anyone else. They're making money off the service they provide, not "solely on the back of other people's content".
There's more to Islam than "Evil,"
Such as? Muhammed just stole some stuff including good stuff from other religions to make it more appealing to their members in hoping to convert them.
Islam has only brought stupidity to the world.
What could possibly be wrong with The Vagina Monologues?
That a kook in Canada has a problem with women?
From what he says at the end, I doubt he'd complain about the appropriation of his creation for use on the most popular video sharing site in the world.
I'd like to nominate "pernicious ubiquity" for phrase of the day...
I don't see in the article where she says "everything in the developed world is just hunky dory". Sure, the developed world has its problems. But it's a significant fact that most of the developed world takes an official stand in saying women are not the property of men.
See, thats where you go wrong, if I view stuff on-screen I don't give a shit about your presentation and any exotic fonts you might have used.
Actually I prefer plaintext over HTML too unless the HTML lacks most of the layout features people like you seem to like so much, especially for reading long texts.
PDFs are very good at ruining my reading flow themselves by making me scroll down all the time because they are often (almost always unless used as presentation slide storage) designed for paper, which has an aspect ratio that is the inverse of your typical screen (taller than wide instead of wider than tall) and that annoying screen space waste at the borders to account for printers that can't print there.
coming from Ireland, clicking the *.com link got me redirected to the UK site, where the article does not exist. I tried clicking the USA link at the bottom of the UK page - this was again redirected back to the UK site.
I think it's complete BS. It's put together by a spammy "health" pay-site pitching cleansing seminars, halting aging, etc.
You can switch off C-M-Backspace X killing by adding DontZap in the ServerFlags section of xorg.conf. What's more, you can now assign that key combination to something else.
VI is on every Unix machine and super fast through ssh or telnet. I don't use it as a primary editor, but whenever I go to a new machine, I use it because I know it will be there and it will load fast.
That being said, small features like 'f' for jump to next occurrence of a letter and combining that with 'd' to delete up to that point (and there are many other useful combos) make it extremely fast to use with the keyboard.
Why does practically every editor make it a huge PITA to have two copies of the same file in two windows open at the same time?
In Eclipse, Window -> New Editor opens another editor on the same file, which you can the move around in your perspective.
In Vim I do that with windows and ad-hoc folding (visual selection + zf).
Right. It would be like a pilot complaining that pulling the control stick down makes the plane go up, and wouldn't it be simpler to override the standard controls to make it more intuitive?
no to go off topic - but all these are signs that americans might want to spend more time watching something else also... say PBS, for ex?
Of course not. Maher is a political comedian and so far, does not aspire to be anything more. He isn't invited to speak/spew at serious events like the CPAC. OTOH, Coulter presents herself as a serious writer/commentator. Perhaps the blame is on those who invite to speak.....
"I like my...vagina..."
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/92/92jsexontape.phtml
better living through chemistry.
..in Iran.
Go away; you are not welcome here.
You can install the traditional IBM shortcuts easily.
Here in Milwaukee we have city councilmen, their supporters and a radio talk show host who have repeatedly, publicly called people faggots. All of these haters are liberal democrats so the local media has only given these slurs passing mention. The same media has gone full force on the Coulter slur story. Apparently, here in Wisconsin, liberal democrats get a pass on their equally repulsive slurs. Why?
Irrelevant. Their wealth comes from stock, not salary.
In fact, this is merely symptomatic of the collapse of the egalitarianism of the American economy. It is no longer possible to get ahead by working hard and saving; wealth no longer comes from what one does, but what one owns.
But what stock really represents is ownership of a portion of the labour of others. The degree to which stock ownership (and stock manipulation, in which google is fond of engaging) constitutes the way to improve one's lot in life is the degree to which our economy moves towards towards a form of modern-day feudalism, where the middle class (serfs) work for salaries that only constitute a small fraction of the value they create, while stock(land) owners control the majority of that value, to a degree where they no longer even need to pretend that salary is important.
Do people seriously ever install 20 extensions? 20 extensions would presumably mean Firefox grows to 20gb in about 20 minutes.
oh noes, another MAJOR US study! eggheads, eggheading for the pretards...while oblivious to their lack of actual comprehensive knowledge of anything. pretards, sheesh.
Is this an American phenomenon? I've never met any woman, or couple, even remotely like the ones described here.
nothing portrays context on TV like a screenshot.
There are half a dozen of these out there. Usually they get to a nano-like featureset before the projects are abandonded. I guess at that point they either have looked at emacs long enough to get that emacs lisp isn't that bad or they just give up when they realize they can never replicate all the thousands of elisp files made over a few decades making emacs the editor it is today.
If it was me, I think I would say something when some stranger started spooning with me on an airplane before the warm wet surprise hit my back.
That's great , vomiting and drinking in the same place
I agree... it's one of the very few 70's fashion trends i wish would make a resurgence.
that if i'm having a bad day, i can just pose a question like this to a roomful of idiots, and then no matter how much work got done, i got more done than they did, since they were having religious wars.
What's funny about this is that Sullivan agreed with Coulter about the word in 2001. Read here
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We the people have the power -- and the responsibility -- to remove executives who transgress not just the law, but the rule of law.
The oaths that the President and Vice President take binds them to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." The failure to do so forms a sound basis for articles of impeachment.
The President and Vice President have failed to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution" in the following ways:
1. They have manipulated intelligence and misled the country to justify an immoral, unjust, and unnecessary preemptive war in Iraq.
2. They have directed the government to engage in domestic spying without warrants, in direct contravention of U.S. law.
3. They have conspired to commit the torture of prisoners, in violation of the Federal Torture Act and the Geneva Convention.
4. They have ordered the indefinite detention without legal counsel, without charges and without the opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention -- all in violation of U.S. law and the Bill of Rights.
When strong evidence exists of the most serious crimes, we must use impeachment -- or lose the ability of the legislative branch to compel the executive branch to obey the law.
NOTE: This is a quote from the article, but I agree that Bush is a total disaster as President
The gains that stay don't convince me, because it is significantly slower on my machine.
izimi is live!
callous disregard? try criminal negligence.
libby should do the exact same jail time for lying that clinton did for lying.
Funny, that's what Constantine did to make Christianity more appealing to Pagans in the 4th century, my friend. Nothing is "original."
Why is it the 5 pillars of Islam do not include 'jihad'?
polygamist regions
Wait, we're not talking about the West? Are you seriously suggesting that we go to polygamist regions and attempt to enact and enforce anti-polygamy laws there?
Works for me. Are you using Emacs 22?
SRSLY?
Ok, not that I'm against the idea, but this would be like North Korea publishing news that the US had capitulated and given into all their demands because lil' Kim's sunglasses were just too damn pretty...
(the post is from an Iranian website)
NSFW!!!!
I'm just kidding.
Vim's extension language is not lisp.
This is a disadvantage. Sure, some people don't like Lisp, but it remains a much more powerful language, and it's easier to manage than vimscript.
Not error. A publicity sir.
Politicians want publicity.As much as I hate to write about the policies of the politicians, I simply cannot avoid the simple phrase when I was in an audit firm. Be a watch dog not a bloodhound and the politicians will kiss your babies when the time comes to come to you and kiss your babies and then ask the secretary to hand over the to get strongest detergents to get the whiff off his hands or to avoid getting AIDS?
It always amazes me to see economics and politics shaking hands and breaking the legs.
My goodness...picky, picky, picky
Growing Online Dating Relationships
This is one of those "not at all sexy, but needs doing" ideas, of the sort Paul Graham suggested as being good candidates for start-ups.
Really? So what does 2:1 mean?
Typical Muslim behavior in discussion, you are bending the discussion away from the discussed matter. The meaning of 2:1 is totally irrelevant and you know it: "that he meant 2:2, not 2:1".
Most of the Roman/Persian wars were before Islam even existed.
Why the obsession with that? I am talking about a whole lot of countries in the middle east with great civilizations where stupidity reigns supreme now thanks to Islam. Again you are bending the discussion.
... and why won't it happen?
If we can start up impeachment proceedings for our prez getting a hummer under the desk and trying not to get in #$*@ with Hillary, why can't we impeach a prez for launching us into an illegal, immoral, and unjustified war with a country who didn't even attack us first? Now I (along with most of the EU, NATO and UN) will agree that Afghanistan was a proper target, but Iraq was nothing more then a personal vendetta and it is sucking our country dry every day. If we can't impeach a president for taking us into a war like this, what the hell good is a democracy?
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The suspension has prompted allegations of censorship. But Principal Richard Leprine said Tuesday that the girls were punished not because of what they said but because they disobeyed orders not to say it.
In a statement, Leprine said that because the event was open to the community, including children, the word "vagina" was not appropriate. He said the girls had been told when they auditioned that they could not use the word.
Uhhhhh... that's still censorship.
This was my FizzBuzz solution in Javascript:
for ( var i=1; i <= 100; i++ )
document.write("FizzBuzz".slice(i%3&&4, i%5?4:8) || i);
When someone ran it they complained that there were no breaks in the output, so it all ran together like this:
12Fizz4BuzzFizz78FizzBuzz11Fizz1314FizzBuzz16 ...
I pointed out that nowhere in the spec did it say there was supposed to be any space or newlines between iterations.
Sometimes programmers try to read too much reasonableness into a nonsense spec.
true dat. so it turns. my biggest hope has become, having a conscious PERSONAL choice in who i spend eternity with after i die, if that's an issue (afterlife), and if it's not, good riddance.
to me, our 'leaders' are anything but.
the one certainty of the 2008 elections in the US? i vicious xtian pretard fraud WILL be elected no matter what. whether they are predominantly a murderer (republican) or a thief (democrat) is the ONLY question.
As I stated Fitzpatrick was appointed as a SPECIAL prosecutor to find the origin of the Plame leak, Starr as an Independent prosecutor to investigate Foster and white water. The point is no prosecutor should be independent and without supervision since historically they go far beyond the specified scope of their investigations without justification.
yes
You forget rounding and limit cases. Math truths often offend intuition:
X = 0.999...
10X = 9.999...
10X - X = 9.000...
10X - X = 9X = 9.000...
X = 1.000...
Therefore, X = 0.999... = 1
whereas in reality it's just a drumloop
No, no, no. You're missing it. THIS EXACT DRUMLOOP was used over and over in dozens of songs since sampling was invented.
Beastie Boys, NWA, etc. is just scratching the surface. Drum n' Bass was founded on THIS EXACT DRUMLOOP. Go back and watch the whole thing before you naysay.
I actually really like IDLE.. I've been using it instead of Eclipse lately..
I think a Babylon 5 theme would have been cooler.
That's just stupid...
Stupid for principal to prohibit saying "vagina".
Stupid for girls to think that they are fighting some kind of great censorship.
Stupid for anyone to write about this.
"To be fair, the school just shouldn't have let them read from The Vagina Monologues instead of saying "Don't say the 'vagina' word.""
They should have let them read from The Vagina Monologues AND let them say "vagina".
Then they should have put up posters everywhere saying: "WARNING: In one of tonight's performances, the word "VAGINA" will be uttered."
I know that. The difference is that Islam has only some hints of good things while it is overall misery, commands to go murder some people and threats of eternal damnation etc. Just pick a totally random sentence from the Koran - big chance it is negative.
One of your two neurons is AWOL
No big bang, no singularity, no origin! Wow this is contrary to most all of the science. If true this theory throws most all the research on it's head. Is this no big bang theory documented somewhere?
I suspect most people using emacs heavily won't use either of those two. There is a whole world of Linux GUI apps outside Gnome+KDE you know...
You're warped. EDIT: You haven't proven how Islam is "evil." Until you do, Discussion over.
No, they just don't have conclusive proof for the leak.
For a little perspective, here is a blog outlining Sullivan's take on the word Faggot in 2001.
http://www.slate.com/id/2161287/
How exactly is "this" going to "come to America"?
With polygamy and 21 kids, Afghanistan is going to run out of resources. That certainly doesn't lead directly to America but there has to eventually be a mass migration.
Up until the 15th century, the flow of information was from the Middle East to Euroope, but after that, as the repressive ideas came to dominate Islam, the flow changed course. It was European society that progressed, not Islamic society. That Western society is where every single technological advance comes from is no accident.
Oil complicates things and the population growth of Islam could become a huge problem for the whole world, but the West should disengage from that part of the world. Stop exporting weapons to Saudi Arabia and let the Middle East live in peace with as much isolation as possible. Within two decades, moderation there will rise and countries in the Middle East will begin to embrace Western ideals again. In the mean time, leave them alone.
They should be suspended for reading anti-male, pedophilia supporting tripe.
Ah so I won? You know it's true most in the Koran is evil.
That looks scary...It's like, "hello.. I'm Satan, I'm going to take over the world!"
"Nobody is sure where it comes from?!? its from a Dilbert Comic!
This stupid pig is one of the biggest liers in the history of politics.
This bastard is much different that Bush, Bush is a dumb-ass-drunk-found-god idiot but Blair is an articulate and intelligent man. But he is EVIL, he knows he is lying, but he keeps on doing it.
This pig belongs to the ICC for his war crimes and not the leadership of the European Union.
Hey guys, thought this was interesting and wanted to share it. The article talks about business tycoons who are offering BIG prize money for tasks such as first private space flight or solving global warming. Many of you know about this, but it seems like a lot more money is going to be distributed by these means and part of the GOOGLE WEALTH is going to participate!
"the X Prize Foundation plans to add to the boom by announcing a further ten prizes worth $200m over the next five years, in areas ranging from space and medicine (again) to education, energy and entrepreneurship. This spring, a further X Prize for the creator of a super-efficient car is likely."
sweetness!
To a toddler, the images on it move rapidly in completely nonsensical and incomprehensible patterns.
Maybe to a very young baby, but a toddler can see quite well.
But only for very small values of vi. Viper's regular expressions (for example) are completely wrong.
Even on a shoplifter, or a crooked accountant? Broad sweeps of the word 'criminal' there.
I would add the del.icio.us Bookmark extension. It's indispensable for me because I have multiple computers that I want to share bookmarks (and I like del.icio.us more than Google Browser Sync), but I'd use it even if it were just on one computer; the integration with my del.icio.us bookmarks is really useful.
meh
PBS was broadcasting during the Super Bowl. I checked.
I think the Super Bowl still had better ratings.
This is a shocking selection of extensions. It's very Yahoo and Google-centric, and most of them add very little to the browsing experience.
The only ones I would find useful from this list are Greasemonkey, the mouse gestures one, and Foxmarks Sync.
Where are extensions such as AdBlock (funny that an ad-supported site doesn't recommend it...), AutoCopy, FoxyTunes and a host of others that actually help the user to browse more efficiently and make it a more pleasurable experience?
mmm a very 'digg' like article. Why is it on the programming section?...meh
January 29th is "very old"? May I recommend Ritalin?
America, the laughingstock of the world?
Speaking of simulated masturbation, I saw Michael Jackson's 'Black or White' video yesterday for the first time in more than a decade and...wow. All I remember as a kid is liking Michael Jackson a lot (who didn't?) and wondering why parents were getting into a lather over this video.
Well, if you had to explain the final 60 seconds to someone who'd never seen it, it'd go like this: "Well, Michael screams like a maniac while vandalizing a car, rubs himself for a good 10 seconds, and then turns into a panther."
Brilliant stuff.
However, FTA . . .
"...GIM pays to offset the energy use of its operations and the personal emissions of its 23 employees, including Gore.
So, the firm will cover the cost to offset the energy use at Gore's home, or his global jet travel, as it would the offset cost of any other employee"
So, Gore is not actually paying for any carbon offsets. The company for which Gore is an executive is paying for these.
you forgot; in and out burger, footlocker, baby gap
As a Canadian, I have to ask, is this binding in any way? Or is it simply symbolic?
That's pretty obvious. Do anyone think that Vista's all-pervasive DRM "capabilities" come with no overhead?
funny how the pretard evangelical neocons spew hate (as if it's based on a fact) about this and that (all about an excuse to attack/abuse/destroy for them)...THEN, when someone (me for instance) retaliates to the ATTACK (a REAL fact), the neocon says "well you're the same as i am you hipocrit!"...i mean how can they be OBLIVIOUS to the OBVIOUS distinction between those types of 'hatred'? it's like they're hate generators (they generate conflict out of THIN AIR)...and people like me hate that (which is a perfectly reasonable FACT).
HATE is not a crime, unjustifiable HATE is (victimization)
isn't amazingly scary how stupid the pretards can be?
Really strange ways in which humans can be treated for diseases by animals
ooops
I've been recently doing some emacs at work, and I definitely agree that it's frustrating it doesn't support more standardized keyboard shortcuts out of the box. Say what you want about GUIs, but they have made fantastic strides toward unifying keyboard schemes across multiple applications and platforms. (I'm not just talking about Ctrl-C here; anyone else remember old apps like QBasic that used Ctrl-Ins/Shift-Ins for copy and paste?)
Anyways, it's more than merely cutting and pasting. I think the biggest nuisance about emacs is not having shift-arrows for selection, not having ctrl-tab/ctrl-shift-tab for buffer switching, and not having ctrl-s/ctrl-o/ctrl-f for save, open, and find.
I see how it can never be changed at this point. All I'm saying is that the fact that it can never be changed is a powerful argument in favour of modern editors like Textmate.
What does "G? Away"? mean?
hey hey hey smooth fella to let live and kill is my maxime.
Uh no. Fem-positive != anti-male. Where do you get pedophilia from? Have you actually ever read the text?
just die already. your ride is over. if you don't have the cash, why should 'we' have to pay for your obvious faults?
I beg to differ. I would say that Prince knew exactly what he was doing when he turned to the side, stuck the guitar in his crotch and ran his hand up and down the neck. You don't throw your silhouette up on a huge sheet in front of millions without thinking first about what it will look like. He's an amazing showman, and his performances have always exuded sexuality. Of course he knew and probably even practiced the move beforehand.
True.
How not to run for president in 2008: John McCain.
Spend some of that money on driving lessons. Muppet.
Isn't it funny how some people tend to be most offended at the mention of the body parts they don't have?
They may as well get offended by saying, "tentacle" (does make me a little sad, though. Having tentacles would rock!)
You can't get around the fact that there are 365.25... rotations of the earth in a revolution around the sun.
You can subdivide days into some metric system. 10 hours per day (each 144 of today's minutes long), 10 minutes per hour (each 14 of today's minutes long), etc.
It doesn't work out though. Also, it'll be useless when we go into space.
We should start bottom up: make 1 second reasonable, and work up into 100 minute and 100 hour segments to fill a human biorythm of 36 hours :-P
Because it hasn't happened yet. He's been allowed to create chaos for 2 terms and NOW you're going to impeach? The GOP will delay any possible proceeding until he's out of office. It all sounds good but you know how these things go. Everybody drooled over how the Libby thing would get Cheney jailed. Not only didn't it happen but the appeals will ensure nothing will be done about Cheney while he's in office. Good luck but I wouldn't get your hopes too high. 'Politics' will ensure this doesn't happen.
Unfortunately English law has decided to cut back on this rule. Never mind a thousand year-old rule, we need more people in prisons!
Wiki
You can be retried for any of the following, if "new and compelling evidence" arises after you have been acquitted:
murder (inc. attempted and soliciting (hiring a hitman))
manslaughter
kidnapping, hostage-taking
rape (inc. attempted and statutory (under-age))
sexual assault of an under-13 or mentally retarded person
import/export/production of a Class A drug (cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, some others)
arson/explosion with intent to endanger life
genocide/war crimes
directing a terrorist organisation
Not sure if I agree that all of these are sufficiently serious to merit a retrial once acquitted. Kidnapping is the one that stands out for me, and the drugs offences.
Of course, there are many hoops to jump through before a second trial takes place, as Wikipedia describes.
An underage girl talking about being raped by an older woman is, da-da-duh, pedophilia.
Oh, but it was a good rape.
He's talking about releasing his code for free use by others. Not using other people's free code for his own use, which is the typical case, as well as your's. (If I'm reading everything correctly.)
It's an important distinction.
Sort of. As soon as your project gets big enough that you have multiple methods, or even classes with the same name though, the tags file isn't sophisticated enough to unambiguously figure it out. In PyDev, if I say:
from foobaz import MyClass
my_object = MyClass()
my_object.my_method()
Then hit F3 on my_method, PyDev is smart enough to know that I'm trying to find the my_method on MyClass in the foobaz module. If MyClass doesn't have a my_method, it knows to look up the inheritance hierarchy.
The auto-lint checking is also very nice. It really saves you from typos that cost time, and does some nice things like warn you about unused variables and imports. Emacs is a great editor, but ultimately there is a big difference between a text editor and something that actually understands the programming language.
The medieval plague does not explain why birthrates have declined so much in recent times, esp. in the wealthiest countries where you would expect the opposite to happen if we were programmed just to maximize reproduction.
As for trying to impress mates, of course humans do this too and I don't think anyone is in denial about it, but human mating criteria extend far beyond "he's rich" and "big boobs." To claim otherwise is naive and a pseudoscientfic misuse of Evolution.
Richard Dawkins is an evangelical atheist.
evangelist 3: an enthusiastic advocate
http://209.161.33.50/dictionary/evangelist
Get used to it.
ha funny how you're an expert on the incident when two posts up you didn't even know what happened. must have been a phenomenal wikipedia article.
Developers and QA testers were asked what ONE thing the boss should know. And boy did they have a lot of things to say.
I doubt it. He's a Jehovah's Witness now and he refuses to play any of his explicitly sexual songs. It looked like part of the guitar solo to me.
"And being a good politician, he allowed the vote to happen." Absolute BS, as a politition he chose not to commit political suicide and actually listen to popular opinion.
Since we're comfortable saying it, we should make other people comfortable saying it," Levinson said.
They may have done the right thing, but they did it for exactly the wrong reasons. This is evangelism. :-(
*Edit:
The suspension has prompted allegations of censorship. But Principal Richard Leprine said Tuesday that the girls were punished not because of what they said but because they disobeyed orders not to say it.
"I hereby declare that the punishment for disobeying a direct order is death. I order everyone to never drive faster than 75 miles per hour." <--- Amounts to a death penalty for speeding, no matter how you spin it. Nice try, principal dumbass, but the pathetic justifications that you use to justify your actions to the students of your school will not fly out in the real world.
No wonder the girls are making stupid statements...they learned it from the school administration.
Unfortunately if you're in my country you'll be committing aggravated assault and you'll be in a lot of trouble, getting gang raped in the eye socket is not legal in my country so expect to pay punitive damages as well.
It's a barometer pointing to possible stormy weather ahead.
Who cares? Are you gonna cry? Start blowing snot bubbles? You want a tissue? Conservatives are becoming increasingly sissified. I don't claim to know what it's about, but it is pretty damned funny.
I like the whole collaborative idea. But is there any chance of posting the source (e.g. tex files) and letting people collaborate that way? I'm thinking wikipedia meets youtube. Planetmath is good, but it's not very easy to use and is only really aimed at being an encyclopedia.
Whilst i'm on the subject of tex, I always thought it would be wonderful to be able to have a (browser based) email reader that will automatically convert latex equations into gif images. It would be really useful for academics struggling to write quick notes to one another.
And since everyone comes from them, we must start another crusade to rid the world of people!
Here I offer the standard (and true) defense that not all vegans do that, certainly not around people they like. Therefore it is most likely because they don't like you. Or of course perhaps you bring it on yourself by asking why they don't want any? Ask no questions and you'll be a contented cow (as it were) and all that.
Where's the top 10 reasons that any/all religious law is bad for society? And put that pork chop down!
Interesting note for those less travelled: mannequins in Europe have nipples. In the US, they don't.
funny how the 'law' is such that you can't lie to the FBI, but they can lie to you (FIB). and the pretard neocons (who have no ability to understand the principle of 'principle' or fact) put that in place...and now that it snaps their asses...it's all "wait, how can this be fair? we lose? that's not fair! we stacked everything in OUR favor"
so the people on the planes on 911 were cowards?
let's not lose our heads over this!
It's interesting that only now, fifteen years later, after all the Agile crap, that people are finally realising that Jack Reeves was right.
Another "what if you have the OS and Office suite on the web" MS-is-doomed post.
When a significant number of people (millions) stop buying Windows and Office, and MS is scratched on at least $10 billion per-year profit, then I will feel confortable to say they have a problem. To say they're doomed based on unreleased technologies is just dumb.
Fair enough, it was this comment I took exception to.
Most people from single parent households - or households without a proper male influence - are walking disasters.
To say that most people are "walking disasters" wihtout any proof is just insulting and very possibly incorrect.
wow that was straight in your face racisim.
Yea it's a two way street, my grandpa and cousin would constantly antagonize each other (my grandparents being cattle farmers and my cousin was trying to be a vegetarian.)
you sound like my grandfater "it takes no talent to play drums, you just beat on em"...you're an obvious pretard. go listen to neil peart, rod morganstein, et al.
This story is pretty funny actually.
Atkins is an ok way of loosing weight. Ketosis is a real phenomena in the human body and inducing it does burn fat faster than eating a highly glycemic diet.
That being said, unless you have Inuit genes in you, you probably would be best served eating a diet that your genes have evolved for. Humans evolved as hunter-gatherers and thus eating foods available to hunter-gatherers (fresh fruit, nuts, and meat) will cause most people to naturally restore a healthy weight. Unfortunately, eating that way is so simple that it makes for a poorly selling diet product. ;)
From TFA:
Atheism
The ideas and story of people who don't believe in God.
How in the world is atheism a 'story'?
When You wsit Kiev, Ukraine. Very nice country and beautyful city. I had good weekends!
His actual quote is, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinski."
You can't weasel out of admitting that a blow job qualifies as "sexual relations".
He did lie. And Libby lied. So, that brings up an interesting paradox: You are expecting conservatives to be consistent (if Clinton's lie is impeachable, Libby's lie should also have grave consequences). However, you don't seem to want to apply the same standards to yourself (If Libby deserved a conviction for his lies, Clinton deserved impeachment for his lies too).
Quite a predicament, isn't it? And that's when you realize that being a partisan shill (for either side) forces you to abandon all reason and capacity for rational thought.
Vim will clean pots shiny bright, especially if this pot is any indication. http://www.vim.org/images/vim_scourer-tn.jpg
Dignity cannot be measured. My bank balance, however is a precise number.
In any case, I'm all for gold-diggers. I like having unemotional sex with vapid women too...they should
be prepared to be dumped unceremoniously though.
Sorry, I have a hard time giving credence to an Iranian website when they're reporting on a topic like this.
Are you suggesting that the drums are more difficult than the 6-string guitar, the bass, the keyboards, and the horns? I say "in popular music" because in orchestral music, the triangle is probably easier. Almost any decent musician can pinch hit on the drums. It's just a fact--I'm not saying they're necessarily easy, but I've seen enough brand-new drummers hold a beat and play a passable solo to know it ain't that hard either.
It has no legal force whatsoever. Think of it as equivalent to "Many letters to editors of Vermont newspapers call for impeachment."
i love vi, because i know it very well, so my productivity is higher than those who struggle with it (everyone else where i work)
Non-chlorinated? I hope no one pees in the pool :p
Typical Muslim behavior in discussion, you are bending the discussion away from the discussed matter.
The discussed matter is your claim that Islam (or the Qur'an, as the faithfreedom author wrote) didn't require interpretation, that it was clear and easy to understand. If you agree with that claim, then the meaning of 2:1 should be obvious, and requires no explanation. It's not obvious to me (or you), which means that there's a problem with your original point.
Why the obsession with that?
Well, I like pointing out inadequacies in flawed arguments.
Wake me up when Tennessee votes to impeach.
You, incorrectly.
Sure they do, Look at all the extensions that have become standard features of firefox. At one time they were features:)
Though I agree about the size ballooning!
Here here. I've always used bugzilla happily whenever properly configured. But it's 2007, I'm kind of getting used to them GUI's. It's not that I really need eye candy, but but but... I'm hoping for something a bit simpler with some improvements in the interface.
Fair point, the way some atheists espouse their beliefs make them pretty similar to theists. And besides atheism IS a belief, the belief that there is no God.
Emacs CVS...
That is Alt+Shift+5, right?
Chickenhawks fight.
Chickenshits fuck over veterans.
Get your terminology right ;)
Nothing wrong with a news organization filing things as "stories." Anybody can tell a story or appear in one.
Calling people who aren't religious a religion is a bit innacurate, maybe they could just change the heading to "beliefs and religious groups" or something a bit broader, and keep their sections.
even in a vacuum? with gentle acceleration used copiously?
"football coach quoting Shakespeare."
Him?
Is it the Republicans' fault that Democrats are stupid? The assumption here is that because some faction of the public is GULLIBLE, they fell for the whole Saddam/Osama switcheroo (which you agree was BS and calculated). Smart folks don't buy that crap and vote for Democrats. At least, not for neocons. (PS a study showed that the more hours of FNC watched, the higher the percent of respondents believed more of the fake "facts").
The wheels are really coming off for you guys. Iraq is a military quagmire (but has finally been delivered to the oil companies as planned from the outset), Bush's true level of support for the troops has been revealed by the Walter Reed debacle, Libby was thrown under a bus to cover Cheney's crimes and Coulter proved that conservatives are a bunch of name-calling bigots. Personally, I would re-register as independent out of embarrassment.
Why do vegans always
I'm a Vegan, and I never. I think eating animal products isn't a good idea from a moral or health standpoint, and if it comes up I'll defend it, but everything we eat is in some way disgusting -- there's no reason to pretend that omnivores have a monopoly on gross-if-you-think-about-it-so-why-don't-we-not eating habits.
WTF?
M-x just-enough-kill (No matches)
EDIT: You haven't proven how Islam is "evil." Until you do, Discussion over.
I did, if the book that is the very definition of the religion is overwhelmingly evil stuff it follows that the religion is evil.
it is overall misery, commands to go murder some people and threats of eternal damnation etc.
Or do you feel those things are good?
It is always the same in my experience: if Muslims lose a discussion they will cry about "racism", run away or resort to violence or threats.
Wake me up when any of this shit means anything!
Stupid comment.
Sorry if I offended you with my bad spelling. It is an uncommon word to write out.
yeah, but not my me. so is there a common sense sort of explanation for why the power consumption increases exponentially. i know the formulas, but just why? that makes sense like when you ask "why do cookies bake in an oven at 350?"
I can actually point to a couple thousand baptists in prison that make Muslims look like angels. The fact that we have a modern system to lock these people up is just as important as the fact that we have a modern system to educate people that religion should not be used as a tool for violence and MOST IMPORTANTLY that we are also taught that GENERALIZING groups of individuals is also wrong.
yeah, but not my me. so is there a common sense sort of explanation for why the power consumption increases exponentially? i seem to have a 'disconnect' at that point. i know the formulas, but just why? that makes sense like when you ask "why do cookies bake in an oven at 350?"
He's passionate, yes. And if you chose the watered down definition offered, then we all are evangelical of quite a lot of things.
That's like comparing Seinfeld's soup Nazi to a 1942 German Nazi. The term loses it's original meaning and power when it is downgraded like that.
There are plenty of words that are more accurate. Proponent, advocate, supporter, etc. But evangelical is just misleading.
He doesn't represent America anymore anyway. He is to white, to fit, and to male.
"Have a happy travel by NWA"
I've followed Bill Clementson's blog for a couple of years now. His posts are just gold for emacs users. Please keep them up!
Well, you spend billions on weapons, you don't use them lightly.... ;)
thanks for the link. however it isn't clear from that at all that pigs in the US don't have trichina worms; the authors make that claim:
"Within the last 10 years, outbreaks of trichinellosis in the United States have been rare and sporadic in nature....Enforcement of laws governing the running of large production facilities is a full time activity and has been key in reducing the spread of diseases infecting livestock and humans alike."
but finish that section with:
"Meat inspection is nonexistent in the United States with respect to trichinella."
so if no inspection is made there's no evidence the meat isn't contaminated. all we know is that human infections have diminished. they are confusing correlation with causation. it could be that trichinosis infections have plummeted due to improved cooking techniques, or better parasite treatment immediately due to slaughter.
http://www.bmc.uu.se/~danl/Gerin%20Oil.html
What does "G? Away"? mean?
Go away
Yet he keeps forgetting to silence you ;)
Meh, when OS X came out it lost out to OS 9 in almost every bechmark case as well. Vista will get better, as OS X did!
Is that article a joke?
I'm happy with three.
Well, considering that the vast majority of citizens killed in Iraq died in Shiite suicide bombings against Sunni, shouldn't the "It's inhumane by our standards, but in their culture..." argument apologists of radical Islam use here apply for that as well?
(note: yeah, )
I'm a muslim and I eat halal meat. That's when we hang the animal upside down and bleed it to death. Slowly. Painfully. That's cos Islam is a MAN's religion. So how do you like me now, you sissy vegans?
Oh and don't ask me what we do to animals that are unfortunate enough to get gang-raped by a group of sex-crazed muslim guys. We get really barbaric on their asses.
I really hope that all of the U.S. As making these allegations are being truthful and that the facts will prove their statements, because it will only take just one false allegation for the wheels to fall off. There is serious momentum to get this issue fixed and deal with Gonzalez, but it will be increasingly hard if one of these stories turns out to be false.
With polygamy and 21 kids, Afghanistan is going to run out of resources.
Someone will always want heroin...
Tuna taco, fur burger
XI. The third Boston album. Issued because of a contract that obliged the band to release 3 albums within 10 years, they had do do something in year 10. And by golly they did.
EDIT: changed to roman numeral in the hope to evade autoformat
I guess those primary-colored stalagmite things are 'moon rocks'?
"But evangelical is just misleading."
Only if you don't want to admit that Dawkins is proselytizing for atheism.
proselytize 2: to recruit someone to join one's party, institution, or cause
http://209.161.33.50/dictionary/proselytize
from a moral standpoint
That's a great reason.
from a health standpoint
That's a not so great reason, from the perspective of an athlete.
This is an important point because you are saying that even when artificially created meat becomes available, you will still under no conditions eat it.
relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels; "evangelical Christianity"; "an ultraconservative evangelical message"
of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament
Literally, anything contained in the four gospels of the New Testament. Also refers to Protestant churches that emphasize salvation by faith rather then good works, and that individuals are in direct contact with God without the need of mediation or religious education through a priest.
a designation for Christians who hold to basic conservative interpretations of the Bible, including the belief in the literal supernatural conception (virgin birth) of Jesus, his resurrection from the dead, and the proclamation of the "evangel" or "good news" of salvation through Christ. This term arises out of the Greek word euangelion, meaning "good news. ...
etc.
It's a bit of a stretch to call your usage correct, since is hardly typical. PS evangelist and evangelical are different words with different conventional connotations.
Anyone who still thought Violent Acres' author was a woman ought to be fully disabused of that notion by this latest post.
This certainly does not mean there was no Big Bang, and it does not contradict any current research. There definitely was a Big Bang, probably preceeded by a period of inflation. This describes the situation on a time scale roughly around the Planck Time (5 x 10^-44 seconds).
If you want a popular description of this idea, you can find it in Paul Davies' book 'About Time'. It was also described in Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time'.
It is a common misconception that the Big Bang marked the start of things. That is certainly not the case with current models of cosmology.
I am not saying that this idea is necessarily correct - I am just illustrating the fact that much philosophical and theological debate about origins of the universe has not caught up with modern physics.
Today's Secret Word is... Bias
So? Nearly everything on Reddit is from biased sources. I doubt there even exists a news source that isn't biased in some way. The question is whether the story is true or not, not what's the agenda of the site promoting it.
Why do vegans always want to share with you the gruesome information they learn...
Because when they don't (i.e., most of them), you don't realize they're vegan.
Nuclear Kung Fu.
best of luck to you America!
It would have been nice if, when you quoted from the article, you would have marked it as such.
It's good reading, since it's what Middlebury passed last night, but the lack of citation makes it seem like you said it, which I am sure was not your intent.
I agree that the title, as I submitted it, may have been misleading. If I rewrote it, I would have mentioned that this line is near the end.
Let me know when he starts a church.
I agree. I kept doing that myself yesterday.
Little did you know that the early 21st century is a front in the temporal cold war
Unless you have to, never buy ground. Buying whole means a little extra work but it's worth it.
Why? Why is it necessary?
Cows has to eat something, maybe some of the pesticides stayed in the flesh of the cows.
Agreed that our government is broken, and unfortunately only now are citizens beginning to open their eyes to what's happening. It's amazing for me to still listen to friends of mine that insist that Bush "Isn't so dumb to start a war with Iran while Iraq is doing so poor" and they still refuse to acknowledge the Katrina mishandling or the fact that Afghanistan was the only proper target and we have lost that war because of the bleed that Iraq is causing. Hopefully though, they will start to see that we're not just "liberal scum" out to screw over god-fearing Americans, but simply we're just Americans trying to preserve a free and fair Nation. Then again, I live in the south, so it's gonna be an uphill battle.
got 2 b's and an a in calculus. though little explanation of what integration actually applies to in the real world other than math apps. i mean yeah 2pir, pi*r2, pi*r3/2...circumference, area, volume explanation i got, but not, obviously, how to apply it to this situation (no calculus in physics class, no physics in calculus class)
Zeno's paradox was only introduced to me in its simplest form, with no other explanation than the story itself, and the 'it's true, no matter what you say' background info.
thanks for the explanation. guess im not smart (though i did go to grad school on full scholarship (CS)). yeah i know, that doesn't mean anything...got a great job out it though! and a patent lawsuit! lol.
how did your understanding of this take shape?
So it has gone this week at town meetings across Vermont, most of which were held Tuesday.
Late Tuesday night, there were confirmed reports that 36 towns had backed impeachment resolutions, and the number was expected to rise.
36 out of how many that were polled? And just those who attended these town meetings were counted. What if an active group that apposed bush went to all of these meetings and had their votes count multiple times? hm
Lately I've noticed benippled mannequins in New York City. Maybe the boutique shops here get their mannequins from Europe.
If you agree with that claim, then the meaning of 2:1 should be obvious, and requires no explanation. It's not obvious to me (or you), which means that there's a problem with your original point.
Ok, I didn't understand that, you are making a good point here.
However, what I meant is: the Koran itself claims to be easy to understand and not open to interpretation. In addition to that, it consists mostly out of violent matter and threats of damnation. Thus making my point that the Koran and thus Islam is evil. Because of this I do not understand why, considering most Muslims are not evil persons themselves, they won't get rid of the religion.
Note that I don't mean Muslims should convert to Christianity or anything, I am not religious myself.
good to know that terrorists have a sense of humor
I wish E4X was the model.
No, it only confirms nobody switched her sample...
It's a race you can't win. The closer to the velocity of light you get, the more energy you'll need to accelerate further.
that's the part i don't get...how come it takes that energy to approach a fixed point (exponential as opposed to linear progression)
Extremely interesting. Fastest 18 minutes I've spent lately. In my opinion, however, the intended lesson here is more about the dangers of overzealous copyright protection in the digital age than the fascinating history of this nearly 40 year old break beat and its appropriation as a staple source for new musical forms.
lost 45 lbs on atkins. Gained it right back.
Go away, blogspam sites!
The problem with the term Impeachment is that it has been watered down. For each president I have seen in office I have also seen bumperstickers and talk of impeachment for one reason or another.
I suspect that when the term is used around an elected official at this time, our elected officials do not take it seriously.
The vote in Vermont may help solidify the credibility and could be the start of the impeachment process...then again I'm a bit of an idealist.
(Edit: Vermont.)
collective yawn
1 state out of 50? Until I see some southern states or more than 10 I'll pay attention. By the time enough steam rolls it'll be the end of the year/next year and people will say "It's too late".
And what does everyone expect? For all of our troops to be collectively pulled from Iraq if someone new steps in the office? Not going to happen.
This is fun
"It's a bit of a stretch to call your usage correct, since is hardly typical."
I didn't make it up. I deliberately quoted the Merriam-Webster dictionary. They consider it to be correct. Do you have linguistic credentials that exceed theirs?
"PS evangelist and evangelical are different words with different conventional connotations."
No.
Evangelist is a noun.
Evangelical is an adjective.
If you capitalize the first letter, they refer to Christianity. If you use lower-case for the first letter, they are generic terms.
They both refer to the same concept.
An evangelist is someone who tries to recruit others to his/her ideology.
An evangelical ideology is one that tries to recruit more believers to that ideology.
ideology - 2 a: a systematic body of concepts especially about human life or culture
http://209.161.33.50/dictionary/ideology
Atheism is an ideology.
Holy crap! I thought it started off well but check out near the end! He is better than that American dude who can sing at the same time. Cant remember his name!
'Announced', as the article uses, would be the correct term -- unless they are revealing it against the congressperson's will, in which case I am probably against it.
unless you're saying that his steps are quantized in such a way as to make his minimum step greater than the remaining gap.
exactly, the tortoise doesn't have an ability to move and infinitely small amount. at some point, he/she's smallest movement HAS to be greater than 1/2 the distance to the finish line.
"If all our behavior is set to maximize the spread of our genes, why isn't the world swarming 10-deep in human flesh ...?"
Our genes drive us to have sex, children are the unfortunate outcome. Now that the sex->child link has been broken by birth control, people can fulfill their urge for sex without the burdensome side-effect. My grandmother had 11 kids, my parents had 2, I have none.
Now that Vermont, that powerhouse state of maple syrup production, has rallied for this cause, the rest of the country is sure to follow.
Totally ridiculous article. I stopped at this nonsense:
"Cerda-Flores and his colleagues also examined the DNA of Mexican-Americans in Texas, who came out as about 6 percent black. Other studies of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans by molecular anthropologists have come up with black admixture rates ranging from 3 percent to 8 percent."
molecular black percentage? huh?
good to know that being a muslim makes you a terrorist
What a bunch of hoo-haa.
True, I have updated my post, thanks.
This is a great idea!
While Britney Spears remained in rehab, Kevin Federline headed to Las Vegas over the weekend with the kids.
Federline was in town for a long-planned paid appearance at the Mirage Hotel & Casino lounge Revolution, sources said.
But read further and be amazed at how many developers get it wrong in such a public forum!
Oh my god! Lets point at them and laugh!
This reminds me how most programming language message boards work. First, some "newb" asks a simple question. The question will immediatly be responded by one or more people calling them a dumbass. This will be quickly followed by one or more people telling them they are on the wrong list (which may include calling them a dumbass). Finally, if the newb is lucky, someone will respond with an actual answer. Maybe.
A list such as this is never really ever complete, or agreed upon. But I would say as a start, it's required reading for today's generation.
All your church are belong to us
Oh I see! We can't read! We can't program...
hell we can't even get laid. We suck! Why don't we just
get it over with and put a bullet in our brains.
Seriously I'm sick of people complaining about programmers can't do
this and programmers can't do that. It's a bunch of B.S.
So I'll straighten it out for everyone who thinks programmers suck.
1. We can read... we probably kicked everyone's ass academically in school.
2. We can program. This is just a stupid question to begin with.
3. We like to program. Or else we'd be selling cars.
4. We are manageble. If mgmt. would just provide us with logical
reasons behind their 'I need this now!' habit.
5. We do get laid. Happens often (at least for me).
We aren't perfect. We are human. And we are probably better then you!! ;-)
It can be. If enough towns vote impeachment in, the State can be pressured to pass its pending impeachment resolution [1]. If this happens then, according to sec. 603 Jefferson's Manual [2], the House of Representatives must consider impeachment.
[1] http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/vt
[2] http://www.impeachbush.tv/impeach/statebasis.html
www.impeachforpeace.org / a28.org / afterdowningstreet.org
The only cool cat picture is a dead cat picture. Awwwwwwwwww
I think the original post was being sarcastic. He was pointing out that CBS did not make up the story. The story was created outside of CBS. They got into trouble for not verifying if they were genuine. This practice is called "Giving it the ol' Fox News once over".
If I remember correctly, Vermont was also the first state to recommend articles of impeachment of Nixon. The grassroots effort led to other states joining in. If someone could post any links to this, I'd love to refresh my memory.
Don't forget Washington and New Mexico -- they're both considering resolutions too.
baloney. i can play a few guitar chords/songs, the piano, french horn, trumpet...and drums
the drums are every bit as difficult as those instruments...reading music is just as difficult (yes there is tone indication (drum choice) depending on the piece.
'pinch hit'? try pinch hitting with rush. or the dregs or little feat, etc.
it's more a function of the circuits in your brain, than which instrument(s) you play.
It's just a fact--
no, it's not. i've had to live (and laugh) with the "drummers are the stupid ones of the band" (drums make or break a band IMO)
I'm not saying they're necessarily easy, but I've seen enough brand-new drummers hold a beat and play a passable solo to know it ain't that hard either
and i've seen brand new guitarists (AND non guitarists) play "smoke on the water".
'passable' to you, isn't, to me.
Downmod for misleading title. The conclusion says absolutely nothing about Vista being a loser compared to XP. Rather, the comparison concluded that OpenGL implementations and some applications suffered performance issues. At the end, they list three considerations which are both pros and cons for XP/Vista users.
You have to live in a town and be a registered voter to vote at the Town Meeting so there is no "active group" sending their minions across the state to vote on whether or not to buy a new school bus and, oh yeah, impeach the president.
Many towns now split the Town Meeting into a meeting on Monday evening followed by a day of voting (called an "Australian ballot" here) so often you do not have to attend the meeting to vote.
As a small town resident of Vermont I'm not always thrilled with national issues on the town meeting agenda. There are often a lot of local concerns (schools, roads, housing, police, fire, etc.) which need more attention.
Then try msnbc.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11724797/
or wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_to_impeach_George_W._Bush
or the impeach bush website
http://www.impeachbush.tv/impeach/state_vt.html
A weight loss diet is a lifetime change in habits.
Apparently you failed the part about continuing on a diet plan.
I didnt know football had it own genre of music?? wow.....
Aw, leave the kitties alone. They're what we need after a very, very long day. They're cute, they're fun to look at, and I'm not going to begrudge anyone for posting kittypics.
Of course it is. Christian morality has changed 180 degrees on most subjects in 2000 years. Sexual morality in America has changed immensely in 50 years. Remember when they lynched black people here? That was supported by the communities and local churches in the South. Their morals allowed it just 70 years ago. Morals always change, but one thing remains constant. Old folks thing the young are immoral. Both think they are morally superior to everyone else.
Our genes only drive us to have sex and don't care at all about other aspects of reproduction?? Highly dubious. If we were a "breed 'em and leave 'em" species your argument would be valid, but raising a human child takes years of effort. Therefore whatever genes we have that support reproduction can't simply be about the sex drive (although of course that is part of it).
The reason why your grandmother had 11 kids was primarily economic - in an agricultural economy large families are a necessity for survival. Hunter-gatherers have far fewer children than agricultural populations. Birth control was always available in some shape or form - read up on what some primitive tribes used - it was quite effective.
The reason you have no kids is you spend too much time on reddit ;)
Ketchup is a good food in the same way that PB&J is a good sandwich, hot dogs are a good meat product, and Kraft Dinner is a good pasta.
Actually no, a PB&J is not terrible, ketchup is though. Sodium particularly, simple sugars also are huge. Organic, unsweetened and unsalted ketchup, sure, but 'ketchup' is usually 'red stuff out of a bottle what says ketchup on it' and that is a fairly terrible substance to feed a child. Just leave them a bowl of salt and a bowl of sugar next time.
Well, Tokyo is full of various elements of infrastructure that the military depends on, and so the city was firebombed, though fairly indiscriminately. But that answer is a bit of a cop-out. The fact is, the firebombing was done in part to break the will of the populous an element I left off the list above that probably belongs there and that is probably the exact same motive behind terrorism. So here we find some overlap between war and terrorism, and it is a line that military must tread carefully (and the firebombing we did is not uncontroversial.) But I will note that it was done by marked military aircraft, not civilian aircraft.
You'll know when he applies for tax-exempt status.
If he were an American Liberal, the paperwork would already be in process.
Didn't you get the memo?
Why exactly do you think that you will know how to behave in an extreme situation?
I don't, I still want to have the option...
Why do you think that you will do that better than the criminal?
I don't. I still want the chance to try...
Pulling a gun on a criminal is a sure way to get killed.
So, all policemen who try to apprehend one get killed...?!
You don't want to defend your life - fine it's your choice, nothing wrong with that. Just don't force your ways on the rest of us.
A powerful piece about the connection between gay families and the right to vote for women.
Pop Quiz: What logical fallacy is the above a perfect example of?
Why exactly do you think that you will know how to behave in an extreme situation? Why do you think that you will do that better than the criminal? Pulling a gun on a criminal is a sure way to get killed.
I don't know, maybe it's all the military training I took. Maybe it's all the police training I took. Maybe I know how I behave in an extreme situation because I've -BEEN- in extreme situations. I reiterate my main point, you live your life in ignorant bliss, but let the rest of us hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
Pulling a gun when you don't know what the hell you're doing will probably get you into a world of hurt, but your perspective of ignorance doesn't make you a good judge of the situation.
Is this another example of Reflecto-porn? I think I see a naked guy reflected in the cat's cornea....
Hard to believe Lynn Collins "Think (About It)" wasn't on that list. Another highly used classic.
I've been to a considerable amount of Muslim countries and with the exception of Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan I've never seen women treated like this.
while this is all info that a good jungle nerd should know anyway... it's great that it's all summed up like this...
i could have really done without the negative talk about squarepusher and other similar artists, but i guess to each his own..
Quite an involved read but some good points. I would contend the article places too little emphasis on the actual practice of meditation--then carrying that "meditative mind" into the day.
In the context of teaching students, I like the idea of placing emphasis on wisdom practice/education and using one's "true mind" or "buddha mind" instead of relying solely on intellect.
It is quite a contrasting approach/perspective compared to the usual self-esteem and self-determination building approaches. I seem to remember reading an article recently that was critical of too much emphasis on self-esteem.
Wow, it's like you can SEE THE FUTURE!
Caaaaaffeine
Be the death of me,
Caaaaaffeine
It's my wife, and it's my life,
Because a shot, to my mug,
Leads to a center, in my head,
And then I'm better off than dead...
Can you back this up, or are you making up your "statistics" as you go?
He's not standing while lying, he is in another dimension.
If you're on Windows or Linux then probably. I'm using Emacs CVS as well but I'm pretty sure this is a very old key combo.
Wow! You admitted it!
Truly scary. I'll alert the FBI about you. You evidently have reached the stage in your serial-killing career where you want to be caught.
Someone needs to rewrite this. It seems there is something interesting here, but the article is so badly written I can't tell what. This is the type of thing I would expect of a bad blog response (I hope I'm doing better, but sometimes...), not something that should have seen some re-reading and revision.
In sections that are thinner, the mantle has melted, leaving behind an outermost layer, or crust, of materials upon which humans live.
I've read that 3 times, and either it is completely wrong, or it is so badly written I can't understand it.
What's gross about plants?
What I would suggest is that there is no such thing as an instrument that's easy to play well. Some have an easier beginner learning curve (striking a snare drum vs. getting any kind of sound out of a flute, for instance). When you get into complex, more challenging music, all musicians are doing a difficult job (do you really think the percussionist is only responsible for the triangle?). Nobody's going to sit down at a drum kit for the first time and be able to produce the Amen Break.
As far as why not pay a drummer to do it again? Money. And there's something about the acoustics of that 1969 recording that make it very distinctive and appealing.
They taste best when you feed them shit.
what exactly do you need for the html/css ninja to do?
There's no reason athletes can't be vegan. There are many vegan athletes.
Artificial meat wouldn't be coming from animals, meaning it's not an animal product.
The government forces them to be in a place and fully funds and staffs that place. If the staff then censors those under their charge, they have directly violated their freedom of speech.
Public schools are broken from their very foundation.
If you look at the shootout ...
If you look at the shootout then you'll see what a talented expert Haskell programmer can do ... (and the same is true for some of those Clean programs)
Oh! If only the small Haskell GHC #4 sum-file program was closer to the Haskell GHC #2 sum-file program ...
This is one of those times that transparent voting records would be really usefull to determine what happened. Who voted when? How frequently votes were accrued, etc.
Believe it or not, it is actually possible to distinguish portions of the genome as originating in one race or another. Molecular anthropology is a pretty fascinating field, although it doesn't always tell us the things we want to hear. For example, we know that many African-Americans have African mitochondrial DNA and white Y chromosomes because, well, white slave owners often took advantage of their female slaves.
weird things happen for reason or no reason at all.yesterday I heard for the first time about amen break, checked the wiki article (with a grain of salt these days), checked the youtube. Now i read it in reddit. what can I say...fate (and I am not religious btw), you can't escape from it.
Get out! I didn't know that! I'll stand corrected...silhouetted of course and holding my guitar...
Is this like the fifteenth time in the past month someone has posted a different site with exactly the same set of images?
Nice. I've got a similar one here
Because nobody should be convicted on the eyewitness testimony alone. Period.
I live in a climate where water freezes every winter. Domestic hot water is a good idea, but in practice it doesn't work so great because the system fails in some way. Either it fails to drain the water out and freezes, or it leaks anti-freeze (even the non-toxic antifreeze is not something you want in your water supply).
aT iT'S BEST If you are a Movie Nerd Fan Science and all
"Wow! You admitted it! This proves everything I say is TRUE! BWAHAHA!!1!"
You lost faith in the Republicans. That's why they're losing. You didn't clap hard enough. Tinkerbell is dead. You forgot to wear your lucky hat. You're a bad fan. Your team was counting on you. This is all your fault.
Your father is very disappointed in you.
What a load of ass!
"Wow, i like your shoes.. do you like mine?"
Why? Liberals make plenty fine Nazis...
And Repugnicans are not that far from communists either.
here's some context... the burrito place i go to has fox on, with no sound. i see moving pictures, and read the text.
American Dad, Season 1, Episodes 12 & 13: "Stan Of Arabia" Pts. I and II.
hello friends
Quick, someone check the dKosopedia for these terms as well! Ooh! No entries for Black, Negro, or African-American EITHER! Must be racism!
Eagerly awaiting similarly whiny and over-the-top denunciations of the liberal counterpart of Conservapedia to appear on Reddit, Digg, and message boards across the internet.
What, there aren't any?
I don't want this thread to get ridiculous, but the band "The Who" used an audience member to sit in on drums when Keith Moon (*) was out cold one concert. Mmmkay? No disrespect, but you just couldn't do that with other instruments.
(*) Considered a really good drummer, and so presumably not an easy one to replace.
My father used to use it frequently. It usually was a response to something he felt was mediocre.
That was very Lovecraftian.
Programmers who can not read are easily recognizable by the fact that they tend to write things like if (0 == fizz) .... If they read what they wrote they could spend less time learning stupid tricks.
However, what I meant is: the Koran itself claims to be easy to understand and not open to interpretation.
That's the problem: none of the verses (partially) quoted by the faithfreedom guy make that claim. To require no interpretation is a very different thing from being easy to read or understand.
There is no verse anywhere that states that the Qur'an is all you need for Islam. Islam is more than just the Qur'an -- otherwise, why have verses that tell Muslims to obey Allah and His messenger?
Many verses were revealed in response to questions raised by the early converts, or in response to situations that occurred during the period of revelation. This historical context is necessary to understand why a verse was revealed. As such, it is interpretation.
In addition to that, it consists mostly out of violent matter and threats of damnation.
Again, if you ignore why and when the verses were revealed, then how can you expect to make sense of them?
Because of this I do not understand why, considering most Muslims are not evil persons themselves, won't get rid of the religion.
I guess it's because they rely on information you refuse to consider.
I'm a former Marine and I agree. I watched as Bush orchestrated the Iraq war despite UN inspections and any lack of evidence of weapons of Mass Destruction. Yet, now our presence there is not to ensure WMD's aren't produced, but so we have a stronghold in the middle East for Oil and for companies like Halliburton. All at the cost of Human Rights of those we capture in this unholy war.
By saying "tentacle" I'm afraid you'll only end in upsetting C'thulu haters around the globe.
Tear it apart. Video documentation of the installation piece "Spamtrap". "Spamtrap" is an interactive installation piece that helps me fine tune my spam email filter. My Spamtrap monitors an email address I created specifically to lure in spam. I do not use this email address for any other communication.
Feh. I was using "meh" before it was cool.
In fact, just about everyone used "meh" before it was cool.
Zomg, reddit bug, there is no little star at the top of your post indicating that it's been edited! Impeach reddit!!1
I'm all for it, but do we need 3 front page articles about the same thing?
Yes it is... in the meantime things changed.
There are new drivers available that improve the performance in Vista, new updates and so on.
Wow, hey, one thing is to have a death penalty conviction, which is plain wrong, but the people who get it are convicted (notice I did not say guilty of) on charges of stuff like multiple homicide.
Another thing is to lash a woman for driving a car or going out on the street alone. It's barbaric period. There's no breathing space for argument that it's their laws because it would invalidate things like the Geneva Convention (insert your favourite 'oh, but the US already violates the Geneva Convention lol!!!').
That's why I always try to pick the aisle seat... also
it's not a good idea to drink coffee/booze/coke on a flight.
They dehydrate you more than on the ground. Drink water.
whats the name of the law that says 'if you post code in a forum, it will be wrong'?
Makes a nice wallpaper for your desktop...
Dear United States Government,
i was recently in Washington DC with my children showing them to the various monuments and museums in the area. I was absolutely horrified to discover that someone had put a giant phallic monument near the white house and had the audacity to call it the "Washington Monument". No doubt my children are all permanently scarred from this, and my son Michael will feel inferior for the rest of his life. Please get your act together and stop trying to pass off giant concrete penises as monuments.
Enraged Citizen
check out Do I smell Impeachment. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel even mentioned impeachment for President Bush because he's not accountable. Not just Vermont! Let's get this buzzin!
What makes you say that?
I'm not sure what you're refering to. I've been using mozex on three or four generations of mozilla and firefox releases (under Linux) and it has never blocked the browser.
No, chickenhawks send others to fight for them.
Oh yeah, you're a "recovering catholic". Sure.
The feminine is seen as filthy, unclean and of the good old devil.
Please keep your bigoted, demonising bile to yourself. You really are pathetic.
I agree with nicks. Vaginas are dirty disgusting things that have no place in the world, and need to be avoided, even in prose, at all costs. Ugh, the mere thought of a vagina is enough to make me hardened with anger.
to quote another Reddit article "meh"
In the end, no one race is immune to racism...giving or receiving. People as a whole are scared of what they don't understand. I for one will be glad when the aliens land and we come together as humankind....and be racist against them. :)
It the earth were not warming it would need an explanation.
This statement exhibits flawed reasoning. Imagine that at the start of summer, a man spends at least 6 hours a day basking in sunshine. Imagine also that everyday he eats an extremely high calorie diet. After a couple of weeks, he notices that he is gaining weight and forms the following hypothesis: sunshine causes weight gain. For the rest of the summer, he continues to get large amounts of sunshine each day. By the end of the summer he finds he has gained 40 lbs. Does the weight gain mean that the original hypothesis is correct?
In the past few decades, we have observed a temperature increase and a rise in CO2 emissions. But those observations by themselves are not proof that CO2 is the (significant) cause of the observed warming. A key part of the scientific process -- a part that could be labelled "integrity" -- is to carefully consider other factors that could cause the observed behaviour, factors that may, in fact, better explain the observed behaviour.
At this point, it is reasonable to ask why we think other factors may be responsible for the current warming trend. Our planet has gone through many cycles of warming and cooling. Relatively recently, we've experienced the Medieval Warming Period (1000 - 1270). Since man-made CO2 could not have been responsible for that warm period, or for any warm period before, we can deduce that in the past, there have been some unknown factors associated with (and possibly causing) warming.
Climate science needs to answer many questions, not the least of which is this: to what extent is our current warming caused by the unknown factors that caused previous warming periods. As far as I have been able to tell, climate science cannot answer that question with any reasonable degree of certainty.
Finally, "science" that is based on the reasoning of the previous post is not science at all. It has some of the outward characteristics of science, but lacks the proper integrity. It is, as Feynman points out, a sort of cargo cult science.
Yeah, that key combo is right... check to see what query-replace is bound to.
Atheism is a religious belief. It's the positive belief that there is no god.
The only scientifically valid point of view when it comes to religion is agnosticism since the question whether God exists or not is irrelevant to science. It's not something one can prove or disprove from a scientifical point of view.
All your hand-wringing doesn't change the fact that Islam has a violence problem.
No, religion has a violence problem. Good men do good things, bad men do bad things. Religion makes good men also do bad things, in the name of their god.
And don't try to change the damned subject. We aren't interested in who else has been naughty. Right now we are talking about Islam.
It's not changing the subject. You say that Islam is bad and you are responded to with "so are most other religions". Ergo, singling out Islam here is incorrect.
The gist of this conversation:
Q. 2 is an even number
A. So is 4.
Now, we are talking about even numbers here, not 2's. You are the one that singled that out and said their was a specific case.
You are aware that the Old Testament condones rape in many different places? I could quote verse and text, but I feel as though I'd be wasting my time.
Other delights from the Old Testament: Eat shrimp, go to hell. You MUST stone anyone who works on the sabbath (nonnegotiable) as well as take sex-slaves from the lands you conquer.
From your later post:
I don't even understand what you apologists are trying to say.
No one is "apologizing" about anything. We are just pointing out an insane bias in the way you must see the world.
Are you saying that it's unfair to point out the tendency towards violence in Islam without mentioning other groups as well?
Yes, it's entirely unfair. An atheist could get away with it, but no member of one grouping can insult another grouping when their own grouping is just as bad. It's called hippocracy.
Like this one?
floob
dupe, but an important article nonetheless. good for VT... too bad its meeting serious opposition all around. however, with the leaders of the neocons gone, one of their empire would step in, and possibly do even worse.
Wow! A mayor in Utah? Damn that's probably the tipping point. I'm going to start getting all of my news from Iran. They really seem to be up on things.
That's Blue Screen of Death for the uninitiated. I'm loving the look on this guys face.
Well, considering that the vast majority of citizens killed in Iraq died in Shiite suicide bombings against Sunni,
Got any numbers for that, or is it just something to help you sleep at night?
On U.S. TV, you can watch the most violent grotesque death scenes, but you won't hear the words penis or vagina, thanks to the puritans who run the country.
Why is the question Islam or Israel, rather than Islam vs. some Muslims or even some Muslim countries?
Did Malcontent start in about ISrael again? He always does that. He's a troll who bashes Israel/Jews and praises Islam/Muslims at every opportunity. I say we start encouraging him to convert to Islam.
Tamiflu has seems to rarely cause teen agers to commit suicide.
OH GOD MY EYES!!!
What was the relevance of the Inuit part of your comment? Inuit don't need to eat a diet their genes were evolved for? They didn't evolve as hunter-gatherers? They're not human? I didn't get it.
How is there any way of knowing whether that vote is actually representative of the entire town's opinion on the matter? This may have been a calculated effort by a large group of people that attended the meeting. The title of the article is also extremely misleading, as Vermont did not vote to impeach Bush & Cheney.
Are you a troll?
I am not an idiot, nor am I naive. I do know that such a hate crime would have been jumped on by black leaders (and rightfully so) if the races had been reversed. Why are they not interested in calling out when other races are victims of hate crimes.
If you don't want to see the double standard in that, that's on you. But, don't be so quick to denigrate others for having an opinion.
By the way. Those women were physically attacked and seriously injured, along with being called 'white bitches' and told that 'we hate hate whites'. Sounds like something that needs to be spoken out about to me.
Youtube will face a lot of this kind of troubles. There was a similar court rule a few weeks ago in Brazil.
From March 7, 2007 Washington Post editorial:
"The partisan furor over this allegation led to the appointment of special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald. Yet after two years of investigation, Mr. Fitzgerald charged no one with a crime for leaking Ms. Plame's name. In fact, he learned early on that Mr. Novak's primary source was former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage, an unlikely tool of the White House. The trial has provided convincing evidence that there was no conspiracy to punish Mr. Wilson by leaking Ms. Plame's identity -- and no evidence that she was, in fact, covert.
It would have been sensible for Mr. Fitzgerald to end his investigation after learning about Mr. Armitage. Instead, like many Washington special prosecutors before him, he pressed on, pursuing every tangent in the case. In so doing he unnecessarily subjected numerous journalists to the ordeal of having to disclose confidential sources or face imprisonment. One, Judith Miller of the New York Times, lost several court appeals and spent 85 days in jail before agreeing to testify. The damage done to journalists' ability to obtain information from confidential government sources has yet to be measured." "Mr. Fitzgerald has shown again why handing a Washington political case to a federal special prosecutor is a prescription for excess."
D'oh!!
Upmodded for using the hilarious phrase, "Turgid Manhood"
Bill Mill Axiom #1203: Any story with the words "very" "cat" and "pic" in the title is a guaranteed unread downvote.
Why Can't Programmers... stop writing self-indulgent, arrogant rants about how great they are, and how everyone except the author of the rant, and maybe Donald Knuth, is way too stupid to write 10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD!"?
Yes. You can. Let me know if it's fun.
Goddamn, I haven't had sex in 3 months, this thread really brings out the pain
grate wallpaper for many screen resolutions.
That's a fitting death for America. A little bit of America dies every time we ignore a violation of habeas corpus or acquiesce to the illegal surveillance of our conversations.
We are not going out with a bam, but with a whimper.
Thanks for the heads up. Metamagical Themas is on its way to me from Amazon. :-)
Since when does truth and politics mix?
John Kerry was dumb to try and say something like that. It was really clumsy. He didn't do himself any favours.
The fact that the opposition are venal and horrifically cynical about staying in power is even more of a reason to avoid being a political liability.
And I don't think it's accurate to refer to the Bush political machine (aka Karl Rove) as idiots. They're really quite canny.
It worked like this, from their perspective.
Kerry is an elitist
Kerry mis-spoke and sounded like an elistist
See! Kerry is an elitist
Oh, and the joke was shit in the first place.
We're all stardust if you go back a few billion years or so.
All great things started out small. This is but a step to giving these murderers what they deserve. Today, I am from Vermont.
lame.
what in the.....
From March 7, 2007 Washington Post editorial: "The partisan furor over this allegation led to the appointment of special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald. Yet after two years of investigation, Mr. Fitzgerald charged no one with a crime for leaking Ms. Plame's name. In fact, he learned early on that Mr. Novak's primary source was former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage, an unlikely tool of the White House. The trial has provided convincing evidence that there was no conspiracy to punish Mr. Wilson by leaking Ms. Plame's identity -- and no evidence that she was, in fact, covert.
It would have been sensible for Mr. Fitzgerald to end his investigation after learning about Mr. Armitage. Instead, like many Washington special prosecutors before him, he pressed on, pursuing every tangent in the case. In so doing he unnecessarily subjected numerous journalists to the ordeal of having to disclose confidential sources or face imprisonment. One, Judith Miller of the New York Times, lost several court appeals and spent 85 days in jail before agreeing to testify. The damage done to journalists' ability to obtain information from confidential government sources has yet to be measured." "Mr. Fitzgerald has shown again why handing a Washington political case to a federal special prosecutor is a prescription for excess."
Insulting Ataturk, the founding father of modern Turkey, or "Turkishness" is an offence which can result in a prison sentence.
How the hell they want to bring THAT together with the EU constitution is absolutely beyond me.
Yeah, a personal matter for Gonzales, Bush, and all the rubberstamp replubicans in congress.
The problem is the House has so many members (435), that there's probably a way for a small group to block such an action, even if they don't have explicit fillibuster power like the Senate.
But with Democrats controlling Congress, why hasn't this movement started there, rather than a small state like Vermont?
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RedDit. Red Dit. Love the new pronunciation.
'She so irritatingly resists my categories, it must be a gimmick'.
I've noticed this happen (or not happen, as it were) to my posts that I have edited, but it eventually seems to sort itself out and the star appears.
maybe shes a faggot....
Nope, human nature dictates human morality (plus, I suppose, the constraint of minimizing suffering). We are a species with specific traits and only if we take those traits into account can we devise customs approaching a morality suited for humans as opposed to a morality suited for say, bacteria or apes or martians.
From March 7, 2007 Washington Post editorial: "The partisan furor over this allegation led to the appointment of special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald. Yet after two years of investigation, Mr. Fitzgerald charged no one with a crime for leaking Ms. Plame's name. In fact, he learned early on that Mr. Novak's primary source was former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage, an unlikely tool of the White House. The trial has provided convincing evidence that there was NO CONSPIRACY to punish Mr. Wilson by leaking Ms. Plame's identity -- and NO EVIDENCE that SHE WAS, in fact, COVERT.
It would have been sensible for Mr. Fitzgerald to end his investigation after learning about Mr. Armitage. Instead, like many Washington special prosecutors before him, he pressed on, pursuing every tangent in the case. In so doing he unnecessarily subjected numerous journalists to the ordeal of having to disclose confidential sources or face imprisonment. One, Judith Miller of the New York Times, lost several court appeals and spent 85 days in jail before agreeing to testify. The damage done to journalists' ability to obtain information from confidential government sources has yet to be measured." "Mr. Fitzgerald has shown again why handing a Washington political case to a federal special prosecutor is a prescription for excess."
and claim that U.S. forces killed more than 8000 people PURPOSEFULLY
They did. They started the war, civilian casualties are a known side-effect of war. The Nurenborg trials were very clear on this when we convicted the Nazis. Mind you, it was white, christian civilian casualties, so that's different. Apparently.
And, 8000, where the hell are you getting that from? General Tommy Franks, who led the invasion, puts the number at 30,000 or so.
I would take an educated guess that ninety-five percent of those deaths were because the soldiers were being fired upon and could not distinguish who was friend and who was foe
Please state your education and reasoning for this utterly insane 95% number you pull out your ass.
Hahahahahah! Good one! :)
You can also go back to the Dark Ages and find many other evil deeds performed in the name of Christianity. But the point is, the West moved on. On the other hand, it seems the Islamic nations are not moving towards more freedom, and from your response - a silly attack of your critics instead of looking at your own culture - it's pretty clear why.
All that means is that the resolution gets sent to a committee where it will die.
You have to take some time to understand the complexity of House rules before you realize how insignificant it is that the resolution might be introduced in the House. And of course the rules themselves can be changed, and often are, based on the political needs of the moment.
And this is all Constitutional because Article 1, Section 5 says:
Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member.
GOD DAMMIT, GUYS.
What's moral and what is not depends on the perspective.
I would hate to meet the person who thinks the State is morally obliged to prosecute a woman and lash her for committing adultery when she was raped. What happened to the people calling for a separation of Church and State? Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries with Sharia Law are the perfect examples of why a Religion/State hybrid is bad.
I added a star to end any confusion :)
Ain't fascism grand?
Link is dead for me, 403 error.
Thank you people of Vermont!
So the performance was allowed, but the script and name of the play have been strictly modified. What is the point of performing "Vagina Monologues" if one is not even permitted to say the name in it's entirety? I will never understand the thought process of certain people.
As for being "strong" or "standing up," I think this implication is just as ridiculous as them banning the word in the first place. Wow, someone said "vagina" when they knew it was prohibited.
...How do school teach biology, child development, or even sex ed anymore?
EDITORIAL
Difference being, Clinton was impeached by congress and found not guilty, Libby was tried by jury, and found guilty, so Libby does time. Yes perjury is bad, but I think lying about whether you exposed an undercover CIA agent is on a different level than lying about whether you had sex with someone during an invesigation of a 20 year old shady real estate deal.
Obviously we are torn between cat lovers/haters here on Redit. It is almost like the dichotomy we have concerning drug legalization.
I'm sorry, I simply wouldnt use a road that was completely made of soft mud.
It's only something that would be binding a in free democratic country.
"It was at this point that the main coworker feeding me information pulled me out into the hallway and said that he had found out that there was no fulltime position that needed to be signed off. There never was and probably never would be."
I'm sure you're right. I guess I'm bound to get frustrated when I try to make reasonable distinctions between things, and touch on somebody's pet peeve: "The drums aren't easy, they are as good as any other instrument, etc". Sure, okay. But there is a certain difficulty in achieving basic skill, and another difficulty in achieving mastery. The pipe organ is easier to start out on than the oboe, but exceedingly hard to master. It's a straightforward distinction. No need for Oboeists or Organists to get upset.
It just so happens that the drums, especially with rock idioms, are really, really easy to play at a basic or intermediate level. I've met lots of John Bonhams. I've met zero Jimmy Pages.
It also happens that "master" level drumming, such as it is, just doesn't happen that much in pop music. Hence my point: They don't need to rip off drum tracks the same way they rip off everything else. If they're being cheap for cheap's sake, well to hell with them.
Great idea!
I tried feeding my plants salt but they didn't like it. The sick bastards like to ingest fecal matter.
http://www.bmc.uu.se/~danl/Gerin%20Oil.html
laugh
The traditional Inuit dies is entirely ketogenic. All there is to eat way up there is fish, reindeer, and seal blubber. The traditional diet is one of the highest in saturated fat in the world but they used to have one of the lowest rates of heart disease. Now that most of them eat a modern diet, they have a typical American profile. Hence, it is somewhat probable they have some genes to allow them to survive entirely on a ketogenic diet.
Well, for clarity, it would be good to have some sort of break between, even if it isn't a linebreak. Your output could be interpreted as 12, Fizz, 4, BuzzFizz, 78, etc.
Relevant video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUPSSefn9zk&mode=related&search=
I love how everyone of these that I've read so far has spelling and/or grammatical errors in it. It really speaks to the type of person that feels that way and writes these things.
Some rant mate. Some rant.
As a recovering Catholic I am very familiar with that particular cult's perversions.
Funny definition of a cult: there are over a billion Catholics.
Nose, knee ,toe, teat, vagina...so what?
You could, quite easily, append penis to that list - the hangup that Catholicism has is with sexuality in general, not just with women's sexuality.
if the resurrection brings eternal life, as they say, why worship the cadaver on the cross?...I think they find it sexy.
That's just a calculated insult on your part.
If she owned a gun, what possible reason would she have for not keeping it within reaching distance of her bed? Surely that is the most prudent place to keep it, from a not-wanting-to-get-raped-by-a-stranger-at-night point of view?
Additionally, as a being with a degree of common sense greater than that of the average chimp, would she not have sought some form of training in the use of a firearm before procuring one? Said training would certainly not completely eliminate the possiblity of shooting a family member, but basic precautions such as keeping the safety on, learning the proper way to hold a weapon so as not to accidentally trigger it, and the all-important "look at who your target is before shooting" would reduce the risk to the point that it is reasonable. Proper training + non-sub-room-temperature IQ = substantially reduced risk of accidental injury.
Mother, what a waste.
Don't redesign ... I like Reddit as-is. Clean and simple is the BEST way to go!
It sure smells better than the rat and fish stink emmanating from the white house for the past 6 years.
Another terrorist "probe."
Double-entendre intended.
If you followed the case closely, you may have remembered that the prosecution and the defense agreed on a set of definitions for various words before the Paula Jones trial. Clinton answered accurately according to those definitions. The only thing the impeachment prosecutors had to go on was that he was a lawyer and supposedly had a duty not to mislead the jury, which is a higher duty than to just technically tell the truth, like everyone else would have.
Now what he said in public speeches was clearly lying, but the question is one of the law for purposes of impeachment.
Thanks! I'm embarrassed I didn't know how to do that in Eclipse.
Vista performance does not matter. Resistance is futile! You will be one of 150,000,000 OEM installations. Now they are all Vista. You will be assimilated.
If you're not doing this, simplest of entries into the Christian church, why should you be considered Christian?
Because they believe Christ was the son of god, they use the old and new testament. Just seems like your cutting hairs, all the denominations have their quirks. Obviously they are far more Christian than not Christian.
We'll probably have to agree to disagree on this one.
The excerpt from "Monologues" was read Friday night, among various readings at an event sponsored by the literary magazine at John Jay High School in Cross River, a New York City suburb.
Bob Lichtenfeld, superintendent of the Katonah-Lewisboro school district, which includes John Jay, said, "If the high school students wanted to put on a production of 'The Vagina Monologues,' they probably wouldn't have had any opposition. As long as the intended audience knows what to expect, we don't have a problem with it."
So the school district thinks that people going to an event regarding literature are too sensitive to hear the word "vagina". I thought anyone going to something like that must have reached the leve lof maturity where such things aren't funny anymore. What'd they think would happen, the whole audience bursting into simultaneous giggling?
Am I the only one who likes using the mouse?
I find that typing is almost never the bottleneck when programming. Thinking is. Anything I can do to offload thinking tasks to automatic nerve firings speeds up my programming process. So the first think I do in emacs is turn on mouse-wheel-mode, CUA-mode, tabbar-mode, and speedbar if I have a big monitor. Anything that lets me offload cognitive tasks like remembering which buffers are open or which keystroke to press.
I've found that Tog's research is very much true. I think I'm faster when using the keyboard to zip around. But my actual programming speed is far lower. I just installed tabbar-mode this weekend and found that my productivity (as measured by Subversion commits) tripled. I was wasting that many brain cycles on Ctrl-X/Ctrl-B and tab-completing buffers.
(I should probably mention that I'm working in a fairly time & resource-constrained situation: 40 minutes before work, on a 1024x768 screen. My average number of commits went from 1 to 4 per programming session.)
It's like programming for a multiple-CPU machine. It's worth making the computation slower if you can offload part of it to the second CPU, because then you have more processing power available.
oh boo hoo, one day in school suspension. The school was right to discipline these girls for using language that is clearly meant to be domineering in a psycho-sexual way. Keep you vaginas to yourselves if you're going to be mean and claim streets with them. We don't claim the town 'penis country'. If a group of boys did that they would likely be taken to court for sexual harassment. Friggin double standard.
There's three articles because they all cover different stories of different areas. It looks like there's a national buzz going on.
Gonzales - willing to lie in print.
Gonzales has essentially announced to the public that he must be removed from office for justice to proceed- so be it.
Nooooo!
They have some of the funniest home videos :(
That and I can really see what Gaziantep, Ankara, and Izmir really look like - yeah - you're curious now, aren't you?
Aren't you just repeating the quote in your own way?
i still cant get over this awesomeness! lol! its totally pwning my life.
I find these frequent displays of almost Victorian attitudes towards anything concerning the human body and nudity in America quite amusing. Mention of this Janet Jackson incident reminded me that where I live, there was an article about the samba carneval in Rio recently in a large mainstream national newspaper, illustrated with a photo of a bare-breasted female. Funny to think that this could result in a public outcry and tarnished reputation / financial damage for the newspaper in the States (correct me if I'm being overly prejudicial)
And I might flap my arms and fly. Impeachment isn't going to happen folks. There are too many downsides for all the players. Bush will be removed from office January 2009.
Have you guys never heard of compost?
But nowhere did the spec say it must be readable.
Out of curiosity, what exactly did the Google founders own ten years ago that led to their gigantic fortunes? All I can come up with is "a really good idea" and ideas don't generate income. There was a lot of work done long before they saw any money from their idea or their work.
The American economy is not as hopeless as you imply. Go to your library and check out "The Millionaire Next Door" if you'd like to read more about just how wrong "It is no longer possible to get ahead by working hard and saving;" really is.
That passage was female-domineering junk.
Helloooo Vermont!
And I AM fem-positive...females are much more than vaginas.
otherwise, why have verses that tell Muslims to obey Allah and His messenger?
I don't think that is true, it would make a god out of Muhammed which is very much forbidden (only Allah is god). Muhammed is a valid example of a "good Muslim" though.
I guess it's because they rely on information you refuse to consider.
I guess you are talking about the Hadith. The Koran is always more important than the Hadith though. Also there is no consensus among Muslims which Hadith are valid and which are not, but every Muslim will respect and follow the Koran. So criticizing Islam through what is taught in the Koran is very valid.
Woodstock '99 was a hoot. I used to cut through the former Griffiss AFB to get to my old job, and that whole thing was a complete catastrophe right from the start. It deserves to be higher on the list, I think.
The $6 bottles of water are a classic example, but really, every aspect of the feeding and caring of Woodstock attendees was poorly planned. Chaos ensued, as well it should have.
I hope those girls get taken to court for indecency!
A film of this incident is being made starring Harvey Keitel and Nicole Kidman.
I love Dilbert ... Funny thing is, though, is that I never understood it until I went to work as a govt. contractor. THEN it suddenly clicked.
I'm still looking around the internet for the one where the secretary has to switch to decaf coffee and switches the whole office to suit her ... gold!
I'm pretty liberal and I hadn't even heard of dkosopedia. Applying occam's razor I'll bet the reason African-American isn't on either site is that no one has bothered to add it.
Feel free add one to whichever site you prefer. I'll note though that dkosopedia is just trying to collect political articles - not be a general encyclopedia. I think conservapedia would like to be a true encylopedia, but right now it's mostly just censored unintentional comedy.
Do you have any comments on the 90% of the article you ignored?
and i didn't downvote.
http://www.gregpalast.com/bushs-new-us-attorney-a-criminal/
shows that the election was possibly stolen to begin with, so if we propose impeachment, we kind of our stealing our election process back.
a growing portfolio of my artwork
It isn't about body parts, it's about the base expression. Exaulting the body part instead of the person. No wonder girls are so messed up.
Sorry, that was me - too many kidney beans for lunch.
Vi all the way BABY!!!
Women need to be domineered.
Men are fucking pansies these days.
I believe you can respect/support women, and still be a man. Those that sacrifice their integrity for women are not men.
I am also anti-violence and death.
Isn't it obvious that some dastardly CAT HATER has GLUED this poor kitten to the wall?! I mean, look at it's face. It's so clearly saying with it's adorable itty bitty kitty witty eyes: "Help me, I've been GLUED to this wall by a dastardly CAT HATER!"
whether or not they have the authority to push this through...what an excellent short argument for impeachment. It breaks down a complex situation into a very simple, clear argument.
I think we should all email this to everyone we know. I wish everyone in the US could read it.
I wonder why the xruby compiler isn't written in Ruby?
great legal newspaper
Want to delete the rest of the file? :.,$d
or dG
You think they should have written if(!fizz) ?
I often write things out, because i'm too lazy to remember what accounts for true or false in what programming language. I also use more parenthesis than needed sometimes.
Can't fault the FAA for erring on the side of caution on this one. I doubt anyone would have thought that was not a suspicious thing to have stuck in your ass.
You know what's good? Reading comprehension.
Are we talking about cars here? Forrester against Tundra?
Floor cat is watching you masturbate.
GUILTY AS CHARGED.
yes, i tend not to read the specs with a great amount of detail and as a result, i make a lot of annoying little mistakes throughout my application.
these mistakes tend to take 5-15 minutes each to fix.
reasons:
1) i'm lazy. that's why i like coding. i love the idea that i can write something once and use it a gazillion times.
2) i like to focus on the "big picture". 'cause if you fuck that up, you're gonna be debugging into the next millenia.
3) i like to keep QAs on their toes. if they can't find bugs, then THEY will get lazy.
4) i like being a fast coder. and to be fast, you gotta gloss over the deets once in a while.
5) by being fast, i can buffer some time into reading and posting on reddit.com. see 1)
CONS:
1) i seem to be getting a rep as a sloppy coder. while i get stuff done in less time than other devs (including QA), people get the impression that it takes me longer.
2) it makes me look stupid. not good.
Perhaps it will die in committee, but I think that if this grassroots movement snowballs (and I hope it will) then there will be enough public pressure to make it happen.
There's already a large base of activists across the country working on this. If the public bleh can be overcome then this will happen, but people need to believe in their voice first.
It's like the new slogan, based on the old slogan, says: "Bush is over. If you want it."
"can be pressured" what the fuck is that supposed to mean? It means it's non-binding!
And let me just say that the moment you have to "launch a campaign to pressure [youc representatives] to respect and reflect the will of the people" you don't have anything even remotely resembling a democracy.
as if the weather hasn't already been stormy?
Don't be facile. Fox was referring to Libby's talking to reporters. That wasn't a crime because Richard Armitage had already spilled the beans. And there is some question about whether even that was a crime.
Libby's crime was perjury. But that isn't what Fox was referring to, they were talking to the underlying offense--revealing the name of a covert operative. Libby didn't break that law--only perjury.
I see nothing wrong with this. I think it is ridiculous to have to "sing for your supper" by writing a glowing essay on why they should let you spend thousands of dollars at their institution. I believe that if you want to go, are motivated to go, and are willing to to into debt to go to college then dammit they should let you go without making you humble yourself ... bastards.
No, actually it's not. In fact during the sign-up process they state that they only need one URL even though you may add your ID to multiple websites. And Google also allows you to sign up with a URL that isn't your own as long as that site is a good match for running their ads.
Bsically, a Condoleezza
no
Read the artist's statement (linked at the bottom) for full effect. I liked that much more than the comic.
Quote from article: {when one presses a purported atheist, one almost always finds that the person believes in various propositions that simply don't make sense without a belief in some source of an ultimate moral order, i.e., what most people would call "God." For instance, almost everyone who claims to be an atheist still makes lots of "ought" statements, as in "we ought to preserve biological diversity," or what have you.}
Preferences about real-world biological issues are not the same as belief in a god. Gods are very specific things that either exist or don't.
oh yes, alizee....mmmmmmm.
when is she going to go bat-shit crazy?
Tolerance is a worthy goal right up until the point that you begin tolerating people who don't think tolerance is a worthy goal. There must be some limits to what you will tolerate.
There are self-identified groups of people who clearly advocate intolerance on a grand scale. Pretending that these groups don't exist or aren't identifiable is dangerous.
I thought the message was much more general: Measure before optimizing. They got big speedups because a really simple and specific mistake was costing a significant amount of CPU time. I doubt they would've found it without measuring.
That doesn't mean they understand what they see as 3 dimensional objects. There's plenty of evidence that the archaic Greeks didn't. That whole allegory of Socrates about the cave and the shadows was about the difference between images and 3 dimensional objects. So if adult human beings with a sophisticated civilization can see the world in a fundamentally different way from yourself, what makes you think a toddler sees the world the way you do?
Yes, it's nice to give credit and references, but don't be quite so harsh on YouTube. After all, they do a great service by allowing all this bandwidth-intensive distribution. It's nice to share, but not so nice to get a surprise bandwidth bill or have your site crashed.
already being discussed here - http://reddit.com/info/18hdj/comments
no more Unix calendar problem, then. Cool!
Libby outed an covert agent working in non-proliferation.
We're fighting a war based on lies about nuclear proliferation.
You are an apologist for treason.
Okay, so I'm mostly just ranting, but this is not a website. This is a sequenced set of images. Someone needs to be shot...
Impeached AND Convicted please!
Ken Thompson, Bjarne Stroustrup and Brian Kernighan are said to use sam, which is like a GUI multiplexer of ed.
How is vagina necessary? That's what I'm asking. Is saying "vagina" really free speech? Or is it meant just to shock? In this case, I think it is. In sex ed, they don't talk about "woman parts" they say "vagina". Saying "my vagina's country" is for shock. Pure and simple.
You're not trying to approach a fixed point - you're trying to accelerate to a 'fixed' velocity (i.e the velocity of light). Acceleration depends on mass and the mass keeps changing according to this formula
As the velocity gets closer to c (the speed of light) the denominator gets closer to zero and the mass begins to approach infinity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_mass_in_special_relativity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity
wait, this isn't alizee...dang it! I read it wrong! looks like an x-files site
Well, at least my nickname isn't poop.
Read the last sentence, you're doing it again... :)
Yes, I agree the output is ambiguous. The spec doesn't address that. If you want an extreme example of how even a straightforward task can be complex, see this copy-a-file interview question.
The worst outcome would be for only Bush to be tossed out. Here's what Wikipedia says about impeachment:
In the constitutions of several countries, impeachment is the first of two stages in a specific process for a legislative body to remove a government official without that official's agreement. The second stage is called conviction.
Impeachment is so rare that the term is often misunderstood. A typical misconception is to confuse it with involuntary removal from office; in fact, it is only the legal statement of charges, parallelling an indictment in criminal law. An official who is impeached faces a second legislative vote (whether by the same body or another), which determines conviction, or failure to convict, on the charges embodied by the impeachment. Most constitutions require a supermajority to convict.
Slack-boy's like a singer-songwriter.
Know how he warms up his voice before he sings? Do-Re-Me-Me-Me-Me-Me-Me.
Boring.
One word: Contraception. We also have morality limiting how many "partnerships" there are.
Science magazine prettied up these flow charts and put them behind a pay curtain. It'd help the blog article to be able to look at them while reading it.
How about we vote down because we think vote up/down reddits are GAY! Oh wait, that would be a disservice to our GAY friends, so we have to think of something else to say. Regardless, if anybody votes up... you are feeding a troll! VOTE DOWN
From the article:
No new Windows release has been able to offer more application performance than its predecessor.
I find that saddening, since every OS X release has improved performance across the board.
I don't really have one, honestly, I just thought it was a pretty broad statement to say "Pulling a gun on a criminal is a sure way to get killed." There are a lot of non-violent criminals.
Dont like it? Why dont you give him a call :)
http://www.nysed.gov/admin/660101/030004.html
Phone: (914) 763-7201
Funny... I seem to remember the same premise from an episode of "Cheers".
I never liked Captain America anyway, to be honest. I mean, other super heroes could charge up playing cards and throw them, or hack into other people's minds, or be a human spider.
Captain America, on the other hand, had a shield. And that's about it. Subpar at best.
The vagina monologues are great, I saw them in University, and it was a perfect forum for them.
High-school though? I'm not sure those kids (most of them anyway) would fully appreciate the art-value of it and see only girls talking about their vagina's and the sexual connotations going along with it.
If you say it should be ok for them to do it high-school, what about elementary school? Where should the line be drawn? Or should the line not be drawn anywhere? I'm not sure which side I support.
So you are against free speach?
Live cricket scores, dead cricket loses
As Pinocchio would say, SPAM
Ha!
They don't call it "Necessary Speech". They call it "Free Speech". Words are used to elicit a specific reaction, even if that reaction is simple understanding.
In this case, the intention may very well have been to shock the audience out of their world view a bit, perhaps even forcing them to re-evaluate how they think. Who knows? They might have actually learned something about themselves or those around them.
The one who gets to decide which word is "necessary" is the one speaking the word, not the one listening.
I think I read about Zeno in Feyerabend's Against Method. A book well worth reading by the way. If it's not from there then I have no idea. It would be just like Feyerabend to point out the ancient Greeks had an advanced understanding of continua.
If you referred to continua then it's from reading about non-standard analysis about the same time I learned mathematical logic. The concept of infinity becomes much clearer when you finally junk epsilon-delta proofs and accept infinitesimals as entities.
Calculus was first invented on the basis of infinitesimals, because it's much easier to understand that way. But it's not possible to really understand infinitesimals without mathematical logic and that was only invented in the 20th century. So it hasn't made its way through schools and it would take a very long time to do so.
Well, that automatically ends the conversation. Godwin FTW
I'm pretty sure most female children are aware that they have a vagina.
You can tell the principle what you think right here:
http://jjhs.klschools.org/contactus.aspx
Somebody had to say it.
well let's see. I have:
Dictionary tooltip. -> Double click word for its meaning
IE tab
clippings
Linkification - makes http://bla.com clickable
Image zoom
Menu editor
Video downloader
For me, the punisher always represented america better than cap did.
beauiful picture!
Who is "Chaney"?
No, to the contrary I feel strongly that as a troll you are given the right to be annoying as long as I'm allowed to have the freedom to point out the fact. Freedom of speech goes both ways troll-boy!
I think so, too. I also appreciate youtube for what it is, as you can see by the very beginning of my comment.
But it's not only that Harrison wouldn't complain... I think it's more important that he wanted us to think about how information is shared today and how it is changed in the process.
He gave this wonderful example of a drum sample that more or less defined a whole branch of music decades later. Then after a little research I learn this video was in fact a nifty audio installation that 3 years later became a short-lived piece of entertainment on youtube.
Actually I really had to think about it for a while but basicly I just wanted to show an alternative way of sharing information. Like he has showed me that this sample is not just a drum'n'bass sample, I want to show you that this is not just a youtube clip ;)
...for serious applications hand-coded JavaScript is a dead end. Everything you add just makes life more difficult. Not just because more moving parts introduce complexity but also because of the dead weight introduced every time you add yet one more JavaScript snippet to the ever accumulating pile of islands of JavaScript code.
What a lot of nonsense.
Writing JavaScript by hand isn't the same thing as writing bad JavaScript, and doing so doesn't suddenly prevent you from structuring your codebase in a sane way.
maybe like this one.
I was not offended. I usually don't point out spelling mistakes (I make too many mistakes myself), but I thought there was an opportunity to make the onomatopoeia joke my father used to make. I don't think anyone got it though. It is probably too obscure.
Very stylish video.
I still disagree. When I say "wealth" I don't mean raw bank balance. Simply the means to support a partner during pregnancy etc. Different women require different levels of reassurance that they won't end up poor.
I'm not exactly the best looking guy in town. However, it's far easier for me to bed someone that has seen my nice flat than just a random person I meet in the bar. I've had uninterested girls change their mood when the party shifts back to my place. And these girls aren't money grabbers, I wouldn't have anything to do with that sort of thing. Just regular people who can be impressed by a nice pad. Which ultimately is wealth, though obviously things like cleanliness matter as well.
I've heard that it's possible that America's bread-basket region is going to migrate north into Canada.
I saw "flash," but I read "hash."
Ich bin ein Vermonter?
Nous sommes tous les Vermontiens?
this is what nightmares are make of... deep water! yikes.
As I've mentioned his videos are hosted by archive.org
Hey ! is it possible? u r joking.
Sadly, form is easy and most people would not make a living without it (lazies would starve to death).
On the other hand content is difficult. Look at the shithole of useless reprinted and reworded information you encounter on printed, and electronic media. Content is a creative process. It takes work and imagination, who has time for that when you are expected to provide 'results' on deadlines.
yawn... And I assume we're supposed to believe the author is of a neutral point of view.
This sounds fake to me. Her husband changed overnight? No one can do that.
Oh, but I like cats. I hate crap like this cluttering up reddit.
But that is the definition of blogging! Have you read boingboing?
wide receiver
See my response to projectshave: http://reddit.com/info/189wf/comments/c18ikw
Also, where did this morality limiting partnerships come from if our genes are so against it?
Doesn't add up.
Exactly right - Israel isnt simply "defending themselves" They are the biggest most tyrannical religious fanatics in the middle east, but when somebody fights back (albeit in a horribly ignorant fashion, ie sucide bombings and the killing of civilians which is abhorrent and inexcusable by any one) Israel responds by razing an entire neighborhood of friggin Orphans, Women and the Elderly living in their own filth... yeah their fighting terror. They ARE the terror
this makes a good point. when we got hit by the freak snowstorm in october, the few gas stations and grocery stores that stayed open on generators didn't have phone connectivity... therefore, you could buy with cash, but you couldn't grab from the atm or do credit card transactions.
Ooops! Never did learn how to spell in the ghetto. Sorry!
why, why must there be a minimum to his step length?
Troll. And now a karma whore.
http://reddit.com/user/Tyrone_Gomez/
Greater Houston Gymnastics Foundation?
No you fools, let them grow it! thats the only thing keeping the taliban favourable with the local farmers - they allow them to grow opium while canada and the US dont.
Ive been saying 'meh' for as long as I can remember.... its just perfect in some cases. Also good is 'ner.' for a more dismissive, but completely apathetic noise.
Now, what other public official got indicted (but not convicted) of perjury, and what lesson can we learn from this?
Because you're a music snob who needs some quick wank material?
Read the wikipedia on "Amen Break" and you'll receive the same edification, minus the droning bullshit "artsy" narration and focus on a fucking turntable.
For any music ignoramus like me: a "break" is like a solo. In this case, all other accompaniment drops from the song "Amen Brother," this drum beat plays, then it all comes back again.
This video was just an awful waste of time. Transcribe the words spoken by this man's art-faggot voice and lose no information.
You can bet Bush & Cheney keep their dikes in good repair.
(Please, please, disregard any unintentional pun which may be here found by some.)
fuck you mahmood, you sick fucking bastards
this is spam
Oh the buzz is strong. If you want the latest news, don't count on national media to get it for you. I recommend http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/ and http://www.impeachforpeace.org/. I usually browse over there a couple times a day to see what's going on.
5 people voted up "Islam has only brought stupidity to the world."?
Amazing.
For some reason that reminds me of goatse.
You're fired.
If you can't make a simple assumption then you may as well not be able to read. Specs I get don't specifically call for delete confirmation boxes but I add them anyway because it just makes sense. Write an acounting app that looks like a mess and tell them, 'you didn't say it should be readable'.
You are just saying that because I have a black sounding name.
I can't recall that Bill Maher has ever called for people who disagree with him to be drug out in the street and shot, or lynched. He says some outrageous things in his standup, but even though he is liberal, he invites conservatives on his show and lets them speak their mind. No comparison.
So what if they don't? Should we lower our own level of conduct, and abandon our ideals, because someone else does?
well, 'crap' is a subjective term. crap for someone can be interesting stuff for someone else. I mean, we dont need queers like you on reddit. But someone else might think you are an asset instead of a queer.
Now, since my submission actually made it to the front page, I'm inclined to think this submission was not 'crap' as you eloquently put it.
What the hell do you know about if she thought twice or not?
There's no reason athletes can't be vegan.
Sure, but name a successful one.
Here is the problem
The impeachment hearings will be a long drawn out process. The Trial in the Senate will be a long drawn out process. By the time you could get an impeachment and conviction he will most likely be out of office or nearly out of office anyway.
You bet!
You mean you said something funny?
That's too bad.
That Universites should not withold grants or bursaries based upon whether someone selects them as a 'firm' or 'insurance' selection
I'm aware of the buzz, but again, there are other things..
Try doing some substitution while reading this comic:
The first annoying abolishionist
"I will lead you to the land of slaves!"
"Um, Excuse me? What about those of us who don't support the slavery of fellow humans? A land of slaves isn't much of an incentive for us."
.. hundreds of people shocked at somebody not supporting slavery
Wrong. Screaming "fire" in a crowded room is not necessary. Regardless of the speakers intention, it's against the law to purposefully cause panic. This was a public high school reading. The article doesn't say that there was a "warning" or anything like that. There didn't have to be, they told the students not to say "vagina". And it was shock. And poorly done shock too.
Saying "fuck" might be found necessary by the speaker, but it is not necessary and many times offensive to the audience.
And honestly, do you really think 3 16 year old girls wanted to make you reevaluate your thoughts by reciting a line from a diatribe that's already about a decade old? Or do you think they wanted to say "vagina"? I have a hard time believing they are that noble.
Why do her 'nipples' point to the side?
That is a good question that points to a real mystery. Let me add to the puzzle. Many programmers use Common Lisp's macro capabilities to add an infix processor, so that they can write their arithmetic expressions in infix notation. Typically, by the time they have got it working they have become used to parentheses everywhere and prefix notation and end up discarding their infix processor.
I suspect that the point is that real mathematics only uses two levels of precedence and does the rest with two dimensional layout. For example "three x squared" does use an exponentiation operator with a higher level of precedence but has the two written as a superscript. If you write your own infix package you get to tweak it and tune it, which involves asking yourself "is this really helping" and finding by experience that the answer is "no, not really".
But back to nexus2112's question. Programmers do use the macro capability for inventing their own infix syntaxes, why do they start from scratch with other forms of Lisp variant?
I'm a small town resident of VT as well. I'll accept that votes were not counted twice but what occurred still doesn't quite stand up to the title's implied claim that all of Vermont voted to impeach bush and cheney.
Yeah, the effort is gaining so much momentum that it will probably catch fire and take off sometime around 2190 when Congress is trying to vote to put his likeness on the $1,000 coin. Will it be the young Bush circa 2000 or the old Bush, circa 2015?
That's nothing.....just wait until the kids there read from my new play "Dumb fucking piss poor kiss my ass shithead school administrators Monologues".
but Kids Could See It!!!
I think that if you had a well thought out set of reasons for wanting to impeach the administrative duo, you would probably know how to spell the sidekick's name.
Why does the right stovepipe and cherry-pick intel? LOL! If there were 99 consistent definitions, you would hold up the only different one to prove a point.
Not good enough.
Any of the major Distributions would provide certified images of GNU/Linux to pre-install for Zero cost (say, in exchange for setting the home-page on the browser).
You should get a DISCOUNT for choosing GNU/Linux.
I think Bush was counting on him to quell sectarian violence in Iraq too. Sad, really.
The problem is more like this: functional and academic languages are designed for solving math problems. They do this far more elegantly than anything lower-level could ever even come near.
"Normal" languages are designed for solving machine problems. They stay close to the machine's notion of computation, and by doing so make machine problems easier to solve than functional languages do.
I thought you had a mexican sounding name...
So plants also like to eat decomposting plants? That's even worse then cannablism, isn't it?
Firefox already has live bookmarks, and every del.icio.us tag you use has its own syndication feed, so that seems like a superfluous extension to me.
Me neither. To me it screams, "I'm a pompous nerd." Though I don't know why that is, exactly.
Funny definition of a cult: there are over a billion Catholics.
Definition #2 from American Heritage:
A system or community of religious worship and ritual.
But, anyway, agreed on the rest.
Deleting in protest of Reddit's new anti-user admin policies.
Downvote for unmarked spoiler.
Wow. I didn't realize you and I attended the same elementary school.
So how ya been?
Look, sometimes you need a magnet in your rectum. It's as simple as that. Those of you saying "This is bullshit, no one needs a magnet in their rectum" have obviously never had a magnet in your rectum. "Let he without a magnet in his rectum cast the first stone." goes the old saying.
United Nuclear is a great site for getting some really strong magnets. Please stick one of those in your rectum before you post more inflammatory and ignorant crap.
I'll be here in this thread, waiting for your response.
With a magnet in my rectum.
I don't understand why there is no presidential candidates from either parties to ride on this wave of movement.
"Principal Richard Leprine said Tuesday that the girls were punished not because of what they said but because they disobeyed orders not to say it."
Sorry - is there a difference there? Either they were allowed to say the word or they weren't. It's not censorship just because someone tells you ahead of time you can't use a generic, medical term for a body part.
I understand the principal not wanting to shock or upset the audience, but really - if the mere thought of a vagina was so traumatising to members of the audience then the problem is with the audience, not with the word.
It's not at all similar. This picture here has a very striking image of an eyeball. Oh wait, you cared about the cat ....
Please do tell us more about your enthralling theory dr zaius!
From the entry on slavery:
http://www.conservapedia.com/Slavery
"In 1455, a "papal bull" (formal letter by the pope) justified a "right" of Christian nations to enslave any non-Christian in the name of exploration. The Spanish had already been enslaving South American natives on a limited basis, but with the rise of sugar plantations the need for a larger slave force arose."
Something's wrong with that information. Columbus didn't make it to America until 1492, but the Spanish had slaves in South America since before 1455.
No. Go for it.
I actually think that titles should both be community submitted after article submission and voted on. Why not let the community do the work? Why rely on an individual for this?
I can't imagine this won't turn in to A Daily Show or Colbert Report clip. It practically writes itself.
Unfortunately, the output of this program was not meant to be human readable. It was being sent to a pacemaker. By not asking for clarification and modifying the output to add spaces, your assumption killed the patient.
Must... pop... bubble...
Gmail, for example, is one monolithic JavaScript spaghetti code
Just because what ends up in your browser is "one monolithic JavaScript spaghetti code", it doesn't mean they write it that way.
I also think it's a bit of a double standard to say that Yahoo are using YUI for new projects and then ask why Google haven't used GWT for old projects.
GWT didn't exist when GMail was being built. Are Google supposed to go back and port all their old stuff every time they come up with a better way of doing things?
M-x praise-emacs
Practical environmental technologies likely to make it to market -- and make a difference.
Their laws are fucked. Their attitude to sex is fucked. Their culture is fucked. They need to scrap it and get a new one.
If he is impeached, then he will be denied his presidential pension. Additionally, it's a permanent black mark on his record-- that will be recorded in history forever. I agree in a sense, that it would have been far more effective to have impeached the pair 4 years ago.
The success of people in these professions does not depend on how much they can improve the performance of their patients but instead how much they can prescribe to them. Further, these professions predominantly for helping people recover from poor health instead of making healthy people perform better.
Want real advice? Take it from personal trainers with a proven record of turning people into world class champions. For these professionals, their success is actually aligned with their client's success.
Good question. But I think that in high school, post-puberty, most girls understand what is meant by the word "vagina" and aren't confused by people talking about it.
No. The article clearly states that the republican governor has reasonably close ties to the presidency in the first sentence. In the second sentence it states that the governor was not amused with the question of impeachment.
It wasn't until after he realized that a majority of the participants agreed with impeachment before he changed his mind.
I think I'm fairly accurate with my guess, unless they were sarcastic with this remark.
i have 37 active extensions, firefox works fine. the only time i see memory grow is if i have a gizillion tabs open.
Fair enough - I was seeking more to evoke a mental image of the angry, irrational counterparts of religious fundamentalists than to use the precise technical meaning.
Instead, how about "angry, dogmatic atheists"?
oh my godddd so deep
Guerrilla investigation brings more light to the Tennessee Center for policy research
Your ageism aside, are you honestly comparing reciting "vagina" to screaming "Fire!" in a crowded room?
I could personally give a flying fuck if my audience is offended by the words I chose to use. Profanity laws are the most egregious attack on free speech still lingering in this country.
But this isn't even a discussion about that... No use of the word "vagina" can be considered profane. It's a medical term. Whether their intentions were noble is not for you or anyone else to decide. It is their right to say what they like.
"Her defense, however, is that she was making a joke, not speaking a slur. Her logic suggests that the two are mutually exclusive. They're not."
Hear, hear!
That joke wouldn't work. Moses was leading the Israelites out of slavery in the original version.
How many xkcd posts am I going to have to downvote before they stop appearing on my recommended page? It's in my daily comics folder damnit, I don't need to see it here.
Uh oh. Marvel hasn't done the Avengers or a new Captain America movie, yet, so he must be getting zero readers.
America is best represented by man with a truck full of assault weapons and a desperate need for medication and therapy?
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Well, CLOS doesn't really have any bearing on numerical computations, I think, but I agree with you about the fractious nature of the Lisp community. If there were fewer Lisps, more effort might be channeled into them. Although I get the impression that SBCL is very focused on improving its speed, so who knows?
Still, remember that it's a lot easier to improve a language's speed than it's syntax and capabilities.
ASIMOV'S LAWS OF ROBOTICS
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
* A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law
Have you ever tried ACME? The Plan9 have some very cool ideas how to make text and mouse control play nice together.
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"You can't arrest your self out of a gang problem."
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) is in line with that thinking, too.
I hear that they're going to send in the governor with an assault rifle, a machine gun, a really long knife and a motorcycle. The gangs will be gone in two weeks.
Remember, the principal is your "pal." ;)
Ethan Allen raises his musket.
Depends, are steroids a vegetable?:)
Prove to me that he would not have been bigger had he eaten more meat. Being a vegetarian really goes against the vast experience of the bodybuilding sport.
I can hear the Decider now, "better mowing poppies over there than evil terrorists killing babies on your doorstep over here. The American people choose poppies"
Nostrademons, you are right. We are big believers of "measure first" approach for performance problem. And it really pays off.
Amen.
It's not a joke and you're missing the point. Thanks for pointing it out though :)
Tell me Lou, what part of the abortion article is liberal?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion
I see that they describe the procedure, they give an overview of the debate in neutral terms, and discuss the current legality. Where is the liberal agenda in there?
This post is bound by the EULA for any future posts by LouF.
It doesn't appear to allow people to create accounts in order to participate in a discussion.
Contrasted with the entry in wikipedia, the conservapedia entry is anemic and makes historically vague and speculative assertions, such as "Christianity helped lessen the harshness by which Romans treated slaves".
What is The Secret?
The Secret is a feature length, historic and factually based account of an age old secret, said to be 4000 years in the making, and known only to a fortunate few. The Secret promises to reveal this great knowledge to the world - the secret to wealth, the secret to health, the secret to love, relationships, happiness, eternal youth, the secret to life.
From: The Secret TV FAQ
So, is this a TV show, documentary, or a cult?
Edit: problem with quote
I liked him, in a he-is-a-walking-Godwin's-Law sort of way.
Still, I hope they keep him dead. The whole "Death of Superman" storyline from DC back in the 90's really annoyed me. Not so much the death as him coming back from the dead.
But Principal Richard Leprine said Tuesday that the girls
were punished not because of what they said but because
they disobeyed orders not to say it.
I always wonder what is going through someone's head when they spout transparent nonsense like this. Orders = don't say it. So the punishment is for saying it. Recognizing this equivalence is infinitely simpler than any math they could possibly be teaching at that school. Is Leprine an idiot? Is he betting on the majority of his audience being idiots? Is it both? These moronic-level attempts to mislead are baffling.
Hi filesalot, we wrote our ruby parser in ANTLR, and its ruby backend is still unusable. That why we settled with Java.
Defying authority when it is stupid and harms the intellect of everyone in the vicinity is a great act. I thank and congratulate the girls. Whether they realize it or not, they've done a small thing for a great purpose. Take your suspension, and look for other ways to rebel that might help tear down this ridiculous infantilization of our culture!
I did the same thing - didn't work. Then I removed my pictures and changed my ethnicity to white - BINGO. So they're not only gold-digging, but racist. Bitches. I quit match soon after.
No line should be drawn. The vagina is not an offensive organ.
Prove to me that he would not have been bigger had he eaten more meat.
What a strange thing to ask me to prove. You know that's impossible. It's also irrelevant. Alexander Dargatz is a successful vegan athlete. All the more so because he manages to win without compromising his principles, even though they happen to differ from yours and from most of his competitors.
"But while Prince reminded the crowd of what they'd been missing for the past decade, he also showed them who he is now. When he came out to do the long-expected "Purple Rain" for his encore, he added a line: "Say you can't make up your mind? I think you better close it and open up the Bible." The crowd may have to shrug it off, but Prince meant every word. "There's certain songs I don't play anymore, just like there's certain words I don't say anymore," he says. "It's not me anymore. Don't follow me way back there. There's no more envelope to push. I pushed it off the table. It's on the floor. Let's move forward now." His public may not go with him all the way, but nobody was hollering for "Freebird.""
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Gesundheit.
Ouch! When even ze Germans tell you you're acting like a bunch of Nazis, that's bad. They've got the experience to speak with authority, and a nasty cultural taboo against the concept. This isn't like an online discussion, where "Nazi" is a common insult in the 4th hour of debate. They take the word dead seriously over there. And to throw it against Israel of all places? If nothing else had clued you in to the fact that something is wrong in Israel, wake up and smell the sulfur.
er, unless they start gassing hundreds of thousands to death, the equation seems to be not so equal...?
As far as I know, no. Only the House can begin impeachment proceedings.
At best, this can be used to force Vermont's congressmen to introduce such charges to the house.
I thought you said it would be good for them to make people learn something? Why the sudden change?
And I'm sorry about my ageism, but you can't deny someone of a younger age is more likely to be immature. And them all saying "vagina" in unison reinforces that in my mind.
If they wanted to make a point about free speech, fine. Do it, but don't do it by saying you will not say a word, then say it in a public forum. They should have made a petition or whatever. There are much better ways to go about it. And just doing it when they said they would not(we call that a "lie") is silly and immature. Sorry if you don't see that.
Now, no one says you cannot use the word "fuck", just that you can't use it in any context and any situation you want.
I wasn't comparing saying "fire" in a crowded room and saying "vagina" were the same thing. I was merely pointing out that there are and have always been regulations on free speech.
Ok, got me on a technicality- show me one who doesn't use steriods.
Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) said pushing for impeachment would be counterproductive because it would break off efforts to recruit conservative support for changing the course of the war in Iraq.
Iraq is a mess, and it is highly, highly unlikely that it will be fixed before '08. It is also highly unlikely that a Republican president will be elected in '08. The Dems are going to be fixing Iraq themselves one way or another, so I don't see much benefit in catering to Republicans now. The important thing, to my mind, is to send the message that we have not forgotten Watergate and we will not stand for corruption and criminality in the White House.
"Most men value beauty higher than status in women."
Lol. I never said MEN value high status over beauty, and certainly the USA in the current century men value beauty over survival skills since survival is now a given.
"Name one culture where asymmetric face (errors in development) is attractive. Name one where warts or large birth-marks (DNA deficiencies) are attractive."
No, that's not my point. Health does not equate to beauty, but you can't be beautiful if you aren't healthy. A woman can be fully 100% healthy, very fertile, and extremely capable of bearing and raising children, but that does NOT mean she will be beautiful.
You deliberately miss my point, I think. Our standards of beauty here in the usa is somewhat different than the standards of beauty in other places. There's a private school in the mideast that forces girls to gain weight, because they considered obesity attractive. People would pay to make their daughters fat in order to be more desirable.
This isn't an "error in development". This is a different standard of beauty. I don't know why you keep trying to pretend that I'm arguing that non-health is beautiful.
I can't see shit, captain!
At first I thought it was an ad for the pro-hemp industry.
If you link to NORML's Wikipedia page at the end of the video, you can check out an interesting list of board members, advisory board members and supporters -- including some doctors, a district attorney, professors and the President of the ACLU.
And the boys?? Maybe I was just perverted as a teenager, but when I was 16 and I heard girls talking about their vaginas, I would only see the sexual side of it.
Looks like the black background is a Photoshop(tm) job. Too bad, it's a cool image.
Why does practically every editor make it a huge PITA to have two copies of the same file in two windows open at the same time?
This is one of the things that keeps me in emacs, and unlike some of them that would be a major pain to fit onto an architecture that wasn't initially designed for it (like the excellent macro support), this one has always mystified me because unless you're stupid enough to allow the text editor widget to have the only copy of the document you are editing (that is, absolutely no additional information about the file outside of the widget which is basically untenable for an IDE or code editor), it ought to be trivial to allow for a second view.
And it ought to be as easy as emacs' C-x 2, or easier.
Genetic analysis has enabled the personalising of the pharmaceutical treatment of patients with cancer, enhancing thereby therapeutic efficacy and minimising possible toxicity.
A team of researchers from the United States and Iran has identified a genetic mutation that causes early onset coronary artery disease in members of a large Iranian family.
How many HAVE Israel killed?
Wake me up when sleeping helps achieve widespread political change.
Did you see that or are you guessing?
Bastard. I was drinking some tea, and... well, long story short, you owe me a new keyboard.
No, no one outed a covert agent. Plame wasn't covert.
Welp this is what happens when propaganda trumps knowledge. The only way states can impeach anybody is for enough states to place an article in their state constitutions to force a constitutional congress and the last time we had one of those the entire constitution was re-written. Basically the complete dissolution of the American government to be re-written by our state governors.
So a] it would take at least a decade for enough states to do this (and the closest we've ever come in modern times is a balanced budget amendment, so don't hold out much hope on this far more controversial issue) and b] once it happens ( or rather if the snowball survives in hell) our entire system of government can be re-written by politicians hand-picked and paid for by corporate and special interests.
Fortunately this isn't going to happen, but man does it ever prove the American far-left is as stupid as it is dumb.
Say it together PLUTOCRACY.
These are LOW-WAGE REPUBLICANS. They (the Plutocracy) wants a vast, slave-wage army -- they dont want social security, public welfare and middle-class.
They want The Ultra Rich (Themselves) to be served by the ultra-poor (you).
Any intelligent person in the USA who votes for the Republican party -- and is not super-wealthy -- is an ignorant victim of a mass-propaganda campaign that makes them vote CONTRARY to their own welfare.
Low Wage Republicans:
http://www.justicecaucus.org/features/lowWageStrat.htm
Could we please link to a description from now on, instead of just the image file?
If the video did say it was used "directly" in three songs, I think the implication was that it was used without any editing in those other three songs (in other words, with changing the beat, etc. that usually comes sampling)
But fairly inaccurate in your understanding of the quote, since your statement says the same thing.
Someone should make a track mixing the Amen break with the Wilhelm scream.
come on USA! Show us that democracy isn't dead yet! We're all rooting for you in the UK.
You don't have to show me that he, individually, would not have been bigger if he had eaten meat. Instead the scientific approach of showing that this is the case for a significant sample of people with proper controls should be used.
I'm not saying that either of us should go around now and dig up this information but I am confidant enough that scientific research has concluded that eating meat has this positive effect on athletes that I would place a very large wager on it.
cool!
The Washington Post editorial board has a reputation for accuracy and none for flacking for President Bush's administration or conservatives.
I am astonished at the sheer unadulterated stupidity and callous disregard for human health by the FDA by giving in to large corporate interests yet again!
Did you see it? I find that hard to believe because I can't see how it would be worded. Did they have one that said "Libby Found Guilty of Lying to FBI Investigators" and one that said "Libby Found Not Guilty of Lying to FBI Investigators"? That does not make any sense. Nor does it make sense for them to have 5 separate messages.
I got it. Snorted tea out me nose.
It's not about him personally though; it's about making a line in history saying, "We have not stood for this high-handed, unconstitutional behavior". If we don't, this'll be a precedent, and all that a future president need do is make a war, then do what he wants. People opposing it will be met with, "No, George Bush did it, it's fine, it's normal."
I have to agree! WingIDE Pro is really nice. Best money I've spent in a long time. (also just a happy user)
To the rest of the world 'the American far-left' would be considered middle of the road. You guys have no far-left.
That is indeed a Question For The Ages, amigo.
Scientists will eventually answer that, but probably not in your lifetime.
The difference is that killing an animal to eat isn't morally wrong.
Suffering and cruelty is, killing an animal to eat isn't.
So I guess it is different.
OK, I concede. Well done. ^^
*Though apparently he did test positive for performance enhancing drugs, but he may not have known.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lewis
In 2003, Dr. Wade Exum, the United States Olympic Committee's director of drug control administration from 1991 to 2000, gave copies of documents to Sports Illustrated which revealed that some 100 American athletes who failed drug tests and should have been prevented from competing in the Olympics were nevertheless cleared to compete. Among those athletes was Carl Lewis.
It was revealed that Lewis tested positive three times before the 1988 Olympics for pseudoephedrine, ephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine, banned stimulants also found in cold medication, and had been banned from the Seoul Olympics and from competition for six months. The USOC accepted his claim of inadvertent use and overturned the decision. Fellow Santa Monica Track Club teammates Joe DeLoach and Floyd Heard were also found to have the same banned stimulants in their systems, and were cleared to compete for the same reason.[68][69]
The positive results occurred at the Olympic Trials in July 1988 where athletes were required to declare on the drug-testing forms "over-the-counter medication, prescription drugs and any other substances you have taken by mouth, injection or by suppository."
Metamagical Themas
which itself is quite a stunning anagram (Hofstadter continued Martin Gardner's column Mathematical Games in Scientific American)
When he wrote in all that shit about Jews owning slaves it was from first hand slave management experience!
I'll get to work on that. ;-)
Why can't it be my penis's country? My penis needs a homeland as much as your vagina does! :'(
You go girl!
"If Jesus knew what Christians these days were like, it'd make him roll over in his grave...."
Glad to see ignorance and prejudice aren't just conservative values...
It is an alcohol usually made by fermenting some grain or another. Basically, you take food and turn it into fuel for SUVs. We have neither enough starving people nor SUVs.
Isn't there also a way to get the president impeached if there's enough of a popular vote in favor of it, similar to changing the constitution?
Strange how our attempts to reduce opium production have resulted in more production of opium -- reminds me of our attempts to reduce the flow of drugs from Mexico.
It's almost like we intended it to happen, huh? Either that or the US is completely impotent and incapable, and all our high-minded plans for stamping out drug use in one place, and implementing democracy in another, are nothing but pathetic posturing combined with wasted money and wasted lives.
It's a good thing the people running the administration are so very intelligent, and so very compassionate, or I'd be really worried about the future.
I don't think I've seen a better metaphor about political activism than this.
And if by "nerd girls" you mean "hot nerd girls" then tens.
Please replace the word "massive" with "any" in your future rants you will find fewer people addressing your lack of a clue...
Well, it is the punishment for treason.
I heard the skit. It was far more reasoned and nuanced than "you're a faggot" or even "if I said what I wanted to say, which is 'you're a faggot', I'd be sent to rehab."
Let's get this party started! Go Salt Lake City!
Looks like she should have asked for pretzels instead.
today, you are a pompous dork.
"you counter his statements by asking for proof but providing none of your own for the claims you are making"
Hardly. I provided support for my claims and faustus didn't provide any actually. He said to read a book if you recall.
"arranged marriages have little to do with attractiveness since the couples dont choose each other"
Exactly my point as to why I mentioned it. The parents arrange it based on other factors, including the status of both children. Beauty doesn't enter into it, or if it does factor, it's not as important.
"most of the time the body manipulations that are attractive (like bleached blond hair, huge stretched lips and tattoos) are exaggerations of some form of basic attractiveness or they are differentiating factors that do nothing more than catch the predators eye. like the peacock's tail. it doesnt have to be sexy to be grab attention, although no fat unhealthy chicks have ever fooled a guy by bleaching their hair or stretching their lips."
See, here the issue is "unhealthy". I'm not talking unhealthy. I'm merely talking different standards of beauty where the person is healthy. As in the other post I made, being fat can be considered beautiful in some places. Having artificially stretched lips or a stretched neck is attractive in some african cultures too.
"the body isnt neccesarily correct in what it desires, it just responds what it's learned. for instance a woman may be barren but still very attractive."
Exactly. Beauty doesn't equate to fertility.
"just because some 40 year olds can be attractive because they still show signs of fertility, health and youth doesnt mean the system i mentioned is false. i mean the reason those 40 year olds are attractive usually has to do with modern cosmetics, plastic surgery, swimming pools worth of skin products, various shampoos, manicures, and clothing designed specifically to enhance.... fertility, health and youth signals!"
I'm not trying to dismiss your point. I'm just saying that I disagree that beauty is all about fertility, health, and youth. Health enters into it, sure, but I don't agree that the lack of fertility or youth means a woman isn't beautiful.
"how many elderly women are attractive? zero.. at a certain point all the youth, fertility and health points are used up"
Heck, lots of 60 year old men seem to see elderly women as beautiful. My 65 year old mother is still dating, in fact.
"anyway sorry for being a dick, you're being a little presumptuous tho to ask for references on such basic knowledge which can be googled once you have the keywords."
Spoken like a gentleman.
I don't really feel I was being presumptious though. I was simply making a statement, faustus disagreed, and I asked him to simply give a reason as to why he disgreed other than saying everyone knows.
anything for national security
Killing any sentient being to eat it when there are alternatives is morally wrong.
"We know almost nothing about this; most people think, with surely incorrect optimism, that parallelism is usually a profitable way to speed up most computations."
This right after he describes a method that lets you do threaded multiplication of very large numbers...
And I might flap my arms and fly. Impeachment isn't going to happen folks. There are too many downsides for all the players. Bush will be removed from office January 2009 when President Rudy Guliani and Vice President Newt Gingrich are sworn in by Chief Justice Roberts. I think it will happen about the 20th.
Well, come on, Kim did shoot 17 holes in one on his first ever round of golf.... I do hear his sunglasses are mighty powerful.
Wake me up when protest votes and bumper stickers achieve widespread political change.
What a fantastically obnoxious design that website has.
Aye, that concept is kinda old.
Lets just not get into a link war of personal anecdotes.
And I might flap my arms and fly. Impeachment isn't going to happen folks. There are too many downsides for all the players. Bush will be removed from office January 2009 when President Rudy Guliani and Vice President Newt Gingrich are sworn in by Chief Justice Roberts. I think it will happen about the 20th.
We really should sit down and pick a day where every single reddit submission has the "[BloviatingAsshole]" tag attached to it.
Every submission, for one day only. Why? Because it would ROCK. Would it also dampen the "ZOMG NO NSFW TAG!!11" comments?
Only one way to find out. ;)
Of course, since "funny" is inherently a subjective process posting the equivalent of "that's not funny" is still a sterile waste of time.
Mal, he killed me with a sword!
And I might flap my arms and fly. Impeachment isn't going to happen folks. There are too many downsides for all the players. Bush will be removed from office January 2009 when President Rudy Guliani and Vice President Newt Gingrich are sworn in by Chief Justice Roberts. I think it will happen about the 20th.
I kept looking for "NINA" in the illustration.
Well, I'll agree to a point. I think that protein is important for athletes, and it's harder to get all the protein you need for serious athletics from a plant-based diet than an animal one. Not impossible, but harder... so I'll concede that there is probably a high correlation.
On a related note, though, I would question the tacit assumption being made in this thread that "athletic prowess" correlates well with any reasonable definition of "health." Serious athletics, while usually good for the heart, can be very damaging to other parts of the body if done to excess. Professional athletes tend to push themselves to the breaking point.
Thanks for the spoiler, asshole.
And I might flap my arms and fly. Impeachment isn't going to happen folks. There are too many downsides for all the players. Bush will be removed from office January 2009 when President Rudy Guliani and Vice President Newt Gingrich are sworn in by Chief Justice Roberts. I think it will happen about the 20th.
I agree that the design is very friendly already - the only thing I'm always amazed not to see is the ability to filter by score...
Haha. I see we were both furiously checking Wikipedia at the same time. At least that way we're more likely to come to the same conclusion :)
Oh, you're such a brute, malcontent! You just overwhelm me with the sheer power of your arguments and your overpowering intellect.
Seriously, I abase myself before the great and powerful malcontent!
"If Microsoft is looking for wider adoption of the format, it needs to be divorced from Microsoft itself"
The stupidest statement I've read today. Trying to cozy up to the open source community by using Shankland as the vessel for phony articles huh MSFT? gosh you're desperate!
Can't wait to see where Ed Brubaker goes with this storyline. His run on the book has been met with all sorts of critical praise.
Gotta love the allegory of the whole thing though. This Super Hero Registration Act (Marvel's PATRIOT Act) figuratively and now (possibly) literally killed off Marvel's biggest symbol for freedom.
Expect at least 4 "captain america pretenders", one of whom may be the reincarnation of captain america, followed by a new Lightning Bolt Captain America.
I'm a Vegan, and I never.
Is it necessary to capitalize "vegan"?
You've got the same problem mac users do. There may be droves of them who use their macs silently and without having conniption fits in public about how great their computer is. But then nobody knows that they're mac users, so when they think about "mac users I know" the only people they can come up with are the ones who won't shut up about how superior they are because of their computing choice.
Agreed :)
There's nothing to pick you up in the morning like decaf.
I've created snappy java swing guis. It does take work to get the threading right. There is a bit of startup lag inherent in the JIT. I'm not sure what the security hazards are that they don't store the compiled results for reuse.
Java is a memory hog. It appears like they are finally moving towards a standard JVM that will start releasing some of it's ram, and share fixed libraries across multiple JVMs. Possibly standard by release 7 or 8?
You're right. A law has to be broken. Laws have been broken. Bush has acted in contravention to the Geneva Conventions, a treaty ratified by the Congress and thus a law.
In point of fact, though, a member of the Executive Branch may only be impeached for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" (from the U.S. Constitution, Article II, Sec. 4). While treason and bribery may be off the table, there's still that nagging "high crimes and misdemeanors" provision. If the Congress feel that the President has committed such, then he can be impeached and tried.
no, that's the pleasing aroma of your own sense of self-righteousness.
I'd been using live bookmarks for a while before the del.icio.us Bookmark extension came out, and they're very useful, but the new extension adds more useful features:
A new toolbar, with options for what to display on it; I have it set to "all bookmarks tagged with firefox:toolbar", which is really convenient. As soon as I tag something new appropriately, it automatically shows up on the toolbars in all of the Firefox installations I use.
A native (Firefox) UI for submitting new bookmarks. It works basically like the web-based interface, but is a touch smoother than AJAX can be.
Tight integration with my tags and bookmarks. This is where the browser integration really shines, even if you're not using the toolbar to synchronize multiple computers. The drop down menu shows all of my tags and links by default. As I start typing, it narrows that view to just the tags and bookmarks that match what I've typed. Since I often can remember roughly how I've tagged things ("I know I marked it as a book,") but not always the specifics ("but was it under book or books?"), the autocompletion is very nice.
Live bookmarks are really nice (and you can still use them with the del.icio.us Bookmark extension), but the extension adds a lot of other really useful capabilities.
Any "must have extensions" article that doesn't include AdBlock Plus and NoScript is not worth its salt.
It would have been good for the audience to learn something, but it's not a pre-requisite to allowing the protected status of the speech.
Equating maturity with age is difficult past puberty. At 16, I was more mature than half of my teachers. But let's not get off track with that...
If they wanted to make a point about free speech, fine.
They don't have to make a point about it... they simply exercise it.
Do it, but don't do it by saying you will not say a word, then say it in a public forum. They should have made a petition or whatever.
Petitioning to be allowed to do what they are already granted by the constitution is unnecessary. They lied, yes... in response to an unjust authority.
There are much better ways to go about it. And just doing it when they said they would not(we call that a "lie") is silly and immature. Sorry if you don't see that.
It was much more effective to simply do it. They wouldn't be on NBC news if they had pussyfooted around. In this way, their actions were mature enough.
I'll spare you the trouble: Just mentally put a word balloon in every picture of the lion saying:
"Mmm...kids! THEY'RE GRRRRREAT!"
Um, what? Did you even bother reading the article?
"Dell does not break out how much it charges for Windows when it calculates the cost of a computer system, but a basic upgrade version of the software generally retails for $99."
They charge for Windows. Presumably, you wouldn't get that charge for choosing Linux. Sounds like a discount to me.
Can a woman marry more than one man?
He should get a new hobby.
Not as I'm aware.
This video was just an awful waste of time. Transcribe the words spoken by this man's art-faggot voice and lose no information.
ESR, is that you?
By the time he was impeached he'd be out anyway. I'd love to see him be held responsible for gross negligence and dereliction of duty but I'll have to settle for historians labeling him as the worst president ever. And, for our children's sake, never allowing anything like this to happen ever, ever again. In-fact, in about 22 months, let us never speak of George W. Bush again. May his name be stricken from the vernacular and may his Crawford ranch be plowed under and sewn with salt to ensure its barrenness so that when people pass it will be a reminder of futility and failure. Then, let's all get drunk and play ping pong!
Does this post provide me with useful information? Does it expand my understanding of the world? Does it cause me to look more deeply into an issue relevant to my life? Does it illuminate the nature of what it means to be human? I suppose you could consider the picture to satisfy the second and possibly the fourth criteria, but to me it really does not convey enough to outweigh the shallow "omg cats are cool, and I like pretty pictures" aspect.
If media was food, some would be "empty calories", and some would be packed with vitamins and minerals. Many things entertain, but only some make me a better person. Rats, when provided with a means of actively stimulating the pleasure center of their brain, will use it over and over until it kills them. As a sentient being, I try to actively avoid things that merely sedate me with positive emotions without any additional point or value.
I like to think that reddit, as oppose to digg, caters more to those interested in the "nutritious" kind of post. Whether or not this is true, or will continue to be true, is up for debate. But I would like it to be true, which is why I modded down this post.
but isn't that kind of the point - vagina is, after all, the proper name for that organ (along with vulva and labia to name different parts of it). what the hell do the science teachers say when they teach human reproduction in biology? or is that off-limits in US schools? i hope to god they don't say something like "and here is an anatomically correct diagram showing a cross-section of the parts of a hoo-ha"
Yes, but videos on YouTube are significantly more findable and playable than videos on archive.org.
Interestingly enough you cared enough to write how much you don't care on this post. Go back to your cave troll.
No. I have no idea why I did it. Maybe i'm being Creative.
I have the same problem as Mac users who always talk about their Macs because I'm a vegan who doesn't always talk about being a vegan? I'm afraid I don't understand. Which is weird, because as a Mac user I have no trouble wrapping my mind around abstract concepts that are usually beyond the grasp of puny proles.
To expand on that point, you might wonder: if you have two choices, and the people who make one choice say "This was great! I'm so glad I did this!" and people who make the other choice say "Gosh! This choice was arbitrary! I wish those other people wouldn't pretend it meant something!" which group is more likely to be on to something?
You clearly know nothing of the Cap. He was simply the world's finest soldier, and a superman by every meaning of the word. They pumped him full of supersoldier serum to win the Second World War; possibly the greatest member of the greatest generation, and he will be missed.
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
(Douglas Adams)
The only other measure of "health" that I can think of is longevity -- but if that means being small and weak for 100 years then I don't want to be healthy!
Says who?
The explanation is good and all, but I don't think the ads running down the side are exactly safe for work. I kept looking over my shoulder to make sure no one was watching. =P
Preposterous.
So, close your mind and open the Bible. Scarily accurate.
Okay, I'll agree that "Junior" sucked pretty bad. But it did give us one of the most hilarious Ahnold one-liners ever:
"I scooped out da kantalope und it gave me a schtieffen..."
(or however you spell "boner" in German...)
Trust me: when you're at a party where some idiot thinks he can do Schwartzenegger's voice better than you can, drop this one. You will win, hands down.
And now I've shared my SECRET WEAPON with reddit. Sshh! Don't tell!
Great article on International Women's Day. Contains the history of this holiday as well as some local events celebrating this day. Check it out!
"Is it necessary to capitalize "vegan"?"
Only if he's from Vega. ;)
Why this comment doesn't have 800 upvotes, I'll never know.
I'm still laughing.
"Regardless of the speakers intention, it's against the law to purposefully cause panic."
(Italics added). This gem of a sentence made my head asplode.
I live in Washington State. I will work to help this become reality.
Every time a Republican calls me a "libtard" for disagreeing with the fascist policies of this administration, or tells me that I have no voice in my government, my resolve merely hardens.
Progressives are sick of being called "terrorists."
Sick of assholes like Ann Coulter saying that we should be killed.
Sick of watching innocent and naive people fed into the war machine for the profit of the Bush gang.
Sick of being told that we DON'T matter.
FUCK THE GOP-we're taking back our government.
Stand back or be trampled.
How the fuck is that a ripoff of the iPhone?
I can't help but note that on average, women are smaller than men, are physically weaker, and live longer. Most of the women I know don't curse their chromosomes over it.
Okay, but the ways that animal products come to market as food tend to involve suffering and cruelty.
Uhh, I'm a dude. Unless the kudos was meant for the girls who stood up to their moronic school system, in which case I echo your sentiment ;)
It's fascinating that they're describing fax and laser printing in 1960. Not only was the article easy to read, it used terms that still apply today. Part of me wants to say this is fake, because I had no idea such technology was so close to common use in 1960 (for the record I don't think it's fake, just fascinating).
Intriguing reason for modding -- I laughed at it.
I meant that vegans collectively have the same trouble that mac users do. A small number of their group is extremely vocal about their choice, and they express their choice in smugly superior terms. As a result, when people think about "mac users" or "vegans", the annoying, smug twits are the first people to come to mind. That results in people like Peter Poffenwhosit saying "vegans always...".
Clearly, choosing to be a vegan based on health and moral reasons doesn't compare to choosing to buy a mac because you're fucking pretentious.
(Disclaimer: I'm typing this on a mac.)
And I always thought that Aqua Man represented Europe quite well.
The Geneva Convention is also US law because the US Military Code explicitly says so.
[1] http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/18C118.txt
Not that I really care one way or the other about Conservapedia. But it's nice to see another example of the fact that the right wing doesn't have a monopoly on prejudice and hate.
Cherry-pick?
All the words I have employed are in common usage in exactly the way I used them, as documented by their inclusion in Merriam-Webster.
Your unfamiliarity with them is a function of your third-grade vocabulary and reading-comprehension skills.
Like any gender-related issue, I think it's more complicated than it first appears, but I think a lot of it has to do with how you raise your daughter.
One of my neices plays with "Bratz" dolls and wants to be a hairdresser when she grows up.
A neice on the other side of the family uses Linux as her primary OS, builds her own websites, and is currently working on Trig. Might be up to calculus by now, though...haven't talked to them in a while.
Both are 13. They're obviously raised with an entirely different definition of what things in life are truly important.
Note: I love them both to death. I really do. I don't really think one...you know what? Fuck it. I'm gonna go off for about 5000 words trying to make everyone happy here.
Bottom line: If you want your daughter to excel in math, teach her some fucking math.
There ya go. ;)
Personal blog of Jenn - just an every day girl experiencing marriage and motherhood, and the trials and tribulations of being a work at home mom.
Because their hormones don't give them the psychological need to be manly.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1865/
Always with the negative vibes, man, always with the negative vibes!
Did you forget what site you're on?
How do you know what they were referring to? They asked if there was "a" crime. And there was. Four, at least.
Jo did a major redesign of his website and his gallery because he got hired on with Dark Horse comics and is now in a larger scale professional league. It was probably so that he could avoid copyright issues with his -really awesome- work.
Seems your "typical behavior" is to accuse others of falling into some "typical behavior" pattern. Amusing.
Unfortunately not. The Constitution explicitly assigns the right to impeach to the House of Representatives and the right to conduct the trial (impeach does not equal convict. think about it like an indictment) to the Senate.
Check out sec. 603 of the "Jefferson's Manual", which shows how the House operates, to see how the House proceedings can be started.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=104_cong_house_rules_manual&docid=hrmanual-59
Holy crap... calimari for everyone!!!
Why is a link to deleted content on my recommended page with 0 points? Oh reddit, ye work in mysterious ways.
I agree on NoScript being a top-20.
It is especially useful in preventing "adult content" sites from loading something nasty while browsing.
Answer me this: Do the people who want Linux want it installed... or a totally blank system on which they can install their distro of choice?
Linux isn't necessarily the Linux buyers want. Having pre-installed Linux is great, but if you want Ubuntu and they're installing Knoppix, then you just bought yourself some work.
I figure since most people who would want Linux are ready to do some customization, they should at least offer an OS-free system, if they offer Linux, because there's no way they could please everyone by offering "Linux."
You're not missing much.
popefelix has already pointed out the Geneva Convention violations. In addition to many others, I might mention that the administration has very explicitly admitted to ignoring the Foreign Service Intelligence Act (FISA).
I'm likewise sick of reading oversimplifications and idealizations.
Your point that everybody has closer to equal access to dividend-bearing stocks and other investment vehicles than before is well-taken. Cheap online trading and public terminals is an equalizer, but hardly equivalent to the expertise and constant access (say, home internet + Blackberry) that costs money. What you're saying is that common investors have a slightly better chance not to get screwed ... which might even have backfired since now common investors think they have a shot at the market and are thus easy targets for hedge funds and traders.
But, worst of all, you seem to have a pretty fuzzy idea of egalitarianism. Asking the less wealthy to give up luxuries like smoking and drinking and "luxuries" like a cell phone in order to save and invest isn't truly egalitarian while the wealthy can easily afford both.
Egalitarianism doesn't need to be socialism, but it ought to be a little more than what you're talking about.
shut up beeyatch, America's #1
I'm not certain the people who submit these understand the wonders of RSS
Check out this article from the B&H newsletter
Well, the RSS feed doesn't show every bookmark in a tag (only the last 20 or 30 or something), so if you've got a tag with 100 bookmarks in it, the live bookmark won't find it.
It also looks only at public bookmarks, so if you've bookmarked anything as private the live bookmarks won't load that either.
Seems like a good idea, but it's a failure so far:
it has processed 6000 SMS from 1238 different farmers
That is very very few. But I think this is the right direction to move in.
I'd like to welcome all of my fellow Americans and international viewers to the new global reality. Oil is drying up while countries are asking for more. If you don't secure your oil now, you will get taken over by those who did. I for one do not want to live under Chinese or Iranian rule or blackmail. Life is tough Marine.
He's died before (as with many comic book heroes). Actually he (Steve Rogers) was frozen after World War II. Then another guy (William Naslund, the Spirit of '76) took his place. He was then killed off. THEN another guy (Jeff Mace, the Patriot) took over. He later dies of cancer. AGAIN another dude (unnamed idol of Captain American) finds the serum and becomes Captain American and even assumes the name Steve Rogers. Things get murky with these characters during the Cold War of the fifties. Finally, in the sixties the Avengers thawed Steve Rogers back.
/former comic geek
"Muhammad Gets an Anal Probe"
http://tinylink.com/?DxYvfZPn3R
Someone has to do the hit-jobs. Look at what flower-power accomplished.
Downmodded
BALONEY. the band asked "is there a drummer in the audience"...and golly gee, at a WHO concert, there happened to BE A REAL DRUMMER at the concert.
and YES they could have done the SAME thing for guitar/bass i bet at ANY Who concert.
in fact ANY competent studio musician can probably 'fake' their way through ANY pop/rock/jazz concert on the instrument of their livelyhood.
ever occur to you that some fans ARE musicians...even competent ones?
but everything we eat is in some way disgusting
Maybe thats the attitude that makes you a vegan. I quite enjoy most foods, even though I know say, that cheese is curdled cow muccus. I bet your one of those people who uses a paper seat cover on public toilettes.
Good point. I'd not thought of that. They're buying an audience.
Aha! The plural "you" tripped me up. I thought you were going after me, rather than the vegan "we" to which I grudgingly belong.
"Supersoldier serum"? Sounds like it would be banned by the MLB.
Wait this is good or bad? The earth is replacing the rain forest we have destroyed. But that would mean that the earth is warming, but if the earth warms then we will die, but there is god who will save us if he gets a break from trying to make us believe to save us, but he probably won't so I guess I'm moving to Canada
In a cell with Jeff Gannon, Ted Haggard, and Sen. Foley.
French film review
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Did they ever even pass the move to impeach Clinton? I don't believe they did. Clinton wasn't impeached as far as I recall.
Either way, both Clinton and Libby lied under oath to protect themselves. If you want to argue about the merits of the reason, Clinton was lying to scuttle a lawsuit against himself and Libby was lying to avoid a charge, which they didn't manage to make stick anyway.
I could have felt something this morning but It resided back into nothing.
Yeah, I bet that Murtha does not care at all.
Alan Greenspan says a recession is 33% likely. For many reasons the US outlook looks bleak.
Ich bin ein Vermonter?
You're a block of cheese?
How do these people manage to reproduce? What an exciting lifestyle. Just.... I'm speechless. I feel like my brains have been scooped out and replaced with... South Dakota.
Yeah it brings tears to my eyes.
Axe wound? Really?
the whole story kind of turns me on
mmmm, I understand the free speech and all, but there is something that I don't like about it.
It doesn't seem revolutionary to me, but it feels like girls trying to be revolutionary.
What if there were three boys saying the word vagina?
What if they weren't honor students?
What if it was an adult?
You wrote "like" Foster and the described killing of Libby would not be like Foster at all. Yeah, there are unanswered questions about Foster, but given the enormous extent of investigations by Clinton's opponents it is vanishingly unlikely that any of the answers would reflect badly on either Clinton. And I did not inject Clinton, you clearly wanted that implication but seem to lack the courage to make clear accusations.
The site hosting the article is also worth a look.
they should apply that same principle to scores of other government 'programs'.
Dilbert. Sometimes I have to laugh to keep from crying.
Socialism? No we don't have that.
I find obstruction of justice regarding national security issues far more significant than asking someone about their sex life. I don't see that as inconsistent. I wonder what we would find in this administration if Fitzgerald had the same kind of power that Starr had.
"Every young engineer believes all problems are basically engineering problems; the difference is in their level of complexity. Some are trivial and some challenging, but all can be solved. So does Google have only young engineers or do they also have seasoned software architects?"
I'm not sure I understand the writer's assumptions. I'm suspicious of the engineer/architect distinction.
I thought this was going to be a depression. Glad to hear the good news.
this is how you would solve the problem:
mgh=Potential energy at the box's height
(1/2)kx^2= Spring
set them equal to each other:
mgh=(1/2)kx^2
get x by itself
((2mgh)/k)^(1/2)=x
x=(3)^(1/2) or approx. 1.71
it will continue after comes to rest because the spring's force will push the box back, and since there is no friction , no energy is lost and therefore energy is conserved, Energy final=Energy initial, so it will go back up to 5m before coming to rest again.
Nonetheless, a hilarious way of doing the problem
No, it is perfectly reasonable. You seem to think that we just made the observation that the temperature rises and at the same time observe that CO2 increases and jump from just those two observations to the conclusion that there is a causation. Not so. You are right that correlation does not necessarily mean causation - the same way we could argue that the decline in the number of pirates causes GW.
The important thing is that we know how greenhouse gases affect climate. It has even been predicted hundred years ago by Arrhenius. It is simple physics. In a nutshell:
The sun radiates mostly in the visible spectrum, for which CO2 is transparent. The same amount of energy has to be reradiated back to space by the earth. Ideally, the sun and the earth emit a black body spectrum. Because the temperature is lower, the earth does this mostly in the infrared spectrum. But for IR, CO2 is not transparent, so it absorbs the radiation coming from below. It also reradiates it, but in all directions, and half of this back to the surface.
This mechanism is well known. And that's what I mean when I say that if global warming were not happening despite rising CO2 in the atmosphere we would need an explanation.
Furthermore, climate models, which include much more complex physics (including changing sun radiation, vulcanic eruptions, ozone, sulfate polution) show the same behavior: temperature rise with CO2, no rise without. It's the next best thing to doing experiments (we do not have enough time and a few dozen spare earths to do experiments with...). See for example this graph.
And, other data also confirm that it is indeed a greenhouse effect and not an external factor like increased sun radiation: the lower athmosphere is warming while the upper athmosphere is cooling; and night time temperatures rise more than daytime temperatures. Both effects are predicted by the greenhouse effect.
I know, and climate scientists know, that the climate has been changing in the past. The ice ages are explained by the Milankovich cycles. I don't know, and I dont't know if anybody knows what caused the medieval warming period. It could be increased solar radiation or something else. But there is a major difference to today: today the temperature is rising faster and is already higher than during that period. And we can exclude increased solar radiation for today.
What'd I do?
Real clever, but why don't you address my arguments I made against you? Are you really letting me get away with victory from the discussion so easily?
Why Bush will pardon Scooter Libby of all charges before leaving office.
I could be wrong, but, I recall the Clean compiler doesn't really have much support for Linux.
You need some more pussy.
that's a part of the BIG BUZZ IN AMERICA!!! (or maybe the little buzz on Reddit)
I think you're making your cheese wrong. Did you mean to point out that some rennets used in some cheeses are derived from the stomach lining of an animal? Because that's the closest thing to mucus that I can come up with in any cheese recipe I've encountered.
A rather high proportion of all Americans, from studies prior to Clinton's problems, think of "sex" to mean "penis/vagina intercourse". The other techniques, after all, get modifiers, oral, etc.
Poor website and the advert before i get to see the page? no thanks! and firefox also tells me it blocked 2 pop ups! stop with the pop ups, this is not 1999!
Task flows are a tool to help us think through the design before a feature is actually developed. They allow us to interject the user into the flow of the application and determine if the conceptual model agrees with the user model.
Not enough. Him and his administration ought to be jailed for life.
They pumped him full of supersoldier serum to win the Second World War;
So that makes him like what, an ubermensch? How deliciously ironic.
Mmmm... the buzz is in the air. Unfortunately you can't get impeachment news in the mainstream media at the moment. But many sites like impeachforpeace.org and afterdowningstreet.org have become beacons of hope to people like me. The news they post is substantial, important, and meaningful.
I used to think that it wasn't in the mainstream media because there wasn't actually anything worthwhile or substantial going on. I was so very wrong!
Not the NFL though.
Muttleee 2, DFT 0
What could you expect from an ad-based computer magasine :)
If Clinton had been convicted, sure. Or do you now want to get rid of perjury and objection of justice laws altogether. Sorry, but trying to blame Clinton is not going to work. This criminal administration screwed things up all on their own.
Sigh.
Pete Townsend replaced by an audience member.
I'm waiting for cartooncorpse's sock puppets to come and upmod his latest flash of brilliance.
I've used both and currently use Emacs since I started using Lisp, for SLIME and paredit. For vi users especially, who have to be reaching for ESC every 2 seconds, I recommend Happy Hacking Keyboard, worth it just for the left-pinky strain it'll save you. And for Emacs having ctrl easily accessible is very important, though just switching ctrl and caps lock using software can work well too.
They lost me at the first one - StumbleUpon. They even say "StumbleUpon isn't all that practical,..." so why put it in first place? Something smells.
I tried StumbleUpon and not only did I get a sense it was spyware but when I decided to deinstall it corrupted my Firefox. I'm downvoting this article.
You're a kitty!
I don't much care which distro they use - what I care about is having Dell ensure that their hardware (all of it) is supported by Linux kernel device drivers. It really sucks to get a sparkly new laptop and find out that some component or other is Linux-hostile.
there's no denying that Wikipedia is far more liberal than the American public.
Maybe that's because the USA is incredibly right-wing, compared to what's "normal" for the rest of the world?
Or... just perhaps... maybe because you're generalising again from "you and the people you know" to everyone in the country/world/universe, somthing you already habitually do?
Mate, I'm not being funny but if you're going to aspire to hold strong opinions on what "everyone" thinks, maybe you should learn a bit more about "everyone" first?
You can't just go around saying that wikipedia/reddit/the mainstream media/the USA/the world "just attracts the liberal element" - eventually you've just got to face up to the fact that you're simply outnumbered and your viewpoint is not a popular one in the world.
As they say, reality has a well-known liberal bias. ;-)
We go through this every time there's an xkcd post. The advantage of reading xkcd (and everything else) on Reddit is that you only see the good posts. With RSS, it's black and white: you either subscribe to the feed and have to read everything, or you don't, and you miss everything.
With Reddit, you just see the best of every feed.
I've done my Impeach for Peace petitions, but I really think that the only way the "grassroots" will be able to oust Bush and Cheney is if we ALL begin recall actions against our own representatives if they refuse to bring articles of impeachment NOW.
its hot !
I know what it's doing. It's rubbing the wall with it's head to mark it. Besides pissing this is another way a cat marks territory. -_-
/prove me wrong people, prove me wrong
LEGALIZE all drugs. no more gang problem. EZPZ.
the rest of it....the mafia style shakedowns of residents, and the israel/palestine style neverending revenge violence will dry up soon enough, when the cherry (drug cash) is taken from the equation. then they're fighting over 'peanuts'. making perhaps a job seem more beneficial. and MUCH less attractive to newcomers. the 'old school' hardliners will hit the penitentiary soon enough...or at least lose so much 'status' as to seem ridiculous failures at life (reality).
As a resident of Michigan, I never even noticed that the last recession ended. When did the supposed boom start? It's been all downhill since late 2000 from my vantage point. If indeed things are going to get worse then I hope to god my job can ride it out.
Layaway seems like a great alternative to credit. Especially for online purchases.
I am only wrong because I am basing it off the information the entire website has to give me. Saying that your product contains no viruses is about as assuring as a complete stranger telling you they are not a liar.
Galactus?
Yes. See the post you quoted:
and a superman by every meaning of the word
Someone should analyze the maths behind the amen break. I bet interesting stuff would turn up.
Then again, interesting stuff would turn up in any beat; you'd have to compare the amen break with other less popular breaks to get anything "real" out of it.
It's about time these credit card companies pay for what they've done!
In fairness, it's hard not to come off as a pedant when you're complaining that the current definition of the kilogram is insufficiently precise.
Tim Sylvia was not a people's champion anyway. I am glad Couture won, but I think he is in over his head if thinks he can beat Cro Crop.
you can visually select a range and then type literal :s/^/%-- / to have that odd comment, with a range automatically inserted after the :
Or just select the block and go I%--.
yes. REPLACE pete townsend on stage. good-great musicians are a dime a dozen on EVERY instrument. and im virtually certain there are a few pete townsend clones in EVERY Who audience.
see the movie "Rockstar"? You think that's implausible fantasy? many (if not all) great musicians get their start mimicking their heros.
I'm waiting for cartooncorpse's sock puppets to come and upmod his latest flash of brilliance.
i have no ides what this means. no wait! i now see what upmod means! i don't get sock puppets though.
I think it takes a significant amount of hubris to point to google and say ``you're doing it wrong.''
I'm wary of any writer that thinks that much of themselves.
Everyone watched the Super Bowl
Erm, I am sure non sports fans didnt watch it. Same goes for people without cable. Not that watching a bunch of big sweaty men wrestle and pile ontop of eachother for no real reason isnt an appealing concept or anything. Who wouldnt want to watch that!
VERY WELL
Actually, it's pretty funny - the back story on that stuff is that every other soldier they gave it to became psychotic.
Great way to predict anabolic steroids!
Fuck Yea!
Yeah, that seems like a fairly useless distinction in this case.
says the same thing.
...with a drastically different connotation.
After 911, Bush told us to go shopping. Now, to delay the inevitable, "helpful" articles like this point out how we can become millionaires if we only buy into this BS.
Well, I have a question.
How long is this going to take? I mean ballpark, but I'd think it would take more than two years.
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oh noes 20gb!
Thats 5% of my disk for an application I use more than any other and and at least 6 hours a day.
There was a straight-to-dvd Avengers movie recently.
Someone should go back to the Amen Brothers and get the rights to the break. Then they should base an entire business on suing people who use it. Then they should go "Ha ha, just kidding! But seriously, folks, you think that was lame? That shit happens all the time with computers. Write your senator."
Not at the same time, no.
A verse related to polygamy was revealed shortly after a battle, where many Muslim were killed. It was a way for society to take care of the widows, especially those with orphans (in Arabic, an "orphan" is a child who has lost at least one parent -- not necessarily both). However, polygamy was practiced by the Arabs of the time, so it wasn't a foreign concept.
The recession, as the denial, has been going on for 6 years.
I could be wrong, but, I recall ...
In that case, I think you mean you don't recall.
it's a funny thing, but grassroots movements never seem to start in congress.
Quabbin Wilderness
Just FYI, it's not nemo who's looking stupid.
Have you seen the mod scores your posts get?
Except it doesn't work cause this one isn't that funny. And it's not like you've wasted half an hour of your time if you read the bad ones - it only takes 4 seconds to read at most. So RSS is still the better choice
Can we impeach Cheney first? I wouldn't want that SOB to be president for five minutes.
Probably the same reason that cashiers can't figure out change, they don't have to!
What a nutjob.
I saw this linked to on the pypy list and thought it was funny: Paul Fernhout (who created PataPata, a cool Smalltalk like system built on top of Python) very thoroughly explains the problems of building a system for dynamically reloading modules, to which Guido very minimally responds to by posting a ~100 line snippet of code which pretty much solves the whole problem.
Wow. Turdblossom screwed up big time. It's his job to prevent this kind of PR disaster. Instead he contributed to it by trying to get one of his own guys installed in a US attorney spot.
I know innane comments are against the rules, but awwwwwwwwww! My cutness needs have just been fulfulled.
This is pretty funny...
You're right, I think they try to please to many people with too many needs.
This is his decidedly 20th-century website:
http://www.24thcid.com/
Ewww,ugly flash.
Google replaced its Blogger API with GWT, didn't it?
I was just wondering why I can't vote up. Well, putting "reddit.js" on s3.amazonaws.com is the reason. :-(
I can't allow JavaScript from this source.
And people think the USA is screwed up?
I've met lots of John Bonhams. I've met zero Jimmy Pages.
you're a liar. or at least an exaggarator.
there is NO such thing as a beginner jon bohnam.
How many xkcd posts am I going to have to downvote before they stop appearing on my recommended page?
It could be worse, I keep getting frickin' kitten pictures recommended to me despite many downmods.
oi
Spoken like someone whoes not allergic YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
Holy leaping assumptions batman!
escort in phonebook so does not equal whorehouse.
I could imagine scuba diving, deep-sea fishing escort services all over Florida.
South Africa is a much better example for how Israel is acting. Comparing them to Nazis is a cry for attention.
if you're looking for educational information, stick with .edu domains. reddit.com is the business of entertainment, not educating you. ill give you a few sites you can visit.
pbs.org
wikipedia.org
nasa.gov
ask.com
answers.yahoo.com
goodluck.
Some of the rational for branding conservapedia racist don't make sense to me. The absence of entries for 'african american' could only mean conservapedia hasn't been around for very long.
Other entries in conservapedia, like the one for slavery, are entirely inconsistent and inaccurate.
As to which is more biased on the topic of judicial activism, which the blog entry is about, Here's a contrast:
Wikipedia: Judicial Activism is a term used by political scholars to describe a tendency by judges to consider outcomes, attitudinal preferences, and other public policy issues in interpreting applicable existing law.
Conservapidia:
There are two major types of judicial activism practiced in the United States' court system:
Liberal judges striking down laws that uphold core conservative American values
Liberal judges refusing to strike down laws that subvert core conservative American values
The conservapedia entry does cite Brown v Board of Education as an instance of 'judicial activism', making it clear they believe that courts' ruling against racism and in favor of the constitution is what judicial activism is all about, and as such clearly implies that an anti-racist stance as bad for America, - at least in that entry. Other citations by the blog author look to be in thinner ground.
Wikipedia goes at length to cite the origins of the term (c-v-pedia doesn't), cites methods of judicial activism (c-v-pedia doesn't), relates it to different interpretations of the US Constitution (c-v-pedia doesn't), and cites Ronald Regan regarding the drawback of judicial activism and the solution he tenderd (c-v-pedia doesn't).
All in all, the wikipedia article on 'judicial activism' has more conservative material than the conservapedia entry does, more intelligent material, and more material period.
The author's assertion that the 'judicial activism' entry at conservapedia looks to be well-founded, but a blanket condemnation of all of wikipedia as racist doesn't seem to be merited. The judicial entry at conservapedia is just plain bad, but not all of them may be. Maybe people will contribute to that entry to improve it.
yes
I didn't watch the whole thing, but I recognized the sample from several songs. I don't know if this was said in the video but I could have sworn that this sample was included as a canned beat in a popular early drum machine, maybe the TR-808, kind of like the Samba #2 on a Casio keyboard. Maybe that is why it is used so much.
Right, but how many years was the site running before he decided to even start writing a book. I can't knock him for making money off of his popularity. I bought the book and it's hysterical. I'm glad I could finally pay him for all of the laughs and conversation pieces amongst my friends.
Dvorak Simplified Keyboard.
It's weird about hjkl, though: i never used them until i switched to Dvorak. By some happy accident, they just seem to work much better in their Dvorak positions.
no
Is there some restriction in the Google TOS that says you can't use multiple machines / API keys? I'm not familiar with it enough to know... but couldn't you distribute the searches to multiple machines with different API keys and raise the limit a bit?
that break seems pretty weak/tired to me. like a kiddy level groove. like 50's rhythm guitar grooves... basic, simple... TIRED.
what the hell happened to the comments forum...everything changed format all of a sudden. is a LIVE upgrade or something happening?
What happened to reddit's style file?
I think i broke reddit lol.. Sorries!
EDIT: lol, how do you even vote things up now? Minimialist layouts are good and all, but this might be pushing it.
Edit2: fixed it seems.
Obviously, "god" is a fascist. Duh.
I'm not too big on Fox, but I'm almost certain that this is incorrectly taken out of context. I saw similar headlines / pieces of crawl / comments on MSNBC, HNN, and CNN yesterday (in fact, I think the one on MSNBC was identically worded). 20 to 1 that headline was swapped for guilty on 4/5 in a matter of seconds. It's too tough to fit both statements in that small a space, so as I say, -all- the networks were switching back and forth between 'Guilty on 4 out of 5 charges' and 'Found not guilty of lying to FBI investigators.
C'mon people, it really, really hurts credibility to try to make a big deal out of a screenshot of a news headline that is, in fact, correct when it's clearly in the section of screenspace that is constantly being switched with new 'blurbs' of what the anchors are discussing at that particular moment.
i miss style sheets already....
Your disgusting.
Edit: Retracted
Yes. And then hung
Wow! That was really well done for what is obviously a low-budget job. Now where's my lighter? WHERE'S MY LIGHTER?! Oh, here it is. Heh.
This links to the wrong article.
But even the warnings on the TV commercial are scary "people taking Tamilfu should be monitored for strange behavior, etc, etc, etc." I saw it for the first time last night and it was startling.
i guess that makes you fat.
they suck
Basically if you're ugly you can't get ahead in work because people secretly think you're incompetent
How long did it take him to open that store. I'm by no means saying that they guy doesn't make any money but he went for years without a penny for his efforts and didn't ask for anything because his hosting was paid for by xmission in exchange for the popularity. All this bitching about this post is simply bitterness because he is bashing something that people hold so dear, Apple. I can't imagine ever giving that much of a shit about any company aside from one I'm personally invested in or own. Like he said, you are buying a lifestyle, one taken far too seriously by mac zealots.
Would be nice if the Washington Post grew some, eh?
It you can't refute the message .. attack the messenger.
Yes, but the stigma of Live Journal is so great...
big Beatrice? Let me guess you're overweight. This article must have hit you right at home sweety
i like the one with the rifle in the window better, or the one where it's escaping from a couple dorky monsters in a field.
Depends .. if she calls the left one "intelligence" and the right one "personality"
Funny Videos, Sexy Videos, Crazy Videos, Fight Videos, Animal Videos, Stupid Videos
I don't think that is true,
You don't have to believe me. Search for obey and allah and his and messenger and read the verses yourself.
I guess you are talking about the Hadith.
In part, yes.
Also there is no consensus among Muslims which Hadith are valid and which are not, but every Muslim will respect and follow the Koran.
There is broad consensus on many hadith, even among the different Shia and Sunni branches. In addition, the scholars who collected the hadith also recorded the narration chains (this guy heard it from that guy who heard it from ...), and, as much as possible, tried to verify each link in the chain (is he trustable? does he forget details?), and classified their collections according to how likely the hadith were accurate. Descriptions of the methodology used to collect and classify the hadith is also available to us.
So, people can ignore the sources external to the Qur'an, but they do so knowing that they might not have all the information they need. Their views will never be the mainstream's.
Credit Card Companies need to be accountable!
Average number of attendees for a Super Bowl party is 17. (source: Hallmark) And there are 7.5 million parties on Super Bowl Sunday, with 43.9 million partygoers. (source: National Retail Association)
Really? 43.9 Million people watch it. Okay, so not "everyone". 43.9 million people did. Does that make you feel better? Do you feel vindicated with my caveat?
That doesn't prove anything, not everybody who homeschools does it for this reason. I'm not sure why you would have a problem with homeschooling to begin with. Do you not think that public school also indoctrinate? That is just part of education, there is no way to "educate" somebody without some level of indoctrination.
I find it bothersome that some people feel that only the state should have the authority to educate people.
Wow! Yoga and figure skating! She might not be able to sing, but at least she's flexible :)
In 1996 there were 3,199 hate crimes pepetrated against blacks. There is no way possible for Jackson and/or Sharpton addressed every single one. Look at the numbers:
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2005/incidentsoffenses.htm
If you still believe you "know" they would have jumped on this incident if the races were reversed, you're insane. Your sentiment is based on nothing more than this fictional notion that so-called black "leaders" are just going around blowing up racial incidents and there's not a real race problem (except when whites are the victim, of course).
Further, I don't see Gay Activists jumping to the defense of every black person who is attacked, nor should they have to. They have enough issues to deal with.
Good
not ONE of you fucking fucktard fuckers even know what is being said while that graphic is on air.
HINT: They reported the same as CNN, that he ws found guilty on 4/5
Great article for those who appreciate the benefits of watching free tv on their pc.
Well those are two small usages compared to the core, revenue generating Google AJAX applications suite.
To summarize: Google uses GWT on some of their applications. Some of their applications they don't. So Google "eats its dogfood" some of the times, but appears to dabble a bit. I like that about them: their technology fits a need but is not about the technology.
I despise Bush and the people who control him. I think they deserve to be tried as criminals. But I just can't get excited about impeachment insofar as it can't remove him from office before his term expires. Remember -- impeachment is not a criminal proceeding but simply removes a president from office.
The Bush administration, of which George W. Bush is but a small bit player, is morally and politically corrupt. But impeachment isn't going to happen. There's not enough time to make it useful and no one in Congress wants to throw away time and energy on a pointless exercise in revenge...
Maude Lebowski: Does the female form make you uncomfortable, Mr. Lebowski?
The Dude: Uh, is that what this is a picture of?
Maude Lebowski: In a sense, yes. My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina.
The Dude: Oh yeah?
Maude Lebowski: Yes, they don't like hearing it and find it difficult to say whereas without batting an eye a man will refer to his dick or his rod or his Johnson.
The Dude: Johnson?
good video
Indeed stagecoach, IF THAT IS YOUR REAL NAME.
Example: It's hard to do things like have HTML/JS/PHP in the same file. Multi-mode emacs has been done, but it is terribly complex. Even with just PHP, it still can't do multiline strings very well (<< at the end of each "segment" so i can view more ads.
I see that (as you said) there are downloadable versions of this and other projects by the same director at archive.org.
I can't download or watch any of this stuff here at work, but I wonder: which is likely to be higher-quality, the QuickTime videos or the MPEG4 videos?
Wtf were they supposed to call it: the front bottom monologues?!
The USA is so 16th century!
Where exactly do they insert this "impeachment probe"? Sounds quit painfull.
I want to know if asking these questions to a random person on the internet would accurately identify their geographic location (or at least the location of their upbringing)
*edit: and where's the map of internet spelling atrocities? we could put it on top of xkcd's map
Yes
he was definately impeached, thanks in part to votes by Democratic turncoats such as Lieberman.
It's hardly up to the Senate to tell us how not to go into credit card debt. If the terms of a credit card or loan are unreasonable, than don't sign up for it. It's as simple as that.
The first six pages, expounding historical teachings, looks good. Then the author makes his own suggestions for educational practise. They include the hydrological cycle as an example of the interfused nature of existence and "physical challenges that can only be met by team work and group problem solving."
I don't think that these examples make the point that the author thinks they do. His examples operate an a level of banal materialism at which we really are separate individuals. Look at the kind of selfish craving that people actually get up to. They tell themselves and each other wild stories about life after death. They poison their enjoyment of their three score years and ten by insisting on immortality as a precondition for meaning.
It is peoples metaphysical conceptions of self that do the damage. Confused discussion of the physical body will not help.
Fun personality quiz with mario, luigi, and the rest of the mushroom kingdom
Blunt time!
yeah...what he said.
I said "most objective", not just "objective".
It presents articles arguing for and against, and is not a crazy rant either way, which makes it the best article I found on the subject in my brief 10 minute search...
His blog is here (SFW -- politics, not porn!)
He's promised an explanation today, let's see!
Britain intelligence organizations, and later the CIA, ran the opium game in Asia for extended periods throughout the century. Remember the Opium Wars? The Taliban didn't let poppy production continue during their rule, but yet after the US took back Afghanistan it has increased to record levels? The Taliban could control it but the enormous Unites States' Armed Forces cannot? Drug production is the primary avenue for intelligence agencies to generate enormous sums of money that are off the books. They also greatly benefit because they are the same entities that create an artificially high demand due to enforcement.
I forget who said it, but they noted that organized crime and government intelligence agencies are much more connected than commonly regarded.
What are your 3? Mine are Adblock Plus, DownThemAll, and Flash Block.
*Edit: Actually, now that I look, I guess I use 4...but Filterset.G Updater is more like an extension for an extension (Adblock Plus), so I don't really count it...
no dumbass...
fundamentalist Muslims outnumber nutjobs who kill abortion doctors in the USA by about 100,000 to 1.
Trying to compare the two is just your fucktard attempt at making your local politics weigh more.
Or that I hear the Clean team develops primarily for Windows, and I don't feel like filling out a registration form to find out otherwise?
make some porn...market it to/at, i dunno bars...festivals, etc...make a ton o money. pay for your education. wish i had thought of that before college rather than after.
Hell yeah. Young ladies stripping, awesome.
I LOVE women. Fat, skinny, tall, short, smart, dumb, blond, brunette, red, orange, black, white, yellow. I respect women also, especially as I lay a stripe down their backs. Shit, a woman who makes me cum, damn, I respect that.
Ladies, I love you all.
That's just downright mean
Wasn't the term ChickenHawks coined by WarNerd? Would that suggest the author is a reader of his?
Ah, time to go Back To School :-)
there's no article? just route to comments? hmm.
if the $ is valueless when i retire (just may be) i will be broke.
"So, what were you arrested for?"
"I tried to take a plane with a magnet stuck up my ass."
"er... well, I'm going to go over there now. See ya later."
You are right. My error.
I always have trouble remembering that impeachment is bringing it to a vote rather than actually convicting a president.
Maybe because she would'nt have sent an innocent man to prision for 11 years if she had, fool.
Most/all of these "laws" are also in the bible, it's just that Christians do not follow their religious texts with as much dedication as Muslims.
Also, I don't think all of these laws are bad in themselves. The interpretation and execution is questionable in the cases highlighted, but we can find laws being applied badly everywhere.
just because you yawned doesn't make it collective.
Unfortunately the United States is torturing people that aren't terrorists. Or at least they weren't until they got tortured.
Though I'd say it has more in common with CNN than FOX.
Everyone defaults to BBC News. Except pubs, which seem to have feckin sky news sports channel on all the time. So annoying.
The Today show FTW, if you get up early enough. Anything that happens on this show sets the news agenda for all news sources for the rest of the day and the following days papers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/
edit: graph of BBC Vs Sky News figures:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bbc_news_24_vs_sky_news_weeklyreach.png
Do you mean everyone knew she was Joe Wilson's wife; or do you mean everyone knew she was covertly working on non-proliferation for the CIA?
Everything I've read says she was a NOC.
EDITED FOR GRAMMAR.
EDITED "Marc" to "Joe" (Thanks Fango)
We get really barbaric on their asses.
Hey leave their donkeys out of it.
I do a lot of writing.
I'm constantly jotting, scribbling, scribing, and drawing little pictures when solving a problem. I'll keep stacks of "notes" that I arrange and re-arrange, copying and recopying relavent bits and filling my garbage with crumpled-up papers (all 3-pointers, i assure you). It's not because I'm afraid I'll forget - in fact the act of writing often helps me remember - I just think better with a pad and pencil in hand. The need to organize thoughts to be as concise as possible (and so put into the shortest number of words, etc) helps me a great deal.
I used to get caught up with whether or not this habit made me any more or less elite. It used to trouble me when people would mock my "need" to use this "crutch" in order to arrive at a solution. At some point though, I just got over it.
Bottom line: I would never think of trying to make a case that anyone was any more or less a "REAL" anything because they prefer to think while writing things down, tossing around a frisbee, or just sitting there. Get the job done, and all is well.
Eve Ensler, author of the "Vagina Monologues" looks like a man baby!
Actually, it's a bit over 100 years old - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_von_Moltke_the_Elder#Moltke.27s_Theory_of_War
It's not a fallacy, just that planning has its limits. If you don't give operational flexibility to your agents, your plan will fail.
Add to favourites.
put on a striped jumper and some fences and towers around that picture.
AFAIK FlashPaper does not use a lot of bandwidth due to compression and image resolution management in the app.
As Far as DjVu, I used to work for a co. producing PDF files with JBIG2 compression, compression rates were as good as DjVu (it's really the sam algo, just that DjVu is prop and JBIG2 is an ISO standard)
"Oops, my bad homey!"
This whole "shot at the entrance to the courthouse" is getting kind of old.
The character whose bad decision led to the whole Civil War event (Speedball, now known as Penance) was shot trying to appear before a commitee or grand jury or something.
If you're going to kill off a MAJOR (captain?) character like that, at least make it sort of original.
</comic geek rant>
Interesting, is this guy a Mormon by the way?
not compared to Turkey! I've never heard anything think we're doing worse than they are.
Dear God, please let it be the one that sends him to the electric chair.
Amen
MP3 128BIT 13:45 TIME
Points well taken, thank you. Vermont has the highest per capita death rate in Iraq:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070114/22vermont.htm
So you are correct, it does impact local towns. I guess I'd like to amend my earlier post to say that I wish we had more time to discuss things as a community more often rather than trying to get everything covered in one day.
I like your quote and it is reflective of how people feel. Strangely enough I always felt like it indicated how close Vermont was to being a complete mirror image of Texas.
Interesting tool! But a little bit slow...
No. Not enough time to complete the process before he leaves office. Insofar as impeachment is not a criminal proceeding but instead removes a president from office, the time and effort would be wasted.
Did you even read the article? Lack of thinking was not the problem. Troll.
suddenly the design is gone, and it's just text only format, what happened?
If we can start up impeachment proceedings
There's your mistake. You never started any kind of impeachment proceedings in your life. Not you nor the people you hang out with nor even anyone you've ever seen. High-level Republicans started impeachment proceedings against Clinton and you had nothing to do with it.
I bet Tim Haggard picked him up at the Gay Christian Rodeo.
Looks like you have a tough decision to make, then.
Search for obey and allah and his and messenger and read the verses yourself.
Fair enough, you are right about that. It does surprise me.
My point remains though that the Koran is more important than the Hadith and plenty of bad things are in it. The Hadith are much the same really.
I think we won't ever agree on if Islam is evil or not, if you can get some good from it, that's great. I am of the opinion though that that would say more about you being a good person than about Islam.
Anything that brings down the high cost of heroin addiction has to be a good thing.
This is a fantastic story. But the one thing about it that gets me is that they should be talking about round-trip ping times! So the limit should be 250 miles. Additionally, what with the index of refraction of fiber, isn't the speed-of-light limit something like 70% of c?
It's quite a plausible -- albeit crazy -- problem. But the "three milliseconds" really must have been something like 10.
I thought the importance of sites like Reddit and Digg are to expose it's viewers/contributors to new media outlets (for informational, educational and entertainment purposes). Am I the only person who likes to log into Reddit to see well written articles and humour pieces that I wouldn't normally have found during my routine web browsing?
Your test-tube is very proud of you.
only now are citizens beginning to open their eyes to what's happening.
American citizens were "only now beginning to open their eyes" to what was happening with globalization, and then the Iraq War and then ... ahh nevermind. You seriously think there's something special about this particular moment in US political history?
I've noticed that Reddit's CSS goes missing occasionally.
I noticed the CSS file pointed to Amazon Web Services.
Are you doing this just to save bandwidth on CSS file access, or is there a broader use of Amazon Web Services planned?
Wynton has been critical of the ground-breaking efforts of the very people who made it possible for him to prosper, like John Coltrane-who popularized the long improvisational style of people like Sun Ra.
Well, that's at most a truth with modifications. He was positively glowing about Trane in the Ken Burns series, Jazz.
And this article is written by an ignorant fool who forgets that the freedom of speech is only one protection granted by the First Amendment, the others I remember being religion, press, assembly, and... one more, give me a minute...
WTF are you talking about?
"Winning side?"
You do not have to have 2 mil to be happy.
I could give two shits what the rich guy with the yatch has... that bothers too many peole.
The only things I care about are:
Family is happy
Food on the table
Decent Place to live
The rest is gravy.
>"tremendously rising cost of a college education"
There are plenty of free alternatives, we all do not have to go to Harvard. Two of my brothers in law went to community college and it cost them about 2 grand a year if I remember correctly.
>"the unaffordability of health care"
although I agree is is getting harder to "afford" general healthcare, the opportunities for free care are still here, and havent gone anywhere. The way the politico's in this country are going is toward more universal healthcare (Mass and Ca to start with)
Your dreary picture is probably the rhetoric you hit your clients with to get them to worry and invest more.
We here down on the lower third do not see things as bleakly.
Success is hard, but that's exactly why you should pursue it.
Considering ITA has been using CL* for years (since the beginning?), Python didn't have to do much sneaky slithering.
* with the original Python too ;)
Impressive. The technical challenge of a project at that scale sounds fun.
OTOH, the victory is more one of perception than reality (not that the perceptual war is not important). Dynamic languages (i.e. perl) have been used to build huge systems for decades.
I'm an English major turned programmer. Whenever people are surprised that I've made "such a 180" (as someone put it), I always tell them that both fields are all about the power of the written word.
recent studies suggest
That seems to be 4 years old - recent had me thinking of something from the last year.
Same with Keith Lea's "Java is Faster than C++ and C++ Sucks Unbiased Benchmark", and you have to wonder how things would have turned out if he'd have let some C++ programmers rewrite the programs or choose the compiler flags (on his P4 maybe setting the architecture and -mfpmath=sse -msse2).
...and vice versa.
Great point! Thanks for posting this comment.
Exactly what the extension does would help. As far as I can tell from the website it collects information about your surfing habits and that's it.
And anybody remember installing XP on their old Win98 machines? It slowed my computer to a crawl. I think the moral is.. old PC? Don't get Vista.
Our laws put dudes who smoke weed in jails, where they are often raped and assaulted by other inmates and/or guards. Is it any less barbaric?
Heck, 100 lashes - you can get over it in a month or two, so it's much less barbaric than twenty years in jail.
BTW I certainly don't condone Islamic so called "justice" just want to point out that our so called "justice" isn't any better...
I'm pretty sure that was the point, given the current storyline.
duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude, that was the COOLEST flash presentation EVER ... man
As we know - Hitler was into the master race. Could this be a view into the notion of American Eugenics?
It's all getting to be some kind of huge "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas/Fear and Loathing On The Campaign Trail" mashup, with Ann Coulter morphing into some kind of long necked basilisk, Dick Cheney will be taking swipes at the bats around his head any day now.
The going is getting weird - Hunter S. Thompson where are you now?!
Meh. Marvel will just bring him back to life in a year.
Yeah, big deal. Marvel Girl is dead too.
Sorry, but the vagina is a body part worthy of being exalted. In all seriousness though, are you saying that expressing a great fondness of a certain body part is a bad thing because that somehow means that you don't value the person it belongs to? That's pretty ridiculous.
At the extreme risk of being downmodded....anyone else think the word 'annoying' in the title is redundant? :D
You got your history off. The Taliban didn't allow poppy cultivation at the beginning of their rule but poppy production has risen back to normal levels soon enough.
There have been rumours for a long time that Darfur's conflict has something to do with oil. There haven't yet been confirmed findings of oil in the region, but it's a distinct possibility.
Why is it OK to spoil the end of a comic book but not the end of a movie? Please down vote this article for people like me who hadn't gotten around to reading to the end yet.
9999999999 != 10000000000
9999999999.999... = 10000000000
... has a particular meaning.
Depends on what kind of video you want to find. The one you've submitted here is certainly not your typical youtube video. And playability is quite relative, too. In this case the video is in a standard format and of much better quality.
But I don't want to discredit youtube or your submission. The fact that I can comment on this right now, after having seen the clip on youtube because you have submitted it, speaks for itself. Please see my other comments for the point I'm trying to make. I don't want this to become a discussion about the good and bad of youtube.
Harrison talked about much more important things and the fact that we've seen the video on youtube and not on his website or in some kind of a gallery just underlines the topic of his work, IMHO.
Awesome information. I am switching to HSBC
BOOM! HEADSHOT!
Your argument is irrelevant.. I said that Maple and Matlab can do the same thing... but the interface/style is different so people prefer one to the other. Generally the dividing line is based on academic discipline (mathematicians vs engineers).
Numerical work can be done in CL, just nobody has done it yet...
Glad your happy. Enjoy your life!
>"It is also highly unlikely that a Republican president will be elected in '08"
Hardy har har. What planet are you on?
Come on, dont forget dude.. we conservatives have all the elections rigged, I mean we hjust mistakenly misjudged how much we had to cheat and that is the only reason we lost so many seats in Nov 06
Gulianni 08
An abortion loving/gay "rights" activist/anti gun liberal pretending to be a conservative.
PERFECT.
I bet your one of those people who uses a paper seat cover on public toilettes.
I think this says a lot more about you than it could him.
So, it's ok to shoot and bomb people, it's gassing that makes it wrong...
cool. didnt know banks gave that much interest rates
I take photoshops with my camera.
Jux, I happen to agree with many of your points here. That list of "impeachable offenses" was laughable at best. It would be quite a stretch of the imagination to think that a conviction could be obtained, or even that charges on those supposed "crimes" would be brought against either one of them. But even the ones you said were valid are highly unprobable of receiving legitimate attention.
Contempt of Congress - Is it an impeachable offense to say, "I won't follow the law."?
Illegal wiretaps - These are not domestic surveillance. These are calls placed outside the country to known terrorists or associates of terrorists. Besides, the FISA courts deal with this...If you want to be angry, be angry with good ol' Jimmy Carter.
Concealment of Domestic Intelligence Programs - The senators on the intelligence committees knew about it, despite how much they pretend they did not. That is why when it comes down to it, they never really do anything to stop it.
White Phosphorus - It is legal to use in battle. It is not legal to use on personnel...that means people. You can use it to shoot at objects, not humans. Other than that, your explanation on WP usage is valid.
A call for impeachment is petty at best and seems to be nothing more than revenge for the impeachment hearings against Clinton (who in fact, DID break the law by lying under oath). He was not convicted for oral sex. For all the people who cannot understand this, please get some help.
doesn't xtianity seem ridiculously inadequate to you when looking at something like that?...you know how it utterly fails to mention things like relativity and galaxies and other planets even with any sort of actual understanding conveyed? like it all came from a primitive mans mind, rather than an all knowing being?
Ever notice that what used to work for our parents is no longer working today? The great advice each of our parents imparted to all of us was to study hard for good grades so we could get into a good college, secure a good job with benefits, work our way up the ladder, retire with a pension, and in our Golden Years the government and the company we worked for would take care of us. I am a 1950s born Baby Boomer, and this was the wisdom my parents taught me which I listened to and followed. Today we see large successful companies downsizing to improve their bottom line, working 25 to 30 years in one job is now unheard of, many companies don't pay for health insurance, pension plans have been replaced with 401(k)s and once that money is gone there is no more to draw from, Social Security for us Baby Boomers when we all begin to retire within the next 10 years is projected to bankrupt the system, and people are living longer. So did our parents teach us wrong? Not exactly. They only taught us what they knew had worked for them, however, this is no longer the Industrial Age of our parents. We have entered the Information Age, and never before has it been easier to start up a business with the world literally as your potential customers thanks to the Internet. If people don't learn to let go of the OLD ideas of the past Industrial Age and embrace the NEW ideas of the Information Age, their skills will become unnecessary and obselete, and even worse they will find themselves shocked when they realize they are broke in retirement. It is never too late to turn things around even if you are in your early 50s like me. Did you know that Colonial Sanders was in his mid-60s when he started up Kentucky Fried Chicken?!! You may be asking yourself, but how do I cross over? The hardest part is deprogramming yourself and letting go of your outdated ideas and beliefs. Start reading books that teach financial literacy, a subject by the way that our school systems never taught us and still don't. Look for seminars and workshops you can attend to keep your eyes open to the abundant opportunities that are out there to build incredible wealth and security for your future. I'm here to tell you that you CAN teach an old dog new tricks if you're willing to learn and embrace change and new ideas!
Seventeen lovely mountain gazelles have been released into the wild in Saudi Arabia.
Then please tell me, which language provides the better overall system today, considering the criteria I wrote about.
Only on reddit will you get 5 articles on the same thing. Bias? Naaaaaaaaahhh....
Mmmm... I'll bet some vermonter would taste good on a fresh berliner.
Here is my research on what Linux desktop computer suppliers are preinstalling.
http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/23168/
It appears that Ubuntu is the favorite.
Oct 03, 2006
Summary, what vendors are preinstalling.
Desktops:
24 (18.05%) Ubuntu
20 (15.04%) Suse
19 (14.29%) Fedora
18 (13.53%) Linspire
11 (8.27%) Redhat
8 (6.02%) Debian
8 (6.02%) Xandros
6 (4.51%) Mandriva
5 (3.76%) Gentoo
4 (3.01%) Centos
4 (3.01%) Slackware
2 (1.50%) mephis
1 (0.75%) ELX
1 (0.75%) Frontier
1 (0.75%) Icepack
1 (0.75%) PclinuxOS
Laptops/Notebooks:
13 (22.03%) Ubuntu
10 (16.95%) Fedora
10 (16.95%) Suse
5 (8.47%) Debian
5 (8.47%) Redhat
4 (6.78%) Centos
3 (5.08%) Linspire
3 (5.08%) Mandriva
2 (3.39%) Gentoo
2 (3.39%) Slackware
1 (1.69%) emperorlinux
1 (1.69%) mandrake
Lxer.com now has a Linux vendor database.
http://lxer.com/module/db/index.php?dbn=14
Really interesting tool !
I was an English major. I was also a physics major, though, so people are less surprised that I'm programming. I do agree with the gist of this; most of the time, the programming I do feels more like writing than, say, math.
and were immediately hit by a bus.
I guess that depends on what you think "good politician" means.
I believe that these type of credit card practices have existed since the bush administration has been in office and now people are noticing?? what a shame!
"... by the people, for the people!" I think they are simply looking into their practices to assure that they are not making things worse for the poeple. Some people get into credit card debt as a means of survival. Credit card companies have preyed on these individuals with limited options. For once, I believe that government is doing what they should be doing. Looking into a real issue that many Americans face. It's a shame that the Senate had to get involved and the credit card companies could not police themselves. I guess greed can do that.
I wonder what they have on you?
I mean, we all KNOW they are listening to YOUR conversations, why I bet even right now they are listening in on your wife getting jammed by the janitor in the building down the street.
my school blocks it! Hell and damnation!
While Sean Connery may be God, I don't think he's a Republican. ;-)
My first year of college someone was handing out pamphlets that read, "Why Vegan?" I was given one. I stopped. Read the title of the pamphlet, handed it back and asked, "Why indeed?"
http://www.400monkeys.com/God/
Heck, I upvoted this for the title alone.
beautiful albino peacock , great capture
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Vista is a threat to the Internet and general purpose computing in general, because of its built-in DRM.
This is like the video game copy protection fight of the 1980s, when customers eventually won and software sellers realized treating their customers as enemies didn't make sense ... but it took many years of frustration and economic friction holding back the growth of the industry.
Vista is much bigger than that, and the economic cost of the struggle to eradicate DRM from the industry could be thousands of times harder.
The faster a start we make on reducing the number of copies of Windows Vista in use, the better off we will all be. This doesn't just matter to the individuals buying the OS in question, this matters to all users of the Internet, computers, and to some extent even those who don't.
It shouldn't be drawn anywhere. Why should it? Puberty might not start until age 10-12, but don't children have genitals too?
It's the same thing that bothered me when a librarian wanted to ban Susan Patron's book ('The Higher Power of Lucky') because it included the word 'scrotum'. It's one thing not to want to tell elementary schoolers what having sex means; it's another thing to pretend that a part of their body doesn't exist, just because it's something that makes adults uncomfortable.
That's what you call a LAX-ative.
Yet I still can't get a credit card....
this guy just better be glad he wasn't ass-raped. allegedly.
It would definitely make me consider them if i could be sure that all the hardware in a laptop, for instance, would work without weeks of fucking around.
And an interesting conversation between Paul and Guido continues here, where Guido responds to some of Paul's criticisms of the code.
Where the country is headed? As if 'vagina' was an everyday epithet in the 1920's or 50's or 80's. Geez. The country ain't getting worse. You'all are just getting more pessimistic.
Isn't gossip fun!
Before you download the Clean software, we ask you kindly to register.
They "ask you kindly to register" - it's a request not a requirement.
.. he speculates, like thousands of others.
"rule of law, rule of law!...caw! caw!"
"she wasn't suspended for uttering 'vagina', she was suspended for failure to submit to (my) authority"
the totalitarian mantra..if it's a rule, it's an excuse to abuse...case closed.
Huh? Well, because in the case of the Amen break, it is that drum loop that has been cut up and the kick belongs to that sample. If you actually listened to the music being discussed, you'd be able to identify an excerpt of the original sample immediately.
That's weird. I also lived where water freezes every winter and I hate zero issues with any of my DHW systems, including my first one, which lasted 10+ yrs (and as far as I know is still in use). Even replacing it completely would have been noticably cheaper than not using it.
You may want to consider better systems.
Inhumane treatment of those who dish out inhumane treatment is justified. If they don't want to be treated that way, the then they can act like civilized humans. But until that time, we should treat them like the animals that they are in reality.
Try to explain to a conservative that just because someone thinks something is wrong, doesn't mean they're trying to legally prohibit it.
Which one will Shaq get to play?
If the concern is for people who have gotten into debt because of matters beyond their control (illness, downsizing, etc) than the Senate should be looking at bankruptcy reform.
At the end of the day, the best way for Americans to stay out of debt is to simply not spend beyond their means.
I have no source to back this up, but from what a former [nuke plant] operator who worked at my firm [we wrote software for nuclear power plants] most cities have a nuclear plant around 50-75mph from them.
This is definitely true for Pittsburgh and Harrisburg.
They've fixed it. :(
slavory isn't illegal under the constitution, it's only illegal to take people from other countries and make them slaves because you took them.
debtor slavory is perfectly legal. banking deregulation is gonna see debtor slaves' ranks rise dramatically...wonder what you can get a 'slave' to do for you? die? almost anything, i bet, to avoid, having EVERYTHING taken from them.
did you know a bank can change your interest rate at will to 1 million/billion percent these days?
This is my very first blog, and maybe I didn't submit it right. I noticed I didn't see it in the list of new blogs. How do you submit a new blog?
same
Spike dies.
*waits for noone to get it*
Lots of people are using concurrency in Java without problems and with good performance. The problems simply don't show if you only have a few threads without difficult synchronization.
For Erlang having an advantage in this area, making up it's performance limitations in general computations, you normally need much more than a few threads. And that's what I tried to express with the word 'massive'.
FYI, these are teachers protesting. Tired of people making webpages of photos with no descriptions. If the poster had not provided the youtube link below I would never have known what was being protested.
So you sent it to him, but you blame the submitter because it's a spoiler?
She is definitely maybe a man.
not privacy. that's been banned. police can enter your residence unannounced for any (or no) reason at all. (patriot act)
At the bottom of the article on buddhism:
"Buddhism benefited most from trading and/or commercial activity.(<- can someone justify this?)"
How to blog like a jackass.
Thanks for the unavoidable spoiler headline, asshole!
Clinton also didn't do any jail time.
The fundamental difference being that Mr. Clinton, unlike Mr. Libby, was not convicted.
I'm sorry if you think that the concept of having the legal system only punish those who are convicted is wrongheaded. But if so, I suggest that you get used to it, because that's the way we do it in America.
Okay, here's the original, and here's the FAQ where he explains the answer.
Distorting details to make a story more concise/funnier is fine (in spite of what your inner nerd says about precision and accuracy). The trick is not to put something that will make the target audience stumble and get confused.
20 extensions is a bit too much, but there are some gems there. Great stuff
Cripes how do these guys sleep at night....oh wait, they don't have a conscience.
A crime is a crime is a crime.
britany and that other pantiless chick that's not paris BOTH need that. pathetic coochies on those two.
w00t. smack prices going down down down!
Admittedly live bookmarks don't have the full feature set of the plugin, but they work for me. RSS feeds for tags, and even for tag combos does the job I need, and remains persistent across every computer I use.
Ahh, Little Shop of Horrors :-)
Let ask Dinesh D'Souza, since he dated her.
Then again, since he's against premartial sex, he probably didn't get close enough to find out, either.
What's Bill Clinton doing these days?
why? he hasn't lied about sex.
What if they offer closed source drivers with linux ?
knowing what we do about toxoplasmosis, I can't see why anyone would keep cats.
Care to expand on that?
Or maybe Bill O'Reilly, with his "falafel" can find out.
First thing I thought of:
Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret.
Heard this on the way to work..what a beautiful day that was.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/07/08/adam-carolla-hangs-up-on-coulter/
Wow. I just got it. Kudos! I think the internet has just accustomed us to having people pointing out spelling mistakes.
Same as if there were none at all in my book. Closed source is such a major pain in the ass that more than one of those drivers (usually the graphics one is closed source on most systems) really is too much.
Russian-English Redshift Unofficial Forum about Legacy and The Quest PDA games.
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The black one.
Democrat or Republican, it doesn't matter, there's still one set of rules for the very rich and one set of rules for the rest of us.
You can certainly add superfluous parens to Ruby, but the entire point of them in lisp is that they give rise to an incredibly regular syntax and the same representation for code and data.
You can't get that with Ruby, so what's the point in adding all the extra parens?
Let freedom and truth ring.
I went back and rescanned the registration form. First of all, clicking download takes me to this form. Number two, clicking submit does not give me a link I can download from. Number three, there are no links on that page which let you go to the actual download page.
These are not objections to Clean, just the way its presented to the public.
Happily, I did find a way to navigate to it, with an alternate approach. So perhaps I will get to test it after all.
"Susepcted meteorite"? Was it wearing a disguise? Does it have a criminal record?
Man thats my vote.
Did you know the bible is full of shit?
Linux is free if your time has no price
Make that "Switching Operating Systems" and I would agree with you, this is nothing Linux specific.
Linux, at least for me, never works out of the 'box'.
Neither does Windows if you install it on a machine you don't know very well and that doesn't come with CDs containing all the drivers.
Incest laws are primarily in place to protect children. To suspend incest laws is to invite even more predators into a child's life than already exist. Family sexual abuse is the most common form of sexual abuse for children, not sexual abuse from strangers. Any lightening of these laws on behalf of one tearful, anguished couple is societal foolishness. Of course, in our age of rights, it's entirely possible that people will find it unconscionable that a couple can't completely fulfill whatever their heart's desires are.
I think you are mixing up liberals with partisan Democrats. Clinton committing perjury was wrong, as was his having sex with an employee.
I wonder what Brubacker will do with the Winter Soldier character. Cap's death will affect him in a major way.
I hate the proliferation of methods that mean the same thing, but I have to check the docs to be sure, because there is also a proliferation of methods that look like they mean the same thing but are subtly different.
As put forward in law by the U.S. Constitution, "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."
not in north carolina...the constitution just doesn't matter here apparently.
i use several of these currently... web developer, cool iris, measure it, and love them all
That it's not more popular than Perl yet.
It doesn't have as big of a library of modules as CPAN yet.
There are more Java and .NET jobs than Ruby jobs.
No, I "clearly" did not want to make the implication. You made it for me. I guess that Democrats are free to speak for everyone. After all, if it is not an opinion that a Democrat believes, the opinion does not matter (and attack the person making the opinion).
You hurt my brain. The play is titled "The Vagina Monologues", they said the word vagina. If some guy was in a play with the word "penis" in the title and then use the word "penis "it wouldn't be sexual harassment.
I am appalled this looser used the name Jesus to get votes.
I dunno about this, there's too many links to Agile crap.
"Almost every single nation, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, from West to East, stood-by with United States and condemned the 9/11 attacks in United States."
Same thing happened to Martha Stewart, and she's richer than ever, too bad for the left-wing kook-brigade.
There is no such thing as bad publicity.
I think this whole push is a bit silly and basically boils down to the fact that people know Linux doesn't "just work" as much as it should, but if Dell sells you a system with Linux on it they'd be forced to make it "just work" out of the box. There should be a harder push for getting Linux to grow up, especially if you plan on ever adding new hardware to your Dell Linux computer at any point.
towns in vermont vote to...
I have that, but there are still some borderline NSFW ads that show up if you browse to the main page of the blag.
BigInteger i = map.intg("a big integer");
BigDecimal d = map.deci("a big decimal");
Double r = map.dble("a double");
String s = map.stri("unicode");
JSON.A a = map.arry("a list");
int j = map.arry("a list").intValue(1);
JSON.O o = map.objc("another map");
I'm a fan of JSON, but that is some of the worst abbreviating I've ever come across.
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3 words: blocks, procs, methods.
Need to be domineered? You make me laugh. No one needs to be domineered.
I can't speak for all women but I want an equal.
Vista is a threat to the Internet and general purpose computing in general, because of its built-in DRM.
Going a little overboard there? Yes, an offline OS will truly threaten the stability of the tubes.
Call me Ishmael.....
Cool Vid
Exactly. How is this so very different from talking about the skin, or the liver or the brain? Organs all, body parts all. What's the big deal?
7 of the top 14 stories feature the word 'impeach'.
RSS aside, I think they are tempted by the lure of easy karma.
don't tell me about fucking oil. I work around engineer's who develop sattellites for a living. We need to invest in alternative energy rather than scrambling for old.
It hasn't always been illegal, and I disagree that it will always be illegal. It's been legalized in other countries, and decriminalized in places in this country.
Also, its illegality causes problems. It's a huge burden on the prison system. It diverts billions in resources from prosecuting worse criminals.
Yeah, reading a book may be better for personal development than smoking up, but does this justify making it illegal? Why not make entertainment TV illegal then? Plenty of other, more harmful things are legal (the canonical examples being tobacco & alcohol).
Its prohibition is wasteful and unjustifiable. Why are you ok with this?
By eating vegetables directly, rather than eating animals such as cows who must consume 16 kilos of vegetation in order to convert them into 1 kilo of flesh
I prefer to let the cows do the work for me.
Having just spent the better part of 3 days trying to get the Nvidia linux driver working on my pretty-standard system (kept hard crashing the system; and all only just to give Beryl a try!), I have to say: down with binary drivers! Better than no drivers? Probably. But damn it'd be nice to have more people who know what they are doing check out these bugs.
He was shocked, now he's being hunted by veliociraptors. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that he'll be more shocked when he squirts a raptor in the face with what is actually Apple-Cranberry-Grape.
This article gives a good and correct analogy, but it beats around a simpler and more direct point: The First Amendment prohibits government intrusion upon the freedom to speak. Only. "Congress shall make no law . . . "
Whether your neighbors and non-government organizations want to put up with or be associated with hateful, attention-seeking behavior is not a constitutional question, and in this the author is perfectly correct.
But another thing: This hubub was not an accident, and its consequences were sought by the speaker, Coulter. Like Donald Trump, Paris Hilton, and myriad other attention-seekers, Coulter values and needs mass-culture air time much more than she needs her own dignity or credibility. In her trade, there truly is no such thing as bad attention. She is less political commentator than performance artist, and she receives commercial media attention because she provides what the commercial media most desires: salacious, free, and self-producing news. Why spend good money putting reporters in the field when you can earn a better viewership by repeating received press releases?
"At the end of the day, the best way for Americans to stay out of debt is to simply not spend beyond their means."
Agreed. Clearly this is the reason why the article links to an online layaway site.
Of course the other side of this is that now people who previously couldn't get credit and would use it responsibly can now get a credit card and use it responsibly.
But of course we wouldn't want to report that:) Reporting on both sides of the story would be too responsible!
In Soviet Russia, the clothes wear YOU...
It annoys me to think that a very high percentage of those 100,000 are programmers who don't realize how their bread is buttered. Well--when MSFT starts laying off programmers, you're going to know it.
You vs. someone with Microsoft on his resume == you don't get a job.
Have you tried just not going into debt? or only spending what you can afford to?
It works for most people!
It's no problem to do 'shared-nothing' in Java too. Java always scales better than PHP.
But many applications started small in PHP and later they shy a rewrite and simply put up more hardware instead.
I admit I don't think I'd care for a high school production of The Vagina Monologues because I feel like they need to be a little older to really have experienced most of the issues in it. However, I may be wrong and if they want to show it, it's up to them.
The key issue is how can you have the play without quoting the play and, more imporantly, without being able to use words that are the titles. It's not like they randomly added it in just to be funny.
Incorrect title. In reddit and in the source.
yea, but that was FUNNY
The only people who get that will be the ones who already knew.
got it
Anderson was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but is no longer affiliated with the church.
Mormons, as a generalization, are strongly pro-Republican, mostly because their religion is very... conservative. They didn't allow black males full membership until 1978, for example.
Why don't they have this anymore? This is a GREAT idea.
Newsmax.... 'nough said.
I wouldn't really call it bias. I hope we can objectively agree that Bush is a bad president (~71% of the nation agrees). Bias implies bad judgement and a lack of impartiality.
What, no conkeror? For shame!
http://conkeror.mozdev.org
i want some dark green rock.
maybe aliens are mining away our crust underwater.
The bulk of the work in developing an operating system is not in writing the code, but in bug and performance testing it. For every hour spent writing code in the kernel, there must be thousands of hours spent debugging the kernel and deploying it and measuring its performance.
That is where the bulk of the kernel development work takes place.
This man knows exactly what he's talking about. Listen to him!
The other big bit of developing an operating system lies in design. Having to rewrite from scratch because your design leaves users with useless nothing isn't fun.
Thanks for the answer. I look forward to the day we see a self-compiling Ruby compiler.
The biggest reason is doesn't "just work" is that there can be some difficulties setting up drivers and hardware-specific configuration. With Dell selling pre-installed Linux all the hardware and settings would already be configured, which would help a lot. Add trivially easy installation of codecs, Flash (already taken care of in Ubuntu Feisty), Java, and whatever else I'm not thinking of, and it's as easy to use as Windows. There are still some issues of course, but there are lots of people (Ubuntu, GNOME, Xorg) working on them and making good progress.
Yeah, the country that invented passing off plutocracy as democracy. Come on, let's be honest here for just one minute. The reason you hate the French is because they're democrats.
I'm sure that, somehow, this is all Carlos Mencia's fault.
This is pretty NSFW. Justa heads up.
I don't think Perl is more popular, it is just ubiquituous.
Also, management has heard about Perl before, so you don't
have to defend it, but you still have to defend the effort to
install ruby.
The insistence on everything being an object. It's such an old-school 90s view.
Yeah, I heard some chef call pre-ground spices "sawdust."
(bourdain?)
...another...
freakin dollar coin?
CRIANDO MEU EMAIL PORQUE ACHEI INTERESSANTE.
Don't know if Jobs could get Disney to drop DRM as I don't think he's a majority shareholder and he may argue that he's already publicly denounced DRM.
He can however, drop DRM on independent iTune artists to demonstrate he's serious and not just posing.
This was very cool exactly up to the point where the narrator would not. just. shut. the. fuck. up. about copyright and the hypocricy of hip-hop record labels. We get it, already. Sony Bono Act, bad. Public Enemy, good.
Check out this new site to get lower prices at select stores.
Except it doesn't work cause this one isn't that funny.
I'd say it worked perfectly -- this one didn't make it to the front page. Most Reddit users never had to look at it. If they were subscribed to the RSS feed, they would have had to.
Except for the black one.
When animals eat the produce, they accumulate the toxins in their body. When you eat meat, you get the toxins in concentrated form an order of magnitude higher than the plants.
Google only allows you one key. Registration is also closed, since the API is now deprecated.
In Opera you can just press Space or shift-x for forward, and it magicaly follows any link named next/forward/>/>> or rel=next. You can also use mouse-gestures (right click - motion right). I love it and use it many times a day, can't think about living without it ;)
I guess firefox will rip it off soon enough.
not scary. pathetic. and for the record, do NOT ever try to dump 'your' twisted drama queen mental history on me. especially threats of suicide. cause my answer for that is: "go ahead, im NOT on this planet to carry sad people around who can't find some way to get by from day to day". if you're gonna do it, just do it, shut up and do it, leave me OUT of your 'equation'...cry for help my ass...cry of the parasite is more like it.
What? What's that supposed to mean? The article basically says that for investing it's better to start small and soon than not at all, and if you put your money in a few low-cost index funds you'll beat 95% of the "experts" out there. Both are very true points.
Maybe you're a Cramer fan and didn't like the zing in his direction?
Conservative Muslim Saudi women are playing a role in governmental efforts to counter on-line jihadists, particularly female jihadists.
Built in DRM in a widely used OS can have a significant influence on society and on further development of "the tubes".
E.g. if the predominant OS doesn't handle or impedes format X because of lack of DRM support in the format and comes with support for format Y with DRM, people using this OS will probably use Y and inflict it onto others (who may have serious problems because of licencing and patent issues).
I'll second the vote for Chicken Scheme.
The Supreme Fascist, no less.
i wonder how many churches launder money as a 'service' to their congregations larger contributers. given how the country is run, i'd say it happens, covertly, regularly.
I think they should have just said "hoohoo" every place that the word vagina appears. They wouldn't have been suspended and it would've made a more hilarious story.
This is probably a fool's errand but I'll try any way...
perfectpussi: can you provide the rest of us with a link, or screen shot, or anything that shows what your saying is true?
The people here do not just believe what FOX reports just because FOX news repored it. I'm willing to bet that they will not just believe what you say just because you say it.
If you have some sort of evidence that can help further the discussion here, by all means please share it with us. (For real if you have evidence I'd really like to see it.)
If not you are just going to frustrate yourself and us.
Very high resolution cathode ray tube monitor able to display 300 gigapixel picture
Not to mention Pastafarians...
The VA Medical system has sucked for years. Things didn't this bad overnight. Basically, until there are large veteran marches on washington ( as there have been in the past, even setting up tent cities ), the VA system will not get the money it needs for treating veterans in the past and future.
There have been Haskell people who developed a formal language to guarantee error-free transformations of spreadsheets, but somehow I don't think business users would care. You show them a new, better way to do something and they don't care. So, let them feel the pain of tools that haven't had any innovation in them for 20+ years.
Where have your read that I think that Haskell can become mainstream? I'm talking about functional programming in general which I see as very promising for the future. But Haskell is much to difficult to use in for real programming in the moment.
This may change, but I don't expect it. And it doesn't have to. Haskell is good for what it is, and this is a research language to develop, learn and try out interesting new concepts.
Clips of O'Reilly trying to equate Bill Maher with Coulter, and a guest resisting. Better than the title might make it seem.
The link goes to a story on foal watching but the links to stories about the twins foals born are at the bottom of that post.
Just stick to making those cheesy teddy bears. My wife and girlfriend have the same birthday. I have to give one of those bears of one of them to make up for not being around.
I told you before that looking at individual stations is not really interesting. There is a reason that it is called global warming.
The National Climate Data Centre has a nice site where you can plot data as well. I did one for North America, and trend is up. You can also see the global trend.
Yeah, it's going up.
There are some peculiarities about the co2science site: why do they stop at the year 2000, when we have readily available data until 2006? Why can't I select Alaska or Hawaii? And anyway, why just the US?
There should be a harder push for getting Linux to grow up
This is the "push". For flawless hardware support out of the box, the hardware vendors and Linux programmers must work together. One party alone can't solve this problem. Currently, many hardware vendors care only for Windows support because of market share. It's a chicken and egg problem. Tiny market share -> no hardware support. No hardware support -> tiny market share. Dell selling computers with Linux preinstalled can break this cycle.
gvim 7.0 + taglist + pydiction (for Python autocompletion) + SnippetsEmu (which emulates TextMate snippets in Vim) + heavily tweaked _vimrc
Nose + nosy for unit testing
Trac + SVN for source code management
9 months old. Also, why didn't you post the crooks and liars link? The blog above is nothing, a complete link jack.
In what world are facetious comments as these considered anything but inane?
OS X is the best non-Windows OS, better than Linux in every way, it's got a Unix shell, can run any X11 app, etc. And it works out of the box, unlike Linux. My time is worth a lot, and the last thing I want to do is spend half a day or more fiddling with drivers! How depressing is that?
But javascript also shows the difficulties with closures in languages with free mutation.
If you write
funcs = [];
for(var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
funcs.push(function() {
return i;
})
}
you may expect that funcs5 will now give you a '5' as a result. But of course it returns a 10.
Which makes me wonder, wouldn't be actually easier (or cheaper?) to just pour the money with certain conditions (e.g., "you will become a more secularized country")
That would never work. Too many people in power would resist change.
I don't know where you got "stability" from.
No, I'm not going overboard. DRM is a severe threat to software and computing and the Internet, because it undermines the foundation of general purpose computing. DRM cannot succeed as long as we have true general purpose computers. Moving it from the applications into the OS is one step to counter that, moving it into hardware is the next.
but people need to believe in their voice first.
I don't think this is the issue. The issue is that you have to convince people that impeachment proceedings are warranted and this is not the same thing as convincing people that 'laws have been broken'. It is entirely possible for someone to agree that laws have been broken but to also conclude that impeachment proceedings are unwarranted.
We're speaking theoretically here. In the reality, the legal system makes decisions about who is guilty or not. If someone murders someone, and we all know he did it, and the police, judge, or jurors mess up, he is "innocent".
In my opinion, both Clinton and Libby lied under oath. I feel that Libby's lie is much more dangerous than Clinton's lie, but that's a personal feeling, and Clinton made the choice to answer that question the way he did (lie). But the legal system found Libby guilty, and didn't find Clinton guilty.
This, of course is most likely because Clinton was judged by elected representatives, and Libby was judged by his peers. If you have a problem with that, I suggest that you lobby to change the constitution.
Libby, of course, could appeal and be found not guilty. I would consider that unfortunate (much as you considered Clinton's case unfortunate), but that's the way the cookie crumbles. As of right now, Libby is guilty of the crimes he was charged with, and Clinton is not.
Not that you might not be correct, but what's your source that the specific words that were at issue, were agreed upon in advance?
You wouldn't say such thing if you didn't hate cats. Either you are with us or you against us. You must be a dog person.
Every little bit helps. And in this case, helping your wallet and helping the environment go hand in hand.
Jeff Gannon 2.0
more elusive than even the Ivory-billed woodpecker, a large-billed reed-warbler has been rediscovered -- in a sewage treatment plant.
not a man, but one of those creepy, bony aliens wearing a gross, stringy blond wig. i throw up in my mouth a little just thinking about her...
I doubt it. The term dates at least as far back as the Vietnam war.
I love the smell of impeachment in the morning.
That research has no relevance to a programmer using Emacs, but I understand your point. Thinking is the problem.
One of the hardest parts of programming is keeping everything in your head -- like when somebody interrupts you. Context switches are costly when you're in the midst of creating something.
Taking my hand off of the keyboard to grab a mouse to perform a task while I'm in the zone is a context switch, even if it's less disruptive than an interruption by a co-worker.
It's like playing a complex piano piece and having to turn the pages on the music yourself. There's always that little annoying pause, no matter how skilled the pianist.
Yea, I am sure you want an equal in bed, right?
Please, you like it hard and sexy just like any other woman. Don't feed me that equalist bullshit.
What you domineer men in bed? Shit, baby, I like cuffs ever so often also. But more often than not, I am domineering, and haven't had a complaint yet. ;)
The intention seems to be to keep each method name the same length (4 characters). The only reason I can think of for this is to make multiple calls on sequential lines line up properly given enough whitespace after the variable name, which is a pretty damn weak justification. 'objc'?
Crap, my 500 word reply just got eaten by a 500 error.
Anway in short you should never kill somone on hearsay, it just is foolish.
It is nasty and foolish for somone to so flippantly approve of what was clearly the killing of an innocent man on such flimsy evidence.
Further anyone who does support the death penalty should be adamant about ensuring it is only applied when the standard of evidence is very high. The more people that are executed and later shown to be innocent, the more likely the death penalty will eventually be found unconstitutional at a federal level.
How did the 8-year-old beat Wall Street, you ask?
Luck.
Perhaps I should clarify: if thousands of investors choose investment strategies at random (in this case, they'd be choosing from a set of reasonably diversified assets) then some of them will necessarily fall above the mean of overall investor performance. It is those people whose parents write in to financial columns to sing their praises. Nobody prints stories about the 8-year-old who underperformed by 2%.
I CLAIM THIS THREAD FOR MY PENIS! The town and county and state is for MY PENIS! I love my PENIS! BOW DOWN BEFORE MY PENIS!
Go back to digg, why do you people have to drag reddit down as well?
Emacs and Vim both support syntax highlighting and both have a snippet library which emulates TextMate.
Message passing is the Prime Abstraction
oh LOFL my gf is gonna love this! shes the primary proponent of russian moda.
Organizers of the grassroots drive to get town meetings to back impeachment resolutions hope that the overwhelming support the initiative has received will convince Welch to introduce articles of impeachment against Bush and Cheney. That's something the Democratic congressman is resisting,
(emphasis mine)
I really do not understand why Democrats keep protecting this insanely criminal administration. I mean, one of the greatest Democrat presidents was impeached by Republicans over a blow job?
And also, food for how many?
The artist should go on Wikipedia and look up "the green revolution". Humanity was saved from Malthusian famine by "Frankenstein foods", fertilizer and pesticide.
The trees would support about as many people as they did, back in the day - more or less the population of one major city. Every other living human has a good incentive not to like primitivists!
What, all you ladies don't like getting stripped?
Good thing he isn't a Republican huh?
This would actually be news.
>"Obama purchased $5,000 in shares for AVI, which was developing a drug to treat avian flu. Two weeks after buying the stock, Obama pushed for more federal funding to fight the disease"
>"Obama also had more than $50,000 in shares of Skyterra, a company that had just received federal permission to create a nationwide wireless network that combined satellite and land-based communications systems."
If a Rep did that, he'd be branded a crook.
Obama does it and it's an
"oopsie, My bad, no harm no foul"
You should try having as much joy in your life as you do in your nick.
hey hey hey
All the Swiftees wanted was for John Fraud Kerry, candidate for Commander-in-Chief of the United States military, to sign and submit Standard Form SF-180 to the federal records center authorizing release of his ENTIRE military record to the public.
George W. Bush signed his. Every Presidential candidate with military service in recent memory has, except John Fraud Kerry.
What was JFnK hiding?
PS - He STILL hasn't signed and submitted Standard Form SF-180.
"Immortal" hamburgers? "Undead" seems like a more appropriate term.
It's a decent question BT, but you don't have to dig too far to find the answer. The stuff he's written about evolution is mind blowingly stupid. Admittedly, he's a kid, but if you want to play with grownups, you gotta figure out the rules.
I don't know if it was obscene, I found it quite funny.
Compare to this: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/02/whats_his_names.html
What free online resources for electronic music do you guys know of? I really want to get into making some.
I disagree with Slater. This site may seem a bit like other sites, but it is smart from the standpoint that you can actually see what is popular or relevant within 8 categories of pop culture.
They are the biggest most tyrannical religious fanatics in the middle east
Sudan? Syria? Algeria? Iraq? All dictatorships where orders of magnitude more Muslims than Israel have been massacred. Egypt would be comparable.
You want religious fanaticism - Saudi? Afghanistan? Iran? Kuwait has loosened up in the last decade, but still. Does Pakistan count as middle eastern?
Turkey and Lebanon (not the South and East of the country though) are the only countries that are as 'secular' as Israel.
Pics or it doesn't happen.... ;)
Try setting it up on hardware that Apple doesn't sell?
This story is a bit old, was truer in 2003-2005 period.
The MOST instructive thing about Argentina is that this is a very good model for what will happen in the United States within a decade.
Post crisis profiteering is very, well, profitable.
There is a lot of money waiting outside the United States for a very similar thing (devaluation of currency) to happen here.
I agree with Libbylu. I checked it out and signed up. I like that you can customize your own homepage to show you exactly the content that you want to see.
Look at what flower-power accomplished.
Sold a lot of beads and dye?
I think what he meant was that it should be the one thing you love about Ruby.
...
evidence like what? an audio file?
I was watching it live.
While all of you easily diregard the context of anything FOX has on screen, it is not up to me to post Audio/Video links of FOX news, it is up to the original poster to be truthful, but that doesn't tow the line does it?
It is REALLY easy to look at a picture and make a deternimation right?
I could give a shit if none of you believe me, you would only say it was doctored anyway, even if I did record it.
Ask the limey who posted the original screengrab to back his bullshit up with the truth.
>"The people here do not just believe what FOX reports just because FOX news repored it."
You know what bugs me about that statement, its not that they don't believe FOX, its that they unconditionally believe whatever other outlet is in line with their political or personal opinions regardless of truth.
If CNN posted the Sun was turning blue and FOX said it was staying yellow, people wouldn't bother to check outside to see who was being truthful.
This drug-addled pothead makes a flash presentation, and can't even bother to spell the word "Century" right?
Agreed. I don't see many people getting upset with statements like "you have beautiful eyes."
I believe he was referring to RAM. If you're referring to using that much swap ... you're crazy.
Cool site. I enjoyed the different categories.
So a shoplifter is equivalent to Ken Lay, they are both thieves. A crime is a crime is a crime.
It's only "paradoxical" if you think the crimes are of equal magnitude.
You sent untested code to my parent's pacemaker? I'm suing.
Words are used to illicit a specific reaction, even if that reaction is simple understanding.
elicit
C-x and C-c are heavily used as emacs prefixes, and putting them somewhere less-accessible might be painful for such a heavily keyboard-driven app.
Not really; they're very far apart on dvorak, and it's not painful at all. In fact, I hadn't realized that they were so close to control on qwerty until you just mentioned it. =)
yes, very good idea to include different topic pages.
hola quiero tener nimbuzz
Why use Boo instead of Iron Python? I am still figuring that one out.
I think both of you are missing the point. I don't need for Dell to pre-install it for Vista to just work. I could buy a Dell, or Gateway, or Vaio, or do something sane like build my own computer and it will just work. I don't need it pre-installed by the company. Linux needs to get to THAT point, this Dell business isn't about making Linux grow up, but just getting Dell to deal with the flaws of Linux instead of the end-user. However, that band-aid only lasts so long as the end-user never changes anything about the system. Instead of producing computers that just work Linux, produce Linux that just works with computers of all types.
Does Texas have an asteroid defense shield?
I think they had a good idea with the customizing of the filters so that you do not have to see what's popular in areas that you have no interest.
Thanks. Fixed.
Porn like you have never seen it before!!!
This is BY FAR not the "best" First Amendment explanation ever. It's an unprovocative analogy, which as gmcg points out here, completely ignores the fact that Freedom of Speech only prohibits government intrusion.
Lame.
Good point. I think the difference for me is that having girls my own age talk to me about their vagina's (even if its scripted, its still first-person) is very sexual. I guess though, when I think about it, high-school was full of sex anyway, so trying to introduce some reasoned discussion about it would be good. I suppose I'd draw the line at that and say its inappropriate for kids any younger than high-school age.
What's creepy about this? I think it's sweet.
But those people in set #8 really need a bigger bed.
I have nothing against Muslims, but when they start trying to push their laws and beliefs on every single thing in the west, I have a problem. If its your religion to wear some thing or do some thing, then DON'T join things that will conflict with your religion. Who wants to play soccer with people who have things distorting their vision to begin with? Those hijab's are constantly in your face. This is really starting to get on my nerves though. Muslims need to stop being hypocrites and saying they respect cultures and yet constantly impose their beliefs on others then make threats when it doesn't go there way. TO BAD! Don't like the rules DON'T PLAY!
Oh oh, is it the Strawman?
That is one possibility. Another is that most humans do and that the Inuit aren't anything special in that regard. If they react to the American diet the same as most others do, I don't see much evidence to suggest their genetic disposition towards food is that radically altered.
slow
poor unicode support
lack of libraries
too many ways to do each thing (I don't mind the possibility of having lots of different ways to do one thing, I do mind them being all in the standard library)
end - yes, some people complain about Python's whitespace, but I honestly don't want to live without it, and I think I'd almost prefer to use brackets than end (maybe)
blocks are just syntax and as such are limited compared to Smalltalk and also have some interesting rules (I don't hate Ruby because of this, it just would've been nice for them to be more consistent)
the singular focus of the Ruby community - since Rails came to be, Ruby is all about Rails Rails Rails; I think this is hurting the Ruby community because the vast majority of users are web developers, and as cool as web development is, it isn't where a lot of really important evolution will take place, in addition with the singular focus on Rails there's less innovation in other frameworks
it seems like anytime I visit #rubyonrails on freenode its a bunch of newbies asking questions; I think the Ruby community is seeing the talent rapidly diluted by the many newcomers from Java/PHP
The first two should be changing within the next year. We will have to see about 3; 4, 5, and 6 won't be changing anytime soon (but I can look past them), and I'm afraid Ruby is stuck with 7 and 8.
We keep hearing the same arguments over and over:
"Islam is peaceful"
"Fanatics do not represent the majority of Islam"
"Islam and Christianity are the same"
"Islam is misunderstood"
Etc., etc, etc.
Well I have a few questions:
When was the last time you heard something GOOD coming out of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan, Bosnia, Chechnia, Yemen, or any other of the dozens of Muslim countries, which always seem to be in a state of conflict?
Ever heard of a muslim high court upholding human liberties, instead of dealing out lashings and public hangings?
Has anyone ever heard of a Mormon suicude bomber? How about a Baptist one? For some reason they all praise Allah before going up in smoke.
I am not "bashing" Islam; I couldn't care less about it. I say live and let live. If you want to believe in Zeus or Odin, that's fine by me - as long as you don't try to impose your beliefs on others.
And that's the real problem with Islam.
How is it not weird to watch strangers sleep?
I hope you're not my neighbour.
is god a republican or democrat? how typical of the pretard mind. god joins one of your pathetic pretarded parties as a loyal member.
Commonly-shared knowledge is the basis for any conversation.
I wouldn't say that the fact that statistically 40% of all rape accusations are lies is common knowledge. I would argue that when posting statistics it is your, not the reader's, job to provide the source.
probably because fringe rural liberal groups and internet ideologues don't influence national policy?
"bang" not "bam".
Although of course this does occasionally blow up in one's face. MAJOR advertisers are fleeing Coulter, newspapers are dropping her, and so far as I know, this is the worst fallout from any remark she has yet made. Although I doubt that this will affect her book sales directly, it will be interesting to see how, once more and more major accounts decide that she's crossed the line and become too risky a commodity, she fades into obscurity or not.
The assertion that saying wildly offensive things as loudly as possible can consistently keep you in the green is not entirely accurate. You have to walk a fine line; sure Fred Phelps and his cronies say more hideous things than Coulter, and sure they're occasionally on the news, but they haven't prospered in the way that Coulter has. It's a vicious cycle; she has to consistently get more and more outrageous in order to garner attention, but at some point people are likely to say enough is enough.
good luck with that
Of course Coulter can say what she pleases... so can the KKK.
Nobody is bound to defend what they say... only their right to say it.
The beauty of free speech is that it almost guarantees crazy people, like Coulter and the KKK, will willingly out themselves as such.
This is one of the few times I'm proud to be Utahn.
w00t.
yeah, I think this will make me quit reddit. Which is probably a good thing. I waste too much life on this site.
done
Alternatively, we could raise $10M and offer an equal share campaign contribution to any US Rep voting for impeachment.
One million people each donating $10. Think that would get some attention?
I'm appalled a tighter didn't.
how long is what going to take?
Do you honestly think anything is going to come of this? Please... be honest with yourself for once.
You need to be warned that this post contains a bad word. But it does so only because the Bible itself contains a bad word. I never knew that. You don't know it either, because you've been protected from knowing it.
you should really quit reading around when you complete the above paragraph....
..."this post contains a 'bad' word..."
because the author contains a bad mind.
I've heard the same statistics. Ironically, I don't have a source though.
The word is used a billion times in other circumstances for every time it's uttered in a lynching. Kids on playgrounds say it all the time; it's on tv daily as well. It's a popuar epithet. Showing disdain is not the same as showing murderous intent.
"Admits"?
Nice title, sounds like he was hiding it or it was some crime or something.
Mole hill meet mountain
Islam = I slam (others).
where I=Mullahs and other males.
A very good article but not really a shocker. Everyone knows the true intent of islam - to destroy others and live like barbarians. dare i say the world is better without islam ?
I use the Firefox NoScript extension to avoid running arbitrary JavaScript from unfamiliar domains.
Today I noticed that the DHTML goodness of reddit was not working. NoScript was set to allow reddit.com, but there was a new site listed, amazonaws.com, that was being blocked by default.
I wondered what amazonaws.com was serving up; ads, I figured, but I wondered if maybe the general Reddit site scripts were now being served off S3. I enabled JavaScript from amazonaws.com, and found the familiar Reddit site behavior was back in order.
So here's the dilemma: I want to allow Reddit JavaScript, but don't want to allow arbitrary scripts from amazonaws.com to run on any random site I hit. So I'm not going to whitelist amazonaws.com. Bummer.
If more sites turn to using composite data and code from a common location, how can users know when something is safe to load and run?
What are the risks, and what steps can be taken to increase safety while minimizing annoyances?
>"deal with Gonzalez"
Huh?
"It's raining in Shanghai? Oh man... that's bad. I hope you saved."
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/12/20
another excuse to raise taxes. how about shrinking welfare instead?
I predict you will be at -100 points within the next 5 minutes.
what's CPAC?
As was I. I was getting ready to down vote this article until the last page. I really can't believe that firebug did not get mentioned until the end. It is indispensable in my job as a programmer.
Fascinating...
Or maybe because the small number of large media companies have editorial policies that align with those of the power sharing of both the democrat and republican leadership. If change is to come in this country, it's going to start at the grassroots, like Vermont town meetings. Don't expect Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton to become highly principled firebrands of justice after 20-30 years in government.
I'm referring to cognitive development that takes place during adolescence. Is it triggered by puberty, or is it merely co-incident? That is, does early puberty, leading to earlier adult physical development, also lead to earlier adult mental development?
So when Slick Willie Clinton did it was ok.
Just want to make sure we're on the same page.
Reddit seems broken today -- I can't vote on articles or I'd downmod this pointless, tiresome impeachment nonsense out of my way.
Bush and his controllers are slime. But impeachment, which is not a criminal proceeding but rather removes a sitting president from office, is a counterproductive waste of time and energy.
America is already domestically and internationally crippled by the politics of anger and hate. Does it really need a new, and ultimately pointless, exercise in revenge, too?
Hey, let me throw you a life raft so you don't sink...
>"This is like the video game copy protection fight of the 1980s"
Video games are still protected.
The term War Hawk has been used to describe politicians with "hawkish" positions on warfare. A pejorative variation is "Chickenhawk," used to belittle people who endorse war but avoid military service themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Hawk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenhawk_%28politics%29
I guess WarNerd is where I first heard it.
It's weird to watch people sleep without their consent, sure.
Don't you think these folks gave an informed consent before the photographer set up the camera and flash in their bedrooms?
is he now a court jester with a broken heart?
Holy fuck people! Read the above. You know what it means of course; a flame war, initiated by a simple misunderstanding, has been avoided. All this by people not assuming the worst, and being reasonable: on the Internet. There's something here for us all to learn.
So you think it would be acceptable for a grade 2 play? I think a line does have to be drawn. I'm not talking about discussing the vagina as a sexual-education type of scenario - I'm specifically referring to a play such as the Vagina Monologues.
Really. How could they possibly inform us what's really going on if they don't have anonymous senior administration officials tell 'em what's up?
We who are already infected can't resist our cat overlords though.
whahh sniff sniff whahh whahhhhh,... it's harder to download music and "free" movies, whah whahhhh sniff sniff whahhhhh.....
"You need to be warned that this post contains a bad word."
WTF?
There is no such thing as a bad word. Certain words, used in the wrong order and for the wrong purpose can ammount to crap though. Like the bible.
Yeah, of course. Alright, I confess, I just used creepy in the title to get more people to look at it. You know, because reddit is full of voyeurs.
Talking about vagina's in the "anatomy" sense of the term is fine, but this is about the Vagina monologues, which I think is more than just talking about another body part.
I wouldn't be surprised that's why bush was so eager to mention poland.
The time support is absolutely abysmal if you're doing anything timezone-related. You can alleviate that by using the TzTime library, but it's silly that you should have to.
"Rather then waste your time defending and smoking marijuana you ought to pick up a book and educate yourself."
Please, do so yourself. I'd recommend the study that indicates pot smoking reduces pain. Or that it not only doesn't cause cancer but may have preventative properties. I read studies like this all the time, not the US DEA sponsored reefer madness garbage that has been disproven time and time again. I suggest you do some reading and know what you're talking about.
http://www.google.com/search?q=cpac
Y2K 2: This time--the computers will be off by 1 hour, instead of 100 years. And it's caused by Congress. Which makes fixing it all the more irritating for your IT friends!
It should. It would be a great show of goodwill on the international front. What better way to say to the world, "This man does not represent us."
Most/all of these "laws" are also in the bible, it's just that Christians do not follow their religious texts with as much dedication as Muslims.
I think this stems less from lack of dedication than from the fact that the Bible is longer, more varied, and was written by many different people over a longer span of time than was the Quran; as a result, the Bible became internally inconsistent (especially between the Old and New Testaments) and therefore impossible to follow literally.
I would argue it's always up to each individual to investigate any claim. As so many are made without citations BUT are easily verifiable, we lose out on valuable information if we reject all claims made conversationally.
Reddit seems broken today -- I can't vote on articles or I'd downmod this pointless, tiresome impeachment nonsense out of my way.
Using Firefox and the Noscript extension?
See http://reddit.com/info/18l9z/comments
(yeah, karma whoring, I suppose)
God is a Libertarian. He's definitely into limited control.
Maher is much worse than Coulter. Coulter was out of line but she didn't essentially call for another person's death, like Maher did. Bill is right on in illustrating the similarities.
I like the way you think.
I was really hoping for a 500 japanese couple gang bang article to beat out yesterday's 100...
I LOVE russian fashion. i was never interested in fashion before this amazing fashion breakthrough!
I concur... does this officially mark Germany as a pimp? In some situations women will be forced to take it to survive, and then of course the state gets its cut from the taxes. Technically that makes Germany a pimp.
That story exists in some non-euclidean space defined by different axioms than my own.
Other people may vote it up, but in my world, parallel lines stay parallel infinitely.
I agree in the fact that they should have been allowed to do it all without censorship, or none of it. I still have not formed an opinion of whether they should be allowed to do it or not, but I don't think its a cut-and-dry question.
Its not necessarily a removal. Clinton was impeached and then censured. I think its probably a bad idea to remove W at this late point in his tenure, but hell yeah he should be censured.
My own view of blogging, if anyone cares.
"He" is the Department of Justice, which "acknowledged yesterday that [U.S. Attorney] DiBiagio ... was forced from office and did not, as he said at the time, decide on his own to leave for personal reasons."
This actually is quite a mountain.
Your right; her death is punishment enough for being alone with a man who is not her husband. No need to add insult to injury!
thanks for the correction - looks like that was based on a very old version of mozex
DownTHEMall is a solid download manager that should be mentioned also....
It means that this economy is going to fold. These kind of articles always seem to crop up just after the market takes a major drop. In the same vein, TV always reports an optimistic point of view regarding the markets' "normal adjustment." Meanwhile, the Buffets, Hiltons and Rothschilds of the world take their profits and move on. However, the fundamentals of the economy are so bad, that it is now only a matter of time before the foreign investors make a run for their money. The Fed can manipulate the CPI, the interest rate and any other publicly reported numbers but the fact remains that our economy is already faltering and is just waiting for a last straw event before it tanks completely.
And I'll bet you lunch that the ORP Xawery Czernicki was used for clandestine purposes as well.
Go Read this right now: http://www.madeofglass.com/tripp/2007/02/27/all-7-issues-of-the-redubbed-civil-war/
It will fix all your Civil War problems. =)
I suspect that a lot depends on what you grew up with. My first computer was a Macintosh; I reach for the mouse automatically, without realizing I'm doing it. No context switch there.
It's far more distracting for me to have a tab-completion buffer pop up in my face. I can Ctrl-Tab to another tab (tabbar-mode) without losing my train of thought, but I can never remember what I need to type to C-x b there, and having the C-x C-b buffer pop up makes me forget everything I'm doing.
Walter Reed is not a VA hospital. It's US Army, part of the Walter Reed Health Care System (serving active duty military, Congress and the Executive).
@ DRTED:
To be honest, I enjoy reading more when I'm high than when I'm not. I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that you're a grumpy old man who harbors a misconception about marijuana.
Ever tried it? Know anyone who uses it regularly? Where are the statistics that say it's harmful?
Just because you are a jaded baby-boomer who hates them pot-head kids doesn't mean your smug umbrella assumption that marijuana users are uneducated and don't even read books is applicable. Sorry, try this argument over at the FoxNews.com boards.
er... I now have 60 installed. Because I found some on that list that I didn't have yet...
Or AJAX#
you are invisible because contrary to your attention whore perspective, nobody gives a rat's ass about your pain... especially when not bad enough to make your STAY THE FUCK HOME. nobody probably wishes pain on you, but they also didn't cause it, so don't OWE you 1 damn THING in the way of 'empathy'.
That is only half the books though. We still need reference books. Something that the hero can consult AFTER the journey to remind himself what he learned, without having to take the entire journey again.
Otherwise a great read.
Revenge? It's not supposed to be about revenge; it's about Justice! If a president LIES us into war then he deserves to be removed from office. End of story.
Oh, and we can't bring the troops home until we get a new commander in chief (so we'd better impeach Cheney too)
and does nothing about them, as banks donate massive amounts of cash to campaigns and 'gifts', while ppl drowning in debt and getting screwed by banks dont.
the point of the hearings isn't to protect the consumers. the point is to send notice to the banks and lenders, that it's time for another round of gifts and donations.
Assumptions are the mother of all fuckups
San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds was found guilty of lying about his role in the Balco investigation on Tuesday. That Bonds was found guilty of lying came as a surprise to no one. The fact that the hydrocephalic headed slugger was even mentioned at a trial that had absolutely nothing to do with him left many in attendance shaking their normal sized heads in disbelief.
Review of the Dual Action Cleanse colon cleanser.
this is just plain awesome
Can you suggest some good svk resources?
... fringe rural liberal groups ...
Now there's a tautology if there ever was one.
new topic about top albums
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And of course the right wing has been saying this for years in the matter of the Dixie Chicks: they have every right to say what they want to say, and consumers have every right not to buy their albums.
In other words, many on the left only make sense when it's their ox getting gored. The same applies, of course, to many on the right.
IDIOTS! (the Napoleon Dynamite way)
Statistics are pretty difficult to find. Try to find statistics on the number of people killed by small firearms each year in the US for the past 5 or so years. Or to make it a bit harder the number of people under the age of 18 killed by small firearms in 2006.
What are you talking about. Back up your assertion with some examples.
In Coulter's case, she's a moron, but who is backing up what she said. I don't see anyone. This article and your argument are nice attacks at strawmen.
If Microsoft were really as evil as everyone says they are, they would say to Dell "Vista on all of your machines or Vista on none of them."
That'd put an end to all talk of Linux on Dell machines.
Because teh election is comming up very soon. He will be out of office before he could be impeached.
OK, somebody needs to post the top 10 reasons that Christian law is bad for all societies. There is some fucked up shit in the bible too. To be safe, avoid ALL organized religions in daily life!!
Like dozens of county governments around the country, Fort Bend County in Texas has for the past several years been posting public records containing Social Security numbers on its Web site. The records are accessible to anyone in the world with an Internet connection and are routinely sold to list brokers, real estate companies and mortgage firms.
After making this post, I got a private message directing me to the Eclim project
I haven't tried it yet, but the guy who sent it said it was rock solid
Interesting you should mention that. Throw him in prison is what the copperheads - congressional Democrats - had in mind for Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
Will history remember George W. Bush as this generation's Lincon? Hey! He freed the Iraqis!
I am all for more prostitues. Its a noble job.
We need more here in the US.
OP, this article is like 2 years old. Welcome to the internet, asshole.
How about a few:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=26480
i wonder when the last time she masturbated was?
erm. except for they are associated with HSBC Bank (think predatory, crooked, subprime mortgages)
the singular focus of the Ruby community - since Rails came to be, Ruby is all about Rails
Where do you see this? On ruby-talk? Or on blogs by some set of Ruby people who like writing about Rails all the time?
7. it seems like anytime I visit #rubyonrails on freenode its a bunch of newbies asking questions; I think the Ruby community is seeing the talent rapidly diluted by the many newcomers from Java/PHP
Please do not conflate the RoR community with the Ruby community. Different worlds.
Demand Media/eNom will now offer social networking tools to eNom .tv domain customers.
This article was linked on Reddit yesterday:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/03/gonzales_expose.html
Sailors, eh?
It doesn't matter if they install a brand of linux I don't like, it matters that I don't have to pay for it.
This article is worthless. The explanation of the first amendment is fine--nothing wrong with that. But what's up with the unprovoked and unsubstantiated attack on neocons? Who are these people who support Ann Coulter and are whining about the abridgement of her first amendment rights? I don't think they exist. And the author did give us the courtsey of actually supporting his argument.
There are counter-examples and then there is trying to take your opponent's point to the ridiculous extreme.
Tell us, what do we know for sure about Toxoplasma gondii bacteria and cats?
From what I know, there is no reason for an otherwise healthy person to avoid cats for fear of Toxoplasma. First, you'll probably be exposed even if you never keep cats. Second, there's no real evidence other than a few not-so-strong correlations that it could be bad for regular people. Cutting out that bacon for breakfast will likely do far more than cutting out the cats in your life.
If you're at work, you shouldn't be browsing Reddit.
Yea because for everyone it's just that easy. Thanks, wow, why aren't you a financial planner? Or are you?
This reminds of a joke someone told me about radio stations moving up the dial as he drove closer to the station and down the dial as he drove away. The implcation being that he was drving fast enough to notice the small doppler shift.
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By the rest of the world, you basically mean Europe, right?
Did you know that specifying the encoding of your page as ISO-8859-1 is incorrect when the contents are encoded as UTF-8?
So by force, the headline means pressure, right?
yeah. not through these guys.
50USD cancellation fee.
1.9% 'transaction fee'
psssh. just save some each month, then buy you want. you just saved 1.9% by not using that sucko service
this just got put here buy some SEO tool wanting to game reddit.
self hating homosexuals, it seems, make the best neocons.
and THAT is VERY scary.
He's not getting impeached. Only Congress can do that. Not random towns in Vermont, or mayor of Salt Lake City.
Exactly: one thing with consistent syntax, consistent free variable capture rules, etc.
Out of curiosity, do you ever consume alcohol?
It has been illegal, it is harmful, and affects (see earlier reddit article on looking like an idiot) one's mental capacity.
So reading the back and forth from the comments, can anyone confirm the context? Did Fox mention if he was guilty of the other accounts?
Nice straw man
"his is the reason why the article links to an online layaway site." which is a rip off in itself. heeeere little sockpuppet!
He`s dead Jim.
Unless you are Borg
just the showboating dumbasses who want to ask murderers (soldiers) why they are out murdering that day. it's no loss really. except for the time i waste hearing the other journalists go on and on about their lives using the same cliches every fucking single time.as if they fucking actually matter in the scheme of things...or i somehow owe them for bringing me utter crap they think is insight from the 'frontlines'.
If they were really hell-bent on impeachment, they might be offered Iraq withdrawal as appeasement.
So far there is no need to play ball with them, with these nonbinding resolutions.
My missus gets into that mess parking at the supermarket!
Surely if(!fizz) avoids the problem of not knowing the definitions of true and false better than if(0 == fizz)?
The problem with 20 must-have extensions is that there are 20 must-have features a given application is missing.
Now, I agree, there probably aren't 20 that I really need. I really only need a few.
yep!
Having Rocky Anderson call for the President's impeachment is the same as a story stating that a bear just shat in the woods--completely obvious. Of course Rocky Anderson thinks Bush should be impeached--he's as far left as Kos.
Every day I find a new reason to praise the Lord that I don't live in America the unfree.
Now if I could only get myself to believe in the Lord ...
It's more of an old-school '80s view, but what do you suggest as a better, modern, alternative?
Please, no old-school '50s "everything is a function" view. Or old-school '60s "one big stack" view. Or old-school '60s "Everything is a logical predicate" view.
Seriously, what are the better conceptual models?
Nuke plants have been operating pretty much non-stop 49 out of the 52 weeks of the year since they built in the 1970s. Many of them can boast a procedure deviation rate of about one infraction every hundred days or so (That's that sign out front -- "no incidents in X days"). They have some of the best security for an installation outside of the white house (most have sensor nets so they can detect anything bigger than a dog about 400 meters from their fence.) and the civil engineers who built them were aware that a 747 might someday crash into the containment center, and planned for that contingency. (They would likely have to shut down, but no radiation would leak outside of the containment chamber. Environmental disaster averted.)
Honestly, your ludditism towards nuclear power is completely irrational. The only thing cleaner and safer than nuclear power is solar, and Nuclear power scales a hell of a lot better. (25% of our grid is powered by nuclear energy).
NOC (Nuclear Operating Corporations) are required to fund community development programs, resulting in better schools and housing in areas surround nuclear power plants, along with more parks.
The smartest thing we could do for energy independence is built more nuclear power plants. Japan's nuclear power plants even recycle their own nuclear waste, solving the "storage problem". (Yes, you do get weapons grade plutonium after 250 years of doing this -- I'm rather doubtful we'll last that long as this point).
Your fear is what keeps the coal and gas industry alive.
"Shit!" smack
"Cunt!" kick
"Shit!" smack
"Cunt!" kick
The only thing that would make it unacceptable for a grade 2 play would be that the kids wouldn't fully understand it and they would probably not enjoy it. But it's on the same level as having a grade 2 play on the benefits of compounding interest. It is a mundane subject.
Those grade 2 girls have vaginas, and they should understand that their vaginas aren't anything to be ashamed of. The boys should know the girls have vaginas and know they're not a big deal too. The Vagina Monologues probably would not be the best way to convey those concepts to the kids, but it certainly wouldn't harm them in any way.
There are over 3 billion vaginas on the planet. There are over 3 billion penises on the planet. People really need to get over them being a big deal.
No her death would be increased tragedy to what had occurred to her but there is no point in prosecuting and punishing someone for a crime when they're dead.
Nah, it's the Iraqi guy with the magnet up his ass (one link above at time of post).
Jesus - What if we could get the word out far and wide enough? Could we change history?
Party pooper.
C'mon, be a hater!
How many more stories can we promote about this same story. Let find more!!! IMPEACH BUSH!!!!!
In China We Trust our national debt.
Fake story.
I'm not quit sure I understand all this talk of group velocity; I see no mention of it in the article. A video of the experiment would be interesting. The only way this could happen is if the pulse of light appears to jump to the other side. It's my understanding in special relativity that the speed of light is a constant, reguardless of how fast you're going (which is more bizarre than most physicists realize).
Are you willing to tolerate a mugger, thief, or rapist simply because you hold 'tolerance' as an ideal above all else?
I'm not arguing against 'tolerance'. I'm arguing against elevating 'tolerance' to an ideal above all others.
well said & should definitely be in there. 100% correct. many of those fighting this are rural conservatives.
i've always found noscript to be too restrictive. so many sites use javascript that having to unblock every site is more annoying than the occasional thing i might want blocked
Nice!
fucking hilarious.
but, you know, they probably didn't have any tiny packaging handy...used the best they had. and large enough it wouldn't get lost. cudos to dell.
It would only be sexual because it is rare. Similar to the ankle being a very arousing sight in cultures where women are constantly covered. Even full-on nudity is not inherently sexual. It is sexualized when we limit the occasions in which nudity takes place to sexual situations.
Go visit a nudist camp. After a few hours or a day, your brain will adjust to the idea of nudity as simply the natural state of being, not the state of being that is only approached when sex is on the way and it'll stop being an arousing event.
prominent lawyer in Georgia dies.
what is the difference of flash with respect to java applets
DHTML degrade better since it manipulates HTML objects that can be rendered even without scripting.
i think it can be assumed that most people reading the list would already know about those
I'll write to my guys, i.e. 1 Rep, and 2 Senators.
I hate it for its freedoms.
Occam's razor beotch. It's the simplest answer. Everyone who follows the story knows that there wasn't an underlying crime, only perjury during an investigation.
Statistics are pretty difficult to find.
Depends on the statistic. The rape one was easy to find.
That includes downmodding!!1!
And there is probably a law that requires the county to make the data public, so it is probably "illegal" to not post the data - it seems like selective statute quoting by the AG.
This isn't very well-designed. I mean, it's folded cardboard!
Much too stiff for the after-wee shake!
true and I am shocked that they did this.
I'm all for more nobility in people, it's a classy trait. Oh, and thanks for the welcome.
But impeachment, which is not a criminal proceeding but rather removes a sitting president from office...
Actually, "impeachment" simply means bringing the president up on charges which, if upheld with a conviction, would mean removal from office. Clinton got impeached, but when it came time to deliver, there wasn't enough to convict. So let's impeach the bastard Bush. If he's judged to be not guilty, so be it.
This whole thing just doesn't compute for me. The principal allowed the play? the subject matter? but not the clinical word?
its actually kind of sad.
Why should I trust God? Everything he ever made died!
(apologies to George Carlin)
The idea that the United States government has any jurisdiction to influence the production of opium in Afghanistan in ANY way is absolutely ludicrous. They are a sovereign people. Allow them to make their own decisions. If you do not, expect to be rebelled against.
The documentation varies from helpful, to weird, to completely absent.
Some parts of the standard library are surprisingly primitive. Some things I'd expect as a matter of course, just aren't there at all.
Except that this criticism is only valid for block and procs (an unnecessary distinction): methods are separate objects with separate rules because they have separate goals.
Just in freaking smalltalk!
Methods are messages to an object, blocks/procs are regular functions as in "self-contained units of computation".
Ruby's methods and blocks can not have the same rules because they don't represent the same thing.
Just as they didn't in Smalltalk.
I have to wonder why the author is focused on black racism against Asians and totally ignores that it's all happening within a racial hierarchy created by a white-dominated society.
Divide and conquer, indeed.
Laurent is still a space cadet, it seems.
Then explain why "veterans" is in the title.
The article is mixing a few different issues together; it would have been a better argument if it stuck with how the condition of Walter Reed doesn't support our troops.
It also points the blame at the Bush administration. The argument is basically: Bush says "support our troops." Walter Reed Army Med. Center, a military hospital, has poor conditions. Bush is the commander in chief. Bush is a hypocrite.
That only works if Bush is responsible for the problems. The same thing happened with FEMA and Katrina; Bush took a large chunk of the blame.
The article needs to address at what point we can hold a leader responsible for the actions of his underlings. Leaders have a finite amount of time to manage things.
It's obviously coordinated. There were something like 8 impeachment stories on the front page this morning.
Europe wears green tights and talks to fish?
I've read a lot about Ruby lately, what with all the buzz surrounding it. Looking at working code is a plus, as it seems quite clean and readable even when you don't know the library yet.
Having said that, I am very surprised at its popularity after spending some time actually trying to write it. I am not an idiot, and I have learned many languages over the years. I felt like an idiot, however, when I spent a half hour trying to get a one-liner if-else-end working. Everything's an expression, right? Bullhonky. The absolute worst thing about the language is the syntax error messages. They don't even let you know the right file to look at sometimes, and I promise you that it was lying to me when it said that 'else' can only be used with 'try'.
Microsoft has had OEM terms like this for years.
No doubt one of the questions Dell are asking themselves right now is are they big enough to face down Microsoft.
I am confused. I hear all this talk about impeachment, but impeachment is just a trial to REMOVE Bush from an office that he will be removed from anyways within 24 months -- it has nothing to do with Bush being charged with a crime, sent to jail/prison etc. Why on earth spend all that tax payer money, take Congress off of everything they are doing, and grind our country to a halt - just to do what will happen anyways? An outcry to charge Bush with a crime I could understand, but this seems a pointless waste of time to me.
downvoted: (1) headline abuse (2) very old news - 2003 article
No. Those are my socks.
I have scoured the web looking for reflecto-porn, and am of the opinion that there is really very much at all. It's a bit of an imagined meme.
Otherwise known as the "I'm not touching you!" defense.
So, we conservatives are in trouble because we're tolerant of homosexuals? Is that the problem?
Or is it that we're hypocrites for not practising what we preach about loving the sinner but hating the sin? Wait a sec...
There is NO law that mandates the clerks post the data online at all. The responsibility of county clerks has always been to act as custodians of the records NOT as mass marketers for our sensitive information.
Tangential point, but:
When a language is side-effect free you loose the capability to reason about a programs current state.
It's the other way around: by raising side-effects to first-class status, you gain the capability to reason about them. It's almost impossible to reason about them in any non-trivial ways, otherwise.
If clinton taught us anything...
Not sure what you are referring to in particular. If you do mean that Clinton hired criminals as US Attorneys please offer more details.
If you mean that Clinton fired US Attorneys, then the two things that you are comparing are not analogous.
Bush already fired Clinton's appointees and hired his own batch back when he moved into office. Traditionally when a new administration takes over the patronage system means that they fire the old admin.'s people and hire in their own people. Nobody complains about that. Even when Bush Sr. fired a number of Reagan's appointees nobody really cared much.
What Bush is doing now is firing attorneys who are doing their job. He is specifically attacking those who are dutifully prosecuting criminals Bush wants to protect. When Nixon did exactly what Bush is doing now people were furious:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_night_massacre
Please keep your analogies straight. What Bush is doing now is not analogous to Clinton following the standard practices of patronage. It's analogous to Nixon's gross abuse of Presidential power. What Bush is doing is a gross abuse of Presidential power. It is not standard operating procedure.
Special syntax for class and intance variables.
It's not Python.
pdfs, likely contains economic bullshit about ideal situation and rational people.... voted down
I can't seem to find it. :)
I did find this though:
When reading the report from which the excerpts shown below were taken, consider that the FBI program of DNA testing of rapists didn't begin until 1989, and that therefore it is very likely that about 25 or perhaps as many as 40 percent of men convicted before 1989 of and serving time for rape are innocent.
(Source)
Emacs: is there anything it can't do?
Just goes to show NYTimes is not just about republican bashing.
You dont need 5 articles about it though. some towns in vermont and a governer isnt going to do much unless this thing starts snowballing.
Oh, I wasn't argueing against the point that Dell might improve the Linux experience, I was argueing against the point that Linux is much harder to use than other Operating Systems.
On the other hand though, the role of a reference book can be substituted by online documentation, the role of a journey book, not so easily.
The Civil War was not started by Lincoln - he just had the balls to finish it.
To compare Bush to Lincoln is like comparing a brick to Jupiter.
Interesting post, but judging from the comments you are spreading pearls before swine.
So your saying its a case of crying wolf?
News is about integrity, at least in the UK. Once you are seen to pander to commercial demands all respect dies.
It also helps that laws in the UK make partisan broadcasting ala fox illegal.
Stop using "we" when you mean USians you rude fuck. Pisses me off.
All of that is true, but there is no denying that the US has a relatively high incidence of shootings, whether accidental or not.
If I had kids for example, I would want any gun I owned locked away - and when locked away, it is of little use in defense.
It's not revenge when two men are leading the entire country into ruin. It's reestablishing checks and balances into a government in which the executive has gotten totally out of control. Don't even imply that this is revengeful or petty (like the Monica/Bill thing). The neocon kooks have hijacked our nation and we have to fight back.
Almost everything in comic books is part of a bigger plan. There is absolutely no way that that isn't the case here. Joe Quesada probably has a huge amount of stuff lined up to follow this which he simply cannot or will not talk about.
This happens all the time. The comic book creators often get subjected to pretty intense interviews - the average comic book reader is a pretty intense sort of person, after all - and they have to give lame answers or outright lies. It's for the best. It means the stories don't get spoiled.
Usually.
Nazi.
The Quran is also internally inconsistent; there's actually a standard Islamic doctrine that text which was recorded later overrides text which was recorded earlier. This is a bit of a pity, because all the nicey-nice stuff is up front.
With regard to the VA Medical system, you can expect more of the same when/if we adopt a national health care system.
We are in college and we're here to explore, to make noise, to have our voices be heard.
No, actually you're in college to learn, to prepare for a professional career and earn a degree. Professors are there to have their voices heard. Exploration and making noise are eminently ancillary.
Show some respect for the Green Mountain State!
"In one town, Putney, the vote for impeachment was unanimous."
Now there's a place I'd like to live (saying that, it is probably a tiny place of population 300 plus two cats)
I saw this at the Providence Geeks demo at Brown last fall. Quite cool!
I am Canadian and I remember the first time I saw the movie "Contact" where there is a big deal about being an atheist for the character of Judy Foster. I sincerely though that it was a plot hole and that Americans can't be that fanatic. I realize now that I was mistaken, it was a realistic depiction of how many Americans judge public personalities :(
This is for a body of work that affects perhaps a few hundred thousand people at most
A few hundred thousand >= 200K, right? I have to laugh every time someone tries to estimate their work but than blows it way out of proportion. 754,844 is a few hundred thousand, and is also the population of the state of South Dakota. How many companies, globally combined, have that sort of population? IBM, probably the largest employer, hasn't peaked past 300K employees. Funny stuff.
The United States Postal Service issues a new stamp that you might want to use.
Case in point #1: Parents don't have absolute power over their children.
Case in point #2: Comparing women to children of the age 2 is ridiculous.
In any case, forcing other people to go by our ethics is an excercise in futility, and a dangerous endeavour at best. On the other hand, I think it's acceptable to try to show people the errors - as you see them - of their ways.
Finally, America is a terrible model for a perfect society, but some are a lot worse (IMO).
The United States Postal Service issues a new stamp that you might want to use.
Conservapedia: it's like wikipedia, but for leftists who want to pretend that conservatives really believe this stuff.
"USians"??? Do you speak English?
Yep, that link described the situation perfectly -- thanks!
I'm temporarily enabling scripts for amazonaws.com, at least long enough to clean up some clutter... ;^)
Justice. America should be a country where everyone is responsible for their actions.
"I told you before that looking at individual stations is not really interesting. "
So why are you repeating yourself?
No. It's an interesting composition, that's for sure. Then again, there's only so many ways you can pose and arrange these people and keep it interesting.
They are, after all, little more than human coatracks (in this context) which are used to hang clothing on for the purpose of selling as many units as possible.
What would I do differently if designing
UNIX today? I'd spell creat() with an e.
-- Ken Thompson
Yeah. All this stuff that actually matters is distracting you from postings about gadgets, celebrities, and off-beat news items. Sorry to wake you up from your sleep, dude.
there is now.
isn't there a facility so that only happens once per program, if you pass it through?
I didn't know that; thanks for the info.
Help! I'm trapped in someone else's life and I can't get out.
Because the majority of the reddit crowd is detached from reality.
Reddit seems broken today -- FIVE of the top 7 spots on the Reddit front page right now are Impeach Bush themed articles.
And let's set up a market for when are these showing up on car dealerships everywhere.
Because, if you drive a Hummer, the terrorists won(TM)
I'd love to read this article but all I get is a L.A. Times registration page...
Libertarians would have impeached Bush YEARS ago. sad, really.
Thus leading to the inevitable followup headline: Rare Gazelle Steak Sandwiches Served in Saudi Arabia.
Dammit!
What is a lie and what is truth? Do you even have the tools to decide? Do you really think this war is only about Iraq? How naive are you?
Futile wars have been waged throughout history. At the time, many that seemed justified at the time brought nothing but pain. I personally think this is not one of them.
Just think about this: if the United States had not joined forces with the allies in WWI, where would we all be now? Was that a justified war, purely from a U.S. point of view? Probasbly not. But it did shape history.
SERIOUSLY damned conde nast
Seems like a Johnnie Cochran variant: "If I was an elf, acquit myself"
Or "If the client's a sprite, you cannot indict!"
Or hell, the Chewbacca defense might work too.
Poor clipboard integration
Poor? Clipboard's been working fine since the 1990s.
poor GUI integration
Latest emacs has native widgets, if you want 'em.
Standard shortcuts like Ctrl-(X|C|V) have been around long enough for at least Emacs to fix it.
And standard packages provide that stuff to those who want it. I disagree with your use of the word 'fix,' though: the standard emacs binding suite is far preferable to the usual ones, once you've gotten used to it. Sure, C-s for save is nice--but C-s/C-r for forward & backward interactive search is nicer. C-a for select all is nice, but C-a/C-e for beginning of line/end of line is nicer. C-v for paste is nice, but C-v for page down and M-v for page up are nicer.
Yes, it's called wearing an unpadded bra. And I'm not sure that I find it "hilarious," but perhaps that's just me. (NB: I am bra-eligible, i.e., I'm a woman.)
Prior to the takeover of all things underwear by Victoria's Secret, these kinds of bras used to be quite popular.
I think you've missed the point. I know that people who go into the army are trained to fight however dumb the order. That's the problem. I don't like, and don't support, the entire military culture.
Are you suggesting that, in order to not upset the right, I should praise people who are prepared to illegally invade another country, leading to the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians, because "that's the basis of the entire military culture"?
WAY too little, WAY too late.
Except the women part thou ;)
We need to do it so the bad precedent he has set of an Executive acting as if above the rule of law does not stand. We need to impeach and convict this president so all future holders of the office understand there is accountability before Congress and the people.
Luckily, you are armed with an attached-to-reality-o-meter. Aren't you the lucky one. Go read an article about a cool new cell phone or Britney Spears.
I remember this non-story from two years ago. It turned out to be totally bogus. Noone in Germany is forced to take a job as a prostitute or lose unemployment benefits.
Uh, let's make this clear- I don't think they're Christian. I'm pretty sure we agree on this.
My pick - Slater!
Ha! Ad hominem away!
So you're saying the ends justify the means?
Fascist.
What dream world are you living in? If it's so easy to save some each month and buy what you want, then why is the nation facing such overwhelming debt? Saving each month is alot easier said than done. Why do you think I call myself luv2shop?
i think that is an accurate statement. there are millions of soft targets across the US UNGUARDED. they'd be blowing up every day if there were a significant number of wackos interested in spending their lives that way.
http://svk.bestpractical.com/view/HomePage seems to be the place to go for info. Some of my old links have broken since svk moved under bestpractical's wing but they seem to all be accessible from that page.
The svk book (a translation of the great svn book for svk) is in a sorry state at the moment, half done, a lot still referring to svn, a lot of stuff missing. But the rest of the resources there should handle most stuff.
The IRC/mailing list links are good ones to follow for questions as well.
Please do not conflate the RoR community with the Ruby community. Different worlds.
How true is this, though? The vast majority of the current Ruby community is composed of people who have come to Ruby due to Rails over the past few years.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Mar. 7 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Napatech today announced the investment of USD 7.5 million from existing investors Ferd Venture and Northzone Ventures. Napatech is the market leader in programmable high-speed Ethernet network adapters.
No, they have a wrong idea of God-- they think we all become gods when we die, just like the god of Earth did on some other planet long ago. Hardly a Christian ideal. Not splitting hairs, because this is about becoming a Christian in the first place, not beliefs one holds afterwards.
this smells like an inside job...collectors/traders and the manufacturers (mint). then they can sell $1 coins for $50 and split the proceeds, till the market for them deflates. what athiest wouldn't want a coin without that marking? probably millions of them.
So, if they wouldn't allow the word "Vagina" why did they agree to letting them read from the "Vagina Monologues" anyhow? I mean, the title of the piece their reading is from has the word vagina in it? They auditioned the piece. Did they fail to include the name of the piece? I just ask because usually school events like this has a nice little schedule of events. Wouldn't the word "Vagina" need to have been included there?
It seems like an oxymoronic scenerio already, "You can read an excerpt from 'The Vagina Monologues' but you can't use the word vagina at all. On the schedule did it say they were reading from "The Hoohah Monologues" or maybe "The Girl Stuff Monologues" or is it as bad as "The #@$! Monologues"
This link doesn't say that.
If they're the same as the rest of Christianity, why do they reject everyone's else's baptism, and why does the rest of Christendom reject their baptism?
And if there weren't troops that followed whatever orders they were given, then people like Hitler would never have got to power in the first place. Given the fact that the other guy is going to have dumb soldiers prepared to follow his orders, then it's a good job that we do too, but that doesn't mean that the dumb guys following orders (on both sides) are not at least part of the problem.
yum yum
What word do you think should be used to describe the difference between plants and animals? Do you believe plants suffer as animals do?
where are they gonna go? they're still fucking vicious fraudulent pretards, just 'outed' now.
I find the scoping sigils to be 100 times more useful than the type sigils in perl.
Please, when you go out of your way to use the $20 words (priapism), would you run spell check against your post? It's desperate.
Your comment reminds me of why I think reddit needs a serious estrogen boost. I get so tired of the raw contempt for women I see too often in comment threads here.
Biblical scholars have always known that Paul was a potty-mouth when he drank, but they've covered for him.
Please - we dont need the entire front page covered in duplicate impeachment articles.
None of us outside the US (and I suspect a lot of you inside the US) gives a shit.
Sure, if that's how you want to interpret my comment.
Mmmmmmm......I just felt like ending the "69 comments on a sex story" thing.
Kthanxbai.
It's really not that simple. She was a NOC, but once transferred to headquarters in the mid-90's, it's safe to say that her cover was blown. It is presumed that anyone around that building is cataloged by foreign services.
She may have been covert, but there was plenty of reason to suspect that she was a known agent.
Why does this guy think it's OK to use light gray for his text? Geez.
Sounds like the Linux/OpenOffice/OSS enthusiasts made a concerted effort to vote in the survey on the Dell's site a few weeks ago. The question now is, if Dell decides to offer Linux partially on the basis of this survey, will it actually sell well enough to justify it? Let's all hope so.
........LEGALIZE
Uh, replace most things in most comments with "nazism" and their stupidity is clear. You just found a creative way to use the nazi argument in an intenet comment, but that doesn't change the fact that you just used the nazi argument. I believe this is over.
Another 'new' language, like Python(1991) and Ruby (1993)
Author doesn't mention that Lua has been used in many games predating WOW and has been around since 1993
http://www.lua.org/versions.html
It seems there is basically a change every day (24 hours) corresponding to the new crop of people going to work in the morning each day..
REDDIT needs to work on this because I go back many times an hour and find the same crap up there all day!
One of major disadvantage of using Ubuntu live CD is, one can not save the configuration to persistent storage..in another words
everytime you boot with Ubuntu Live CD, you have to set everything like network settings,video settings etc ...Ubuntu has plans to
implement this missing feature but nobody knows when .....
I'm certainly no expert (I've only been running Ubuntu for about four weeks), but page 7 of a very useful O'Reilly book -- Ubuntu Hacks -- describes how one can "Make Live CD Data Persistent" using a USB memory stick, etc.
An admittedly too-terse summary of the process is that one must first use a series of Linux command lines to correctly label ("casper-cow") and ext3-format the memory stick. Having so done, one boots off the Ubuntu Live CD, then selects "Other options" and adds the word "persistent" to the boot-time options.
My thought is to either buy a discounted copy of the book (doing so saved me some meaningful amount of $$ on mine), or try the Ubuntu.com community forums for details,etc.
Cheers & hope this helps,
A happy new Linux user...
I never said that. What I said was that some wars are justified, even if you are perceived as an agressor.
What has fascism got to do with it?
I'm fairly certain someone who just used the nazi argument is not allowed to criticize another comment for being a strawman.
What, you don't want us to have someone new in charge for you to complain about? This is important and the fact that we're wallpapering the front page of Reddit should be your first clue.
Please name something Christ said to do that is bad.
There is a lot of money waiting outside the United States for a very similar thing (devaluation of currency) to happen here.
Not quite, a lot of the money held by non-USians (trillions, in fact) are held in US Dollars.
This is the probem - we speak English, americans cant...
Those things aren't just either. I'm not arguing that the U.S. system is superior in every aspect. Clearly it has many deficiencies.
I'm only claiming that there is a standard by which this Saudi law and the sort of barbarity that may go on in U.S. prisons are both wrong. And that standard is the morally superior one. Full stop. Whatever their "culture" is shouldn't prevent us from making unqualified normative judgments: They shouldn't have that law. U.S. prison conditions should be humane. Etc.
From viewing source, it appears that they've offloaded all or a lot of static content to Amazon S3. Since the S3 URL seems clear enough, it may be that your Firefox tool can easily be updated to allow specific subdirectories like s3.amazonaws.com/reddit/ .
That's really neat, is there anything like that for Python? It isn't just JRuby code that this works on, it is actually Ruby, right?
Interesting that such a liberal guy can get elected mayor of the city which is the stronghold of LDS. I know nothing about Utah, haven't been there, and only have one LDS acquaintance that I studied with a few years ago...
Yeah, damn those dark age companies and their capitalist crusade against the muslims. Also, "Spanish Inquisition Inc." totally lied on their balance sheet.
Yeah, if the Libertarian party could get their act together enough to actually win elections and influence anything the government does.
(I say that with sadness, as a "small-l" libertarian)
I agree with your sentiment in general - if there were no soldiers or weapons, there wouldn't be wars, but it doesn't solve any realistic problems. Because the other side will have soldiers who wage war.
Oh wow, you know Godwins law. That "law" is the most stupid argument I've ever seen on the Internet. People always talk about how we should learn from world war 2, but when it is used in discussions it becomes irrelevant. Fine, replace Islam with Scientology instead if that makes you happy.
Jeez, do you think Ann got this guy mixed up with John Edwards???
State GOP Chairwoman Enid Greene has called his allegations "embarrassing," arguing that they fall well short of the legal standard for impeachment.
Notice she can't actually refute the mayor's criticisms, she can only resort to legal technicalities in attempt to deflect/marginalize them.
So is fear of global warming.
dupe...
http://reddit.com/info/18kpi/comments
Each end and means must be considered on their own merits, keeping in mind that the actual end will include having used the means.
Cool. I never heard of that series. I'll have to dig it up.
Oh no, I feel so repressed and harassed now! How can I exist with such words like penis used in my direction? Soon the word testicles may be uttered and then I will be destroyed!
I guess what you are talking about is to store the whole linux image on persistent storage like USB drive...
What I am looking for is to store just the configuration data like browser settings , network configuration etc...I do not want to store full linux image on USB drive as I do not have enough space ..and moreover if everything is there in the CD why I would want to store it in persistent storage...I understand that storing image on USB will boost the performance...but that is not what I am looking for..
The biggest losers to come out of a dollar devaluation will be, in order of pain, 1. The American Consumer/General Populace, 2. BOJ, PBoC, Russian MOF and GCC Countries. 3. The US Government.
While non US entities hold a lot of US Dollars, a lot of it isnt held by individuals.
vi: its line-oriented nature; dd, yy & p are wonderful. dot is great too. There's nothing better than vi for editing simple line-oriented config files.
emacs: its power and flexibility. My emacs is a web browser, a mail reader, a Usenet client, an IDE, a calculator, a calendar, a roguelike game, a Common Lisp environment, and emacs lisp environment--oh, and a really, really good text editor too.
I got a huge handmade pizza there for $1.60 sweet! Food is dirt cheap and pretty good... though they all brag about their steaks, but they prefer them chewy and tough!
The women aren't that hot though, and they are all crazy golddiggers (though at least they're cheap to buy off, a trait shared by all S. American ladies). Spain has better food, much less pollution, similar prices, and finer women.
Not to mention close proximity to Europe and ahhh... Ibiza!
Well, if America had not joined with the Allies, it's not too improbable that WWI would've ended in a reasonably equal permanent truce and ceasefire (since my understanding is that the Allies and Germans were both pretty hard up and spent by this point); which is to say, the German Revolution would probably have not caused the kaiser's abdication, the Versaille Treaty's reparations would not force the Weimar Republic's governments into hyperinflation, the economic effects of which and the national humiliation of the Versaille Treaty are commonly both seen as directly responsible for allowing extremists like the Nazis to take over Germany and instigate WWII. And that's not even including any possible effects on the newborn Communist regime in Russia.
....Actually, maybe the world would've been better off if America hadn't helped out in WWI.
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Nope, I'm not talking 'bout storing the whole image. Read the title again -- "Make Live CD Data Persistent".
As I tried to convey, one boots the Live CD then supplies command line parameter. This serves to retrieve settings, files, etc. from the auxiliary storage device (in this example a USB memory stick...)
As I said, I'm pretty much a newbie. Since you seem genuinely interested, visit the Ubuntu.com forum or take a peek at some copy of the aformentioned book(?)
The crusaders kicked the Islam invaders out of Europe and I am proud of it. Stories about the Spanish inquisition are mostly very old anti-catholic propaganda by ironically my own country (the Netherlands).
A funny thing I've noticed is that right-wing blogs bash the NYT for being too far to the left and left-wing blogs accuse the NYT of being a conservative shill.
@ouch
I am outside of the US, and I do give a shit!
I have to grant you though that having duplicate articles on the front page just sux....
So, basically, if she were a completely different person, and had lived her life differently for a large chunk of time before this happened, it probably wouldn't have happened.
Yeah, I guess so.
I mean, why didn't she just move to Japan, where violent crime is really low? Just not thinking that woman...
and so it goes. you didn't think the people who made the offer didn't have a plan for the info...step 3 - profit!
As I stated, Fitzgerald didn't go beyond the specified scope of the investigation. He has found perjury, obstruction of justice, and somebody (besides Armitage) that leaked Plame's name. So it seems like he did his job.
You seem to assert that the story ended with Novak and Armitage. Fitzgerald's investigation has proved differently.
You compare him to Starr twice now, and I've yet to see where there's a similarity. Fitzgerald didn't go on a fishing expedition: he thoroughly looked into his specified scope and found criminal activities. From my reading of his appointment letter, he did his job.
So what is really bothering you? Your other comment complains that he pursued journalists. Considering that the alleged crime (outing a covert CIA agent to the press) involved journalists, how should he investigate the crime, except by asking the witnesses? How could he do his job if he didn't talk to the journalists involved?
One could counter your arguement that Fitzgerald's investigation would have been over months sooner if Miller and Cooper agreed to testify in a timely manner. You can't blame Fitzgerald that the witnesses he wanted to interview dragged out their eventual testimony.
I expect prosecutors to do their job and investigate. I don't expect them to look at the initial evidence and take the easy way out. If Fitzgerald's investigation went on for two years and didn't result in new information brought to light (ie: Libby's perjury and Fleischer's admission of outing Plame) then I would be pissed.
So why are you pissed?
That flash animation is spreading false information.. When the peace pipe was smokes by amerindians for whatever reason, it did contain weed. That was before the creation of the US or Canada :P. It didnt come from mexico as the animation states...
And no, it shouldn't be legal. Once weed is legalized,they will ask for 'mush' to be, then 'crack' and so on.
Go spend 1 week in Amsterdam, you'll agree with me. These people are fuckedup beyond belief.
What annoys me is that these are the first US dollar coins in a long time (ever?) to not include the motto 'Liberty.'
He said:
Because any social institution which has such an imbalance of power, where one member has literally no power and the other(s) has absolute power is immoral and inhumane.
You said:
It's unfair to have a small child, under the age of 2 because you have absolute power over it.
Blurg, you are right, let's modify his statement to say "Because any social institution which has such an imbalance of power, where one capable, self-sufficient member has literally no power and the other(s) has absolute power is immoral and inhumane."
The tone of your post was still unnecessary.
Btw, parents don't have absolute power over their children. If they, for example, kill their children the society will see them punished (if their act is discovered). I wouldn't call absolute power with dire consequences absolute power. If that was the case, I would have absolute power over your life.
I really don't care about which countries you think are worse, but I'd be interested to hear what you think is better.
My own country, Denmark, of course. Long live propaganda.
Yea. Yea.
That is a good point. I didn't think of that. We better get him too:
Why Are We Stopping With Libby? Call Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to Tell Him to Reopen the Investigation
http://www.holyshit.net/why_are_we_stopping_with_libby_call_prosecutor_patrick_fitzgerald_to_tell_him_to_reopen_the_investigation
Nonlinjacked: http://reddit.com/info/18ld3/comments
Since when is "Vagina" a bad word? it is the name of a part of a womans anatomy and no more offensive then the words eye, or hand, or skin perhaps as adoarns says if they used the words Pussy, or Cunt etc., but to forbid them saying, and then suspending them for using the word vagina is just Childish. But in retrospect has there ever been anything more childish than school?
all the 'illegal' things that don't involve a victim aren't crimes in my book. everything legal or illegal that involves a victim is a crime in my book.
i live by principle...not whim. and definately not 'rule of law, rule of law, caw! caw!'
Actually, on second thought, don't take me literally. This isn't a contest, just poking some fun at Ruby's ridiculously aliased enumerable module.
Closed is fine in this case -- due to the sheer volume of customers buying Linux Dells the drivers will probably work great with their hardware, and will open the door for open-source drivers down the track.
Bullshit.
Yup. But the fact there are lots of newbs means that in a couple years there will be many more experienced Ruby folks.
That is assuming that they turn into experienced Ruby folks.
I think having lots of newbs is a good indicator of community health.
Of course, there are positives and negatives to having new users. It is always best when you have a good medium where you have new users but not too many to where they overwhelm and completely outnumber the veterans. I'm not sure (I honestly don't know) that Ruby has that medium right now.
I got into Python via Django, so I don't think having a good web framework as a language carrot is such a horrible thing.
No it isn't a bad thing, but there are much fewer completely new programmers coming to programming via Django than coming to programming through Rails. It is my experience that many of the new users coming to Django either have used Python previously and are looking for a web framework or have used another language and are interested in Python.
Why convict a murderer? The victim was going to die eventually anyway, right?
Just trying to see if we can get one more impeachment post on the reddit main page.
i feel sick everytime i hear Bush utter the word "freedom".
I thought Kerry finally got around to it in the last year or so, well after the election.
Where did I say that?
It's a sherbet that if I ever get my hands on the chunky monkey who sold my info, I'll kick his banana nuts down the rocky road.
It's a ham snack!
Ummm...so this debunks the tale of her using a fake drawl by admitting that she used a fake drawl. Huh?!?
I'm 99% sure this whole thing is just a lever for Dell to extract lower OEM prices from Microsoft.
Its like every time Dell talked up offering AMD in the past; AMD could never deliver in the volumes Dell sell at and it wa just a lever to get lower CPU prices from Intel.
correct, the 'value' of homes over the past 20 years is largely inflated in SEVERAL markets. where you 'think' you have cash, you have air.
Many of the security restrictions in JavaScript work by hostname, and do not care about the directory the script is in. For example, livejournal.com switched to providing all their users with their own subdomains because there were security issues with not having disparate domain names.
I guess this is one reason Amazon should start offering subdomains on their S3 service instead of just the directory "buckets".
More explanation, copied from :
The Firefox extension NoScript gives you the possibility to allow certain hosts to execute JavaScript on your browser. S3 allows different users of its service to host files, including JavaScript.
I'm allowing JavaScript execution for reddit.com. But not for any other site I don't know. Perhaps there is an evil xyz host I wouldn't trust. But they are users of S3. No JavaScript from xyz would be executed. But if I allow JavaScript from S3, because reddit.com uses it, then NoScript will allow it even when I visit xyz.
So, I can choose to trust reddit.com. But when I trust S3, I would open my browser to a lot more sites I don't know and trust.
Well, and this is happening at the moment. Can't use reddit.com the way it is supposed to be. They host their JavaScript on S3 now.
no, go back and read my comment again.
The horrors never stop! Unbelievable, assuming the story is true (and I see no reason it wouldn't be)!
I wouldn't call the Civil War series "controversial". There's no controversy about the opinion that it's stupid, overblown and incompetently managed by a company that has about as much interest in its characters and its customers as Enron has in providing cheap electricity.
Yes, let's slow congress down from their 3 day work weeks. (http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/07/kingston-congress/)
Sure, and if I go out and rob the local liquor store, let's not bother the system with my arrest and trial. Think of all the other important things those police officers and judges could be doing with their time, not to mention the money it will cost the taxpayer.
Of course I could have googled it; I was making a point. I also made a play on words with using the two acronyms and didn't think much more about it. How hard is it for the original author to write "battlestar galactica" instead of a completely out of context acronym? And YES you should define uncommon, out of context acronyms the first time you use them. After they've been defined once, then feel free to use them.
It's very standard English, really.
-Luke
you're not tolerant of homosexuals...you force them into the closet, then get blasted when they get outed.
that doesn't happen when you are tolerant.
i didn't expect you to get that either, though.
Most applications haven't been optimised for Vista yet. So keep this in mind when comparing the speed of applications running on Windows Vista versus Windows XP, especially for benchmarks.
You don't get karma for comments, you know.
it all sounds good to me
They do pay taxes on income from stock (dividends) as well as capital gains taxes when they sell said stock.
He said he signed it and "his people" were "looking it over."
It's a one-page document.
That was over two years ago, and it still has not been submitted.
http://www.theblackrepublican.net/archives/003689.html
My bet is that the reason he decided not to run for President again was because he knew John O'Neill was still out there waiting for him.
I kinda doubt a mint employee would do something like that on purpose, because A) it would be ridiculously easy to catch them, and B) they'd be fully aware of how huge the penalties for counterfeiting are.
They don't have the balls to do it. They are only trying to make more money again but this bull***!
Seconded. I've seen my cats rolling around on the floor and then push against the wall in exactly the way depicted. Admittedly, not outside, but still.
I'd have thought yes, you might get an idea of where a person spent his formative years. It would be an interesting project.
"Americans", "can't".
I'm just saying.
The article nails it.
If you are still cheerful after reading the Alternet post, take a look at these graphs that compare troop-to-civilian and troop-to-land area.
Be depressed. Be very depressed.
Crap! it's all crap! Dell is crap!
when you say 'go back to digg', why do you assume i am a digg user?
Further, I don't see Gay Activists jumping to the defense of every black person who is attacked, nor should they have to. They have enough issues to deal with.
That's a very bad comparison. If some gays become very "hetrophobic" and attack and seriously injure a random straight person and if it is motivated by anti straight hatred, it would be very hypocritical for gay rights leaders to keep their mouth shut over such incidents. They should go out and campaign in the gay community and spread the idea that such bias is unnaccaptable. They should lead by example, i.e they themselves should do from their end the thing that corresponds to what they are asking straight people to do. (Which is to seriously tackly the issue of crimes motivated by anti gay hatred.)
I'm looking forward to Captain Boy, personally. I think the black guy, Adamantium, has a lot of potential but he'll be mishandled badly. The Captainicator is just stupid. And when the Ameriborg destroys Atlantic City, it'll tip Iron Man over the edge and he'll become Battleax and kick off next year's crossover, Secret Hour. I can see it all...
Well...he'll fit in perfectly with the rest of the criminals in the Bush administration.
I'm against this impeachment. I don't want Bush to be impeached.
Before you go bashing me, note that thats my freedom of speech .
Oh, I didn't say we should get rid of nuclear power, just that I'd rather not live close to it.
Really, what we need to concentrate on now is reducing our consumption of energy. There's still plenty of low hanging fruit in that area.
Other than that, I'm thinking tidal power in coastal areas is going to be the next big thing. They're starting some projects off the coast of Oregon where there's plenty of tidal power. It's relatively inexpensive, environmentally friendly (basically, buoys bobbing up and down on the waves), and has a good, consistent energy yield.
"luddite" - perhaps. I'd prefer to look at it as trying the simplest thing that could possibly work.
When the Republicans impeached Clinton over the Lewinsky flap, which was hardly a "high crime or misdemeanor" (regardless of what he told prosecutors), I knew in my bones they were innoculating themselves from impeachment of their next president.
I had no idea their guy would be this bad. I'm astonished that he's still alive (and no, that is not a threat. I'm a mini-van-driving, suburban mom). I'm not at all surprised that he hasn't been impeached ... they made sure the country wouldn't have the stomach for it again so soon.
But I keep praying they'll do it. Oh how I pray!
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If she wasn't covert, there never would have been a criminal referral and Attorney General Ashcroft certainly wouldn't have started an investigation.
You're grasping at straws to defend traitors.
It speaks poorly of your patriotism.
The Mohammedans had conquered Christian lands; the Crusades were an attempt to push them back out. It had nothing to do with conquest by the sword (note that no-one had ever pushed a Crusade into Arabia, or into sub-Saharan Africa). The Crusades were merely part of the same reconquest which pushed the Moors out of France and Spain.
The key difference is that there aren't any societies openly practicing Christian laws. I think most Christians realize that stoning adulterers to death is bad, so they don't do it anymore. On the other hand, many Muslim countries still rigidly apply sharia law.
The 50's view would be "everything is a subroutine". Functional programming as a formal concept is actually slightly newer than OOP, hence more shiny!
E.g. if the predominant OS doesn't handle or impedes format X because of lack of DRM support in the format
Vista doesn't do this, and (afaik) MS have no intention of implementing this. I stand to be corrected though.
Jack LaLanne is a vegetarian, and he's 92 years old.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_LaLanne
Does he look small and weak to you? I know that picture's old, but he's performed feats of strength at 60+ years of age that most people half that age could not.
So you would eliminate tax-exempt status for churches? I agree!
Couldn't you apply the same logic to suggest that any factual topic of discussion is appropriate for young children?
Parents generally prefer to reserve some control over when their children are exposed to certain topics -- especially sex -- and I think public schools generally prefer (as they should) to let parents decide when to introduce those topics (especially for young children).
*Note: I acknowledge that my comment isn't really applicable to high school age kids saying "vagina". I am just commenting on the side issue of presenting the play to 2nd graders...
Yawn.
Canadians have amazing powers of observation.
You mean Godless like they were before the 1860s? Gee, that would be terrible.
Re: #6
It would be more accurate to say that ruby blocks are just syntactic sugar (perhaps not too sweet). If, in Smalltalk, you can say:
myBool ifTrue: [ do some stuff...] else: [do this...]
In Ruby, you can ignore the block sugar and do:
myBool if_true(lambda { do some stuff...}, lambda {do this...})
Not so lovely as the Smalltalk, but serviceable.
Don't be a retard.
I agree with you there. It's no surprise that the Abu Ghraib scandal was caused by...wait for it...reservists who were civilian prison guards in their free time.
yes they do suck
Impeachment is not the best way to do that. It'd merely draw government attention away from real problems, like withdrawing from Iraq or balancing the budget. And it risks a backlash in 2008, with the possibility of putting yet another pro-war Republican in office. That'd be even worse for the world.
A far better approach would be to let Bush serve out the rest of his term quietly, and then once he's out of office, offer him up to be tried for war crimes.
So much more than just the matrix, read simulations and you will never walk into a mall or a Starbucks without thinking about how the carefully arranged simulacrum has taken over from the original reality, and how the simulation is more authentic than the original.
I think NY Times is (like it should be) a little anti-establishment. They are preparing to take the piss out of the next incumbents, which are in all likely-hood going to be the DEMS.
My favourite thing is that I don't use either of them.
Whatever, dude.
After the armistice with Russia in 1917, Germany moved troops to the Western front, arriving within 120 km of paris in July 1917. News of the eminent arrival of American troops rallied the allies to counterattack.A month later, the battle of the Somme marked the beginning of the end of the war. Without American involvement (and Australian, Canadian, and other colonies), the war would have dragged on for far longer, and with more casualties. In fact, Germany might have even won the war.
However, blaming America for the rise of Hitler is a new low.
I'd be buying Euros about now, were I in the currency speculation business. Of course the worry short-term is a recession in the US is likely to drag the rest of us down.
I hate waking up in the middle of the night to discover I'm lying 90 degrees from where I started.
You're right, but you are assuming that they would just give away the pre-installation of Linux for nothing. Why should they? If they offer it, they will be on the hook to support it. They will need to QA that their hardware actually works with Linux for all the defined acceptable uses. Many of us, me included, would gladly pay for that service though because we don't want to become Linux configuration experts to use Linux. We just want a leading edge OS built on top of FOSS.
If Dell start selling linux sytems, then they will obviously put linux-compatible hardware on it. This gives a big incentive for hardware manufacturers to make their hardware compatible with linux. Maybe they wouldn't code the drivers themselves, but they could at least enable the OSS community to do it for them.
I believe we have different definitions of dominance. Am I understanding incorrectly or are you equating dominance with who initiates and takes control during sex?
Welcome to the internet fucktard:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=usians&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Agreed. His book The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact is great also.
And since everyone comes from them
Not me!
Wrong and stupid.
Actually my nick is a combination of the words "jo" and "york", not "joy" and "ork". And I've just looked at it again - the comic you submitted is still not funny.
Does anyone else think that the chick sleeping with her dog is kind of weird?
Did you actually read the article? In this case, the reason the kid beat Wall Street is that his portfolio is an intelligent, well-balanced one. That he arrived at such a portfolio is perhaps luck--although I'm beginning to wonder if maybe intelligent investment really is this simple.
The fact that so many folks are pushing index-based strategies makes me wonder if they're just another cure-all foisted on the foolish investor class...
poor unicode support
Ruby actually has excellent Unicode support now. It's third-party, but thanks to monkeypatching, you could take ActiveSupport::MultiByte (via Rails) one step further and have all strings be Unicode without any chars call.
To expect decisive action from the Democratic party is like asking your grandma to run the marathon - three weeks after her funeral.
You're fooling yourself.
The leaders in the Middle East interpret our political infighting as a sign of weakness. They don't have anything like the Freedom of speech we have in the U.S. So they spin it as we are a country in chaos.
I think we should focus on finding a solution to Iraq and preventing a war with Iran.
Punishing Bush will not fix any of the problems.
well, if you take the context in this article into account, then I think it's important to do the same thing with the bible. Take this for example, how many people over history have died because of the bible, and how many people over history have died because of Islam? Most people would agree that the bible has caused more murder by far than any other text. So in my opinion, it's unfair to criticise Islam without also criticising the bible.
I am Canadian, and don't mind being included in this. Impeaching Bush has repercussions far beyond the USA. As a canadian, I will do what I can. I vote this article up.
He can be pardoned for war crimes. If he gets impeached, he can't be pardoned. I believe that's why Nixon resigned rather than be impeached.
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We were young once
I have read the article and I think that as is usual the word Islam has been used in the wrong context. The behaviour described has more to do with culture and less to do with religion. It seems common nowadays that people judgle islam on the behaviour of a few muslims. Islam has over a billion followers world wide and not all behave the manners described - so to use the barbarity of Islam is just wrong and irresponsible. How often do people spk of christian peodophiles (after all some priests do it that must mean the religion endorses it?). Sure behaviour in Afghanistan and Pakistan and other places still ruled by tribal mentality has to change (in fact alot of their behaviour is unislamic). Don't blame it all on Islam. Thats just too easy.
Anyone that disagrees with the Left is a Fascist. Duh.
I hate it for taking attention away from Python. Before Rails, Python was the clear winner and replacement for Perl.
I consider Ruby and Python to be similar enough that draining talent away from Python to rewrite CPAN in Ruby is a complete waste.
Oh, well, whatever floats developers boats.
Nothing, Python just got here first.
I'm a vegetarian opposed to animal cruelty/suffering, not killing. It's just that the process of farming millions of animals puts animal comfort at odds with profit.
Joe Wilson.
This link doesn't say that.
Click on "Additional information."
Also, maybe you should ask yourself why you were making this claim that is so easily demonstrably false.
I have two dogs and three cats. Nice try, Mr. President.
And those old vicious scientists trying to have us believe that only the first inch counts...
Usually, the use of the word 'libtard' is a red flag that I'm dealing with a 7-year old who's not worth responding to, but I will say that, despite what 'stopit' claims, for impeachment, there just has to be a CLAIM that a law has been broken, along with enough House members who are willing to spend political capital to vote for the impeachment.
Impeachment is akin to charging someone in a civilian court system. Doesn't mean they're guilty. Just means there was enough evidence (or appearance of evidence) to try them. (Or, in the case of President Clinton's impeachment, enough partisan hacks in the House who wanted to punish the president for daring to be popular.)
There is no Justice in punishing the ignorant.
So did Sanchez have sex with Coulter before or after Coulter was transgendered?
And how does Cheney's lesbian daughter (who is off-limits, of course) fir into all this?
Edit: forgot Cheney's daughter is off-limits
Couldn't you apply the same logic to suggest that any factual topic of discussion is appropriate for young children?
Yes. And?
If parents don't want to expose their children to subject material like this, then they're just going to have to deal with the logistics of keeping their kids home from events like this.
I for one really couldn't care less when parents would like to introduce their kids to sex education. If it was being done effectively, then the teenage pregnancy in the US wouldn't be at the level it is.
Oh, you must be referring to:
The University of Southern Indiana Association of Nursing Students (USIANS) is a local chapter of the Indiana Association of Nursing Students
Is it my lack of understanding YOUR slang or my politics that bothers you?
Lest I remind you of our constitutional right of free speech.
Please, I need to see this statement shouted from the mountaintops. It's the funniest thing I've read all day.
He can't be pardoned for the impeachment - but all impeachment does is remove him from office so that criminal trials can begin. He can still be pardoned for whatever crimes he is convicted of, same as if he's not impeached and finishes his term quietly.
For war crimes, though, it's a little more complicated. Last I heard, it was Germany seeking to prosecute him for war crimes in a court in the Netherlands. That falls under international law (such that it exists), and so the future U.S. president wouldn't have jurisdiction.
Yes I did. Did you actually read my comment? His portfolio outperformed other intelligent, well-balanced ones because of luck. When we say Wall Street, we're generally not talking about random investment decisions or even managed mutual funds. He beat the market because on roughly half of all people in the market outperform the market.
Index-based strategies are not a lie. Diversify and hold is the best possible investment strategy (in expectation) because of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis.
Jesus actually prevented a woman from being stoned to death for adultery. Go back and read the gospels.
should be static.reddit.com now
Mine uses "rubbish". I guess the editors didn't like the connotation "shit" carries. Wait, the Bible had editors??? Well shit...
Thanks for correction.
In my defense - "Marc" is his secret-agent name that no body knows about.
Oops.
Maybe because everybody knows you tykes are simply gaming the system.
You're the Diebold of Reddit.
Love Scribd.com and I think everyone should check it out and post some doc, it's a lot of fun and there are some really cool interesting information. Fun to just browse around.
www.scribd.com
Nitpicking: Marking something as an error before the user hits space or enter is in 99% of all cases the wrong thing to do and extremly annoying.
Nonetheless it's a great tool. Want that for python.
just a question not a rebuttal: The Intel Math kernel libs and Performance primitives libraries show benchmarks with the Intel routines being faster than FFTW. http://www3.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/266852.htm
marketing hype or real?
I hate the fact that Ruby has stolen all its ideas from Smalltalk.
Is it ever so surprising when the well-funded "free spirit" ends up being conservative?
so...all you have to do is get some coins and rub off the phrase...bam profit!
I guess he doesn't know very many mathematicians
Thanks, I'll look into it.
Both: the power.
Emacs: the auto-indentation and extendability.
Vi: the ease of use (ie: only having to press one button rather than a C-/M- pair).
Warren Buffett on newspapers
high quality, lectures given by academic super stars or other top performing teachers who are willing to sell series of their lectures (perhaps even receiving residuals if they really rock
So, instead of the recent startup (sorry, I've already forgotten the name) that is "reddit for documents", how about a reddit type site for classroom materials?
Don't downplay the importance of the Vagina. It is still in the top 10. Without it we would have no one to impeach.
Wow. Maybe because I had heard other, reliable information that says so. I'll have to look into this.
Inferior libraries to Python, and ugly Regular Expressions syntax.
But I don't hate it.
Because reddit users have far less influence than they imagine.
Nobody likes a Mweep-plucker...
they already do. s3.amazonaws.com/bucket/object is equivalent to bucket.amazonaws.com/object.
It's better to have the major news outlets game the system by publish nonsense human interest stories and celebrity drivel rather than real news, like how much damage this administration has done and is doing to the world. Reddit is one of the few places where the editorial bias is not one controled by a small number of people chiefly concerned about profits.
You remind me why I periodically consider a move to Canada. Unfortunately, I am averse to the cold.
|why do I need pipes?|
Remember -- impeachment is not a criminal proceeding but simply removes a president from office.
No, no, NO! It does NOT! Impeachment AND CONVICTION will result in removal from office. Not just impeachment. Impeachment simply means they're put on trial. We need to impeach and CONVICT or it's meaningless.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see alternative energy anything but like I mentioned before, this is the new global reality
And impeaching Bush isn't going to help our problem, the Democrats are gonna do the same deal. Its national security now. The global landscape completely changed with 9/11. 99% of Americans haven't a clue as to what's going on anymore cause 99% don't know a thing about the middle east.
Demanding major political changes is not gonna help our problem. We need to change ourselves radically. We have a global energy problem that we all are contributing to. We're just pointing the finger at someone else. I mean seriously, I wonder how many Americans are thinking about energy alternatives right now if they haven't done so already. No way, blame the president, its his problem not ours.
Its this simple, do you want out of the Iraq war right here and now? Stop driving your car.
Your lack of understanding.
ZOMG!!11eleventy You're so obtuse! I can not believe you just told me about "our constitutional right of free speech"
Pay attention kid:
The United States does not equal The World.
That's my point, unadorned.
Awesome. That was quick. :)
Aren't you a reddit user? Does it make you feel disempowered when you use it?
new account
Incredible, you really are a huge douchebag. I bet you are one of those people who go around posting comments to the effect of:
"F U AMERIKKKA, you are nothing but a bunch of pretarded xtian USians!!!1 Why don't you drive your humvee over to MacDonalds for another burger fatty!"
I'm sure it really pains you to live in a world that America dominates politically, militarily, culturally and economocally. Don't worry, it wont be that way forever, then you can whine about some other culture.
No.
for the record, i did.
If god is in a political party, I want to go to hell.
good site great school !
Is security built into the JS/ECMA spec, or is that something that could be easily changed by a Firefox extension? If you know, I mean; I'm clearly too lazy to investigate this further right now. :)
People should just screw each other like there is no tomorrow, and make babies so they all end up looking the same.
Its taken 6 weeks but its finalized and released...
The mental image is great!
Mail arrives for Johnny Klomberg. "Yay! Free ice cream!"
rip rip rip
Selective Service notice
"Waaaaaa!!!"
You are making a huge deal out of nothing, I think it is clear by the premise of this topic that this is meant FOR AMERICANS.
Even so, there is a gap there. AFAIK, Java at Google largely comes out of the Ad business (that is to say, the money side of the house), while JS folk do the cool stuff that gives google the good buzz. And search is in C.
I seriously doubt GWT will be used in the majority of frontend-heavy apps at Google.
Canadian here too. Best of luck. I think it'll take a lot but I would support it. But please, be prepared.
Bushbots, Foxnuts and Coutlergeists will come flying out of the woodwork with every discredit they can spin. "Who cares what a bunch of internet nerds think" and the usual spewage. And don't do the same. Stick to the facts, don't exaggerate. Pot proponents that scream "hey dude, like leaglize it man" do their movement a disservice. Presenting clear evidence and organized reasoning garners respect. Remember that if you write your officials. I sincerely hope something comes of it.
Yes, thanks for posting this article. It's very refreshing to see that there are still some people actually reading and thinking about the basis of their faith. This shows that not all Christians are bigot hypocrites by default, like some posters here seem to assume.
I'm an atheist myself, and I do hope atheism will cease to be the stigma it currently appears to be in the American public discourse, but at the same time I fear that some sort of 'fundamentalist atheism' will emerge. Dismissing, insulting, and ridiculing others purely on the basis of the fact that they believe in a god, doesn't exactly show atheism in a good light.
Not true. I wouldn't employ someone from microsoft over someone from another company given roughly equal ability. Why should this be so? Do you think that microsoft have the best people? If so, why do they write the worst code and make the worst software?
How about this: Before we go to war we should be DAMNED sure that we're on the right side, and that the war is justified and indeed necessary. Iraq was a war of choice. They represented no threat to us. None. We invaded their country, occupied their Oil Ministry and hung their president. For what? For justice? I think not. The rationale for the war changed about half a dozen times. That in itself should be a hint.
Fascism has everything to do with it. Fascism is the merger of the state and corporate interests. One of the largest industries in the nation is the defense industry. Do the math.
Well there you reveal a bias of your own; you assume that I am religious, probably Christian, though at no point in time did I ever state or imply as much.
In fact, as anyone who knows me will attest (or you can just read my comment history, but it's pretty damned long, so I probably wouldn't if I were you), I am an athiest, and as such, I agree with you that pretty much all of your major organized religions are a bad idea. However, while I have many liberal tendencies, I think for myself and cannot subscribe to any political cannon across the board. In this case, I think the liberal refusal to admit that as Salman Rushdie and many other Muslim thinkers have said, "Islam is the problem," is counterproductive.
On the other hand, even if I was Christian, I still think that the historical periods we call The Reformation and The Enlightenment differentiate much of Christianity from Islam. (And I am far from the first person to suggest that what is happening in Islam today is in many ways similar to what happened during The Reformation and subsequent enlightenment.) In other words, as warped as Christanity is, in its current incarnation it is mostly less violent than is Islam. What's wrong with saying that? What are you afraid of? Why do I feel like I'm talking to a brick wall?
Because we need to stay the course with the Constitution. The presidents #1 job is to protect it not destroy it.
blocks are just syntax and as such are limited compared to Smalltalk and also have some interesting rules (I don't hate Ruby because of this, it just would've been nice for them to be more consistent)
Could someone clarify this? I can't parse what jesusphreak is trying to say. I'd also be interested in a bit more information about how smalltalk blocks differ from ruby's.
Or old-school '60s "Everything is a logical predicate" view.
ma nibli lo du'u lo bridi cu xlali
It's still funny.
how racist is this question?
Senseless warmongering is a telltale sign of a fascist. Duh.
Hell, let's impeach everybody who has ever supported Bush or any of his policies while we're at it.
In fact, let's just say that whenever a President's job approval rating falls below X percent, that President should automatically be impeached.
Now that's smart policy.
Most pot smokers I know seems more educated and respectful than you.
And if laws were never changed just think for a second of what kind of world we would live in. If you are not terrified by the idea I guess that you ought to pick up a book and educate yourself.
And btw, to be harmful isn't much a reason for being illegal. Tobacco, alcohol, cafeine and GUNS are all legal. So please don't make me get my violin.
Wait, does Vim have automatic formatting like Emacs?
Nah, not really, I just got annoyed this one time.
Thanks fatjake. You are my hero.
I won't even ask what ZOMG and 11eleventy mean. It probably is something very important though. (That was me being patronizing)
No, but I remember actually hearing her drawl.
Real problems like Iraq and the budget? Are you forgetting who created those problems? Accountability is the operative word here.
A lesson to others - create the CNAME first, it's not just for vanity, it's for consistency. I noticed Jamglue, the pioneers of this (in the YC noosphere) had static.jamglue.com working this way at launch.
hear hear! Want that for python.
Coincidentally, the only times I have personally
experienced blatant racism (I'm brown) is a couple of times
from African Americans, and another time from a
Chinaman ! And the Chinaman's rancor was not directed
toward me, but toward African Americans...
The best way to get someone who can win in Iraq would be ridding of Bush, he has proven what he is doing is NOT working. WWII was over in three years. Anything beyond three years it turns into a cluster fuck of proxy battles. It needs to have an economy started in IRAQ, people back to work. The problem is it seems like chaos is the plan.
Young men are required to register with the Selective Service within thirty days of turning eighteen years old, and failure to register is punishable with a $250,000 fine and/or a jail sentence of up to five years.
OK. That's the law. If you don't like it, tell Congress to repeal it. So far so good.
Ebel, their director of public affairs. "Our concern is equity. If your son registers, the guy who lives across the street who is 18 should have to register too.
Nothing wrong with that either. In any case, it's highly unlikely that there will be a draft in the US in the near future that will entail the signees getting called up.
I'm going to nominate "ambi-Christian" for 2007 Word of the Year
(edit: Yes, I know this is a parody)
unless, of course, your job actually includes reading reddit as a research channel :)
Yeah, what he said!
Congress has checks and balances (i.e., the power of the purse) but refuses to use them. Therefore, your contention that two men are leading the entire country into ruin is unpersuasive.
As far as I know it's a browser thing. However I doubt one can change this too much. It might be a security hole.
OK, we are cool again then :P Anyways, its funny how the commentary has gotten completely off track and will probably stay that way.
myspace should block all users from Conn. and tell them to contact their reps and vote to prevent this crap. It is one step from needing verified ids for internet usage at all, and why? To save the children. The problem is, if you try to argue that they are taking away everyone's freedom, you are deemed suspect.
Well, I am neither a ped. nor do I drink, but I support the rights of all people to not be subverted by physical (supposedly to catch bad DUI people) and virtual roadblocks (supposedly to catch bad pedophiles).
Maybe they could just flash a javascript msg that says "This profile reports pedophiles to the authorities." randomly when someone views a profile for anyone who is underage and reserve the right to publish any IM logs from people convicted of sex related crimes where the site was used to commit the crimes.
Soon the only male adults who will be allowed freedom will have to be neutered, wear a Nicoderm patch and take Antabuse (or be members of the ruling class, of course) .
In choosing to cover the music of John Dowland (1563-1626), who is known as the "melancholy madrigalist" from his output of cheerful ditties like "Flow My Tears," Police bandleader Sting has entered into a whole new realm of austere eeriness.
No, make that: "Curses! Tooled again!"
Great blog about cognitive science.
The only power I feel is the power to alter what ends up on my recommended page, which isn't quite on the level of impeaching the president.
Short stories about a guy dealing with fear of death
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-clintonjonesperjury.html is a pretty good explanation of the issue.
well, uhm...thanks, lol. Got a life yet? haha!
Personally I think that censoring the word "Vagina" is a mockery of education. The word "Vagina" Is the most clinically appropriate scientific one word description in the english language for "female Genitals". The reason a principle would ask at all that the word "Vagina" not be used in a high school blows my mind.
[T]here are much fewer completely new programmers coming to programming via Django than coming to programming through Rails.
That hasn't been my experience. Then again, I'm probably biased (I'm one of the lead Django devs).
It would be cool, though, to do a survey of Django hackers and see where they're coming from...
hehe, I thought the same thing. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Vagina. It's like duck, duck, goose.
You want some comfort? It all comes down to cost of energy. If we get the cheaper-than-oil solar power balloons then we'll do well.
Energy is the root. A new source of cheap energy is like discovering unlimited oil. It's like a machine to print money.
Cheap energy equals peace too, no need for so many wars. We'll know in three years or so. Lots of solar breakthrough and new plants are on the way.
Cheap energy means the end of corruption. There's less need to lie anf cheat if there's enough room for all of us in our little life raft.
If you pray, pray for a source of cheap and non-polluting energy. Nothing else matters.
I am not American either but I understand and support the goal of this story. If you don't like news related to the US just jump the next story and give it a rest instead of trolling around. (Yes AMERICANS, that is their name no matter if you like it or not.)
Reddit is actually a fairly international-friendly discussion community. The great majority of Americans on Reddit seams to be quite rational thinkers and open to the world. Your attacks are uncalled for.
LETS ALL MURDER BUSH AND EAT HIS ORGANS!!!!!
Because reddit users are even less mainstream than MoveOn.
Ok. Hypothetically. How long would anyone think it would take to bring up impeachment for Bush alone. I'd say with the "swift" bureaucratic/judicial system we have it would take over two years...
edit: ANYONE? I mean why have 8-9 topics on this subject being up voted when nobody can explain to me if it is feasible?!
it is not, anybody who think it's possible to come with such a product in a few months doesn't know anything about the consumer electronics industry.
the truth is probably that Samsung has been developing this thing in parallel to the iPhone, and they're previewing it just a bit later.
I downmodded the article for just this reason
Didn't Lisp predate OOP (though not in the '50s)?
Let's bring it back again...
BUSH SUCKS! And this is why he should be impeached as voted for by the people of Middlebury, Vermont:
We the people have the power -- and the responsibility -- to remove executives who transgress not just the law, but the rule of law.
The oaths that the President and Vice President take binds them to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." The failure to do so forms a sound basis for articles of impeachment.
The President and Vice President have failed to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution" in the following ways:
They have manipulated intelligence and misled the country to justify an immoral, unjust, and unnecessary preemptive war in Iraq.
They have directed the government to engage in domestic spying without warrants, in direct contravention of U.S. law.
They have conspired to commit the torture of prisoners, in violation of the Federal Torture Act and the Geneva Convention.
They have ordered the indefinite detention without legal counsel, without charges and without the opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention -- all in violation of U.S. law and the Bill of Rights.
When strong evidence exists of the most serious crimes, we must use impeachment -- or lose the ability of the legislative branch to compel the executive branch to obey the law.
George Bush has led our country to a constitutional crisis, and it is our responsibility to remove him from office.
Nick is referring to all the American gazillionaires who've parked their money outside of the USA waiting for the crash to come. You on the other hand are referring to a figment of your imagination produced by the Fed's smoke and mirrors. There was a time when China was willing to take on US debt. That time has long since passed into the annals of history.
The tips for regular expressions are really cool! We saw the developers at Javapolis last year, looks like they are getting enough resources from Sun too by the way.
Just to add to that: the Samsung phone in question does not even look like the iPhone.
I don't use Ruby, being a PHP developer by day and Python hacker at night. But PHP is similar and I find it infuriating.
Perhaps, but getting a method as a proc should be considerably easier. Blocks are nice for things like map, filter, inject, etc. but for more abstraction and directly referencing a method on an object I find that I prefer Python's syntax.
On the other hand, that's a mixed blessing in Python because you have to differentiate between calling a method and accessing an attribute on an object, when good object orientation shouldn't make the distinction, as you're just sending a message to the object in both cases. This makes it annoying to change an attribute to a getter function, for example, which involves no change to client code in Ruby.
Preach it!
Actually he played the most sound strategy of all (I doubt it was his pickings). Index funds primarily beat nearly 80-90% of other funds in the long term due to lack of fees and pegged to the best of the market. If you want to invest and not have to know anything or pay attention, index funds will almost always beat inflation and are a sound investment strategy for a large portion of your portfolio. Basically this article was trying to advertise index funds and how easy they are I imagine. If you dont' invest largely in index funds you will probably long term lose to the mutuals.
No. He seems to be the least agitated too.
/guessing gender
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Remember Truman? "The buck stops here." That's what you sign up for when you run for President. EVERYTHING that happens under your watch is your responsibility.
You're hired.
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I'd hate waking up in the middle of the night to discover a dog next to me.
1423 registered voters.
http://www.putneyvt.org/main.php
No word on the cats.
different moronic post, same moron.
I was aware of that, but Unicode really needs to be a part of the language itself, not a 3rd-party monkey patched library. Again, that will be changing with the next VM, so it won't be a huge deal in the future.
And perhaps that library is an example of just how much Rails is driving Ruby currently?
a one-line if-else-end
Shouldn't that be at least five lines? I mean, unless you're using semicolons or the ternary operator 'expr ? if_true : if_false'
Do you still have the snippet of code that was giving such a strange error message?
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The more the merrier!
The responses to that first article are what I hate about Ruby.
Somebody goes to the trouble of explaining why he doesn't like Ruby, and he gets asked "Are you an idiot?", gets called a "tard" and gets told "Go back to Pascal".
I know there are smart people working with Ruby, but it just seems like there's a horde of mental adolescents you have to wade through to find them.
Actually, on second thoughts, that's the reason why I love Ruby. Because Ruby is the "trendy" language du jour, it siphons most of the immature brats away from Python.
What christ said has remarkably little bearing on the acts of christianity as an organised religion and it's changes and developments over the centuries.
If you want to bring Christ (as opposed to christianity) into the argument, how do you think christ would view the state of christianity in the world today, most specifically in America, what with the huge sums of tax-free money corrupting things, the paedophile priests, the ted haggards etc.
As an aside, I think that religion's tax-exept status has done it more harm than good - it may have saved some $$s but it's attracted greedy people looking for a tax haven.
ironical. but why stop with israel. isn't every conflict that's not exclusively defensive based on inaccurate prejudices and pretend knowledge of another culture? along with deluded superiority...which (to these crowds) can only be established by who murders who most?
The best references are the journey kind of books you keep going back to, like Thinking in Java or Dive into Python and the likes.
Pop Quiz!
What does
puts "Greetings!".sort
do, and why?
I could also argue that python is draining valuable talent away from the ruby community... Why is python more 'valuable' other than you happen to have a personal preference for it?
Fair enough, point taken, although the all-caps shouting seems unnecessary.
In any even, my point remains that impeachment and conviction can't possibly occur before Bush's term expires.
Given that, I strongly believe we'd do better to insist that Congress (a) actively contain the administration until January 2008, and (b) focus on forward-looking ideas and proposals.
By the time it's over, the Bush administration will have effectively wasted eight years of potential opportunities. My opinion remains that the U.S. needs to concentrate on recovering that lost ground and move forward rather than wasting further time and resources on a punitive look backwards ala impeachment proceedings...
You can do the same chart of history and conclude that US was not a functioning society. Notice in the above list you have from 19th to 1978 as empty. Would you consider lack of civil rights up until 1960s a non functioning society?
By functioning society I meant that Afghanistan did have a middle class were they countered the radicals.
The decision to abandon detante in favor of conflict with soviet union was actually made earlier than Carter administration. After the impeachment of Nixon, Ford administration (Dick Chenney, Rumsfeld...) were more interested in conflict with soviet union that detante.
Reagan comes into picture very prominently as the key factor in destruction of Afghanistan's society. His policies was the one that brought Bin Ladin, Zawahiri (the number 2 guy who was actually freed from Egyptian jail term he was serving for assassination of Saddat to go to Afghanistan).
The scope of war during Carter administration was not anything like the one that was in Regan administration. In fact, one of the greatest achievement of Reagan (prior to 9/11 ) was to defeat Soviets in Afghanistan. I don't recall him ever giving credit to Carter.
There is a global market now. Investing is never a bad idea. Keeping cash in times where inflation is high is also a financial deathwish over time. When the markets crash you go bonds or gold more weighted, when the market is hot you go there. Yes typically world markets fluctuate together but when there is localized downturns you can gain money elsewhere.
Money in cash is setup to lose over time, the financial system is our class system.
My apologies, comment bouncer. I will stand quietly at your velvet rope, begging for permission to comment next time.
one of the greatest Democrat presidents
Really? Can you name a few of the history-making accomplishments of his time in office?
We prefer to think of it as 'a flair for the obvious.'
Well, yes, I just think that a criminal proceeding is a far better way to demand accountability than impeachment.
I think a lot of people are mistaken about what impeachment means. It is not a criminal conviction. It does not prevent the official from being pardoned by the next President. It doesn't even prevent the official from holding future office (there's a separate vote afterwards for that). It is only a removal from office, clearing the way for future charges.
My guess is that if Bush were impeached, he'd be pardoned by the next president, lie low for a year or two, and then get a cushy job as CEO of some government contractor. He'd still be making millions of dollars a year. He'd still have a better life than 99.99% of Americans.
The only way to ensure justice is to give him up for international trial. Because then we don't have jurisdiction anymore. Any friends and allies he's made with his multi-billion-$ tax cuts for the rich won't be able to help him. Nor would anyone that seeks to benefit from his connections. He'd be rotting away in a European prison. (To the extent that people rot in European prisons: I dunno, is it at all as bad as prisons are here?)
Nice to see a granny with more spine than the vast majority of citizens... even if it does have a slight crook in it.
I think I'd be the same way, if I was an old man: "I'm 80 years old and in lots of pain. I'll damn well smoke a joint if I fucking please! No, screw you judge, respect your elders, and their right to puff up!"
no. i believe in fraud though. i believe in good luck (as a random occurrence)
Iraq was in "this" all along. Why do you want to left it out?
You watch a lot of Fox News, don't you?
This is actually really interesting. XHTML 1 is really useful, but the follow-up standards seem like they've moved off in a bizarre direction that is being flatly ignored by browser vendors.
Hopefully this will be a working group that will be of more practical use to web content and application developers.
Because impeachment is like mutiny. Nobody who cares about the country really wants it, because of the disruption it causes. With mutiny, the only time you ever want to do it is if you think more lives are in danger if you don't mutiny than if you do. With impeachment, you have to really consider if it's in the best interests of the nation.
The Republicans didn't think this through when they impeached Clinton, and because of that they should be branded as traitors, as failed mutineers and even most successful mutineers are branded. Impeaching a President for venal reasons IS treason, because it works against the better interests of the country.
I'm not saying that the impeachment movement at this point is treasonous, only that this is what people are thinking - that it's better to wait it out and just have the next elections sort things out. As bad as Bush has been, is, and will be for this country, is it really worse than Impeachment? That's why.
Bed room, board room, is there a difference? ;)
Look the women I know want to be taken seriously. I can understand that, and respect it. A man who bumbles around, is unsure of himself, and has no opinion is viewed as a "loser", and he is.
I am not advocating "women in the kitchen", mentality. I just don't think that with women gaining equal rights, means that men give up theirs. I am confident, outspoken, and sure of myself. I open doors for women, pamper women, and I don't apologize when I know I am right and I offend women.
You can also write to your state level reps and ask them to introduce state level legislation. This is a valid path to impeachment (see sec. 603 of the "Jefforson's Manual").
lol, I completely misread that title. Thought is said "let's impeach George for Dick Sucking", which I would think is impeachable as well.
All that fish, you know from the fish and loaves story, that's a lot of mercury. And I never read it was caught with sustainable methods, either. You know damn well back in the day they weren't too selective about fishing.
That's at the minimum. Then you have God ordering people to kill their children. There's the locust plagues, the boils. Having those people wander aimlessly in the desert for 40 days. Don't tell me that was always fun.
Agreed, you can launch a lot of nukes in five minutes.
today, for example, the reference to the previous "velociraptor defense" post was clever...i felt like up-voting it
Boston area residents who want to get involved:
Join your local branch of Impeach for Peace by finding our Chapter website on http://www.impeachforpeace.org/
"Investing is never a bad idea."
You're right - but investing isnt just about going long.
His, johnaman's, point was that these article come out right at around market tops, when everyone and their cousin thinks the market can only head higher.
Well, if the Iraqi's would stop blowing each other up, their country would be rebuilt. This is a different situation than WWII.
In WWII, at least in the West, when Hitler was eliminated his army surrendered.
People wanted peace. In Iraq, neither side wants peace.
The chaos is happening because both the Sunni's and the Shiites want to be in power. They are both willing to kill anyone to do that.
They really like to kill people in the Middle East. They've been doing it for 1000's of years.
If we had a parliamentary system, we could do exactly that. Hold a vote of no confidence, but alas, not for us.
I don't say we should impeach because of Bush is unpopular but because I see sufficient evidence to make the case he and many in his administration have abused the power of their office.
Just so....random lol
11 of the top 25 posts are about impeaching Bush. 16 of the top 25 are anti-Bush. 12 of the newest 25 posts are about impeachment, not including this one. It wasn't like this before I went to lunch.
What the hell is going on? Are all these posts legitimate or did someone game the system?
The drug trade heavily funds incursions. The CIA admitted in IRAN-Contra it was pushing over 50% of cocaine in the 80's (the price high due to the Just Say No and illegality of it to push up black market value).
This is I am sure, producing funds for other things. We never hear about the heavy drug trade aspects to many wars, Vietnam, South America in 80's, IRAN-IRAQ war...
Foreign policy is alot like mafia business...
babies suck.
thank u
Boston area residents who want to get involved:
Find the Boston chapter of Impeach for Peace via http://www.impeachforpeace.org/
That was to rid of all the non "in" cultivators. Once the Taliban rooted it out they reinstalled it with their guys on the taps. The Taliban was only recognized by two countries, Pakistan and... the US.
They might not call G H W Bush "poppy" for nothing...
WTF?
The bible also contains the word "piss" and is translated that way in the King James Version. Most other versions translate it urine. (ref 2 Kings 18:27)
yeah, wtf happened? this looks like the oldest version of Digg.
Before you go bashing me, note that thats my freedom of speech .
Freedom of speech is by no means freedom not to be bashed.
Yeah, but it's still bias against Islam. What part about that don't you get?
Just because you don't know what a word means doesn't mean that it has no meaning. In this sense, when I used the word "apologist," I thik it's pretty clear that I meant to indicate "A person who argues in defense or justification of something, such as a doctrine, policy, or institution." If you want to argue that the term does not apply to you, fine, I'm OK with that, but saying that it has no meaning is an intellectual cop-out.
I agree with you that humanity has a problem with violence. Where we emphatically dissagree is in your evident belief that discussing specific religions as root causes for much violence is somehow off limits. Why should I grant religious belief a sort of immunity from prosecution? The only way I can make sense of your argument is to think that (in a twist of bias) you have assumed that I am Christian or Jewish. I'm not. I'm an atheist. All religions pretty much blow. Some more than others. (When was the last time you heard about a pack of rabid Buddhist fundamentalists crashing airliners into buildings or shooting doctors at abortion clinics?) At this point in history, I think that Islam holds the number one position as a religious spur to violence. Why can't you wrap your head around the fact that it's OK to talk about these things?
I can't take credit for it. There was a placed I lived once that passed a law banning nude dancing. In the text of the ordinance, it said that men could not be in a public venue with their genitiles "discernibly turgid." In other words, you better not leave the house with a wood, and if one happens to pop up, you need to get out of the public eye quickly.
Fun, short, fulfilling :).
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Please don't. And while you're at it, please stop getting ridiculous breast augmentations. You're fine the way you are, I promise.
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I found a philosophy degree to be a perfectly reasonable step on the path to programming, though I also went back and spent a couple of years taking CS courses.
Then again, philosophy departments tend to have more explicit study of logic than English departments do. My impression is that English majors without at least a decent understanding of math and/or logic would be prone to fail at programming. Perhaps the English majors that end up being programmers are self-selecting for this trait.
Sounds like someone's never used software from Computer Associates.
No, really, I'm being a little hyperbolic, but the point is: If Linux took the place of Windows, a thousand or more very good programmers would be dumped on the job market, thus increasing the supply of unemployed programmers by the same. Supply and Demand is a well-known concept and I won't describe it here, but I'll say: If you don't understand it, you may well be a Linux fan. As such here is a useful link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand
The companies pushing open source software, like IBM and Redhat, have business models built around providing services. How many of you reading this comment are button-down consulting types? Zero.
How many are programmers? Quite a few.
Okay, remember how your bread is buttered. Try to think how well the concept of "Free Trucking" would go over if you brought it up at a Teamsters meeting.
Ditto
Sadly, reddit was not mentioned.
Sadly, reddit was not mentioned.
This article says to "Contact your Senator", but the Senate cannot try an impeachment until the House of Representatives impeaches.
Article I, Section 2 says "The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment."
Then Section 3 says "The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments."
An impeachment is analogous to an indictment. It is initiated by the House of Representatives. Also, you need 2/3 of the Senators present for a conviction. That doesn't seem likely.
When the greens and some of my fellow reds stop playing with me, has my right to free speech been silenced?
Yes, it might.
Regardless of the reach of the first amendment: If you care about the freedom of individuals to speak their mind then you must not only care about a legal freedom but a social freedom.
If an individual feels they will be socially outcast if they express their views, using the language they prefer, then that makes it more difficult to express their view. They might choose to be silent instead.
Social consequences can be a greater impediment to free speech than legal consequences.
It is better to have bad views defeated by criticism.
Why is it more valuable? It has many more libraries, better documentation, its runtimes, from C-based to the CLR and Java, are more mature and faster than any Ruby one, and it has financial backing from Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla.
Just as a language, I think Ruby is just as good as Python(and, in some cases, better than), but I don't think these differences are significant enough to discount all of the externalities of Python.
Because the hysterical liberals here are no reflection of the public at large. Every other page has links to Olbermann and Richard Dawkins, as though they carry some signficance, and where are Olbermann's ratings?
Don't make the mistake of thinking this or any other online community is reflective of the public at large. All they ever are, regardless of political allegience, is an echo chamber of like minded people, and often on the fringes.
And as for impeachment, this is nothing more than liberals' desire for revenge over Clinton. Their guy got impeached, now they want the same. If Giulliani wins in 08, there will be links on here by February 09 from shrieking lefties demanding Rudy be impeached. You watch.
Depends whether you're testing for falsehood or zeroness.
Yeah, I was surprised by those responses as well. Rubyists should follow MINSWAN (Matz is nice, so we are nice). My views fall in line relatively well with Raganwald's. It is unfortunate that ERH was jumped on so viciously. It's not been my experience in the ruby community.
no, they can be refered to as "americans" only in the context that they are born in the american continent, but that applies to anybody born in the continent from canada to argentina. There is no one word to say somebody was born in the USA, no matter if you like it or not. USian does not exist either.
Ouch >!<
i realize that's satire, but it can be so hard to tell somedays.
Fuck what they think, our country is in chaos - we have an executive branch that can make people disappear illegally without the right checks and balances in place provided by the constitution...
And we have a new winner! Someone who comes in from nowhere, not to make a point, but simply to insult someone for no reason.
Even better, you insult me after I admit I'm wrong on something. What's the matter? You can't take argue with people when they are defending their points?
some things, ya just never think there would need to be a law about. like in school...do you homework...or you fail the test...pretty much takes care of itself.
I'm only going to say this one more time:
According to the article, he beat this group's lazy portfolios and also the S&P 500. All of those are index-based portfolios, and so was his. Yes, index-based strategies almost always do better than managed mutual funds. To claim that this kid beat other index-based portfolios due to skill, however, is dead wrong. He was lucky to be in the top half of the distribution rather than the bottom. That's all.
To reiterate: "Wall Street" is the DJIA, etc. If you want to "beat Wall Street" you have to achieve a better return than the one that is well-known to be available through indexing. That's all. If you can't understand this, just make sure you don't listen to anybody's financial advice. Buy indexes and hold. Don't switch to a "winning strategy" because it's not actually winning. It's luck.
o here we find some overlap between war and terrorism
Let me make it easy for you... In software engineering, Terror is an interface that Terrorist and Military implement.
As George Will, the conservative commentator put it, their job is to "to establish a monopoly on violence".
The distinction is size. Wal Mart and the Corner store are both retail store, but the size and capabilities differ.
But I will note that it was done by marked military aircraft, not civilian aircraft.
Even in that when there is a risk the aircrafts are stealth!
You do have a point though. In past armies fought one another. When Napoleon was fighting, he was along with his army (may be on the hill over looking the battle, but he was right there). The opposing side also send and army of soldiers, with uniforms, etc, they fought one another the winner took over the land, resources, town...
We live in a day when missiles are fired from miles away, the generals are running the war from safety half way around the world. The opposing side has no chance. Hence it resorts into what is called Terrorism. When war becomes a remote control, then the distinction between military and terrorist fades away.
I think you have mixed up item #7, about the shoes, with item #3:
"Hi, I'm just leaving, but before I do, I really wanted to introduce myself to the woman who has such beautiful ..... (say something nice about her).
Like this: "Hi, I'm just leaving, but before I do, I really want to introduce myself to the woman who has such a beautiful load of ass!"
I can't vouch for it, but it's at least as promising as the other lines.
"take Congress off of everything they are doing" ... you're acting as if they are actually doing something.
Why? It sends a very clear message, one that rings MUCH more clearly when it was started at such grassroots levels (go Vermont and Maine!). In effect it may not do much to alter the way anything is run until our next president takes office, but it'll sure let the new guy know we're keeping an eye on him/her (please God not Hillary...)
I totally agree but for an "8 year old kid" going long is the best option and for people who dont' pay attention to the markets. People who do saw the most dramatic rise since right after 9/11. Smart people buy on immense oversells. They know hot industries and balance accordingly. Oil alone was up 300% from march 2003 (start of iraq war) til late last year. Smart people will always beat out the average investor who may not watching the markets as close. But we need those guys there to pad our wallets me evil grin
I find them annoying as well.
That said, don't know of a better way of differentiating local/instance/class variables, and I much prefer the @s to, say, Python's explicit self for instance variables and (as I recall) explicit reference to the class name for class variables.
Exactly. Iran anybody?
... and is seen, by other countries, to be held responsible.
I used 'digg' as a metaphor for the vast areas of the intertubes ruled by mediocrity, 14-year old kids who think Ubuntu is the hottest shit on earth and their comments which could contribute nothing to any intelligent discussion. More specifically, I was annoyed by your arrogant post above. This is what drove me away from digg, and I've taken a certain liking to reddit and wouldn't like to see it suffer the same fate. I'd like to think that reddit is not in the business of entertainment, but in the business of intelligent people sharing nutritious food for the mind with eachother (see bulletsvshumans' post above)
I got interested in Django via Jeff Croft's "Django for Non-Programmers":
http://www2.jeffcroft.com/blog/2006/may/02/django-non-programmers/
I've been hacking PHP for years. After having casually worked on my own framework for a few years ( FLAKE = Fast and Loose Apprication Kreator, Eh? | http://flake.neocodesoftware.com ) I realized other folks had covered a lot of the same territory. Django seemed like something that could give me a lot of power without getting in my way.
From there I've hacked away. Learning Django naturally got me involved in Python and I've found the language, in and of itself, to be very handy and fun.
ummm, ya so why did the American public vote him into office? twice? I'm a pretty big liberal, and this is bullshit anymore.
I'm starting to feel like everyone at Fox News is on reddit posting impeachment articles to make fun of us. I mean, he's only got two more years or something? What's the point seriously. He's been completely breaking the law since day 1. Now a couple towns finally decide to impeach? You voted him into office you take the shit that comes with him. I have for 6 frickin years now.
If you think this is evidence that we're headed for a bear market, put your money where your mouth is and short-sell the blue chips. I know you won't. Why? Because if "these articles" were really good evidence that the market had peaked, other investors would already be on top of that shit and the market would be taking it into account already. Investors are not idiots.
Reddit is the new digg.
I left digg because of the hyped and pushed political stories, now I have to leave reddit.
Digg has gotten much better, very few hyped and pushed political stories. Still slashdot appears to be the winner for adult content.
You know guys, a thousand people hyping the same story does not a national movement make.
grow up.
Lol, reddit is so retarded. God damn liberal hippies. I'll add a 'fuck bush' at the end of this post, so I don't get downmodded.
FUCK BUSH!
That's a really interesting question you have there. To be honest, I really don't know. Perhaps a specialised psychologist could know better.
What I heard was that in certain tribes there is no adolescence. That is, of course children grow up physically and become adults. But they don't have all that mental development we go through in our society. If I had to make a guess, I would say that the mental development is indirectally triggered by the physical changes, when the urges these produce come into conflict with society's expectations. That is, a horny teenager wants to have sex, but the society (not his peers, but the adults) say that's wrong, that's bad, and of course that conflicts with what his body naturally wants. That produces a disconnect between the teenager and the "society" that turns him into a "rebel". Add to that many other factors, and you have your typical adolescent.
Not quite as exciting as a girl sucking Clinton's dick, is it?
:(
Homework assignment (for whoever wants it):
Go back to 2001 and find some lefty rag calling for Bush's impeachment. I'm guessing its not hard. Remember Florida!
The world also needs a repository of ignorance in one spot where everyone can see and learn from it.
Spam is ruining e-mail.
As far as I'm concerned, Spam and Java are two manifestations of the same phenomenon.
We need a plan for eliminating both, and the key word is education.
but this is more unlikely to happen in an upper class suburb than a poor community. Wealthy families don't tolerate stuff like that for long, and they have the money and power to go after any agencies that exercise their power to bust into homes for any reason
Funny how the first couple keeps alternatively putting their armpit in the face of each other all night long.
I agree with you I think what the article was getting at was this was for people who don't really pay attention like an 8 year old kid. Basicaly yes picking index funds from other index funds is shooting in the dark (well depends on the fund manager really) but index funds LONG TERM for an 8 year old kid who woun't be paying attention for long is probably the best strategy.
We need people with these strategies so the better strategy has more margin. We also need people to make bad choices on losing funds/industries.
Well, my ridiculously low estimate was not actually that far off :P ... still, better 1423 politically like-minded citizens than 142,300 Republicans, I guess.
It would be cool, though, to do a survey of Django hackers and see where they're coming from...
Done! Vote it up... ;)
http://programming.reddit.com/info/18mu1/comments
P.S. Thanks for all your work! :)
Apparently the headline writer doesn't want you to read it either.
Ok... but the problem is the way we kill animals. We must change that, not our eating habits.
I agree that vegetables can be more healthy and efficient. But claiming that we should remove all kind of animal byproduct in our food (and I'm talking not only about meat but also about animal oil, fat or blood that is often used in food, for example) is just dogmatic. And I'm opposed to dogmas.
I'm opposed to vegetarianism as an absolute dogma. And I'm opposed to the notion that vegetarians are somehow better persons.
Uwin (by At&T...still free) is a very good (i recently installed it) UNIX shell interface for windows...you even get to use '/' instead of '\' for file paths! you get vi too! and awk,sed,grep...default ksh, but also csh and sh (bourne) are available. all the usual UNIX tools. even a C compiler (free) if you get the dev version.
anyway, if you're a UNIX type who gets frustrated with windows when you try to get at things like you can in UNIX, this is for you.,
FYI
If there was the ability to add a subtitle or teaser, it would have to be:
Lawyer microwaves cat by accident
Incident came after taking massive, earth-moving shit in toilet.
I've been thinking about this, actually. For markets to be efficient, somebody has to be actively buying and selling stocks. It seems to me that the fools who put their money into managed funds are keeping the market honest so that I can get a good return for free. So I give thanks to all the idiots in the world.
I like rusty.... posts.
I don't know if you were paying attention, but American public didn't vote him into office the first time. The US Supreme Court did.
The second time, I'm going to blame on terror (because that's what we do in the U.S. now) and the fact that Kerry was about as charismatic as a wet stone.
Okay then, find me a country or town that follows strict Christian law as stated in the Bible, please.
Well I see GuineaPig's point, and I understand yours as well
Ruby and Python are different languages, there is no doubt about that. Still, I think they are similar enough that someone having to use one over the other wouldn't be horrible in the sense that a Lisp programmer being forced to use Java would be.
I can only imagine if DHH had made Rails in Python. All the time, effort and energy spent in the Ruby community trying to get it to do Unicode, trying to get a good VM, trying to bring certain libraries up to date could have instead been invested in the Python world where a lot of that stuff is already done and new, more interesting things could have been worked on instead. And given the large community Python already had around 2003, I don't think the influx of new users would have been as complete (for a lack of a better word) as it has been for the Ruby community.
If you've ever read my comments on Reddit, I say this a lot, but it is very silly that programmers in dynamic languages are still recreating libraries found in other ones. I can only imagine the man-hours it will take to get Ruby's libraries up to even be equal with Python's current one. It would've been much nicer if all that effort could've been spent on one language.
I know it would've meant that certain small aspects of the language would've rubbed people the wrong way, but the massive gain in productivity that everyone would have received as a result of cooperation would've been well worth it. Of course I am a Python fan, so maybe that is easy for me to say; I however learned programming via Ruby and I know that despite some things that bothered me at first, I got over them fairly quickly.
Of course it is much too late for all that, so now we have two 'competing' camps with duplicated efforts. Oh well, it seems to be the nature of programmers. :)
Methods are messages to an object, blocks/procs are regular functions as in "self-contained units of computation".
But by that account, methods aren't all that different, yes? In effect they're simply functions with an implicit this parameter into which is passed a reference to the object. The only wrinkle is in languages which are particular about preventing external access to fields.
the site has been inundated with tards that think they can impeach the president by using reddit
I hate waking up in the middle of the night to find out the boa ate the cat again.
It would send a strong message to the world that the American people is actually upset at what Bush har been doing for 6 years now. It would also set the stage nicely for a complete turn-around in politics when Democrats take power.
And then there's the Iran thing as well.
Well an old miilitary tactic is be the enemy, its easier to control, the decoy. The goal in Iraq was chaos. Civil war was hoped for. I wonder if you had tanks rolling your streets, installed government from a nation afar, house blown up, no job, no economy etc, I wonder if you would be blowing shit up as well? Why would the military plan be to let chaos run wild after the war? Is it harder to steal a big screen TV in a riot or any old peaceful day?
Actually what won WWII was probably Stalin on Germany and our TWO NUKES on Japan. People became really peaceful after seeing that. Then we had a clear Marshall plan to get economies setup and they are some of the best even today (Japan). The plan seems the opposite in Iraq.
im not in debt. i paid cash for my mercedes too. i pay ALL my bills ahead, just to avoid writing a monthly check.
A win for Reddit is the end of pointless karma whoring!!!!
I've always been amused by folks that somehow think that because they have a right to say something that somehow prevents other people from exercising their right to tell them they are idiots...
String's use of Enumerable.
"abc def".to_a #=> ["abc def"]
"abc def".sort #=> ["abc def"]
"abc def".collect #=> ["abc def"]
"abc def".each do |s|
print s
end #=> ["abc def"]
I can't imagine what the rationale for this is. I much prefer the Python (relative) equivalent:
for s in "abc def": print s
=> "a"
=> "b"
=> "c"
=> " "
...
It's ok if a woman wants to go into prostitution but she has to do it completely voluntarily and freely.
Kind of why I posted it. I wanted to see how far we could get before someone realizes that. At least for today, I expect a couple more of the same posts tomorrow, just different blogs and articles.
OK, I'll try and get this point over without rambling but it will be hard:
for centuries we've had jobs for life. literally. more than life. generations have been farmers & bakers, and still are, but most of the jobs from a century ago are now outdated, replaced by the rush of progress. Through the 20th century we had jobs that only lasted a lifetime before being replaced, and now in the information age, more and more jobs and skills will last less than a single person's career will, especially jobs in the information realm, like programmers.
This means that protectionism is even less effective than in traditional industries. The only protection is flexability and constant education and reskilling.
Soon there may be no need for the large number of programmers we currently have employed re-inventing the same code over and over again, so those people will have to learn some new skills and find different mays to make their living. Let's face it - how many web agencies right now have coders on their books who do little now but tweak OS CRM platforms rather than write a proprietary codebase?
the FOSS movement totally changes all the rules of economics - it introduces concepts of 'free' and 'infinite' in ways than traditional economic theory never had to deal with.
One day, your messages shall be able to pass messages to other messages, and receive new messages, which can themselves take and send messages. Only then will the circle be complete...
When they say:
"it's stronger, it's this, it's that"
I would add "and you can smoke it!".
I hear that every time I mention this but I still see alot of checks next to Bush on those ballots.
Compare the following two statements:
The part between the curly braces is the block.
3.times{1;print (1) + 1}
3.times{print (1) + 1}
For no reason the first statement is considered perfectly healthy (no errors, no warnings), and the second statement is not (errors and warnings).
Ruby has such a complex grammar that every version changes it slightly. Warnings are added and disappear between versions for no apparent reason.
Blocks are just really weird syntactically, but you get used to the quirks - so it doesn't matter much.
But PHP is similar
That's just about the most insulting thing you could say
Now I'll play the devil's advocate and say that Abraham Lincoln, too, did some nasty things during the Civil War. To quote Wikipedia, he
appropriated powers no previous President had wielded: he used his war powers to proclaim a blockade, suspended the writ of habeas corpus, spent money without congressional authorization, and imprisoned 18,000 suspected Confederate sympathizers without trial.
And now he's on the five-dollar bill (which clearly puts him even above Washington).
Why?
Some of the best sex is with women who want it, but not quite.
Yes, its a joke.
That's what the property() builtin is for.
Great article, stampit. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, but only insofar as it brings it to the House's attention. It initiates an impeachment, but the House must still vote on the impeachment before it can be tried by the Senate.
Marvel's not lived up to their name since the early to mid-1970s. Killing Captain America is just more of the same.
I come to reddit to find interesting articles. Not to help amuse you and stoke your self-esteem. Please help keep it that way for everyone. Think globally, act locally. There's no "I" in "TEAM".
If nothing else, it sends a message to potential presidents that they can't cross certain lines and the people will take only so much before they kick someone out.
Seriously, Bush and Cheney's actions with the removal of habeus corpus and permission of torture calls for a punishment of removal of all their own civil rights. Or at least, it would be the most appropriate.
It would be most interesting to see what happened if the crime of illegal spying on someone resulted in loss of privacy, etc. But the CIA would fight that to the end.
I wish my grandmother would give me $9,000.
South Africa wasn't the worst govt. in Africa but it got the most attention because a "foreign" people occupying/controlling a starkly different population is considered more onerous in today's world.
"I don't say we should impeach because of Bush is unpopular but because I see sufficient evidence to make the case he and many in his administration have abused the power of their office."
Well said!
Says who? are you the guardian of morality now?
I believe morals are made by public opinion. Some things are moral now that weren't before, and some things were moral before and aren't moral now.
So when you say "is morally wrong" I suppose you mean either "it is morally wrong to me" or "it is morally wrong for the society we leave on". For the first one, I'm ok with it... as long as you don't try to enforce your morality on me. For the second one, I hardly disagree because the society we live on doesn't condemn eating animals.
Now... as I say, most of the people I know will react negatively to the notion of animal cruelty. In fact, we have laws for that. So I guess it is a matter of correcting the way we kill animals, enforcing laws, proper controls, etc.
Of course, you may argue that it will be morally wrong somewhere in the near future. But that's only your opinion, and maybe something you are fighting to accomplish. My personal opinion is that it will never be morally wrong to kill an animal to eat. But that's just our opinions.
The show doesn't just channel history; it reinvents it. See how Rome supports the Herzogian notion that "truth" lies in a blend of reality and fiction.
Exactly. There are always new people coming in as well, and people's funds are compounding sitting there waiting to be bait for my devious market schemes... muhahah muhahahahah dark sillhouetted with lighting strikes in the background and the moon making evil horns on head
Still though having 9000 stuffed in the matress or in a savings account will ALWAYS lose to an index fund and index funds beat inflation so its actually still a winning strategy overall, although its like the Autopia at Disneyland where other strategies are driving the real streets of NYC.
A better title would have been: Captain America "impeached" by Marvel writers.
I heard about it when it first launched, read up on it and didn't see anything that (in my opinion) I hadn't seen done better in Rails.
I gave it another look recently and I find I much prefer their definition of model attributes within the model rather than in separate migrations. I plan to write an app in Django when next my schedule lightens up to get a better feel for it.
This makes it annoying to change an attribute to a getter function, for example, which involves no change to client code in Ruby.
Python has properties to allow that.
having sex in class, you?
Democrats don't care about reddit people.
i agree with most of that. and i point out the fact, that i am the antithesis of that. a citizen, who saves (due to fiscal conservative stance)...does drugs (fun guy)...hates pretarded xtians and fraud (hand in hand).
i really should be in charge, if you think about it..i AM America!
Sadly, a herd of hyper-adrenal 20-somethings have nothing better to do today then repeatedly innundate Reddit with puerile howls for impeachment.
Lest my comments be misinpterpreted, let me state for the record that I despise Bush and his cronies. Alas, if only repeatedly submitting whinges about impeachment on Reddit meant anything...
Neither torture nor the loss of habeus corpus had happened in the first term. The rest of the stuff is arguable about, but those two items have people all across the spectrum pissed off.
Besides, do you really want Bush in there for even 1 more year much less 2?
navy beans, navy beans... meatloaf saaaaanndwich!
Ah America.
Where you can go into a high school and try to confuse students into joining the army, where they will almost certainly be sent to Iraq...
But civil disobedience about the word vagina is inappopriate, because hearing the word vagina might irreparably harm them.
Yep, that makes sense to me.
Diesel Sweeties just got dropped by the seattle times on monday. Replaced it with "pickles"
The true Christian GOD created this and all of the known and unknown universe.
Mormons believe that God created the entire universe.
but all of them will NEVER argue over if mormons are Christians.
That's not true, since some think that they are.
Personally, I'd like to make it go away. I find it distracting.
that will change to 100% when it happens. they seem to think, telling the truth somehow makes the bad things happen, rather than their piss poor management of things.
you should check out vancouver, bc. if you haven't. amazing city.
I know two PHD holders who say otherwise.
"All they ever are, regardless of political allegience, is an echo chamber of like minded people, and often on the fringes."
I hope you don't mind if I steal that phrase. It's perfect!
i speak american.
HEY THAT'S ME!!
Why is there a camera in my ceiling!?
Downmod for cheap shot generalisations: "If you don't understand it, you may well be a Linux fan."
The bigger the market share of Linux distros, the more job openings related to it there will be - even if MSFT lays off some programmers, the number of internet and PC users will not be reduced.
Just because software is open-source does not guarantee "less jobs" - remember we are not just talking about free-as-in-beer here.
So the fact that China and Japan (among others) holds hundreds of billions of dollars is a 'figment of my imagination'. You, of course, have all the facts about how 'gazillionaires' allocate their holdings at your fingertips.
There was a time when China was willing to take on US debt.
What! Stop the press. Are they no longer accepting US dollars for their goods?
That time has long since passed into the annals of history.
Just like your pet theory, communism? :)
"This morning we saw pictures of the Warsaw ghetto at Yad Vashem and this evening we are going to the Ramallah ghetto."
The Holocaust is the destruction of the European Jews during the Nazi rule. The Bishop didn't say anything about the Holocaust. He compared the situation in Ramallah to the Warsaw ghetto, since both are cases of areal restriction enforced by the state. This may or may not be a good comparison (I think the recent comparision with Apartheid is much better), but it is in no way as outrageous a claim as some Israeli commentators, who btw seem to play the Anti-Semitism card whenever they can, make it to be.
This is a point that, so far, relatively few people have understood, including journalists. There's different active military hospitals for each branch, too. People don't seem to understand that there's a myriad of problems facing veterans.
There's the issues of coverage. The gaps between active duty coverage and veteran coverage. Which particular type of coverage do you choose when deemed "unfit" by the DoD? There's the delay in going from active duty, covered by DoD coverage and the VA coverage. It takes a long time for processing. It's confusing. It's hard to decide. There's risks and benefits to each choice.
I'm with the parent poster about the VA medical system being less than ideal. There's standard of care, and due to the constraints of the VA, there's VA standard of care which are quite different. You meet these guys, these veterans, and at first they seem like a crotchety bunch of complainers. Then you understand how their medical problems developed during or as a direct result of their active duty and then your attitude really changes.
I had a pretty negative attitude towards veterans who complained about VA health care until I met a lot of them and realized that it was nothing short of a moral imperative that these people be given what is 1. promised to them, 2. owed to them.
It's unfortunate that it takes news coverage to break a story like this when it should never have happened in the first place.
I realize that this is about Walter Reed, but it's the larger issue that needs to be addressed. First, there's the local issues with Walter Reed. Then there's the whole system of care for veterans. And superimposed on this are the entire problems with the US health care system.
Omg, you're so mean and terrifying that I tremble in the presence of your mere posts! Stop it before you cause me to fall apart into broken shards of pitiful remorse!
...and we should encourage this because?
That 'free'(*) and 'infinite' replaces an awful lot of jobs. Maybe it's a good thing for the economy as a whole, but, you know, it isn't a good thing for programmers. And that's who I'm trying to talk to here.
(*) Not really free. The money just goes elsewhere, whether the service-providers at IBM or the art-school-grad image-makers at Apple.
Nice gadget blog
Everything that portrays liberals in their true colors is now a "hit job".
Oh please.
I heard the tape.
Got it on podcast from Limbaugh.
Oh its real.
And Hillary is still a bitch. :P
And Obama's wife (Michelle Obama) is hot! I would love her, me, and Condi in a threesome. It'd be like an Oreo cookie. Mmmmm.
Really. On the other hand, I'm sure you agree with the conventional wisdom that keeping the Yuan devalued benefits the Chinese government and people.
Uh - jkerwin - I trade the market quite actively, been doing that for a very long while. Let's just say I remember Nixon closing the Gold window...
Money's been in Puts since December.
I sure hope investors arent idiots :-)
edit - I'm sure you realize that the market has a tendency to not price things in sometimes...this is one of those times. There's tremendous risk out there that's being completely ignored. Complacency at this level isnt unheard of, but it is rare.
A sword! He killed me with his sword, Mal!
Quick, someone tell my fembot to enlighten Mal here!
You are correct that is not just two men. Congress is nearly as guilty in this mess. But at least they have the fear of not being re-elected. They are sufficiently thick-headed and sold out to their interests that the grass roots are going to have to get VERY loud to motivate them.
Yeah, that key combo is right... check to see what query-replace is bound to.
Ok:
query-replace is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `replace.el'.
It is bound to M-%, .
Guess what. My window manager was grabbing the keybinding before it got to Emacs. Sorry everyone! Move along, nothing to see here.
comes from not knowing what 'knowing' is. classic pretard position.
I was hoping to check it out this summer actually. How does it compare to Colorado in terms of temp and availability of sunlight?
This is a cute play on Lost's DHARMA station logos using the Linux mascot, Tux. The Linux Initiative? PIC
No - but I'm also not willing to brand an entire religion as "Evil" when I believe only the extremists are such.
"we are not just talking about free-as-in-beer here"
Mmm, yeah we are. If you think corporations use Linux because it is "Free as in freedom", then you are giving corporations a bit more credit than they deserve.
BTW, does anybody know whether Richard Stallman is aware of what a capitalist tool he is? I doubt he knows it. Even the old South plantation owners gave their slaves biscuits and salt pork. Stallman would have them work for good intentions.
The point of the article is that "Sharia oppresses the citizens of Islamic countries." Present tense. (The Spanish Inquisition oppressed non-Catholics, but that's happily all over now.)
Where I disagree with the article is in its assertion that reform is impossible. I have Muslim friends from and living in Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia who all have far more liberal perspectives on Islamic law than the article would suggest. Reform is a near certainty.
Remember, the Quran, like the Bible, leaves substantial wiggle room in the form of contradictions (although admittedly far fewer than the Bible - consistency being an advantage of a single author).
Sure, in Ruby you write object.message(params), instead of message(object, params), but that is not what object orientation is about.
In ruby not everything is an object (control structures, blocks and the messages themselves are not, for example). But you do have a consistent interface. And surely consistency is a good thing?
Ruby has globals, magic variables, no enforced encapsulation, no template-metaprogramming, and it favors higher order functions (functional style) over the use of functors (functions (possibly with state) encapsulated in objects). All these features make the language less object oriented.
Ruby's syntax is very OO, but Ruby programs generally are not.
Fry, that's seriously trippy.
To everyone else: it prints "Greetings!" to the screen.
String's sort method uses each to iterate over the string. But each, rather than being aliased to each_char, is aliased to each_line. So it sorts a list containing just the one line, Greetings!, then prints it to the screen.
Ouch. What happened to the "principle of least surprise?"
(I'm glad I've never stumbled into this particular swamp before. I would have been pretty pissed off.)
Me? I've been standing as lookout while you have sex in class, so you don't get caught.
That'll be $20. Or your sister's phone number. The hot one, not the ugly one.
You owe me, dude.
I had a friend in High School that used the phrase "turgid member" a lot.
That was about 20 (!!!) years ago, and I've never heard the word used since. Hence the upmod. :)
Good.
Better yet, the ONE inch of snow that delayed any briefing on the Climate Bill today.
http://video1.washingtontimes.com/fishwrap/
Are you a liberal arts major* by any chance?
*-and high
slow, making it unusable in situations where the network or the database aren't bottlenecks. my machine is showing its age and large unit test suites take too long to run. speed does still matter and matz's lack of concern for efficiency is disturbing.
dirty Perl shit.
the community doesn't care about anything that isn't rails + databases + HTTP + javascript.
Damn. I used to be proud of my foosball skills, too.
Incredible stuff.
Nonetheless, the majority of prisoners neither rape nor are raped.
Reporting percentages also vary wildly depending on the particular institution, individiual prisoner relationships, relationships with the guards and/or medical staff, blah blah blah.
I have seen nothing that leads me to believe anything approaching 99% of prisoners are raped.
(I train with a fair number of guards and other LEOs, so while some of what I'm saying is anecdotal, I do have access to a fair amount of actual information.)
leave the republicans in power long enough and you'll find one
No I dont.
I think what we refer to as BWII is just a reaction to the 1997/1998 Asian crisis; they saw 'hot money' liquidity dry up, they saw their asset markets tank, they saw that the IMF and world markets were cruel.
It was humiliating for them. They vowed never to repeat it.
10 years later they're sitting on Trillions of USD and have growing trade surpluses.
They probably never intended to get like this. They're going to experience loss of purchasing power on at least some of their portfolio.
The biggest gainer in a USD diversification scenario is the JPY, the only major currency treated like an emerging market currency.
In the longer term, a currency that is not manipulated does best for the people of a nation.
edit BW II = Bretton Woods II
I had a computer science final that included a pile of flapjax documentation and some questions about the language. I assumed it was a made-up language until I saw the web-site.
Go Shriram!
"New cars...they all look like electric shavers."
--Marv
Cool headlights, though.
Your first paragraph is basically what I said, but with better historical detail.
Your second is just wrong. Let me summarize what I said:
"America's involvement in World War I was a necessary but not sufficient factor in Hitler's rise to power\World War II\the Holocaust." If Germany had won World War I or it dragged on longer with a more equitable treaty, I believe it is extremely unlikely the Nazis could have taken over. The failure of the Weimar Republic and the previous right-wing militaristic establishment associated with the Kaiser and WWI would not have happened, and there would have been no niche for Nazis to flourish in and eventually elect Hitler.
Blame is usually reserved for sufficient causes, not necessary ones. There are many things that were necessary for Hitler to rise from power, but that doesn't change the fact that removing one of those necessary causes (one of which, I propose, is American intervention in WWI) would then prevent the effect. I blame your sloppy thinking for blaming me for blaming America for the rise of Hitler. :)
()
shaking lords...that sounds effective.
You answered your own question. It's my belief that harming any sentient being is wrong, including raising and killing them for food. If I don't need to eat animals to survive or be healthy then I shouldn't do it, and I don't.
most Christians will tell you that the bible was written by God.
You're an idiot. Anyone who is not a social conservative is not automatically "incredibly left-leaning." The Interweb and reddit have a disporportionate amount of leftists, but libertarians too, which is a different animal altogether. There are also ma many people who are not particularly political at all ... outside of a few issues that they care about.
Vote sideways if you tire of simplistic gits.
Gosh, I don't know, maybe because he wasn't able to find any evidence that they broke any laws?
Its only -30 here today.
Just like your pet theory, unfettered capitalism? In case it's escaped your attention, the Chinese Central Bank hasn't increased its USD holdings for a very long time. It's actually been selling off.
You said, and I quote, "Not quite, a lot of the money held by non-USians (trillions, in fact) are held in US Dollars."
One presumes from the "not quite" that you're seeking to confront or oppose the view espoused by the poster you're responding to. If we interpret your sentence strictly to mean that China and Japan have USD holdings then there is no such opposition.
If we interpret it loosely to mean that China and Japan are increasing their USD holdings, well as stupid and out of touch with reality as that statement is, a lot of people still believe it. So it was reasonable for me to choose that interpretation and of course to point out that it is false.
This game of reinterpreting your own words when they are no longer convenient is beneath you.
after we impeach bush,then we'll save the planet.
vote up if you want to stop global warming.
But claiming that we should remove all kind of animal byproduct in our food (and I'm talking not only about meat but also about animal oil, fat or blood that is often used in food, for example) is just dogmatic.
What problem/s do you have with giving these things up? Why do you think it's okay to end an animal's life?
The civil war was started by Lincoln. When the Southern states seceded he could have let them go. That was the position of the copperheads.
Ouch. What happened to the "principle of least surprise?"
I tend to agree -- that the (proper) subunits of strings are characters and not lines. Perl-type-folks tend to disagree, and there is a strong tradition in Unix of using newline as a record separator.
It should be noted that Putney is an absolutely fabulous town just north of Brattleboro. It should be a must see destination in New England for no other reason that you get to stop at Curtis' Barbecue (at least when it is open in season): http://www.curtisbbqvt.com/
If you enjoy hard cider than Putney Mountain Heirloom Cuvee from the Putney Mountain Winery is pretty great with the ribs.
Sure. Nevertheless you said: "Our standards are superior"
That's what I have an objection to :)
I'm still getting amazonaws.com as the source for scripts and images, though I expect that will change before too long.
That explains it. I figured it would be a video of people showing how creepy we are when we sleep or something.
I'm a bit disappointed actually. I was hoping it was a discovery that everyone levitates off the covers or something. Ah well.
Methinks you have the score backwards... :P
Thanks!
the US is IN financial trouble. and if my experience in a patent lawsuit is any indicator (the introduction of new/novel technology) the ONLY saving 'grace' of the US, is not existing anymore.
the US profited HUGELY from world wars technologywise (the losers). Im thinking (based on what's happening)...'we' intend to, as the bad guy this time...go steal it.
our bottom line is PATHETIC...our DISNEY DUMBASS 'charity' view of SCUM is a DISEASE. we are lost, due to the mainstream dumbass...prediction of Plato BTW.
And we should encourage this because we will have cheaper, better quality, platform independent software? Come on, this is like telling people who work in television* that because the viewers don't have pay to watch it, they will lose their jobs. Revenue comes to a company in many forms (which is why if Dell objects to the Linux proposals, it's not going to be because it's bad business. As someone said, people would pay for the assurance that the distro in question was good quality, professionally installed and that they can call someone for assistance).
In any case, people have always been able to find new ways to use their skills in the advent of new technologies or types of business, or they have been able to learn new skills. Even if they don't, that's really no reason to work against a software movement which has proven to be beneficial to many people.
*excluding pay TV, of course. But there is no denying that as a business model, free-to-air is viable.
[Edit: superfluous wordage]
The instant one man says he is incapable of doing something there is another who can and will find a way to do so.
I am that man.
I will bring impeachment proceedings to my city council and my state legislators.
I am in Arizona.
This would be true if the demand for programmers were fixed, it's not.
Microsoft employs less than 2% of the programmers in the US.
There is plenty of unmet demand.
New areas of demand are constantly being created.
there is plenty of room for entrepreneurial activity in the markets served by programmers.
Commodification proceeds until the cost of the commodity approaches the marginal cost of producing the commodity. General purpose computer operating systems are still in the process of commodifying, and the marginal cost of producing a single copy of a given OS is close to negligible (less than a latte if you count media and packaging). So what you see here is another step towards the OS being one of the lower cost components of the system.
You are looking at this situation with the wrong metaphors, it's not teamsters and trucking companies, it's more like asking if Monsanto not getting a patent on flowering plants is going to throw gardeners out of work.
Most programmers are working in someone's garden and will keep on doing so, a few research botanists will be moving on to other positions (or not), but the overall market for gardening (programming) talent isn't going to change that much just because one supplier is losing it's dominance in the marketplace to generic substitutes.
It tripped me up several times. Now I know I have to do
"Greetings!".split(//).sort.join('')
instead. No big deal - especially since testing one-liners takes no time at all.
Round two:
Predict the output:
map = {:name => "Fry", :activity => "Typing obsessively"}
map.each_with_index{|i, j| puts "Key: #{i.inspect} Val: #{j.inspect} -> with indirection: #{map[j].inspect}" }
Compare this to the behavior of each-with-index for plain arrays.
Lincoln faced a domestic insurgency; he didn't go looking for a fight overseas. Trouble came to Lincoln; Bush went looking for trouble.
It is more than a bit disingenous to equate Lincolon's executive actions, based on an accurate perception of present domestic emergency, and necessary for the preservation of the republic, with Bush's executive actions, based on fabrications of an imagined overseas threat, and now demonstrably contrary to the national interest.
It's true that China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Gulf Cooperation Council countries (Middle East OPEC members), Russia (de facto OPEC member) and Brazil (another location for hot money) hold a lot of USDs.
But they arent being held by individuals or private institutions, instead they're being held by government entities, whose main motivation is likely political/strategic/diplomatic, not economic.
Not much point in writing my Rep - Heather Wilson.
Anyone for Omaha ?
For fuck's sake. No one is saying she didn't do it. What they are saying is that it was, for all intents and purposes, an impersonation.
I don't like her either, so why don't we all attack her for legit reasons instead of bullshit like this?
she was reading a quote, and using dialect, most news outlets failed to make that point
Criminals who, faced with armed resistance, try to disarm their victims have very short life expectancy...
Did anybody else notice that the girl in set #2 somehow lost her shirt?
Awesome site!!!
Duly noted.
No. That's vomit you smell. I made me puke to hear the mainstream media start to question motives, tactics and crimes that have been going on for years. Bush will retire to a comfortable life as a rich, smug, smirking jackass who probably still believes his own shit doesn't stink. I hope I live to see the shit we've stirred up in the middle east settle down, but I really don't think I will. Good job, W.
I didn't mean either. My point was that unlike Argentina, where a devaluation in the Peso didn't affect foreign investors, there are plenty of countries who keep large amounts of their capital in US dollars. A dollar devaluation wouldn't quite create such a buying opportunity for them since a large percentage of their liquid holdings would have also been devalued.
How exciting! There are already enough posts to make searches churn up good results, and I imagine that this site will continue to gain traction, given its user-friendliness and the current void of options for such a service.
Yes I know. But I'm linking to my own submission, which may lead to people up-voting it.
That would make a lot of sense. You could be onto something there.
no, but I'm not supporting his impeachment
Nobody is forcing her into prostitution, merely that if she refuses to find a job they will cut her benefits.
I see no problem with this: Go find a job or we'll find one for you.
The person in this story is either refusing to find or take work, so she has been offered a legal paying alternative. Most people don't like their job anyways...this is just more of the same. McDonalds and contruction is always hiring.
(yes, I know this story is a fake.)
What flavour?
I agree with pretty much everything you said except for this:
And as for impeachment, this is nothing more than liberals' desire for revenge over Clinton. Their guy got impeached, now they want the same.
This is not about Clinton anymore. As I see it, it's not even about right vs. left anymore. I hate to sound like I'm spewing forth some lame cliche, but this has now transcended the political divide and has become about right vs. wrong.
George W. Bush has raped us all, and cleaned himself off afterwards using the the Constitution.
As fourstates mentions in his comment, this would restore a significant amount of the world's faith in America.
People like Bush and Cheney are dinosaurs in the sense that their train of thought is a product of old Cold War era hysteria.
They are the RIAA of foreign policy.
They support the idea of the American Empire - the idea that America is and should be the one and only true "hyperpower", and that if America doesn't take on this position, some other nation will.
This is the heart and soul of the PNAC, which is, in and of itself, the heart and soul of the Bush agenda.
It is also no secret that the authors of the PNAC are followers of Leo Strauss as well, believing that the lowly ignorant masses need to be deceived by their leaders because they can't handle the truth, and that they are incapable of succeeding without a higher, wiser, neoconservative authority.
It is for this reason that they are so condescending, so arrogant to think that they know what is best for the people with whom they could never, ever relate, not in a million years.
Picture Laura Bush and her Prozac-eyes, pretending to understand and sympathize with what the average American has to deal with, especially as a result of the failures of her husband. I wish the First Lady could be impeached, because I'd vote for that too in a New York minute.
The Clinton scandal was petty compared to this. His impeachment, whether you support(ed) it or not, was a direct result of America's lack of anything substantial to actually worry about and/or rally against.
It is and was irrelevant, just as our political leanings, however alike or different, are also irrelevant. This is bigger than all of that combined.
Oh yeah, Locutus, you really got me thinking... ha ha ha ha.
yeah but I want to impeach EVERYBODY in office.
Weegee said that Christian law is bad for all societies.
1st, Christian law is a nonsense statement, since Christianity is freedom from the law.
2nd, Christianity is being like Christ. I only asked what Christ said or did which was bad.
Human beings, of course, are a different matter altogether.
not if you live in iraq.
You like that we've spent $200 billion on the war on pot? Arrested tens of millions? You think continuing with this is better for society than what... you think if pot were legal far more people would be getting high? If so, what would be so bad about that? Have you never met a productive member of society who smokes pot? You're seeing what you want to see, or don't know a lot about a lot of productive people, if the answer is yes.
The biggest gainer in a USD diversification scenario is the JPY, the only major currency treated like an emerging market currency.
You seem to know what you're talking about. How are you so confident that Japan would be a sure gainer? Generally the mandarins there get really concerned when the Yen rises. They fear it'll hurt exports.
More likely that today in particular was characterized by a loose collaboration of impeachmentists who mistakenly believe that innundating Reddit with impeachment related articles is a substantive contribution to America's political processes...
Annoying, yes. Certainly boring. But not necessarily the best measure of regular visitors or submittors to Reddit ...
Hate to say it but this was the plan all along if they got caught and historically presidential friends in trouble are pardoned.
Not only is it a spoiler, but you are spoiled just by reading the title, which is even worse.
"Comic book hero Captain America is dead.(spoiler)" would have been just as bad.
He could have choosen "Important comic book character dies.(spoiler)", but no.
Thanks for ruining it for the people who actually do read marvel comics.
Rails has eaten Ruby.
Both seem lightweight and productive to the barbarian hordes of Java refugees, but unless you're developing extremely cache-friendly, CRUD-centric web applications (I'd say penny-arcade.com is an excellent example of a perfect fit for Rails), you're liable to be very disappointed. And even if you are developing something like that, there are much more productive, robust, productive, efficient, productive, lightweight, productive, and productive (did I mention productive?) alternatives out there.
http://www.abovethelaw.com/2007/02/law_librarian_hotties_your_fem.php
I learned common keybindings on Macs back in the 80s, several years before I ever used a Unix system, and a long time before I used Unix on a day-to-day basis. These days I do more work in Windows, but I also use Macs and Linux regularly. If I can remember the control vs. command thing on Macs, I have my choice of a boatload of editors that use highly similar keybindings -- UltraEdit, Komodo Edit, Visual Studio, BBEdit, Kate, and plenty of others. They also work in Word, OpenOffice, and a host of other applications.
I don't begrudge Emacs or Vim users their lack of desire to switch keybindings, but I also have no desire to switch. The ctrl and shift bindings on the arrow keys, PgUp, PgDn, Home, and End make it really fast to navigate on an app with the bindings I'm used to, just as your bindings work for you.
I've played with CUA and some other extensions for Emacs, and I suppose I may end up liking it eventually. Certainly, I'm intrigued at the idea of having an integrated Lisp interpreter. After figuring out how to rebind some of the keys, my immediate remaining peeves were: weak GUI integration (not unusable, but not what I'm used to) and the lack of an open-files-at-a-glance window.
Of course, I expect Emacs has some kind of solution to let me map a file list to the left chunk of its window, and when I get some time to learn how to do find and replace properly in Emacs, I'm hoping it will be an improvement over the crappy, non-standardized find features I'm used to from various GUI apps -- I generally can remember how to find quickly in an app or two, but it's a pain to switch between more than that.
'Christian law' is a nonsense statement. Christ freed us from the law (of Moses). Christianity is grace, not law.
You have a point, but the same could be said for the movement to impeach Clinton. Politicians do weird stuff... But atleast it would ruin Bush's rep for the rest of... forever. :P
Oh, I love eating meat. Bacon, buffolo, shrimp... but it's abberant to what is sustainable. Farmers are progressive because they sooner or later come into the idea of sustainibilty. Now that we're on a global scale our perspective has to be broader. But I have hope in you Locutus. Your at least open to debate. But from now on it's Dragnet philosophy with you... "just the facts mam."
thanks. FINALLY a photo of paris that doesn't include the same suspects! (eiffel tower, et al)
And I thought irish people spontaneously combusted when exposed to sunlight.
Live and learn. :-)
Meh, they're both c**ts.
The dark witches are coming!
America is a continent, not a country.
no shit? but maybe that's what they want us to think.
Wow, downmodded by jesus lovers.
But, you could also not consider it karma whoring; people are really angry out here and this our way of venting that frustration. This post may not represent a healthy read, but it will highlight a need to remove the current American president.
Why not? (Just curious)
Personally, I'd rahter see Bush impaled than impeached.
Not creepy, not even weird, I'm thinking the camera flash interupts their sleep and they move so they are all over the place.
"Stop driving your car."
Amen brother. Bush isn't the problem, he's a symptom.
"On Monday March 19th, as a follow-up to our huge rally at the Pentagon, join us and meet with Congresspeople to help hit home the point that our coalition of organizations (representative of many millions of disaffected U.S. citizens) demand impeachment of Bush and Cheney. In order to make that message crystal clear we will be authoring what are called 'memorials' which is a legally/procedurally recognized method by the Rules of the House of Representatives for individual citizens to initiate the impeachment process in the House. The congressperson can then, if convinced, bring up articles of impeachment for debate."
im a LIBERTARIAN....fiscally conservative....socially liberal
you know...sane
an abstraction im sure you can't handle.
should read: "Cat Picture"
kleenex
Jesus. I just down-voted 7 different links that are virtually the same shit. Why don't you chumps go hang out at dKos. You're ruining this site for all the non-Usians, who are tired of hearing about your fucked up political system.
whistles It's even longer than the Final Fantasy VII article!
From my experience, on any given machine, installing either linux or windows, requires a certain amount of effort and tacit knowledge about OS setup and hardware. Vista can require more effort to install than most linux distributions under some circumstances.
Most of the people yammering about how hard linux is to install don't have that much experience with it, and aren't comparing the difficulty to installing windows from scratch, but to buying a machine configured by the manufacturer.
Device Drivers suck everywhere, open-source drivers tend to suck less over time.
it's top 8 of 8 now.
so all ugly fat chicks go there...your set...free government money, and nobody wants to boink you.
That's interesting, since central Pennsylvania is highly Republican.
I chose 'Crime' from the drop-down as the subject of my letter. :)
1. They have manipulated intelligence and misled the country to justify an immoral, unjust, and unnecessary preemptive war in Iraq.
They have never been accused of manipulating intelligence, at least by anyone who is sane. They acted on bad intelligence just like every congress person who also justified the war. Maybe we should fire everyone at the CIA, DIA, NIA, NSA etc. etc..
They have directed the government to engage in domestic spying without warrants, in direct contravention of U.S. law.
Anyone who is against this should definitely have their phones tapped. Sounds like the most effective way to filter the terrorists planning attacks from me just saying "hello" to granny in Italy.
They have conspired to commit the torture of prisoners, in violation of the Federal Torture Act and the Geneva Convention.
4.
They have ordered the indefinite detention without legal counsel, without charges and without the opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention -- all in violation of U.S. law and the Bill of Rights.
1.
Alas, no. You can rewrite history, but the underlying actual events are more difficult to change.
What is the deal with New York? It seems as soon as you get out of the city it turns into hick country, with accusations of witchcraft and barely civilized court systems.
On a lighter note: how do you know she is a witch?
is green a jewish name?
I think we need a new subreddit for impeachment links.
of course you did dear... let me know when you recover!
USian liberals (the voters and the politicians) are so useless. They spent ages feeling sorry for themselves rather than doing anything about the situation. Now, they've finally come up with a plan of action: spam the internets.
Bravo.
wow, this is news. I thought she was just that way naturally....
30 times was enough. Fuck off.
Ever heard of infrared light/cameras Mr. Ichioka?
This flash method will give false results about a sleepers movements.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Capdeath.PNG
Well, the short answer is no, it's not binding -- it's essentially an instruction from the towns to the VT Congressional delegation.
I want to point out, though, that this is a drastic and severe action (trite though it may seem to those unfamiliar with the Town Meeting process). Towns are very, very reluctant to engage issues outside of "town business," for the obvious reason that it invites endless and mostly pointless divisiveness on issues beyond the scope of town authority. Things like this are not taken lightly, and passable declarations on non-town affairs are EXTREMELY rare. That these towns -- many of them much more conservative than the VT national image would suggest -- actually voted these resolutions means, in no uncertain terms, that the tragedy in Iraq, and the misdeeds that got us there, have so impacted the people of the individual Vermont towns that Bush's international crimes have become a matter of town pain, anger, and deep concern.
Will this lead immediately to Congressional action? No. Will it tell the VT Congressional delegation to quit sitting on their hands about impeachment or else risk their seats? Probably. Does it mean that ordinary American people who are habituated to moderation and civility are completely pissed, and ready to recover lawful governance? Oh yeah.
It would, from my perspective, seem best to think of it as the most shocking measure yet of the depth of public outrage over Bush administration policies.
More late breaking news: Illinois Votes to Revoke Vermont's statehood - Demands that Vermont be declared a territory under Federal Law and governed by New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine.
Question:
Why do you give a damn what the middle eastern perception of reality is? Or whether or not they think we are strong or weak? It is this machismo that makes us do, think and say stupid things.
The only reason to care about someone's perception of your strength that I can think of is that you want to control them, and you can't do that if they know you are weak.
Do you feel like it is our job to control the Middle East?
Well, it's obvious that the "Vegan" is substituting the "o"s with other vowels to confuse us before they blow up our planet. So long and thanks for all the milk and honey.
He has been doing intelligent comedy for over 40 years!
but...but....McFly..did?
what do you expect from 'people' who don't know what 'knowing' is <= FACT.
look at the techno mumbo jumbo...designed to snare the stupid (their favorite ally)...
THESE ARE NOT FACTS. these are statistics (probably skewed) mixed with techno bable. but the MEAT is OPINION.
you should RUN far and fast from 'people' like this. with them, it's NOT about 'help' it's about ABUSE...DESTRUCTION.
i lived it.
Well, I was just replying to other people's speculation about what the consequences of her having a weapon would have been, and pointing out to the anti-gun crowd that having a gun is only a problem if you're an idiot with it.
I must be doing something right.
I agree that people should be moving on this. An impeachment would be a statement that the whole world could get behind. George W. Bush does not represent the people here or anywhere else.
Why are you guys spamming the shit out or Reddit with this stuff? There are lots of sites devoted for this kind of stuff.
We're not all USians.
"Our concern is equity. If your son registers, the guy who lives across the street who is 18 should have to register too."
Sounds perfectly equitable to me.
Al Gore is going to be pissed when he sees this!
Here's a prototype of a hack I did a few days ago that takes a totally different approach to implementing Smalltalk-style instance replacement.
import gc
def become_in_dict(ref, old, new):
assert type(ref) == dict
for key, value in ref.items():
if key is old and value is old:
del ref[key]
ref[new] = new
elif key is old:
del ref[key]
ref[new] = value
elif value is old:
ref[key] = new
def become_in_list(ref, old, new):
assert type(ref) == list
for i, value in enumerate(ref):
if value is old:
ref[i] = new
def become_in_tuple(ref, old, new):
assert type(ref) == tuple
ref_list = []
for value in ref:
if value is old:
ref_list.append(new)
else:
ref_list.append(value)
return become(ref, tuple(ref_list))
become_handlers = {dict : become_in_dict,
list : become_in_list,
tuple : become_in_tuple}
def become(old, new):
for ref in gc.get_referrers(old):
if type(ref) in become_handlers:
become_handlers[type(ref)](ref, old, new)
old = "i am the old"
new = "i am the new"
x = [old, old, "asdf"]
y = {old : 123, 123 : old, old : old}
z = (old, old, "fafa")
print x, y, z
become(old, new)
print x, y, z
This is more flexible in that it allows "deep reloading" anything. The reason Guido's hack for reloading classes and functions works (and I've used something similar in the past) is that classes and functions have layers of indirection that let us scoop out and replace their innards without changing their bodies.
One issue with my idea is that you need a become-handler for each primitive native-coded kind of container, i.e. one that isn't just implemented in terms of lists, dicts or tuples. The three in the sample code actually cover almost everything. I intentionally do not do surgery on call frames, so this code should only be called when the system is in a quiescent state.
This sounds really cool. Easy way to make money!
I, for one, welcome our new six-legged overlords.
Silly golddiggers. Don't they know they aren't supposed to use you for money, you're supposed to use them for sex and discard them.
rush and cars...okay....the rest...respectible, but hmm..not my cup of tea.
how come i get a tab pop-up on 'n' sometimes...virus?
Could we have a feature to hide submissions based on a particular string?
There was a reason nobody ever took out Saddam before. Because they knew that if they did, a leader with whom our government is unfamiliar could very likely take his place.
He was predictable and able to be contained. The power-struggle that has been created in his absence obviously is neither of the two.
PS: We (America) also really like to kill people in the Middle East.
Insulting? Pfft.
Ruby and PHP programs are often in the same domain (text processing and powering web applications).
Both languages are dynamic and run-time typed.
Both languages are interpreted by walking the AST and therefore painfully slow.
Both languages are full of quirks.
Both languages have hashes/arrays as primary data-structures.
Both languages use globals extensively to make code more concise.
Both languages are primarily used by (aspiring) web developers.
PHP really is quite similar to Ruby. Why is that such a problem?
captain america is a fucking retard anyway.
Okay, okay. The economy is very complicated, and we're all going to have our simplified models to use to describe it. But let me boil what I'm saying down to an axiom:
Working for zero dollars an hour == BAD.
Of course, lots of open source programmers are on salary, and to them I would add the corollary:
While maximizing profits on your labor is not morally required, making sure that someone else isn't doing the same is morally required.
Maybe I'm wrong--a lot of software companies seem to be getting started on the backs of open source software (LAMP, mainly) so that's great. But desktop software is another matter. This is something used by Joe and Mary LawyerDegree, and I would really prefer they shell out the 129 dollars for Vista Premium, frankly.
Coz, you know, they just check their email and look at amazon--and Linux is perfectly capable of that.
As I said, not all of them are bad - some of them are, some of them aren't.
vince vaughn a fucking idiot...another "what's his face...that guy who got jacked by heidi fleiss" kind of guy.
jerad, is just another pretty boy doing 'pop' things to make himself 'something'.
Even longer exposures with available light would would out pretty well. Most bedrooms aren't completely dark.
true dat. the real voice should never be assumed...RUN from those people.
Which is fine. No one says you have to.
I am sort of curious why you aren't though, if you seem to dislike him so much and believe he's been breaking the law since day 1.
Sounds like someone has a bad case of the Mondays.
On Wednesday yet.
I know nothing.
Over the decade? Very likely that JPY at this point will seem the most undervalued major currency (Euro, Dollar, Pound, Yen, Swissy) in the world, and Tokyo property a massively overlooked play.
Yen rise hurting exports, maybe, maybe not. That view will likely wither as Japan moves current account surplus from Trade towards capital accounts, in essense, as their financial holding generate more current account surpluses than their Trade activity.
edit - Also add that Asia as a whole is going to tire of holding and increasing their USD holdings. The US needs nearly 3 billion dollars a day in financing; Asia can very soon get along without the US, we're not going to be able to get along without them.
Downvote for blatant attempt to gain karma by linking to nsfw.reddit.com from the wayback machine.
"[Vv]ote [Uu]p [Ii]f.*" : downmod #stop the karma chameleons
No surprises there. I guess these teflon republicans need to drop some more F-bombs so people don't think they're all gay.
The thing is, it's not just a few hundred geeks sitting around on reddit. It's thousands of people all over the USA (and the rest of the world's being wanting this for 6 years now), there are impeachment movements popping up everywhere and there's pretty major dislike for GWB and friends.
Sure, it probably won't change a thing, but it's worth a try and who knows?
"Moreover, some of the personal information about the former customers and employees of the defendant's business is also sensitive based on the nature of that business." [My italics]
So we have, on the one hand, the salacious "To Catch a Predator" series that extensively interviews defendants on primetime national TV without due process but people who committed crimes in this case cannot even be mentioned? Wow, I wonder how many "family values", "law and order" hypocrites are on that list.
Is prostitution legal in DC? Many people don't know that the age of consent is lower in DC than most states.
I think you're right -- there's a point at which someone in Coulter's position marginalizes herself to the point that nobody pays attention. What's scary is that we didn't pass that point five years ago. Coulter is quoted on a recent infotainment show as saying, "This is my 17th allegedly career-ending moment."
I agree there's a line, but media love of self-producing news is making it easier and easier for people like Coulter to walk that line. This was calculated, and the very fact that she's US nightly news three days running would suggest the calculation was, again, and sadly, correct.
something fishy about this one, i'd avoid it.
and...FUCK the poster.
Seriously, the princaple wanted to throw out shakespeare. Come on people....
So agreed. The problem is that I think the hysterical liberals upvote a LOT more than anyone else, and while that may not be representative of the public at large, it happens an overwhelming amount of times on this site.
In regards to that, I ALMOST removed this RSS feed from my reader today due to the 5/7 top story issue you explained. IMHO, reddit would be a much more pleasant place if all politics were banned. The constant fighting and bitching gets so tiring after awhile. If all the people bitching would use that time to volunteer at a children's shelter or church or meals on wheels or something, this country would be so much better off...
In ruby not everything is an object (control structures, blocks and the messages themselves are not, for example).
Just showing my ignorance here, but is there a language where control structures, blocks, and the actual messages being passed are objects in and of themselves? Sounds like an interesting idea to wrap your head around, and in the case of control structures a spectacularly confusing way to shoot yourself in the foot.
Do you regret you haven't majored in CS?
All sorts of errors are common for retarded people. Why did I tie my shoelaces together?!?
First: there's nothing wrong with pop rock the way there's nothing wrong with American Idol. Popular does not equate to good.
Second: I highly doubt anyone watched the game for Prince. The commercials I'll buy. Because they went to a party seems more likely. Anyone who just wanted to see Prince could have just rented Purple Rain and called it a day.
pretty simple blog directory with some nice looking pics
my lawyer (duke law...ex congressman...greek) told me Alexander was gay. (i used alexander as a compliment once)...
anyway, im with YOU on the battlefield...though USE your 'gaydar'...cause i don't have 1 gay molecule in me. it's all about the justice with me...and chicks.
That was the first thing I noticed, and I intend to view the full set as soon as it's post-closing-time so I don't have to worry about someone walking by.
self hating-homosexuals are the decent homosexuals around, atleast they understand the filth they were born as.
In JavaScript, which is similar to Ruby on the surface, everything is just a bound lambda, so a method is the same thing.
In Ruby, methods are messages, which means you can do things like set up a custom message dispatcher for methods that don't really exist. In languages where methods are bound lambdas, that's either impossible or more difficult to accomplish.
Actually, what I'm gonna do is vote every one of these fucking stories down.
Thanks for making like 10 different threads about this, asshats. Oh and congrats on getting 5 out of 7 on the top listed.
I don't have to, I'm pretty much sure I know where it came from - google "kellerman study" - you might learn something. I doubt you will like it, though... ;)
Even if Kellerman wasn't a hack and his study was beyond reproach, framing the argument as "shot, vs shooting the perp" is still bogus. Simply displaying the gun is a powerful deterrent to any would be criminal. In most cases of defensive use of a gun all it takes to prevent a crime is to show it.
KushCash baby. Where are my girls at??
I hate the fact that Ruby has stolen all its ideas from Smalltalk.
That's not true, it stole stuff from Lisp and Perl as well.
This is arguably one of the first, if not the first home page seen in a browser on the web.
I thought Captain America was supposed to be out of commission as he was frozen in a timeless alternate dimension with red skull. At least that's the way the Spiderman cartoon tells it.
Awesome.
Maybe there is a God? lol
They will need that to catch up to KushCash. Baby please...
heh. nice.
PS Sincerely, good luck.
Ruby object system has some good ideas that improve upon Smalltalk. In every other aspect Ruby is basically Smalltalk that sucks.
Smalltalk has faster/better runtimes
Smalltalk implementations are more mature.
Smalltalk is more consistent.
Smalltalk is ready.
Smalltalk is more beautiful
Only when people in comp.eng first learn and master what there has been, they can improve upon it. Today it is just that programming language people just invent more powder. Same shit in new package.
It's a shame it wasn't just the way we make coins from now on.If we're allegedly secular then none of our currency should have christian references.
I just reported this to reddit, as a violation of reddit guidelines. I hope other people do too, as this is a clear violation. Tyrone doesn't seem to understand that posts are not supposed to be polls.
Lady #2 got naked! woot!
How do you think that the CIA raises the millions it needs for off-the-books black-bag operations?
There is no one word to say somebody was born in the USA.
Yes, American.
It's what has being used historically. I know you try to apply some logic calculation to your case but logic can't change the past no matter how hard you try. Read any history book, news paper, magazine or look any existing media and tell me how Americans are called? Yes Americans that's right.
The name Canada comes from a word in the language of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians meaning "village". Some historians say that our ancestors though it was the name of the area and then mistakenly use it. Now why should we call ourselfs "Village" if it was a mistake to begin for? It's not correct, this is a country, we should correct that mistake right? Well who cares historically that's how Canada is called and that's it. Same thing for Americans; It's maybe confusing for other people living in the continent but you can't change the fact.
Move cash without your wallet! Interesting!
Two more years might give Cheney/Bush an excuse to declare martial law and "postpone" the election.
I agree with you as far as not wanting to stick with reddit. I am not a Bush fan but these constant emotional and negative posts are endless and quite tiresome. I am tired of weeding through them to find content I might be interested in. This place is going downhill fast.
And yet people voted him up, what does that mean?
I love it when people who think I'm an idiot link to my blog. Goes to show their own brilliance.
Never said popular was the same as good.
I never said people watched for Prince, I'm saying he's generally inoffensive. People aren't going to turn off the TV because of Prince.
I build this,send the money to your friends using mobile keyboard within seconds.
I didn't know what toxopasmosis was and so I looked it up. Within minutes I was able to determine that it's completely harmless to anybody with a normal immune system.
Although, had the whale been properly vegan, this would never have happened. He would have vomited up an acre of kelp, or algae. Which would be so much more healthy and moral.
Wow, that's a nice example of bad behavior and it totally violates Ruby's Principle of Lease Surprise.
As far as I'm concerned, Spam and Java are two manifestations of the same phenomenon.
You just made my quotes file.
It's a good thing democrats control the House or we would have to find a way to impeach Bush, Cheney, and Hastert at the same time.
OK, why was civil war "hoped for"? Why was the goal chaos? Who benefits from that?
Just because he has or has had sex with other men doesn't mean he's gay. After all, what if he's been cured?
I stand corrected.
The bill would prohibit a state or local government entity from disclosing a Social Security number and other sensitive information unless authorized to do so by Attorney General Greg Abbott's office.
learn to use the down arrow. it makes my front page much cleaner since none of these spam postings appear for me now. unreal how many of the same posts get to the front page day after day. i really wonder if these people really know what impeachment is? and do they really think using reddit is going to get it done?
for them [from wikipedia]:
"The impeachment procedure is in two steps. The House of Representatives must first pass "articles of impeachment" by a simple majority. (All fifty state legislatures as well as the District of Columbia city council may also pass articles of impeachment against their own executives). The articles of impeachment constitute the formal allegations. Upon their passage, the defendant has been "impeached."
Next, the Senate tries the accused. In the case of the impeachment of a President, the Chief Justice of the United States presides over the proceedings. Otherwise, the Vice President, in his capacity as President of the Senate, or the President pro tempore of the Senate presides. This may include the impeachment of the Vice President him- or herself, although legal theories suggest that allowing a person to be the judge in the case where she or he was the defendant wouldn't be permitted. If the Vice President did not preside over an impeachment, the duties would fall to the President Pro Tempore.
In order to convict the accused, a two-thirds majority of the senators present is required."
Right, Limbaugh's an objective source.
Out of curiosity, what exactly did the Google founders own ten years ago that led to their gigantic fortunes? All I can come up with is "a really good idea" and ideas don't generate income. There was a lot of work done long before they saw any money from their idea or their work.
And the access to capital to make something happen with it.
Hard work (your own and that of others) + innovative product + funding can indeed = billions.
But are we supposed to tell that to every American? "Start a business, having a job is for suckers."?
People who have jobs are the ones that create the wealth that successful entrepreneurs enjoy. If all those billions concentrate themselves at the top and just stay there, if enough doesn't get spread around for ordinary working people who aren't successful entrepreneurs to give their kids a better start than they had, then the US is well on its way to becoming a banana republic.
Great artists steal!
It's really nice and useful...
Not all us photographers can be in a situation where the background is good. I've blanked out the background in one of my photos because I liked the foreground too much to just throw away the image.
how can this be a priority? given what's happening.
I don't know of any languages where everything is an object. But people keep saying that everything is an object in Ruby, even though Ruby is not supremely OO (compared to say, smalltalk).
In smalltalk, for instance, if-blocks work differently. You don't write if [condition] [code], you instead send the code, wrapped in an object to the ifTrue object. My understanding is (even though my experience with smalltalk is extremely limited) that all control structures work this way: they are merely objects that receive blocks of code. By evaluating the condition, ifTrue can decide whether the rest of the code should be evaluated.
Blocks are real objects in most languages. Ruby has both Proc, Func and blocks. In ruby blocks have to be 'wrapped' in Proc objects if you want address them in an OO manner. This is mostly a syntax issue
([1, 2, 3].map{|i| i + 1}.map{|i| i - 1} == [1, 2, 3]
If the blocks had been real objects, then the block itself would've swallowed the second 'map' message. That's not what you want, so you make blocks behave differently.
As for the messages being objects, this too is mostly a syntax issue. Object can receive messages in the form of Strings, which are objects themselves.
Of course this is only going to come in sizes up to a D.
Stupid regular boobed people.
If she had other jobs available that she wasn't taking because she didn't want to do them, then she would already be in the situation of having her benefits cut and this article wouldn't have been written.
Also, forcing a woman to have sex with someone is rape. Whether you do it by threatening her with violence or by threatening her with being homeless doesn't change a thing.
is this all employees??? or what???
Took me 30 seconds to find this:
http://www.democrats.com/impeach-bush
"Democrats.com has led the fight to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney since they stole the 2000 election"
While maximizing profits on your labor is not morally required, making sure that someone else isn't doing the same is morally required.
If you can gain a competitive advantage and make more money doing so you should. At least if you're a committed capitalist ;-)
No one is expecting you to work for t-shirts and goodwill, but if your niche is going away, you should find something else to do.
From what I understand there is quite a market demand for adapting VB/ActiveX software to run under WINE or in VMWare images that are accessed over the LAN.
Interesting. Reddit's news about digg's news about Reddit.
I haven't been on digg in a few hours. Someone, quick, submit a story to digg about this story!
Long Island is part of the New York City metropolitan area to such an extent that most people from fifty miles away would scarcely distinguish the two. Plenty of "hick country" upstate, true, but that's not where this took place.
For my part, I have a cynical suspicion that there's more to this than meets the plaintiff's attorney's eye. The school, in this posture, has to be mum, but I would not be surprised if, when the dust settles and the TV trucks roll out of town, we discover an underlying, legitimate reason for the tenure denial. My point is limited to this: it is premature to judge either the merits of the complaint or the character of the community based on a salacious and undeveloped legal argument.
Um, keep reading.
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I have a guy at work who is a fundamentalist/creationist. When I told him about radioactive [aging] analysis and space formation, the argument about the existence of god halted like Windows 95 during an IRQ conflict.
This may explain why my votes don't work.
Maybe reddit users are just excited about the idea of impeachment?
Say what you want. Fact is the recording has her on tape trying to act like a southern black preacher.
I could care about his objectivity. I listen cause he is a comedic genius.
Most of his spouting is unbearable. Same with Stern, but I listen to him also.
Upon taking office, Clinton fired every single US attorney but one. Nobody ever mentions this.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDZmMzQ5Zjg4ZGI1OTgxODA1OWM5YzFjYTRmYTlhNzk=
I got immediately down-modded. Within seconds of the post appearing.
Two new sites that are a twist on the Digg model - Greendope.com and Protestdope.com focus on environmental and social activism news, respectively.
It's about the fact that I had to highlight the text just to read it. Light gray on white - really?
Huh??? A non-sequitur.
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from the link :The University of Southern Indiana Association of Nursing Students (USIANS) is a local chapter of the Indiana Association of Nursing Students"
No, I don't think so (better said, it's not just that). This is something strange. Never seen the front page look like that.
That's why I started -- what I intended as a one-off, throwaway, obnoxious comment -- with USian. If only it had been ignored ... being misunderstood, deliberately or otherwise, was a pity.
Looks like a pretty extreme Libertarian site. Watch out what you sign up for.
From their mission statement:
http://www.downsizedc.org/mission.shtml
Our goal is to reduce the federal government to a tiny fraction of its current size, decentralize power, end deficits, federal borrowing, and monetary inflation, and eliminate most federal taxation and the IRS.
We intend to achieve these ambitious goals by petitioning Congress and the President to vote against or veto bad laws and programs, and to repeal old bad laws and programs.
We intend to make this petitioning effective by recruiting every American who believes in small, Constitutional government, decentralized power, civil liberties, and low taxes.
its some kind of revolutionary orgy. get undressed!
In which case, the Senate must simply TRY Bush for the alleged crimes, which would take, oh, maybe five months, during which time we will have to endure endless articles on Reddit about how Bush is an ass.
So granted. Bush is an ass. Impeach and convict him if you will. Then Cheney becomes President, and we endure endless articles about how Cheney is an ass. Until Gore wins, and then we have articles about how Gore is an ass.
I downmod EVERY politcal "XX is an ass" article.
It's a joke...
probably.
No. America is going downhill fast, with Bush/Cheney leading. Reddit seems to be reflecting that today. Maybe it's a National Day of Overwhelming Frustration. Somedays we have to stop nursing on the breast of interesting distractions and stand up for what is right. What is right is to end the rule of an administration that is damaging the whole world more than any in the history of the US.
Here's some reasons:
easier to steal in chaos (oil)
allows extended stay of troops for boots on oil (CAspian Sea region is hotly contested for oil, IRAQ and Afghanistatn helped secure that)
more funds funneled to oblivion (bank accounts)
pressure on other countries (Iran, Pakistan, maybe even Saudis)
Recently kicked out of Saudi Arabia so now we use Iraq
Political dinger at home (how dare you not stay the course to Constitutional destruction, we are at war!)
Keeps out hands in government control there (once civil war ends we will be pressured to get out)
I could go on but apparantly you havent' read much on historial military/foreign policy.
What were the Russians doing in Afghan in 1987?
What are Chinese troops doing in the Sudan? (one reason we aren't there) here
Why did the British Empire colonialize everywhere?
Why did the Mongols take over in Asia in history?
Why did Napolean try to enter Russia?
Answer: Securing the earth's riches, power and black gold...
Its much easier to do that in choas. Otherwise guys like Chavez nationalize oil. And a peaceful Iraq means less reason to keep troops there.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2004/593/32013
It's sad that these obvious truths are not acknowledged by either Democrats or Republicans. If you refuse to admit reality, we can have no meaningful debate on what to do next.
And don't get me wrong, even after acknowledging these truth's there are a wide range of somewhat-plausible actions that America needs to consider next.
No, downmodded by people who recognize satire when they read it.
Except for you =P
the beauty of that code block is that it's completely free of less than and greater than signs. (nice stuff)
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They have more sense.
Seriously, you guys do realize this is a dumb idea with zero public traction, don't you? You do realize that advocating for what you won't get in a spirit of partisan spite makes you look less like humans and more like poo-flinging monkeys? When the Republicans tried this nonsense against Clinton, they completely poured their Republican congress down the drain.
No dude, the COUNTRY GOT HACKED
At the risk of not being politically correct, you might even say that it's the intelligent people versus the dumb people, huh?
It's nice how lucidly and clearly you describe a blatantly evil scam. But then it gets creepy and disgusting as you express your admiration for it and desire to see more. Another way to clear the welfare rolls would be mass murder. Are you in favour of this? Discuss why or why not.
Silly me. I forgot one is not supposed to say anything that rubs the mob the wrong way. Proof by consensus for the win.
A million apologies.
Isn't every link a 'blatant attempt to gain karma'? Are there people out there sharing links that they think suck?
When you can't get anything right you have to go.
These guys are making Caligula look good.
A libertarian in favour of indentured servitude. Hmm, how unoriginal.
Yeah, I didn't expect that either. But the whole Faye getting sentamental to build up an emotional connection with a character that was about to meet his fate should have been a clue.
(edit: typo)
My local minister doesn't seem interested. I told him about it, and he said it was a good idea, and he wished he could help, but it's outside his jurisdiction. He suggested I write a letter to the Foreign Minister or the PM, but that seems like a lot of trouble to go to. I guess I'll have to leave it to the Americans to worry about.
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nothing else felt like a complete solution. turbo gears always seemed like a huge hack. django just feels complete. django does annoy me because i try to be bleeding edge with it. this has lead to numerous times where i've been stuck waiting for apis to mature. it happened with the magic removal stuff, and it's happening now with newforms. i don't really feel like rewriting a large form application in a few weeks in newforms when manipulators go the way of the caveman. but newforms isn't exactly stable at the moment to write it all in newforms. oh well, such is life.
Explain very carefully how the scale of the wrongdoing of the Clinton administration is commensurate with that of Bush/Cheney. Include 3 examples.
Also, not everything is partisan. Mrs. Pelosi and Mrs. Clinton don't want to touch this one. The grassroots need to force the issue.
Consider my poo flung.
Hmmm, turns out you're right. My mistake.
(Never worked for me in primary school, but that's probably the cheap compasses they used...)
No it really isn't. There are an awful lot of very smart people in the humanities. Who just happen to believe in magic fairy tales like cultural relativism because they are batshit crazy. A neurological handicap like dyslexia or irrationalism has nothing directly to do with intelligence. It only affects how that intelligence is used.
Finally Republicans are waking up to the fact that Bush is not a Republican. He has done more than any other president to destroy our civil liberties and create a behemoth of a federal government.
Pop Rock? Prince Rogers Nelson? Pop Rock? He's only one of the top 20 greatest guitar players of all time. EVER.
As much as I agree, I also think it's important to make high-ranking officials immune from certain types of lawsuits and prosecution in order to avoid political attacks through non-political channels. Presidents are held responsible for thier actions every 4 years . . . sooner if they really fuck up. The problem is when you use too strict of a guide for "responsible actions." Someone like the president is involved with all kinds of activites and there are likely to be plenty of screw-ups that he is ultimately responsible for.
I'm not trying to harp on Clinton, but he was the most recent president other than Bush so he's the most appropriate to ask: should he have been held responsible for Ruby Ridge? Waco, TX? The first WTC bombings which he failed to prevent? Kosovo? Fundraising in China?
If you try, you can find plenty of things to hold a president responsible for. I'm just saying that for impeachment to be justified, it should be obvious. Nixon was obvious.
How much you want to bet someone woke up grouchy?
I think it's cruel and immoral to cause undue suffering and heartache to animals as it is to plants. I'd support improvements to the meat industry in the same way that I'd support abolishing clear-cutting.
What do you say about this? "By eating vegetables directly, rather than eating animals such as cows who must consume 16 kilos of vegetation in order to convert them into 1 kilo of flesh, one is saving many more plants' lives (and destroying less land)."
I specifically meant to use the word "never"...there is a clear difference to the implied meaning of the question between "never" and "ever" -- English is a tough one to master for second language learners due to all these bizarre rules and tones, but stop trolling around.
Bah, how come I never heard impeachment calls for Reagan over Iran Contra, when there was a clear Democratic majority in the Congress? Impeachment is serious, serious business. Only 7 judges have been impeached (Alcee Hastings, Nancy Pelosi's bud, is one of them) and only 2 Presidents, IIRC.
Clinton's impeachment, quite frankly, was wrong. They shoulda waited till he was out of office, then nailed him for it. Don't think there's a stomach out there for another impeachment. It cost Republicans in 98 when they did it and it will cost Democrats if they try, unless real evidence of real crimes surface (and I don't mean bullshit like Valerie Wilson's non-cover being discussed).
And if you think I'm going to let any American President be impeached to improve our standing with effete, corrupt socialists in Europe whose countries are rotting from the inside out, you have a hole in your head. Fuck the French, they can't even stop riots in their country.
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Ha! At least I'm not the only one.
Senior Bush official may have violated a law?
No! Tell me it just aint so!
That's what happened to Clinton.
Actually there is. You see, she's your elected representative, even if her voting record does not represent you. A lot of republicans found out what happens when they no longer represent their constituents (or in their case, lie to their constituents) this past November. I'm sure a lot of them retained their seats realize that heat from the war is going to affect them again in 2008 unless something is done.
Reminding her that there are voters she represents that want her to take action might spur her to be more supportive and "reach across the aisle" when/if such a motion comes before the House (and hopefully, the Senate).
Just my $.02
Cause smalltalk said so.
I'm in favor of it. I'm downvoting this (along with several of the front page articles) simply because this has reached "Ad nauseum."
ENOUGH!!
That's invalid syntax.
From the Article
The war was a mistake
Soliders, Sailors, Marines, and Airmen are victims as much as "heroes."
American lives lost in Iraq have been lives wasted
America is losing or has already lost the Iraq war
My own thoughts -
The war is not a mistake of one person, the war is a mistake of the entire US from the liberals to the ultra conservatives. WE elected the people who voted (Congress, Senate, and Representatives) to support the war and the US PATRIOT ACT. This "mistake" has been the continuation of policies from WWII.
Here is the hard truth, the ARMED FORCES DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO SPEND ON FACILITIES WHILE FIGHTING A WAR. Lets take the F-22 as an example. The F-22 costs A LOT of money, but the AVERAGE AGE OF AIRFRAMES IN USAF FLEET IS 35 YEARS OLD. I have heard stories of Army helo pilots joining a reserve unit in the 1990s and finding out that the helo they were flying was the same one they flew in Vietnam.
American lives in Iraq will only be wasted if we leave without finishing the job of building a new nation. Nation building is hard. Historically We chose to ignore democracy in the middle east instead we spread Despotism and Dictators. Since there was little impact on Americans (and oil prices were stable no one complained, except for the Iranians). But now that we have decided to take direct action against our past mistakes, many do not want to "stay the course".
America is losing the war, becuase there is no unified effort behind the war. Support the troops! Fuck the war! Bullshit! Support the troops and support the war. If you don't, I believe that you undermine the accomplishments of the troops, and water down the reslove to finish. Support is important for both the individual and for the actions.
Just my thoughts . . .
Oh, I agree - there are multiple layers of failure going on here. I was under Tricare as a kid, and I never had any problems...but my father is at something like 90% disability at this point.
Going out and starting a war and not budgeting for higher VA expenses, when the VA is already underfunded, is deplorable. I've seen the odd news article on the cuts in the VA budget, but it seems like things never hit "above the fold" until there's a real crisis. Unfortunately, the media, the public, and our legislators have a short attention span.
Is that company hiring?
shamu
It's actually "chuse," but hey, it's not like they had spellcheck in 1787..
While I know you're probably a little overworked right now, what with this stage 1 temper tantrum, undoubtedly caused by a little sand in the vagina, there is this button on reddit, next to the stories, its called the "hide" button.
Check it out. It actually -- get this, you might find it interesting to you -- "hide" the stories you don't like, allowing you to focus on what's interesting to your personal tastes. It also helps with the recommended engine.
Check it out. And good luck getting that sand out of your vagina.
This could be highly entertaining.
You forgot to mention the '30s "everything is a lambda abstraction" view.
shamu the killer whale pics.
I do not smoke marajuana at all. But I think it should be legal for medical use... and recreational use. Most of my friends use it from time to time and they're fine.
However, whenever I hear pro legalization people talking about the various textile uses for cannibus, it strikes me as intensely disingenuous. If you want to be able to get high, just say that. When you're a movie star that smokes a lot, don't pretend you're all into the politics of cotton substitutes.
And I do totally buy that hemp fiber has some very practical, cost superior uses. But, that's not actually what all these vocal space dancers care about.
So your solution is join the owning class. Not a bad idea for an individual to pursue. In fact, if the SEC had some teeth, it might be somewhat workable (Sequoia-Google-Youtube, anyone? Illustrative of how small investors get hosed. See also Enron.)
But that still means that as a society, we no longer reward hard work. You know, at a job. That thing that the majority of the population has to have for investors to make their money.
I use open in IE, bugmenot, and firebug almost daily.
I've seen something like that before:
if true 1 else 2
=> "else without rescue is useless"
Ditto to jobbb, I have no end of problems with syntax errors.
I love the whole 'if I ignore politics everything will just work itself out' attitude
Holy crap! Where on Earth did you find this?!
Fact is the recording has her on tape trying to act like a southern black preacher.
No, fact is the recording has her on tape quoting lyrics of someone else, and attempting to mimic the style of the original author.
The only people who really HATE homosexuals seem to be self hating homosexuals.
Probably long after your last english lesson.
huh? so representatives vote on bills they haven't even read? how do they decide? by tossing a coin? and they get paid for that sort of thing? maybe congress should move to las vegas...
That's a sad commentary on America, heh.
Forget "In God We Trust" and people get all bent out of shape. But leave "Liberty" off of there on purpose and almost no one bats an eye.
Um, are you suggesting that forests are clear cut so that cows can be fed?
They are. Cows are being fed something like 90% of soya grown on land where trees used to be. "Demand for soya-based animal feed - used in meat production - is fueling Amazon destruction."
The land cows are being raised on and the land used to grow their food could be used to feed many more people with plants.
In 1861, the first fax machine, Pantelegraph, was sold by Giovanni Caselli, even before the invention of workable telephones.
The decision to abandon detante in favor of conflict with soviet union was actually made earlier than Carter administration. After the impeachment of Nixon, Ford administration (Dick Chenney, Rumsfeld...) were more interested in conflict with soviet union that detante.
I don't know about "detante", whatever that is, but frankly I find it hard to imagine that "Dick Chenny" would, as White House Chief of Staff, have the foresight to know the Soviet Union would foment a Marxist Revolution in Afghanistan at least 2 years before it actually happened in 1978. It was Zbigniew Brzezinski who was the warmonger in these times, killing trade deals and being a chief architect behind the Carter Doctrine of "no foreign power shall maintain control of the Persian Gulf".
No, Conservatives are in trouble because the voters are getting tired of their hypocrisy.
So now Republicans are tolerant of homosexuals?
OMG! Hilarious! Tell another one!
Because people have been saying there's no connection between Iraq and Islamism?
If you give him the boot now, (or miss him by some measure) you leave a mark other presidents would care about.
Let it be "Go to war against random countries => people in Vermont go crazy" and still it IS a mark.
On the other side, dip your head in hole, pray, scream like a mad on your blog, criticize the style of his neckties. NO MARK. No president would never care about it.
And that's about everything politics sums up to: leaving a mark of popular will. Ruling countries is a gratuitous addition to it.
As long as you're color blind, this ought to tell you where he is.
I think they should call it the RTFBA.
but where else do you really need unicode besides on the web? It makes sense that Rails is driving Ruby in this particular case.
The third column heading in the table is "Allocation". He put $3,000 in each fund, but the allocation values are 60%, 30%, and 10%. Does anyone know what that means? Is that how you should distribute additional money you put in later?
I just think that reddit can be more than just a tool for impeachment crazy people to opine. As far as how I decide to distract myself in the free time I have is not your business. I work in a hospital and I am well aware of what is important in life and what is right or wrong. Best of luck to you.
If only our military, patience, and budget weren't already exhausted... we can hope, though.
Well said. It is precisely the way I feel. Something not quite right with a person that can harbor such a huge cognitive dissonance. In my mind it implies additional not so pleasant stuff is lurking. Like Haggard publicly spouting gay hatred and need for Family values in the church and then sneaking out to do coke and suck dick at night.
I was going to respond seriously to your comment but I'm laughing too hard at the notion that this man could ever win the Republican nomination.
It is true that throughout history they have been called americans, but it is also true that an american is someone that was born in the American continent, which, as you correctly said before, runs from Canada until Tierra del Fuego (Argentina).
I think the correct expression will be US citizen, as they stated in all their immigrations booths at the airports. They don't write: "americans" here, they write: "US citizens" here.
I really didn't expect that result in that example. Then again, no one would ever actually write code like that.
I just wish we could move on and explore useful sites without having to wade through all this impeachment nonsense. I'm quickly tiring of reddit.
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I don't need to. Basically, to impeach a president requires bipartisan public agreement that he did wrong - any less, and you won't have the votes. If the very fact he did anything wrong at all is hotly disputed along partisan lines, then you will need to convince the voting public using the trial as a forum. You will start from the beginning looking like people who are spitefully abusing the law. You'll have to make your case from scratch in court, and chances are very high you'll not move the debate an inch - because in this media saturated world, everything has already been said. The result will be frustration, a lost case, public disgust, and electoral ruin.
The Republicans were stupid to stick their hand into that meat grinder, and the Democrats thus far seem quite smart enough not to.
I propose another unspeakable truth that I have seen very very little attention given across the political spectrum. I had to write a term paper on the use of Depleted Uranium munitions, which is an incredibly complex topic to be simply addressed within a few sentences. However, something to think about:
In 1979, depleted uranium (DU) particles escaped from the National Lead Industries factory near Albany, N.Y., which was manufacturing DU weapons for the U.S military. The particles traveled 26 miles and were discovered in a laboratory filter by Dr. Leonard Dietz, a nuclear physicist. This discovery led to a shut down of the factory in 1980, for releasing more than 0.85 pounds of DU dust into the atmosphere every month, and involved a cleanup of contaminated properties costing over 100 million dollars.
That was 0.85 lbs of DU particles. How much have we used in Iraq during the two Gulf Wars?
2000 tons.
Smalltalk is also far more bloated. To me, Ruby is about taking up where Perl dropped me off.
What you found there is more of a parser bug than anything else, I think what jesusphreak was talking about was probably more along the lines of not being able to pass multiple blocks to a method (as is possible in Smalltalk).
Also, there's the block variable scoping issue:
foo = "bar"
... later, but in the same scope ...
method_which_takes_block { foo = 0; ... other stuff ... }
...oops, you just changed the foo from the outer scope to 0.
That little "X" in the top right corner will solve all your problems in a jiffy.
Your troll-fu is mid-grade: 5 out of 10.
"Says who? are you the guardian of morality now?"
Actually...
He is, I've seen his crown.
Nobody is forcing her into prostitution, merely that if she refuses to find a job they will cut her benefits.
Threatening her economically may qualify this as rape.
A party in a position of superior power (the state) exerting pressure to induce someone into sex acts against her will.
don't bother, that's the only one, the rest she's under a blanket. :P lucky for her she stripped her top off sometime between 6:30 and 7, unlucky for us though.
No Cheney is more culpable and would be removed as well. Pelosi will be new POTUS
Perhaps; I can see this point.
A special prosecutor isn't going to prosecute a case he can't possibly win. There's no reason to think that Cheney and Rove aren't guilty of violating the Espionage Act, or even that Fitzgerald doesn't know or think they have.
But the one witness that could really finger them is now a convicted perjurer and felon.
Noooo!
"I for one really couldn't care less when parents would like to introduce their kids to sex education."
Well, like it or not, the public does get a say in what gets taught in public schools.
impeachment is bringing of formal charges against the president or other high ranking official. is it NOT the removal from office. only two presidents have been impeached (johnson and clinton) neither of which were removed from office. in fact both were acquitted.
Comments are hilarious:
PATSCRU by PATSCRU 1 hour ago
god, reddit is so ugly it hurts my eyes, i was frantically clicking to try to get back to dig, thank god i'm here.
collintheweak by collintheweak 1 hour ago
Yeah, maybe some day they'll figure out a lil' something called "whitespace".
sigh...
What a joke that site is. They have a list of reasons to impeach and not one law is cited. Reading 'My pet goat' to those kids as an excuse to impeach? What a bunch of idiots.
Well ... he will be dead if he doesn't get the fsck out of the road!
To me it looks like a dog on TV (cat's looking up at Animal Planet TV, perhaps)
no template-metaprogramming
You don't exactly need templates in a dynamicly typed language, though.
You mean Ubuntu is not the hottest shit on earth?
This man is making crazytalk!
Those who don't self loathe need not apply.
Agreed. National Day of Overwhelming Frustration sounds like it should be our next holiday.
And I agree with you king_george, and unstatusthequo that we'd all be alot better off if everyone stopped spending their time arguing on reddit and spent more time fixing problems.
Yes I am getting it. I suspect it has something to do with the mailing lists that I am subscribed to (though unsubscribing won't alleviate the problem of course).
I don't see why that should be so: the runtime would just need to call the function (if any) in the object's magic slot for missing methods, giving it the parameters (this, method_name, [the method parameters]).
who cares how long it took. the guy is making money from his site. period. increasing traffic, increases sales. it's simple economics.
besides my original point was - the only thing more annoying than mac zealots are anti-mac zealots who are guilty of the very same tactics. it's like the left/right pundits who bicker back and forth. it's self-serving nonsense that has zero impact other than to increase the wealth of the pundit by preying on the ignorance of their readers/listeners/viewers.
I agree with you regarding impeachment being very serious business.
I feel it is worth mentioning that Reagan didn't make a habit out of doing things while in office that were legally questionable, nor did he (always in concert with his VP) continually try to tip the scales of checks and balances in favor of the executive branch. George W. Bush, on the other hand, has made a habit of all these things, so much so that it is pretty scary to think about the future of our government with such precedents having been set. What will the next president or two or three think he/she can do, because of the things George W. has been allowed to do? Can something like the PATRIOT Act ever be repealed? Even if it can, will it ever be? This is a real danger that we will probably face for generations, thanks to him.
Not to excuse any president for anything, but every president has some asterisks on his record that don't generally bode well with the people. Sadly, our current sitting president holds the record, bar none. He has consistently defied the will of the people and continues to do so without any fear of reprisal, forsaking the rule of law and the Constitution in the process.
Nixon's impeachment was (would have been) well deserved. Clinton's was indeed a waste of resources, and it made the Republicans look foolish. Probably the worst thing it could have done was make the current government hesitant to impeach on the grounds you mentioned, at a time when impeachment could not be more warranted. To be honest, I consider it (and the current administration's record) a reflection of how the Republican party, a once honorable institution, has been hijacked by an element of immorality.
I don't think impeachment as a means to improve our standing with Europe and/or the French is a good idea, but consider this:
GWB, with his "with us or against us" attitude, has destabilized a large part of the political world such that he has created a self-fulfilling prophecy. By taking such a stance, and by acting it out, he has truly put a significant amount of people in this world (not just governments, but peoples as well) on the other side of the fence from where we as a people stand.
Because, however superior or powerful we as Americans may consider our nation, this is not a good thing, for the grim picture of the future that Bush and Cheney so readily paint for the people will some day become a reality if we continue on this course.
They claim to do what they do because the way of the future is inevitable. I (and I like to think many others) feel that if they continue to do what they do, we will guarantee that it will turn out exactly how they describe.
In other words, it is by their actions that we are molding the future into what they claim is the reason for their actions in the first place.
If they are no longer in charge, the picture of the future can be painted in an entirely different way, and we can begin to act on that projection and actually change something. This sounds idealistic, but I don't think it really is. I think it's just how things work, as evidenced by the last 7 years.
we should have an "ImpeachBush" subreddit ;)
Look, I hate the guy, but I also like reading non-bush articles occasionally.
this seems a pointless waste of time to me.
Welcome to grassroots politics.
Python's Unicode support is pretty ghetto too. Considering how it has to peacefully coexist with bytestrings, it's a good implementation, though.
I've taken a whole bunch of all-night videos of my wife and me sleeping, using infrared illumination, one frame every 3 seconds (i.e., 90x speed increase). It's pretty neat to see the different stages of positions (SLEEP positions, pervert) we go through - they're pretty much the same every time.
Uh, in damn near any internationalized application?
"Many conservatives find the concept of homosexual sex revolting. As a result, they desire to make such practices illegal (and, up until recently, had been successful in doing so, at least according to the letter of the law)."
Are you kidding me?! Incest, bestiality, and bigamy are all personal choices between consenting adults (and consenting animals) that harm no one, and yet both conservatives AND liberals find the thought of these activities revolting so they desire to make such practices illegal. Don't act like you've illuminated a difference between conservatives and liberals, you've just found one particular example. If you want an example of the reverse, liberals find the thought of people owning firearms revolting, so they fight to make it illegal.
This is a broad generalization (many liberals are staunch supporters of the 2nd amendment) but as long as we're making sweeping generalizations, why not? There is no dichotomy, it seems everyone thinks they know what's best and want to force their will on others.
Agreed that if you want to distract yourself you should be able to do that, but its reddit, not addictingames.com or i-am-bored.com or any of the thousands of places you could be going for entertainment and distraction.
If all you want is cool pictures, use the subreddit. If you're looking for something specific, don't go to the main page looking for it unless you can find the patience to sort through what the rest of reddit thinks is important.
I'm sure he'll be back within a few months, but it goes without saying, that Marvel killed off Cap...what the fuck are they thinking, and how did Marvel let this slip through. Killing Cap is almost as bad is killing off Spidey or Wolverine.
To complete the quote:
This is for a body of work that affects perhaps a few hundred thousand people at most (our company and the combined population of all our customer organizations)
FWIW, IBM is the largest employer for services, not the largest employer in the software industry - in early 2006, when I was last working in that !@#$ing shit hole.
We're not all USians
Ohhhhh, not that thingy again :|
Gee, unless we were to impeach both of them at once. Which, by a bizarre coincidence, is exactly the agenda of most impeachment supporters - especially big groups like VoteToImpeach.org.
Believe it or not, people who want to impeach actually do have more than two brain cells to rub together.
What evidence do you see that hasn't existed for the past several years? Are you saying that Bush's lag in popularity has had nothing to do with the recent call for impeachment?
My point, of course, is that calling for impeachment of merely unpopular presidents or other politicians is bad policy. Bush's legacy and his party will pay the price for Bush' poor judgment for many years.
Because if anybody on here had the guts and energy to do that, they wouldn't be on here.
But, yeah, good luck.
If you can actually get an impeachment trial started, I will be very entertained.
I never registered for the draft either. My registration card just showed up in the mail when I turned 18. I'm keeping it safe and making sure I don't lose it -- just in case I have to burn it some day.
I'm not personally suggesting we do anything. I was simply pointing out the inappropriateness of the comparison between polygamy and christianity, which then turned into a discussion of whether polygamy should be allowed.
But in places in the west that have had polygamy, such as several US states in the 19th century, the power dynamic was similar, and terrible abuse of young women was common.
Tom Chaney is an alright guy; he buys me beer sometimes and helped me clean the school kitchen. He also tells a pretty good joke now and then.
Tom Cheney, on the other hand, ought to be impeached.
Maybe I've always way oversimplified this problem.. but I've always found it to be obvious:
I looked to the extreme limits to deduce the answer... If you could move from Point A to Point B at infinite speed... you would essentially be hit by every drop of water suspended in the air that moment of travel, in the projection of your body's shape from Point A to Point B... right?
Now that amount of water might seem like a lot, but at least it's bounded and a constant...
Now on the extreme case of walking... if you walk extremely slow, let's say you take an infinite amount of time to walk from Point A to Point B -- you get hit by an infinite amount of water. Now an infinite amount is of course greater than the constant, tangible amount you hit if you go infinitely fast...
SO, doesn't that at least imply (sure not mathematically prove) that since the faster you go you approach a minimum amount of water... whereas the slower you go you approach an infinite amount of water... that walking gets you more wet?
Now the caveat is that when you go faster, more of the drops hit you from the horizontal... so more of your front... rather than your shoulders and head... get wet... but that's a different issue!
and how many of those have you developed lately that were not web apps?
I agree, it's like he copy-pasted exactly what country music fans told the Dixie Chicks when they claimed to have their freedom of speech violated by people refusing to play their songs on the radio and buy their CDs.
There are good reasons for that behavior. The behavior may be counterintuitive, but the alternatives are far worse.
I'm not sure why I was modded down. I didn't actually post the URL. I was just asking a question.
To do so requires that we adopt a universal standard of human rights and abandon our loyalty to multicultural relativism,
Halelujah! Finally the left is starting to understand that right and wrong, justice and injustice, are not simply defined by social norms and differ across cultures, but that certain actions and behaviors have universal consequences that can increase the happiness and well being of people, or detract from that, regardless of culture. The only reason that such a self-evidently invalid philosophy as cultural/moral relativism has persisted so long even amongst smart people is due to the guilt European intellectuals feel towards their colonial past, and the fact that leftist American intellectuals unquestioningly take their que from their European counterparts.
which justifies, even romanticises, indigenous Islamist barbarism, totalitarian terrorism and the persecution of women, religious minorities, homosexuals and intellectuals. Our abject refusal to judge between civilisation and barbarism, and between enlightened rationalism and theocratic fundamentalism, endangers and condemns the victims of Islamic tyranny.
Preach it sister! Right on!
Once upon a time it was highly unlikely that National Guard volunteers would be sent to war in Iraq.
there is no such thing as a cool cat picture.
PEOPLE PLEASE! STOP THAT!
Vote down cat pictures.
Cat pictures were lame back in the primordial days on the net. They have never stopped being lame. However, lame people keep posting them in the perpetual September.
In less than 24 months everything will. In the meantime "hysterical left" is howling for something they are demonstrating they know NOTHING about -- not - one - thing.
In the first place, towns, cities, counties, states can't impeach anything on the federal level. grassroots can only start impeachment of local and STATE officials. Impeachment of the executive branch is the sole province of the congress -- UNLESS....
States have a nuclear option in regards to removing a president. If a majority can amend their constitutions to call a congressional congress then the US government can be dissolved and a new constitution written (the last time this happened we threw out the articles of confederation and adopted our current constitution).
So what the "grassroots impeachments" are advocating is nothing more than the overthrow of the US government and sending a bunch of handpicked representatives by special interests and corporations to draft a new constitution and just how many of our bill of rights do you expect to survive that brohahah?
Seriously, this stuff takes all of five minutes to check out on Wikipedia but like all of reddit is being corrupted and abused to put forth an issue that their supporters know nothing about.
Good luck with that.
Everything that portrays liberals in their true colors is now a "hit job".
"true"???
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
If you click on the link and have an IQ over 85 you will understand how wrong you are.
She was clearly imitating a southern accent only for that quote. The rest of her speech was in a normal voice. If you ask for more justifications then you are clearly mentally incapable of understanding it. Another explanation could be that you are simply using lies to defend your side, therefore I don't see the point of discussing with someone who is either a liar, either mentally challenged.
"Yesterday in New Bedford, Mass. an immigration raid netted some 300-350 illegal immigrants who were working at a factory that made (primarily) leather goods for the U.S. military."
I've been to the Netherlands and what I saw was a much more informed public about the harms of all drugs and a much more moderate approach to drug use,than what I see in the US. The people "fucked up beyond belief," were prob. tourists and prob. American tourists at that.
That's absolutely true. Template metaprogramming is used mostly to get rid of the restrictions imposed upon the programmer by the compiler. If the compiler is less intrusive, the need for templates vanishes.
A win for Reddit is no more articles with "Coulter" or "impeachme(a)nt" in the title.
I'm not saying there isn't a good reason for it. I've seen a lot of proposals for 'fixing' it over the years and at this point I think all of those fixes are worse than the current situation.
Strangest place for an office space quote I've ever seen.
No it isn't that at all. It has to do with Jesus being the fulfillment of God's plan. His purpose was freeing people from following the black and white nature of the old testament law into a personal relationship with God. Basically, the old code of law was superceded by the new code, love thy neighbour and turn the other check. It is just that the most noticable christians lack this characteristic so many don't realize this.
An example is that Christians have no issue with eating pork... there are better examples, like not stoning people for crimes, but I think you get my idea.
except...thats not the concept, at least not in the last reddit story.
What? Well over half the big-L Libertarians I've known have been swallowing GWB's spooze for the last six years. He cut some taxes so he can't be as bad a democrat.
Libertarians: unelectable, and still they sell out their principles faster than a presidential candidate in Iowa.
NastyCond: That was a pretty nifty solution. Too bad you didn't just fix it up when someone pointed out there was a flaw in it, instead of getting into an idiotic argument. I'd never ever hire a guy like you and have to waste my time arguing about such bullshit.
It's not fraud unless there are damages. What might those be? It's just a customer retention program. Do you think the ice cream shop gives a damn whether you use your real name or not?
Err, it's implied in the very first sentence of the article.
Blaming religion--if you want to be trendy, blame Christianity, and if you want to be even trendier, go for Islam--for all the world's problems, all fundamental human conflicts, and disregard the fact that people of any religion or lack thereof, people of all varieties and shapes and colors and sizes and with different tastes in clothes and food and different favorite animals and different pet peeves and different areas of expertise and different goals and different eye and hair color... all these 'different' people can be or become violent.
Where did you see me blaming religion for "all the world's problems?" In fact, when I wrote, "discussing specific religions as root causes for much violence," I should have thought that a careful reader would easily be able to see that I was recognizing religion as one principal cause of violence among several. That said, the idea that a multiplicity of causes of violence somehow precludes discussion of any single cause on its own, is in a word, contemptible.
Since "prosecution" doesn't really make much sense that I can figure in this context, I'll take you to have meant persecution.
Wrong answer. Actually, I did mean "prosecution," and it makes perfect sense if you know that "immunity," in a legal sense, refers to "exemption from a legal duty, penalty or prosecution." What you fail to grasp is that I am making an implicit distinction between the idea of religion as an epistomology, and the various populations that profess belief therein. I am not interested in condemning people qua people, but rather the ideas by which they are often motivated.
I made no assumption as to your religious beliefs or lack thereof, nor do I particularly give a damn what they are.
OK, fair play.
That's beyond irrelevant. Anecdotal evidence is for making emotional pleas and/or "supporting" claims that have no real or solid support. By claiming that "being Muslim causes violence/Islam causes violence", you're trying to assert that there is some quality of this that is significant or meaningful, statistically or logically.
It's perfectly relevant. Here's why; it supports my contention that some religions are less generative of violence than others. Retreating into a demand for empirical evidence is a typical Reddit ploy that is frustrating in that it supposes that a guy either has the time to do some research, or is wrong, and therefore can't produce any meaningful links. (Here's one anyway; http://chromatism.net/bloodyborders/)
Finally, where did you get the following quote; "Being Muslim causes violence/Islam causes violence...?" You certainly didn't get it from me. Nice straw man. If I had to break my argument down into a single sentence, it would go more like this; "At this particular point in history, more violence is committed in the name of Islam than in the name of any other major world religion."
PS; Your dismissal of my use of the word "apologist," is an intellectual cop-out in that I believe you knew exactly what I meant, but chose to pretend like you didn't because it was easier than rebutting my argument and held the additional attraction of offering an opportunity to bash me for using a word that you have quite loftily declared "meaningless." As if you are somehow the grand arbiter of what is and what is not acceptable English usage.
Finally, (no, really this time), I don't hate anyone. I do find it disagreeable that there are lots of people in the world who want to kill me for not being a member of their religion --whether they be Christian or Muslim or whatever-- but hate is not my response and never has been.
I'm from Colorado, and I'm attracted to Vancouver, as well. Haven't actually been there, but it seems pretty awesome.
I don't want it left out, I want it left out of your comment. You have a problem of focus. You were criticizing the remarks made by the author on people's refusal to judge a culture as barbarous. Then you assumed that the author believe America to the pinnacle of civilization, then on that assumption, you brought in Iraq.
Every time that something that is somewhat related to Iraq, you begin screaming about the dead and George Bush, you look like you're unreasonable and you hurt the cause. I don't want that.
See the set #8 with the kid in the middle? Kids are very physically active sleepers!
America is 2 continents, if you want to get technical. ;)
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Very cool website that has it all, I really like this one!
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What a good post.
I wonder though, are 50% of Male Christians really addicted to teh pron?
I am male, not xtian and not addicted to it. Is there any chance of a straw poll?
Not to mention using "paper mill's" rather than the correct "paper mills" and writing "here-say" instead of "hearsay".
Proof?
Background info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canter_&_Siegel
N'sync sang really well. they had to, knowing that shotgun-cheney was in the public...
Being 13 is tough.
But please stay off the internet when your parents request it of you. They are trying to help you.
The closest thing I'm aware of is Carl Hewitt's Actor model.
According to this Sussman and Steele paper when they developed Scheme to implement Hewitt's model, they discovered, much to their surprise, that when you really drill down and make everything an "actor", including the messages actors pass back and forth while acting, you get a foundation identical to a lexically scoped lambda calculus.
My rule is to drink only while looking away from the screen. It's especially important if you have a laptop.
it is awesome! I actually liked their green style site rather then other sites of other python solutions.
She made the point that her Afghan husband was a
charming, seductive and Westernised Afghan Muslim whom I met at an American college.
And that upon arriving in Afghanistan,
Overnight, my husband became a stranger. The man with whom I had discussed Camus, Dostoevsky, Tennessee Williams and the Italian cinema became a stranger. He treated me the same way his father and elder brother treated their wives: distantly, with a hint of disdain and embarrassment.
Sounds like a case of bait and switch, or Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, to me.
It's the main picture on the NY Times home page too. I don't think there's anything wrong with reporting this, though - Captain America was popular back in the 40's, so his death is relevant to older and younger generations. It's an indicator of the current zeitgeist.
Did I use that word right?
So you're going to replace one dictator with another? With the legislation Bush and Co. have signed in, any President in the future will be able to issue the same Executive Orders. For any real and exponential change to occur within the power structure of the American Government, many things must be done; Political parties must be dissolved, the Congress is a chamber of the people, not of organized crime outfits. The Federal Reserve system must be dismantled, American Gold must be appropriated to the people. The syndicate of legal gangsterism by Banks, Corperations, and Government, must be abolished. Finally, the Government must adapt Democracy to the modern technology available to us today. There is no good reason why e-voting should not be explored as a viable alternative to beaurocracy. Direct and active participatory democracy is capable of functioning with the tools available to us. It is however, up to all of us to make this happen.
If that is what you think of Reddit and its contributors, why do you read it (and contribute)?
Just curious.
I found it funny how the dog barely moves, but the humans are all over the place.
while i agree that it'd be a great thing to add, where does the line get drawn? are we going to just start adding popular javascript libraries to the javascript spec? i'm for it mind you. :)
An innovation timeline that's part horrifying (prison countries, child care robots, nano drinks, reputation trading) part hopeful and exciting (sleep surrogate, face recognition doors, gravity tubes, joymakers). This shows the rapid development of human-kind that reads like science fiction.
Really, who cares what they think? If we're doing good, they'll say its because we're stealing from them or something like that. If we're doing bad its because we're evil and being punished or whatever. All it comes down to is Blah Blah Blah America is evil.
Either way, its easier to block out crazytalk when you're stable and secure.
It means I'll have to find a new source for interesting news and commentary.
Hey---did you know some people want to impeach Bush?
Sorry you missed the original point. The article said that programmers didn't read specs carefully. My point was that people don't write specs carefully. When the spec is ambiguous, programmers waste time writing the wrong program. Of course it's easy to change this toy program, that's not the point.
If you are an idiot with it, that's quite a significant problem.
The life of a consultant/accountant gets to him and he decides to blow up on his co-workers after he gets fired.
pretty much takes care of itself
What if your classes are so goddamn easy that you can pass them without cracking a single book (my high-school AP Calculus and Literature courses were this way)? Or are you only referring to post-secondary education, where they hire professors for grant-earning potential first and teaching ability last?
Nobody ever mentions this.
It gets brought up quite frequently, I assume you didn't discover it via divine revelation, but read it somewhere. The important thing to note is that it is not actually relevant to the current situation at all.
Bush already fired Clinton's appointees and hired his own batch back when he moved into office. Traditionally when a new administration takes over the patronage system means that they fire the old admin.'s people and hire in their own people. Nobody complains about that. Even when Bush Sr. fired a number of Reagan's appointees nobody really cared much.
What Bush is doing now is firing attorneys who are doing their job. He is specifically attacking those who are dutifully prosecuting criminals Bush wants to protect. When Nixon did exactly what Bush is doing now people were furious:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_night_massacre
Please keep your analogies straight. What Bush is doing now is not analogous to Clinton following the standard practices of patronage. It's analogous to Nixon's gross abuse of Presidential power. What Bush is doing is a gross abuse of Presidential power. It is not standard operating procedure.
Cool! People were detained for breaking our laws! That is good news! Too bad they had babies, scum bags.... risking their own families security by breaking our laws. It's major shame on them!
whenever I hear pro legalization people talking about the various textile uses for cannibus, it strikes me as intensely disingenuous. If you want to be able to get high, just say that.
I agree to a degree but at the same time that's probably not a good strategy for getting decriminalization legislation passed. The groups who worked to get Prohibition (or Pro-Inhibition, as Firesign Theatre would say) repealed used the "Think of the children" strategy, apparently, along with getting influential rich people to support them:
From Wikipedia:
During this period, support for Prohibition diminished among voters and politicians. John D. Rockefeller Jr., a lifelong nondrinker who had contributed much money to the Prohibitionist Anti-Saloon League, eventually announced his support for repeal because of the widespread problems he believed Prohibition had caused. Influential leaders, such as the du Pont brothers, lead the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, whose name clearly asserted its intentions.
Women [...] became pivotal in the effort to repeal, as many concluded that the effects of Prohibition were morally corrupting families, women, and children. [...] Activist Pauline Sabin argued that repeal would protect families from the corruption, violent crime and underground drinking that resulted from Prohibition. In 1929 Sabin founded the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform (WONPR), which came to be partly composed of and supported by former Prohibitionists [...].
I agree, what's with women fighting for equality that's just the oposite. "We want the right to vote (but we don't want to have to register for the draft)." "We want the exclusive right to decide whether or not we have a child (but we still want the guy to be forced to pay if we decide to have the baby)."
My favorite: "we want to put an end to these chauvinist men-only social clubs (but we want women-only gyms so we don't have to be eye-raped by men while working out)."
"If you don't sleep with me, I won't put you in my will."
"Fine, fine..."
Later, in court...
"The old bastard raped me!"
I'm not seeing how that would work.
Is this a trick question? Do I get an umbrella?
No, Christianity has an old and new testament. Most Christians recognize and worship from both old and new, and believe the Ten Commandments. Study a little harder. You're spouting party line bullshit. Christianity as an ORGANIZED RELIGION is a very dangerous evil entity. What Christ said, and what the Organized Religion says are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.
Unexpected by whom? - Not anyone who read his work, surely?
A comparison of some note taking software for the Mac and PC, as well as links to bigger lists of software for both platforms. A must for any student who needs to stay organized!
Well, explain how God can write a book if he has no hands.
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USians? The proper term is Americans.
| sed -e 's/stolen all its/been inspired by/'
Isn't the ill-gotten ice cream the "damages?"
I absolutely don't believe in killing the unemployed. I'm just anti-welfare.
Say you can't buy food, and can't get the money to buy food (or a clean suit to apply for a job in). Whoever has put you in this situation has effectively "killed" you (even if that person is you). If you aren't in favor of this, what should replace welfare to fix this?
I don't want to downplay accountability and justice, because thats obviously a big part of this, and impeachment wouldn't be an appropriate punishment, but it would solve the more pressing issue - damage control.
A War Crimes trial would probably be appropriate, but come on, we don't even know if we can manage to impeach the guy. First thing's first, stop him from making us any worse off, then work on punishing him. Even if he gets off like all the CEO's crashing companies and stealing money, at least he won't be slowly destroying our country from the inside out.
And as for the next president pardoning him? Can you even imagine the outrage? I don't know if even a president who just got voted in and isn't worry about re-election would do that.
Unfortunately for you, it doesn't work that way. Bush won in Florida by every single reputable recount (according to the NY Times, no less.)
If popular vote mattered, we wouldn't have had Presidents Lincoln or Kennedy, instead having Steven Douglas and Nixon even earlier.
It's COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT to presidential elections, and I'm utterly baffled why people keep bringing it up. Unless you want to go ahead and argue that Kennedy and Lincoln were illegitimate too.
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As best I understand, you are correct in principle; however, in actual practice that does not stop a lot of people who call themselves Christians from quoting the Old Testament to defend various postures (e.g. anti-gay attitudes) that to my mind run counter to a religious attitude of forgiveness and understanding.
These pictures will also get him kicked out of The Marines (R). It is don't ask don't tell, but if they have proof you are gay you are out.
As a former Marine, this policy is completely prejudicial, but if he is so bent on serving the religious right, then he gets what he wants. A general discharge (which is not honorable)
great site. finally some useful ajax! j/k ;)
James Cameron's documentary on discovery about finding the tomb of Jesus.
public class FizzBuzzer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String output;
for (int i=1;i<=100;i++) {
output = (i%3==0) ? "Fizz" : "";
output = (i%5==0) ? output + "Buzz" : output;
if (output.equals("")) output = String.valueOf(i);
System.out.println(output);
}
}
}
Death camps. They're the perfect capitalist solution. You can make soap out of people's body fat and musical instruments from their bones. Pica says he's not in favour of killing people but of course he has to say that! The right hand doesn't know what the left hand does. wink wink, nudge nudge.
I would think that would depend greatly on what type of extensions you have installed... not all of them bloatware like those on the linked page. They shouldn't load down firefox any more than an a webpage with similar code on it.
From my experience, numerous large images tend to be the main culprits behind the slowdowns and excessive memory usage.
Uh, nothing about my comment was untrue. Well maybe the Michelle Obama and Condi threesome, but that is besides the point.
The issues are:
She gave a political speech in a church. A republican could never do this. Liberals would scream separation of church/state. Liberals can get away with this.
She WAS PANDERING to a black audience. Say what you will, the fact is, she could have quoted Mr. Cleveland in a normal voice and gotten her point across. She pandered, period.
Republicans point out the very things that Liberals would go nuts over if a Republican did them, and its a "hit job". You don't find this a little trite?
Get a fucking life. Or at the very least, get educated and start thinking for yourself.
This is why you should never name anything after anyone in Greek mythology.
Another place where Smalltalk led the way. :)
I don't think this one is a false accusation, but it sounds like this guy was asked to resign for good reason (I remember reading about him at the time in the WaPo and his "front page indictments" comment) . The other more recent firings still stink of a backdoor power grab.
That is strange. My parents have been buying to stuff from a nice Shell station on I-81 in Virginia for a couple of years now. The sell packages of whole beans and it's excellent stuff.
I want whatever that guys smoking.
The alleged creepiness is lost on me, as well.
Wait, Bush removed habeas (yes, you spelled it incorrectly) corpus? Funny, I seem to remember that BOTH houses of congress passed the Military Commissions Act...
Thank god
Sometimes 2 years is too long.
The mp3 download is quite amusing (albeit surprisingly listenable). My favourite bit:
Here's a problem that asterisk ess oh you en dee ee dee asterisk impossible...
Accountability. So that future presidents will know that they are accountable for their actions.
You've guessed wrong. She has boobs!
Was the law repealed or something? Or is it a California thing? I don't remember any such sign up.
Thank you! Finally a rational voice. This is one of the only political reddit I've voted up in months.
So, a Republican, then.
I remember impeachment mentioned over Iran Contra, but mostly as a thought exercise among journalists. Until Clinton it was simply considered a scorched earth move. Even Nixon was allowed to resign so as not to damage the country with an impeachment.
Now, although I'm firmly in the right-wing membership of Reddit, I agree 100% that Clinton's impeachment was a huge mistake. It trivialized the process and added it to the political tool chest of dirty tricks. If they wanted to investigate him for sexual harassment, it could have waited until he was out of office. He isn't exactly a flight risk.
It ushered in an era of political brinkmanship that serves the country in no meaningful way and damages it a great deal.
Not super relavant but I made a movie a couple years ago and the intro to the movie is time lapse video of someone sleeping kind of cool... 8 hours of sleep in about 1 minute..
http://deadawake.wastedbrains.com/
you can check it out if you want...
I understand the point you are making, but at the same time if I were the principal of that school, I'm not sure I'd want underage girls talking about their vaginas in front of everyone . . . with a video camera rolling.
The difference between a teenage girl's vagina, and a teenage girl's skin, liver, and brain is huge. You go to prison for taking pictures of a girl touching only one of them. Then again, if she's touching her liver or brain she's in serious trouble.
You raise a good point -- you're right that pretty much every president has some skeletons in their closet. Going back further, HW Bush, Reagan, Lyndon Johnson, Kennedy, Truman and Taft were all mixed up in some fairly nasty things that under the right circumstances could've led to impeachment hearings.
But I would say that the justification for impeachment is obvious in the case of the current president. There's bending the rule of law, or running some covert ops, or just being an incompetent screwup, and then there's flagrant disregard for and subversion of the constitution. Impeachment should be there for the sorts of crimes that only the president can commit. By that metric, Andrew Johnson, Nixon and Clinton were less impeachable than the current prez. I could get a blowjob or break into a hotel room or piss off the wrong people, but I can't suspend habeas corpus.
Rails refugee :)
If they're giving out the ice cream to anyone who fills out a form, then no. There would only be damages if knowing their real name would have somehow influenced the shop's decision about whether or not to give them the ice cream.
I'm taking a libertarian philosophical stance on this, not a legal one. I'm pretty sure the law would come to the same conclusion, but IANAL.
Isn't it time? Total wellness and fitness is more than being disease free. Wholeness and wellness begins with the mental aspect. Which must be integrated with physical and emotional factors.
Not according to Bush, who famously said, "Stop throwing the Constitution in my face! It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
... interestingly, they all came from the same 10 IP addresses.
I can't wait until the author gets to Isaiah 64:6 in his Hebrew class. I smell another blog post.
spam!
So, I may be out of my league on this one, but couldn;t one say that some information (e.g the x,y of the top of the bulge) is faster than c ?? In information theory or whatever, does a property like this count as information?
Well I think Clinton ruined his own reputation, the Republicans simply refused to put the country first by turning it into something it wasn't worthy of.
I've never quite understood this mentality that Nixon's impeachment was totally justified but Clinton's was a waste of time and money.
Both were due to crimes following events: in one case a cover up and perjury in the other case. Neither initial events were cases of abuse of presidential power (being president makes it no easier to break into the watergate). And neither crime had an affect on any sizable amount of the public. But I personally find sexual harassment worse than stealing information from a rival campaign.
When you choose to enter a campaign you expect to be entering an caustic environment with people spying on each other and saying terrible things that may or may not be true. I don't know if stealing campaign information is worse than people calling Biden a bigot for comments that were clearly a slip.
I appreciate that one's sexual life should remain private but when you are accused of sexual harassment that privacy is an unfortunate but necessary casualty.
Where I think Nixon comes off worse is in congress's anterior motives. The congress of Nixon's time went after Nixon because of the war. The congress of Clinton's time went after Clinton because he was popular.
a potential violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits partisan campaign activities on federal property.
Shit, half the damn administration would be behind bars if this act were enforced.
"I for one really couldn't care less when parents would like to introduce their kids to sex education."
Have you seen the vagina monologues? It's not exactly classroom sex education, and even if it were, I'm not sure teenagers should be taught sex-ed by their peers.
If a cute girl from my high school was teaching my class about her vagina, I would have to wait 5 minutes after the bell rang to get out of my seat.
I'm pretty certain no law has been repealed since then. If you're well-past 18 and you've received neither a registration card nor a notice, then you've managed to slip through the cracks and you're in violation of the law. But please don't take that as any encouragement from me to register.
Now it's the top 9 stories - we're almost there!!! we can make the top 10 reddit stories about impeachment making it the worst day on reddit ever! let's go people! start voting up all the dupes and inane impeachment stories you can!
why are you ignoring iraqi lives? only americans killed by terrorist count? muslims are people too.
Oh noes guys! Dross is leaving! What to do??
Call it an immature comment, call me a digg user (I'm not) but nobody cares that you're leaving. It has nothing to do with the debate. Stick it in one of those posts about how digg is stupid and reddit is dying. They're not on the front page anymore for a reason.
hi
Well done!
Oh my god!
No, all us guys are envious of your prowess.
my kingdom for a picture...
I can't wait until you bother to read the full article and realize he already covered it!
cats, pussy, i get it :)
But seriously, what's interesting about the picture is that it's enormously less interesting if you flip the screen so that the cat's head is oriented normally.
Why not? You should at least try one or both for a month or two each or you really shouldn't be posting in a discussion about them.
The proper term is Americans.
No, it is USAsians.
criminals = %w{ Bush Cheney }
criminals.each { |criminal| puts "Impeach #{criminal}!" }
that's the only thing i noticed.
From now on, I'm clicking the "down" arrow next to any article that has "impeach" in it.
This is an intro to the final report being released tomorrow by the UK's RSA Drug Commission:
The RSA commission will propose a new departure for drugs policy, though not an unrealistically radical one. No doubt there will be many reading the report who will question whether it offers a viable way forward, but its ideas are worth discussing. More of the same is no longer an option.
The article also gives a brief history of UK drug policy.
I worry that he'll do more damage if impeached. Right now, he's got the threat of impeachment hanging over him: he knows that if he, say, invades Iran, things will get much much worse for him. If impeachment proceedings begin, then they're already going to get worse, yet it'll take a year or so to remove him from office. He can do a lot of damage in a year.
I trust in no one but game theory. ;-)
You obviously don't know what Christianity is.
Alex Jones and the 9/11 truth movement / New World Order fighters are on your side!
the war was a mistake
Buying Enron shares in November 2001 was a mistake. Lying to the American people and bullying Congress and the media to invade a country on the false pretext of a nonexistent threat was a crime.
12 impeach bush stories on the homepage right now. reddit is useless today.
By downvoting every mention of impeaching Bush, I don't actually see any mention of Bush/Impeachment here.
Can you provide any articles about these people who supposedly want to impeach Bush? Because I, for one, refuse to believe it without evidence.
Did anyone else view these and think: ceiling cat!?
Ceiling cat has a posse, apparently.
I've been doing that since 9:30 EST when it became obvious that this was coordinated. Seriously--a "reddit mafia" will be the death of the website.
There were only about 30 counties in Texas that were publishing the records online. They succeeded in staging what amounted to a sit-down strike when they closed the courthouses instead of just closing down the websites.
These online counties created the problem then cried foul when the AG pointed out they were in violation of state and federal laws.
"Nothing wrong with that either. In any case, it's highly unlikely that there will be a draft in the US in the near future that will entail the signees getting called up."
Uh huh. It was all luck of the draw way back when.
I was (still am...) learning Python and Django appeared, I don't remember exactly how. I was able to manipulate content on a website using a familiar "front-end" (html code) in a couple hours.
So, it was my desire to learn Python, the solid documentation, the automatic admin, and the template's simple syntax.
I agree. This is getting out of control. I usually enjoy reddit and have hated it the last two days...
fyi... i didn't co-ordinate anything. i was happy to see that there was support for impeachment, and wanted to make my support for it known to my congressman. I thought that there might be others like me who would appreciate the "contact your representatives" link.
and to be honest, i'm tired of all the impeachment articles on reddit now... that's why i've clicked "hide" on all of them, rather than downmodding.
Hold on. Who do you guys want to impeach?
Snap!
Well I just got the LED bulb, and guess what? I hate it. Not sure if anyone else will see my reply, but basically it gives me a terrible headache every time I turn it on. It's far too dim to use normally, and it gives off a weird eerie light that is very painful. 150 LEDs is supposed to be 9 watts, but it feels dimmer than a 40watt bulb... it might be comparable to a 25-30 watt bulb, worse energy savings than CF bulbs for sure! Now that I spent $80 on a stupid bulb that I won't use, I wonder if I can sucker someone into buying that piece of crap on craigslist.
for once I have to break with the old school reddit crew in saying this is a viable option. The absurd topic floods seem to come in waves every two weeks. The karma whores must follow some unseen pattern: moon, cricket chirps, or whatever.... they always come at once, and it's always karma whoring. We need a karmawhore.reddit.com
Apparently Congress is a bunch of idiots who, after realizing their idiocity, scramble to find someone else to blame. Some excuses are better than others, but the worst are "I got tricked by Bush" and "yes, I didn't read it before I voted on it because I trusted that only good and pure laws would make it into this bill."
Ah, he smoked. Was it lung cancer?
77 is just too young to die, and how many years were years of ill health?
I see so many computer enthusiasts who expend all sorts of time and effort to get an extra 0.1 frames per second in their favorite 3D shooter, and can tell you the differences between the same CPUs with different steppings (which will be obsolete in six months anyway), but don't know anything about their own hardware, the human body -- which is effectively timeless -- and do not take care of their health.
It's not just about life expectancy, it's about quality of life. Living to the median age, you'll probably have been suffering from multiple chronic illnesses for a decade before you finally succumb.
Take care of your health! The better shape you're in, the more you'll get out of the coming life extension therapy.
zillow seems to be giving inaccurate pricing
Lucifer son of the mourning, I'm gonna chase you out of earth!
I'm gonna put on a iron shirt, and chase satan out of earth
I'm not sure that maps actually show you anything ... they all look a bit similar for any given questions. Just demonstrate where major population centres are ...
Not to mention these boozers tend to get a little violent when they are denied alcohol; But that isn't going to stop them from saying you have a problem if you toke cannabis. Our drug rules, your drug sucks, so there.
Now it is in spots 1 - 9.
Yes, two presidents.
I posted this a while ago: http://reddit.com/info/14uak/comments
It's a link to the Wikipedia article on impeachment which mentions Johnson and Clinton. It's important to know what impeachment is, and that it doesn't mean removal from office.
And of course the right wing has been saying this for years in the matter of the Dixie Chicks: they have every right to say what they want to say, and consumers have every right not to buy their albums.
In other words, many on the left only make sense when it's their ox getting gored.
I know a lot of people who think that the anti-Dixie Chicks crowd is somewhere among "misled", "idiotic", and/or "overreactive".
I know of zero -- exactly zero -- people who think that the anti-Dixie Chicks crowd shouldn't be allowed not to buy Dixie Chicks records.
You're attacking a straw man.
Say downpressor man
Where you gonna run to?
Downpressor man
Where you gonna run to?
Downpressor man
Where you gonna run to?
all alone that day
What a depressing reply.
"Dear America,
You're fucked. Either way. Totally fucked.
Love, nostrademons"
Sorry it isn't about impeachment or the Coulter gender changer :-)
Can't get the MP3
very nice!
I consider it more wrong for the government to coerce people into performing government administered charity than for people to die due to lack of resources.
Of course this is bullshit. When the government upholds private property rights, it is coercing the entire human species minus one into obeying the orders of a single individual. The whole notion of "coercion" is a smokescreen. What Pica is really saying is that it's okay to murder someone if you make a buck out of it.
This is why the "hide" function is nifty. I use it a lot.
blogger loses $50K in libel suit.
It had good timing though. Good editing. Did he win though?
I suppose I should note a few good positives about the bulb:
it turns on immediately
it's relatively cool to the touch during operation, even with 150 little lights inside the clear plastic casing
it feels very solid and durable, probably wouldn't break if I dropped it, much more durable than any other light bulb made of glass these days
Here are my negatives:
the light gives me a headache, it gives off a blue/white light that doesn't seem to offer all the light wavelengths that most commercial bulbs produce. If you use it as a book light, you'll probably go blind in a few days.
packaging says the 9 watt bulb is equivalent to a 60 watt bulb, but it is actually more like a 30 watt bulb. Too dim to be used as a hallway/bathroom light.
although the light output is dim, it is still painful to look at the bulb directly since each tiny light is very bright.
the bulb is much bigger than filament or CF bulbs, it may not fit in sockets that expect the usual size bulbs.
I don't understand how any of the more creative uses of the Amen Break count as copying at all. Couldn't those beats theoretically have been created by a drummer who wasn't in the Winstons? Was the Amen the first ever breakbeat?
real direct link here:
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070306/NEWS/70306024
this is blog spam
Sweet! Enjoy your impeachment-free recommended page.
*edit: are you just angry that you got impeached? :)
Or the downvote button.
Censoring them was rather silly. The crowd that they performed in front of was almost entirely made up of people 13 or older, ALL of which had to go through sexual education in 5th and again in 7th grade. I'm certain the parents of the younger ones did not mind either, as the area around the school is made up of mostly progressive-thinking liberals. In fact I recall that the local library had posters promoting the vagina monologues all over the town last year, and there was no protest over that.
Isn't "shit" a word derived from Arabic?
I'd love to see this happen. MIT's OpenCourseWare is a start, but there's not nearly enough lecture videos on there for a full curriculum.
This was pretty interesting. I think the video itself, however, illustrates the limits of an audiovisual medium when you have...um...NO visuals. Wouldn't this have been twice as effective as an article with a handful of sound clips linked throughout? That would have taken me about 4 minutes to read, rather than the 20 minutes I spent listening to this droll, self-satisfied narrator.
I think the main idea that we have to remind ourselves of is that this is more than an impeachment. This is a motion of complaint from the general public. If we look at it as more of a symbol than an actual impeachment, it is an amazing motion.
It is more or less useless to impeach him at this time in his reign, because he only has about 24 months left in office. Plus, as a few Representatives (both Dem and Rep) have stated in reply to Vermont's vote, that this would be a major step back for the ending of the war. What we need to end it is a joint vote from both the Democrats and the Republicans. If we impeach Bush, all that will do is separate the parties and push back the date for our troops coming home. It would be even worse if we impeach both Bush and Cheney. As much as I, and many many others would love to see them both out of office, I honestly don't think that it's the right thing to do.
As said in another chain of comments on this website, if they were to be put on trial and placed in jail, that would be another topic. But that is most likely not going to happen.
However, if they were to be impeached, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House would be put into office, and I'm almost positive she would do all she could to correct the mistakes of our "Dubbya."
This is a complicated matter not to be taken lightly. I think a lot of people are voting for their impeachment simply because they are fed up with what they have done. However, we need to think of the future, and consider all possibilities.
lost-theory, is there some configuration/setting of vim(7.0) for python to recommend.
want to use vim for writing and view python code, but the "heavily tweak" is not easy...
I think you mean ...
Hmmmm, this article's 2 years old, I wonder what's happened in the intervening time ...
Oh, I stand strong inna Babylon,
His Majesty, big Marcus Garvey
His Majesty, big Martin Luther King
I am the Master of my Home
I am the Captain of my Soul
I will watch my footsteps, I will watch them - inna Babylon,
Watch your back inna Babylon,
Check your move inna Babylon
Nice and easy
Incest is illegal for several reasons, and the good ones have nothing to do with the fact that most people think incest is "icky." The oldest and clearest has to do with the fact that genetic diseases and other birth defects are more common amongst close relatives. More modern examples have to do with the fact that incest very rarely takes place between two consenting adults; the majority of child abuse is incestuous, and even in situations in which both parties are of legal age, family relationships are such that very rarely can two individuals truly consent to have sex with each other (i.e. if a father wants to have sex with his nineteen year old daughter who depends on him financially, she has a hard time disobeying his wishes). That said, most or all of these problems with incest break other laws, so one could certainly make a convincing argument that the incest taboo is, at best, unnecessary.
Bigamy has nothing to do with sex, per se; it's a marriage thing. I don't particularly care how many people you marry, and I'm sure most people who are in favor of gay marriage, for example, would agree. The real reason bigamy is still illegal is that, unlike, again, gay marriage, is that there simply aren't enough people who want to marry more than one person to make any real impact as far as legislation goes. (Bigamy is also generally related to all sorts of other terrible things like those crazy stories about girls being sold to husbands at the age of thirteen, boys getting kicked out of town to reduce the competition for wives, etc) But if you and seventeen ladies or gentlemen or some combination thereof want to marry all of each other, eat your hearts out. (Although bigamy would open up a host of other problems, for example, if you have ten wives and have a heart attack, who is allowed to see you in the hospital room? Who decides to pull the plug if you are in a coma? Too many cooks, and whatnot.)
You really make yourself look like an ass and an idiot by bringing up bestiality. Animals simply cannot give consent (just like a twelve year old cannot give consent). And your assertion that bestiality harms no one is ludicrous; there are often disastrous consequences for both the human and animal involved.
The fact is that the reason all of these things are illegal is that they are, more often than not, harmful to at least some of the parties involved. But if other laws and infrastructure were/are in place to prevent those circumstances, then, hey, go ahead and marry your six sisters and that super-intelligent talking dolphin that propositioned you.
Oh, by the way; I don't think owning hand guns is repulsive, and I don't think that most liberals find them icky either. We simply think that they are inherently harmful to those surrounding them (as opposed to, say, hard drugs, which are dangerous only for the person using them). And yes, I understand that gun-lovers disagree on this point, and no, I don't need you to re-explain why.
Wow. I couldn't have put it better myself.
Though I would probably add a "P.S. Your monthly bill for that assraping comes to $10 billion" at the end.
Unfortunately, the reddit headline sort of turns the good point of the article on it's ass.
"High crimes and misdemeanors" is not well defined, and perhaps rightly so. It give congress some enough room to use impeachment in appropriate manners that would be almost impossible for the founding fathers to predict.
There is a long laundry list of actions by the administration that congress can and should consider "high crimes and misdemeanors". The author analogizes the broad leeway in defining hc&m by broadly summing up that laundry list as "they suck".
"They suck" isn't "we don't like them", it's merely a convenient handle for that laundry list of criminal, unconstitutional, and inhumane actions. As is "high crimes and misdemeanors".
This is cool, but how did this crap reach the front page beats me. Digg refugee invasion?
I've already hidden about ten today, after voting them down. This will be number eleven.
:-)
I am sure you would rather he resign :)
The Americans are abusing reddit as a propaganda vehicle. Instead of general strikes, anti-military protests and sabotage, you've got this utterly futile attempt to beg the powers that be to please please please make GWB go away. This is their pathetic attempt at consumer democracy. The consumers are "revolting" because the product ("party") they bought ("voted" for) isn't behaving as advertised. Because goodness knows American "citizens" (they're not citizens) can't take actions that might entail some risk or you know actually participate in politics. This whole exercise is sickening. Where the hell is the revolution? Where are the defenestrations of political bigwigs? One can't help but come to the conclusion that Americans deserve Bush.
deserve intelligent discussion of issues. Ann Coulter no longer provides that."
I don't believe she ever provided that.
Hey, more naive submitter, an impeachment is an investigation, not removal of office! Thus, any investigation of Bush will almost 100% certainly indict Cheney as well, and the pair of them will go together plus anyone else involved in his crimes!
Replace one dictator with another? Excuse me, that would require us to have a system of Government without check and balances. Bush has evaded those, hence his impeachment, but we are very capable of repairing those broke links without switching over to a new system of government, which is what I believe you are implying.
Yeah, what happened to downvoting dupes?
Agreed, but I hardly see how this is going to help? :-)
OK, it's nice to see all these comments to the effect that the Judeo-Christian bible is just as bad, but if you're having trouble seeing the difference, I'll spell it out: Mohammed was a murdering, torturing, wife-beating bastard, and that's even if you accept that he wasn't also a conman on par with Jim Jones and L Ron Hubbard. And Sharia law is utterly, utterly fucked in the head.
sweet post dude, you really changed my thinking on the issue.
Ted Haggard bought one. Jeff Gannon was one - and now so is Cpl. Matt Sanchez, the U.S. Marine who won Jeanne Kirpatrick Academic Freedom Award this year's annual CPAC rightwing creepfest. What is it with the Republicans and their festish for gay prostitutes? Unlike Gannon, Sanchez also starred in a dozen or so gay films using the porn name, "Rod Majors."
Then why does it map the same region as the term "escort service"? :)
Why aren't the Democrats and groups like Move On pushing nonstop for it right now?
Because reddit isn't the arbiter of justice.
hi
I'm fairly certain they're not IR shots. The colors are all wrong, or rather not wrong enough. Also, you wouldn't be able to clearly see the patterns on the sheets, and the details of hair, etc., would be washed out.
Honestly, I just wanted to express my frustration. I don't care if I get downmodded into oblivion.
ZOMG!!! look at all the impeach bushies, so sweet. Here bushy, bushy, bushy. Come to armchair liberals. Who's a cute and cuddly Bush?
Not you Rove, fuck off.
Me too!
And guess who becomes President if both are impeached?
Nancy Pelosi.
Sounds like a damn good master plan to me. Kick the two bastards out and replace them with a strong woman.
Blog post claims that Python is not the language of the future because it's structure makes functional programming awkward.
I agree. It seems that people are just posting these stories to get karma or something.
So much Hate. How appropriately conservative of you.
BTW: Fuck Texas!
Lets impeach reddit, please go back to the cat pictures crappy flash games and quizzes!
We hav' a chant down chant down babylon
we hav' a chant down chant down the wicked one
sayn' the wicked one cannot survive
ah me say chant dem dreadlocks chant dem
a serious thing bout this 'ere one
The bugs are getting smarter
What?
My hair's turned gray and I've gone partially bald in the time since I first heard this presentation.
I was aware of that, but Unicode really needs to be a part of the language itself, not a 3rd-party monkey patched library.
Why? Because of the way Ruby and monkeypatching are structured, there's no change in syntax, usage, et cetera. In addition, the developer input, the community's kicking the tires, and the active maintenance are essentially the same. ActiveSupport is just a require_gem away (or something) and the large majority of people who need it (web programmers) already have it via Rails. And arguably gems are easier than upgrading to a new version of Ruby.
Again, that will be changing with the next VM
Is there? I haven't heard of any plans to incorporate a Unicode-supported String class with YARV. Maybe in Ruby 1.9, but those plans have yet to crystallize beyond discussion.
It isn't hype though. It is the will of the vast majority of people in this country now.
"If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention."
Seriously, anyone who things that impeachment is purely a liberal issue or purely a liberal 'revenge' issue really hasn't a clue what is happening.
Primarily my fault for not checking records, long story short, paid off a bill for macy's except for 0.02 cents. 6 months later I get an invoice for an overdue bill (during those 6 months I didn't get anything). So my credit is essentially shot because of that.
Cheney isn't Bush: He isn't rock star material and he can't get away with a damn thing. When is the last time anyone, anywhere -- conservative or otherwise -- got upset over insults levelled at Cheney?
Impeach Bush, then everything else will fall into place.
One of the most poorly reasoned posts I have seen here.
Yeah, I don't know. I've been reading reddit for months and I could care less about karma. I'd rather get my comments upvoted than scour the internet looking for submissions.
I'm a Vermonter and I can't believe it
The information (light) that encodes the group velocity is actually ahead of the group wave. So you can compute that a "faster than light group" is coming before it actually comes. Notice that you don't get the "FTL wave" before all of the light waves have reached the right edge of the screen.
In the simulation above, wait until a "big wave" is coming and drop a shutter by "shift-clicking" in the middle of the applet. You will notice that the wave actually passes through the shutter and reforms on the right side of the shutter. So there is no "binary" sense to it and thus it does not convey information.
Basically, the light that we add up to get a "group velocity" has already reached you so you ALREADY HAVE the FTL information, which means it is not FTL at all.
Thinking about it mathematically...
if vg is the group velocity (thing that moves faster than light), and n(v) is the refractive index of light at a frequency v (with dv being the changes in the frequency between the different color waves) then we can relate the two by the following equation
vg = c / (n(v) + v dn(v)/dv)
So when the light gets to you, you can compute v for all of the colors you get. As you know what medium you are sending the information through, you also know n(v). Hence, as soon as you have all of the frequencies v that you care about along with the time they FIRST got there, you can compute exactly when the "FTL" pulse will arrive. That means the pulse carries no information, obviously.
Hope that helps!
Does this mean youtube commenters are actually Revolution-era time travelers?!
It's not even that big of a deal...I mean, if Burlington had voted for it, maybe it would be worth talking about.
its good to have competition.
Typical. They should just adopt the already-standard JPEG2000, but they take the time to develop their own format and try to get everyone to use it.
Of course IE, Word, etc. will support HDP in a forced update and JP2 support will be lame or completely lacking. Imagine how surprised I'd be to find some aspect or another that's are hostile to the production and/or use of these images on a non-Windows platform.
After the OpenDoc fiasco, anything else would be a surprise.
Oldie but goodie. Exactly why rewriting a JBoss page into Python keeps the doctor away.
I like Reddit but you're right, it's a total echo chamber. On the other hand I can't imagine the country letting Bush and Cheney off the hook if Iraq completely fails.
I'm in favor of letting them serve out their term and then bringing them up on charges if it's warranted. But that Seymour Hersh's story is terrifying... if that's accurate maybe impeachment isn't such a bad idea.
And I'd bet most of the 'lefties' actually kinda like Giulliani, they just don't like the morons, perverts, zealots and crooks the Republicans have been serving up lately.
Thanks for the post. My favorite, The Dixies, wasn't in there but I will be keen to watch these.
Sorry. I couldn't resist.
Your help is welcome!
kind of a big 'unless', don't you think?
Unless George Allen is defeated in Virginia... that sort of thing.
Why smoke it when you can eat it.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
if she's touching her liver or brain she's in serious trouble.
Now out on HD-DVD: HOT TREPANNING TEENS!!!
well I like it - and I'm conservative
Republicans are gay
i like it. Love the format, and the different separate categories.
Terrists!
Either that or people realized that a senior aide in the Whitey House had been definitively convicted of felonies (plural) and it was now time to pounce.
If he grants a pardon, Bush is transparently dishonest.
If he doesn't grant a pardon, Bush is guilty by association.
Strike while the iron is hot!
You have plenty of tools at your disposal. Hide the articles, vote them down, ignore them. The whole point of a social bookmarking site is that the people control the content. Whatever's up there is what has been given the biggest net-positive votes by all the users. Deal with it.
Yes, but was there even a crime?
(sarc)
haha, with that lawyer isn't he is pretty much admitting his guilt?
No, actually you're in college to learn, to prepare for a professional career and earn a degree.
Then you will proceed to your Career, work for 40 years, at which point you will be allowed to retire, now that the best years of your life are behind you. It is preferable for you to die soon after that, lest you become a burden on society. Then it's off to the grave, wasn't that a nice life?
Why are any of you defending Hillary? If she gets the nomination, you FUCKING LOSE in 2008. Give it up, and let her slip to the sidelines like an Al Sharpton.
No, it's what almost happened to Clinton. The Republicans tried to impeach him and, fortunately, failed.
Just because the Republicans failed to undermine the presidency doesn't mean we should hope for the Democrats to succeed.
I think it's clear: reddit wants bush impeached.
Joe, do you brush your teeth after you vomit?
Take a closer look. This is exactly it.
I don't think you need to own up to your pedantry. Those are glaring errors.
You're missing the point. The fact that social networking allows people to be collective mouth-breathing retards does not mean that everyone should clap their hands with glee when that occurs. Thus, this post.
Or he astroturfs.
Ruby has stolen a ton of things from Smalltalk. But there are a lot of things that are quite un-Smalltalk-like about Ruby. You may feel differently, but coding in Ruby doesn't feel like coding in Smalltalk to me.
In particular, consider that Ruby didn't steal one of the most fundamental facts about Smalltalk: the fact that it runs in an image that maintains its execution state. By contrast, Ruby is designed as a language suitable for Unix scripting, like Perl.
Ruby started life as a way of adapting ideas from Smalltalk to a different problem domain. It's easier to get close to the system in Ruby than in Smalltalk, which comes with it's own large support system abstracting it from the underlying OS and hardware. It's easier to write quick and dirty shell scripts in Ruby.
Of course, Ruby's problem domains have evolved greatly since then, and Rails is a large enough system that Ruby looks a lot more like Smalltalk again in this context.
Try the "recommended" page.
HAH!!!! :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_J1_NcDnPg
And this is news because....?
So I guess thats why Saudi Arabia has one of the lowest crime rates while we have one of the highest??!!
i saw a different animation a while back...no hope finding it now.
not bad. I find more often than not, the traffic cop doesnt even bother to show up, thus leaving me to plead my case all by my lonesome :)
fight all tickets
Ahh purges.
They are always the same, are they not?
I guess we should consider ourselves lucky that we don't have to listen to countless hours of "These justice purges are good for justice and the people! Long live the revolution." like we would have had to listen to back in Soviet Russia.
Of course, it makes the administrations behaviour just that much more insidious.
"Announced" is for things that haven't happened yet, or are just beginning to happen. EG "product announcements"
"Outed" carries with it the connotations of overcoming shame or secrecy. Many gay people speak of "outing themselves".
I think "outed" works better. And for what it's worth, I do happen to believe in God.
Why do they change position so much? Don't they have a proper appreciation for the virtues of lying down and just sleeping?
Wrong. Very wrong. As proof, here are a lot of pictures of cats.
I just hope I'm not out of popcorn when the pardon comes.
What Marvel has been doing lately is first-rate social commentary.
IOW you don't have any evidence, just your hoplophobia... LOL
And why this obsession with dicks? Believe me, firearms and penises have absolutely nothing in common.
BTW There's about 2.5 million defensive firearm uses a year in US link and about 30 thousand firearm deaths link
So your "statistics" are quite obviously bogus whenever they came from. But i know you're not going to change your mind - you're to damn scared of those things and they look like dicks to you... LOL
Good to see that you've got the balls to go with your claim. Best of luck on that, though I'd say if you're right then investors being idiots has worked in your favor - somebody's gotta sell you that option.
That said, it's not so much that you personally can't see a bear market coming as that this particular trend (articles about beating the market) can't be a great indicator of a bear market. If it were always true, then investors would take it into account, and prices would drop to reflect reduced confidence. Your expected return would be unchanged. That is, unless you're the only one, or one of very few, who knows about the indicator.
The climate in Vancouver is pretty mild, but in terms of sunlight, you can forget it six months of the year. :)
Not to get too nitpicky, but impeachment is the trial, not the result. Clinton was impeached and cleared.
Being confident and well-spoken doesn't mean you're domineering. (although I'm sure someone ). Everyone, regardless of gender, should able to hold their head up and feel pride in who they are.
The behaviors you're describing are decent and nice things to do, not power plays. I don't think anyone should have to give up rights for equality. Pampering and opening doors isn't a dominance issue... unless you feel emasculated by a woman who does the same for you. That reaches into a whole different issue.
I hate male doormats as much as female ones.
In summation as so we don't lose track of the original idea (or at least so I don't) equality =/= domineering.
I'm not advocating men sacrifice dignity, just that one doesn't need to hold dominance over the other.
You forgot one: complaining about whatever very recent, but totally duped and probably unimportant news items are floatin around the tubes at the time.
e.g. Anna dies, Libby guilty/not, impeach bush, free energy irish PR company, former Fed Reserve overlord says the word recession outloud, reddit glitchy, etc.
Reminds me of Blur's "No Distance Left to Run" video.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xe9az_blur-no-distance-left-to-run
Do you feel that way about signing up for credit cards? If dfranke spends the money and an imaginary "Frank D." is stuck with the bill, is that okay by your philosophical standpoint?
barely holding back laughter
This could all have been avoided if the word Beaver had been substituted for vagina. Its not rocket science.
Care should be taken when selecting a salon or spa. Some things to consider:
How long have they been offering body wraps?
Do they have a licensed clinician whose sole purpose is massage and/or body wraps
Where do their herbs and other contents come from?
Do they offer any special pricing for new clients?
Will they allow a tour of their facilities prior to purchase?
Have they had any unresolved complaints reported by the Better Business Bureau?
Do they have any package pricing for multiple visits?
No thats a seperate invoice. This one is just a straight to the point kind of thing. Maybe leave it on voicemail like a bad breakup. Does the U.S. have a voicemail?
What I think will happen is Dell will only offer Linux on "select models".
Those models will never go on sale. Since Dell is always running a promotion, the Windows PCs will be almost the same price because they are on sale.
Personally, I would like have a dropdown menu showing all of the compatible operating systems. Something like this:
MS Windows Vista Home Basic $0
MS Windows Vista Home Premium +$25
MS Windows Vista Kitchen Sink Edition +$150
MS Windows XP Home Edition -$10
Ubuntu Linux 6.10 -$90
Fedora Core 6 -$90
No Operating System -$100
"1. Violating the United Nations Charter by launching an illegal "War of Aggression" against Iraq without cause,"
This is not only a crime, it is a WAR CRIME under the laws defined at Nuremberg and was one of the things we sentences the Nazis to DEATH for.
"2. Violating U.S. and international law by authorizing the torture of thousands of captives,"
This is a clear violation of not only American law but the Geneva Convention, which under the Constitution is equivalent to American law as it is a ratified international treaty. Another crime punishable by hefty prison terms/death.
"3. Violating the Constitution by arbitrarily detaining Americans, legal residents, and non-Americans, without due process, without charge, and without access to counsel. "
The Constitution explicitly guarantees the protection against loss to life, liberty and property without due process of law, so Bush is flagrantly violating the Constitution, the supreme law of the land.
"5. Violating U.S. law and the Constitution through widespread wiretapping of the phone calls and emails of Americans without a warrant."
This is an explicit violation of FISA and carries a hefty prison term.
"6. Violating the Constitution by using "signing statements" to defy hundreds of laws passed by Congress. "
Another blatant constitutional violation.
Hmmm, where is "My Pet Goat" cited? Nowhere. Precisely nowhere and if you don't believe me you can read the article for yourself instead of making stuff up.
Hrm. Good point.
Wow Venture Capital. Maybe in 10, 15 or 20 years, after petrol has disappeared from the global markets, from the USA, and from the world, and the entire world economy has had to retool itself to use something other than petroleum, maybe then this algae biodiesel is going to save the glorious hydrocarbon economy. After it has disappeared.
Surprisingly, while the majority are absolute power freaks that devastate their respective economies (e.g. Mugabe), they aren't actually all so terrible!
YET ANOTHER GLARING CONTRADICTION IN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY!
no they won't. They'll say it is inspired, not written (ie: dictated)
Doesn't matter anymore anyway. He will get pardoned.
"In the first place, towns, cities, counties, states can't impeach anything on the federal level. grassroots can only start impeachment of local and STATE officials."
Now that we're on the "ignore all the facts" train, might as well throw out US history too. Under Congressional rules, the impeachment process can be initiated by state legislatures. Nobody is proposing a rewrite of the US constitution except Bush & Co.
This works fine when you don't have a large quantity of useless duplicate spam which seems to have hit reddit today. I have cleared the Impeach Bush posts from my reddit, but they keep coming back in the form of even more dupes.
If I wanted people to impeach my head of state, I wouldn't print out thousands of leaflets and drop them all over the country from a plane (nor would I spam reddit).
As people call for "universal health care" and a "single-payer system" and imagine how peachy the result will be, it's clear that their analysis neglects vets' experiences in their universal, single-payer system.
Would you want to depend on the VA for health care? If not, then why are you agitating to force all Americans into such a shoddy system?
there's only 3 real stories. you have a bunch of towns voting on it, a mayor (who's probably from one of those towns) saying he's all for it, and then a senator saying that he could see it happening. there's a ton of duplicates which all say the same thing.
"should he have been held responsible"
If he was directly involved, the YES, he should have been held responsible. But all the decisions were being made by people way down the chain from the president; at worst, he failed to take action.
SUCCESS!
I am all about America.
Credit card companies do care who you are, because they need to know your credit history. Obviously if I signed up for a credit card under a false name and then ignored the bill, that would be stealing. But, in an imaginary scenario where the credit card company could still get my real credit rating, could still reliably send me a bill and contact me if it wasn't paid, yet merely thought my name was something other than it this, then no, I'd have no problem with that.
I just hope the Cheney NSA thugs don't have me offed. (aww, shouldnt have used my real name, that isnt my real name?)
IntelliJ doesn't look native.
"Some 179,855 ballots were not counted in the official tally. These were ballots which were mistakenly filled out. However, in predominantly white counties the voting machines (Accuvotes) would return the ballot and allow voters to try again, whereas in predominantly black counties the reject mechanisms were not enabled, thus giving voters only one chance to mark the ballot correctly."
Oops. But come on. Democracy? Who needs it?
Cool recipes for lemonade drinks -- including rum & lemonade and lemonade tea.
how about: impeach impeach impeach impeach peach impeach impeach
Yeah. She seems like she's having nice dreams too.
It is too bad freedom has costs. But unfortunately it does. They are well worth paying for in both money and blood.
"This count was in progress on December 9, when the United States Supreme Court 5-4 (Justices Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer dissenting) granted Bush's emergency plea for a stay of the Florida Supreme Court recount ruling, stopping the incomplete recount,"
The recount was stopped by SCOTUS before it could even be completed. Oops.
That's a blatant lie wherever you saw it.
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/LAW/06/greta/greta.graham.06.12/
No, it doesn't, but it does look pretty.
(For some reason, Netbeans also looks pretty on my work computer, but it doesn't on my boss's computer or my home computer. Figures. There's Swing for you.)
Impeachment can also occur at the state level; state legislatures can impeach state officials, including governors, according to their respective constitutions.
At the Federal level, the House of Representatives has the sole power of impeaching the President, Vice President and all other civil officers of the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States
Wow. These are phenomenal. The average pen is a great way to not let in you're drawing the subject. At least it's a refreshing break from the current subject at hand. Oh the humanity. Up with people!
On top-of.
Beneath.
On top-of.
Beneath.
Clockwise...
Counter-clockwise!
(Bart watching a children's show in Rio)
Ha ha . . . Bullying Congress . . . really . . .
By false pretext I assume you mean WMD? Well guess what . . . THE U.S. GAVE WMDs TO IRAQ TO FIGHT IRAN, THAT IS HOW WE KNOW THEY HAD THEM. WE HAVE THE FREAKING INVOICE!
Like I said in my first comment, we are correcting mistakes that were made by prior administrations, and doing the best job we can. Is there corruption? Sure there is. Every government has corruption, but does every government allow its population to call for action against corruption?
Yes Enron sucks, yes the whole Dick Cheny-Halburton swindle sucks. As American citizens it is our duty to call Bullshit! on these types of events. (that is why I love being an American). I have been to Turkey, you cannot say ANYTHING bad about the government, unless you want to go and spend some time in a Turkish prison.
Bullying Congress . . . looks like we elected some strong politicians, who stand up for what they believe in, I sure hope one of them can become President, and have the ability to start more wars because THEY were "bullied".
Yeah... Announcement for all politicians from an RPG fanatic: Stuff the sidequests, get back to the goddamn main story, I wanna see the ending :P
I always think of that as US --- Asians. Dont know why.
the problem is the way we kill animals. We must change that, not our eating habits
Changing our food buying habits is probably the best way to change how animals are killed. If you think a product is produced unethically, don't buy it. Find some meat that's produced in a manner you find acceptable and refuse to buy anything else. Also, you can advocate for regulation by government. I would applaud you - but personally, I would rather work through the market on this one.
claiming that we should remove all kind of animal byproduct in our food ... is just dogmatic. And I'm opposed to dogmas.
Surely an opposition to all dogmas is... well, dogmatic, no? Anyway, consider it an effective ban rather than an absolute ban. There might be circumstances in which I would kill an animal, just as there might be circumstances in which I would kill another human. I hope never to encounter those circumstances. These are moral principles, not dogmas. I don't use animal fat in my food for the same reason I don't eat meat or drink milk: the moral cost I perceive in the use of such items, in terms of contributing to the suffering of my fellow beings, outweighs the benefit.
And I'm opposed to the notion that vegetarians are somehow better persons.
Never said we were. The whole thing is a difficult situation, though. Obviously you and I made different ethical choices here. I choose to act a certain way because certain things are important to me. Obviously, I think my choice is in some way superior to other options. That's why I chose it. Does that mean I think I'm better than you? Well, does an Orthodox Jew think he's better than you because you work on the Sabbath and he doesn't? Does an avid recycler think he's better than you because you threw out that aluminum can, or does the PTA mom think she's better than you because she worked hard raising money for the school and you didn't? Maybe, but I'd sure hope not. I chose to follow certain moral guidelines, and I'd be thrilled if you chose to follow them too. But I also try to be respectful of the fact that not everyone has the same beliefs, information, and priorities that I do, and they make different choices. I hope that makes sense.
Hear hear!
I'm tired of the majority of the top stories dealing with impeaching Bush. Without getting the pro or con articles I'd rather prefer all those "stories" were condensed into one so that other submissions could have a chance at the top 25 :(
And how about this weirdness:
"abc"[2] => 99
"abc"[2..2] => "c"
Oh that's too easy...
Luke 19:27
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
http://www.carm.org/kjv/Luke/luke_19.htm
-- edit. I had the chapter wrong from a poor copy paste... anyway it proves the point.
I'd love it if prototype.js got added to the spec. Maybe then we wouldn't have so many incompatibilities when using it with other libraries.
'Course, we'd have incompatibilities with the new version of Javascript, but that'd give library authors an incentive to fix their broken for loops. ;-)
That's what I've been doing, but it's still a pain in the ass.
I can't wait until tags are implemented, so I can ignore anything to do with US politics.
The applications I work on usually take 2+ years to develop, so none recently. But I worked on Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Championship 2, etc, and they were all released in at least one of the CJK territories. A lot of other apps sell in those markets, too.
Amurrican.
There are two things that stand between America and the rule of law: Democrats and Republicans.
No Democrat (or progressive or leftist) demanded that the federal government follow the constitution -- you know, "the supreme law of the land" -- and declare war before committing American blood and treasure to this conflict.
Only one lonely voice has been a stalwart defender of the constitution and of the rule of law, Dr. Ron Paul.
Why is the class of "true" different than the class of "false"?
And why isn't "0" a false value as in C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, Javascript, ...
way better than cluttering up reddit with another post bitching about other posts.
No matter how much perfume you spray on a cowpile...
An alternative to Case Study 1 is to outsource the sales responsibility to an independent rep. If that rep carries multiple, complimentary, non-competing products, he/she can often accelerate the sales cycle via a bundled approach. A VAR approach works here also.
Good article.
What are the top reasons for impeaching Bush?
[...]
Reading "My Pet Goat" during the attack
http://www.democrats.com/impeachment-reasons
This Mars thing is a pseudofactoid marketed by
the global warming contrarians. It doesn't make much
sense.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/10/global-warming-on-mars/
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/07/the-lure-of-solar-forcing/
The following from Numbers pretty much sums up the religion
15:32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.\t
15:33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
15:34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
15:35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
15:36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Yeah, there's no way that a guy could ever get involved with gangs because he's a product of his environment. That never happens. Only losers and idiots get involved with gangs.
Joseph Schumpeter on the usurpation of 'liberal' by American leftists: "As a supreme, if unintended, compliment, the enemies of private enterprise have thought it wise to appropriate its label."
tl; dr, gonna go play Need for Speed instead of working on homework, later g8rs
Cheney is already President. Might as well call the duck a duck.
Weird. This actually makes me wish I were American. Well, not really, but good luck!
Me who?? Gues who??
I agree with you, except that I think they did undermine it.
Specifically because the prior president was impeached, it will be much tougher to convince Congress that the step needs to be taken with this President. If they do, it will be portrayed as "payback" even if it's much more deserved now.
THANK YOU! I have been looking for this page (I remember it from back when it was originally written) so I could show my friends why we haven't, in fact, exceeded the speed of light.
It'll never happen. These are the same clowns who recite ridiculous excuses -- and find no shortage of sycophants and apologists -- about why they "had to" vote for the "Patriot" Act.
Only a fool can expect more out of them than smoke-blowing.
Does the phrase "Too little, too late" mean anything to you folks? The damage is done... who the f*ck cares if Bush is impeached at this point? You guys RE-ELECTED him AFTER he invaded Iraq. Like, give up, already. You had your chance to make a difference.
"effete, corrupt socialists"? "rotting from the inside out"?
Have you EVER stepped foot outside the states? Seriously mate, I have no idea what fantasy world you're living in.
First of all Europe does not equal France. Secondly the USA is in one hell of a worse state than most other first world countries. Thirdly, socialist countries are, on-the-whole, not effete nor corrput.
A vote for impeachment is standing with Alex Jones. Are you ready to do that? He has spoke about the dangers of the entire family for almost ten years. Good to that what he's is right on track.
Beauty... big UP from me. Nice one!
It's fucking sickening. I'm sick of this shit. Reddit draws a lot of water. In a small tub.
if true; 1; else; 2; end.
Semicolons to the rescue.
Well, that would make sense since Illinois is trying to ban guns and this president is horrible on gun laws. I said that to say that Illinois is standing with their "leader".
impressive. I bet people will try to get it looking better too.
One solution would be to combine different versions of the same story into one uber submission. It would be considered above a single story and would rise and fall at a different rate based on it many continuously added parts. Such an uber submission would provide the community a crowd base mechanism for combining stories.
This might also be helpful for stories that are undergoing large amounts of change, like the US attorneys purge. Grouping all developments under an uber submission with sublinks to each new and exciting development.
But I think the real story here is that there is a large appetite in the US to see the administration held accountable for it actions. The leadership is very out of synch with the populous. That reality is not going to change anytime soon.
I'll vouch that this is a theory espoused in some elitist college classes run by white guilt professors. This is not something I'm making up. The argument goes that since the whites control the dialoge, only they can be racist because they're in power. Blacks, being oppressed, cannot be racist since racism only goes downward. Since there are less, say, Middle Eastern people in the US, they can't be racist by saying cracker, honkey, nigger or chink since they're definitely the most oppressed.
That's the theory. I think it's fucking retarded.
That's clever, I'm going to end all my comments with so it looks like I was trying to post a comment from AOL but got messed up.
Sleeping with a dog is pretty creepy. I didn't realize people did that. Ew.
haha! goddamned words! good show!
The line gets drawn when something cannot, reasonably, be implemented in JavaScript otherwise. For example, it's currently impossible to reasonably implement native JSON support in a browser (both due to speed/scaling issues and due to its harmful implementation).
Additionally, the same reason is presented for implementing getElementsByClassName in a browser; as any current implementation is incredibly slow.
Of course, there's a corollary to that argument: Common conventions are implemented as well. In the upcoming ECMAScript 4 specification (what will become JavaScript 2) it's very likely that there will be a "foo".trim() method included. This is born out of convenience and repetition, rather than a pure implementation concern.
Irony, ya gotta love it.
I really should have expected that response. lol
DISCLAIMER: The following article may be seen as being in bad taste by some. I am dealing with the subject of two sensitive topics - Adolph Hitler, and the teachings of Jesus Christ. I am not only dealing with them but comparing the beliefs of the two and finding similarities. However, by doing this I am not condoning the actions of Hitler, nor am I pushing religion on my readers. Nazis are evil, religion is a choice. That's my feeling on the subject. Also - I am not trying to trivialize either Jesus or Hitler by putting their words into a pop culture context. If you would rather not read about these subjects please skip this article. However, I do hope I don't offend any of you or lose what I consider to be supportive and loyal readers.
Someone should upload Goatse to Flickr with those tags. Retroactive shock site, yay!
Who the hell are you? Probably a Christian who likes to judge other people. Thanks for giving a perfect example of why people should avoid all organized religions. People get in your face and tell you stuff which isn't their business.
I know what Christianity is, and I also know that Christians worship from the whole bible, not just the new testament where Christ shows up. Have you read the old testament? Do you know what kind of fucked up shit is written in there? Are you people so fucking dense that you don't get what my ORIGINAL COMMENT meant?
Damn, what the hell is wrong with these people. Prince's performance was as about as clean as you can get...did I miss something? Did Prince show his ass really fast, did he piss on somebody? What the fuck is wrong with this country?! I'm sure if a child watching that performance could spot something like an silhouette that may seem to be offensive, that child should be clinically tested. Only adults with negative minds could've spotted that and thought of something that really didn't exist.
Bush's operatives in Florida illegally wiped almost 60,000 likely Gore voters off the rolls in 1999 and 2000. Their votes, if counted, would have put Gore over the top easily. Here's the link.
http://www.gregpalast.com/the-great-florida-ex-con-gamernhow-the-felon-voter-purge-was-itself-felonious
It isn't necessary for something to reach the level of 'evil' before you can have a valid rational for opposing it. There is the difficult problem of how to respond to a group that has been taken over by extremists. A response is warranted but it has to be tempered with the knowledge that the extremists are not necessarily representative of the group.
Islam is particularly problematic because its own internal ideology doesn't permit apostates. Average Muslims can easily find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place. They can't easily oppose the extremists because their opposition is easily characterized as apostasy nor can they walk away because that too can be characterized as apostasy.
Pure drivel. Another Good Reason to stay away from ALL organized religions.
If you use the hide button and reload reddit, the pages that had been scrolled off the page due to the impeach articles come back.
You might as well go all-out in criticizing Israel. They'll accuse you of antisemitism, no matter what you say.
Agreed--this is not a new problem. My uncle, a vet of the Korean War, developed rheumatoid arthritis while still in the service so was covered under VA. Unfortunately, this meant he was privileged to waste away in a VA hospital while nothing was done for him. It took a concerted letter-writing campaign by his relatives (which were many) to our congressmen to finally get the treatment he needed.
Jews have been in many ways, bred to be tough. Of all of the hundreds of years of shit they have had to walk through from Egyptians, Babylonians, Romans, then Christians, and now Muslims. I think all of the "weak" parts of their cultural identity have been pretty much stripped off. The Jewish people are survivors. They wil do what ever they think is necessary for them to survive in a world that as always hated them.
Even if Bush was impeached, I would rather only one submission regarding the story make it to the front page.
So you agree it's OK for a husband to hit his wife? You are insane.
this is amazing that there are so many liberals getting together on a website to try to impeach the president of the united states.
it is called democracy, and if there truly was a reason to impeach OUR leader, then the democrat officials that you fucking idiots elected would be sure to start the impeachment process.
You people have absolutley no pull from this website...the only pull you got is from the dumbfucks that run this site that are on the same wacko side of life that you are.....wake the fuck up
Yes, I spelled it incorrectly. What was your point in correcting me?
Yes, both house and senate passed it, but Bush was the one that pushed for it and signed it into law. As president, I think he has to take final responsibility for it.
I don't recall if the vote was down party lines or not, but I don't know that it matters. If all future presidents know that citizens will not stand for removal of our rights, then they won't sign these things into law.
It's been tried before and the right has been restored later, with the president taking a beating for it.
Agreed. I'd prefer if the behavior was reversed.
And I don't expect you to.
Hi Blossom!
Gee I googled and found this site with the link to my protest site and - just see - you've commented too.
I wonder - you say "He is probably schizophrenic" - on what do you base that? It's a biased and it's solitarily based on the 'nature' of what I have stated? I wonder if you think that such things are not possible - I would hope that you might use the internet and the puiblic library to become educated on current technologies. What has happened to me could happen to anyone.
Did you visit my website and did you see the x-ray:
HTTP://WWW.DENTAL-SPY-IMPLANTS.BLOG.CA
So please don't just assume that such an occurance is crazy talk - this isn't 1957 - it's 2007.
Thank you!
I wouldn't use the parens for regular programming. I'm just showing that Ruby accepts commands that look very Lisp-like. I'm just experimenting. I don't pretend to know much.
I still don't know why google would buy this property, but it certainly is interesting to read about.
Prototype won't be, completely, added to any particular browser implementation, or specification. However, a number of the conventions that were devised and refined in Prototype are making their way into JavaScript 2 (or have already been implemented in JavaScript 1.6, with Array Extras).
So while we're not going to see a Try.these, a String.trim is much more likely.
And to go with your for..in concern, JavaScript 2 is going to have better support for Object/property iteration, by making Objects enumerable. (Therefore, there'll be an alternative means of iterating through Objects, rather than a regular for..in loop; giving users more freedom to extend the native Object.prototype.)
Hey, we've all had jobs we don't put on our resumes.
Who the hell cares if he sucked dick on the big screen? Is Hannity upset? Coulter? Limbaugh? Or is it just liberals?
(And was he really a STAR?)
Amazing lines! I wonder how fast this artist works.
I misclicked on that site and clicked on an intelligent design ad. Shudder.
this is amazing that there are so many liberals getting together on a website to try to impeach the president of the united states.
it is called democracy, and if there truly was a reason to impeach OUR leader, then the democrat officials that you fucking idiots elected would be sure to start the impeachment process.
You people have absolutley no pull from this website...the only pull you got is from the dumbfucks that run this site that are on the same wacko side of life that you are.....wake the fuck up
The Uniparty. INGSOC... Divide you and conquer. Become an independent today! Don't answer any polls until vote day, keep them guessing.
It warms my heart to see these issues finally in the crosshairs. The attorney firings, Libby verdict, and Vermont impeachment vote seem to have created a perfect storm that has political corruption, accountability and, yes, even impeachment finally entering the public discourse. Reddit is just slightly ahead of the political curve, as always.
Sidebar: It's amusing watching Fox news this afternoon; they played the out-of-context Pelosi clip over and over where she says "impeachment is off the table." Like they're trying to remind everybody that it's never going to happen so stop talking about it. For the first time ever, it feels like a real possibility.
Everyone who was following Iraq closely knew that it was effectively disarmed of weapons banned by UNSCR 687 by the end of 1998, as the UNSCOM Director, UNSCOM Chief Inspector, IAEA Director, two UN Humanitarian Coordinators in a row, and the UNMOVIC Director tried to argue, but were ignored and/or ridiculed by the Bush administration and the US newsmedia. Hell, I was able to figure this out by mid-2002 just from reading publicly available documents from my living room.
we are correcting mistakes that were made by prior administrations, and doing the best job we can.
I call bullshit as is my 'duty' as a citizen of a free country. The "mistakes" of the prior administrations were not in failing to invade Iraq (Bush senior recognized that this would lead to an insoluble quagmire) but in refusing to lift the UN sanctions at the end of 1998 when Iraq was demonstrably in compliance with UNSCR 687.
Instead, in keeping with the US government policy that the sanctions would never be lifted as long as Saddam was still in power (a direct violation of Resolution 687, by the way, but who's counting?), the US and UK governments staged a faux crisis involving a regional Ba'ath party office, ordered Richard Butler to withdraw the UN inspectors, and launched three days of illegal missile strikes against Iraq.
After that, recognizing that the inspections program had become a mockery, Saddam refused to allow the inspectors back in (this was widely and falsely reported as "Saddam kicked the inspectors out") and Iraq went into political limbo.
The right thing for the Bush administration to do would have been to seek a Security Council Resolution establishing permanent monitoring of Iraq to ensure ongoing compliance with UNSCR 687 and a lifting of the sanctions that had killed half a million Iraqi children.
Instead, because it was run by a group of neoconservative megalomaniacs who believed they had the power to remake the world like it was a Lego set, the Bush administration capitalized on the FUD that followed 9/11 and fabricated a patently phony "imminent threat" that they used to terrorize, bully, and shame the American public and Congress into supporting their pre-existing scheme to get rid of Saddam as a first step to toppling all the Middle Eastern governments that threatened their version of US global hegemony.
The fundamental unspeakable truth about Iraq is the fact that one country does not have the right to meddle in another country's affairs the way the US does as a matter of course.
$solution = new Smoke(array("toSmoke" => "marijuana", "device" => "blunt"));
if($solution->smoked){print "Can't we all just get along?";}
Come play Omaha with Oz!
Best title/link EVER.
They may not care what one constituent has to say, but they damn well care what several thousand have to say. Especially if they represent the margin between re-election and defeat.
At this point, the top 13 stories are all about impeaching Bush.
There is so much uncovered territory out there, territory not covered not only by you, but also by anyone else. How to begin to look at new territories and take some chances in finding new territories that work for you.
What's weird is this was really nothing unusual for her at all. She spouts venom laden vitriol all the time, and has accused plenty of politicians of being gay. I wonder what was special about this case.
"Al Gore -- total fag."- MSNBC's Hardball, July 27, 2006
"I'd say that's about even money on Sen. Clinton coming out of the closet [in 2008.]" -- Aug. 2, 2006 syndicated column.
Bill Clinton "show[s] some level of latent homosexuality." -- CNBC's The Big Idea, July 26, 2006
"[Clinton] masturbates in the sinks." -- Rivera Live, Aug. 2, 1999
"God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.' " -- Hannity & Colmes, June 20, 2001
The "backbone of the Democratic Party" is a "typical fat, implacable welfare recipient" -- syndicated column, Oct. 29, 1999
To a disabled Vietnam vet: "People like you caused us to lose that war." -- MSNBC, Oct. 11, 1997
"Women like Pamela Harriman and Patricia Duff are basically Anna Nicole Smith from the waist down. Let's just call it for what it is. They're whores." -- Salon.com, Nov. 16, 2000
"I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote." -- Hannity & Colmes, Aug. 17, 1999
"My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism." -- MSNBC, Feb. 8, 1997
I was an English major and I'm just now learning to program. I was also a philosophy minor. This article encourages me to keep going with my ambition to become a programmer.
If only we could get Homer Simpson to take Cheney to lunch.
May I suggest, Greasy Joe's Bottomless Barbecue Pit...?
No, seriously, you're making me cry! Since your such a good friend to me, I'll run all my posts by you before I submit them. I'm sure your fantastic intellect, extensive research abilities, and unbiased opinions will keep me from humiliation in the future.
Hell, I've never used EJB but I have no doubts in my mind that it sucks.
This gets pretty close: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2099/
Heresy! There's no place too strange for an Office Space quote.
Now give me back my Swingline.
SHUT UP! EMACS will never be as cool as Vim.
Luke 11:27 (King James Version)
King James Version (KJV)
27And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2011:27&version=9;
it's important that the history books record the atrocities this administration has administered on the country and it's constitution. impeachment will guarantee that.
Great article. The video on google is even more detailed.
I've invented a fun new reddit game. The rules are simple and few: First, log in to reddit. Next, from the home page, down mod every Richard Dawkins, Impeachment, Keith Olbermann, or any other left-wing-off-the-farm post. Refresh. Repeat. How many refreshes does it take to get a reddit homepage free of extraneous left wing politics and bring up the fun stuff like crazy cat pictures, LISP, Joel on Software, "THE BEST 10 LIST OF ..." and etc? The person who has to refresh the most loses.
My personal worst today is 4 homepage refreshes.
It's not a draft card. So no need to burn it in some sort of protest. The selective service forms are at the post office and lots of other places. There's nothing special about this particular card in the mail. You can also register online.
You might not be hampered by it now, if you're under age 26, but failure to register can limit your ability to get jobs with any level of government including county and state, federal student loans, US citizenship, among other things.
I have applied for several jobs over the years working at city, county, and state levels. All inquired about selective service registration. All verified proof of registration. It was a condition of employment.
Legally, you have to register by age 26. If you're over 26 and didn't register, you need to do a shitload of work to prove that you didn't just blow it off as a big Fuck You to the government. Basically, you need to explain how you didn't have a mailbox, lived with hobos, and didn't know how to read, so there's enough evidence to say that it's not willing disregard -- this is based on what I understand of the law.
All reasons are good but the big one is destroying national sovereignty by implementing the NAU (N. American Union). www.stopthenau.org
I really wish I had seen this article back when I was still a .NET developer. I still have nightmares about interfacing with Excel.
In one of his comments it said 5 minutes. That doesn't surprise me at all. He is clearly a master at what he does, and he probably needs but a few glances (after the initial study) to draw the subject.
we also make maple syrup
At least Dick Cheney made more of himself than a Taco Bell Manager. Who is really the better man?
I've read the whole bible and I know what your ORIGINAL COMMENT meant. You don't know what Christianity is. You can be excused for not understanding Christianity, you can't be excused from proclaiming your knowledge when you don't have any.
Please note that I am not judging you. I am just pointing out that you don't know what you are talking about.
Nope, it's about as English as they get. From Proto-Indo-European through Proto-Germanic through Old English. EtymOnline
It's great to see the all-mighty net revolting the masses and making a crossdimensional touch on the real plane but yes, do it at once and let's celebrate reddit's participation on our daily life and go back to the articles worth reading.
...and no more kittens plz :'(
are the americans fighting and dying for iraqi freedom and security cowards too?
See? All potential robot/human problems solved with three simple lines of code. What could possibly go wrong?
I'm a little concerned. The article states that the reactor uses Boron as a fuel.
I just saw a Voyager episode today that showed a Boron explosion that caused Seven's nanobots to spontaneously begin regenerating.
If this Boron reactor achieves common use on this planet, and sometime in the future we get invaded by the Borg, the extensive use of Boron radiation might make the Borg invaders especially tough to kill, since they'd be spontaneously regenerating!
No, I think we're better off not risking this. Let's stick with coal.
Very interesting read...I had no idea parasites could tell that much of our phylogeny
I think I speak for all of us when I say we won't be hurt if you choose not to come back.
1) Justice. If he is guilty he should be forced out of office dishonorably, even if it's done on the least day.
2) To set a precedent. To future Presidents, that they are accountable for there actions and if they lie to the people, the people will toss them out in disgrace.
3) Anyone see that international survey that placed the USA as one of the countries that is viewed as having the most negative impact on the world? A lot of that has been due to the way the USA has been getting run for the past 6 years. This would be a little more meaningful in repairing relationships then saying sorry and doing nothing.
Its true that I'd rather have an all-in-one thread on the matter but I was kinda hoping an impeach bush article would get from one to ten so i could blog about it myself..
Besides lets face it, impeaching Bush is vital if the US ever wants to build up its rep again. I live in an english town with loads of forign students and being canadian I come into contact with alot of anti american talk.
I might have upmodded this had the article not been tagged with "jewsdidwtc" on that site...
yeah Nixon was a saint.
There's just so many things wrong with what you wrote I don't even know where to start. So I won't, not now anyways.
Wow, that's... ridiculous.
Fry, do you have a list of these gotchas by any chance?
Oh please. I heard the tape. Got it on podcast from Limbaugh. Oh its real.
Did you also hear, on that podcast from Limbaugh, the sentences immediately before and after it?
They were not in drawl. They clearly stated that she was about to quote specific lyrics. She did that in drawl, imitating the author of the lyrics.
It's abundantly clear that she was not pretending that she has a drawl. This, however, is the impression that Limbaugh (and his like) are trying to give you, by removing a soundbite from context.
She's guilty of being corny.
Limbaugh, on the other hand, is guilty of purposely trying to mislead you.
EDIT:
Please watch the video including context for yourself.
If, after viewing it, you honestly think that she was trying to make the audience think that she has a drawl, okay, more power to you.
But if, after viewing it, you think that it's completely absurd to think that she was trying to make the audience think that she has a drawl... then please think a little bit about the fact that Rush Limbaugh has intentionally misled you.
Thank you.
I initially wanted to use Turbogears for a web app that i was to write for my College ( http://code.google.com/p/hackzor/ ) Turbogears was really hard for newbie like me (back then ofcourse, I don't know how it is now). Django, on the other hand has great documentation. It didn't assume that i even know what the MVC(or MTV) was and i've stuck to it ever since.
Huh... that's brutal, I didn't even see it when I submitted it.
Again, I ask, why do you assume I actually manage a Taco Bell?
Testicles.
No, officer, you are supposed to go and find some physical evidence... you know do some actual working for a change.
One looks more like a Yin than a Ying.
You can't tell someone what they know or do not know, period. You don't know me and you can't possibly tell what I know from what I wrote here on reddit. I can take any position I want and say anything I want, even if it isn't popular. I know that Christians cite the entire bible from start to finish when they worship, it isn't just the new testament. You don't know what YOU are talking about, asshole.
No. Where did you get the idea I did?
jpark, Christianity is not freedom from the law. I refer you to Romans 3:31
"Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law."
that's fucking hot
I agree.
There's no serious talk of impeaching Bush. The only place I ever hear of it is on reddit. If a House leader or a Senator started talking about it, then I would pay attention.
And if you think I'm going to let any American President be impeached to improve our standing with effete, corrupt socialists in Europe whose countries are rotting from the inside out, you have a hole in your head.
It must be awesome to wield such power against such an effete, corrupt, imaginary evil.
It ushered in an era of political brinkmanship that serves the country in no meaningful way and damages it a great deal.
Wow, the most intelligent thing I've heard on this entire thread.
Taco Bell managers don't start senseless wars and get hundreds of thousands of people killed, sink their nations into debt, sell government influence to corporate patrons, or screw up the planetary environment.
An achievement level of zero beats Dick Cheney.
No, he's right. The deal Libby got behind the scenes was probably something along the lines of: "Keep your mouth shut about my boys Rove and Cheney, and you get a pardon when I leave. Otherwise, feel free to rot for 20 years."
Took the USians 7 years to realize what the rest of the world has known all along...
Took the USians 7 years to realize what the rest of the world has known all along...
Took the USians 7 years to realize what the rest of the world has known all along...
And what frightens you about this?
Oh so true.
The dog seems to be the only one that really rests for any real period of time.
You haven't been here that long, have you?
Again, I must point out that Christianity is not freedom from the law. Paul would have been baffled by your thinking, and would have written you an angry letter.
"Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law."
You apparently don't know the nature of sites like this. When you say something that shows you don't know, anyone can say 'You don't know'.
That doesn't make sense because you have to make the system idiot proof. If you are moron and you just click through all of the options, you should get a PC with Windows since that's probably what your average idiot wants.
If you can find me a video link to that, I will give you my first born child.
Touche.
Scream loudly.
Get out of the car and start jumping on the hood of the cops car. Claim you are exercising your constitutional rights.
Claim that the cop is "an embodiment of the white man's oppression." Double points if the cop is of African descent. Quadruple points if you are white.
Say, at any time, "I bet you can't find my drugs."
If the cop asks you how fast you were going, respond with, "Fast enough to outrun your 'friends' who want to pin that bank robbery on me."
When the cop asks to see your license and registration, say, "The last cop who asked that wound up dead."
Say, "Would you like to know about my warrants in other states?"
Say, "I thought you couldn't pull over white people."
When the cop asks, "Do you know why I pulled you over?" respond with, "I swear to God I didn't know she was 12. How did you find out?"
Refer to the cop as "Miss Piggy".
Try reading the whole chapter.
FWIW a Mexican (I was born/live in Mexico) have voted this one up.
Given I demonstrated back in the day when the Afghanistan bombings were cooked by Bush/Cheney gang I here stand for what I believed, still believe, was/is the right thing.
Hope all US Citizens correct this by 2008, they've already got this wrong twice, but there's always hope.
Peace to you all.
ps: San Miguel de Allende's weather is way better than Vancouver's if you feel like ;)
Just wondering...why do you call Christians "xtian?" Just another brain-dead PC version?
Here on some tips on personal prayer and how to identify how God has demonstrated particular qualities towards you previously such as generosity and ideas on what to bring into your prayer requests and discussions.
wow! I guess we have an out of work prostitute who reads reddit.
I believe the best references are concise, formal, and authorative, like R5RS or The Haskell 98 Language Report.
Bussard couldn't talk a bunch of Googlers into coughing up seed money for a Mr. Fusion?
hmmm. Sell GOOG they have lost their creative spark.
"had an affect" -> "had an effect"
"anterior motives" -> "ulterior motives"
I can see how that is a valid question (and not, say, a taunt). However much CS majors say 'what you don't know, you pick up', exposure to 4 or 5 years of CS does leave a lot of good dents that turn out to be useful in real work.
Figures. The democrats see the republicans losing big time, so now they push for the liberal agenda.
This crap is why Bush might not be successfully impeached, because the sudden surge in the liberal agenda is going to scare away the rest of the country.
What medical condition does she have?
Can we please let ten year-old boys just be ten year-olds without making a federal case out of it. It ain't like they were going to assassinate the president. They were getting a few free ice creams. There is a difference.
I like shift space as escape.
Silly me, what was I thinking.
(insert your own quote, I can't figure out something that fits)
From March 7, 2007 Washington Post editorial: "The partisan furor over this allegation led to the appointment of special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald. Yet after two years of investigation, Mr. Fitzgerald charged no one with a crime for leaking Ms. Plame's name. In fact, he learned early on that Mr. Novak's primary source was former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage, an unlikely tool of the White House. The trial has provided convincing evidence that there was NO CONSPIRACY to punish Mr. Wilson by leaking Ms. Plame's identity -- and NO EVIDENCE that SHE WAS, in fact, COVERT.
If not damn near impossible.
Jeez, you "free" Americans are really fucked up when it comes to sexuality... Incredible.
Neither have arbitrarily nested syntax highlighting (vim will highlight PHP heredocs, at least for SQL, but not ruby heredocs)
Again, I'll point out that you should read the whole chapter.
DOCTOR DOCTOR
You people have absolutley no pull from this website...the only pull you got is from the dumbfucks that run this site that are on the same wacko side of life that you are.....wake the fuck up
ditto. apparently, Reddit is politically partisan because it doesn't take active steps to censor a particular point of view.
They were getting a few illicit ice creams.
Fixed.
Say you've got two sentences "This play was awful. However, the usher were great."
Taking this picture entirely out of context is like quoting to above as "This play was... great".
Yep. Probably different version of Java.
As much as I support the idea, I have resorted to downvoting them all AND hiding them to get the front page back to some semblance of normalcy.
It's ok. Hey, wanna take it out on this old laser printer while playing rap music?
"But he says he is scheduled to be executed June 22 for a murder he did not commit."
I'm not saying the guy was a saint. It is hard to end up on death row and be squeaky clean. But the ultimate punishment requires the ultimate proof, and that wasn't available here.
amen.
Sounds like an episode of 24!
takes one to... catch... one?
yeah i got nothing.,,
I can really identify with the guy second from the right.
Just scanned all the front pages of the MSM news sites in the US and they have nothing on this.
Fox has "Manuel Uribe, who once weighed half a ton, celebrates with his mother during his first trip outside in five years."
/sigh.
Thanks for the fucking spoiler assholes >:(
Thank you. We need it.
A lot of stories die out because of early downmodding. If I could see only the upmods, that would greatly improve my chances of seeing stories that some/many people liked, however many other people downmodded them.
(This seems easy to implement as an option in the user's profile; the story could be listed as "N upmods" instead of "N points" to provide a visual cue.)
Harry Potter dies in book 7.
oops.
Just scanned all the front pages of the MSM news sites in the US and they have nothing on this.
Probably because its appearance on the reddit frontpage does not automatically make it worthwhile news.
sentimental.
That picture made my day, you're my hero.
You are aware of the fact that there is even "national" software that needs unicode support? Like... uhm... in "the rest of the world"
First of all, you'll find this in the ENTERTAINMENT section, which for years has posted articles on Britney Spears gossip, Hollywood drama, and Oscar night fashion without your biting social critique, but hey, everyone's entitled to their own meaningless life of perpetually criticizing things that are hardly worth the effort. Including me apparently.
I called my third grade teacher a 'bitch' and I didn't get suspended.
/i did repeat third grade though...
I honestly can't tell if that was a joke.
Am I the only one who finds that the government was using crappy free ice cream mailing lists to look for people to be a little strange? And sending out letters to people there is no other record of existing saying "you better do this or else".
This is down right super weird. How many people are there living in this country where the only record of their entire existence is from Ice Cream Parlor discounts? There is living off the grid, and then there is living off the grid.
I could understand using DMV or IRS records. I could understand using hospital birth records. I could understand using High School and College enrollment records. I could understand using banking, insurance and credit records. You are going to be finding real people that way.
But if you are using records of Mom & Pop small businesses, you are going to be sending a lot of threating letters to "Al Coholic" and "Amanda Huggenkiss". Really, how productive can this be? Seems like a giant money drain for no real benefit, at least none that couldn't have been tracked down some more intelligent fashion.
It's frightening how easily the US steps into the shoes of the Nazi and Communist torturers.
The FizzBuzz madness goes to show once again the over-passionate nature of the programming community.
AMERICA!!! FUCK YEAH!!!
/goodnight
Yeah, in that case, he definitely doesn't represent America.
You don't get it do you.
/yawn
who do you think make morals? God?
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Ok, so you agree it is just your personal morality and not something that is "morally wrong" in an absolute fashion?
Death to the West and all it stands for!!
...Excuse me while I take a sip from my McDonald's cup.
Do you actually code or do you just read reddit all summer?
Water is life, I hate it, I drink it, I feel better about life.
They are doing it because it would seem obvious from the title that it's a spoiler, so sending to to a comic-reader without warning them would be just as foolish as not labelling the post as a spoiler in the first place.
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LISP? Who needs lisp when I can just :%!perl -ne'...' and pretty much do whatever I want within VIM.
Don't forget the "here-say".
Sounds like she really has some issues regarding her own sexuality if she likes talking about other people's so much.
I have no idea why this is such a big deal now, especially considering that she has said worse things in the past. Perhaps people have had enough?
Actually, it is you the one who has to say why is it wrong killing an animal to eat. You have already told me that it is wrong to make an animal suffer, I understand that and I agree. I only don't believe it is reasonable to stop eating meat just because of that.
Something is wrong with the way we produce food... but refusing to eat meat because of that is like refusing to eat vegetables because you don't agree with capitalism or GM food or something in the way we produce vegetables.
forum where you can complain about anything
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Please stop arguing with the retarded monkey. When retarded monkeys get all worked up they can easily injure themselves. While retarded monkeys aren't on the endangered species list (there are millions in existence), having to care for them is something nobody wants to do."
I have to agree with X2
By the way, you've just been repeating yourself this entire time. Absolutely NO intelligent thought has gone into any of your posts. Ever.
what is this??
Oouch, wat a strong girl is she?
I want to see the list, play a game of "find the sons of senators and rich people".
Wow what a huge steaming pile of self delusion.
hmmm, I'm skeptical. It seems like there is nothing available which is actually more detailed images, it's just closer zooms of the same images. Can anyone find an example of something where more detail can be seen? Please link it here.
Edit:
My point was simply that there is no actual extra detail. You could get the same affect by taking a screenshot of the image and zooming with mspaint...
I stand 100% corrected by your comment. It has anything at all to do with my point.
Damn! And here I was online trying to start my great new business venture in Deutschland. It seemed like such a great idea.
As for the messages being objects, this too is mostly a syntax issue. Object can receive messages in the form of Strings, which are objects themselves.
That sounds nowhere near as useful as what my imagination came up with.
At the idea of messages being objects I thought of them being of a specialized type that could, for instance, handle logging or computational load-balancing transparently and be rewritten and re-specified at any time as needed. Kind of like a function decorator, but something that can be selectively applied to any code currently running. Probably a bad idea, but certainly an interesting one.
Interesting stuff. I obviously have a lot more reading to do. Thanks for the links.
I don't think anybody has a right to end anyone's life. I'm genuinely curious as to why you do think it's okay to do so?
Have a ball commenting on Tobacco Road sports, NC topics, or real world real time topics.....bring your flame-proof drawers and some semblance of logic before registering and posting....otherwise, you'll get your head handed to you.....
You're absolutely right. As harsh and cruel punishment, I think it's only fair that we register them for the Selective Service. That'll teach them for inadvertently pointing out the secretive nature of our government as it prepares for a future we neither want nor voted for.
Bring back Feudalism!
Bring back Feudalism!
Bring back Feudalism!
Uh, everything in the article. For example, compare their hacked camel link to the best you can do through the UI.
It's not just that this trick enlarges the pixels they were already presenting, which would yield blocky photos and not provide any more information than you could have gotten just by sitting closer to the screen ... they're actually showing more detail than you otherwise would have been able to get any other way.
It's one image in the middle of chad which is higher resolution and a couple of google campus which have been known to have a higher resolution for years...
It's Actors all the way down
"Maybe it's a National Day of Left Wing Blogger Frustration. "
Fixed it for you.
And yes, the endless political articles are quite tiresome. I've pretty much sworn off Metafilter for the exact same reason. "Best of the web?" Not.
Yawn.
Sorry, I missed the part where you were heavily influential in the arena of global legislation and judgment.
Please explain to me how my being "heavily influential in the arena of global legislation and judgment" has any bearing whatsoever on the appropriateness of discussing religion in general and Islam in particular on Reddit. I think you are again playing stupid for the sake of belittling my argument, but just in case you are not, as I would have thought was obvious, my reference to law was not meant to be taken literally. Instead, I thought to employ a well-known figure of speech whereby ideas are said to be "put on trial," when they are questioned. In this case, to repeat myself, I am questioning the ideas of Islam.
Actually, that's kind of the basis of science and argumentation--having actual evidence to support one's claim or proposal, that is.
In a perfect world, yes, no one would ever make statements without being able to support them with mounds of documented evidence. In practice however, this almost never happens because it's hugely impractical and in any case, the vast majority of the time, members of a given culture can usually agree on what constitutes the vast majority of evidence. I think you recognize this as well but are again choosing to be difficult for reasons that do not need repetition.
then it just seems kind of silly/ridiculous, and I'm starting to become confused as to why you're arguing with me.
That should be your first clue that you totally misrepresented or misinterpreted my argument in the first place. As I argued before, the difficulty herin lies largely with the fact that you are not able to separate condemnation of an idea or set of ideas from condemnation of the people who, for whatever reasons, hold them to be true.
I don't see how you can say that I misused "apologist," if, as I understood, you were arguing in defense of Islam "the idea." (In fact, it's pretty unequivocal.) If you want to say that my characterization of you as an apologist was inaccurate because in fact you are not defending Islam, that's one thing, but to say that I misused the word or don't know what it means, or to imply that it is somehow widely acknowledged by the thinking portion of the English-speaking world to be a word that has lost its meaning, that is intellectual arrogance of the worst sort. Do not presume to dictate to the rest of us what words we may or may not use.
Anyhow, as entertaining as this has been, I think I have said what I usefully can. If you still aren't convinced that it's perfectly legitimate to talk about Islam's violence problem, then it is probable that nothing I can say will change your mind. I still don't understand why you think it's OK to keep certain subjects off-limits. In my world there are no sacred cows; everything is subject to questioning and debate.
nice link huh?
Re: Sidebar
I'll tell you what. If Fox is run like a responsible business they need to publicly bust up the propaganda operation, and allow some light and diversity in there pronto. Otherwise they will effectively be doubling down on a losing hand, and that will get real expensive come 2008+; its just starting to get expensive now (with team Edwards making the smart choice). The over 65 audience is neither going to live forever, or stay away from the internet forever. Buying the latest successful .com social site doesn't solve the underlying problem for that organization.
Not "radically" altered, but probably altered. =)
Lactose neoteny only took thousands of years to develop in milk drinking areas. The Inuit have been there for 10,000 years. I would be very surprised if they didn't have a few genes that helped them survive with that diet. I'm not saying that most humans will not survive on a ketogenic diet. I'm only saying that someone with Inuit genes will probably fair better.
Any omnivore animal given as much sugar as modern humans will gain weight as that is a much more fundamental process. So the Inuits failure to be "special" in that regard is not surprising.
As for hard evidence, I don't think there is much other than the studies of the low incidence of heart disease given their high fat diet. I hope that some biologist gets an interest in studying them as I think they may have some genes that could help us understand human weight systems better. But that's just a hunch.
Okay, I did miss the beach in Sydney but even that one, if you zoom out and back in, you can see just as much detail at the normal closest zoom level. It's still cool though.
Could be one of those voting circles or a botnet or something.
This is a very informative post.
Some ideas about schedules and testing seem to be a lot easier to get across to kids than to adults.
You downmodded me...? :(
My impression is that the couples move more than the people sleeping alone. Agree/disagree? I know I wake more often in the night when I'm sharing a bed.
OK, I made that up, but your local book club has as much authority as these Vermont town meetings. Could somebody at least put together some proposed articles of impeachment so that a public debate could be held on its merits?
First of all, more people get toxo from unwashed fruits (strawberries seem to be particularly indicated) and vegetables than cats. Secondly, there is only a period of a few weeks where they can shed the infectious stage of toxo. This means, if you keep your cat indoors (which you should) they are very unlikely to contract the disease (which they get from eating dead rodent carcasses) and be shedding it in a time period where you are going to be exposed.
Most people in the US are already seropositive for it, even people who have never owned a cat in thier lives.
If you want a medical reason to hate cats, at least find a valid one.
Problem is most images on google maps do not allow a level of zooming higher than already available through the GUI.
...except we aren't a republic. but its ok, dont worry about how accurate your headline is. its fine.
Did you click the camel link?
This is a must-see movie.
No Gravity is a fantastic and futuristic universe made of five intergalactic
worlds. An arcade type game with great playability, where it is easy to plunge
into space battles against spacefighters, space stations and more !
Then there's the Google Pool... try zooming in as much as the UI will let you .. you don't get much detail. Now, edit the link, and you suddenly can see a lot more .
Confronting the prejudice against Arabian horses, an Arabian horse breeder speaks out in defense of the horses she loves.
No Gravity is a fantastic and futuristic universe made of five intergalactic
worlds. An arcade type game with great playability, where it is easy to plunge
into space battles against spacefighters, space stations and more !
I don't like the typing. It's not as good as Haskell's ;)
Investors arent the only ones in the market really.
Probably 0.01% of the population makes decisions that 99% of the population is effected by, with the remaining less than 1% able to profit from it. Essentially, to be an investor is to, in my definition, to be a contrarian.
Most money in the market, either in the form of pensions, mutual funds or decisions made about buying a house, a car, an education, etc arent made by 'investors' they're made by the 99% of the population that's just going along with things.
The efficient market hypothesis should be replaced by the 'retarded market hypothesis' IMO.
jkerwin - how long have you been trading and what are your trades in this market?
edit - if you take the efficient market to the extreme, there would be no bubbles. Obviously not true.
Unless you have a sense of humor.
It seems that reddit has outsourced it's CSS to amazonaws, although it does also link to some ads from there, which you can easily block with noscript as well as adblock plus. In adblock plus, I whitelisted @@reddit.css but also blacked out amazonaws with amazonaws. That clears everything up. Looks perfectly fine.
uh-oh, what if they figure out that they can get more money and a better life for the peasants from growing poppies than what they get from foreign aid and the world bank/IMF?
my only concern is that reddit will think i wasnt interested in the articles I hid.
does it?
Those questions are stupider every day. Tomorrow we'll have:
"I discovered something great today: variables! You can put stuff inside..."
Indeed, the current top post on his blog is about this, and it seems pretty open and honest about things. He doesn't come across as a hypocrite, but as a convert.
The whole play is about how women are better than men, and would never suffer if it were not for men's overpowering sexism. The word "vagina" is the least part of its offensiveness.
I was originally a vi user. Not really sure why I preferred it. I guess I thought it was more hard-core unix-y. The fact that vi is available on all unix machines is a good reason to at least learn how to use vi "just in case".
I looked into emacs just to see why other people preferred it. I soon found I liked the idea of extensibilitity (elisp) so I decided to start using it as my primary editor and haven't looked back since.
Some things I disliked about vi that I feel emacs does better:
The modes. When going back to a vi session I always have to take a moment to ascertain that I'm in the correct mode for what I want to do, generally by hitting escape "just in case". It can be irritating thinking I'm in insert mode, editing and accidentally executing a bunch of unintended commands.
Where arrow keys are unavailable, hjkl are horrid direction keys: they're awkward to get used to and even worse when you use dvorak like I do. It's almost enough to make me want to stop playing nethack.
As for emacs. I mapped control to caps-lock years ago but I still have a sore left pinky. Other than that none of my complaints about emacs are addressed by vi.
MIT is probably most likely to do this as they already have quite a few good courses available in video (e.g. Strang on linear algebra). First thing needed - a really, REALLY good ab initio English class that plays on the OLPC machine and loops so they can listen to the rest of the material.
That will change the world.
I hate being one of those people who bitch about how good things were, but it really seems like reddit has moved away from a decent selection of interesting pieces.
I never minded the speckling of pictures and videos, and enjoyed some of the submissions, but there was always some solid content still getting upvoted.
Lately it just seems like links serve the function as a political echo chamber. Like you, it is not that I am conservative and loath them out of differing political affiliation.
Is the Anne Coulter thing really that interesting? If a political tabloid existed, that is what I would expect on the front cover and where it should belong, not on reddit.
How many impeachment articles? Is anyone actually reading every one they upvote, or is it more a DOWN WITH THE KING UP VOTE THE IMPEACHMENT mentality?
More 2008 presidential election articles? Too much, too early, no thanks.
Maybe reddit's audience which has swelled over the last half year is pulling it down from its previous level of quality. Who knows.
You're certainly correct in addressing this current ridiculousness though.
As I understand it, hiding is a no-op. It has the same effect as not voting the article either way, it just hides it from you.
You're talking about UCheck right?
http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~erwig/UCheck/
http://wiki.di.uminho.pt/twiki/bin/view/Research/PURe/SpreadsheetUnderstanding
Ifound those links by Googling on haskell and "error-free transformations of spreadsheets". Interesting - thanks for the tip.
wow! is the truth that old?
meanwhile if I say penis, I thereby become a sex offender and corrupter of youth
What the hell
Wait a minute... you guys in the US have to register for the draft? That sucks
The Fundie leaders prefer the clear-cut angry, shell fish and gay male sex act hating, eye-for-an-eye god of the old testament than the turn the other cheek, namby-pamby jesus stuff from the new testament (although they do love the tax collectors and the prostitutes, so they have some common ground).
This is blogspam (it's really Pharyngula's work but posted entirely here. This guy is getting hits on his website for somebody else's work; there is no input of his own!)
Please leave juvenile retorts like this somewhere that is not Reddit. I like it here and would like to see a civil discourse kept. If you have a reply to make, do so, but if this is the best you can come up with please limit yourself to simply down-voting the OP.
Thank you.
I call shenanigans. It's hard to believe that that many reddit readers hate Bush that much more than they did a day ago. I don't know how it's being done, but 12 out of 25 front page stories about impeachment is not a spontaneous upheaval by the reddit community. Reddit is being gamed. If this sort of thing continues regular users will drop out in disgust and reddit will become a one dimensional political echo chamber.
Definitely a swarm of people sent from slashdot and the like who have no intention of putting their dollars where their votes are.
The scrotum soliloquies, or "sick I am of being bashed over the head, daily, with the idea that since my great grandfather oppressed my great grandmother, I should allow women to hit me with impunity."
This punishment is mainly about insubordination, not just social taboo.
The principal (or some other administrator) expressly told the girls NOT to say vagina onstage during the reading because he felt the word would be offensive to some possible attendees. The girls deliberately disobeyed him. They deserve to face the consequences of their deliberate actions.
The reading was a school-sponsored event and, therefore, total responsibility for all that occurred at that event rested upon the school. If the girls had desired to interpret the literature free of all restraint badly enough, they would have held their own event.
Why bother?
Or perhaps, a hard pressed employment consultant from the USA?
Just because he advertises himself as a 'skilled top' and just because there are photos and films of him smoking the pink cigar doesn't mean that he is of the homosexual persuasion.
This is just another example of unsubstantiated liberal slander in the absence of hard evidence.
There are two kinds of [politicians]. The disciplined ones carefully avoid acknowledging reality. The more candid sometimes blurt out the truth, but quickly apologize.
I think that generalizes nicely.
Reddit desperately needs tags. should be the first one. Love him or hate him, it would be nice to be able to separate him into his own section.
No, it does not. Holy Scripture was written in Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and possibly other ancient languages, then translated into Latin, all before we got our 450+ mutually contradicting "this one is the most precisely accurate and uplifting" translations of the Holy Text.
Some translations and transliterations utilize the word "dung"; others use he word "shit." But to use a word in the vernacular to express an idea that was recorded in another language thousands of years ago does not mean that the scribes of years long past used that same word. If they did, then why would a translation be necessary?
But Paul knew what he was saying, and he knew he needed to shock the crowd sometimes. or maybe he didn't. Was his goal to shock the crowd, or was he really as intemperate as he seems?
I heard the tape. Got it on podcast from Limbaugh. Oh its real.
start thinking for yourself.
Rush and friends showed you an edited clip where it looked that she gave the whole speech with that accent and that's what you were still thinking until you just finally watched that video.
You deny that they purposely just presented a part of the audio to make it look like she was giving the whole speech like that? Perfect because that's what I meant when I said you are lying. Thank for demonstrating you lack of good faith.
Now you are trying to spin the story another way? I think you are the one who should maybe start to think by yourself and just admit that this was a fabricated non story from the start.
Don't forget, more than half of us didn't want him in the first place . . . and yes, our voting system is fuct.
I am very surprised!
31 is the last verse in the chapter. In Romans 3, Paul uses a form of rhetoric which is common in his epistles. He lays out the arguments against his position and then closes with a definitive statement that defines his position, usually incorporating one of his favorite phrases, "By no means!" 3:31 is a perfect example of this technique which we see throughout Paul's works.
While you might find other verses in the chapter that seem to support your position, they only support it when taken out of context.
Honestly, the way things are in this country, I'm surprised that the kids weren't hit with mail fraud, conspiracy, and theft charges.
Somehow I think putting a "woman" silhouette (which will probably have a skirt on it, just reinforcing steretypical gender roles) would be even more sexist than the gender-neutral logo there is now.
If anything, I'm surprised no women have complained about the woman logo with the skirt on bathroom doors.
The 'heartfelt critique' link is the more interesting. For that, I know someone who simply gives people homework: write this program and turn it in whenever, and we'll continue. Most people turn it in as soon as possible -- without regard to their implementation even compiling.
You know what's especially humorous? All the people who solve the test questions in the comments.
Somehow, I'm not amused..
HEY!! You just took one of the links from the top-all-time list and resubmitted it!!!!!
Oh wait, so did i.
Carry on!
Why procrastinate now? Put it off for a while.
Very informative
Sorry, I'm dyslexic. I downvoted this and upvoted the rest. Oops.
Nope. Re-read the article. He used flash.
Just wait. The Best Impeachment Video/Pic EVER!!! links can't be too far off and you can watch them over and over again. May I suggest wearing a bib while doing so as the quantity of "switched off" drool may be a little surprising at first.
jesus christ, shit like this gets points? isn't it perfectly obvious that hitting "hide" will hide the article?
sick cunt
There are usually about 900 - 1200 new entries to go through and someone has to do it because otherwise reddit would break down for all the never-look-through-and-rate-the-new-stuff users. I find alot more interesting stuff in new anyway and it provides a much more intense procrastination experience.
http://reddit.com/new sort by "new" and refresh after going through the page (I set mine to 100) allows you to have a constant flow of submissions - alternatively, sort by "new" and try to make it all the way through to the end.
It makes a LOT more sense for the client to have massive numbers of libraries than the server. Pretty much everything I'd ever want to do in PHP is already included for me, in javascript there are a lot of stuff I still have to build up from scratch.
I agree with this article, a way to extract json without script execution (exempt from the cross-domain rule) preserves the security of the internet as a whole and allows for much a much ability to communicate across domains -- safely for the browser and the internet.
I'd additionally like to see a ![But if you can't do the time.... Tell that to MLK and Socrates and Jesus and Gandhi. Mental disorder doesn't excuse his actions. Conscience does. Arbitrary. You can't (or shouldn't) judge someone based on what they could have done, if that judgement is going to take years away from their life. If he was put in a mental facility he could be kept from causing any more damage, would have received the help that he needs for his condition, and wouldn't have been abused, as long as he was in a non-abusive facility. There are no such prisons. No there isn't a light side to everything. I doubt you would see this light side into this human mutilation had the victim been yourself or someone closely related to you. By ignoring the small amount of good that came out of this atrocity, you are making the victims death even less worthy. And yes, there are two sides to every coin. The world is not 2 colors. The end doesn't justify the means, though. Again, arbitrary. These are arbitrary figures based often on net worth, not the actual value of a human life, which is often why figures are so high. I'm so happy we nuked Japan. Well played, sir. It's true...Jon Stewart is a very typical white-guilt ass kisser. $5million? That's about the same amount that would get him 6 months in whitecollar resort prison, if he had swindled the money out of little old ladies' retirement accounts. painted the slogan of the notorious (and murderous) Earth Liberation Front Which doesn't exist, outside of some asshole hippy college kids' sarcastic remarks. Completely fictitious. there's the fact that he misbehaved in court And yet witnesses claimed that never occurred. He's very likely a danger to society in the future As far off the mark as you are, your opinion of "likely" doesn't carry much weight. he flew off the handle once, destroying vehicles He engaged in petty vandalism, not quite the same thing. Judging from what I know of it, he was at best an accomplice that was surprised at how far the actual criminals went. He's just being held to their account because he's the only one to be caught so far. next time will it be people? Dunno, let's let him cook in prison for a few more decades, I'm sure we can increase his psychopathy if we only try. How exactly would you punish such a fellow? 1-3 years of prison, minimum security. He certainly qualifies for that, if not for the half-assed "terrorist" label. I'd follow it up probation, 5-8 years of it. Conditionally that he doesn't participate in any environmentalist movements. No showing up at protests, being a member of their groups, etc. I'd make him pay hefty restitution, some large fraction of the damage, certainly in the hundreds of thousands. I'd make him attend therapy, with the psychaitrist reporting to the court, so they can catch it if he really is the monster you think he is, dufus. I mean, he should have just slit someone's throat... he'd get out 2 years earlier than he will. That's just ridiculous. Awesome commercial. I feel slightly bad though, for laughing at the violence of it. That's why they're in prison, dufus. Jeez... Okay. Like I said you can't get all the facts from 1 article. I'll take Wikipedia over 1 article. Actually, I think there are two or three good introductory tutorials out of the whole crop of Erlang docs, so getting your feet wet is easy. What tripped me up over several attempt to wrapmy head around Erlang was the gap between these basic tutorials and the more advanced subjects like OTP and mnesia. The fact that most of the available tutorials were also done before list comprehensions were a part of Erlang (or just skipped that subject) did not help matters. Me too. They were truly evil. Too bad that we didn't bother stopping Slobodan Milocovic. No one cares about right and wrong nowadays, just their own self interest. Witness Rwanda, Sudan - also the Killing Fields. Was WWII the last just war? This article has no useful information. Here I'll summarize it: Engineer decides to be a science teacher "Inspires students to think" (no further information) "Resigns because he made students think" (why? what happened? no information about this) I don't know why this pisses me off so much but I am really annoyed. Sounds great but there is one fundamental flaw. People read or watch while scrolling. So if its all with the eye, you would have to read, then look off to teh scroll bar to scroll down, then refind your place. I'll stick with arrow keys and mouse for now... You answered your own dilemma. "Clicking" is done using the keyboard. Likewise you would juse use the arrow keys on the keyboard to scroll. Haha. Democrat or republican, there is absolutely no difference, none whatsoever. I wonder if anyone will ever wake up to that. As much as the Daily Mail is the intellectual equivalent of monkeys throwing excrement, this is pretty funny. 1-3 years of prison, minimum security. He certainly qualifies for that, if not for the half-assed "terrorist" label. I'd follow it up probation, 5-8 years of it. Conditionally that he doesn't participate in any environmentalist movements. No showing up at protests, being a member of their groups, etc. I'd make him pay hefty restitution, some large fraction of the damage, certainly in the hundreds of thousands. I'd make him attend therapy, with the psychaitrist reporting to the court This also sounds more reasonable than what he got, though his condition doesn't merit prison. The only 8081 connection I see is a connection to warlog.info, but it's just hitting an image that appears to be used for gathering page view stats. By ignoring the small amount of good that came out of this atrocity, you are making the victims death even less worthy I am absolutely not. On the contrary, that is what you are doing by saying that there was a small amount of good revealing itself from the atrocities committed. Absolutely no good came from these experiments. If you believe that, then you have the same mentality as the people who actually conducted those experiments (to experiment with human bodies in unthinkably gory ways, just for the good of science/medicine) even if you are not evil enough to actually make someone go through the same process. That initself would be more offensive to those victimes than anything else. You seem to think that the victims would have actually agreed to the experimentation had they known what they were being treated to would result in the cure for frostbite ("you are making the victims death even less worthy"). And yes, there are two sides to every coin. The world is not 2 colors. I realise the world is not black and white, but it's also not as complicated as you would like it to seem. Yes, it is factually correct to say we probably have a better cure for frostbite now. However, to make any human go through what the victims of Unit 731 did for such a scientific gain is preposterous and just not even worthy enough to be deservedly called "good" - especially given the context of the scientific gain. Anyone know what 'standard eye tracking hardware' is? I upmodded the post because of the links to the two pthreads/win32-threads articles they're discussing. The comments accompanying those articles are reasonably interesting. Many reasons. For me static typing is a necessity. For one thing, it's great documentation, and secondly, it really helps if you refactor things, to discover errors at compile-time. What I really like are ML variant types, but even Java class hierarchies (with some good design) seem nicer to me than the RTFM nature of Lisp programs. Types and values should tell. Another reason is tool support: I want code completion (ok, SLIME ain't bad, but not quite there when I tried it a year ago), I want discoverability (take all those features Eclipse and NetBeans give you for Java). I also want all those other features a modern IDE gives me. SLIME isn't it, nor is LispWorks (tell me about an ugly IDE, IMHO). I also want a good cross-platform GUI, like Swing (yes, it's not bad, really; and I should know, as I've also done a bit of Cocoa development). So even though I really like Lisp syntax, there are too many things that put me off. But maybe I'm just not a dynamic language person. Sadly, yes. The quality I admire most about Republicans is that they are not scared to advocate for what they think is right - no mater how many people it would hurt. I'm sure I saw an online shop selling t-shirts that said something like "I am not a terrorist" in Arabic. If this was ever implemented widely, I bet you could make some really evil pop-up ads that exploited it. It will be an honor, Jonathan. -- David Surfing pr0n just got a little harder. I suppose I should have provided links, it's just that I'm reluctant to do so for the same reason I don't argue with creationists - it doesn't matter how much evidence you present, it's all ignored. Take it easy. I guess you have a chip on your shoulder about this issue for some reason, but I don't think you have any right to accuse me of anything like that. Being against unions requires so much ignorance of ... Please do not (again) ignore the following: I am not against unions. I am against some of the current policies of teachers' unions. This has nothing to do with arguments about if the unions should exist. Now, as for your evidence, I am unconvinced. That is one essay by someone advocating some kind of merit-based system. I agree with the essay, but that does not mean that any merit based system exists. I can easily pull up the salary table for my local school district. What do I see? A grid with number of years on one axis, and education on the other. There is no mention of quality teaching. Also, you need to address the stick aspect of things. Recall the recent news about how many teachers in new york that were considered not just poor performing, but dangerous to the students. However, the union made it impossible to fire these teachers, so they sat in a room doing nothing for many years. Most bad teachers are just shifted from school to school because principals can't fire them, and instead just try to slide them off on someone else. Call me crazy, but I don't think you normally see this error. This looks like a development-mode error.. dmehrtash, I think you're trying to avoid discussion of the suicide bombing tactics by turning the discussion to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict itself. Rachel Corrie, Baruch Goldstein or the other baits you're throwing to get me off the real point have nothing to do with this discussion. It seems your claims is that if other conflicts would be bad as in the Mid East, people would surely turn to suicide bombing. Anyone who ever learned history or just watched the news knows this is bogus claim. There have been in the past and there are right now in the world conflicts who are far more deadly then the Israeli-Palestinian. Last year alone, over 10 times more people were killed in Sudan then in all the Arab Israeli wars put together. Between 1939 and 1945 millions of people were killed and oppressed in Europe and Asia. More recently we have seen attempts of genocide in Serbia. And yet we do not see suicide bombings used as a tactics anywhere, except by very specific Islamic sects. The ultimate proof that suicide bombing is motivated by religious belief, not a political situation is that EVEN AMONGST PALESTINIANS THEMSELVES, ONLY SPECIFIC ISLAMIC GROUPS ENGAGE IN SUICIDE BOMBINGS. THERE ARE NO CHRISTIAN OR SECULAR PALESTINIAN SUICIDE BOMBERS. How can you explain that? Are Christian/secular Palestinians less occupied, somehow? You, and others in the Arab world, might want to contemplate your own situation every now and then, rather than blaming the West on all your problems. Brooke Shields is reaching out to Britney Spears, who is currently in rehab. "I hope she's fine," Shields, 41, tells TV's Access Hollywood in an interview to air Monday. "I believe she's going to be fine, and she just needs the support and her kids. She's their only mom, and she'll earn that back in her own mind." Of course it's easier for intelligence agencies to protect the nation if they can do as they please in secret. Of course the police can do their jobs more effectively if they don't have to worry about the rights of the accused. Of course it will be easier to get the bad guys in jail if we can just use military tribunals and forget about due process. All of this is obvious. But it's not the issue. And I would say that if you think it is the issue, then you don't really understand what the United States of America was supposed to be all about. Rhetorical, I know. But it usually works like this... A creative team (writer & art director) at an ad agency come up with an awesome idea, while juggling a handful of other projects, all on very tight deadlines. Their boss, a creative director, loves the idea, even though he's looking at marker on index cards, and has the balls to show it to the client (Snickers). The client, in turn, has the vision to acknowledge a cool idea, and is willing to put a multi-million dollar budget at stake (for both production, and the media to run it on). They do it, the post-production company does a mind-blowing job, the spot's cool enough to go viral, and everyone adds it to their reel and goes out for drinks. The odds of all of this happening -- a killer team, a ballsy CD, a visionary client, and perfect production -- are slim. So good ads are rare. I'd settle for the ability to connect and simultaneously use two pointing devices, one with each hand. I may be wrong, but it seems to me to be a user interface model with a lot of unexplored possibilities... Is it really because the object is moving? Seems like it would be more due to the high altitude. God you people are so fucking stupid. Your stupidity oozes out of your mouths like excrement. What the Japanese did to innocent civilians doesn't justify another country to do the same or worse to them. An eye for an eye is something written a thousand years ago and doesn't apply now. The US dropped the bomb on Japan to try to intimidate Russia. That was the beginning of the Cold War. Torture doesn't justify more torture. The US should be better than that. I suppose from what you two wrote, you also agree that we were Right to invade Iraq to get revenge for 9/11? You sick fucks. Got a favorite one liner from the business world? Send it to me at crstevenson(at)gmail(dot)com A generally mistrust yes, but the public as a whole does still seem to swallow any lie that's thrown at them. Yours is a good example. Basically the "renaming" feature in the original link is about binding values for implicit variables (if your variables can be global functions). Your example illustrates nicely that this only works for explicit variables. A function like "fold" or "reduce" will take an explicit function parameter to apply to a list, so you can pass + or * or whatever. But when a function isn't designed with this in mind, there are only two possibilities: either the function isn't really a good template. In that case you wouldn't rename anything anyway. Or the function is reusable, in which case you should generalize the function explicitly by turning it into a parameterizable function (like fold), or into a macro or template. If renaming isn't done explicitly, but every function used inside a definition is implicitly renamable, you get all the nice "features" of dynamic scope, in a way (the new function might not always do what you want). Fugly your unsubstantiated reply helps make my point, thank-you! It would have been better if you would have included some name calling, but it was a good start. Keep the tin foil handy. Pass the wasabi. Real wasabi, not the fake stuff. This would suck for most games. Also, drag-n-drop with my eyes would probably be a unique challenge. Maybe using both would be cool, but it'll be a long time before my mouse goes away. Worth is put on contributions to society, not the worth of the person themselves. This is what Reddit has become now? sad Really it should just remind you of the 70s in Britain. They operate under the oversight of the Congress. There are members of both parties who have complete access to covert operation procedures and practices as well as current operational data. "They Are Made Out of Meat" is truly a short story classic. There is too much dialogue left out of the video version of it, though. It's already a short story -- why the fuck did they edit the shit out of it? The script is so good, I would've given this video less than it got when it won an award at atomfilms.com, simply because of the bullshit editing. Too smart? Or too individualistic and selfish? Also, it's important to note that youths' beliefs (and actions) have the propensity to change as they mature. How about PHP changed this behavior by default? I think they did in PHP5, problem is that no one wants to go through the transition from 4 so they are still stuck with it. If you have any specific information about the CIA denying the rights of US Citizens please post. It is naive to think all government operations should be made public. Seven years may be a bit much for his crime true. As a side note, however, rapists should get far more than seven years considering the damage it can do to people. Neat picture How anyone values the lives of their friends and family, and humanity as a whole, is relevant. If human beings continue to devalue human existence, we are in big trouble. There are unfortunate, tough decisions that need to be made by people everyday. That doesn't mean that they value the human life less than material, non-sentimental objects. Often they just can't do what is necessary. In other cases the decisions are made on misplaced values. When a car company decides that the cost of a recall on a defective vehicle will be more than the amount they will have to pay in wrongful death lawsuits, and therefore decides to say nothing, there is something wrong. When a company fails to implement reasonable, not outlandish, safety precautions in materials that they sell to the public because it may hurt their bottom line in the short run, there is something wrong. In regards to this case and this thread, eadmund stated that a human life is worth less than $5 million worth of cars and therefore the sentence is justified. That doesn't make sense. As I increasingly read about such despicable events taking place during the two World Wars wars, I see that all resentment is focused on Germany and/or Japan America is just as much to blame for human cruelty as the countries shown as the usual aggressors in the war And, here's the World According to Reddit, once again :) I'd ask if you really think the world after a Nazi victory would be comparable to the world after the Allies victory, but unfortunately I think I know the answer. Europe has obviously learnt nothing, and the current young generation thinks Hitler was just another bad leader, like Bush. Sad times. PHP+mysql web apps are still insecure garbage, it is just the case that neither of those is responsible for this specific security issue. The US dropped the bomb on Japan to try to intimidate Russia. That was only one of the reasons, another was to force an immediate & complete surrender of the Japanese. When they've got you black-bagged in some foreign prison with electrodes on your nutsack, remind them that YOU were the one that understood. Asshole. Just because the great % of humanity doesn't reside on your rocky bit of it doesn't exclude them from protection from egress by secret agencies. Ci sono dei problemi relativi alla presentazione dei risultati supplementari di Google. Questa cosa l'ho notata alcuni giorni addietro, si tratta di una anomalia quando si utilizza il comando site: per verificare la presenza di un sito ... It amuses me how often this sort of partisan rah-rah comes with a little tag line, like "it's clear". Of course all sensible people believe it, and so do you. Everyone does. Don't you feel wonderfully acknowledged? Under the sound of the words, there's always this comforting woolly bleating. Downvoted cause it's from boston and I really can't trust or respect anything from that place these days. How much easier is it to get access to coca plants? Not very, I'd think. It's also been posted here multiple times.. http://reddit.com/search?q=13+things+science+sense sigh.. We do all the time. We put people in jail for drunk driving even if they never harm anyone (because they could have killed someone). We put people in jail for possessing certain explosive materials, even if they hadn't used them yet. You put someone in jail if they shoot a gun at someone and miss (based on the fact that they could have killed the person). Is it logical to assume that certain actions will eventually result in harm or injury? (Sorry, no sources.) I guess I can't trust you then. Better living through socialism? We all know in general the government doesn't do a good job of running much of anything. Take it easy. I guess you have a chip on your shoulder about this issue for some reason, but I don't think you have any right to accuse me of anything like that. You're right. I do. Long story as to why. And I'm sorry - sometimes I get all riled up when people attack Unions. Still, I shouldn't have been unfair to you. The supreme court designates the mother as the "natural custodian" of children [1]. In the event of a divorce, even if the mother is slightly less "fit," there's still a strong bias for awarding custody to her. I guess now we just roll a 2d. [1] http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=nc&vol=appeals2006/&invol=050378-1 Good - he was like any college kid. This is Pascal going undercover. don't overdo it Copyright trap, maybe? I don't believe anybody outright, I always try to question the source and adjust my skepticism accordingly. So for the official paper made by and for the military, you can basically be assured that all the news, especially soft news like this story, will be highly slanted towards the military's favor. Where was the chewbacca defense? It don't make sense. I guess law is an "art" and not a "science", huh? Find the hottest one and take 12 pictures of her. Given. My point is that the licence to secrecy was not meant to protect operatives from the ramifications of operating outside of the law, which is how it's being evoked here. Do you mean the long list of lefty urban myths about the Bush administration? But they aren't true or substantiated or corroborated or provable. Is the clock in the second to last cut generated based on the current time? It showed 1:44, and the time was actually 1:47, so maybe I was just lucky. Are there classes where this happens, and there's no, um, fallout? I speak from experience - yes. Two separate teachers, both still employed. Granted, the detonator wasn't mentioned beyond a basic "you need to set off conventional explosives to push the uranium lumps together and form critical mass", but refining the uranium was. http://www.jokesplace.com/joke/famouspig.html "... a pig like that, you don't eat 'em all at once!" It sounds great but eye-tracking is hard to get used to. I tried to use a drawing program that used eye tracking once and all I could create was squiggles. Your eyes are drawn naturally to motion so anything on the screen that blinked or moved caused my eyes to dart. Its hard. Ever wondered exactly what the mortgage you are about to take out actually costs you, how would it be effected by just a 0.25% increase in interest rates, well I was and decided to write an application for my phone! I have made it freely available via my blog for those that are also interested Gift cards: they're just like real money, only with restrictions on where you can spend it, and an expiration date, and sometimes extra fees. Why do people give gift cards? Why does everyone think out of focus black and white pictures look "artsy"? Ken Blackwell , a failed GOP candidate for Ohio governor last year, agreed that conservatives should at least wait to endorse a presidential candidate. "The Republican Party -- our natural home in a two-party system -- is in disarray," Blackwell lamented. Oh, that's rich! Mr. Voter Disenfranchisement, co-chair-of-Bush-Campaign-AND-state-election-official-is-not-a-conflict-of-interest-really-I-swear! weighs in and complains that the GOP is too much political chicanery and not enough core principles. The pot calling the kettle Blackwell. No thank you. I want something I can control which doesn't hold a body part hostage. I would buy a pointing device like the Wii remote as my replacement. Neat. Thanks. If there is intent. People have their licenses suspended for drunk driving in most states. Whether or not they should be in jail is a different matter. Possession of explosive materials, directions to build a bomb and plans to a building or something similar may imply intent. Shooting at someone implies intent - attempted homicide. But besides that, as I said before, those in the group that didn't have mental disorders should be in prison, how long and what kind depending on the full facts of the case. All of the scenerios you mention require more facts in an actual case. To put someone away based on circumstantial evidence is not enough. In this case they would have to prove that he intended to do it again. Not just that he could. I mostly use Scheme when I play around with Lisp. I think that a new Lisp needs to emerge that incorporates the incredible amount of experience and expertise put into CL without the cruft. The focus should first be on developing a lightweight portable implementation with reasonable speed (e.g. a VM optimized using threaded code) and a large set of libraries that would make it capable of achieving some penetration in the current market of programming languages. I've always hated the word 'hacker'. Too me 'hacker' means 'programmer'. Programmers can use their skills for good or for bad. Or it might mean that they were following legal advice to not speak about it. Considering how vague the teacher's comments were, maybe it was a personal matter that was best left out of public scrutiny. Maybe one more repetition will help: That we haven't seen the evidence is indicative of nothing. The point to wrap your brain around here is that you just don't know, and until you do tossing blame at either party is just plain stupid. Do you seriously think I would have made that argument without having a mountain of irrefutable evidence to back me up? That you can talk about it doesn't suddenly make it exist. Post it or shut up. (I think we've had this conversation before) They should have made a "Boys of Engineering" calendar too! There is just as much of a steryotype of them being unattractive. It also upset me a little that a man produced the calendar, but you can't win 'em all.. I always trust the socialists for unbiased, factual, accurate reporting. Just like Pravda! The financial position of the United States has declined dramatically. The United States is heavily indebted, both government and consumers. The U.S. trade deficit both in absolute size and as a percentage of GDP is unprecedented, reaching more than $800 billion in 2005 and accumulating to $4.5 trillion since 1990. With U.S. job growth falling behind population growth and with no growth in consumer real incomes, the United States economy is driven by expanding consumer debt. Saving rates are low or negative. The federal budget is deep in the red, adding to America's dependency on debt. The United States cannot even go to war unless foreigners are willing to finance it. Our biggest bankers are China and Japan, both of whom could cause the United States serious financial problems, if they wished. A country whose financial affairs are in the hands of foreigners is not a superpower. Yes, but not this particular property. A car, in most cases, is not the same as a home and sentimental material objects. If they had destroyed homes it could be a different story because people would be left homeless. Still the human life is still worth more than a property. Purposely killing someone or killing someone accidentally in an act of vandalism should always carry more punishment than destruction of property. But, again, his condition requires care in a health facility not prison time. How scary? It's hard to know what to believe, because news reports may be biased to present Muslims in a particularly sinister light. Do stories such as this one make most Europeans say, "Wow, I can't believe that!", or do they nod their heads and say, "That figures."? I always thought they needed probable cause first. Also, as far as I knew, one didn't need to always carry around a form of ID. According to this, I'd get arrested if I forgot my wallet. I'd love to hear how you assess a teacher's performance in a quantifiable way. You can't, not without teachers figuring out a way to game the system. Same thing with programmer productivity metrics, or really any productivity metric. I remember gaming the timer that measured how long it took me to serve popcorn at a movie theater when I was sixteen. It has been here 18 years, more likely one of them was browsing a directory of stolen paintings on their free time and recognized it. My two cents. I think he told them how to do it using chemicals. I don't really know because I wasn't interested in learning howto make cocaine. I would like to take a step backwards here, and ask how good and bad teachers are defined, before worrying about how to reward good ones and punish bad ones. Merit system? Sure, tell teachers that good grades = good teaching = higher salary, and watch grades inflate at a cost to the children? Give them an in-class review by an administrator (who ran like hell from the classroom when they were there, and hasn't spent a day in front of students since) who is merely writing his/her opinion of the teacher's style? Something tells me this should be decided first. COME ON EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO EMINEM DEMAND IT FOR RENO NV THANKS GUYS KELLY Pop culture is good, and definitely lets the air out of the sanctity balloons a little bit, but religion is a virus. It fights back. I am an atheist, and I think religious holidays should not be recognized federally. OTOH, we do need more holidays. We just need some good reason to replace the whole anniversary-of-some-imaginary-event thing. Me too. They were truly evil. Why does one nation have the right to judge over another? Look, it's simple. If an OS comes out that is otherwise good aside from a few flaws and everyone suddenly acts like it's the worst thing ever, then we all lose. WinME was awful. I acknowledged that, we all did. I think Vista has a hell of a lot of promise, and it bothers me that people are bailing on it and calling it an unadulterated failure more out of frustration than genuine evaluation. I don't know why this pisses me off so much but I am really annoyed. Because unless you question the article itself you are only left with one conclusion: school board is full of assholes that don't want children to think. Pretty much anyone gets irritated when they are driven to a conclusion. The man is a hero. And he will be remembered as such, when the oil runs out and the real "fun" starts. Teachers unions exist to increase wages, increase benefits, increase job security, decrease work load and decrease the responsibilities of teachers and to reduce free market competition for the government schools. The needs of the students are NOT among their primary goals. Just for fun, look at literacy rates in the late 1800's in comparison to today. I drink diet soda for the same reasons. I prefer not drinking a sugar blasting soda, I like the taste of the diet soda I drink, and I'd prefer to get my calories from food rather than soda. Besides, I drink a LOT of diet soda over the course of a day. If it was regular soda, it would definitely mess me up more than diet soda does. I know diet soda isn't good for me either and tap water would be better, but tap water is boring. Europe has obviously learnt nothing Europe has learnt a lot, and very obviously so. I invite you to go to an average German school and find a single student whose curriculum did not have extensive Nazi Germany discussions in at least one subject during the very semester they're in right now, whether they're 5th-graders or 13th-graders. Good luck. Americans lose every day this criminal defiles the Attorney General's office. The Belfast homeopathy results (#4) are so debunked: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/homeopathy.shtml With that headline, I thought it was going to be about Danny Mydlack. But it's obviously more "Get that for me, would you, Deirdre?" That's quite laughable since the only difference between the "immediate & complete surrender of the Japanese" and the "conditional surrender of the Japanese" which they had offered was symbolic. very informative, i like this The bees are on the what now? You didn't SAY it was okay. You strongly implied it however. Otherwise you would have said, People complain about Western countries using torture, [AND] our torturing isn't that bad compared to this. instead of what you did say. I think the signals are pretty far from mixed. I think the only way they could be any less mixed would be if the new warhead designs were shaped like a gigantic middle finger. Dupe. goddamn I hate liberals, their level of dillusion...is mind-bogoling. That's a great list. I feel so much better now. you are making the victims death even less worthy I hate to say it, but not every victim dies for some worthy laudable goal. Some people are slaughtered in cold blood for no good reason, and we should not hesitate to acknowledge that unpleasant fact. I'm after facts, not squishy feel-good platitudes. The comment link says "5 comments" ... Does that mean something broke? (Or was there a lot of comment retraction?) if you think that the "symbolic" part of surrender doesn't matter, perhaps you should be paying more attention to unsymbolic surrenders like, say, IRAQ? Yes, it matters quite a bit. Sounds like another case of a "Moral Panic" to me, like "Rainbow Parties", "Satanic Child Abuse", and the concerns over D&D in the early 80s. Usually there are one or two actual incidents, and these get blown up by society into a 'plague' of incidents. Nowhere in the article are actual incidents confirmed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic In an abstract way, it is interesting. On the other hand, to me this is like trying to learn biology by looking at DNA/RNA sequences less than 20 amino acids long. It's just all of the interesting stuff happens when there's a little structure, and when things are longer, not when a few (instructions/amino acids) are strung together. Edit -- I realize now they do work with longer programs, but the point of structure is still there. ... and give them a gun and a little authority and this is what happens. Following the trail you reach here http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=38%C2%B013%2736.38%22N,+112%C2%B017%2756.59%22W&layer=&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=15&ll=38.145796,-112.274523&spn=0.013433,0.041628&t=k&iwloc=addr What is it? Python and Ruby don't really have automatic currying or multi-dispatch, and Python's rather static default parameter values often catch me by surprise. I've written working Perl 6 OO code that needed nothing more than method signature declarations in a few cases; it's amazing how little code was necessary and how clear that code was. I realize English is not your first language but try to improve your reading comprehension nonetheless. I already use a headmouse; whatever. (reflective dot that's tracked by IR sensor) You cannot kill an enemy only physically when the enemy is unafraid of death. You have to destroy its core - its soul. The nuclear bomb achieved that against Japan. I applaud it. And if your family was brutally experimented on I will wait to see if your reaction is one of measured diplomacy. I don't even wanna know what a cum farmer's job is like. (I deserve to be downmodded for this juvenile comment, but I couldn't help myself). What about coloring shampoos? Private business competition and the opportunity for profit is a great motivator for most things, but there are exceptions. It is immoral to privatize health care. To build in a profit margin at the expense of any person's health or life is just plain evil. Military or not. Privatization lends itself to cutting corners, because those at the top stand to benefit financially from the added profits. I suppose this is a good business model for retail and industry, but in matters of life and death it is a failure. Remember Bush bragged in his 1999 campaign that he would be the first CEO president. Guess we got what we paid for with him. from knowledgeble technology experts. Really? "Tortoise CVS" is one of the first responses on that thread. There may be "knowledgeble technology experts" answering, but you'll have to look at he names and titles and decide or yourself. All we really know is that there are 310+ responses from people who happen to have a linkedin account. Yea, seriously, and look at the author's name. A total Mick... not to be trusted. What? I just can't get comfortable with Emacs. I have a similar feeling for video games that require memorizing lots of button combos like Street Fighter. Bingo. That's a big reason why I don't use CL, too. Here's my advice: use PLT Scheme and the Dr. Scheme editor. It's just a completely 'normal feeling' editor that works really well for Scheme. Don't be put off my the CL people saying that Scheme is too minimal. There's a lot of innovative stuff being built in Scheme right now and you can benefit from it. PLT Scheme (which is free) comes bundled with a powerful continuations-based webserver, for example. Because ideas, cultures, and people are not equal. If you don't believe in judging people like Hitler that is your right. But the reward you reap is an uglier world than the one America helped to build. No Complete and utter bullshit. References or downmod. Yep, you're guaranteed to achieve new heights of civility after reading that post. You betcha. Because I fell in love with Scheme and because of the emacs situation. I'd like to be using emacs, it's just that retraining my hands to do things the emacs way is a project I don't want to be working on while I'm learning other, more interesting things. Like the mysteries of the Scheme cosmos. So I'm using Scheme (PLT Scheme). The editor never makes you think about basic stuff and the language is beautiful. It's predictable that British Airways would think that this isn't a good deal for the "British people". The exciting part is that this could be the start of air travel in the US that doesn't make it seem like you're being punished... They probably caught him when he stopped by the police station to stick his tongue out at them and say "nanny nanny foo foo." It is of course entirely possible that I'm wrong and you simply don't care about torture. That you meant to say that it doesn't matter. Assuming I'm not wrong, what you wrote still objectively implied exactly what I said. That's because you used a word which weakened both clauses of your sentence by setting them against each other. Instead of using a functionally identical word which would have intensified both clauses. With your incompetent command of the English language you managed to say: People complain about Western countries using torture [though this doesn't matter]. Our torturing isn't that bad compared to this. Instead of: People complain about Western countries using torture [of course this greatly matters]. [And] Our torturing isn't [even] that bad compared to this. Originally you were just a bad writer. Now that you're actively defending your incompetent writing, you're completely wrong about something. Here's a clue: when you're in a hole, don't dig down. SOP for the GOP. Republicans hate government. When put in charge, they appoint industry cronies to sabotage it. Loretta? From touching his dick to being a dick, what an improvement! Yeah, really. My despise for Bush is spilling over onto this new Democratic Congress. Impeachment's off the table. They don't issue subpoenas for their "investigations". Nonbinding resolutions that they can't get passed. They're pathetic. Terrific educational website for kids and parents The story about how to make secure home. Really cool site! This is a terrific site. Check out icoolkids.com for more sites for young kids. As scary as that many Muslim groups openly strive for Islamist states. Although of course as in most groups most Muslims just live their daily lives and don't bother with such politics. because news reports may be biased to present Muslims in a particularly sinister light. No, most negative news about Muslims is not reported at all in mainstream media or they are simply called "youths" or other general terms such as with the riots in France. The media in Europe is very left wing and politically correct generally. OTP is the one that stumped me too. Wow, nice to see a good deed getting "punished" in the right way. I'm not sure if this is accurate, but a friend of mine never let his employers deposit his paychecks electronically. He stated, "The form you sign that lets them put money INTO your account also allows them to WITHDRAW money from your account. You have been warned." This is a terrific site for music lovers! Check it out. The Left would get more credibility if they didn't share the Right's tactic of endlessly repeating false stories that have been debunked. I stopped reading after the Rolling-Stone 3rd point, 2 was a gross over-simplification as well. BTW, I voted for the Democrats both times. The recently concluded Air show at Bangalore was a display of that nobody would forget in a hurry. It was a level playing field, and all the big boys like F-16, F-18, MiG-35, Gripen and many more coming out to play... Learn more about the exciting prospects that a $10 billion Defense outlay of the Indian government for the next 5 years holds... Many defence contractore, around 500, congregated here at Yelahanka to ply their wares and woo the growing requirements. cry wolf The article mentions that you can scroll the page up when you read to the bottom. I'm pretty sure that, with some ingenuity, most of the problems people can come up with will be solved. The mouse will be better for some things, but for general use eye-tracking technology isn't automatically going to fail. Is this more vegan propaganda? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll#Specific_trolling_subcultures Look no further than the electrical station, where the two youths running from cops died, being setup as a MEMORIAL and the opposition party using it as a photo-op. Lack of libraries suck. It's not that some stuff isn't there, but it is often in a form less polished than in other options or, you have to build the whole thing for yourself. You have to roll a lot on your own and, if CL per se is a huge time saver, it ends up not compensating because of this lack of libraries, documentation and help. A lot is accomplished "behind the scenes" by contractors, but that stuff never makes it to the general community. Besides, any CL commercial implementation appears to loose to a mature Smalltalk implementation in the "plays nice with others" and "have many goodies" arena, such as VisualWorks. Some vendor stuff is substandard - for instance, Franz likes to charge a lot, but they won't even give you a decent IDE for Mac OS, and their Linux IDE took a long time. LispWorks' previous version for Mac OS was a damn shame (the thing didn't even start). Also, the community is, by comparison, not very much productive. There is nothing like the buzz that goes on in the, say, Python community. There aren't that many decent tools. And some stuff is much talked about and so little documented as to render it useless (or just a waste of time, when you can reach for another solution in antoher language). Besides, they are hypercritics. Common Lispers like to say that stuff like continuations is "academic", but we've watched how this "academic" discussion made its way into Real World discussion about web servers. The language seem to be losing ground. I can't see very well where it's going. Future applications will involve complex and distributed solutions and I don't see Common Lisp heading that way. I see the ML (MLTon, Alice, OCaml, F# - SML being used for the next EcmaScript specification), Haskell and Scheme camp moving, however. Java and "the sharps" moving (F# ?! Wow!). Is CL moving? At a much slower pace, it seems. The fact that CL is a standard is a double-edged sword. CL doesn't seem to be used for a testbed of programming concepts, as it once was. In the Lisp family, Scheme is still pouring out papers and ideas, but not CL. It just sort of froze. The CL community on Usenet today doesn't seem as sophisticated as it once was. I see Common Lisp commercial implementations as pretty good, provided you want to invest a huge amount of time in building stuff that you can just reach for in C++ and Java...Is it worth it, these days, to invest a huge amount of time in Common Lisp? Everything is so tied to vendors...Will my vendor be here in 15 years time? Maybe vendors will just linger on, largely tied to the corporations that invested so much in Lisp...Sort of like Cobol and Forth... On the Scheme camp, on the other hand, I would love to see DrScheme be less "academic", less for "learning languages." There are no usefull Scheme for instance for web servers. For numerical computations (one that would include a cross-platform GUI and that is a spead freak). And the object systems in Scheme are half-baked CLOSes. R5RS isn't ready for prime-time and I'm very hopefull that R6RS will become accepted. Dylan, oh Dylan, where are you Dylan?...A hard sell in 2007. There are too many details and so few ready-made solutions...To be frank, thinking non-Java, non-C++, non-Python-Ruby-shit, Smalltalk vendors seem to offer more bang for the money. I make this out of it: guys make a pig drunk, put it into a straightjacket, and shoot it into the sky. When it got down, it had escaped from the straightjacket! It's all a Houdini act, by a pig! Awesome site. NO pop-ups or any of that other junk. Just the hardcore materials I wanted. From the investment genius's latest annual letter to shareholders. I was not condoning it in any way, I was simply saying that you can't ignore the scientific achievements because many people died. The same goes for the Nazi camps where they performed similar experiments: it's a horrid atrocity, however, there were advancements in our understanding of the limits of human endurance from these experiments. I think the Reddit community is overly "touchy feely" about such issues. find UFOs before they're airbrushed out! making the victims death even less worthy. Are you a Utilitarian? It certainly sounds like you are. Here's how you can tell: if you use real numbers to compute what a person's life is worth then you're a Utilitarian. And certainly by saying that you can subtract X number (value of medical research) from Y number (value of a human life) then you're using something that's got most of the properties of real numbers. The problem of course is that Utilitiarianism is a bunch of unjustifiable shite. The alternative to using real numbers is to use transfinite numbers. But if you use transfinite numbers then subtracting aleph(0) (eg, the integers) from aleph(1) (the reals) gets you aleph(1). So subtracting the value of medical research gained from the value of someone's life yields ... someone's life. They don't make any case at all for it to be impeachable. Hmm interesting to see that socialist presidential candidate getting political gain from some petty Muslim criminals getting killed from their own stupidity. I hate that kind of left scum in Europe. They are doing all the work for Muslim extremists. "Read it, it was his money." Then the title is a lie. Your mistake is to regard the news biz as different in any fundamental way from the paperback novel biz. Sometimes paperbacks are "inspired by a true story", too. In the end, it has to sell. what's the point if you still have to use your hand to click the button? Also, someone raised a good point: where your eyes take you and where you're mouse is being used are generally two different things... So you believe that ideas, cultures and people of a nation is all homogeneous, and that the actions and directions of a tyrant is the will of the people? No wonder the world hates Americans. Check out EyeDraw. It provides a nice way of distinguishing between "looking" and "drawing". He's allowed to keep it because he legally bought it. Not sure this is correct. Legally buying a stolen good doesn't mean you get to keep it, IIRC. He's only being able to keep it because they haven't figured out who it should go to. The problem isn't the unions. The problem is precisely the use of unions for simplistic republican-style hot-button flashpoints, and then actively creating an adversarial relationship with teachers and their unions for political ends; and people like you (even if you seem more reasonable sounding than most) who have no experience in the system, and have not been at the target end of this dispicable tactic. Here is the only soft "evidence" I care to provide: If you blame America's education problem to be due to teacher's unions, check other countries... do they have the same problem to the same extent? Here's a list to get you started in your investigation... http://www.globaleducation.org/unions.htm And i can assure you virtually all of the stats on the linked blog entry are bogus or meaningless in reality. Teaching is not like other jobs. You can not compare very meaningfully to industry and business, which is the first classic mistake of so many of these short sighted, history ignorant, never ending critiques. And people seem not to grasp this. Because they don't have the experience. The people with the experience are marginalized, because they grouped in with the "problem" and therefore considered merely self-serving (ie. in the union). Yeah, my mom's a teacher. And one of the hardest working people I have ever known. So you'll forgive me perhaps when posts like this just make me want to puke. There are lazy teachers, and bad teachers; but worse than both lazy teachers and bad teachers combined, are outsider idiots from the business and political community that make the problems infinitely worse. No quote, I see, just lying non-quote. All you creeps have are lies. "Ann's Jedi Mind Trick At CPAC" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794646/posts Downmodded for (poorly written) content. Yeah, nice how these impoverished multinationals steal ideas again. CocaCola stole from another b3ta.com contributor Joel Veitch, but happily he won his case - and donated the money to charity! worst article EVAR Looks like this is their new business model. How many people do they have to extort to make up for low album sales? Could you elaborate on what you find "hideous" in Perl 6 (or beautiful in Python or Ruby.) Ann's Jedi Mind Trick At CPAC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794646/posts You're implying that Iraq was responsible for 9/11 and thus a deserving target for revenge. It was obviously false then, and it's even more obviously false now. old How about submitting that again, direct to the fhm site? (i.e. non-linkjacked version?) 1) Just accept the stuff that would make any sane and compassionate person angry and hateful. 2) Just accept the stuff that would make any sane and compassionate person angry and hateful. 3) Just accept the stuff that would make any sane and compassionate person angry and hateful. 4) Just accept the stuff that would make any sane and compassionate person angry and hateful. 5) Just accept the stuff that would make any sane and compassionate person angry and hateful. 6) Just accept the stuff that would make any sane and compassionate person angry and hateful. 7) Just accept the stuff that would make any sane and compassionate person angry and hateful. 8) Just accept the stuff that would make any sane and compassionate person angry and hateful. 9) Just accept the stuff that would make any sane and compassionate person angry and hateful. 10) Just accept the stuff that would make any sane and compassionate person angry and hateful. 11) Just accept the stuff that would make any sane and compassionate person angry and hateful. 12) Just accept the stuff that would make any sane and compassionate person angry and hateful. 13) Just accept the stuff that would make any sane and compassionate person angry and hateful. 14) Just accept the stuff that would make any sane and compassionate person angry and hateful. 15) Just accept the stuff that would make any sane and compassionate person angry and hateful. 16) Just accept the stuff that would make any sane and compassionate person angry and hateful. Reminds me of a stand-up comedian who said "There's nothing ironic about rain on your wedding day... Unless you're marrying a meteorologist and he set the date." FTA, Texas police officer Gilmer Hernandez sits in a federal prison in Del Rio County, Texas for the crime of shooting at the rear tires of a van after the driver attempted to run the officer over. The catch is the van was filled with illegal immigrants. AP heads article: "cartoons Still Costing Denmark" From article: "Denmark's exports to Muslim countries fell by more than 11[...]" "But overall, Danish exports grew by 9 percent last year to $97 billion. Exports to the 57 countries in the Organization of the Islamic Conference represent only 2.5 percent of all Danish exports." Seems AP is a bit slanted here. Yeah, that's the ticket! back to front? absurd! I want news not hardcore...well maybe some Hardcore Olbermann bashing O'Reilly... thats pretty good. There are just too many idiots out there who would listen to anything. I don't even want to spend any time to comment on Ann Coulter and her opinions. She is at her last straw of surviving in this circle. Even the worst comment is giving her the credit she does not deserve. It is simply a joke that any credible organization would invite her to speak, and yet the Conservative Political Action Conference invited her as their "keynote speaker". It says so much about the organizing body of this conference and people who attended it: A bunch of idiots. I drive an SUV. My parents gave it to me when it finally broke down and required more than blue-book to fix. I paid the $1200 and fixed it, because it's still a good car and it gets me around fine. If I could, I would drive a more efficient, earth-friendly car, but this is what I have and I don't have money for another car right now. I don't have collision, so if some asshole like this prick torches my car so that he can make a political statement, I can't go to work, I can't go to school, I'm basically up shit-creek. In fact, my SUV was badly vandalized once when I was in Vermont, and I still have the glorious key markings down one side to show for it. So, some asshole keyed my car to make a political statement about something I really had no choice in (since I don't have any money to buy a new car) and I'm stuck with their statement now, which is effectively permanent. My point is that someone who goes around throwing molitov cocktails at property which does not belong to them is dispicable. If he had done this to me, I would have suffered extraordinary hardship, and some of his victims may be now suffering such hardship. I'm in favor of giving him hard hard time. That means no Science, no Nature, no physics textbooks, no calculus classes--nothing. Additionally, I think that after his release, he should have damages automatically deducted from his pay until he has paid back the 5 million + interest to his victims. Do the math. 72 virgins per martyr only goes so far. They had to replenish the stocks at some point. The irony is that DrScheme has mostly the same keybinding as emacs. Just the "simple" ones like copy&paste are changed like in Aquamacs. coulter has her own issues to work through, clearly. Ah, a concern troll. How special. No wonder the world hates Americans. WW2 Germany or Japan at least had as much popular support as Bush does in America. What does that tell you? Looks like a nice day in Hawaii. I'm jealous. This is on the science subreddit? The red ones are from Mars and the green ones are from Venus. Indeed he is. Let's all stop using a statistical approach here, and get down to what the grand*3parent post said: Consider that your parents are some mean bastards, and that they agree I pay them three million dollars in order to torture and kill you. I'll get away with it, no prison time and nothing spent on my part except for the money. Would that be right? Or suppose I didn't pay the parents but instead paid the money to the government or some other entity that your life is spent serving. I don't think that would be right at all, and that considering the value of human life on this level shouldn't be allowed. You can talk about the metaphorical appraisal of human life in terms of lifetime income or amount of money spent on safety to save the lives of x humans. But it is wrong to consider human life or suffering in economical terms when deciding what is interpersonal measures (prison, debt etc.) can be taken. It certainly goes against my notion of ethics. Human life and welfare must be insulated against such appraisals, because it gives far too much power to those who perform well in the capitalist system. It is well and good that not everybody is created equal, but there are some limits to what rights the powerful have. Yeah, what you "meant to say" required a whole other sentence to explicate. A sentence which you somehow for some inexplicable reason just happened to omit. How stupid are you? I'm being a pedant because the "one word" really is completely wrong. Kinda like the difference between 'yes' and 'no'. Oh and I can prove that my interpretation is correct based on the way the human brain acquires language. Can you say the same? Finally, with a score of -6 at present, it's not "just me" who "misinterpreted" what you meant to say. So you're wrong yet again. Do you ever get tired of digging? These folks call themselves christian but they are very far from it! Wow. I guess there is no limit to the reach of Putin's grasp. The pacing is a tad slow and the sound doesn't make up for it. Needs more energy. and maybe we could call it nsfw.reddit.com? (: Good point. Better check and see what The Conservapedia has to say about it. Oh, nothing apparently. I guess there's no story, then. Um, this is bad. Really bad. Like, Putin doesn't even care about being subtle. He's about as smart as ChenBush. Very misleading. Right after the quote on the blog: Mr. Rumsfeld and his aides, who include close adviser Stephen Cambone, are sifting through the thousands of pages of documents generated during his tenure. The Pentagon official said former secretaries are entitled to a transition office to sort papers, some of which can be taken with them for a library, for archives or to write a book. Does this give him access to new documents, or any sort of decision-making power or even advisory status? It doesn't sound like it. Right! We Americans just voted in a new majority in Congress because we wanted Congress to be powerless to stop the Bush Administration from dismantling of our Democracy. Agreed.. I agree with the sentiment, but it's lacking in real substance. "A message has been communicated to anyone who wants to speak out against the Kremlin: 'If you do, no matter who you are, where you are, we will find you, and we will silence you -- in the most horrible way possible,' " Joyal said. Obviously, monumental slander like this couldn't be left without response... Well, it's my opinion that he agreed to appear on her show just to talk about how sentences should be increased, but he instead used her show to not only retract what he had said earlier, but to make himself look like he is very supportive of abductees and is, in fact, the hero in the story. I bet that the message he gave was pretty different from the Oprah Show thought he was going to give. There has been backlash from the show's fans, who feel that Oprah shouldn't have let him on her show at all. He had said some terrible things about the Hornbeck kidnapping, and Oprah's viewers don't think it was appropriate for him to appear on her show. So I think the whole O'Reilly appearance was a mis-step for the show. More hypocrisy, bigotry, and cruelty from the people who brought you Iraq. Why are people even surprised at anything Ann Coulter says? That this woman has such a large audience is part of what makes America look so incredibly frighteningly evil in the eyes of the rest of the world. Unless they want to make a point... I'm sure it's just a coincidence...again. Really. My time would be much better spent hunting down and firing anybody in my department who isn't playing ball and replacing them with political cronies. Come back when I'm done, and my new staff will be more than happy to lose^h^h^h^h do something about your requests. What I am saying is the mouse and keyboard make actions asynchronous. If you have everything through where you look it is synchronous. It will take a lot of milk cartons to put all of the pictures of the missing bees on. Well prisons are run by the bullies in high school that decide they want to make a career of it. In prison they get to escalate the abuse and do so legally. I agree it sill probably be a good technology and over time will get better but its still a synchronous action. If everythign is with your eye then it puts all tasks on that device. Right now we use computers asynchronously with the keyboard and mouse. They point out that swine and chicken industry cause more suffering on the animals involved and environmental impacts compared to the beef industry(which also has higher product yield per animal). I hadn't thought about vegetarianism from that aspect. <--- edit - the aspect of animal yield. edit#2 - Cornell says chicken is more efficient. Yet chickens are inherently more disgusting to me for some reason. Myself, I'm not a big fan of factory meat as a rule. Range fed tastes better. BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! After three suspected liberals were expelled from a 2005 Bush event in Denver, then-WH spokesman Scott McClellan blamed the incident on GOP volunteers. This week, witnesses directly contradicted McClellan, saying that removing possible dissenters was WH policy. WH staffers were also investigated for impersonating Secret Service agents, but findings have been suppressed by the Denver U.S. Attorney's office. It tells me the German people have evolved beyond such blatant insanity and the Americans haven't. The jury's still out on Japan. Yeah, we don't want the Object Management Group involved. In otherwords, this isn't about vegetarianism, it is a hairshirt-environmental-activist jeremiad. Just what we need more of. Not. pop-up screamers would be the most successful popup. If you think about it marketers want this because they want to see what draws your eye, I prefer them not knowing otherwise you will be walking into ads non stop. How would that come about? Are you a Utilitarian? It certainly sounds like you are. No, I just don't think that human life is precious just because it's human life. How long have we held onto this belief that human life is precious? I believe it comes from years and years of religion being the only non-government source ethics and information that people had. Europe has obviously learnt nothing, and the current young generation thinks Hitler was just another bad leader, like Bush. You are wrong, the horrors of WW2 made Europe and especially Germany very pacifist. As briefly mentioned here What I thought was even more shocking was the hearty applause Ann received after making the comment. Clearly she strikes a chord in the conservative movement. No miracle about it. It's called neurolingustics. Lucky he isn't a redhead... somehow, all redheads look exactly alike. To the point of absurdity. When I was 22, I was working in this godawful furniture factory, no bank account, so on payday I'd drop by the bank the check was against, get it cashed. I walk in, wait in line, and one of the bank associates (or whatever in the hell they're called, one with an office) walks out, and starts harassing me. "Dave (my name is John), I need to let you know that the check you wrote for blahblahblah was just returned for insufficient funds and that you need to take care of that immediately." "I'm sorry, do I know you?" "Yes, you tried to blahblahblah. Listen, it's no big deal, you're already cashing your check..." (I hold up the check in front of me, shows my name.) (He looks at me funny, like I'm pulling a scam.) Finally, after 10 minutes of convincing him, I feel safe that the cops haven't been silently alerted. And that's one of many stories. It gets so bad that I'm starting to have suspicions that redheads constitute their own anthropological race. I'm damned lucky a redhaired bank robber hasn't ever made the news, I'd be fucked. This is making the rounds on arms control sites and the thinking amongst most of those guys is that it is a missile. perhaps this: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/images/slamer01.jpg http://www.defense-update.com/products/s/slam-er.htm Hey, I dunno, I'm just quoting the "experts". No, Japan surrendered to the US because of the huge Russian forces first invading southern Sakhalin, that had once been split between Russia and Japan. It took them four days before the Japanese front was broken and the fight was down hill. That is the exact reason the history books give, because that is the exact reason Emperor Hirohito gave for surrender. If the US had just asked for the Japanese surrender, once Russia had started invading their own country (Sakhalin, which came after Manchuria, North Korea and all the conqured Japanese lands) they would have accepted it anyway. Soviet Union and American air forces had been tense for a while before then, and even afterwards Soviet fighters diverted any US military planes even flying near their territory, which all lead into the cold war. So no, the US dropped the bomb solely to try to intimidate Russia, because Japan would have surrendered to them anyway. Yeah, I spent most of the time it was on wondering why the red guys had to fight the green guys. Is it just because they're different colours? It came across as weirdly racist to me. This blogrant is a load of manure. While Fundie Christians may be (are) frustrating pains in the butt, the writers calls them a terrorist organization, which is a ridiculous and insulting hyper-exaggeration which serves only to try to minimize the perceived threat from REAL terrorists. Utter dreck. Tired of commercial ads voted up. If they were trying to get you to come buy the product in the store, where they hit you with a higher price, it could be a bait and switch. But the way Best Buy uses it is they operate the online site as a separate store. So a lot of times they have lower prices or other deals that are online only, in which case they are actually trying to get you to purchase online, which does not constitute a bait and switch. Besides, Best Buy's black letter policy is to match BestBuy.com prices, so even if it's cheaper online, you are entitled to the cheaper online price if you buy in-store (barring an "Online only" sale) Actually the FBI aren't just letting him keep it and the law isn't designed for rich people. The law is and always has been that the only person with a claim of title better than a direct thief (steal from owner) is the true owner. So even if he stole the painting only the true owner (or their heir) has the right to take painting back. The law is designed so that it's not a free for all once an item is stolen or the true owner can't be found (A steals from B, C then thinks since B is a thief he can steal it without repurcussions). This is the meaning of the saying possession is 9/10ths the law. Whether Spielburg knew it was stolen has absolutely no legal significance on whether he gets to keep it or not. Your claim to property is only as good as the person you got it from. Confiscating the property of drug dealers etc. as "evidence" is the exception (often a constitutional questionable one), not the rule. The law would apply just as much to you as it would to Spielburg. "I did not follow the brouhaha that erupted following Natalie Maines' statement criticizing George Bush in 2003 because frankly I assumed that most good Texans were embarrassed and ashamed to be from the same state as Bush so I thought it was just one of those self-evident statements, (sky is blue, grass is green, ashamed of Bush.etc), that people would ignore and then move on to controversial matters like should the United States ever invade a country because we believe that they might do us some unknown harm at some later date or would it be better to wait until we have concrete proof of an eminent attack." Holy run-on sentences, Batman! this is just coffeehousing In that spirit: but doesn't Python have fewer parens It has fewer braces for that reason -- which nobody seemed to mind having, even if they couldn't agree on where to put them. For parens, however, it has as many as C, minus casting, plus tuple literals. When I asked that question I thought only of function-calls, where Python and CL clearly do not differ in paren-count, but then you have: LET and like: for N bound variables and M nil variables, CL has N*2+2+2 extra parens. Variable assignment, any toplevel declaration that Python would have direct syntax for (importing modules, say): CL has 2 extra parens. So CL indeed has very many more parens than Python or any of the languages I considered, and morever even an obviously special and well-cared-for type like the list will use these same parens. Likewise, module-management and conditional execution and exception-handling and looping (oh, that ITER thing throws all of LOOP's gains away -- as if they -wanted- more parens!) are more special in Python than in CL. Perl6 rid IF of parens entirely: if $a > 5 { say "OK." } -- and in doing so added a small whitespace-sensitivity which has offended some perlers. ... So I think you have a classical conservation of magic, here, with s-expressions (note: CL has special syntax for comments!) as the absolute purge of magic from syntax into 'something else' (semantics? jmcantrell's stomach? --there are many elses.) and with other languages progressively pulling more magic from 'something else' and putting it into syntax, so as to annihilate parens. The first magic-redistribution area looks to be variable assignment: Lisp had (guessing:) SET, and then SETQ, and now SETF -- with its null-magic s-expressions, Lisp easily grew to have friendlier and more powerful kinds of assignment, and -safely-, without having to throw itself down the stairs and give itself a new name. ... But then, when CL programmers put magic into the syntax -- to add currying, say -- where do they get it from? Is there a magic<->complexity bridge somewhere, that might also explain Perl? Keep in mind the words "just a dream" and also watch how they "smoke". OK, so you are one of them "peak oil" apocalyptists. Fine. You may have a point, but energy scarcity hardly addresses my point, ie; we are all in this together, all around the world people are increasingly realizing this, and as such, the time when regionalism or nationalism can be used as a rational basis for conflict, is coming to an end. You may dissagree with that, which is fine --we need pessimists because they keep us on our toes, I choose to be an optimist-- but if you do, instead of changing the subject back to "what the story is about" (like I couldn't figure that out for myself?) why don't you address my argument with counter arguments of your own? Why would it take an increase in energy? Why does increasing energy scarcity have to be a zero-sum game in which national and regional players compete for an all or nothing prize? Answer me! You are obviously one of those Sam Huntington "Clash of Civilizations" adherents. I don't/can't see it that way. I argue that a sphere of intelligent people, an informal global network, exists whose members have more in common with each other in that they eschew violence and direct conflict, then they do with the forces of regionalism or nationalism. These people are the answer. I think we are smart enough to get out of this jam; you think we're not. Don't give me a blanket statement of your version of the facts; tell me why we can't do it! Tell me why we can't evolve! If nothing else, at least in being hopeful, I have something to work for. But you, you've already made your decision. What's left? Resignation? I'm not going out like that. I'm calmer than you are and I'm not afraid. You're only stealing from other customers and shareholders, hardly any of which had anything to do with this. I personally know two teachers who were fired for pushing students to think. One of them was only kidding at that. The other taught chem. School is about getting good grades, not learning. Duh! I sincerely hope you're being satirical. Funny, on the same page was a comic showing two examples of what gives America the right to collect taxes. http://www.livefreenow.org/images/cartoons/cartoon7.gif I'm really NOT that prone to conspiracy theory, but there sure seem to be a lot of odd happenings around the Litvenenko case... Do you realize that outside of the USA religion plays no role in either ethics or morality? And that even inside the USA it plays absolutely no role in any moral philosophy department? Unless maybe at a bible college? You're maybe three centuries behind the times, because even Immanuel Kant writing in the middle of the 18th century didn't use religion to back up his moral arguments. By the way, kudos on devolving yourself from a Utilitarian to a primitive unenlightened savage. Oh wait, they're the same thing. Never mind. It never is a language problem with CL. It's always an implementation problem. Hardly surprising. You don't really expect hippie squatters to have much respect for property rights. And from what I've heard, police in Scandinavian countries generally treat suspects with kid gloves and their jails are more like country clubs so there's not that much consequence to acting out. Yeah, Jedi mind trick. It doesn't take much to put thoughts in some people's heads. They quote her. She used "but" and "so." This is not a series of nonsequiturs, it's a single sentence with a couple of conjunctions in it. It doesn't matter though. I think it's a mistake for people to decry the fact that most of the media aren't talking about this. It's not news when a person who lives off spreading ignorance spreads some more. My cat took a crap this morning. That's not news either. Well, I prefer Scheme to CL, simply because of how clean Scheme is. And some people have upped my comment, so there. There are people here who've defended torture. And given you have no understanding of how language works, I daresay you don't understand human psychology either. They are right, but that's not saying much. Legalize it, tax it, non-issue Yep, you've covered it. Thanks. Didn't mean to attack your post by the way, I was just getting myself a little too deep into the semantics of my own argument. I wouldn't doubt it if there's also some sort of parallax effect going on, which might explain why the blue artifact is offset from the direction in which the plane is travelling, however, speed is definitely one of the causes. Notice in this example the plane has a blue artifact, but its shadow -- which is on ground level -- also has it's own greyish artifact. Also, if you look at the street behind the plane, you'll see red and blue artifacts in front of most of the moving vehicles. What I don't get is why the effect seems inconsistent when it comes to ground vehicles. I can find numerous examples of cars in other places that I know are moving faster than these ones but display no such artifacts. This reminds me of eroguro. Wikipedia article-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ero_guro Encyclopedia Dramatica article-http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Guro (That link is Nsfw, or sanity) God bless you structures? molecular vibration. Nope, I'm quite happy wiht it how it is :p I think I put a period instead of a comma by accident. Haha, that's awesome. That song drives me nuts. I'm guessing almost none of these pictures were taken from a mountain. I'm also guessing almost none of these were taken from a commercial airliner. The probability of a typical person getting these kinds of clouds (base lower than a building, top no higher than a building) while being at the appropriate altitude is very low. So yes, there is value for us not lucky enough to see these kinds of scenes whenever we want. If your measure of image value is primarily based on suitability for desktop wallpaper... well, that's too bad. Are you sure? Which period are you referring to there? Why does he call smart code "dumb code?" Watch as all the local start cheering for the other team and not for the locals. (Unlikely that non-supporters will travel for the non-local team) Exactly my point. Each of those you name took action based on conscience, and none of them denied their actions. Am I missing your point? From now on, I think everyone in the press corps should refer to him as "Senior Administration Official Cheney". I want to hear David Gregory call him that at the next press gaggle with Tony Snow. I prefer OCaml for a mix of functional and imperative (it even has that dreaded OO :)) let () = let window = GWindow.window ~title:"Hello" ~border_width:10 () in window#connect#destroy ~callback:GMain.Main.quit; let button = GButton.button ~label:"Hello World" ~packing:window#add () in button#connect#clicked ~callback:window#destroy; window#show (); GMain.Main.main () Seems we all lost a long time ago... Lost our Constitution, lost our self-respect, lost our standing in the world, lost our budget surplus... So uh, gee, thanks, Mr. Gonzales, but we don't have much left to lose. Therefore, why don't you just shut your fucking mouth and do what Congress tells you to do, eh? Sometimes, designers try too hard to couple things together. Why not have an eye tracker and a mouse? I can see a lot of potential in that. Use the primary hand to push a mouse pointer. Use an eye tracker to direct a second invisible pointer (as described in the article). Use your secondary hand's thumb to issue clicks for the eye tracker from the keyboard (like a laptop's buttons). This would suck for most games. I can imagine it being disorientating if eye tracking scrolled the view, like in a first-person shooter, maybe even induce motion sickness. Actually, I'm not a christian. And I'm usually the first guy to start castigating extreme or fundamentlist christians for their various fuckwittery. Nevertheless, to pretend that the minority fundamentalist wing of Christianity that's so vocal and politically powerful in the USA represents all christians in the world is completely fucking ridiculous. Let's do some maths, shall we? It's common knowledge that the extreme right-wing fundamentalist variety of Christianity is almost exclusively an American problem. The worldwide population of Christianity is... around 2.1 billion. The population of the USA is around 300 million. If every person in the USA was a fundamentalist xtian, that would still be only 2,100,000,000,000 / 300,000,000... or one in seven thousand people. I know it's a problem in the USA, and you have my profound sympathies for the shit you must have to put up with, but to generalise from the tiny, tiny minority of people you interact with to every christian in the world isn't just stupid - it's intellectually dishonest. You guys are both wrong. The catch is that if the pig doesn't escape from the straitjacket BEFORE he touches down, he gets eaten. The booze was his handicap, because this pig was actually a famous porcine escape artist who had done this several times before, and these guys were tired of losing bets on him. No, the first rule of P.R. has always been lie, lie, lie or they would never get anything done when they don't have anything to deny. That's what I told the cop and the judge the last time I got a speeding ticket: I think everyone loses if I spend all my time worrying about fines and jailtime, if I spend all my time appearing to respond in court. Presumably, because you live in the USA. More power to parents would be a good start. Many parents are Unversity educated and well placed to assess how their own children are getting on. pretty good idea lmao Perl is just great, IMHO, in the abstraction-packing arena. That weird looking code is just chock full of visual cues of abstraction. For me, that's a feature, not a bug. I would speculate that it's probably something Larry Wall borrowed from symbolic/pictorial languages, such as Chinese and Japanese. People say Perl code is unreadable but, until real studies in language usability are conducted, they can't really claim that. For all we know, those visual abstraction-packed cues may be actually easier on the brain. This is a profound subject that borders on psycholinguistics and cognition studies and, to my knowledge, nothing has been investigated in the sense wrt Perl. Python's "clean" code, maybe we'll find out, puts programmers to sleep, because regularity is boring. For the last time I do not blame the teachers unions for existing, I blame them for some of their policies! I do not advocate eliminating the unions (as I agree many conservatives do), but fixing the broken policies. The fact that other countries also have unions proves nothing, unless they have the same policies. I never implied (nor do I believe) that there are not many good teachers in the current system. I just believe that the good teachers are not sufficiently rewarded. Yeah, my mom's a teacher. And one of the hardest working people I have ever known. So you'll forgive me perhaps when posts like this just make me want to puke. I will not. How would your mother feel about you responding to my polite appeals to reason with emotional and insulting language? This isn't a problem with privatization, it's a problem with bad government contracts. If a private company agrees to pay $120 million for crappy service, it clearly has poor management, and probably won't last very long. If the government does, we blame "privatization"? I'm with you - we live in the real world, and in the real world there exists a need for intelligence agencies, and intelligence agencies can't do their business on an open stage for all to see. Having said that, it's interesting to me that you explicitly wrote "US citizens". If you're a US citizen (like me), aren't you the slightest bit embarrassed by cases like that of Maher Arar? Besides, the actions of the CIA in particular aren't what I was getting at... It's that these things are happening within the context of a culture that seems to think that "civil liberties" is some sort of dirty, liberal catchphrase for "we love Osama bin Laden". This is very messed up. Why do we keep putting the wrong cops in jail? I know, what is his job, if it isn't first to satisfy Congress? -- edit -- Yo, this isn't sarcasm, stop downmodding me into oblivion! :) You should put a [Dvorak] tag in the title to let us know when you post an article by the tech equivalent of Ann Coulter. Conservatives said they are frustrated and angry, and blamed the GOP's massive losses in the 2006 elections on Republicans who deviated from a hard-line conservative agenda. The mood puts added pressure on a slew of GOP presidential candidates set to speak to the meeting today. Did you ever notice how whenever a movement falls apart, the reason offered is never that the ideology behind it was simply wrong, but rather because people didn't follow it correctly? It's not that there's something wrong with conservatism, it's the these people aren't conservative enough. It's not that communism can't work, it's that it's never really been tried. Etc. Pacific Sunrise sets a new standard in Whitsunday Island cruises definately worth a look if you are thinking of coming to this part of the world. Probably a field with a circular irrigation system. The arm is at the three o'clock position in the Google photo. It also has 2 contrails visible so it must have 2 engines like a plane. Warning: This is a John C. Dvorak article. Well, someone isn't subtle. I'm not sure that Putin is behind this though. This column is still relevant: http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10228 that' kind of old news, isn't it? I've never seen the term "illegals" used in a respectable publication. Seems like the anti-PC variety of political correctness. I don't think pot should be prescribed or even endorsed as a medicine without extensive testing to make sure it's effective and safe. Nevertheless, it has been extensively studied, and has been found to not be nearly as dangerous to health as alcohol or tobacco. Do I think something should be endorsed as medical treatment without extensive testing? No. Do I think kids should be made into criminals for doing nothing morally wrong to anyone? No. Do I think the extensive tests which have demonstrated cannabis or TCH can have beneficial medical effects should be utterly disregarded because of blind historical prejudices and misinformation in the USA then exported to the rest of the world? No. And FWIW, alternative medicine is complete fucking shit. People should be able to take what they want, but if they believe it's efficaceous without a single shred of scientific proof, they're idiots. If they want taxpayers to pay for it or dispense it in hospitals, they're fucking idiots. And if the producers want to claim it's efficaceous without scientific proof, they should be locked away for fraud. ha ha match me on a blunt One sees similar reports on a regular basis. The surprise factor here is not that a grossly obese woman's weight could mask her pregnancy, but that some man had to have had sex with her to start with. / \ / \ | | | ROFL Maybe now you'll wake up and see that you only have the two wings of the same party to choose from? Can you point to the post where jmillikin mentions the problem you are talking about? I was under the impression that jmillikin was talking about "imperative-style" vs. "lisp-style", the difficulty of using the former in Common Lisp, and the difficulty of "translating" his projects to the latter. All I can see in relation to "availability of bindings" is the first conjunct in the first paragraph of the first post (i.e., "Lack of libraries"). When you speak of "Writing such a binding", what do you mean? What is wrong with the current bindings? See, jmillikin couldn't find a specific example, and neither did you, so how am I to know what's wrong with "lisp-style" and right with "imperative-style" as found in the Haskell library? But really, how do you expect me to write all these libraries for you without telling me what's wrong!? Of course, when I'll find out the difference, I'll throw away the old "lisp-style" and replace it with the shiny new Python-like, Haskell-like "imperative-style", just to make you happy. Will you then give me those cookies? sad puppy face "talk is cheap, show me the code". Nah. I think "talk" is all you're going to get. But please work on your reading comprehension before your next post, and maybe try for a less imperative style, too. Heh. Cannabis isn't solely responsible for paranoia, because many people take cannabis many times without getting paranoid. But yeah, it can help. Much like alcohol can help cause all sorts of cancers, cirrhosis and death. ;-) I don't see this replacing the mouse. The motivation behind virtual design is that people interact with the virtual world the same way they interact with the physical one. For eg, to highlight something, hand-eye co-ordination is needed as is with a picking up a physical object. People aren't used to controlling things with their eyes & thus not disciplined enough to work with a system using it (Oh! I glanced at the edge of my screen and the window has scrolled to the bottom of the screen. Remember to keep your eyes fixated! FIXATED!) Programming Language Frogger? There was once a competition on German BBS networks: Who can address an e-mail which crosses the most gateways between the incompatible networks? The time of Fido, Z-Netz, Maus, etc. Who is the next crazy developer who runs FizzBuzz on an interpreter in an interpreter in an interpreter ...? The link does not seem related to the post Virginia lawmakers pass slavery apology-? If you aren't the customer, you won't get service. In a tax funded school, the government is the customer. You are the product. Your children are byproducts. WTF...the japanese citizens were just as brutalized as the german citizens...just because a group of evil men committed atrocities, and got a military to go along with it, doesn't mean the civilians (japanese women and children) deserve the horrific effects of a nuclear bomb...after Japan tried to surrender. No one should ever be happy about the suffering of innocent humans...whether they are chinese, japanese, german, french, iraqi, etc. snap crap obscures article And clearly Hirohito can be trusted. The University of Maryland, College Park, located in Adelphi, has some very low crime stats listed for the town. I'm not crazy about conspiracy theories, but it's a pretty big coincidence in a town with such a low instance of crime. Surfing porn just got much easier. Something else got harder. Is that the same thing as qtk-quartz? http://ardour.org/node/730 Old? I think they've had the wedding and a kid already. I was wondering the same thing. Why are the wings dark, except for two white stubs about where a Tomahawk's stubby wings would be? Here's what a real Tomahawk looks like, by the way. This was the most amusing thing I've read all day. Interesting article with a somewhat misleading title. The research cited actually draws between appearance and job market economics. Correction: the expert was not murdered. He was shot and is in critical condition. "has developed a novel user interface that is easy to operate." I didn't realize it was hard to use a mouse. How sooooo true!!! Poor guy... You're mistaking bees with wasps/hornets. Wasps/hornets do fly around ppl, not bees. Bees dies after one sting, that's why they sting only if they're really threatened contrary to wasps/hornets. Didn't see that coming. I can't imagine what editing and nudging nodes in Illustrator or working of Photoshop for that matter. This is great for disabled people but I'll stick with my tablet and mouse, thank you. Awesome! Another blog spam site makes it onto the hot page! They should ad health insurance. And do you know that same kind of thing happened in France and was probably due to the use of Imidacloprid (an insecticide manufactured by Bayer Cropscience)? Not in the least, but welcome to the internet. On your right you will find thousands of family oriented websites. On your left, you will find internet porn and white supremacist websites. In the middle you will find a disturbing amalgamation of both - Disney porn. Actually, the real problem was with the focus group studies they used. The groups reported they liked the flavor of New Coke as a separate beverage. The problem was that the experimenters weren't allowed to ask the simple question "But could it replace Coke?" because that would give away their big secret plan. If "New Coke" had indeed been released separately (as something like "Phat Coke", because it's just Diet coke without the Diet) it would have been successful. The, she is a pretty good looking she-male. Why, then, after the war, were nearly all the scientists at Unit 731 freed? Why did Dr Josef Mengele, the Nazi 'Angel of Death' at Auschwitz, have to flee to South America and spend the rest of his life in hiding, while Dr Shiro Ishii died at home of throat cancer aged 67 after a prosperous and untroubled life? The answer is that the Japanese were allowed to erase Unit 731 from the archives by the American government, which wanted Ishii's biological warfare findings for itself. The State can always use better methods for killing people. 'Operation Paperclip' accomplished the same with the Germans: preserved their scientific weapons research and secret ops procedures for later use by the armed forces and the CIA. I sense sarcasm... I didn't mean to imply that he should spend his every waking hour answering to Congress. Simply that it's the role of Congress to oversee the executive branch, and it would be awfully hard for even the most fervent Bush admirer to say that this administration has spent "all their time" answering to Congress. As far as I can tell, those few who still support Bush seem to be A-OK with him as king. Turns out that's not our system of government. Do you think the numbers of people getting green cards in the US may have something to do with the US handing them out? Unlike the president of the US, was'nt Chavez actually elected into office? This post STINKS! I'm not sure I'd know where to find some programs, perhaps Wordpad, in part because I don't know what all their file names are. (Did you know that Word's file name is winword.exe?) At least it looks like the Browse dialog box starts you out at the Program Files folder, instead of My Documents, which is where I always seem to have to start from in XP. A military coup that deposes Chavez and puts the country back on the road to sanity would not necessarily be a bad thing right now. And this from a site that called 'The Liberty Papers' How clueless can you get? Ann Coulter calls John Edwards a "faggot" at biggest conservative conference of the year. No need for conservatives to denounce a damn thing. Besides, this whole business of conservatives denouncing this and that is really getting to be insulting. Synthetic cocaine? it's clever, it's funny, it's well done... what's the problem? i'm starting to think this joint should be renamed "bitchit." This is called "following a slippery slope." The LiteBrite "bomb" : this :: Britain, 1948 : "1984." Actually I think the Germans are amongst those who learnt more than others from that war. But reading the comments in Reddit, like the one I replied to, it's obvious many people here (Europeans is my impression, might be wrong) did NOT learn much: anyone who claims US and the Nazis are comparable, or that Bush is the same as Hitler, clearly knows nothing about the Nazis or Hitler, and thus have learnt nothing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform However, if Spielberg knew the painting was stolen when he acquired it, then he would be guilty of the crime of receiving stolen property. So... many... jokes... Must... resist... Misleading title. Dvorak's a tranny? OMG! Just kidding. Still, I have to wonder why people pay attention to him. Come on John what is all this mumbo jumbo about God. I istened to everyone of you interviews before Christmas and could not help feeling that I was being conned by each of the official representatives put forward. The reason why we have this strong affinity being displayed towards religion is that since the advent of Thatcher we have this person centric virew of society. By which I maen that individual wants have prevailed over the needs of all. As Long as we continue to place the individual at the centre of everything we will continue to have a belief in religious ideals that promulgate the desirablility ofself interest. Only when we cast offf the religious mantra's of the self will we become a caring and better society for all The article is missing the point of teacher's unions. Public schools exist to provide industry with docile workers who won't question authority. Too much actual education is detrimental to this process. Teacher's unions act as scapegoats, so that unions and administrations can blame each other for any problems, each giving the other an excuse for inaction. This why teacher's unions are still so prevalent, even while private sector unions are in decline. Unions don't make it impossible to fire teachers. The troublesome ones can always be gotten rid of, this example is on the reddit front page right now. http://www.courierpress.com/news/2007/mar/02/teacher-calls-loss-of-job-a-mystery/ Jaime Escalante and John Taylor Gatto are two other examples. The U.S. education system is very successful at its true mission, it's just that that's different from its advertised mission. Gatto's book on the subject can be read online at http://johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/ I don't use CL for two reasons: Libraries (as in not enough of) and sockets (as in which rocket scientist left those out of the specification?) I had finally read enough PG to fork over the money for Practical Common Lisp, but when I realised that the webby stuff was done using proprietary socket libraries and that each commercial CL's proprietary socket library was incompatible with all the others, I said forget it and put the book on my long term storage bookshelf. ah, ravers. They're so nutty. but's what's hilarious is the number of weak-minded or sloppy thinkers who are OUTRAGED, OUTRAGED that "Ann Coulter called John Edwards a faggot!!!" Haha! And now! Adding to that list of weak-minded and sloppy thinkers: Your Republican Presidential candidates Mitt Romney and John McCain! The article's so dumb, it insults itself. HAML is another option. I think I'll stick with a Ruby/HTML combo. InfoQ had a look at common performance problems with rails, one of which includes excessive usage of Rails helpers. I wonder how Markaby or HAML effects performance? "you could have had them pulled off in an accident..." And from what I've heard, police in Scandinavian countries generally treat suspects with kid gloves and their jails are more like country clubs so there's not that much consequence to acting out. Oh, that would be civilization you're grasping to describe right there. ...and i'm betting said sweat pants were pastel velour. http://reddit.com/info/175ys/comments http://reddit.com/info/175ys/comments http://reddit.com/info/175ys/comments I'm rather fond of Ruby, and I figure it's more important that I spend my time truly mastering one language than learning a little about a lot of languages right now. enter a comment here FTA:"Possession of a silencer alone carries a life sentence." Wow. http://reddit.com/info/175ys/comments Come back when you have a position and can defend it. Otherwise you're just spouting nonsense. We didn't destroy Japan's "soul" - the Emperor - which is the reason Japan surrendered. The Japanese military didn't care about the bomb. The US detonated an atomic bomb in front of Japanese diplomats at Los Alamos. It had no effect. To the Japanese, annihilation was better than surrender. The Emperor stepped in only because MacArthur allowed Japan to keep the Imperial Throne and agreed not to prosecute the Emperor. This is also why Japan continues to whitewash the atrocities they committed during the war. anyone who claims US and the Nazis are comparable, or that Bush is the same as Hitler, clearly knows nothing about the Nazis or Hitler, and thus have learnt nothing. Such sweepingly generalizing comparisons are generally flawed, yes. I don't think anyone halfway intelligent and/or worth having a conversation with would make them, however. "Unlike the president of the US, was'nt Chavez actually elected into office? " Seems like you've invalidated your own work - have a nice life! It's things like conservapedia that are pushing me farther away from that kind of thinking, not saying I'm a liberal though either, or maybe that should read democrat. Really? Emacs doesn't so much use keybindings as... chord progressions, I guess. Can you elaborate? Also, I really like Dr. Scheme's way of handling matching parens, where it instantly highlights the entire section of code between the paren where you have your cursor and its mate, not just the mate paren itself. With emacs you have to be more sharp-eyed to spot the mate paren when it flashes. Again, I really should learn to use Emacs, I just haven't yet. BTW, the highlight, copy, cut and paste stuff can be done in a standard (for Windows users) way in Emacs using cua.el. No, what I was really looking for was something more like "copyright violation" or "literary theft". But thanks for the correction. Here's a couple of links from the fark thread on the same subject. Sorry to spoil the fun. From lionfish who traced the trajectory back to the phoenix airport: http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/9506/proofny3.jpg From pjc51, America West Express CRJ 90: http://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/crj900/images/CRJ900_7.jpg The real lesson here is: If you are supposedly a brilliant mind, why stoop to using the tools of a common street vandal? Five or six guys like him could likely smash the economy, destabilize governments worldwide, etc. using no weapon more formidable than a computer (perhaps hooked to a DNA synthesizer) without breaking a sweat. To our Democratic "leadership": You should find this insulting. It's meant to be insulting. This is why the Constitution gives you the power to issue subpoenas. Start using it. At this point, I'm blaming you, the Democratic Congress, not Gonzales or Bush or anybody in the GOP. If I were in their shoes, and you were sending me politely worded letters instead of issuing subpoenas, then I'd also be telling you to fuck off. Mmm. I take stock calling the rich assholes in any country the "productive class." Stinks of bias. Even Dvorak is right sometimes. He's not Enderle, after all. Seems to me congress is a helluva lot closer to the pulse of the American people than you Alberty, since unlike you they are elected. In other words, who the fuck are you to guess at what is best for us, the American people? Well... duh. That's been obvious for a long time now. Delicious production! SwitchPlanet is the bomb!! I have been using this site for trading my DVD's and CD's for awhile, too, and it is amazing... like the comments above, its all free! just the cost to ship... I have been able to see so many new DVD's and CD's and have enjoyed them all... plus, it helps us all to being socially accountable to helping our planet stay green and beautiful! its a great way to enjoy new DVD's to watch and CD's to listen to... I can hardly wait until they add other things to trade on the site... Chris says, its all up and coming, soon... thanks Chris! love all the new changes, and the charities you have added where we can all give a little back to others! check it out everyone, sign up, its free and see if you, too, will have the positive experience we all have had! enjoy! FTA: "Lots of people truly hate school. They find it insufferably boring, pointless, and pompous." That's funny, I find economists boring, pointless, and pompous. Imagine if in modern reunified Germany there was no mention of the holocaust. Imagine if there were never any formal apologies or material compensation made to the victims of the Nazi's atrocities. Imagine if nationalist forces intimidated silenced any veteran from the conflict, who would dare to publicly speak about their participation in these atrocities. Such a scenario describes Japan today and the world is complicit with their revisionist history. A killswitch that incinerates the house? um, what about when you have eye fatigue? I don't stare at my monitor enough... Also, some people have other issues with that. Great site. I was able to purchase all of my business and personal magazines at a substantial discount. I will be ordering more soon. Patti I think Randi Rhodes speaks closer to the truth than Ann Coulter ever does when she claims that the Republican Party is filled with self-loathing gays. I think she steps over the line when she insinuates that Jeff Gannon was visiting the White House to service Dubya. I can't listen to Lionel any more. He's gone off the deep end with the 9/11 conspiracy theory stuff. Quite likely, the experiments which yielded militarily useful knowledge (how to properly prepare black plague bombs, etc.) are still secret. You've blown the surprise with that title... anyway I had a good laugh, thanks for the link! Your rabid anti-SUV fetish shows you to be an easily-manipulated tool of the hair-shirt eco-mongers and a likely tool for eco-terror recruitment. Snark? I'm not under any illusions, but I'm still somewhat hopeful the investigations will lead us places that will put impeachment back on the table. But hope is fading. If they keep being ineffective, I'm also a bit hopeful it could propel Obama or somebody who isn't owned by the lobbyists, corporations, and military industrial complex into the oval in '08. It seems unlikely the ineffective Congress could cause that kind of backlash, but I don't think anybody saw a '06 Democratic takeover of both the House and Senate either. Awareness is high and people are fed up. If I had drug-resistant TB, I'd be a psychopath too. Surprise: rich people dislike socialism. wait for it, wait for it... "If you investigate me, the terrorists have won." B5 is so AMAZING I REALLY THANX MS.BREEDING 4 BRINGIN THEM INTO THIS WORLD BUT LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO WANNA SEE B5 HERE THINK ITS IMPOSSIBLE AND THInK IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN BUT IF YALL BRING B5 HERE TO THE ZOO MAN IT'LL BE CRAZY THEY'LL BE NEW DISCOVERIES FOR THE FEW WHO DONT KNO AND THERE WILL BE SO MANY PEOPLE AT THERE CONCERT IT WILL JUST BE CRAZY SO PLZ PWEEZ!!!!!............BRING B5 TO THE ZOO!!PEOPLE WILL GO CRAZII AND IT'LL BE EXCITING B5 is so AMAZING I REALLY THANX MS.BREEDING 4 BRINGIN THEM INTO THIS WORLD BUT LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO WANNA SEE B5 HERE THINK ITS IMPOSSIBLE AND THInK IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN BUT IF YALL BRING B5 HERE TO THE ZOO MAN IT'LL BE CRAZY THEY'LL BE NEW DISCOVERIES FOR THE FEW WHO DONT KNO AND THERE WILL BE SO MANY PEOPLE AT THERE CONCERT IT WILL JUST BE CRAZY SO PLZ PWEEZ!!!!!............BRING B5 TO THE ZOO!!PEOPLE WILL GO CRAZII AND IT'LL BE EXCITING B5 is so AMAZING I REALLY THANX MS.BREEDING 4 BRINGIN THEM INTO THIS WORLD BUT LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO WANNA SEE B5 HERE THINK ITS IMPOSSIBLE AND THInK IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN BUT IF YALL BRING B5 HERE TO THE ZOO MAN IT'LL BE CRAZY THEY'LL BE NEW DISCOVERIES FOR THE FEW WHO DONT KNO AND THERE WILL BE SO MANY PEOPLE AT THERE CONCERT IT WILL JUST BE CRAZY SO PLZ PWEEZ!!!!!............BRING B5 TO THE ZOO!!PEOPLE WILL GO CRAZII AND IT'LL BE EXCITING $5million in damages. "He engaged in petty vandalism" is a lie. 7 yrs is not enough. "Poor impulse control?" That is NOT a valid defense. That is nothing. I've been ignoring her for years. I'll let you know how the experiments ends. Sure. And the "sifting through the thousands of pages of documents generated during his tenure" are probably going in three destinations: File away Censor Shred Socialism is a failed system which hurts the poorest the most. Read Milton Friedman's Free to Choose to gain some basic understanding. My property is worth more than your life. My life is worth more than your property. What can I say, I'm human. I think, being members of an elite secretive and higly dangerous organization such as the KGB, the two men involved in shooting this man would have shot him several times in the head, not once in the groin! nice recipes hmm, are there any alternatives for lastfm? I'm not interested in the the radio part but in the audioscrobbler/social networking part. No, not sarcasm from me - like you I understand that Congress has ultimate oversight, and it's not Gonzales' place to choose whether to respond or not. You detected sarcasm probably because I said it intensely - well, officials trying to set themselves up as little tin gods, with nests of power safe from oversight in a democracy, really gets me. Oh yes it does. The CIA does not have to offer any rights to non-United States citizens at all. Please mod parent way the hell up. Then for their sakes, lets hope they'll fare better than the civilizations that faced their viking ancestors centuries ago. In a historical context, being nice invariably loses to barbarians who don't play by the rules. "If there is intent." Wrong. "Reckless disregard" is frequently used to sentence for "might've" non-occurrences. Post-WWI Germany sucked. People were burning money to stay warm because it was cheaper than burning wood. The allies assigned total blame to Germany for the war and demanded crushing reparations (totally ignoring Woodrow Wilson, who argued for mercy). Hitler gave the Germans back their dignity. He also substantially improved the economic situation. Germany was thriving again. But this came at a price - which the Germans willfully ignored (or didn't know about?) The Germans essentially sold their soul to the devil. They realized this once the full scope of the horrors committed by the Nazis came to light, and the German people have thoroughly repented. Japan is another story. But then again, they were never forced to do the soul searching that Germany did after the war. So you really were talking about bindings being available? Strange, it seems to me that you were (and still are) talking about examples of and documentation for existing bindings. So now it's the "no examples/documentation to show the difficulty interacting with imperative-style code in Common Lisp" problem, a.k.a. the "availability of bindings" problem. I see. "just vandalizing some stuff to be cool" Oh, that makes it okay. Not! And if you make your enemy inhuman, it's easier to kill them, right? You're talking about Japanese people as if they were inhuman. You think USA are good guys? Think again. Go back and study history more. US isn't any better than other countries, there were atrocities done by US troops too, did you know that? Who is advocating more torture? Why are you so vulgar? Do you have any friends? I bet you don't treat them like this when you disagree with them. It is rather that they call it out to benefit from it or preventing the harm by their association with the republican party. What does it matter to call out Ann Coulter? It's obvious that she is at the end of her career. Romney was the one in the conference to introduce Ann Coulter and said "it is a good thing" to have Ann Coulter as the keynote speaker. People cheered and applauded for her comments. That's what needs to be called out. The problem is that there are enough plants in Ukraine which need investment for modernization and reconstruction There are some people who take risks in the investment search and necessary papers preparation but they are not serious to bring the procedure to the final end. It's important to remember that Japan was run by radicals, the civilians didn't think the same way and didn't want war any more than the US citizens want war in Iraq now. To speak of The Japanese as a whole, you need to realize this. A good portion of the public has cell phones that can go on the Net, but these people have no clue how to do so. When asked, they will likely say their cell phone doesn't have the capability, even though it does. So which phones can make a Wi-Fi connection? How can I tell if mine can do it? (Mine's less than a year old, so I should be on good ground.) I did but only because it is quicker to type 'winword' in the run dialog than it is to find it in the start bar "Bush and his cronies" I quit reading right there. If you want to reach beyond your own circle, jerk (that comma is optional BTW) you should avoid opening with that sort of phrase. Here are my complaints: There are very few bindings or libraries available for Common Lisp Of the bindings/libraries available, very few have any real documentation Even for the rare binding that is in sync with the core code, it is often more difficult to match the underlying paradigm of the library with Common Lisp than other languages, such as Haskell or Python. In your example, you made up a binding to prove your point. The code I posted is real - you can copy it into a text file and compile it right now and it will run correctly. Your example, although pretty looking, is completely meaningless. This is unwise in the most extreme way, foolish does not begin to describe it. That $5 million was inflated by insurance, and though it must surely still be in the millions of dollars, it's impact in real terms is maybe half of that. It was not all in one place either, he didn't ruin $5 million worth of something belonging to one family, ruining them. He didn't ruin $5 million worth of factory, meaning layoffs for 300 people, ruining their lives. It's easy to see that even $100,000 worth of Enron's ripoff caused more real damage to people, than this kid's $5 million, so easy in fact that you are either just a troll or impossibly stupid. And yes, he did engage in petty vandalism... what more could you call putting bumper stickers on SUVs? It wasn't proven that he committed arson, just that he was an accomplice. Quite possibly unwilling, by the time he had learned of their plans. But let's assume I'm wrong about every single bit of this. Let's say he decided months before to torch the goddamned cars. Just for the sake of the argument. 7 years is as much as some get for murder. He is thusly a worse offender than someone that takes a life. It is far more than most get for rape, and he is thusly more of a danger to people than a rapist. Now, I know you're not suggesting that those are the case, so what you're really saying is that you want them locked up longer too. Something we simply can't afford, politicians are all too willing to be "tough on crime" for camera time, so the only possible explanation is that a prosecutor knows that he can't afford to take every single one to trial, and the judge knows that he can't sentence everyone to the longest terms because we're running out of space. So, once we give this guy 10 years (15? 25? How much is enough, you only said more than 7), and once we readjust sentences for all the even worse crimes, and we're spending 45% of our GNP on locking up all these horrid criminals, do you think that it will cost us less than insurance eating a $5 million that was already accounted for by actuarials? Next time a stupid thought enters your shriveled little brain, please do us all a favor and squash it before it tries to compel you to touch the keyboard. What is a terrorist? A person who uses violence to create fear for a political, economic or social purpose. The KKK was created as a terrorist organization - to intimidate freed slaves and keep them oppressed. The burning of a cross may not have injured anyone, but the threat was intended to cause fear. Anti-abortionists who bomb abortion clinics are not just removing the clinic but doing it to create fear among physicians, nurses and women who seek abortions - terrorism. No one was injured, but the burning of these Hummers was an act of terrorism. When paint is thrown on a fur coat, the violence is minimal, but it is act of violent intimidation and thus terrorism. One person standing in front of a Hummer, or 50 people passively surrounding it, and refusing to move to allow it to pass - that is non-violent confrontation, not terrorism. What kind of society do we want? Is terrorism ok when we agree with the goal? Is terrorism ok as long as no blood flows? I believe that violence begets violence, and that little terrorisms beget larger terrorisms. There are better ways. Your post kind of pisses me off. For instance, you suggest I do not possess a basic understanding of socialism or other ideologies. Also, you seem to suggest I'm a proponent of socialism, when that is not the case. How you could come to these conclusions by reading my comment, I do not understand. Thanks for the book tip though. Molecular vibration is not 'structures'. An easy to understand Photoshop tutorial that shows you how to remove the backgrounds from photos and replace it with a single color. Very useful for people who want to create product shots for eBay. You're absolutely right. That's the trouble with generalizing ;-) The attitude of the Japanese people as a whole is interesting though. For the most part, they felt resigned to their fate, and went on with their lives as best as they could. But, is this true of all civilians? ...later, after a thorough checkup, doctors confirmed that this was possible because the subject had contracted "hotdog down a freeway" syndrome. Clearly it is too difficult for him to worry about upholding the law or to think about justice being that he is the U.S. Attorney General. He has more important things to do. Didn't he say the same thing about the wire taps, something to the effect of he couldn't be bothered to follow the law because it takes too long? Umm, you realalize that the people in Pulp Fiction aren't real, right? They're characters. Meanwhile, Ann Coulter is an actual person. Someone other people (apparently) listen to. fifteen pages? Ah. I had never noticed her "manly hands". If we only ever talked about things that were 100%-pure programming, we'd have run out of interesting discussion a long time ago. The reason I read about programming is to learn new things, and incorporate them into my work. I don't know about you. In a tax funded school, the government is the customer. What if it is a tax funded school, but the parents have the ability to choose what school their child (along with the money) is directed to? Oh, for cryin' out loud, that's really pushing it. Einstein never torched $5million of other people's property. Being smart/retarded is NOT a get-out-of-jail card. I really can't believe some of the crap people are spewing here. The significant fraction of America that you try to dismiss because what they think and say makes you angry. Embarrassed no of course not. This is not a perfect world and occasionally stupid errors will be made. But, there is no evidence US security or intelligence services have any institutionalized bias to systematically make such errors. And in this particular case I have to ask if they don't have any real concerns about Arar, what is the up side to continue to keep Arar on its watch list in the face of potential Senate hearings? See http://programming.reddit.com/info/17l64/comments for context. Yes, look at US citizens now. Despite the Iraq war, seen by many as illegal from the outset, becoming another Viet Nam, where are the million+ people protests in front of the capitol building in Washington DC? Yes, the goals of education are quite different than those of private sector; never mind that pay for performance in the private sector doesn't work very well either. For more info on the follies of merit pay, check out http://alfiekohn.org/articles.htm > "The Folly of Merit Pay", and Alfie Kohn's other articles and books (particularly Punished By Rewards. Additionally, check out the work of W. Edward Deming (www.deming.org). While the business world can undoubtedly offer some good advice to educators, the arrogance of some in the business community, like this blogger from M$, can be staggering. Check out \t EDUCATION, INC.: Turning Learning into a Business for some critical views of corporate involvement in schools. Linux ajudando o Mundo ser um lugar melhor this: say "{ newton(8, \&f, (omitted the default args). the => arrow also is one dumb symbol (?). I wish they took a page from ObjectiveC book, and used, say, ":" symbol for denoting named arguments. Though ruby uses it ( => arrows) for their hash table syntax, I wish they didn't. Ruby is moving to using : symbol, (http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/Rite) - see "keyword args" and "hash literals" in Rite. Java did really well then they threw out idiotic -> operator from C. And used uniform "." operator for member access. Note that Object Pascal used "." for member access. If you wanted to dereference pointer, you would use "^" after the pointer identifier. Pascal object method invocation code looked like this: pObject^.call_method() And it was logical. -> and => are abomination. Kewl site for wonderful bath and body products. ;) Yeah, well, I don't want you siting any of those Zombie conversion centers in my backyard either. the civilians didn't think the same way My ex-girlfriend's Japanese mother respectfully disagrees. She and I have talked quite extensively on this subject and it is her opinion, as a Japanese civilian during WWII, that she and the other civilians would have fought America to the death rather than surrender. Of course, she was only there at the time facing the actual possible decision so what does she know? The reddit headline is far more accurate than the BBC's - so you really don't want to downmod it. Let's see if they let my own cathartic little list through moderation. We're not angry that people suffer from hunger... I mean "very low food security"... despite more than enough wealth to feed the world. We're not angry that unemployment means that idle hands aren't given work, despite the desire to work and the pressing need for it. We're not angry that we're supposed to pull a lever for our king and lords, and the next day go to work under a boss's command. We're not angry about living in a nation which jails its own citizenry at the world's highest known rate, as if we're the most criminal people in existence. We're not angry when we fall into the easy temptation of focussing solely on one side of the political aisle, when the other guys are only marginally better. These are deep institutional problems, not just a couple guys somehow blundering their way into power. B.S. He did it, and now he's whining about being oppressed. Some heroic econaut you've got there! And - it he really had autism to the point where it needed to be taken into account, he would NOT be able to drive. REAL autism is a severe handicap, not a convenient excuse. You know, this administration's policies have never changed. They have always been about big government, profligate spending, centralizing power in the executive, huge payoffs to corporate patrons, and so forth. All these so-called conservatives were the most enthusiastic of their cheerleaders until they became unpopular. Then all of a sudden it's "boo hoo, we feel so betrayed". Bullshit. This is not about conservative "values"; if these people and groups had any values, any consistent core ideology, they'd have been dead-set against this administration from the beginning. It's nothing but a cynical attempt to save their own skins, to prevent themselves from going down the drain with their leaders. I'm adding to my collection of synonyms for poop. Here's a great song and dance number from a recent episode of Scrubs. Francis: According to the rules of the House of Representatives, the resolution will HAVE to be considered by the congress of the U.S. This is a big deal. I don't know, but one of the comments on that blog post says "This is based on the Gtk+ for Mac OS X project which has been merged into the official Gtk+ tree." Which all seems to suggest that native gtk-on-mac is on its way. Individualistic? Selfish? You say those things like there is a connection between them and being a churchgoer. Please point to the study that says non-churchgoers are either of those things. It seems Mr Barna makes those wide ranging assumptions without any evidence, as you have just done. I've been an athiest for about 2 years now, after being regular churchgoer, then a christmas&easter christian, then realizing it's all a pile of steaming mythological BS. Our Gods are no more real than those of the Athenians or the Romans - and yet we look upon those belief systems with mild amusement at how wrong they were. And yet, I am not a criminal, I am in the upper middle class, I donate my time to charities, I carry on many friendships, etc. Just because someone believes in a magic sky monster doesn't give them ownership over morality. Way NSFW Sorry, but you aren't getting anywhere. All you are doing is repeatedly saying 'there is no evidence' and 'you are wrong'. That does not count as an argument. Robinson certainly does count as 'people in the industry'. Certainly more than you. Please could you explain your qualifications to speak on behalf of anyone in sport in general, or basketball in particular.... There is no evidence to suggest that Hardaway exercising his free speech will lead to "acts of violence". None. Throwing out "this is an appropriate time to mention the name Matthew Shephard" to see if it will stick is not the > same as having a decent argument. It's a dumb argument. The way all this works is very well understood (although not by you). An increased atmosphere of hatred, and a legitimisation of hatred by people like Hardaway, leads to a gradual dehumanisation of those hated. Dehumanisation legitimises violence. This has been an established pattern of human behaviour for millenia. Gays have been one of those subject to this process. You can rant 'wrong', 'dumb argument', and 'no evidence' all you like, but the more you do, the more you look like someone with a Flat Earth understanding of life. (Well, that is the charitable view. The less charitable view would be that you agree with Hardaway and want to defend what he said). If I were of a criminal bent, trying to intimidate a group of people by shooting one of them, I would shoot them in the groin too. It's far more brutal than simply killing the man as there is a psychological component. An even more brutal attack would be to commit some vicious assault against a loved one of his and leave the message recipient unharmed to think about it. As far as the title of the article is concerned: "U.S. Expert in Litvinenko's death SHOT in his driveway", I've never heard of the groin being referred to as a "driveway"! :-) goodbye carpal tunnel...hello eye strain. after being allowed to be there for so long, what would one expect. I enjoyed the city when i visited. I hope this remains isolated, and doesn't do harm to the city's and country's reputation as a place to visit. Actually what the article failed to mention was that the police cut of part of the street the house was on so those that lived there couldnt enter or exit their houses - afther they had used specially trained antiterror officers to take over the house. And earlier today they arrested part of the defence team for those who had been arrested. Yeah, some random book by some random Joe getting released in July, and the submitter gets excited like a 14 yo girl. WTF? Witness Okinawa, where ordinary civilians actually jumped off of cliffs rather than surrender to the Americans. Of course, the Japanese government told them that the Americans were bloodthirsty savages who would rape and kill them. Such is the power of propaganda. Japan is a hierarchical society, people tend to do what they are told, so of course many thought that way. But they did it because they were told to, just as many Germans followed the Nazi party. It doesn't mean people came up with these ideas by themselves. I am married to a Japanese and her family are just as disgusted with Bush as I am. Japanese people are not by nature a violent warmongering people. If you study Japanese society, you'll see that they are much more humane to criminals than their counterparts in the US. Overall, I think this article is fairly good as a high-level comparison of programming paradigms. That said, I wasn't terribly happy, given the brief reference to declarative programming, that the author failed to note that functional languages often encourage a declarative approach. Indeed, this is quite natural, since, as the author states, functional programming is very much about chaining together simple, modular data transformations. I think that the American people lose if he spends all his time firing attorneys. Reading the comments from that link is like stepping into a right wing Twilight Zone. So why didn't they just shoot Litvinenko several times in the head? You are still NOT getting the message. I do. That is because we have grown up since then - but mostly because there is so few nuns left in England. Notice the headline specifies Christian fundamentalists, but the article itself only refers to them as a Christian group. Does mjk think all Christians are fundamentalists, or does he/she apply labels without all of the facts? I don't know about that. The Japanese prison system is a horrible place to be: http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engASA220041998 There is already an excellent solution to this issue. The problem is that it is not universally implemented. You can get desktop keyboards with a TrackPoint. as for curry, I find it dubious to call this technique in name of some person who may or may not invented it. passing a reference to some function as argument (or returning said reference) and then invoking the passed function probably is useful technique, but there are better names: delegates, partials, blocks, proc objects, function pointers, ... Taking a page from OJ Simpson, maybe the "real killers" of Litvinenko shot him in the groin to make it look like Putin was behind it. Because I do not agree with this "lifestyle" and have pointed out that it is his decision to carry through with the change, and that his decisions will effect him the rest of his life, I am wrong. If this is the case, how do you know that your position is right? Because this is a well established medical condition, and easily recognised. I assume you are not medically qualified. If not, why are you assuming the right to diagnose someone, and disapprove of the treatment? What have I missed? Where have I assigned blame? You keep (for whatever personal motives) trying to label a medical condition as a 'lifestyle'. For the third time, can I point you at Tourettes. This is a medical condition that imposes behaviour. I ask you yet again - I challenge you to answer - would you claim that someone with Tourettes was making a personal choice to express their twitches and tics? Would you claim that because of their 'twitching lifestyle', it was their responsibility if they were sacked because of it? Also, you need to learn more about the condition. It is NOT to do with sexual feelings! It is about feelings of personal identity - it is far, far deeper. We're not angry that unemployment means that idle hands aren't given work, despite the desire to work and the pressing need for it. That's not quite accurate. Nobody's withholding jobs from anyone. There are plenty of low-wage jobs out there - its just that the market has decided that those skills (flipping burgers, working a cash register etc) are not worth a 'living wage'. What the government's responsibility is in this situation is what is up for debate. We're not angry that we're supposed to pull a lever for our king and lords, and the next day go to work under a boss's command. Do you object to the pulling a lever part (democracy) or the going to work under a boss part (every society since the industrial revolution)? Agree with the other 3 items on your list. From your first post, it seemed to me that you were mostly concerned about your third problem, only in a more general way (i.e. no mention of GTK bindings). The first problem was mentioned in the first conjunct and the second one occurred when you looked for means to demonstrate the third one. Since you made the distinction of "imperative-style" and "lisp-style", and showed how Haskell supports this Python-like "imperative-style", I thought it would be instructive to show that Common Lisp, too, can support this kind of style. To me it seemed you were talking about languages and their support for programming styles. You still didn't elaborate on the perceived difficulty in the third problem. Maybe it's time to drop the subject. Cars breaking in half is not that rare. It happened here in Sunnyvale (Silicon Valley) last November. The two pieces landed 100+ feet apart. For info and pictures: http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_321105859.html http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2006-11-18-sv-car-crash http://www.nbc11.com/traffic/10343367/detail.html Socialism doesn't work. Except where it does. Yeah, it is! I noticed that when I first saw Cash Cab. I was like, "that's the made out of meat guy!" then later I saw he has a Comedy Central half hour special. He's a comedian. Who knew. Well I don't know if Putin's behind this (and if he is he doesn't care about being subtle indeed), but don't go thinking he's as stupid as chenbush for a second, the guy's very smart. Clever, even. That's part of what makes him actually dangerous. The real reason these people are leaving is because for the first time they have to pay taxes like the rest of society. It isn't the productive class that are leaving, it's just the tax cheats. GO ODSTUFF I think this falls under the category of "rtfm..." I don't use CL because: It has a horrible learning curve. There's 978 symbols and they're all in the same namespace. Good luck looking something up. Many commonly used symbols have completely incomprehensible names (e.g., mapcar, placa, rplaca). Additionally, many don't follow a common naming style (e.g., make-array vs. macroexpand.) Sometimes half a dozen versions of the same symbol exist, and there's little clue as to their differences without looking them up. Here's some examples: eq, eql, =, and equal; prog, prog*, prog1, prog2, progn, and progv; set, setf, setq, pset, psetf, and psetq; subst and substitute; y-or-n-p and yes-or-no-p. God, it made me feel like I was back in the 80's learning C again. I hate that a symbol can be bound to multiple values simultaneously. So it's a variable that acts like a list. Well, you can use a list, vector, or array instead, so why would you do that? I don't know! I can only assume it's in there for backward compatibility. Did I mention that a symbol can also simultaneously have multiple named properties? Yes, not only can it emulate a list, it can also emulate a dictionary/hash at the same time. I hate needing to specify the maximum length of an array when it's created. Then before pushing something onto it, I need to make sure that it's not full, and if it is then I need to expand its length. Finally, after all that, I can push something onto it. Every page on the web about CL (that I experienced) had that ugly, 1995-style of default blue links on grey backgrounds. These people haven't even discovered stylesheets, and I'm supposed to trust that their database libraries work with the latest version of MySQL? It wasn't all bad though. Macros, reader macros, and prefix notation are all fucking great. I can't believe that modern languages don't have these features. This has been posted at least twice before. Sorry I agree. Why has this managed to happen in United States' territory? The manner in which the shooting and the FBI's reaction is described seems to be dismissive, especially in the fact that the suspects' apprehension seems to be a secondary point to that of establishing that the murder proves a Putin/Russia connection. During this whole Litvinenko issue, many things have not seemed to make sense, at least in terms of the conclusions offered by the media in terms of motive, etc. And if you're too lazy to leave your computer, visit http://eclipseluna.no-ip.org/english.html for a live webcam shot of the eclipse. "It's okay people, nothing worry about. The bomb squad has informed me that the device is labeled 'not a bomb.' You can all now go about your business." Part of it is due to the conservative house and senate though. Bi-partite systems are only good when you actually use both at the same time, they suck when you only use them alternatively. Doy. Gonzales is correct, his primary job is to run the Justice Department. Of course, the congress can tie him up with subpoenas and hearing if they choose. They have oversight and are free to. But, that doesn't mean they are right in that choice. That's the opposite of what I said. If the steady creeping of America towards totalitarianism causes you concern, you should vote Libertarian. cool art.. but, yawn. Well, of course there are the perennially popular reasons: lack of good libraries, incompatible implementations, etc. But the real reason is that it just takes more time. That is to say, I can typically write almost any given program much faster in a language like Python than in Scheme. Scheme's relative verbosity, minimalism, lack of syntactic sugar are all by design, and while these properties make it a great teaching language, they make for a poor language when you just want to get some work done. It sure is scary to watch the conservatives showing their true, evil face. I just want to put more emphasis on what I said about libraries with an example: Java 3D provides a high-level API for modeling and rendering 3D graphics scenes, for instance. CL has none. Look at LispWork's graphics-port http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/CAPRM/html/capiref-414.htm#pgfId-888276, or Franz's Common Graphics http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/8.0/doc/contents.htm#cg/cg-drawing In this day and age, this stuff is bellow standard. You would expect a vendor to do better. I googled for "illegals" and an article at Business Week was the first result. Business Week is definitely a respectable publication. Why anyone would trust AG Gonzalez to hire an "impartial" investigator is beyond me. This is why the MSM is so deplorable. They (at least) offer some insight into scandals, but propose only the most asinine solutions that they should know full-well will offer no further sense of redemption and satisfaction that the citizens' interests are being well-served Because that's what they made us use in school? I don't use any programming language I had to learn in school: BASIC, Pascal, Fortran, C, Assembly, J, CLOS or Scheme. I don't know why, but surely it's not a coincidence. What does Ann Coulter's stupidity have to do with conservatives? By the way, kudos on devolving yourself from a Utilitarian to a primitive unenlightened savage. Typical Reddit response. If Digg is run (via the community) by idiots, Reddit is run by a bunch of push-over liberals. It's because of inability to look at hard issues rationally that Democrats are perceived to be "squishy". Isn't your argument cynical? Niiiicce Unsubstantiated? What's unsubstantiated? hell-bent on war http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/september11/main520830.shtml cloaked in secret meetings http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501842.html covert rendition flights http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition#Usage_by_the_Bush_Administration intelligence manipulation http://www.antiwar.com/orig/leopold.php?articleid=1914 character assasination Take your pick: plamegate or the "black child" push polling against McCain in '00 The difference is I'd never call bush a "faggot" or his wife a "cunt." Unqualified or bloodthristy, sure, but there's mountains of evidence to support it. I like this and I'm happy that it comes up periodically. Brilliant work! The Republicans are conservative? That's news to me :-O I think this particular incident is a clear cut case of where shooting was justified. Time to invest in Honey futures There's two main types of ads in this world -- activation marketing and brand marketing. Activation marketing is the kind of ad where you are told (either subtly or not so subtly) to go and do something with the advertisers product. Brand marketing is the kind that Nike uses, where the brand is so famous that all they have to do is remind you about it. Most companies' brands are not famous enough to do a brand campaign, but they think they are, so they end up making what amounts to a useless ad. Bill Clementson (known lisp guy) once said PLT SCheme was the best open source lisp. http://bc.tech.coop/blog/040111.html Better solution: put shortcuts to often used programs in the SendTo folder. Rightclick on a file a choose from the shortcuts listed in "sendto" in which program to open it. mr. keynes dropped by with some good commentary/criticism, too. check it out. It's fair to say that SQLAlchemy and related Python projects are at least in part inspired by the success and expressiveness of ActiveRecord for Rails. I really, really wish people would quit acting like DHH invented the Active Record design pattern. Can't we just use the controller from Duck Hunt? "Perl Programmer: Their punctuation keys (all of them) are worn out." This is incorrect. Perl doesn't use the other punctuation keys much more than other languages. Yes, it uses a lot of semicolons, to terminate the sentences, but other languages do the same. My "shift" and "4" keys (used to type "$") are much more worn out than punctuation keys. I am lookin for the website that shows how corporations and CEOs are linked together. e.g. some board of director of this corporation is on the board of that corporation. It is similar to http://mike-love.net/ . It was some sort of Java thing (I think) that showed the network of influence. Thanks (I don't know where else to ask -- it was on Reddit - or maybe just in one of the comments) so wonderfully awesome. when do we get to see it on display? Damn New Jersey. Why doesn't David Bonior and the Edwards camp use this opportunity to raise money for anti-homophobic organizations. I feel like every injustice in the political arena nowadays is used as an opportunity to further political campaigns instead of fighting the injustice itself. If i felt the money would be used to counter the cause of Coulter's ignorance I would be more than willing to drop 100 bucks. Whatever happened to the grass roots Democrats. I'm not convinced. One obvious distortion of the facts was dealing with memory allocation, where he just makes the blanket statement: Java is faster. What he really needs to say is "allocation on the heap [is probably] faster." The fact is, in most situations where performance matters, you're doing little if no allocation on the heap; you do it on the stack, and that's considerably faster then even a top-of-the-line gc system. (And yes I know (vaguely) of escape analysis, and that some objects will then be put on the stack, but that's beside the point). The point is he makes a willful distortion of the facts, which makes it hard for me to trust too much of what he says. Given the fact that his title is 'Sun Evangelist' I guess I shouldn't expect a particularly critical view of Java from him... [For the record, I work more in the embedded domain, where JVMs are a few generations behind those for PCs, so a lot of the 'myths' of poor Java performance are alive and well] that's interesting. i wonder how premature it was when this happened. But without backgrounds, how else am I gonna sneak naked shots of my wife onto eBay? You can choose Govt School A or Govt School B. In either place your child will be indocrinated as the government wants (and as the controlling corporations want). Your child will become an obedient worker. If your goal is that your child become a more well-rounded human being, then you should be considering other options. The article and these comments are arguing about which way to whitewash the sepulcher. That is, the 150-year schooling experiment has failed the children. I see that Formosus made similar comments and a similar link to the following... http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm The fact that she was "the most anticipated speaker" at the "biggest conservative conference" I guess allows one to make a transitive conclusion... ...Especially because of the rousing applause as she walks off the stage. It would seem to me that she's a "conservative spokesperson." Check back to this website to participate in the next Spielerstadt event. There will be a "National Security Crisis" that will put an indefinate hold on the '08 elections. this is weird: why is the story not being reported anywhere else? as of right now, i can't find it on cnn, bbc, huffington post, even drudge. what's going on? reddit is so ahead of the pack. Are there any actual inaccuracies in the article? Or are you just distressed that Marxists might be right? I tend to think that, these days when programmer has to wrap his head around so many languages, that it's best that these languages have a small core of syntax. Everything else would be libraries. Common Lisp (and Perl, to some extent - and much more so Perl6) take the opposite approach. It seems to me that moving syntax to libraries, where it can be mapped to certain functions of a specific domain, burdens the beginner programmer much less than having to become fluent in a large body of syntax, in order to understand code that is thrown at him. This problem gets compiled in a language with macros. However, having said that, I can't purport to have any evidence backing that. It might just be that, once a programmer gets beyond a certain proficiency-level in the huge-syntax language, he actually becomes more productive, because he has more tools at his disposal. The evidence I would point to is that the "dominant" languages (C, Java, Python, etc.) seem to have a small syntax core and then expand that with libraries. Maybe this makes it easier to pick up a language. If the cops can get away with doing this to the poor people of skid row then they can get away with doing it to you! Note that the nearly 100% literacy rates of the 1800s were not only before teacher's unions (as you suggest), but before public schooling started. See books by John Taylor Gatto and his end-note references. Since when have liberty and revolution been mutually exclusive? Dictators tend to be jealous of their power, so generally some sort of armed rebellion or coup is necessary to remove them. Whether the revolutionaries actually establish a free society afterwards is another story... One of the worst logos ever. Tip of cursor in eye. Yuck. "Lack of good libraries" is a myth. Choose an implementation like PLT Scheme or Chichen, and you get all the libraries you could possibly want. artes visuales en la cultura de las devociones populares Randi Rhodes has a 3 hour national radio program that beats Rush in some markets, so I'd say the answer to your question is "yes." Ann Coulter was not "on a major news channel" when she made this statement, so again, stop moving the goalposts. Let's see what happens to the nation's productivity when the 'rich assholes' leave. Judging from the brain-drain that historically occurs when socialists begin destroying their country, it will plummet. This was listed as a good way to get more traffic to my new site: www.ba2.biz I hope it works! Let me know if I can exchange links with anyone... Thanks! ~Bill A okay, so it's local to washington post's maryland metro. why isn't this being more widely reported? This is called capital flight, and is similar to the behavior you exhibit when you get a shitty deal from a service oriented company: you take your business elsewhere. If capital flight were this easy for everyone on the planet, we might have governments that actually performed as well as private companies. Friedman's book is a good one if you take it with a graint of salt. He says that free market is good always, not matter what. Maybe reality is a little bit more complex, and maybe a little bit of a failed system is not always poison... ... further investigation proved it was just a large turd. Your ignorance of history and current events is breathtaking. There is a lot to learn, but the learning curve is definitely not horrible (i.e. you can use a small subset of the language, expanding as you go). Looking something up is easy. There is no symbol PLACA in the Common Lisp package. The symbol RPLACA is not commonly used, as far as I can tell. MAPCAR is not completely incomprehensible (MAP and CAR; once you get CAR it makes sense); what about all the other symbols, yeah, those damn comprehensible ones like MAKE-ARRAY or MACROEXPAND. How do other languages compare here? I agree that there are some naming inconsistencies, and that it would be nice if they weren't there, but it's no big deal for me. I assume you're talking about different but similar symbols for different but similar operations. The clue comes after a while of working with the language. There is no symbol PSET in the Common Lisp package. I have no idea what you're talking about here. Then use adjustable arrays and VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND. Irrelevant. Depends how it's done. A free choice of schools, nothing else. The few good schools are quickly oversubscribed and must allot places by picking good pupils, or, worse, by lottery. Politics still calls all the tunes. All that parents can choose is the musician, and it ends up being mostly luck anyhow. Vouchers. Looks like money, spends like politics. No matter how they start, vested interests will immediately pile in with strings to attach. Ends up almost as above, they call the tune, you pick the musician. At least there's an incentive now to start schools, although the government is still the real customer. Pure, simple cash in hand. Thus much per kid per month, no questions asked. Now we're talking - unlike static targets like schools, it's hard to make parents jump hoops with their money. Strings will be resisted. Every special interest group shrieks in agony, and fights to convert to a voucher system (falsely claiming that parents will drink their edu-cash). Only under this system, and in a free market with no handouts, are the parents the real customers. Why didn't you just click on 'reply'? Would you say they are as mmature as in, say, Python or Java? I don't think you wold claim that. Why didn't you just click on 'reply'? Command-economy communism is what failed. I'm waiting for the US remake. Scheme needs to move to R6RS. Scheme is getting better. Scheme needs a web server. And to fix those things that are R6RS. Then, libraries, of which we are seeing more and more. And also work on speed. But really, for me, OCaml is looking very interesting and kind of stealing my attention. Please, anyone (like the article writer) moderating their comments: Allow through all constructive comments--or just turn the comments off. Nothing is worse than watching a one-sided "argument". The Conservative Political Action Conference represents conservatives just as much as the People's Republic of China represents the people ;-) This is true. If you want to see how scary in the UK, check out Channel 4's undercover documentary on what goes on in UK mosques: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 In Soviet Russia real men drink vodka before they go into space. I absolutely agree with you. That doesn't change the fact that a comic (Yes, even the mighty XKCD - which I love as much as the next guy) about graphy theory doesn't really belong in the programming subreddit. You could use the exact same argument to show that the free market works in every country in the world. Watch: "The free market works in every country in the world. Show me a country that doesn't have private business and enterprise. See! You can't." Your logic is a completely useless for showing or proving anything, as there is no country and probably never has been that has operated completely purely under the rules of a political philosophy. It can be useful to compare the results from nations that have more free or less free political systems. And in these cases, societies based on free markets come out ahead on nearly every metric you can apply to them. Forget about the nuts' questions at the end, but hit the link for the full presentation. Very interesting. How can one eliminate private property and force individuals into collectives without a group of people with absolute command over the economy and society? He changed his mind since then: http://bc.tech.coop/blog/060403.html After looking into this, I think you're right, the situation is definitely vastly improved. I based that comment on my experience from a few years ago. Still, there's no comparison to Python's standard library and the wide variety of third-party libraries. Perl, of course, has even more still with CPAN. I liked it until it became a commercial. I give up. Your sound effects have rendered all of my logic useless. So when lesbians meet rich men, stink lines come out of their heads? Digg is burying this Anybody with half an ounce of brain is distancing themselves from the G.O.P. right now. This is brilliant. Im using at the moment and it is flawless. Ikea sells the home furnishing equivalent of fast food. Their furniture is an imitation of real furniture. But I do believe their meatballs are the real thing. Hong Kong isn't, technically, a country. Yeah, it was a cheap shot making fun of your username. Truly immature and non-productive. Sorry. I would think about changing it though, as it's just too tempting a target. I thought there was going to be something more challenging about it. It only took me 1:20. hot This submission took a wrong turn on it's way to fark.com "fark.com - for when you want the highest quality commentary on not-news." nice You are wrong, Europe used to be a Libertarian paradise under feudalism. Everything was privatized back then, and you could only get social services by sucking up to a land-owner. So there. It is probable that I wrote my comment poorly that you, and maybe some others, could not get my point, or.....? You may read it again slowly and carefully think what exactly I was tring to say. Maybe other redditors can help out here? I don't know of any cell phones that provide a WiFi network, but I wouldn't be surprised if some exist. However, most phones that provide a data connection also provide easy access to that connection to external devices, such as your laptop. Most data capable phones will act as a simple modem to most external devices. I have found with most cell phones I can simply plug them into my Linux desktop and dial it with AT commands, run ppp and I'm on line in a snap. Same for Windows. The Novatel UB720 is the perfect example of carriers pushing portable high speed connections. It's a usb cell modem that will push over 2mb/s on a good network. Cellular to WiFi 3rd party devices are also available, and will be much cheaper and portable this year. These give you the ability to create a WiFi hotspot any were you have cell data access. I know this crap because I build 3rd party network devices for data enabled cell phones. The carries do want to squash WiFi so you'll buy there data instead. And don't forget, cell networks do not provide network neutrality. They have been tiered from the get go. Vouchers. Looks like money, spends like politics. No matter how they start, vested interests will immediately pile in with strings to attach. Ends up almost as above, they call the tune, you pick the musician. I don't see why you say this. What is the difference between a voucher and cash in hand, other than that the parent doesn't have the option of spending cash in hand on something else? It supposedly works for Belgium: http://www.reason.com/news/show/33014.html That response is, technically, nit-picking. The idea is that by using a balanced rotating solid 1/2 cylinder in a tube, there in minimal energy input in moving the displacer (versus a reciprocating displacer) and direct heating/cooling of a large surface of the displacer is possible. The thing with this sort of application, that developers seldom seem to get, is that they have to be open. That's the dirty little serrcret about Excel. I read a chapter on financial engineering types souping up Excel with a Neural Net for stock trade analysis and the I see why Excel just rules. Everything else is just the rest. As to Dabble, it did look like something made with a lot of intellligence. I specially like the "autogenerated" graphs. Free Commons license is sexy. You know, perhaps the short story is better, but I think it misses the point. Maybe it was only me, but I thought it was obvious they were simply disguised; hence why they looked so uncomfortable and their mannerisms were so strange. In that light, it makes more sense. Even so, don't ignore the production values. The music, cinematagraphy and acting were all very good. I think it's a very good rendition. It may not resonate with everyone, especially if you had a strong mental image from the short story, but I think it stands up very well. YMMV, of course. My Perl may be a bit rusty, but I'm pretty sure Perl has uses for '!', '@', '#', '$', '&', '*', '(', and ')'. '%' and '$' most of all, no? No, you can't really call UMCP and its surroundings a low crime area. It's an urban setting, not far from some fairly high crime areas. That corner of it might be considered a nice neighborhood, but it wouldn't be immune to break-ins and stick-ups. Dictatorship. And that's why Communism sucks. ON EDIT: Socialism isn't about eliminating private property. You'd know this if you did some research. ... Europe used to be a Libertarian paradise under feudalism. Could you explain how you came to this conclusion? I'm curious to know if it stems from a total ignorance of libertarianism or a total ignorance of feudalism, or both. Seriously; it's over. Most programmers suck. Move on. Yeah right. This happens to girls way more than guys, and the guy isn't even doing anything in the video. I think of the subreddits more as contexts in which to discuss a subject; a sort of critical perspective on the posted articles. Post something about golf on Reddit.com, you'll get people discussing the game; post it on programming.reddit, and you'll get people discussing implementing the game in Haskell. From this perspective, nothing "doesn't belong" on any subreddit. Yah, do the numbers, consider it. Ask around. Some people claim that they can do their apps in half the time with Qt, lets say that might be for them, but not me and I will only save 25%. Then say it would take my team a year with WxWidgets. This is a commercial product so we are paying three guys who can develop it 25% faster, thats $75,000 in savings. Save 75K and pay a few grand. Not much of a question for commercial products. Not good enough? How about we get cheap (but not good?) programmers for only 50K, and only save 10% off a year, that is still 15K It's also, technically, correct. At least he's better than John Ash... oh wait, damnit, no he isn't. ::slams head on desk:: Didn't someone already try this a few years back? A failed coup attempt in 2002 that was greeted with pleased silence by the Bush administration even though Chavez was the democratically elected leader of the country. I don't know why they need such high taxes there anyway - if the govt just used the oil money to fund the major socialist planks (education, etc) and then left the free market system in place to encourage people to make lots of money, and then keep investing the excess tax dollars every year so that you'd have a massive social-net endowment once the oil ran out, Venezuela could have its cake and eat it too. Magnificent 3 masted Mediterranean Schooner based in the Whitsunday Islands Australia. There should be something called The Excel Law of Spreadsheets, which would read: "Either your spreadsheet plays nice with Excel or you're dead." Because no matter what the cl-hangers-on say, Common Lisp is not THE ONE LANGUAGE, and does have problems of it's own. Sure, I could list some problems, but you'd just say "Well there's blah blah blah" and sidestep the issue. Because syntax is good thing. Because the only unique thing in lisp that hasn't shown up in other languages is S-Expressions, and I don't really care for them that much. Because the "Common" in common lisp caused the language to stagnate; how many cutting-edge papers are about lisp instead of say haskell. Because SBCL is still beta on 80% of the world's PCs. Full picture at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/uk_politics_enl_1172779548/html/1.stm No, asshole. Your president loses. You confuse your role as the attorney general as the advocate for George W. Bush, as opposed to the attorney for the American people. Take your muppet coif and go back to Texas, you tokenist Uncle Tomas monkey. Wow, that's so alanic, I was just listening to Alanis Morrisette's song! WHAT? Japanese diplomats at Los Alamos? I demand you back this up, because I know you can't. It is unmitigated horseshit. Why would anyone want Vista? Why would anyone want to pretend to like Vista? "Use porn to save the forest!" This is an idea whos time has come. What COULDN'T we use porn for? Use porn to pay down the deficit Use porn to fund universal healthcare Agreed :) Of course, Martin Fowler also didn't invent it, but at least ought to be credited with writing it down... The Attorney General is, more or less, the top prosecutor representing the entire people. He is held accountable by the representative body of the entire people -- much in the same way a county government displeased with its district attorney might threaten the funding of the D.A.'s office as a means to bring in him or her for hearings, testimony, or any other explanation of accountability. Gonzales assumes that as the attorney general he is in fact the solicitor general -- the White House's official lawyer, having hire-and-fire oversight of the justice department. Congress' attempts to hold him accountable -- Arlen Specter's harrumphing from 2005 to 2006 notwithstanding -- are legitimate and grounded in the tradition of checks and balances. This tokenist monkey can choose to serve his White House master or fulfill the mandate of his job. Plainly, he choses the former. I want one, but I haven't eaten yet today... If this was a gaming attempt the article would have been posted when it came out - this is OLD. $I->$believe $your %thoughts @are $wrong. I really like the young Laurel and Hardy shot in the 2nd to last picture. It's pretty self-explanatory. Under a feudal system everything is privatized except the courts; just like the Libertarians like it. There are no social services outside of what a benevolent employer (a.k.a. Lord) provides. SS#'s were not required by schools until very recently. I didn't get one until I was an adult. I'm only in my 30's. So, that's super recent. It was done to make things easy for school districts, not for the kids. It was orginally to be used only by employeers for contributing to Social Security for you. Nothing else. You can get an IRS taxpayer number that is not alligned to your SS#. But they make it such a pain to even try, that most people don't both. See my comment above. Yes. You're right. I known about VPS and dedicated hostings. But since I use Ruby,lisp,etc only in my hobby projects, i'm looking for cheap hosting. Thanks for hetzner.de. "QT. No thanks. I don't like metacompilers." That sounds like a cop out if I ever heard one. More like: I didn't really bother checking it out so this is something I overheard. There are many people who have done some cool things with the moc system in Qt. "I don't like proprietary." Yah for shame that they dual license it with the GPL and give you the full source code. And this is not just on Linux, but on OS X and Windows too. How evil of them. "I don't like the license." Going back to your first sentence where you say you are a CS student and "I intend to write a small simulator for myself." you are not intending to sell the application so there is no reason to get a commercial license so you must be referring to the GPL. And because this is just for yourself and you wont be releasing it... ugg You're thinking of closures, not currying. I'm so happy to see that there are children's camps that offer more than games. Camps like this can really shape the future of our children's generation. Um, why are the menus in the windows? In OS X menus never belong in the windows. I know Qt gets this basic thing right. The new multiplayer online game was released on 17th February. In fact, it is one of the easiest games on the net. Players buy and sell stocks and receive dividents to increase their profit. Of course, this game is suitable only for beginners because many functions are not included. Developers said that professional version will be available later. Proper spelling, a point, and a body of text that has been inflated greatly to reach typical "book" proportions so the publisher is happy. Books are verbose. "The key may be for researchers to work closer and check one another's results." The major problem may be "a lack of coordination by researchers and biases." It seems believable. And how many university departments house lone wolves? You know, people were saying that trade was going to fix all the problems and major wars were never going to happen against, at least between the big world powers of the day once before. That happened right before everybody choose up sides and killed each other off in WW-One. I think you are very much underestimating the pull the old boggyman of Nationalism has on people and nations. The time we have been (probably since the end of WW-Two) has been a strange one in human history. It isn't anything close to being the norm. History has a way of dragging itself back to the norm after a bit... And I think we are starting to see that happen. I really do hope your right, and that I'm wrong on this. But I think these upcoming years are going to be very scary ones. What matters is who pays cash. Either that's the parents, or it's the government. With vouchers, the government pays cash, and they get the first veto. If they don't like the school, the voucher won't spend. In a voucher system, every special interest would pile in to set veto conditions. Heck, I bet the teachers union would force the parents to choose amongst "closed shop" unionized schools, and we're right back where we started. In fact, I worry that voucher systems would end up being worse than the status quo, because they would end up dragging every school into their ambit. Private schools that didn't obey would be at a terrible commercial disadvantage. No money-minded investor would start one, or fund it. Assumimg you are correct, which non-socialist countries would people be leaving for THAT WOULD TAKE THEM? I'd like to know because I might want to leave. This wouldn't happen in Boston. /great ad kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk He is talking like a merchant, everything what he says is true, but there are things which aren't told. (I mean yep, it's expensive to allocate memory in C, but you can use a pool if it is needed, it's not that hard, you just have to do it on the right place [he is talking about the right place thing in the optimization section].) It seems to me that now would be an excellent opportunity for someone with actual conservative values, name recognition and charisma to start a viable third party. Is there such a person, I don't know. Unless you count Stephen Colbert. Romney was strongly FOR Coulter before he became strongly AGAINST her! I mention this from some research I did 5 years ago for a college paper. It is entirely possible I am misremembering some details :-) Yes, if you look at the other posts on the site, you can see that it must indeed be satire. yeah, i'm sorry my comment. didn't think it through... what I think I meant was that she doesn't exhibit very feminine traits (especially in behavior) and I didn't mean to say that ugly/non-feminine == lesbian. :) Eh. Front to back. That's all the info you need to know. The clincher is that I learned H2WYA by my high school gym teacher. No. Not what you think. He spent an hour dicussing the subject with the whole class one day. /that is all In FPS you can pick up your mouse to "reset" center. Would you have to close your eyes to do the same here? First picture of tonights Eclipse from the UK. he's right Couldn't we start with Kansas, first? got em all by 6:39, not as good as you! Speaking for myself,I am not as "peak oil" apocalptist. There would be ways out of it, but look at recent history. We just wasted at least $2 Tillion on Iraq for oil, when we could have spent it on energy independence. Nuclear, Hydro, Wind Farms, Solar, Geothermal, etc. Could have taken a few $100 million and tried for some werid SF research into almost free energy... Something like orbital microwave energy collectors. But instead we blew it all on crap, and lessing American power in the world. So, I think being depressed about the future makes me a realist in this discussion. War is the natural state of man... We get off on it. So, we're going to fight. I don't see any of the conflicts as East vs. West. I can just as easiliy see the US fighting Western Eruope, or Japan and China renewing their old conflict, or India going after Central Asia and Russia. It's ain't "Clash of Civilizations", but the normal state of man. I obviously went to the wrong school. Damn! Idiotic headline, I have to say. I'm not quite sure if Obama is deliberately being the nice guy all the time solely for the sake of political posturing or if he is genuine in his comments. Or maybe it just seems too good to be true. Surely it's the left that's angry and hateful, not the party represented by a media commentator who calls political opponents of the GOP "faggots". Yeah, for sure! Profit! goldrosy except, that's not "Famous Blue Raincoat". Anybody identify the track? Anyone know how this compares to cscope? L, O, L. FUNNY!!!! In a totally free society, all human interactions are voluntary trade. So I guess a decent metric of freedom would be the ratio of freely made transactions vs. those that are forced. Literacy rate, infant mortality, and life expectancy all seem like pretty good criteria. It might also be valuable to compare military spending, technology patents, GDP, etc. Also, since the effects of such broad social trends such as the ratio of socialism/capitalism take decades or generations to manifest themselves, we should limit ourselves to countries that have had at least a few decades of predominantly socialist/capitalist approaches to organizing society. You're going to start off way behind, because the predominantly socialist states of China, Russia, and WWII Germany are responsible for the deaths and repression of tens if not hundreds of millions - which would probably wipe out any gains that you might get from the northern European socialist states. here here, I agree. Because the real truth is that she looks like a horse, not a man. now here's a slogan: "a vote for a republican is a vote for ann coulter". I'd sure love that one to become popular. Based on the scale bar at the bottom, the object looks to be about 80 feet long. I'm sure nothing that large is launched from a fighter aircraft. Ah. Ignorance of both Libertarianism and feudalism then. Er... I forgot Indiana, Mississippi and New Hampshire. (Insert sheepish expression here) Der Online-Ratgeber zum Geld-Verdienen und Geld-Sparen Looking at history, gun-toting revolutions have a terrible track record. America is almost the only success story. The eastern European "color" revolution seems to be a better technology. The AG like all other cabinet officers serves at the discretion of and under the direction of the President. If the AG doesn't follow the direction of the President he can be dismissed by the President. And by the way, the AG through the authority of the President has hiring and firing power of Presidentially appointed Justice Department officials. In another words the President runs the Justice Department, not congress. They don't seem to be able to lose the hate. I LUV THIS SONG SO MUCH B/C SOMETIMES I WANNA ACT LIKE A BOY AND SOMEONE MITE CALL ME GAY OR SOMETHIN'!! I'm a communist, not a right-wing liberal. As for looking at issues rationally, I think we've established I have a boatload more knowledge and rationality on the subject of moral philosophy (or frankly, any subject) than you do. But then, I'm not stupid enough to mistake callousness and indifference for rationality. "it's like saying that tautologies are tautological" - priceless! the example of two friends visiting each other's cities, only to find that the friend has gone to the other city, looks ironic to me. Each friend is expecting to see the other friend that weekend, but because both made plans to see the other, they actually can't see each other! Batch: @echo off set _i=1 :loop set /a _return=%_i% %% 15 if /i "%_return%" EQU "0" ( echo FizzBuzz goto :doloop) set /a _return=%_i% %% 5 if /i "%_return%" EQU "0" ( echo Buzz goto :doloop) set /a _return=%_i% %% 3 if /i "%_return%" EQU "0" ( echo Fizz goto :doloop) echo %_i% :doloop set _return= set /a _i += 1 if /i "%_i%" EQU "101" goto :eof goto :loop :eof Yes. Or you are one? I never thought the key to becoming President would be: "Don't act like a sniveling jerk" Yeah. Generally people most prone to libertarian type politics just want to be left alone. It is usually the power-hungry that go around slaughtering each other for the chance to control other people. The establishment of a society largely based on the right to life and property was a very rare occurrence. And unfortunately we've managed to burn that accomplishment to the ground. When people lose their internal motivation for morality, thanks to religion's big daddy in the sky punishing you for doing bad, they become dependent on religion to provide a third-rate substitute for morality. And I'll take third-rate morality over the psychopathy demonstrated by brownstone just yesterday. Makes sense that research should be open access. After all, that would only allow scientists to learn more from each other. I imagine that $$$$ will have somtehing to do with why some will not support this. Vote here if you support: http://www.doaj.org I got 46 of them, but that's only because I thought I'd already typed Montana, but I apparently had not. I forgot New Jersey, Iowa, and Missouri. I'm glad there was no one to see me sitting here in front of my computer with my eyes closed, gesturing around in the air to figure out which states were next to which ones. I rely far too much on kinesthetics. Are all Python libraries mature? Tell that to the millions of old farts who always receive their Social Security checks and/or direct deposits on the first of the month, every month. Butbutbut privatization makes EVERYTHING better! Heh. Actually, he was shot in front of his house: Joyal said two men accosted Joyal as he stood in the driveway of his home, then shot him once in the groin. His sounds effects are just the beginning - challenge his narrowminded dogmatism for a few more messages and you'll see him exploding with highly amusing curses like "republitard" or explain how various parts of your anatomy are made of/full of human waste. And as you can see, his multiple personalities are already busy upmodding his inane messages ;) Sweet high-rated malcontent, so far you simply decided that stuff like "free education" means a nation is socialist, and from that you brilliantly deduce that every nation in the world is socialist. How about we decide that different levels of earning or inequal distribution of wealth are signs of capitalism, and then even the USSR of old becomes a capitalist nation? As far as I know, the only communities who successfully manage to create a long-lasting economic equality are the Kibbutz communes, alas made up of Israeli Jews, whom you so passionately hate. How ironic! From the article on Global warming: It should be noted that these scientists are motivated by a need for grant money in their field of climatology. Therefore, their work can not be considered unbiased, though no more than any scientist in any other field. Also, these scientists are mostly liberal athiests, untroubled by the hubris that man can destroy the Earth which God gave him. BURNAIIZ BURNAIIZ.. :] Well, it's pretty self-explanatory... You going to chain him inside too? That's a good response, and I see her point about asking people to "find a way not to sit silent in acceptance." However, I really believe that the thing to do with someone like Coulter (unless and until her calls for violence can be tied to an actual crime) is to refuse to rise to her bait. None of those, other than the exclamation point and the parentheses, are punctuation. Neither pure socialism nor pure capitalism works well. Without a balance (fair regulation) on capitalism it will damage the social structure of society because it is based on nothing more than financial gain for the few at the top without concern for the rest of society. Without a balance (private business) socialism will damage the economy because workers will not be motivated as there is no reward for achievement. With vouchers, the government pays cash, and they get the first veto. Not necessarily, they don't. The government could certainly give themselves a veto in a cash-based system, too. What's the difference? If you read the article, you'll note that it compares Hong Kong, which up until recently is probably our best example of a free-market based society, with several other predominantly socialist societies. The position you are trying to prove is that socialist societies are better than free market based societies. This article addresses that exact issue. unexplained quantum vibrations of the melecule diffusing a high concentration of a specific molecular frequency You're so full of shit. You really think you can just make up sciency-sounding rubbish and not have anyone call you on it? Truthiness doesn't count in science. This effect is highly im-plausible, and unsurprisingly has been demonstrated to be false in every reputable clinical trial. why? Actually, feudal systems are quite interesting. They're far from libertarian, because not only is there a system of private physical property (and quite a good, libertarian one as far as it goes), but they also treat rulership and various sorts of official duties as property. The serfs and villeins and the right to dispense low justice and collect taxes come included with the manor. The courts are "private", and often run by a lord, a church, or a guild. The reciprocal obligations of kingship and fealty are quite reminiscent of rent. It's a curiously self-consistent system, but libertarian it isn't. The PLT Scheme standard library is rather large too: http://download.plt-scheme.org/doc/360/html/mzlib/ CPAN is huge, granted. The PLT Scheme equivalent is http://planet.plt-scheme.org/ . Downloading (and caching) of the various libraries are automatic elimininating the dependency problem. Example: (require (planet "digest.ss" ("soegaard" "digest.plt" 1 1))) (md2 #"Hello World") "27454d000b8f9aaa97da6de8b394d986" (sha1 #"Hello World") "0a4d55a8d778e5022fab701977c5d840bbc486d0" Recent versions feature the ability to open shared libraries/dll-files and call the library functions dynamically. Thus you can embed C-libraries into Scheme without ever needing a C-compiler. It's a stroke of pure genious. 1 I'm so happy that the log home is becoming popular again! What a great way to have our home lives reflect the peace and serinity that we crave. What you said, bonkydog. Only 22 months left of these bizarros. The fallacy in your post is the phrase, "Until there are facts..." there WON'T be any facts. All we'll ever have for the next 500 years is either a) Speculation b) Coverup story We're either going to get a coverup story or speculation. Don't expect any facts with evidence to show up. They never do. My guess on who ordered this specific hit? Agents with close ties to the US government, who also are tied to the Russian government, who are all linked together in some shadow op designed to create a clamour for war in the 1st world. Two suggestions: The server should keep track of people's results, so it can announce "The Most Forgotten State", as well as the least forgotten, and, heck, maybe all 50 sorted by how often people remember them. The server should sneakily forget to decrement the counter at one point, leaving people tearing their hair out wondering what they could have missed. Like I said, it's much harder to make parents jump hoops when they are holding the cash, than to simply refuse to pay for any non hoop-jumping school. his other stuff isn't as funny: http://www.standupeconomist.com/clips/ Which is NOWHERE. "Scheme needs a web server." Huh? PLT Scheme, Chicken, SCSH, and more all come with web servers included. But what is wrong with Apache? See "Implementation and Use of the PLT Scheme Web Server" also: http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/khmgpf-impl-use-plt-web-server-journal/ I have no idea what you're talking about here. Given that he mentioned property lists separately, he must be talking about function and variable namespaces: (list list) Bah! I missed 3! Forgot about Iowa, Louisiana, and Maryland. Every one but Nebraska, but who cares about Nebraska anyways? It's not nonsense that there was a simulation of planes crashing into the two towers on 9/11... It's coincidence. No you wouldn't. You might become psychotic though. Or claim to. The only ways to become psychopathic is to be born a psychopath, grow up fundamentally damaged, become shell-shocked and inured to depravity, hang around psychopaths. If you want to become a psychopath, go into management and hang around white collar criminals. And even then it will only be temporary. This problem gets compiled in a language with macros So to speak? :) I'd tell you, but you'd think i cheated. Then again, i also know how to pronounce Iqaluit. menstruation happens in healthy women, and if you're unhealthy (such as being grossly obese) you may have irregular periods anyway. B.C., Yukon, Ontario, Alberta, Quebec, New Foundland, Manitoba, NW Territories? I think I got all the important ones :p So, just a few people are lazy enough to "require support from others". Most people have lazy impulses, but not so's they need any help from others to get by. You'll have to excuse me if I just view that as a highly negative way of saying what I've been saying (that no one wants to be lazy). The article states... An estimated 51 million people have been killed in wars between 1945 and 2000. That many are killed by abortion world wide each year. Who in all of human history has more blood on their hands than the parents and supporters of those that practice abortion? What can save them from the consequences of their actions? LouF said: You are rubber, I am glue, I made an error insulting you. Of course I need to make up facts, reality has a well known liberal bias. I admit that I am not very good at arguing, I use cheap rhetorical tactics because I am not subtle enough to even understand what you are arguing with me about, let alone come up with a coherent defense. I admit that I must have some kind of mental issue, and should seek professional help. (see section 6) I am glad we can agree, you seem to have grown a sense of humor lately. Note that this will be my last reply in this thread, given that as per section 6, feeding trolls is not fruitful. This post is bound by the EULA for any future posts by LouF. I find it fascinating that you're arguing that nobody listens to progressive radio in order to bolster your point. You sound just like a freeper. This is the kind of crap that focuses our attention off the important (and probably more seemingly boring) stuff - "boring" details like watching our rights get siphoned off by Attorney Gen Gonzales or more pre-emptive Iran attack revelations. We already all know that Ann Coulter is crazy. It's nothing new. This is like another story on how Paris Hilton is a slutty whore. This is about going after the greater evil. This story is almost at the same level as the Anna Nicole Smith crap What you guys are doing is essentially the same thing that churches do for Marilynn Manson; free publicity how can i download an alarm for the sidekick 3? gerry- Sigh. One more and then, once again, I'm done with you. I think you're just following me around at this point. For that matter I don't think I'm going to keep entertaining someone named "malcontent" with this oh so enlightening "debate" you love engaging me in. This all started because I think people are giving Vista a very bad rap over some very minor issues and are bailing on it when it's a damn good OS in need of a few fixes. People are acting like installing it makes your computer explode and gives you herpes, and THAT's my problem. It's got some issues, it sure does. But the nature of an OS (or most software) is that you install it, report bugs, and then the patches come. If your problem with Vista is that it has a few bugs, report errors and the patches will come. If, however, you despise the system, then go ahead and bail. It would be like if you stopped buying Hondas because the seat belt sits on you funny or stopped buying Diet Coke because the opening of the can isn't the right size. That's all I'm getting at. Damn. Finished with 04:22 remaining. "Nebraska" and "Wyoming" were hard to think of, and "Wisconsin" and "Massachusetts" were hard to spell. You'll have to excuse me if I'm not understanding what you mean. Why would she have any rights to the photographs? She didn't take them. Why would it take an increase in energy? You sound like Friedman describing his "flat earth" ideas. Their fine ideas, but global trade requires a lot of energy to transport all those goods around. The more internationalized the economies become, the more energy is used shipping the goods. "What the story is about" is not changing the subject, it's entirely central to the idea that globalism will bring us closer together and will make us all realize how much we have in common and therefore we'll stop killing each other. You can't have that level of globalism with the energy to make the world smaller. The world is about to get bigger, and no, it's not a zero-sum game. It's about to become a game of about a shrinking pie. And as the pie shrinks, those with power are going to do all they can to seize what's left. It's already happening. I'm calmer than you are Not sure what that has to do with anything. It's highly unlikely to be true, but even if it is, so what? I'm not afraid. You should be. If you are going to make the claim that Hardaway's speech > "encourages fear and hatred that can lead some people even > to acts of violence" then, yes, you need to back up your claim so that people don't think you are talking out your > ass. What is your evidence of that? No. It is well established that broadcasting hate encourages hate and encourages acts of violence. My evidence include law. An example is that Section 13 of the Criminal Human Rights Act makes it a criminal offense to wilfully promote hatred on the basis of sexual orientation. If you want some academic research that hate speech has a link to violence, I would like to point you at the Journal of Applied Philosophy, especially papers by Johnson. So, it is now up to you to provide evidence that hate speech does not encourage evidence. I eagerly await such evidence. What industry? Basketball, obviously. (By the way, you really aren't going to win this. I have been debating with people like you for decades, and I know your tricks and methods). Whenever a politician or bureaucrat starts blathering about 'the will of the American people', check your wallet and listen for the thud of jackboots. I don't know if he's changed his mind since then, but if so, it's not on that page, which is about "The Best Open Source CL Implementation". He doesn't exactly retract his earlier statement, though he does kind of talk about it in terms that indicate it may be deprecated. :) I got the first 48 in two minutes. It took me seven minutes and 40 seconds to remember the existence of Vermont and New Hampshire. Finished in 1 minute, 27 seconds (8:33 remaining). I know all the states and how to spell them. I just don't type that fast. I can SAY them all in <20 seconds. Do they have one for Presidents? Only missed Minnesota... Russia just attacked an American on American soil in a post 9/11 world and no one is reporting this? Shouldn't we be at level RED right now? Oh, that's right, it's only terroism if the perpetrator is from a country of brown people who have lots of oil and are threatening to sell it in Euros instead of dollars. British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. (No, I didn't look at the other solutions.) lol sounds like a plan to me Fetuses aren't people. good 1 page schedule with dates for march madness & final four games, but better yet this www.KeepandShare.com site gives out free accounts for creating online file & calendar sharing with your friends The American people lost the day his parents met. You have quite the sense of humor if you find this hilarious. I work in games so performance and lack of total control factor in heavily. Could be used as a script language I suppose but it'd scare both the other coders (C hackers to the core most of them) and the designers. I do greatly admire Scheme though and might use it more for home projects if it suites what I'm doing. Thanks for the thoughtful analysis; and I certainly agree there are important differences between a Libertarian and feudal society. But there are too many similarities between the two systems to ignore. For example, as you pointed out, everything and every office in a feudal system is somebodies property; and protecting those property rights to the exclusion of everything else is paramount. Furthermore, the poor are wholly dependent on charities or the church for social services like health care or education. Having said this, there is one important difference between Libertarian and feudalism that I should point out. Ideally in feudalism, the ruling classes were supposed to have a sense of noblesse oblige - that it was their responsibility to work for justice within the constraints of the system. Libertarians have no such ideal. It's all dog-eat-dog. This site collects trademarked sentences and gives them new life by allowing users to reuse them to write funny poetry and play trivia games. ?Culture jamming?, ?subvertising? and ?adbusting? are terms used to describe the act of making spoofs or parodies of advertisements. The site?s link list will gives visitors an education about copyright and trademark law. ?Copyleft GPL? and ?Creative Commons? licensing are making a huge impact on how young authors choose to share, reuse and copy digital and non-digital works. GID is purely, as far as we know know, a psycological condition without a biochemical or genetic component. Sorry, wrong. There is good evidence that there is a substantial biochemical component, to the extent where brain structures are 'feminised'. More similar to GID, I would say, would be the phenomenon known as "cutting." What you say is irrelevant, as you have no expertise. Saying "I am a boy trapped in a girl's body" is no different than saying "I am a gopher trapped in a girl's body," it's slightly more socially acceptable, but not a bit less crazy. This shows how little you understand biology. A hormonal change in the womb can feminise a male brain, but it can't 'goperhise' a brain. For goodness sake, if you are going to comment on medical matters and don't want to look like an idiot with posts like this, do some research first! My point is, these people are batshit insane, so why should we be forced to accept them or employ them? They're > crazy, if there were enough institutions to lock them up in, I would be more comfortable putting them there than having them roam the streets. Interesting. Please could you list your psychiatric qualifications that enable you to make the diagnosis of insanity? And what harm do you expect them to do if the 'roam the streets'? If you are uncomfortable with transgendered people wandering the streets, it suggests that you have a problem. A quick and insightful look at a few NHL trades that didn't make the headlines. These might not involve some of the bigger names in hockey, but they might become the trades that make or make a few Stanley Cup Playoff dreams. Fake. This is some sort of viral advert. It just seems really contrived, and the beeping of the swearing(?) is somehow really corporate (and too loud). Maybe, but I don't see it. Than can easily de-liscence any school that they don't like anyway. I definitely see your concern that in a voucher system lobbyists would swarm to control where those voucher dollars could go, but I think that the same thing would happen for a cash in hand system. I mean, even now private schools have to meet certain conditions to be allowed to operate. (At least in the states I am familiar with- maybe not in some?) On the other hand, the political difficulties that you point out (concern that people would drink their 'edu-dollars') make going for a cash system much more difficult. Say what you like, but it's certainly original. What more could you possibly ask for from Reddit? - stuff you read on every other news site? stuff you and everyone you know agrees with? articles you can comfortably recommend to your 100 year old grandmother? pictures of snow flakes and naked women with a ridiculous [NSFW] tag? In all my years browsing the internet, I'd never come across a post about how different people wipe their asses. I am t3h lam3. I got to 41 and ran out of steam. It was frustrating because I even knew what part of the country I was gapping on (the northern midwest and the west...) Not only does that depend on where you are in the world, but it also depends on what time in history we're talking about. Of course, Almighty God, the God of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus Christ considers them "people" even before birth. The prophecies anticipating Christ are the clearest example. Like it or not, you could be put in jail in many countries in the world for abortion. A major regime change in the US and the same could happen there too. Like it or not -- abortion damns you to hell. And should! Who else has destroyed more innocents by any other practice? There is no place in the coming new creation for those that cut off their own children, and the children through continuing generations that would have come from them. Unless you repent from your support and practice of abortion -- and accept the death of Christ as payment for your sin -- you shall surely burn forever. And truly deserve it! If people think that "free market" and business models should apply to education, perhaps we should just hand over the reigns of education to Walmart and see what happens. This is only a good idea as long as the people having sex are attractive. If I have to watch ugly people having sex in a forest, I will start chain-sawing the place myself. The sanest comment on this whole issue has been modded down to -2. Good job Reddit. No, it is now up to you to provide evidence that hate speech does not encourage evidence, and I have pointed you at people stating that it does. All you have to do is refer to some journal articles. Is that so hard? What is your problem? I have no idea what the "Criminal Human Rights Act" is, and neither does Google. I apologise. It should have been the 'Canadian Human Rights Act'. I hope you can find it now. Maybe if the Hindu & Sikh families weren't so willing to abandon their daughters at the slightest fear of "dishonor", this wouldn't be such a big deal... LAST NIGHT HI MY NAME IS FERRY I AM 13 YEARS OLD AND I LIVE IN CANADA Old, but still classic. Old. Forgot Rhode Island. SEE VIDEO SEE VIDEO That's not what's claimed in the article. The article claims that something happened in the research that is interesting enough that we should look again. Maybe it was the placebo affect - but even then we need to research why the placebo affect works. LIghten up. IS ANY ONE THERE CAUSE IM TALKING TO A PEACE OF WHITE TRASH Actually, "private property" (to the extent that someone can own your region's water supply, natural resources, or scarce "means of production") requires significant violence to defend ownership rights. Police or military. Adam Smith claimed: Till there be property there can be no government, the very end of which is to secure wealth, and to defend the rich from the poor. As for top-down governance and management... it's unfortunate that many of us have a difficult time conceiving of a bottom-up society where there isn't some boss, president or other authority figure to keep us in line. Literacy rate, infant mortality, and life expectancy all seem like pretty good criteria. It might also be valuable to compare military spending, technology patents, GDP, etc. Don't use those stats to support libertarianism. The Scando states have some of the best stats for those fields. Instead, let's mention how Washington DC has strict gun laws and has a high homicide rate but some town in Florida allows concealed weapons and has a low homicide rate. Almost as low as Stockholm! This is the only way to convince those stupid socialists! Yukon and North West Territories aren't provinces. Give me a break. All of those slaves in the 1800's were literate, all of those immigrants in the 1800's were literate? Yeah, if only every country in the world were run like Ford or GM. Or Halliburton. Enron. The RIAA. Microsoft. What a paradise that'd be... There's a big difference between science writing and scientific writing. That difference nearly bit me on the ass at the last meeting I attended. OK IF YOU WONT TALK TO ME SO BE LIKE THAT NOW I'm a little confused. It seems like even with paren-matching, you do have to type the closing parens, in order to specify which parens you want to close, right? I am not sure the other stuff is him. Yes, it's ironic that the example given of alany is actually ironic. Makes the whole thing kinda meta-ironic :) There are a whole bunch of new "smart-phones" that have WiFi. Most of the Nokia E and N series phones have built-in WiFi, as well as the newer Samsung phones. You probably aren't going to find a phone that doesn't run on either Symbian or Windows Mobile that has WiFi. What's your phone? Unfortunately, this really does come under RTFM, but check the specs on the website. To be honest, you'd probably know if you had WiFi on your phone--either you paid a lot for the phone, or it would have been pretty strongly advertised. [edit] I also think the article was referring to Internet access via the cellular network, as opposed to a WiFi network. What are you even responding to? Hm, I was using wxPython on Mac. Maine and Wisconsin. Strange seeing as I love both maple syrup and cheddar cheese. I live with three. It sucks. What's that got to do with anything? It's a pretty fair article--may make a few leaps but for the most part, it's well written and has a good idea behind it. I figured she'd get eaten, but not like that. Good stuff. This Brazilian got 33 Man, they're starting young! "Laughter is heard throughout the tape." That's because you can't redirect to an anchor. I got all but ten of them in the first four minutes, then very very slowly managed to remember all but Colorado, Illinois, and Utah. And I was just talking to someone in Colorado yesterday. You forgot:Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Wyoming It would be interesting to find out what state is forgotten the most... He's a law enforcement officer who recklessly shot at a vehicle he already knew had several innocent people in it besides the driver (innocent of attempting to run him over, innocent of anything except for the wish to immigrate even if it is illegal). If it was a vehicle full of American citizens there would be no question of the inappropriateness of his firing on it. Lethal force is simply not acceptable in apprehending illegal immigrants, and this guy should go to jail for it - but he won't. Operation Memory Hole, his last great endeavor... I actually wanted to hear about what stesch's problem with #lisp was, and I think so did ayrnieu. without Nebraska you wouldn't have Johnny Carson or kool-aid. Looks better now. Point taken, but I'm not sure it's the originally intended one. Blimey. I wouldn't fancy having to climb back out again. We have pre-screens, they just aren't used. See the article 'separating programming goats from sheep' on coding horror. Which also explains why programming is in no way comparable to arithmetic. To calculus maybe, not arithmetic. No, I had no idea! I thought Pulp Fiction was a documentary. THank you so much for clearing that one up. Dupe - this was posted couple of days ago. I think your missing a (nsfw) on the end there. http://isohunt.com/torrents/barfly?ihs1=12&iho1=d&iht=1 You're right. Clearly Ann Coulter doesn't get much "good" publicity . . . she THRIVES on bad publicity. The best thing to do is ignore the bitch. Also, I'm not sure I agree with Mrs. Edwards assesment of "the courageous 9-11 widows." No matter how you slice it they are a bunch of spoiled, rich hens. Piercing blue, brown-eyed girls, lashy lookers, wrinkled around the edges -- these celebs' eyes come in all different shapes, sizes, colors, and states of botox ... Can you guess which peepers belong to which peeps? Yet again I have to point out the genius of Alanis Morisette: the fact that a song called "Isn't It Ironic?" is not about irony is, in fact, ironic. Crafty Canadians... I remembered Tennessee with 15 seconds to spare, but I failed in the spelling of the state. I'll call it performance anxiety to make me feel better. I also missed Wisconsin and Minnesota. In other news, Obama pays Coulter to call him a "nigger" to boost campaign contributions. I was expecting her to relate a story about the deep dicking he gives her every night. Wisconsin got me too.... or Malcom X, Warren Buffett, Bob Gibson, Fred Astaire, President Ford, or Henry Fonda Evolution is a miracle. I agree. This horse has been killed, beaten, drawn, and quartered. It's enough, let's talk about something which is actually interesting, like actual techniques for programming! Some people would prefer to see the real film, not a shitty 700 meg rip of it Chenbush is not stupid, there is no way they could have pulled off what they did if they were stupid. Devious, yes, stupid, no. I entered panic and fear but it didn't get it. "I'm in favor of giving him hard hard time. That means no Science, no Nature, no physics textbooks, no calculus classes--nothing." What is your reasoning for this? You seem to imply that the reason he should do hard time is because he forced such hardships upon innocent others. Are you saying this "hard time" is revenge? Punishment? What is the point, exactly? I agree that, in some cases, severe punishment is needed, not so much to punish the guilty, but to discourage others from committing the same crime. In this case, though, doesn't 7 years of hard time (no books, no classes, etc) seems excessive? It produces two results, both of which seem rather pointless: It provides the victim with a sense of fulfilled revenge, and it has a negative effect on the perpetrator...he is not being rehabilitated. Instead, he is becoming angry. He is going to want some revenge for this. When he gets out, maybe he will try to get that revenge. Sound familiar? My point is that you can't use revenge as a reason for "hard time". It benefits no one. I thought the government had unleashed a massive war on illegal downloading...guess it is going as well as all the other wars they find themselves entrenched in. She's what you call a diversion. She's called out when the news cycle is focusing too much on Bush or Cheney. SHe is a tool and probably still has her tool. THe best thing you can do is just ignore Coulter and she no longer has a market. 8 Providinces without reference: I will: Ontario Manitoba Alberta Sasskatuan (sic) Newfoundland Yukon Northwest Territories Quebec It does that sometimes. It is not up to me to disprove your made up claims. If you make a claim, then you have to prove it. Oh, you have it wrong. You are giving me far too much influence. I did not make the claim. You flatter me. One of those who make this claim, as I posted, was the Executive Director of the NBJC, who said "Hatred leads to violence". I assume that someone who is head of a civil rights group has far more experience of such issues than you or I. I can hardly think of anyone more qualified to just the influence and effects of hatred. Can you? Please, put forward your arguments as if you were trying to convice him, with his years of experience, that hate speech does not generate violence.... It just looks like ordinary theism to me. All organised religion entails threats. The warning that the cartoon is "a little disturbing for most." I don't know why they need such high taxes there anyway A little thing called capital investment? Oh wait, reality doesn't exist for idiots masquerading as know-nothing pundits. left the free market system in place to encourage people to make lots of money Right. Just "leave alone" desperately poor, illiterate and sick people so they can "make lots of money". Are you psychotic? and then keep investing the excess tax dollars every year Yeah, the excess tax dollars that are supposed to materialize without any capital investments and without collecting any taxes. The Russians may have been better prepared for a collapse than US, however, the US is more capable of rapidly transforming itself to deal with the end of cheap oil. 23 states have adopted Renewable Portfolio Standards. These states are developing energy sources that will remain even with a collapse. They may not represent an even exchange, carbon for renewable, however, they will offer a foundation for redevelopment. The problem with technology like this is it has to be everywhere before making the air travel system more secure. One vulnerable airport (foreign or domestic) is all it takes. If you've ever gone to smaller airports you'll know security is pretty much a joke. 50 out of 50 but it did take me 7:03 to type them all in. James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Ya, business as usual. There are still bomb craters in the countryside of much of Europe. There are still many daily reminders of the horrors of war and that war is a very bad thing. Many Americans make light of war and think that bombing another country is great. Ok I admit I don't get it, what's funny about the label? Yes, indeed. When was the last time a private corporation nuked a city, busted down your door in the middle of the night, stole 40% of your paycheck, listened in on your phone conversations, started a war, or tortured and executed a prisoner? The world would be a much better place if governments, like corporations, had to advertise their services and beg for our business. In the free market, trainwrecks like Enron rapidly go out of business and cease to have a negative effect on the marketplace. However, government continues to waste billions of dollars and thousands of lives with corrupt and inefficient practices - and often the very people responsible are not punished or kicked out, but promoted. Incidentally, Halliburton isn't a very good example of a private corporation, as the vast majority of their contracts are with the US government. Ford and GM run like clockwork compared to most any government on the planet. RIAA isn't a corporation - they are a lobbying group which seeks to use the power of government to protect their business model. And I fail to see how Microsoft is an example of a badly run or harmful corporation. You forgot:Minnesota, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin Probably only because I'm still in school. Kind of sad, because I live in Maryland :P This script would be usefu if you have a chinese website and want to simply convert traditional chinese to simplified chinese. Going by the actual record of the past few decades in Venezuela, the rich assholes' leaving only increases Venezuela's productivity. When they were pampered, Venezuela's economy stagnated. Now they aren't pampered, it boomed. Hey- don't downmod him just because he's LouF! He does raise an interesting question once in a while... What does it says about American politics that the best way to send a message to Miss Coulter seems to be a hefty donation? Sigh. I hate this whole thing. I'm pretty sure people heard that one comic commenting upon it and then picked it up and propagated the joke so that they could seem smart. Yes, Alanis Morrisette's song with ironic examples were in fact ironic. Sure, it was not literary irony or particularly witty, but her examples do fall into the definition of irony being that they were unexpected occurences. See the dictionary definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony Also, I'm not sure I agree with Mrs. Edwards assesment of "the courageous 9-11 widows." No matter how you slice it they are a bunch of spoiled, rich hens. You're right of course, because they should sit around passively after their husbands have died in a national tragedy instead of trying to make a difference in the government that might prevent something like that happening in the future. I've used a prototype gaze tracker (BlueEyes) and I have to say that there was a lot of jitter and very little spatial resolution. The resolution can be improved but I think the saccades your eye makes will probably have to be filtered to get rid of the jitter. There are other devices like Jeff Han's work that are probably much better candidates for mouse replacement: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/ like saying "Bye Bye Steering wheel" not going to happen. Touch screen and 3d navigation will be in it, but it;s easier to use one finger, eh i'm getting tired having to use these fingers to type, back to the trackpad If you're level designers have any architecture backgrounds then they likely know Autocad and hence Autolisp and hence Scheme shouldn't scare them. I thought it would be instructive to show that Common Lisp, too, can support this kind of style. To me it seemed you were talking about languages and their support for programming styles. It probably seemed that way because that was exactly what he did "Renewable Portfolio Standards"? Do you seriously believe that such phrases stand for anything more than smoke and mirrors? The demolition of the suburbs and rebuilding of public transportation should have begun a decade ago. Don't want to change the fundamentals of your way of life? Too bad. You'll have to do it anyway when the plug gets pulled. So what am I supposed to to with my right hand? Wank off? There is ACL-COMPAT-SOCKET. That is what Portable Aserve (the library used for the "webby stuff" in Practical Common Lisp) is using. The article is slow and boring with occasional bits of interesting information. It's exactly how I imagine the described job to be. Has Science discovered the Real Book of Life? It is especially hard to get a company to green light a commercial that seemingly has nothing to do with the actual product (unless it's the pharmaceutical industry), but this was an excellent piece of work and the fact that we are talking about it means it was a good gamble. If you need an example of why teachers unions aren't the problem look no farther than Texas. I've been in Texas going to school for four years now. Teachers unions are illegal here (no state employee can unionize) and the schools really couldn't be much worse. More evidence that the major power brokers in the world are just criminal gangs. Republicans vs. the green party, clearly. I totally agree - and yet there's so many of them here... It's a reflection of the complete and total lack of trust young people have with governments. Adventures in Writing, Rewriting, and being a young freelance writer. How could you remember Vermont but forget New Hampshire? Haha, suck it communism. I'm surprised that banjo.com was available to register as late as 2003. As if any of us have ever even seen pure capitalism in any form to know whether it is good or bad. We have only experienced differing degrees of socialism. Me and my sister took forever to write this and I would like some people to read it so please read it and leave comments if possible What? No FizzBuzz? Thank God I learned this song in grade school. Ann Coulter is great. She really plays you libs into a mouth foaming frenzy. It really is funny to watch Forget Friedman's tripe and read what's happening in Venezuela on the ground. It's classic Keynesian economics. And it works. As for Friedman's wet dream? It's what Venezuela had before, the miserable excuse for an economy which didn't work. But the nations whose economies are only partially state managed are on the way out, too. It's only a matter of time. I should first say I like Scheme's continuations. I cringe whenever I hear some advocate hawking "continuations" which turn out to be nowhere as convenient. That said, I tried Scheme a while back and reverted to Python. I just felt (SICP) Scheme's emphasis on functional programming was a stylistic straitjacket, not to mention Python's superiority then in libraries. Of course, the situation may now be different, but I'm not aware of a compelling enough reason to use Scheme. Perhaps my loss. Now my tool of choice tends to be Common Lisp. No. Just, no. 12 states remain, I could not spell Tennessee I got most of the periphery, hard to remember those boring middle states. I found it easier to work geographically rather than alphabetically. WTF with this people? A fallacy-filled Wikipedia by design? I'll admit I missed 6 :O although I am drunk... The 6 I missed are not real states anyways But its not like they didn't pay into that. Social Security is really worse than a retirement fund because its not guaranteed and rarely do people every get back what they put in. The old farts of today put that in on every check. I agree though socialism is not a solution. The people that work for socialized medicine will be less driven, less reactive and less profitable and probably do alot less overall. Socialism is a dream of Utopia that will not happen, people dont' work that way, its santa claus. Social security needs to be tapered off and people need to manage their own retirement. Lisp is strong and dynamically typed. I think you're confusing strong and static typing here. Lisp is not statically typed and Haskell is. He's typically KGB - he has no limits in his mind and thinks he can get away with anything. Foreign governments won't say anything as long as they are buying oil and gas from him. I totally agree with you. It is delusional to expect that this administration is going to change and do anything right. I don't know what the democrats are waiting for. How much worse does it have to get? How much more does this nation need to suffer from these crooks? Stop lecturing! Do something! This is easy...conservatives dislike Republicans because they are acting like Democrats. BUT, voting for turncoat Republicans is still is a smarter choice than voting for a Dem. No, I'm not affiliated with old spice in any way, I just thought this was funny.. You can skip the video and go straight to the test. The results are pretty funny. One of the comments links to http://ml-implode.com/ a site that tracks US Mortgage Lender News/Status. Pretty damn scary. Onista is Online community where people can buy or sell anything to each other without having to worry about paying any listing fees or commission to anybody. It also is a place where people can socialize and create new friends. I think what Dvorak is trying to say is that there is no technical hurdle for PDA/phone devices to use "free" (free to you) wi-fi networks to make calls instead of the more expensive cell phone network. We could kill the telecoms by going grass roots--make every public wi-fi network be able to route calls. The concept of usage minutes is completely artificial and tacked on by MBAs, it has no technical reality anymore. The cell phone plans are enormously confusing and complicated--ON PURPOSE because people don't realize the innovations that have taken place. One of the problems I see is that certain sites make the main page over and over again, but many people have just subscribed to the RSS feed. This unfortunately leads to people who don't feel like discussing or even seeing that article/comic again getting annoyed and either downvoting or adding bad comments. I propose that there is a spot to filter out certain URLs for main page filtering. All submissions should still show up on the "new" view, and perhaps the "super-hot" (colored red) topics should show up on the main page too. I think this would solve the majority of the complaints. What does everyone else think? if i want to see retarded videos i can go to youtube myself. post articles. I think Greenspun's Law applies to Scheme. At least after using Common Lisp and then Scheme, I found myself wishing for familiar Common Lisp functions. Scheme can be a good choice for an application extension language and is probably the best teaching language I've seen. That's it (and a worthy niche that is). Peak Oil is a myth to drive up prices. Well I, for one, welcome our new Russian Gov/mobster overlords. That was my point in its entirety, but some people didn't realize that I was being sarcastic and saying that the shemale joke ISN'T funny. smakusdod, Wow! Very nice two insults! Goody on you. Very classy. 2nd. Dan Rather? is this a code phrase? Do you argue by code phrase or do you have a coherent position to go with that. What is your claim about Dan Rather? 3rd. Newsbusters is a child organization of Media Research online. Both of which are Brent Bozell web properties. Newsbusters was formed in Aug 2005, more than likely in response to the increasing effectiveness of Media Matters which was established May 2004. However MRC was founded in Oct, 1987. Making it over 20 years old. Now, with just a surface level examination one could think that there was some kind equivalence between a 3 year old organization, and the 2 year old child organization of a 20 year old parent. This is could not be farther from the truth. Media Matters has a clearly listed staff who regularly publish articles on media bias, and only media bias. Newsbusters does not have a news analysis staff instead clearly relying on MRC for news analysis! Note that main thing newsbusters is supposed to be doing is apparently being outsourced. Nice. But we do get the occasional piece of "added value". Like the current top newsbusters top story which is a "captionfest". Newsbusters so unprofessional produced I can't even find a permalink to this blog entry. If we look at MRC we find that the "news analysis division" seems to consist of Brent Baker, Tim Graham, and Rich Noyce. Who all by their own admission made their reputation in the Get Clinton industry of the mid and late 90's. Unsurprisingly with no Clinton in the White House, nothing "new" has been accomplished by these paragons of integrity. Looking at Media Matters we see that the CEO is actually David Brock, who also came from the Get Clinton industry, but interestingly who came out of the closet and wrote several books about the experience including The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy. Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative So a guy who makes his reputation on the right, gets to a point where he can't take the lies anymore and then spends the next part of his life working to expose those lies. If we move onto the Media Matters staff we find tons of well qualified people. Now the gargaro link. Is of course all 90's era stuff. It serves as a cache to a "media bias" site that doesn't even exist anymore. So we have another Get Clinton industry group. Then we have the Groseclose/Milyo study which surprsingly finds that Matt Drudge is a left wing news site! Amazing. This paper has been analyzed in its short comings here The problems with the Groseclose/Milyo study of media bias and here 'Liberal Media' Myth Goes 'Scientific' If you want to have a thorough discussion on media bias, we can do this, however the actual topic was the existence of and inability of the modern right-wing machine to effectively attack Hillary. A claim which you have not disputed or have even attempted to address yet. Rather you posited an equivalence between current left media bias tracking which is a very very new internet based phenomena, and the right-wing version of such which is 20 years old and serves as much as a propaganda outlet at this point as "bias" analysis service. Interesting as this is its way off topic. If you want to continue this conversation please come to this new thread dedicated to this topic. And the people who did the torturing weren't the ones who got the wrong end of a nuke. This thread has been started based on a side discussion with smakusdod. I await his first statement. Well duh! Well duh! So what's new? not funny. the guy laughing at every "joke" got really annoying. Probably Nebraska. What the hell is in Nebraska? Edit: I missed Colorado, Utah, Kentucky, and Oklahoma. 49 - Freaking Iowa. Hi Lou, I hate to butt in here, but you are making an outlandish claim (hate speech does not encourage violence) without presenting any evidence. decaff has thoughtfully presented you with evidence which you have not responded to. Technically your posts were not covered by the EULA, since there was no specific invocation of the license (though it might just be that I have missed it), so while what you are doing is inappropriate, it is technically not necessarily in violation of the license. It's a sticky question as to whether the license applies when not invoked, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here, since I am a nice person and don't want to upset you. But to make things more clear with respect to the agreement's jurisdiction, I hereby state that all posts by LouF replying to any comments in this story thread are now retroactively covered by the EULA for any future posts by LouF. I will offer a grace period where you can make amends and correct your errors, but if you refuse to do so or ignore this request, you will be faced with stiff penalties. This post is bound by the EULA for any future posts by LouF. You're a cranky, obsessive, ingrown little bigot and the most hateful homophobic closet case I've ever encountered. You're disgusting and pathetic. Vonnegut's a good writer, but an asshole. Most of the commenters here seem to be assholes too. I generally don't agree with LouF either, but it was the first thing I thought when I read that bit about the money. Honestly, its a fair question. I know plenty of expat Russians who originally voted for Putin. None of them have any doubt that he is behind this. I tend to think about reading. Actually, sexp readability is where I have a problem. Too regular for me - I've got nothing to lock on to. I was being pithy. 2007 Nude Car Show calendar Sort of like the presidents response to 9/11: Spend money! The terrorists hate it when you go shopping. Surprise: depressions hurt the rich more. Duh!! The fallacy is that you made a presupposition that facts would emerge. No facts will emerge. Therefore you support never speculating since there are no facts and never will be. Circumstancial evidence is the only kind of evidence that the population will ever get against their rulers. I forgot: Alabama, Connecticut, Minnesota. I generally suck at geography though... Dude, that video was awesome. Imagine if everyone had one of those things in their home, connected to the internet. Surfing the web would be completely different - instead of webpages, there would be a "desktop", which would consist of any of the things you saw in the video. The only problem I can see with this interface is lack of tactile feedback and pressure. Maybe you could fix this by placing a layer of something transparent and malleable between the user and the screen. There would be some electronics embedded in this layer to sense touch, but these would have to be minimal (so that it wouldn't obscure the screen.) A true Marylander would have forgotten Delaware. who cares about new hampshire? and i'm a geography teacher! http://reddit.com/info/sljc/details Yes. "This includes coverage from ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, and CNN. Efforts are underway to gather that additional archive footage so that a more comprehensive picture can be presented of what really happened that day." I remember watching MSNBC airing live interviews when behind them the WTC 7 building collapsed. Remember the reporter, interviewee and the rest of the crowd freaking out when the dust cloud started to blow towards them. Luckily, they were far enough away. I remember that. Its the only one I have never found online. Until I see that and when the time stamp can be revealed this theory is baseless. Warren Buffet. Honestly, what can we do to get our country back? Do we have to hit the streets? Burn shit down? What? If you think I'm watching a twelve-minute video to figure out what you're talking about, you've got another thing coming. digg reddit del.icio.us scrolling Perhaps they bought it from a squatter. So when you think things like that, does actual smoke come out of your ears, or is it only metaphoric? The only reason she gets all this mileage is because she's hot. Imagine a fat ugly hag saying the same things ? Nobody would give a rats ass let alone put her on TV... Annapolis, Lansing, Salem, Jackson.... ah, screw it. Mr A was also a heavy cannabis user, and when he was encouraged to decrease his use, his paranoia and hallucinations disappeared and his anxiety abated. But his memory and concentration problems remained, leading the doctors to suspect that these may be permanent disabilities. duh.. Weed makes everything more intense and interesting. Paranoia is a form of interesting. She should have said to Coulter, "He's more of a man than you'll ever be." You forgot:Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming, I'm Canadian too. *EDIT: I did get Nebraska, for the record. Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Utah, Wyoming "no [Texas] state employee can unionize" You are incorrect: http://www.cwa-tseu.org/ Represents 9500 state workers in fifty-three state agencies, twenty-four university locations, and workers in local MHMR authorities, local and county ... Teachers' unions are bullshit, though. Of course not. I was describing his motivation: he thought he was pulling off something like a college prank, not "flying off the handle" in the grip of a murderous, angry impulse. Therefore it's unlikely he would directly go after people next time, as eadmund suggests. Well, this article making it to rank 31 makes it official, reddit has jumped the shark. 50 out of 50--but it took me a couple of minutes to remember I could Google the answer. Improvement in student scores on standardized tests = Good Teacher. Modula-2: MODULE FizzBuzz; FORM InOut IMPORT WriteLine, WriteInt; VAR i,m15,m5,m3 : INTEGER; BEGIN FOR i := 1 to 100 DO m15 := i MOD 15; m5 := i MOD 5; m3 := i MOD 3; IF m15 = 0 THEN WriteLine ( 'FizzBuzz' ); ELSEIF m5 = 0 THEN WriteLine ( 'Buzz' ); ELSEIF m3 = 0 THEN WriteLine ( 'Fizz' ); ELSE WriteInt( i ); WriteLine END END END FizzBuzz. ADA: with TEXT_IO; package int_io is new TEXT_IO.INTEGER_IO( INTEGER); with TEXT_IO,int_io; use TEXT_IO,int_io; procudure fizzbuzz is i,m15,m5,m3 : INTEGER; begin for i in INTEGER range 1 .. 100 loop m15 := i mod 15; m5 := i mod 5; m3 := i mod 3; if m15 = 0 then PUT ( "FizzBuzz" ); NEW_LINE; elseif m5 = 0 then PUT ( "Buzz" ); NEW_LINE; elseif m2 = 0 then PUT ( "Fizz" ); NEW_LINE; else PUT ( i ); NEW_LINE; end if; end loop; end fizzbuzz; I don't think religion is the wrong problem. As Sam Harris says, people can be highly educated, yet still believe in religious dogma and be extremists. I use CL (and Erlang, sometimes c++) almost exclusively now for couple years. Mostly because of macros, but many other things in CL are great. I really like the "baroque" feeling sometimes, it's funny but those cryptic names never bothered me. Why should any stupid understand immediately what I wrote ;) I love CLOS is designed, other object systems are just crap comparing to that. I like the speed I can get from SBCL when I invest a little time. Wow, there really is a porno niche for everyone. I can only imagine the members area as being extremely hairy. Hi Lou, Under section 4 of the EULA you will find that when making claims that appear outlandish, you are required to either provide concrete proof for your assertion or will admit that you were in error in making his claim. So far you haven't provided that. In addition you make the outlandish claim that you kicked my ass in argument, when any objective party can plainly see that this is not the case. In fact you went down pathetically in a ball of flaming wreckage. Therefore, you are now required to post an acknowledgment will include the phrase "Of course I need to make up facts, reality has a well known liberal bias." You also used the term "pathetic loser," which is a violation of section 2 of the agreement. You are now required to state plainly in writing an apology including the phrase "you are rubber, I am glue, I made an error insulting you." In addition you have in the past complained about others engaging in name-calling. But here you called me a "pathetic loser." That is hypocritical, and thus a violation of section 3 of the EULA. You are now required to plainly state that you were hypocritical in this thread including the phrase, "Yes I am a hypocrite, the type of person that Jesus was most inclined to condemn. I threw the first stone, I judged, I did not turn the other cheek. I have not lived up to the message of Jesus, for I have not applied his teachings to my life, I know nothing of agape. I did unto others that which I would not want done to myself. I hate the poor. I actively ignore Jesus' message of compassion for the poor, instead I agree with others who say that the poor all welfare bums who deserve what they get. Were I present with Christ in my current state of mind I would have cast the first stone." I have to say that this really is my favorite penalty, so while I should not enjoy seeing you abuse yourself, I still have to thank you. Finally, while it boggles the mind, you have already hit the "three strikes" rule. That was fast. As a result you are now required to post this phrase: "I admit that I am not very good at arguing, I use cheap rhetorical tactics because I am not subtle enough to even understand what you are arguing with me about, let alone come up with a coherent defense. I admit that I must have some kind of mental issue, and should seek professional help." Please also note that if you do not comply you will suffer the even more serious penalty of having your posts all regarded as semantically equivalent to this: "I admit that I am not very good at arguing, I use cheap rhetorical tactics because I am not subtle enough to even understand what you are arguing with me about, let alone come up with a coherent defense. I admit that I must have some kind of mental issue, and should seek professional help." You don't want that Lou. As an anonymous internet friend and general nice guy, I am trying to help here. I think it's time to take things a little more seriously, and admit the errors of your ways. Finally the EULA did not really take very long to write, but I already see that the time spent is paying off, as it is endlessly amusing to cite it. Also it's not about revenge, for I have nothing to get even with you over. Sorry if that upsets you. If you choose to be a better internet citizen perhaps we could work together to improve things. But the first step is to admit you have a problem. Denial is not just a river in Egypt. This post is bound by the EULA for any future posts by LouF. Some of observations: 1) The talking heads have been going gangbusters trying to reassure the public that nothing is wrong. Yet the bad loans are all still out there and nothing can change that. It remains to be seen how bad the situation will get, but at the peak, something like 80% of mortgages in California alone were deemed "risky." 2) The fed stopped reporting M3 because they have lost control of credit creation and want to conceal that fact. 3) The sale and re-packaging of bad mortgages mentioned in the article spreads the risk around more, but who buys this garbage and why? I am not all that educated about the alchemy of hedge funds and how those operate, but they appear to me as the next S&Ls. In fact, if the massive bonus payouts in 2006 is any indication, I'd say the hedge fund business is probably headed over a cliff pretty soon since those companies didn't make money per se, they just performed a crapload of transactions. 3) All these private equity deals seem to be part of the overall scheme--taking companies that are publicly traded back private in order to remove them from stock exchanges so that they can expire in a more controlled fashion. Maybe this is what the Plunge Protection Team has been up to? Yuck ! How disgusting ! Not even one mentioned damp tissue. Have you ever tried cleaning dirty dishes with just dry paper ? right clic, view source dumbass Regardless of the argument, what's scary is how this "game" has progressed. See http://attendingtheworld.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/the-games-they-play/ or Suddenly Dirty: http://attendingtheworld.wordpress.com/2006/12/06/suddenly-dirty/ All sorts of fabrications have been presented to bury the truth. Yet all we do is read and debate. Is there anything that can be done about these lies? Yes! Instead of writing here, we could also write the papers and the media... one day someone, somewhere will heed to the pressure. No. You need to learn to feel your own feelings instead of projecting them onto others. You don't have to keep suffering your "terribly empty feeling" -- you've chosen to live a lie. You can quit any time. But you should probably do it with the help of a trained counselor. I never knew that Steve Jobs or M$ tech people were experts on education. If they know something about business and computers then of course they know how to run schools as well. Because the goal was not to kill him, but to discourage others from speaking ill of the Putin regime. If he dies, he's burried, if hes in a wheelchair for the next 40 years of his life, hes a long lasting symbol of what happens when you talk. This kind of thing used to be called Terrorism. As a non-US citizen, I found myself relying on famous songs, movies, etc. Ray Charles song "Georgia", the movie "My Own Private Idaho", "Sweet Home Alabama", the band "Utah Saints", "Kentucky Fried Chicken", Tennessee Whiskey. Illinois as made famous by the Blues Brothers. I got 30 states this way (also a lot of mistakes from what I guess are cities not states). LOL... it's crazy to think that Putin is behind this. As if Putin gives a sh*t what some nobody says in some speech that nobody will hear. It's crazy to think that Putin was behind Litvinenko's assassination. As if Putin gives a sh*t about what some low level KGB tool says about him. But that polonium did come from somewhere, didn't it? Paul Joyal also had his fingers in a few Russian pots: [WaPost] He ... established joint ventures in telecommunications and air transportation in Russia and Georgia, according to the company's Web site. He is well-known for his expertise on intelligence and terrorism and for his network of friends in the former Soviet Union, and he published a daily intelligence newsletter for 10 years that offered information on the former Soviet Union. In 1998, he was a lobbyist for the Georgian government in Washington. Georgians not friendly with Russians. This is a touchy issue for Russia. sick Kids today! In the immortal words of Bobby Lee: "I have joke for you...knock knock" "Who's there, dad?" "YOU NOT FUNNY!" Seriously. Enough with the crappy liberal comics. If you're going to bash conservatives, at least do so humorously. He should have used Linux ;-) ...and it only took me a couple of seconds to realize you are a know-it-all asshole who didn't get the joke. Go masturbate some more. That was a good one. xD how do you survive on a day to day basis. Yeah, you are right. If the screen scrolls when you are looking close to the edge, that means you can only look straight ahead so it doesn't scroll. And that, I think we all can agree on, is not a good thing. You want to be able to view the entire screen, look at all the objects. Aside from games, sometimes I want to do one thing with my eyes and another with my mouse. Not often, but sometimes. So... I would rather not mix these two things. I am all for new devices...but please leave my eyes to serve their original purpose. What evidence do you have for your god and hell ideas? Yes. 1929. I do apologise. it was a spelling mistake. Obviously hatred doesn't always lead to violence. Ah. Chink in the armour of your argumens. Hatred doesn't always lead to violence... but at least you finally admit it can. I hate child molesters and Nazis, but I don't go out and shoot them. It's an incredibly dumb argument. What a wonderful argument. Hardaway expressed hatred against gay people. You express hatred against child molesters and Nazis. I think a lot of your psychology is revealed by the fact that you thought this was a suitable analogy. I am glad we have had this debate, as you have revealed so much. Awesome! Another blog spam site makes it onto the hot page! if i want to see retarded videos i can go to youtube myself. post articles. actually, it was to this sort of shite. sorry, i should have been more specific... punched "comment" instead of "reply..." thirty self-administered lashes with a wet noodle. That corner of it might be considered a nice neighborhood, but it wouldn't be immune to break-ins and stick-ups. Then these breakins and stickups should show up in the crime stats, no? That's what low crime stats means. That you don't get many people randomly getting shot in the groin in their own driveway. Can you provide a reference that provides details on this simulation? Preferably something reputable... Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, British Columbia, Ottawa, Edmonton, The NorthWest Terriers, SouthWest Terriers, Alaska...damn, I forget the last one. It's not my fault your life is lame. And it's only partially your fault. You didn't get this way without receiving abuse and hate. But fault doesn't matter. It's your job to fix your life. No one else can do it for you. You can get help, but help won't do your work. You're wasting a lot of attention on being a bigoted asshole. If you give it a rest, maybe you'll find courage you didn't know you had. every cycle starts with tasking out and estimating what you're working on. Sure. But how does it end? With party hats and beer showers for getting the estimate right on the money, or with weeping and sorrow for forgetting how bad things went the last time a large project for bid at a fixed price? Agile estimates do not offer a fixed price for the whole shebang, unless there is an agreement that features get dropped or changed as needed to stay within time & budget. Hmmm, maybe the "experts" should look at lorena's post What a dumb idea. "The area of the screen that's being looked at becomes magnified. Then, the person pinpoints her focus within the magnified region and releases the hot key" Obviously too complicated (inversing the "click" action is a bad idea) but they explain the worst thing about this bad idea in the article! "Previous studies have shown that it is distracting to a person when she is aware of her gaze because she consciously tries to control its location." You mean aware of it like a giant magnifying glass on the screen? Dumb dumb dumb. Eye-tracking is cool but this idea is stupid. The mouse stays. The mouse at a desktop is a good control interface - if that arrangement were to change the best thing to change would be the keyboard, replacing it with a cell phone style keyboard small enough to let you leave one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse at all times. If the keyboard additionally could change the key markings per-application: http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/ Where for example holding Ctrl causes the C key to turn into a Copy icon and the V key to turn into a Paste icon, THEN you've improved the desktop standard interface. For portable devices the mouse is in the way. For this touchscreen technology with multitouch is probably your best bet - a Tablet PC form factor where you're using one giant screen and, if you need to type - that little keyboard mentioned above slides out. In any case I don't know who's paying this Manu guy, but he's wasting their money. Some smartphones/PDAs can. I know the Blackberry 7270 supported WiFi. Only the 802.11b standard though. That's the only WiFi device RIM has released to date though. Not so sure about other manufactures LouF: I admit that I am not very good at arguing, I use cheap rhetorical tactics because I am not subtle enough to even understand what you are arguing with me about, let alone come up with a coherent defense. I admit that I must have some kind of mental issue, and should seek professional help. I really tried to give you a chance, but you blew it again. At least we are in agreement now. By the way, you might want to review section 6 a bit more carefully. This post is bound by the EULA for any future posts by LouF. Well, if you are going to be pedantic about it ... :) Surely they meant something like "Perl Programmer: All of the keys corresponding to non-alphanumeric printable symbols are worn out." But that isn't as funny because the over-precision is incompatible with the hyperbolic nature of the joke. Fantastic You have evidence, I presume? or Bruce Springsteen's best album Kind of a loaded question, isn't it? Well, it does go a long way... I forgot Massachusetts, though I knew I had forgotten the state in between Maryland and Michigan They have a timetable for when they will shoot my area. Highest resolution - 250m equals 1px. This means I need to get a lot of friends and their cars together. And pray for it to be a sunny day. You seriously believe that in 50-70 years we have used all the oil in the Earth? It also regenerates over time. Peak Oil is not not being able to find and produce it, its peak in that production is not keeping up with demand. This happens when the oil industry owns all exploration and production and funds environmental groups against offshore and refineries. It drives up the price and they are cartels. New techniques invented in the last 10 years using ELF waves is finding oil all over, the GUlf of Mexico, Cuba, Siberia, in the pacific etc. Its a ponzi just like the Oil Embargo of the 70's, People didn't start using oil heavily until the 40s-50s and you think we have used it all up in 70 years. I have a bridge to sell you.... BTW fuel worked just fine before petroleum (which was morec cost effective). Teh entire auto industry ran off of hemp and ethanol up until the 40s. The Model A got 25 MPH Ethanol. If we have used up all the oil in the Earth we need not worry about Peak Oil as the Earth will eject our asses as oil is part of the geological process of the earth. We use alot of salt, from many generations. Is there peak salt? Is there peak gold? We sometimes think our lives will have major events but to the earth our lives are but a flicker barely noticable. Peak Oil in the sense that its a ponzi and its a price fix for supply, that exists. Running out of oil... That won't happen before the end of humans. to nemo: I am new here, and it seems you are a well-established antagonist of LouF. I am not familiar with the protocols of reddit, and I apologise if my persistence in continuing a discussion with LouF to this extent is considered tedious, but I am fascinated with the psychology of such people, and I have to say, the debate has been illuminating (especially the last entry, with the implied connection between Gay and child-molester and Nazi). to Lou: For goodness sake, try and be original. Reddit Post Downmodded For Provocative But Information-Free Title You forgot:Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Minnesota, Ohio, Vermont The wings look very stubby for it to be a jet plane. And it sure looks like a Tomahawk to me. That is one ignorant dictionary site. It's ironic to say "Nice weather" when it's raining? Just as long as we're throwing around our credentials, the OP is my mother and I'm a member of AFT. Mom can post her own credentials, but trust me that she's not some outsider idiot. I think you're equating socialism with communism. There are many countries that by any reasonable definition can be considered socialist and to a large degree they function just fine as countries/political systems go. Arguably the US is not a country thats seems amenable to that sort of system. Social Security doesn't "need" to be tapered off, there are minor adjustments to the systems that can handle the expected difficulties without much headache or massive tax increase. On the other hand a system that allows individuals more control is something to look at if the math can be made to work and some sort of phased transition implemented. You're too scared to do either. http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/planes/defense/sfgate_exercise_082102.html This one says the simulation wasn't for crashing into the WTC, just some other building. Apparently the WTC crashing simulation happened earlier in the year actually, so not on 9-11. But there seem to be conflicting reports. In any case, it's well established that NORAD was dealing with a war game where planes would be hijacked while the 9-11 hijacks happened. The coincidence seemed to have helped NORAD to respond, since they were all already in the proper positions. But they still failed I guess. You forgot:Indiana, Wisconsin No i didn't forget, i just don't consider those states. Solway Lass has an amazing history and is available for you to experience on a Whitsunday Island Sailing trip. With a pirate theme this is one fun trip departing from Airlie Beach in Queensland Australia. Why do broadcast radio stations get free use of music while internet radio has to pay? Or, why does the RIAA love broadcast and hate internet? bah. 41. not bad for a canucker, i suppose. i've been to all the ones i missed, too. bah. Thank God! I can't wait until it all comes tumbling down. Then the socialist revolution will finally begin. and the NWT is now called Nunavut. Using something like paredit.el for emacs, you hit the "(" key and a pair of parentheses will be inserted, with the cursor between them. Then you type what you want and hit the ")" key, which doesn't insert anything, it just moves the cursor out of the innermost closed parenthesis. It's as many keystrokes, but you don't have to think about balancing at all. Likewise, the other editing commands usually do the "right" thing, so you can't mess up the balance by backspacing or killing a line or something. I have done ecstasy, it's fun but there is no way I would want to be on it constantly for 9 years. I would imagine he took a lot at one time instead of one every 1.3149 hours. Especially since if he used ecstasy that often his tolerance would be incredibly high. Hopefully. Socialism and communism are on the same spectrum, eventually socialism becomes closer to communism. People in America do not care for one another at their core, it will never work here. Our culture is be #1 not teamwork, I wish this were different but it is not. Its nature at its finest, its the system we live in. Social Security needs to be put more in the hands of the people who pay it. I agree it was a good investment and since its forward paid it is not a free ride, however its disconcerning that it will keep ramping up during the baby boomer retirement boom. Meaning you and I probably won't see that money we paid. Its also a huge pain on small business to pay disproportionally to the large companies in terms of the balance of what is paid to profit. It is a higher tax for the poor essentially. Personal retirement is the only way. Allow people to invest it. Not Bush's plan where its fascist and the government chooses where you invest and then takes the gains but where you can invest it and essentially own a large percentage of it. Don't get me wrong its a good program that takes care of old people, people who were disadvantaged etc and its more of an investment however it has been shown that it will fail and apparantly government wont' allow that money to be owned by the people paying in. Somehow 15% extra on top of fed taxes (you pay 7% employer pays the rest) is not enough to support it. Something is wrong, that should be plenty yet its still failing? Politicians use it way too much for budgetary issues there is probably nothing in it. I think it does need to be phased into a new direction. Because the government is not good at investing it (it loses to inflation every year) I think people should get the right to do this with their own money. But if you are counting on it you are dreaming. I hope you have other retirement options and account accruing now. meh. To short to be boring. The jaunty honky-tonk makes it funny! Yeah, Lou and I have squabbled on and off for a long time. His irrationality is fascinating for a while, so I encourage you to discuss things with him. It's almost like being an anthropologist visiting a strange land where the principles of logic and rational discourse are just not practiced. The EULA amuses me since it turns the table on Lou. Rather than me arguing with someone whose bizarre rules governing discourse are capriciously applied, instead Lou gets to see what arguing with someone with a capricious set of rules governing discourse is like. My, you're a vicious little bugger aren't you? idiots masquerading as know-nothing pundits. This, as a put down, doesn't even make sense. Why would someone masquerade as a know-nothing? A little thing called capital investment? In the context you used it I'm going to assume your little brain was thinking of infrastructure improvements Just "leave alone" desperately poor, illiterate and sick people so they can "make lots of money" Isn't that exactly what the people who are leaving Venezuela are doing? I'm not suggesting return things to a free-for all, just that keeping property rights stable will keep the economic incentive in place required to prevent the crippling brain drain. without collecting any taxes. I never suggested not to collect taxes, just not to collect high taxes. As it stands today oil revenues count for half of all goverment revenue. If half of Australia's revenue came from oil think how easy it would be for them to lower their tax rates while simultaneously improving their schools, infrastructure, whatever. As a matter of fact it turns out Venezuela's tax rates aren't that high after all. That one wasn't worth the thirty seconds it took to figure out the punch line. well, at least geeks will now pursue careers in airline security... Nebraska was the one I forgot. I narrowly remembered Iowa. Sure, Bush-isms are entertaining. But so are the idioms my foreign wife happens to come up with... New oil in Cuba http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14095881/ I'm connected to Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit. In other words I live with Him, day in, and day out. If you want to know more, answer this: What evidence is used to convict people in a Court of Law? Russia Siberian lines will supply half of world's oil in a decade. http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1885258,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1 i wonder if he has glow-stick flashbacks? Caspian Sea just getting started: http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0319/p01s04-wosc.html Oil in Gulf of Mexico: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14678206/ Huge new discovery in Brazil: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4563896.stm Oil Shales in Israel: http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul2006/gb20060705_516609.htm?campaign_id=alerts Forgot California. But seriously that hardly counts as a state. :X jk Nigerian oil discoveries happen frequently: http://www.chevron.com/news/press/2002/2002-08-19.asp sometimes i run into something that makes me realize i am an idiot. this game is one such thing. bleagh. The sad part is, given this: http://reddit.com/info/168up/details Those might actually be better for you... "John was singled out for a personal attack because the Republican establishment knows he poses the greatest threat to their power." I think the Edwards campaign is giving themselves an awful lot of credit with that claim... sounds like a contentious attempt to declare a front runner in a primary that is still ten months away. Actually, this has quite good modularity with comparison with the variant I played around with, though my version didn't require any extra punctuation. Even in this style, I wouldn't use ($) for everything though, (.) has much better properties. You only need a "$ id" at the end. For the record, here's the version I was playing around with before. Sorry that it's a little mangled with the admittedly confusing quoting operations I was playing around with -- this is the state I just happened to leave it in. start k = k () end (x,_) = x push s x k = k (x,s) pop (_,s) k = k s dup (x,s) k = k (x, (x, s)) exch (a,(b,s)) k = k (b,(a,s)) app (f,(x,s)) k = k (f x, s) quote = flip infixl 5 ! x ! y = quote x y app1 f = quote push f ! app app2 f = quote push f ! app ! app cons = app2 (flip (,)) decons ((a,b),s) k = k (b,(a,s)) proj1 = app1 fst proj2 = app1 snd add = app2 (+) mul = app2 (*) len = app1 length square = quote dup mul It can be used like this: *Forthish> start push 7 push 4 push 20 mul add end 87 The two hardest for me were Michigan and Nebraska. Damn Nebraska. Where do I get in line? And then ratted out the boss. FIRED Chevron memo to oil industry about lessening refineries to up oil margins: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/fs/5103.pdf "A senior energy analyst at the recent API convention warned that if the US petroleum industry doesn't reduce its refining capacity it will never see any substantial increase in refinery margins." Other oil companies saying the same thing. http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/fs/ The problem is the industry is controlled by price fixing cartels because there are no alternatives. They also are responsible for all the companies that make the refineries. Any possibility or do you deny that they wil take advantage of this position? Blaming it on environmentalists which they also fund. WSJ on how the oil companies target certain areas for more supply fixing, price fixing: http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_wsj-oil_oil.htm Swede here that only got 24....but its 0500 at night here and i couldnt spell at all. Damn. I'm both glad to know this, and pissed to find it out. While I'm generally anti-union, I do feel that they are sometimes necessary. Thanks for the link. Wisconsin did it for me, also... Then again, its not like I'm ever going to Milwaukee :) I predict the next bizarros will be even more bizarre. That's easy: Alabama State Capitol, Alaska State Capitol, Arizona State Capitol, Arkansas State Capitol, California State Capitol, Colorado State Capitol, Cowboy State Capitol (oops, I mean Texas State Capital), Connecticut State Capitol... The price of oil remains high only because the cost of oil remains so low. We remain dependent on oil from the Mideast not because the planet is running out of buried hydrocarbons, but because extracting oil from the deserts of the Persian Gulf is so easy and cheap that it's risky to invest capital to extract somewhat more stubborn oil from far larger deposits in Alberta In the words of Andrew Jackson....HOARD GOLD! /jon stewart They have hated each other forever but our fearless Decider II will solve centuries old hatred. That didn't fall into the ocean yet? Hmmm.. I missed 47.. I didn't know there was more than New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Yeah, Manhatten Institute. Check out their Board of Directors: Chairman of the Board Dietrich Weismann \t Vice Chairman Byron R. Wien \t \t Chairman Emeritus Roger Hertog Chairman Emeritus Charles H. Brunie \t \t Chairman Emeritus Richard Gilder* \t \t President Lawrence Mone I'd like a half-objective opinion on important subjects.. I highly doubt these guys give me an unbiased opinion. Rails envy. (It's never pretty.) The media is owned by the same peeps that make the bombs and the energy. Hrm what did you expect. http://reddit.com/info/17qqs/comments Richard Kulisz giggles at genocide. Ignore him. I have been expecting this to happen for the last year, my main regret is that I didn't get a chance to visit, my second regret is that I'm not there fighting with them. Just where did the government expect their city's youth to focus their anger? What religion is that? He's got the southern vote now! He can't lose! This Canadian forgot: ndiana, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming Woo level 13! Fun little game. I definitely did not expect to get that far. Key West Hotels - where to stay in Paradise:-) "wine plays a central role in the holiday, with the sages exhorting Jews to drink until they can no longer distinguish between the hero Mordechai and the villainous Haman" In general, it is a bad idea to overload reception and user input in such a manner. China, don't worry, Cheney's got about as much credibility here as someone explaining to their boss why they are photocopying their ass on the copymachine at work. Build a city below sea level and get hit by a hurricane. Sue the Army for letting it happen. Profit! sighs Yet more proof of America's obsession with suing. Yup. Then everyone will have a plot of land, donkey, wooden hoe and some burlap sackcloth. Are you ready? I wasn't agreeing with the "belief in god" == "mental insanity" bit, just pointing out they were probably bad candidates to use as examples. I thought that Echo's post was a joke coming from the ilyag - neilplatform1 exchange, and thought the "the only person you're insulting is yourself" was a little rich coming from someone who picked such poor examples, so I posted some links. In the context you used it I'm going to assume your little brain was thinking of infrastructure improvements. Well let's see: roads, at least one bridge, trains, a television station, hospitals, universities, schools, more schools, stores, and medical centers. Just to start off since now they're also acquiring a phone company. Isn't that exactly what the people who are leaving Venezuela are doing? That's not even comprehensible. Your sentence doesn't even parse. Unless you're suggesting that rich Venezuelans are making money by leaving a country where the aggregate bank deposits tripled in the last few years. just that keeping property rights stable will keep the economic incentive in place required to prevent the crippling brain drain. Crippling brain drain?! What the fuck are you even talking about? Venezuela is educating more brains than the rich assholes can cobble together. It can afford the "brain drain" of corrupt lazy motherfuckers. What it can't afford is letting rich fucks sit on their capital so they can speculate while poor people starve to death. Oh and property "rights" are stable in Venezuela! Stop drinking that kool-aid. I never suggested not to collect taxes, just not to collect high taxes. No, you suggested not collecting more taxes. Also known as, the past-due taxes which the rich owe the Venezuelan government. Because goodness knows rich people can't afford to pay taxes! Besides, "high" taxes is a bunch of crap. How the hell do you expect to provide a high degree of services without collecting high taxes? Oh right, just magic money out of thin air. Funny, the USA does that and it's described as the precursor to economic meltdown. If half of Australia's revenue came from oil think how easy it would be for them to lower their tax rates And this would be good, why? And in any case, it hardly matters what some bumfuck retarded country that can't get its shit together to produce its own paper from the its own trees which it harvests itself. A country that refuses to build nuclear power plants to replace its coal plants. A country that refuses to build a uranium processing plant to double the number of jobs in the industry. That's right, I'm talking about Australia with its colonial third-world economy. If you think anyone should take advice from what Australia "would" do then you're out to lunch. As a matter of fact it turns out Venezuela's tax rates aren't that high after all. And heaven knows, low taxes are the be-all and end-all of good public policy! Not you know, bridges, trains, factories, blah de blah. I'm betting you've got some delusional scheme about how Venezuela should "invest" (really non-invest) its oil revenue into some kind of trust. Which would conveniently get ripped off by notoriously corrupt politicians. Or hey, it should lower taxes to enable more capital flight. I wouldn't give Coultergeist that much credit. Paris, at least, doesn't talk about anything she doesn't understand. I think the anthropology comparison is a good one. I don't find his techniques that surprising. I have been arguing with people like him for a very long time (decades). I have to say that Lou is one of the simpler people I have dealt with, as (at least in this topic) he is so transparent and inept. I have to say, I find your EULA most amusing. 6:46 for all fifty. Would have been quicker, but I forgot that Louisiana is spelled with one n... Thank God I didn't have to put them all on a map. korn korn Get off my lawn! este video es mui chido este video es mui chido Words can have different meanings as demonstrated in this humorus little joke. Goodness knows it's so much better to commit genocide. Cause genocide is a serious business! Very effective, unfortunately. I have no idea what the KUBARK interrogation manual is. Because he believes the country would be better off without him? "Python Programmer: Their tab key is worn out." don't thinks so, my 'tab' key is still flashing. You might want to check out tech.coop as well. They are a lisp-savvy group that will set you up with an inexpensive service. I drove through Nebraska some years ago, on my way to a job in Wyoming, in a $250 orange Volkswagen bug with my worldly possessions in the back seat. It was glorious. Western Nebraska was long stretches of breathtaking scenery, inspiring bluffs, and miles and miles without civilization. That's what's in Nebraska. You can check out the Better Business Bureau (BBB), but professional scam artists know how to get by the rules. Check out these guidelines to help you find someone you can trust. The first two on the right column are. They're about bumper stickers. If you want a real laugh though, go for Doug Zonker's "Chicken Chicken Chicken" on that page. It's hilarious. Zonker takes a really funny gag and extends it for 5 minutes. I was thinking Rhode Island might be the most forgotten. NO where's the etch-a-sketch? Sorry Eloi, but you damned well that if the passengers were U.S. citizens, they would all be sitting in prison on charges of Accessory to Attempted Murder. ever were. This is basically it for me. Writing programs in Python is very fast, and there's not much Scheme offers over it for practical programming. And when I want a language for brain-stretching, I prefer Haskell nowadays. Shut up about telling people to shut up about things. Fuck, there was no point at which the topic became 'dead': as soon as it appeared, there then appeared a split between people who don't walk around with spiky rods up their ass, and then people who -- omigosh! -- couldn't stand that people were implementing the problem! What are they, showing off!? Is this some kind of EGOTISM!? These damn programmers -- always programming! Go back to throwing rocks at little girls -- those damned girls! Always playing their own -stuupid- games. You mean the Bush tax cuts didn't create an economic boom? Historically, no. See http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/02/19/INGMQH9TVM1.DTL&type=printable and http://www.iranian.com/AbbasMilani/2006/February/Black/index.html I only missed Minnesota, and I see many others did, too. What did they ever give us, again? These guys didn't write it its a Wall Street Journal article. The guy who did is still biased but they are in the business and know the price of oil. Do socialists know the oil business? Maybe Chavez that is it. Cheap petrol in Saudia Arabia was a deal we struck back before WWII and it ended Ethanol production. See this: oil prices are fixed and rigged, peak oil a myth: Chevron memo to oil industry about lessening refineries to up oil margins: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/fs/5103.pdf "A senior energy analyst at the recent API convention warned that if the US petroleum industry doesn't reduce its refining capacity it will never see any substantial increase in refinery margins." Other oil companies saying the same thing. http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/fs/ The problem is the industry is controlled by price fixing cartels because there are no alternatives. They also are responsible for all the companies that make the refineries. Any possibility or do you deny that they wil take advantage of this position? Blaming it on environmentalists which they also fund. Forgot Arkansas ... spent the last 2min trying to remember it.... Damn I had a brain freeze and only got 42! Oh well. But remember, after the conservatives led our nation into the 1929 collapse, the "evil" liberals took over and fixed what they broke. Where Rep President Hoover did nothing to help middle class who had lost their homes and were living in cardboard boxes nicknamed "Hoover Hotels," the Dem President Roosevelt invented the WPA and jobs so people had money for food and housing. Where Rep President Hoover did nothing while the banking industry ruined itself, Dem President Roosevelt invented the FDIC and saved banks from themselves. It was so bad the banks had even begged Roosevelt to take them over and nationalize the banking industry before he came up with the FDIC and saved capitalism for America. Where Americans lost everything and Rep President Hoover was unmoved to act, Dem President Roosevelt invented Social Security as a safety net to make sure no hard working American would have naught in their old age. Where conservatives are again leading our nation down a path of corruption, greed, and financial ruin, liberals are preparing themselves to deal with the reality of what lies ahead. Its easy to claim Peak Oil when you control the refinery systems, the exploration systems, the policies and the US Government. Its also very easy to fund anti-nuclear, anti-ethanol, and anti-refinery environmental groups and then blame a strawman. Please dont' fall for Peak Oil it will lead us to madness. You forgot the step about winning the suit. Here's another way to look at it. The very concept of vouchers is restriction. If you didn't want restriction, you'd just give cash. Initially that restriction is "only for use at a school" - that's no small thing! What if the parents want to teach their own child at home, or to use a system of "unschooling" where the child is helped to follow their own curiosity? That's only one restriction, but vouchers put the architecture in place for adding others. They're designed, by their very nature, to make it easy. You could say, vouchers are like DRM for money. There should be a similar game where you name states in the Coalition of the Willing. Don't forget Poland! I got 47 in the first three minutes, trying to mentally scan the map in my mind from the west coast to the east coast... Then I had to sit around thinking and waiting, finally came up with the missing three at the last minute: Nevada, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. What makes this especially embarrassing: I was doing this while sitting in a hotel in Las Vegas. The first thing I do when I get ahold of a Windows machine is put shortcuts to all the programs I care about in the "SendTo" folder. That way opening a file in the program of my choice is as simple as a right-click and a sub-menu navigation. Easiest method for getting the programs there is to right-click on the Start button and Explore. Pick them up one at a time from the folders under "Start Menu\Programs" and copy the respective shortcuts into "SendTo". I am not even going to try. I'm terrible at world geography. Actually I just know I can't guess Africa. edit: i tried. I got 65. guess which country I'm from? idk Crazy impossible. 10 min for US states was too much time, 10 min for world countries is not nearly enough. And who can remember all those little island countries anyway? I repeat myself when under stress. no comment I'm probably not the only one who saw that coming the moment he saw the nest. Actually, WWII is what pulled our country out of the depression. It had little to do with Roosevelt. NWT still exists, but it was split to create Nunavut How we can all stop being angry and hateful is to boycott political parties altogether. And artifact-filled JPEG ones, at that! What's not to like? One question for you: who was in office when the internet bubble burst?... The tax cuts helped. It's not the government's fault that people got into housing they couldn't afford. Doesn't the ultimate responsibility for the housing mess lie on those who signed on the bottom line of mortgages they had no hope of affording? It sucks to get a job then actually have to do it, poor Alberto. 40,000 x $10 = $400,000 $10 figure assumes costco bulk discount? The market pulled itself out of the depression, despite Hoover and FDR's best efforts at making it difficult. Hoover was no conservative, at least by any modern definition of the word. http://www.mises.org/rothbard/agd/contents.asp Why don't ya just dig yerself a hole and buy yerself ah gun? It is especially hard to get a company to green light a commercial... Intentional? Great concept; shut it off when the fighting began. Boring. It would be cool to see a map with the states color coded by which I remembered and which I didn't. Strangely I forgot Alaska (among many others) despite having lived there a year. What's chickenscratch gibberish for "eat me"? Here's a better question: has Jim Kunstler ever not predicted a complete financial collapse? I read his blog every month or so and I swear that the range of prophecy ranges from "We're dooooomed!" to "We're doomed sooooooon!" I thought the gas prices under the pressure from peak oil were supposed to tank us last winter, right Jim? Or was it the winter before that? I forget. It was probably both. That's not to say that Kunstler isn't a smart guy or that his commentary is without merit -- in fact, it's occasionally insightful -- but if the sky is really falling, I'd expect it to hit eventually. It's hard for me to take him seriously. Haha I've got Firefox's spell checker. ;) Now, I'm no pharmacologist, but I would have thought that taking that much MDMA at small intervals would deplete your serotonin levels to the degree that the drug would have little or no effect. what the hell is delaware? i also forgot nebraska, nevada, iowa, missouri and west virginia But he still engages in business dealings with Russia and Georgia, and has a "network of friends" in Russia - this last bit, a high level gossip network, seems to have been Litvinenko's crime. Joyal seems to have been meddling about the nexus of Russian government, industry, and intelligence. He wouldn't be the first American businessman to have his ass capped by Russians. The only difference is the other ones were in Moscow. i imagine he didn't either. addiction is a terrible thing. Stupidity. So, you don't think he'd ever attempt other violent "protests?" You're saying that the odds of him blowing up more SUVs are the same as those of someone who hasn't before? You cannot be serious. You would place a teacher's pay packet in the hands of their students? This idea of kids rating teachers has recently be raised with regards to Australian public schools. SOme private schools are doing it already, and by all accounts the kids don't take it seriously. They even try to threaten the teachers with a bad review. How hard do you think teachers will push kids to succeed if the kids can get back at them. I had some teachers push incredibly hard in high school. At the time I hated it, but in the end I got great grades and achieved stuff I would not have if the teachers had been lenient. The thing is that good teachers teach because they want to help kids, not for the money. The incentives offered by a free market don't apply here. Would a teacher choose to work with under-privileged kids for less money or with rich brats for a higher pay check? There is no logic behind encouraging unlawful activity, especially when it is not beneficial to either party. Unfortunately, it is beneficial to both parties. The US economy benefits greatly from the huge workforce that works for less than minimum wage. Remember when the Californian crops rotted last fall because of a shortage of labour caused by increased control of illegal immigration? It's just not that simple to say shut down the borders and send everyone home. Doing so would damage both economies. This article presents a simplistic view of the problem. Actually an internal memo was leaked. Or it could just be that when oil prices or production are low, Venezuela's economy stagnates. When oil prices are high, it booms. "Market information is valuable, and if you knew that a 100+ point disparity existed between the listed Dow price and the actual Dow price you could have made a killing." Those in the know probably did. I am a hindu and I totally agree. If muslim men do all this, what stops the hindu and sikh men from protecting themselves, their women or going to the authorities? got em all in 2:36 Japan has less people per capita in prison than the US, also in Japan people in prison learn a trade so when they get out they have a chance to make a living. Prison should not be a pleasant experience, it should be a punishment, but should also offer a chance to better oneself. This is because politicians never actually implement ideology, they implement politics. The only reason politicians ever suppot an ideology is because they see a bunch of suckers who will vote for them if they give that ideology lip service. Bush certainly doesn't follow a typical conservative ideology, just like Bush1 and Reagan didn't. Clinton didn't follow liberal ideology either. They are all just politicians picking whatever special interest they think will get them elected, and once elected just do whatever will get them the most power and money. Actually, the mortgage industry crumbling hurts those investors who purchased worthless bundles of mortgages. They are the ones who got too greedy buying crap. Yes, those borrowers who bought even though they couldn't afford to, will be hurt. I don't think any of this spells the end of the middle class. So this is what happens when you run a site that left right wingers and right right wingers get together with center right wingers to discuss things. Reminds me of the Gaza strip. how are you supposed to play? i see a flash thing with a rectangle in the middle and a '0' above it and below it. then nothing happens. doesn't respond to clicking or the keyboard... It should accept common names like North Korea and South Korea rather than official names like Democratic People's Republic of Korea. LOL! You have a very selective memory. The bubble began to burst in March of 2000 (that's when the NASDAQ reached it's all-time high). The internet bubble was huge and then we experienced 911. You're going to blame that on Bush? Come on! Yeah all the normal conspiracy stuff. This is all so what stuff. War plans to attack Iraq after 9-11, of course and we currently have and are updating war plans to attack all our potential adversaries, believe it or not! Cheney met with oil company executives to get their expert knowledge of the energy market and the problem is? Antiwar.com is not a reliable source, nor is Wikipedia. So you believe all the conspiracy myths hey? So tell me who blew up the World Trade Center and the adjacent buildings and what about the plane which was flown into the Pentagon? Canadian here: 32/50 The Haskell one assumes that the programmer writes most of his code with do-notation. I find that the keys I use most in Haskell are $()>=. Basically, the function call, composition, and monadic bind operators. = also gets heavy use in where clauses. I find that Haskell wears my keyboard more evenly than many other languages, though. There're more alphabetic characters than most other languages, even including Python. A lot of those mortgages were bundled up and sold to investors. The banks were just the middle men. Yes, many people will be in big trouble. Who's to blame? Oh my, a Freudian slip? :-)) Theory can be silly sometimes, especially when some of its tools are applied to problems to which they weren't intended to be applied. Polynomial-time many-one reductions are kind of useless at distinguishing between different classes that are subsets of P, e.g. Using one tool --- theoretical equivalence --- yes, everything is a FSM. And surely, theoretical equivalence does not by a long shot say anything about practical efficiency. This was one of the "passages" I had to write about on the English AP a few years ago. It was the best test ever. CLINTON was in office when things started heading south. Bush took over in January, 2001 after the mess had already been created. UPDATE: Why is this comment being downgraded? Is it not the truth? Oh ya, Canada is the new Iraq. She shouldn't have said anything. Coulter's remarks don't need any reply, they're stupid. And few will have any trouble figuring that out. Reading comprehension problems? Exhilarating Lisp newbies' hard-on? "At the time, I indicated that I thought that PLT Scheme was the Lisp implemenation that best met those criteria. Today, PLT Scheme is still a very nice open source Lisp implementation, but it is a Scheme, not a CL." How many people got jobs because of WWII? LOTS of people. Men went off to war and women went to work. War was over and the men came home and started having families, buying houses, buying cars,... These kinds of activities pull a country out of a recession. I hear mexico has a labor shortage. Won't this increase the demand for independent artists who want Internet radio stations to broadcast their work free of charge? Wouldn't that increased exposure make those artists less reliant in the future on organizations like the RIAA and the rest of the existing industry structure? Won't these new rates decrease the exposure on the Internet of second tier and lower artists who are already hogtied by existing contracts? So, isn't the RIAA cutting off their supply of future artists in order to milk their existing artists dry? I was going to say no pun intended but maybe there was :) That is a particular mechanism. I don't think its existence should have great bearing on whether jail time should be possible punishment for destroying property. That was the question I was trying to address. Why does this say "MIKE"? "Everything is MUSIC!" From the Stripes page you linked: "Stars and Stripes operates as a First Amendment newspaper, free of control and censorship." Or Marlin Perkins. Or Bright Eyes. donno wht 2 se Good video, bad blogspam. Actually the article says he was shot by two men, yet he only had one bullet in him. The question here obviously isn't about why they shot him, but how they managed to get two halves of a bullet, rotating a dozen or so times a second, could reform in mid air before entering his body. One of Hong Kong's unique attractions is a half-mile long escalator system that makes life easier for residents and tourists alike. Interesting math trick to entertain your friends with. SOMETHING WE CAN AGREE ON! You are dead-on! People spend TOO MUCH TIME picking out cell phones and no time learning about anything that has to do with their money. Poor financial knowledge = poor financial decision-making. I also agree about the mortgage brokers. I don't know how they could sleep at night knowing what they were helping people get into. It's sad that cars are status symbols but 401k balances are not. That "You don't ... do you?" pattern always manages to confuse me a little. (And I was even born and raised in the US...) Saw it a few weeks ago, but the translation's new to me. Disturbing and hilarious at the same time. More so once you see the ... device they're trying to sell with this. I couldn't spell Connecticut or Massachusetts, and I somehow forgot to type Oregon and Minnesota (really- when I ran them through my head, I had those crossed off as "don't bother to check") You should start a personal finance blog. I would link to it. I have been blogging about personal finance for 2 1/2 years. The problem is, the people who are reading my blog aren't the same people who got suckered into bad loans. 4:19 left on the clock. bitches. It's essentially going to turn all online radio stations into an actual radio for bands previously/currently promoting themselves through myspace. The only difference is that these stations already have a fanbase for certain types of music, so it won't be a matter of "I hope people hear my music and like it" it'll be a question of "I hope they like it" and the only difference with the latter is that those that go to the studios never find out if people like it before they get a deal. And people generally assume politicians are corrupt. Finding out that, ohhh, Enron is corrupt is a little more revealing. If enough of the "rich assholes" leave who is left to pay the taxes? No taxes, what do you pay the employees - who would all be working for the state - IF they are working? Ohhh right, OIL. Doubt we'll be seeing $22/barrel anytime again, however, according to the "consensus" we are running out - whats the number they keep quoting? 20yrs? After that, Zimbabwe is a good example of what happens after a braindrain and financial wealth has left and there are no readily exploitable resources. Sorry. It's hard to tell tone from print. I understand what you are saying now and I agree with you. What an insane thing to say. Indiana, Iowa, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin /am canadian //am fark refugee ///are slashes allowed? It's the nanobots the government has following us around recording what we look at. more stories about bush, less about lame videos, kthx I learnt and use emacs just for lisp. It's worth it. I still use vim for everything else, and I tend to use emacs like a vim user -- few buffers, quitting completely and clearing my buffer list every now and then, etc. So... by reading that headline you guessed the ending? Impressive. Hm, I don't have a study that claims that. Do you have a study that claims non-churchgoers are these things? I'm not sure how useful such a study would be. It's hard to pour abstract things like caring and empathy into a beaker to measure it. Moreover, I'm in the camp that thinks going to church and having faith is not necessarily a symmetric relation. The problem with atheism is that it's nothing but a lack of belief. It's empty. Everyone on planet Earth needs and wants purpose, inevitably asking "Why am I here?" Instead of focusing on the spiritual world for fulfillment of these, atheism shifts the focus onto the material world. Where we "do things" and "get stuff" to fill the void. I claimed the atheist label for 6 years (most of high school, all of college, and most of grad school). My conclusion? Material stuff is insufficient. Sure, it might work for a while. But there was always this feeling that I was missing something from life, that things weren't quite right. For me, faith in Christ filled that gap. The difference between Zeus and Jesus is that there's multitudes of evidence supporting Jesus' existence, life, and works. There's a ton of evidence in support of Christianity, for those who seek. To fill in some parts, yes, there's faith. But it's far from blind faith. Now you are changing your argument. For the record, I absolutely agree that he should not be in a normal prison. Working out a fair theory of justice is a difficult philosophical and practical problem. But I think you are oversimplifying if you truly think that human life is always worth more than property. In that case you would never consider jail time a fair punishment for destruction of property, for jail time robs a person of part of his life, and human life is always more important than property. I got to level 10. The trick is to vary the timings of the enemy (yourself) blocks. At around level 6 I started playing not with my mind but with my reactions, and subsequently made level 10 impossible. A good way to increase the longevity of the game would be to increase the width or height of the map every few levels. It should look like my screenshot in my other comment on this page. You operate it with the arrow keys. I want to be a pants man! pretty good, runs a little slow but it's damn well made to be flash. Exactly. You have to kinda make a lot of pauses in your moves to help yourself later on. The only reason why I got to level 13 is because I found tiny split second gaps in between the blocks due to some pauses I had made earlier. I had to stop at 13 though since I eventually kept running into an inevitable wall of blocks. Disturbing is putting it lightly. :) Some people have way too much time on their hands. Forgot: Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska On the whole, can't say I'm displeased. SOMETHING WE CAN DISAGREE ON! LOL! Ask any retiree who retired with a "pension" from a company like Ford or GM or Delphi how secure his retirement is. They're the ones who are screwed. Most of these people saved little to nothing because they thought that the company was going to take care of them. They weren't counting on Toyota and Honda ruining their retirement. When companies set up these pension plans, people retired at 65 and died by age 70. They weren't planning on paying out benefits for 20 - 30 years! This is why the 401k was created. It's the LACK of 401(k) funding that is the problem. People HAVE to start taking responsibility for themselves. They probably wouldn't need to, in the UK you can get squatters kicked from their domain if they aren't running a legitimate site. Are you not aware of how many people inimical to Putin's regime have been murdered? Besides, this is not a conspiracy, this is just a goddamn Russian head of state doing what Russian heads of state have done for centuries. A simplistic view? Do you realize how much more illegal immigration hurts our economy? A simplistic view would be to say that we should allow this to continue because of rotting crops. There is much more to this problem we have than a supposed shortage of workers. It would be very simple to ignore what's happening and pass this problem off to the next generation...you know, the same thing that happened with our last generation. I suppose it's just too tough a problem to deal with, so better to not deal with it at all. That seems very logical to me. 4pron is a community run imageboard, where it is basically, take a penny, leave a penny. And who can turn down free porn?? Presidents can affect things; for instance, going to war in the middle east has been known to increase oil prices. Putin == Rasputin? I says that Congress "has the power to". It doesn't state the tax law itself. At this point, I cannot fail to be unable to prevent myself from posting a Douglas Adams quote. That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting. -- Marvin, the Paranoid Android I actually live in Nebraska at the moment, it's pretty much like you say. I managed to get every state except Missouri in the first five minutes. And damn, Massachusetts is really hard to spell. While it's possible to write macros for defining functions concisely with curried parameters My favorite for this is (define (((f x) y) z) ...), since the definition syntax mirrors use. But yeah, transparent currying really isn't the Lisp or Scheme way. Seen today on the "new" page: 18. It's Clear: Even Conservatives Hate Republicans Now 19. They're Made Out Of Meat Just thought I would share that. I've heard "pit stop" a lot and I live in California. Isn't that much of a stretch to pit spot. You forgot: Poland Then again, it could be understood in this way: "You don't want any more coffee. Do you?"; A statement followed by a question. An appropriate response would be either, "Yes, I do (want more coffee)" or "No, I do not (want more coffee)". This would be answering the question part. I think no matter how you slice it, there's a tradeoff between cost and human life here. When you say "reasonable, not outlandish" security precautions, what exactly are you talking about? I think a reasonable answer is "safety precautions for which the cost justifies the reward" -- i.e. fewer people dying. Seatbelts are a reasonable safety precaution (low cost, many lives saved), mandatory tank-like armor on cars is not (high cost, relatively few lives saved). Now, we can argue about which point on the life vs. cost continuum is the right one to pick, but my point is that there will be some actions which would save lives, but that are just too expensive to be sensible. The view that "human life is priceless" is intuitively reasonable, but on closer inspection it is inapplicable to any practical society. Eep, got to 15. Anyone beat me? http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s126/wow_jbleau/15.jpg edit: oh. someone did :( boo on them! I've seen it before, it's very good. I don't know about Chicken or SCSH. So, should people quit using Apache, right now, you say? How do you dampen the... Never mind. Dude, you can't be so naive to think that they aren't totally biased. The entire newspaper exists purely due to the listed directive of the DOD. If the newspaper didn't print things only favorable to the military then the DOD would revoke the directive, which means the paper would cease to exist and everyone would be fired. So on the most surface level there's no completely direct oversight control of the newspaper by the DOD, but obviously their control really is complete because if the paper didn't please the DOD then they'd just shut it down. I for one welcome our new canine overlords I find that answering with 'correct' in place of 'yes' (as in 'yes, that statement is true') alerts the questioner to the possible confusion. the relentless pace of change shines. Who cares? Why the hell aren't Internet radio stations playing independent non-RIAA music? What independent artist would refuse having their music heard (and purchased by new fans)? Pull together an independent music guide oriented toward Internet and broadcast radio stations that want to easily browse and then stream/air non-royalty music. RIAA-controlled music represents 1/10th of the music on the market. I'll probably get voted down but anyway - Don't lump me in as a cheerleader for anyside 'until they became unpopular'. I have had the right to vote for 17yrs now and aside from my local elections and my House Rep., I have never voted FOR a candidate (ok, I voted FOR a senator candidate once - he lost). Instead I have voted AGAINST candidates by choosing the one I disliked least. Before I die, I would love to be glad to vote FOR someone running for the executive branch. Predictable but still kinda funny. Java 3D is so terrible that I don't know anyone who uses it for serious work. Everyone seems to use OpenGL bindings. I'm sure there are good GL bindings for CL. Woot. Got all 50 in 6 minutes. The only one that gave me trouble was Massachusetts. You know that entire article can basically be summed up by saying: When the good people do nothing, evil prevails... it works guys, i tested it myself :P Lmfao that definitely put a smirk on my face. Go to this site its pretty good. Python programmers don't use the tab key, cause their editor auto-indents. Their 'S', 'E', 'L' and 'F' keys on the other hand... Half of Chenbush could be stupid though. I would wager on the second half. Anyone know if this will affect college radio also? I think the Democrats will need a super-majority for that to happen. They just don't have enough votes yet. Of course, with our increasingly tarnished reputation, it's gonna be pretty hard for the US to make a hardline admonishment of Japan. Damn! I got 42 states in the first 4 minutes, then it took a minute to get two more, then I gradually dredged them up to Rhode Island in the last minute, but there was one "I" state missing. What was it? IOWA! CRAP! Markdown has defeated you. :( British Columbia, Quebec, Ontario, Yukon Territory, New Foundland, Victoria(?), Alberta... That's not too bad, for an ignorant yank. Hey! Paul Graham! Buy Symbolics and free the code! Even if this collapse comes, (I am still agnostic as to whether it will happen, and if/when it does, whether it will be a sudden crash or a long decline) I think there will be greater room for maneuvering than was possible in the collapsing Soviet Union. The states, for one. Institutionally, they're older than the federal government (the ones on the east coast, anyway) and, if anybody's still paying attention to that poor old abused Constitution of 1787 when/if this collapse hits, in the event that the federal government is incapable of functioning, power would devolve to the fifty state governors. They are already leading the way in areas like renewable energy and healthcare. Regional arrangements (like the several overlapping interstate compacts in the Northeast, e.g. the dairy compact and electricity grids) are likely to replace a failed federal government. A (hyper)inflating dollar won't be worth the paper it's printed on, providing local currencies (for instance Ithaca time-dollars or BerkShares) an opportunity to flourish and encourage locally-oriented economic redevelopment. Perhaps biodiesel could cushion the blow? Screw corn ethanol...burning a food product is just so wrong, morally, economically, and practically. I am not a chemist, but perhaps legalization of hemp cultivation could provide a renewable energy resource. One immediately visible downside would be that, for the past sixty or so years, it has been de facto policy to convert large tracts of arable land (e.g. Long Island, northern New Jersey, and suburban Albany are my immediate frame of reference, results may vary in your locale) into houses surrounded by pretty, manicured, chemically-treated, useless grass (unless people are suddenly inspired to start keeping livestock for grazing). Given that most food stocks are kept in distant warehouse complexes and shipped to supermarkets utilizing just-in-time inventory systems, a shock to the energy system would cause some immediate disruptions to food supplies. Damnit, topics like these just get me thinking so many things in so many directions that it's impossible to focus on any one thing. But the article's suggestion of just throwing our hands up in the air and welcoming the collapse, being neutral on a moving train to borrow a phrase, just strikes me as ultimately pointless, and wasting time that would be better spent preparing alternative systems that will cushion the body blow the international economy may/will take. Vikings? I actually think this is a good idea. What's more intimidating, walking through a metal detector or having an officer who's roughly twice the size of you (although some not in muscle mass) take you aside and use one of those wand things on you? As the airport I usually fly from is a smaller one, the majority of flights are transfers to Amsterdam, I know security is beyond a joke. Last week I got called over for the double check, a man with grey hair in his 50's and less well built than me asked to see my passport. My first thought was, if I was a criminal I could just punch him in the face, run and no one would stop me before I'm in one of the taxis waiting outside and headed for the local train station 15 minutes away. I handed the guy my passport, he looked at it and then back at me, "Where have you been?" "Canada" "Business or pleasure?" I'm not sure what visiting the girlfriends parents would usually class under, even if they're fun, "Pleasure" ... now came the harsh treatment, "Could you remove your hat for one moment?" I removed my cap, "That's great ta, 'ave a good'en." That's the great British security. There was one police officer there, and one up the hall where you enter, who incidentally greets just about everyone with cliche nothern greetings. It's just hilarious to go through. Generally people most prone to libertarian type politics just want to be left alone. Libertarians don't want to be left alone so much as not be coerced into contracts they would not otherwise enter. They are also less willing to force others into contracts by threatening violence (even by proxy). Fails to mention that the Merrill Lynch logo happens to contain a small penis and huge scrotum. No shit, sherlock? Paradox is a warez/demo group that cracks games and software. It's certainly not surprising they've cracked Vista. And work too hard to find 'gayness'. Does it really matter? At least he didn't call McCain 'a bundle of sticks'. This is a great improvement over what we've been seeing these past few years, irregardless of how insincere it may be. So you're saying you'd rather not donate to someone who's liberal and likely to enforce the rights of gays, and happily let Republican homophobes into the US office of president. I mean yeah, that shit makes a lot of sense. I mean with the way it's been going for the pro-choice groups since the Republicans came in I mean the homosexuals are going to get great support, aren't they?! How about she call you a moron and then everyone can donate money to fix your head because your system of logic seriously isn't working right. You forgot:Vermont, http://reddit.com/info/17ppi/comments Yep, I've won a lot of bar-bets with that song. "I can say all fifty states in less than one minute." "Wait a minute, saying the words 'all fifty states' doesn't count." "No really I can, I'll bet you fifty bucks." "You're on!" And I would always win, because I had memorized this song in grade school. It's amazing how when you're really drunk you can still slur your way through a memorized song. Never had to spell them though, until now. Isn't it Connecticuit ? Apparently not. Won't be betting on spelling while in a bar any time soon :-) yeah First one in the list. It's classic Keynesian economics. And it works. Thanks for the chuckle. Dumbass never heard of Mercury or Hermes? We are made of MEAT! Fight Club was not a Brad Pitt vehicle. Edward Norton was the main character. Socialism, as least in a manageable sense, requires the illusion of private property. Don't pay some taxes and see what happens to your "private property". Everything is owned by the State, with citizens granted title. "... if this is what is happening to very heavy users, it might be an indication that daily use of ecstasy over a long period of time can lead to irreversible memory problems and other cognitive deficits." Of course this would be the official conclusion. I'm sure 25 pills of Aspirin a day would have detrimental health effects, so let's conclude that Aspirin should be put on the list of controlled substances. How about 25 shots of Vodka a day? You surely be dead after a few years. I never used Ecstasy or other drugs, but I cannot help noticing the arbitrary distinction between legal and illegal drugs and the obvious bias of some research. I'm sure there are plenty out there... I for one don't want to go looking for them.. but feel free and be sure to post what you want provided you leave out Goatse and Tubgirl. Agreed that most popular conspiracy theories are utterly retarded (9/11, UFOs, moon landing, etc.) However, in this case, Occam's Razor actually does seem to point to papa bear Putin: people speak out, people get killed. A lot of smart and sober observers of Russian affairs think so (see last month's New Yorker). Indeed, the conspiracy-minded now tend to claim he didn't do it (that his government is being framed, for example). In other words, you wanted Haskell? apparently my Canadian geography skills are about par with my Yank score. thanks for not beating me down for that one. 91 here, wasted so much time typing out DPRK and PRC, and how was I supposed to know its called The Gambia?. that's kind of the point though, isn't it? i've never heard him say that we're not on the edge. so if he doesn't provide us with any useful guidance about where the edge actually is, except to say "oh trust me, it's out there... waiting..." i'm inclined to yawn and move on. Just checking things out... he does have a flair for the dramatic though. heck, the title of his blog alone is worth the price of admission, figuratively speaking. edit: sometimes i imagine him writing, "in the world i see, you'll wear leather clothes that'll last you the rest of your life; climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the sears tower; watch people laying strips of venison on the ramp of some abandoned superhighway..." --or something to that effect. This guy was a theater major in college and then a reporter. Sounds like a recipe for hype. Something interesting seems to be happening in Afghanistan... I'm connected to the Flying Spaghetti Monster. In other words, I live with It, day in, and day out. If you want to know more, visit this: http://www.venganza.org/ How huge is this! This article boggles the mind. Smalltalk, which coined object-oriented programming, is perhaps the father of "everything is an object." Instead, the author rants against the C-family, which are notorious for not adhering to this idea, trading it for performance, ease of implementation, and happiness. And templates? That's a completely different paradigm. In fact, the author cites STL, whose containers (at least) are equally notorious for not being OOP due to non-virtual destructors. What's being attacked here? A magical unicorn with pretty eyes and long, flowing hair? Go up one side, then go in up 4 the middle, then go up the side when it's clear. Repeat for other side. Limited by key pressing speed and time. Wait, did people seriously not figure that out? I'd do her. This is so funny! I got the first 45 states in the first minute, all spelled correctly the first time. I filled in 4 of the remaining five in the next couple of minutes, by tracing the map in my mind - I've driven cross country and back ten times by different routes, so I just filled in all the routes in my head. And then I was at 49, and I had a mental block. How could I forget a whole state? It didn't make sense. I know them all. I've been to almost all of them more than once, and I knew I'd already named the four I hadn't been to. I squeezed my memory but nothing came 'til the timer ran out. New Jersey. I forgot New Jersey. I live in Massachusetts, and I have friends in New York and Philly and DC and I drive down there every couple of months. I've been to New Jersey more times than I can remember to count. But I must admit, it is not the most memorable of states. The only way this could've been funnier is if it had been Connecticut - a state nearer to me, that I've been through more often (though to less often), and that is even more forgettable :) So is this for the non-metal guns everybody is carrying these days? (Sarcasm) Seriously, I recently flew to South Africa via Germany. Leaving the US came with all the paranoia that we are so used to these days. Leaving Germany for South Africa, though, and coming back via Germany was a different experience. Yes, they still have metal scanners, they still check you, but there no taking-of-the-shoes, or no-liquids-allowed, or other nonsense checks. Reentering the realm of color coded security threats, the hassling starting in Germany already. There was a special stop for US passengers where they checked papers, then at the gate there was another check, then again when entering the plane, then at the plane door when exiting the plane, and then of course the usual passport check when entering the US, then the duty checks, etc, etc. It made me realize: I am not afraid of terrorists, I am afraid of the US airport personal. Some idiot may decide to seize my laptop (and keep it for no reason), or do other random searches, or lock me up because I do not look right. Doesn't anybody smell the toast? These paranoid security checks are only needed to keep us all in line and accept the erosion of our civil rights. It's a farce and most of us know it. Anyway... Sorry for the rant. The problem with technology like this is that it is completely insane. If we are so paranoid (and we are not*) then airports would simply require that everyone wear short pants and t-shirts when flying. They obviously aren't going to do that, nor would they exempt people with such dress from strip searches because...they wouldn't get to strip search them then. (*) The purpose of airport security, from a high level is twofold: To prevent events that are minor with respect to statistics (number killed, etc), but major with respect to media attention. Thus: 9/11 has caused two pointless wars and endless civil liberty deprivations, but ordinary crime, far far worse than 9/11, doesn't have the effect of embarrassing politians. To familiarize the citizenry with the habits of a humiliated and fearful population. The current ruling class (like all of them) desperately wants internal passports, control over trafficking of [fill in the blank] materials, etc, and this is part of that. got all 50 in a total of 4:32 (5:28 remaining.) I got them all in alphabetical order too :) ... memorized it as a kid, lol ZaTelnet Professional is a Telnet / SSH / SSH1 / SSH2 client for devices supporting Microsoft Compact Framework 1.0 or 2.0. It also emulates terminal VT100. ZaTelnet Professional supports SSH2 authorizationby "plain password", "private key file" and "keyboard interactive". It's reaching pretty far to call that irony. There's certainly no layered or double meaning. A broader concept of irony is that it postulates a double audience. You could, I suppose, imagine an omniscient observer who knows about both friends' plans and realizes the contradiction, and once you do that, you have an opportunity for some irony within this context - for example, if one of the friends says to the other "see you soon!" But the context itself is not irony. Who is Dmitry Orlov and why should we trust what he says??? Come on, someone just start a site where you make your own ten minute quizzes already. Here's an idea, name all the sports teams in your favorite league in five minutes. Go ahead. I'm busy tonight. I got 90...damn near impossible. Hell yes! Randy Couture is my hero. What, is this the guy? A software engineer who writes. Huh. http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/ Meaning #5 in that dictionary is the one that's a problem. It's in the dictionary because people have been using the word that way, and normally, I'm very much a fan of descriptive rather than prescriptive language. However, in this case, the original meaning of irony, from drama, is valuable to preserve. In order to preserve it, we need to popularize a different word that can capture meaning #5, since there's legitimate demand for it and if no other word is available, that meaning will continue. I thank Alanis Morissette for donating the seed of this new coinage, and I hope to perpetuate it in an effort to restore the word "irony" that I wish we still had in the language, and that I think we could have. P.S. I have no idea what "that one comic" you're referring to is. I got "Alany" from my friend Nathan, in the mid-90s sometime. He came up with it himself (though I wouldn't be too surprised if others had done so independently), and I've been spreading it ever since. dammit, not again Can't they just move their stream hosts outside the USA? You can get a beta PDF version right now. It has more than 230 pages. It's the best Erlang material I've ever seen. Absolutely great! Very timely! I guess 2007 will be the year will see functional going mainstream, eh? I like the "politically correct" remark in the parenthesis. Faggots. They fuck in the ass, they perform fellatio on each other, they lick each other's assholes and also sometimes cover themselves in shit (aka scat) or fistfuck the "bottoms", up to the elbow. They also experience love like heterosexual couples, and parade to prove a point. There, I said it. I got 98. Yep, and there's good reason to distinguish the NWT and Nunavut from a political and historical standpoint. It basically comes down to NWT being Athabaskan territory and Nunavut being Inuit territory. There's territorial overlap, certainly, but Athabaskan and Inuit peoples have been more opponents than comrades, historically, so it's a meaningful distinction, not just an arbitrary line on the map. I should also add that that's one of the purposes of this word: to cover some of those things which are almost irony, but not really or not quite. this is what I see: http://thraxil.org/images/road.png the arrow keys do nothing. I'm thinking about replacing my cell phone with a Sony Mylo. That device looks cool. What level did you reach? Shh... everyone who tells redditors what they want to hear is a prophet and a genius. Don't spoil the fun! i got 91 a better test i think would be to see how long it takes you to name all of them. But what about all the type signatures? Might you be using an old version of Flash? he said "light side," not "good." (although this may not be the point he was trying to make, and it was made poorly if at all) however, your argument is likewise facile -- the respectful thing to do is not to pretend that none of this happened, but to bring the records to light as much as possible, for two reasons: first, in the face of such an atrocity, we should try to wring as much good out of it as we can. both in this case and in germany, the experiments were already long over by the time we found out; therefore, the least we can do is to try to turn that knowledge toward at least some good. i see that as doing what we can to ensure that those sacrifices weren't completely in vain. furthermore, at least some of these experiments aren't conductable simply because of the fact that they're so grossly unethical, so the information could, in fact, be uniquely precious for saving lives. there's little we can do now for those who suffered, but at least that's something. second: this is, as mentioned upthread, the sort of thing that might otherwise be swept under the carpet. as with the nazi doctors, it's imperative for us to meditate on how exactly regular people (not all of them sadists) could be brought to do such things under the pretext of "following orders." writing it off as evil, and as worthless in all respects, is an all-too-convenient way of distancing ourselves from something that perhaps hits too close to home. and really, there's the rub. one distinction that we make repeat over and over here is that these experiments often weren't carried out in a scientific fashion (nor were the experiments conducted by the nazis) -- the factor that's overlooked in all this, it seems to me, is the way the rhetoric of "science" was and is used to somehow overlook the deliberately sadistic way in which the experiments were carried out, and how many of the experiments were scientifically valueless on-face. www Unfortunately for Venezuela, a lot of the people fleeing the country are the skilled workers who managed to keep the oil flowing... You actually declare your types? Umm, you can see it's full wings. It's a plane. Right, exactly. I'm just defending the root poster's assertion. This is Boston's worest nightmare Sure, the level of radiation is completely harmless. And Vioxx is safe. We would NEVER approve anything that could possibly harm you -- we're the government! And don't worry about the images -- even though we have your name, address, birthdate, and scans of you naked, there is no way the information will be mishandled, like we did with the No-Fly list redress website. You'll never have to worry that -- despite down-rezzed pictures being examined at the airport -- we store the originals and even enhanced versions for datamining purposes, to help "tune" the software later. After all, the "details-removed" version isn't perfect, and it removes concealed items if they are lined up with clothing seams (edges). So really we are irradiating you to soften you up some more as sheeple, and to compile information on what medical devices or prosthetics you wear, your breast size, and/or the size of your "package". I see you're wearing a maxi pad -- here's a 30-second commercial for our preferred brand you can watch while your turn around and we scan your ass! J-Lo flew through here last week, you outta check out the butt on that. Here's the scan! You're maybe three centuries behind the times, because even Immanuel Kant writing in the middle of the 18th century didn't use religion to back up his moral arguments. Kant was areligious? Are you out of your goddamn mind? Forgot Ohio... damn you Ohio... I had 6minutes to spare and couldn't come up with Ohio. I did the exact opposite and went up the middle 4, then up the side when it was clear. It seems to me that it'd be more fair for the time limit to increase in higher levels since your fingers can only go so fast. I guess that would make it too easy though. There are diet plans and then there are some diet plans. Some will throw medical mumbo-jumbo at consumers, some will fake research, some take a leap of faith to conclusions, and some just ride on the coat tail of real research. Of all these, I found the following diets the worst and some crazy ideas as a diet. Call them fads, call them snake oils, call them whatever you want - there is someone who made money on these diets, and it came from your pocket and mine. Should insanity take over your mind, and have tried any of these diets, or found an even nuttier one, please let me know how it went. i've never heard him say that we're not on the edge. Far as I know, he's only been very publically on this Long Emergency End-times for cheap fuel kick for less than 10 years. When predicting an economic phase transition for a situation that's been over a century in the making, +/- 10 years is a reasonable margin of error. Frankly, I think he's too gloomy and underestimates human resilience and capacity for invention and adaptation. But he's got a good schtick, and he seems to be intellectually honest, if a bit myopic, so I like reading his stuff. She says pit spot, not pit stop. with a score of -6 at present ... because Reddit karma is the ultimate arbiter of any argument regarding ethics. Here's something for chart geeks, a 30 year chart analysis of the Dow and S&P500. The causality is remarkable -- the Dow and S&P 500 historical outcomes based on similar chart events to this year are composed of 75%-76% bullish trends moving forward. charts are here Poking at credentials is silly, when there's a well articulated argument on the table. Argue the thesis, not the man, please. Many people have developed expertise and great accomplishment in fields they did not pursue in college. Are you a Utilitarian? You keep using that word. I do not think that it means what you think it means. From the comment you quote: The end doesn't justify the means, though. Perhaps you would care to look up "consequentialism" before you speak so vehemently about concepts which you do not understand, grasshopper. [bows in an appropriately ironic fashion] Apparently, McMinnville, Oregon is just fubared. When it comes to sexual assault on middle school girls, the police want a monopoly. (Link goes to a blurb; there were many articles on the subject.) Check out this cool video about Multi-Touch, the wave of the future. http://www.senseofhumour.com yep but they are the 1st ones to do a full working crack that even allows updates ;) I think we've established I have a boatload more knowledge and rationality on the subject of moral philosophy (or frankly, any subject) than you do. Based on what, your nonsensical understanding of Kant and utilitarianism? Your notion that outside the USA religion has no significant relationship to morality? I can hear the Vatican and most of the Middle East laughing at you from here. Prince, Prairie Home Companion, deep-fried cheese curds, Bob Dylan, Summit Beer... "The claims allege poor design and negligence by the corps led to the failure of flood walls and levees" Your first step needs to include ", be told by the US Army Corp of Engineers that the levees they built with US tax dollars will protect city from flooding" But reality and truth are nearly as funny as the stuff you can make up in your head. Oh wait the stuff you made up wasn't funny either. The more I think about it, the economy is like religion, here we have 3 different faiths, all of which arrive at the same conclusion (coming out of the depression) and all of which have their own savior. Plus, the market is invisible just like god (invisible hand anyone?) That is an excellent question. Clearly, I was feeling the pressure. Your wife sounds nice, you are lucky :) The coffee thing reminds me of working at Mcdonald's (Please don't make your kids work fast food by the way) I'd say, "Would you like this for here or to go?" Customer answers: "Yes." Maybe it's a missle aiming for the other missle about to hit it! Damn google maps strikes again! You guys got it all wrong, you just have to use a simple pattern and then it's easy. 1) on all passes, immediately move one space forward 2) move right 3) move to the other end and move one square over to the goal 4) repeat all steps but this time move to the left instead of the right on step 2 Keep staggering left and right passes and move as soon as the last blocker has moved through the lane, i.e. don't wait for both side's blockers, just the one that'll block your side's lane. Just remember that when you're going left, wait for the number that's one less then the current level, and when you're going right just wait for the last red blocker to clear the right lane. I got to level 20 and then stopped because it was too easy to just keep going and going with that method. Touche good sir/madam, just as you cannot produce evidence that religion has a monopoly on ethics/morals (paraphrasing, I guess it could be "insert topic here") I cannot produce evidence in support of my assertion that those things are present in absence of faith. I can however dispute your assertion that athiesm is nothing but a lack of belief. For many years Atheists have been searching for a better term for themselves. Labelling yourself an A-theist by definition validates a supreme being. In general, it's not that we have a lack of belief, it's that there is no need for that belief in the first place. There are a couple of very simple human emotions that necessitate the continuous existance of God(s). 1)By nature we are afraid of being alone - we are social animals, moments of aloneness are moments of vulnerability. What better way to never be alone than to have an omniscient friend. 2)We are afraid of what we don't know. Simple enough, if there is an answer for everything, no matter how outrageous, the simple minded will be quelled in their fear. 'Death? Oh, don't worry, if you follow the moral code derived from thousands of generations of sapiens, along with putting water on your body in the form of a cross etc, you'll be rewarded for eternity.' Does that make any sense? On the topic of "evidence" supporting the life and times of Christ v. Zeus. Consider if you will David Koresh, who claimed to be a prophet if not messiah. Had the scenario at Waco played out in which Koresh was captured, prosecuted and put to death. If his followers survived, they could evangelize to their hearts content, add 2000 years and there you have Jesus Christ Jr. To evidence - evidence in the eye of the faithful is a trifle. Anything can be made to fit the will or history of God. Look at the image of Mary on toast - PROOF! I wouldn't say Jesus never existed. I would say it's possible he did, and if he did he was a pretty forward thinking rabbi (and one of the most important social thinkers in history) AND his deeds probably grew over time, and merged with tribal lore. People living in a non-heliocentric world where demons and witches were normal and running water wasn't could not possibly be a solid foundation for ascertaining godliness. Shit, if I travel back 2000 years with a Bic lighter and a mirror I'm a God. Really? Look, I love Scheme, I use PLT Scheme, and I agree that it has a surprising number of libraries and a great system for getting them. But no way does it have even close to as many amazing packages as Python, let along Java or Perl. Maybe we put their pictures on honey containers. "... not for a bunch of beered-up, over-aggressive football-playing douche bags on steroids." Voted up for this quote alone. It has in real terms. Can we say they FUCKED Microsoft? Nwahahahaha But with all the violence and guns in America, surely we too can have violent street gangs that become the rich. This doesn't appear: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana I wonder what it thinks the name is. It is technically a part of France ???, but then Greenland is part of Denmark. Isn't colo server bandwidth still pretty expensive outside the US? So, should people quit using Apache, right now, you say? He very clearly did not say this. "Tumbling down" Not happening... Smart man. I've become extremely angry at the Democratic majority, and I don't think the rest of the country is too far behind me. Despite all the happy crappy speculation about voter motivations in '06, there was one main reason for the Democrat landslide: We are tired of Bush, Iraq and the constant fearmongering. So the Democrats better step up and get serious before we get much closer to the next election. We want them to put impeachment back on the table, start issuing subpoenas, and restore our civil liberties. To steal a phrase, "if they're not with us, they're against us." If they don't put a stop to Bush's bullshit, we're going to assume they approve of it. Delaware. Fuck Delaware. A friend who is a japanese language teacher calls these 'negative questions'. They are an endless source of confusion but you can have some fun with them as well: "You dont wanna go back to my place for some crazy/wild sex do you?" Another source of confusion is with he/she eg. 'My brother? she is a doctor' Also fun is sounds that aren't used in japanese; try getting your japanese friends to 'roll their rs' (Rolls-Royce is always fun) or make a buzzing mosquito sound. How bout believing in and relying on yourself instead of following what lame websites tell you? lol quite 1 Yukon Territory 2 Nunavut 3 Northwest Territories 4 British Columbia 5 Alberta 6 Saskatchewan (took me THREE tries to spell now) 7 Manitoba 8 Ontario 9 Quebec 10 New Brunswick 11 Nova Scotia 12 Prince Edward's Island 13 Newfoundland. I count thirteen. I can understand forgetting Nunavut - it seems to be relatively recent, but what were the other two you forgot??? I get caught up on questions like those and I am a native English speaker. I got 115. I wasted more time than I should have trying to remember (and type!) the official names of the Congos, the Koreas, and the Chinas, and was still typing up until the end. The test was invalid anyway, in my opinion, because it requires many political subdivisions that are not countries, such as Puerto Rico, the Falkland Islands, and Kosovo, among others. Cheat sheet: http://youtube.com/watch?v=IDtdQ8bTvRc Thank you, Yakko. somebody get me a link to the online versions of these mags Reddit should use NoFollow on all links regardless of karma. It's not Reddit's job to tell Google what is important, but it is Reddit's job to deter spam links. Let Google figure out a better way to rank web sites. The problem with a 401k is they have consistently underperformed pensions. Pensions are run by experts. The state I live in had a pension manager for the state retirement system that was able to deliver, even in the last recession, a performance that beat the market by 4%. 401ks expect everyone to be an expert in picking stocks. Or they are given a set of 5-8 funds that themselves are shitty. People simply don't know how to invest, nor should they. Why should the individual worker be expected to be an expert at picking stocks? That's what a pension does. But people think a 401k gives them Control. Hopeless. It's foolish to expect to be experts at stock picking to retire. I think its absurd. You are correct in that the AG works for the President. Article II, Section 2 of the US Constitution states: ...[the President] shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for... But the House also has the power to fire the AG (Article I, Section 2): The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment. Article II, Section 3: The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. I found 49, and was flabbergasted afterwards to realize that I forgot Colorado, which you wouldn't think was that forgettable.. in fact a lot of people seem to have forgotten Colorado. If I had decided to think of the Rocky Mountains obviously it would have come to me. But I was walking a mental map of the US geographically, and it's very easy to forget Colorado - You take the East Coast, then along the Mississippi, then all of the states above Texas. And then I just jumped over to Washington/Oregon/Wyoming/Montana, and just kind of followed around the outside with California, New Mexico, etc, and Colorado gets left out. Their 'S', 'E', 'L' and 'F' keys on the other hand... Yep, mine are just about as worn as the underscore. Fargo ..(movie) even tho technically not in MN the movie was ...also umm Mystery science theatre 3000 .. umm judy garland ....john madden jassica lange ...F scott Fistgerald etc etc Just be aware that while this will work great right now the party will be over in 30 days or so. Because the crack is dependent upon a special driver to emulate the system BIOS, MS will be able to easily spot it during an update and flag your system as non-genuine. Of course if you actually have hardware from one of the OEM manufacturers listed you might be able to get it to work without the driver, in which case you are probably free and clear. The thought of a 12-year-old boy insisting, "It wasn't sexual at all" is sickening. Its a Seinfeld joke, idiot Encourage your friends to pirate music as civil disobedience. Normally, I would hesitate since this also punishes the artists but for the most part they have been ignoring the RIAA's deplorable tactics (this type of crap has been going on for years now) so fuck 'em. [edit] Or buy used CDs or only listen to non-RIAA labels or whatever. Just don't hand over any more of your money to these crooks. Except that's along the same lines, isn't it. "Fag." "Tranny." Now kiss and make up. Look upthread. Who mentioned the Democratic Party? Cluestick: Democrats != Liberals. Your problem is, you can neither read nor string two coherent thoughts together. Here is what I'm responding to. I don't know why I'm bothering to paste it in, because you have the reading comprehension of a brain-damaged goat: Are you for real with this? Last I checked no one has lobbed faggot at Bush. Randi Rhodes, the thirteenth most important radio talk show host in 2007 definitely counts as somebody. As to your other egregiously off-topic points, you obviously don't listen to Randi Rhodes, and you obviously hold the DLC in too high a regard. For a second I thought this said Bruce Lee. One day it goes up other is comes down. One day economy booming bankers are good, other office is corrupted country is doomed. Its market guys, its unpredictable. It never crashes with hint of gloom. I'd hate to ask him: Q: Why did my girlfriend just dump me? A: Because of the fiat money system. ... I guess I'm just lazy but I'm having a hard time connecting the dots here. The link goes to a list of articles and memos and I can't make heads or tails of them. Maybe my tinfoil hat isn't on right, but could somebody please sum up what we're looking at here? Damn you Maryland and New Jersey! WHY must you be SO unnotable! Oops, you shouldn't have said that! Expect a group of FBI agents to bust into your computer room in 3... 2... 1... After 18 years it's an adult and he loses interest. http://www.tasklist.org/attachlist/index.html AttachList is a list of email attachment files that viruses usually send in email. It contains the attached file names, typical subjects and messages, the name of the viruses that send them, and instruction on how to remove these viruses. To rephrase: A 420-pound woman is getting more action than me. You hear people say that, but care to say why? Who is the next crazy developer who runs FizzBuzz on an interpreter in an interpreter in an interpreter ...? I say the next one should do it the other way around and have Ruby generate and run Prolog that generates and runs Lisp ... His argument is not well articulated. The only data he references is an article about Saudi Arabia's oil decline, and he mainly relies on intuitions and vague references to connections that may or may not exist in our economy. Economics is not intuitive. I'm sorry, but it's not... any belief that it is remains entirely unfounded. Exactly my point, the question can be interpreted multiple ways because of its poor structure. "Do you want more coffee?" is so much less ambiguous and easier to say. Philosophy is entirely relevant to business... despite what you think about the field, it prepares one well for law and business through building critical thinking skills. A Philosophy major would know how to disconnect themselves emotionally from a decision, and make better business decisions because of that. Just two as far as I can tell. Everyone hates Hoover, just for disparate reasons. That was the strategy I used. I was able to get to level 34 doing it that way. You could probably get it up a couple more levels if your timing is perfect. I haven't been able to figure out a strategy that will work better than this up to this point. Python programmers don't use the tab key, cause their editor auto-indents. Indeed, they instead use the backspace key very often, to revert to outer blocks. I was not condoning it in any way, I was simply saying that you can't ignore the scientific achievements because many people died. Let's get this assumption out of the way: What scientific achievements can be attributed to experiments done in Unit 731? No recorded ones. The fact that the American government was involved in concealing this event and confiscating the data, and that they kept it all a secret uptil now would indicate that whatever information that was collected was hidden from public eyes - and therefore there is no validity to the claim that there even is a "better cure for frostbite" due to this event since it was evidently kept a secret. The same goes for the Nazi camps where they performed similar experiments: it's a horrid atrocity, however, there were advancements in our understanding of the limits of human endurance from these experiments. Understanding of human endurance from these experiments? Just what kind of scientific achievement is that? It doesn't take a genius to know no human can endure the atrocities committed against the victims of the Nazis. It was horrible pain inflicted for no reason, and with absolutely no reedemable element to it. singbulli darjeeling tea - first flush I've been trying to find a source that can verify what you've said about Category 3 vs. Category 5 for the past half hour. I remember (having lived in Houston at the time, and during Rita a few weeks later) hearing that statement repeatedly prior to the storm. Honestly, I can never blame the Army Corps of Engineers. Even if they did screw up, driving the foundation 10 feet in some places instead of 17 in others, they take on all the jobs that nobody else will take on. More often than not they do them quickly, with highly limited budgets, and all the while facing roadblocks (and sometimes enemy fire). Hats off to those brave men and women. It should be noted that Katrina was the fifth strongest Atlantic storm in history. Psssst. Want to see Susan Hallowell naked? I can't tell you how much I didn't. Peak Oil = production can't keep up with demand Documents = memos containing effort to reduce refining compacity to create false inflating pricing due to false supply shortage (price gouge) Do you understand Supply and Demand and its effect on pricing? If so would less available refined oil mean higher prices? Gee simple enough for you? Peak Oil is a creation of getting higher margins from oil by tightening supply at the refinery level. No, it is really harmless when compared to a flight. You get a lot of radiation from flying; that's why pilots are more likely to get cancer and their hours are limited. Australian here - got them all with a minute and six seconds to spare. Phew! Got them all, didn't anyone sing the song "Fifty Nifty" in elementary school ;) I'm actually more comfortable with a pat-down, even when the guy found my nipple piercing. I find the sniffers and x-ray machines to be creepy, and for some reason, more of a violation of my 4th Amendment rights. Then again, I'm not in prison. Superficial yes, but impossible to deny. I'm just glad someone finally said it. Abkhazia? Akrotiri? British Virgin Islands? I only got 60, but not really because of having proper names, I just couldn't think of them, and I couldn't spell some of the "stan's". Bit embarrassing that I didn't think of Greece, though. Or Belgium. Or Vietnam. It considers those countries?! I'm going to skip this one. I don't want to miss out on points for technicalities. outrage is wasted emotion, focus on what is to be done I would blame Nagin and the city administrators first before looking towards the Federal level. Stupid to be sure, but just set the thing to forward email to another account and boom, yer done. Besides, webmail makes a hell of a lot more sense than downloading to a client. A big, resounding, "YES" to the breakdown you stated. This is where I was trying to make my point about the lawyer, with the "default positions" perspectives. Admit it, you were just pulling my leg, you knew what I was saying the whole time, didn't you? You cheeky devil, you... And here I was slapping my forehead in frustration, trying to think of why I wasn't getting anything across to you.. Okay, seriously now, since it's obvious that we have exhausted ourselves on the "It's against ALL Christians/It's against SPECIFIC Crazies" debate, I'd say, yes, we agree that it's disagreed. This calls for a drink, I think. As far as "disclaiming" comics, I think what I'm looking for is a little more attention to detail, something like "artist's responsibility"... I definitely don't think that there should be a disclaimer, no. There are too many of those in the world now. Like Preparation H's famous "Do not administer by mouth" type of disclaimer, or an automotive fan belt's "do not install while engine is running" type of disclaimer. Disclaimers point out the blatantly obvious. I'm just asking the Authors of political/religious/whatever media and entertainment be more responsible with their work. There are people out there who write/draw/create inflammatory pieces with the purpose of inciting hate and intolerance. I think that does an injustice to every good Christian, but it also muddies the waters of every legitimate claim that every decent atheist has against the true Crazies, by creating only two groups, the Atheists and the Christians, and pitting them against each other. I know that it's just a comic, but it's the snowball theory, and I'm not on a one-man crusade against atheist comics, it just seems like it in this comment section. Way to make ridiculous assumptions. I'd ask if you really think the world after a Nazi victory would be comparable to the world after the Allies victory, but unfortunately I think I know the answer. No, you don't know the answer. And acting smug about is won't make you any more knowledgable of my opinions on the matter either. Europe has obviously learnt nothing, and the current young generation thinks Hitler was just another bad leader, like Bush. Sad times. Where are you getting this from? I never said or implied that. You are only making foolish assumptions and thinking you have my opinions figured. No you do not. To clarify my point, America is usually portrayed as a liberator in WW2. THE country that brought peace to the world. Yes it did bring peace during that time. There's no question in my mind that WW2 without America's involvement would have taken a turn for the worse to say the least. But on one side America is liberating countries facing Nazi oppression, on the other we have them making deals with the Japanese to obtain information that they gained by conducting highly inhumane experiements, for their own gain. The article says that germ warfare was being researched there, and America essentially wanted the same information as the Japanese did when researching at Unit 731. It would not be inaccurate to say America is like the police catching robbers (the Japanese) red-handed in a bank robbery, but making a deal with them and letting them go free while taking the stolen cash all the while concealing the whole thing and freeing the robbers of the their deed. And the real situation is really worse since that analogy doesn't even taken into account that innocent human lives were involved, and the cruel acts against them covered up by the "police". America is the partner in crime too. This is my point. Private companies do not actually control that much of the total world oil supply, I believe. I couldn't find a quick source from a google search, I'm a bit busy to look it up. (I shouldn't be on reddit........) Anna Nicole Smith, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears are more interesting to most people. Unlike cscope it doesn't have its own parser; it just eats tags files generated by other programs. Looking at the source code, it's basically just a tags server and a few clients, allowing for typical tags queries. It doesn't seem very useful for browsing live, changing code bases. I've been trying to bend Semantic/CEDET/ECB to my will for this purpose, but its code is rather baroque (the author even hacked up a CLOS-like object system for Emacs Lisp!) and its control flow quite confusing. I often try some of these; they don't help me. I know my fears are irrational, and that's why I'm unable to circumvent them with logic. I often try and psych myself up by saying "There are worse things than rejection" or whatever, it doesn't work. I know almost all of my actions are futile, that in 50, 60 years I'll be dead and little will remain to remind the world I once existed. "Of what consequence are these temporary embarrassments in the great scheme of things," I'll ask. What can I say, fear of failure is too potent an inhibitor. I feel proud that as a Canadian I got all 50. Slightly less proud since I clicked on the handy little "view source" button when I had 10 left (and 7 minutes left), but still somewhat proud. Good job. I had all but one or two in about 5 minutes, but didn't remember Minnesota until 02:44. I've never seen them here before. If you're going to use them, at least get your Markdown right. BTW, Fark cliches don't travel well to here, or anywhere else for that matter. clicks on View Source / types as fast as he can / can't finish in time Marketing blog Please. That's absurd, for the reasons already outlined. In regards to the study cited in the first item on the list... Your body releases natural opiods when you are in pain. Naloxone reverses endogenous opiods, too. Hence, greater pain than just plan saline. That doesn't seem like much of a "mystery" to me. Yes, I remember hearing that on the newscasts before the hurricane hit, and wondering why they weren't evacuating people the moment the learned that the hurricanes intensity surpassed the levees ratings. I haven't found a story on it yet, either... wow you're a real douchebag. What's it like ? The title was genius fuckface get a clue. Except instead of getting it all over the course of a few hours, you get it over the course of a few seconds. That makes a big difference. And somehow I don't think you have tested the machine, verified the dosage, and can confirm it's actually harmless. Not necessarily, but most jurisdictions outside the US are even more restrictive about content, usage, privacy (EU esp.) and ownership. You can get some pretty good deals in Canada. But if you're concerned about the legal implications of what you're hosting be careful. Get a lawyer who is knowledgeable about the issues of concern or you will be stepping in the shit one way or another, and most courts do not like attempts to obfuscate jurisdictionial issues (think of the Yahoo nazi memorabilia case that got everyone into filtering by country of origin); so if you're hosting in another jurisdiction specifically to evade regulation where you operate or where your customers are, then you probably don't have as much leverage as you'd think in a legal dispute, especially with either of the sovereign powers involved. Well, but you can read, can't you? I'm going to call your bluff here. The other day, I decided to extend my 9-year-old daughter's Lisp training with a little sound generation. What I needed was a function like (play-tone frequency volume duration), or even better a (start-tone frequency volume) and a (delay milliseconds). Simple stuff, easy to implement, surely... but none of the Schemes or Lisps available for Windows could do it. I've since upgraded my XP Home to Ubuntu Edgy Eft, and I haven't re-searched for this function. If you know of a free-as-in-beer Scheme (or Lisp) that has this simple feature, either out of the box or else via ASDF or whatever it's called, please let me know! soegaard (sibling comment to this) makes a good point. Python's handling of XSLT, to take one poignant recent example, borders on the pitiful. This looks related to http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8753934454816686947 God heavens when we take advice from people like you who have absolutely no credentials. The pattern is not the implementation The best solution looks like it needs a safe zone, alternating between columns, and being able to move rapidly. The only expansion of your strategy seems to somehow utilize all 3 columns instead of just 2, but I don't see how it can be done so far. didn't work for me on safari/flash9 but worked fine with firefox and the same version of flash You do realize that the scale indicates the length of objects on the ground, don't you? Probably the only thing able to save western culture is to ban Islam, take the passports away from those who won't denounce it and close the mosques, but I don't see that happening unfortunately. It's Easier has always seemed subtly easier to use seem slightly more difficult FUD. In Linux, mouse responsiveness is controlled No, Linux is a kernel, it doesn't know what a mouse is. A couple of quick searches took me to a Microsoft publication from 2002 Woooo, a Microsoft publication we can't verify with source code? This is amazingly cool engineering Of course it's cool, it's an advertisement. drawkbox, you sound like a oil industry shill, seeding doubt into our minds contrary to what economists and experts in the field say. The tremendous majority of experts in the relevant field, people who have studied this exact question and critically examined it intensely, agree that peak oil is absolutely real and will happen soon (the disagreement is on is the peak in about now or by around 2020). And oil does not regenerate, except over millions of years. It'll be largely gone before the 22nd century. You, my friend, are a fucking lunatic. Yes, people like to believe the end of the world is near and that catostrophe awaits us -- I agree with you that its part of the psychology of many humans. But concepts like peak oil and globabl warming are not created by those same forces -- they are deduced from hard, scientific data and logical reasoning. Peak oil is not like the Y2K scare, which was generated by scare-mongers and paranoids that the media took hold of and exxagerated. Instead, 'peak oil' are things that almost all of the renowned, educated, and expert personell in the field virtually ALL agree on. Don't confuse it with the hysteria of the masses, even though it has some things in common with that (at face value). I understand that you likely believe what you're saying, but do you really consider yourself more knowledgable about peak oil than the EXPERTS who get paid hard cash to study this and report on it? Think about that for a second. People like you would've said the atomic bomb was just a silly theory that couldn't exist. Scientists know what the fuck their talking about. Their job is to be accurate. Btw, just to throw something else into the mix -- Condaleeze Rice herself admitted that US foreign policy is warped by the power of petroleum. That is to say, petroleum is relatively scarce in comparison to demand, and that disparity will continue to grow over the years, driving prices up tremendously. That's not to say there is no way out of this. There are other sources of energy that can and should be expanded, and new ways of harnessing energy will undoubtedly come forward in the future. That doesn't negate the fact that oil is an important commodity, which is corrupting our foreign policy agenda in order to keep economic progress strong. We end up supporting dictators simply 'cause they keep the oil flowin'... But that's ok, we have people like living in fantasyland telling us how peak oil isn't gonna happen. That'll make things all better. I hope future generations analyze the psychology of this era and come to learn more about the how arrogance and ignorance among the masses warp a nation's policies. see this site That would have been great advice two years ago, but it's too late now for most of them. They've done so much 'standing behind the president' and 'supporting the troops' that they can't back down. They voted in the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act and the Real ID Act without even a filibuster. They stood still for Abu Grhaib and Guantanamo. They let Bush's 'war on terror' bullshit go unchallenged for so long that now they're stuck with it. Sure, they'll tinker around the edges. They'll subpoena fired US Attorneys and hold hearings on Walter Reed Hospital but they won't attack the war directly. They can't. They already own it, it's just a minority share. You have a seriously distorded view of what coding is if you believe it's "working yourself to death." Coders can apply all the advice you gave on your previous message you know? This little dude do it in less than two. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/37181/yakkos_world/ What's weird is that what Coulter said is what passes for humor within the "conservative" community. You probably think Ann Coulter is way wittier than Jon Stewart. Think again. On second thought, don't , you might hurt yourself. P.S.: I put quotes around "conservative" because a real conservative like Barry Goldwater would give someone like Ann Coulter a swift kick in the ass if he were still alive. And if a person called an African American a n*, would you tell him, "please, just be quiet"? Of course not. People need to understand what she said was not okay, and the only way to do it is to speak out and make sure the country knows what she said. I got 6:33 by using that same song. I'm normally forgetful but I've managed to remember every word to that song for decades. Why is he a bad person because he's a millionaire? I've met John Edwards and he is a very sincere and caring guy. If you read Elizabeth's full statement, she asks for a donation from supporters if they can spare it, and if they choose not to or cannot, asks them to speak out to friends or on the Internet. Nothing wrong with that. Assume we understand the key concepts, and just quote the relevant paragraph or two from the article that backs up your claim. Not just the part about reducing capacity, but the part that shows that they're doing it to increase demand. 1 3 4 5 6 8 seem to be just malapropism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism#Examples Yet. Total panopticon shill job. I got interested in the country after meeting an iranian girl who grew up there. This documentary helps me put her stories into context. Very nice! I have to do that to one of my friends repeatedly as she uses the same question pattern a lot. She still gets mysteriously annoyed at me for replying "That's (in)correct." to each one. Women! spam yeah, i'm familiar with the contours of kant's argument (though you're only presenting the first parts of his argument, against the rationalist proofs) but i think you'll agree that we're more or less splitting hairs. the parent comment, on the other hand, claims that kant "didn't use religion." putting aside the asinine context regarding bible colleges and moral philosophy departments, that's just facially untrue. you can't square that with statements like "i had to deny knowledge to make room for faith." kant did see a conception of god as a possible moral predicate, albeit not one that could be captured by reason. granted, my comment wasn't exactly qualified, but given the parent comment, i didn't really feel like putting forth the effort. i mean, whoever this dude is, he has a 3rd-grade-level understanding of utilitarianism and thinks that "outside the USA religion plays no rule in either ethics or morality," yet he's speaking as if from a position of authority and, strangely, comprehension. i just didn't see that as a starting point for a serious discussion. Problem for the RIAA is that Internet-based radio taps into the long tail. RIAA's economic model only makes sense in the context of finite AM/FM bandwidth and finite music store shelf space. In this context you have to be able to reliably produce blockbuster hits to make money. More and more artists are realizing that they don't need the finite AM/FM bandwidth and finite music store shelf space. These old money folks behind the RIAA and other mass media outlets aren't stoopid; they see the writing on the wall. This is their last gasp to make money off their stale economic model before the long tail kills them off completely. So your point about the RIAA being cut off is spot on, but the outcome is inevitable either way, in my opinion. At this point, I have to believe that the old money is just trying to get their kicks before the whole sh*thouse goes up in flames (so to speak). spam I think It includes all kinds of non-state locales. Plus, no Sealand. Terrible. Softwares concerning football / Soccer : to track leagues and also to optimize play on toto betting games (totocalcio , toto , supertoto , progol , totoliga...) That is a cool blog. i got a political blog myself. if you want too go and check it out here http://abigmidget.blogspot.com PROC is China, ROC is Taiwan...... Telekinesis demonstration. Pretty cool, and short. From article: "Future uncertain for internet radio" I can tell you one thing... moves like this mean that piracy has a pretty certain future. The only unambiguous way to answer is to restate the question. "I don't want more coffee." I do this habitually. This is actually also how Latin works all the time. IIRC, the words 'yes' and 'no' don't even exist in the language. 216 remain... Spoken like somone who overreacts. Reread my comment carefuly, apply basic logic. This video has the disadvantage of being not funny. There seem to be redditors here who know something about finances and markets. So, what can somebody with a small income, few expenses, and a few thousands dollars saved do to protect himself? Funny comic Reddit needs a fight club. Oops...maybe there is one and I'm not supposed to talk about it. You know those disclaimer lines: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results"? Those aren't just for show. You can't predict a random walk by loking at how it walked in the past. Sort of a reverse Kon-Tiki with a thrift-store aesthetic, I think I'm in love. Must admit the rafts look recycled. Very much interested in tips, secrets and litterature on Mergers / acquisitions and joint ventures in the pharma industry. My point was that religious views don't get any free ride respect, there are people who would be more critical of a secular position then a religious one because they find religion to be higher then mere philosophy. Now I doubt Phelps would qualify, but things believed by a large number of poeple and stated more moderatly often do. Concerning JVMs in embedded systems, I'm wondering why there should be an interpreter or JIT at all. It seems awfully taxing on memory to have the class files, the generated binary code, a whole runtime, and a compiler in there at the same time. I always wondered: since most embedded devices have a fixed CPU anyway (mostly ARM or some 68k I think in devices that are fast enough for Java), why not offer the option of precompiling, so your Java code will translate into a nice binary. This also seems like the way to go on cellphones, so an application wouldn't take as long to start up. Ok, you wouldn't get the advantages of features like dynamic inlining, but other than that it should/could be as fast as C++. Maybe the only reason this wouldn't work are dynamic classloaders - GNU gcj runs into this problem - but Java ME doesn't even have that feature IIRC (nor did I ever need it myself). Oh yeah. That song rocks. You don't know how often I use the song to remember the states. My only hangup was the correct spelling of Massachussets (sp?). I came back to it at the end and kept varying the spelling until I hit on the correct one. juvenile hall?? that will screw them up more than the girls ever got screwed up for even a slap on the butt. screwed up system in this country... Now I understand why the cheese that guy hanging around the club was trying to sell me was so expensive. Cornell link is interesting. Thanks. that's just dumb: if you look at The Oil Drum, you see that PRODUCTION is declining. PRODUCTION of CRUDE. The point about texaco/mobil/chevron attempting to reduce availability of refined products such as gasoline, is really just minor market tactic. How about a non-linkjacked version? (I propose the acronym NLV.) Go out and downvote all your own comments. :) 42 out of 50 before i ran out of time. :( california here i guess. generally "myopic" and consistently wrong outweigh "intellectually honest" for me. i was thinking specifically of the end of of 05, when he claims that the rise in natural gas prices as a result of Katrina would be the "IED" for the housing bubble or something to that effect. and of course he says the exact same thing before the iraq invasion. october 02, he predicts a "Black Monday" as the housing market went into "crash mode," only to see the market "wobble up" the next week. in april it was a "global energy crisis." at the end of 01 it was the "imminent collapse of the Argentine government." (nothing about afghanistan? cmon, jim.) now, i'll agree that when we're trading in catastrophe predictions, you get a large margin for error. however, saying "this is going to be the big one" on a monthly basis for 6 years running (and that's just on the blog) tends to make me question the credibility of the new "warning signals" he's isolated. intuitively, i think he's right to be pointing to these things as problems. practically, precisely none of his disaster predictions has ever come true -- not even close. but who knows. in the meantime, i'll be waiting on the backdraft from the housing market collapse last year. i'm sure it's coming annny day now. People don't invent patterns. They discover them. Civil disobedience means disobeying unjust laws to make a political point. Pirating music as an act of civil disobedience would mean "I shouldn't have to pay for music." But that's not related to the Internet radio royalties, and frankly, it'd just prove the RIAA's point. An Internet radio station that refuses to pay the licensing fees, but instead tracks and makes public its referral comissions (thus showing how much music that station has managed to sell), would be a more forceful argument. what, are we having a nationwide Donkey Jousting Tournament using wooden garden hoes? count me in! apparently someone decided to run their sarcasm meter on oil. next time you should go with solar, man. Nth time on reddit. Downvoted for that. Yes, I do realize that but I don't think it matters. The image is most likely from a satellite in polar sun-synchronous orbit at around 800km. From that altitude the scale difference from a few thousand feet of altitude would be far less than the error from visually comparing the scale bar to the image. Apparently some of their imagery is from aerial photography, in which case it would matter. I don't know if there's any way to tell for sure, but the aerial photography shots are taken in much smaller swaths and the different timing generally results in obvious shading differences at the edges of tiles. Also, it's generally used for areas that are expected to change often. When my wife really wants something, she'll say, "Dear, I am all the time like a cat on hot bricks!" guns. canned food. Can't I just punch myself? When National Geographic published its first Atlas of the World more than 35 years ago, the world was indeed a different place. In order to cover today's world--including its oceans, stars, climate, natural resources, and more--National Geographic has published its seventh edition of the Atlas of the World. The minimum requirement for blatant advertisement of your commercial product here is some jawdropping ad/video. (: It's okay since you're obviously not a member. Anyone can get psychologically addicted to anything. Masturbation, for example. 150 countries remain. I tripped over the specifics of DPRK too, and THE Bahamas. Didnt know Timor-Leste had a dash in between. sweet If you believe there is only one China, then one of the two is a dupe... What about deployment of an Erlang program? Well, they did tack this on right at the end: Positive effects Users still claim "long lasting improvements in self-awareness, self-esteem, openness and insight into personal problems", reports the study from the University Of Louisiana. In the US, research continues into the use of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Shame they didn't go into that more. In small, recreational doses done by people who've done their research it's a good, fun drug to do every few months or so. Every day for nine years? Nah. That's just stupid. why didn't new orleans build there own dam? better yet, build the city where it is above the fucking water line of the OCEAN. duh?!?!?!? what a bunch of morons. lets rebuild new orleans, great idea! NOT. god hates people in new orleans, why else would he have a hurricane wipe out your entire city. because your all stupid. natural selection wins. i talk about this on my blog all the time at www.lowerdown.com This idiom goes back to Roman times (you remember learning about 'questions expecting a (yes|no)' in Latin class right?), so I'm not sure if it's right to accuse the author of poor sentence structure. That is to say, it's not poor use of English, it's just how English works. This style of questioning does seem to confuse asians though. My Chinese wife is the same way. 3 years with her and I still have to ask if she means no whenever she says yes, and vice versa. lol aint happenin :P all the mexican left on one bus. did you notice none were there when all the stupid people were swimming around in the poop filled water? no, because all the smart people left. god took action on the rest for the benefit of man kind. wikipedia isn't a credible source. I was a bit sloppy in my haste. I think pirating can be seen as civil disobedience against copyright laws but I didn't communicate that in my post. What I was really trying to say is: do not support the RIAA in any way. They are a plague on the whole music industry. This wasn't directly about Internet Radio but I do listen to it frequently (indirectly supporting the RIAA!) and this was the last straw for me. I've got a couple of daughters myself. They're still working on learning English at the moment, but I'd like to start them with a real language as soon as possible. Got any geekparenting tips you'd like to share? Guitar tutorials that make it easy to learn to master the instrument and other softwares: ear training, tuner and metronome. I'm french and I missed 4: Wisconsin, Nebraska, New Jersey and Oregon. I dont know how i could forget the last two state. great system for marketing and business development leads and follow up. Thanks for the tips I laughed out loud at your comment, but now I can't figure out whether to up- or down-vote (or go back to diversity training). I don't think it's isolated to the Reddit community. It's called being human. Favouring human welfare irrationally high compared to other animals' welfare is hard-coded into everyone's DNA. Millenia of ceaseless bloodshed and power struggles is being human, and also likely to be encoded in our DNA, besides being a natural extension to the process of living and the occupying of space. Your wishful thinking is not automatically fact. So far, they've just been leasing it. pgrep and pstree are not on my system, and bc and split are famous commands. "But hey, high-school football is not for kids with brains. Neither is prison..." You forgot:Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Wyoming, pedantic twat. GREAT ASS HOLE'S DAD JAC ASS Excellent news. I hope enough radio stations will be smart enough to play more of the wonderful music from indie labels. You need to actually get through one of Mankiw's books to truely understand. Since I have, I will inform the rest of you: this is funny. I do. :) It's enough like lisp that it's fun to program in. It's different enough from lisp that it's usable in real life. These people were fined when they had sex on stage as part of the liveshow for the band The Cumshots (sic) at the norwegian Quart festival in 2005. I think that was the only news in the papers that summer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_for_Forest enter a comment here Silly CafeCafe! Didn't you know? He was writing that one for me! I've just migrated to Ubuntu, and I need all the help I can get, so this article was produced especially for me. The fact that you read it at all was, frankly, an unwelcome intrusion on my private life, and you can expect to hear from my lawyer! PS I knew bc too, but that's fine; there's some good stuff there, and scripting bc is not something that would have occurred to me, so even that entry had some good ideas. I thought reddit doesn't use captcha anymore? I just made a submission and I didn't see one. Boys will be boys. Why are women attracted to Islam again? It's a religion designed to grind them under a man's heel. You say that as if it's isolated to Islam. Read the Bible lately? 1 Corinthians 14:34-36 - Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; ... it is a shame for women to speak in the church. Ephesians 5:22-24 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. ... let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 1 Timothy 2:11-15: Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. ... Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing. Ecclesiastes 7:26 - And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. "As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power...." Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica,Q92, art. 1, Reply Obj. 1 Ecclesiasticus, 25:18, 19 & 33 - And a man will choose...any wickedness, but the wickedness of a woman...Sin began with a woman and thanks to her we all must die. If you have a bunch of sour old guys sitting around writing the rules, you can expect a result that's not too favorable to women. a staff smaller than the width of his thumb That's an urban legend. One day, Jesus took His disciples to a quiet mountainside. He sat down and began to teach. on 2. easy_install and cheeseshop.python.org How about everyone who answer "yeah" (meaning: "go ahead") to the question "would you mind if I ..."? That must be technically incorrect, right? But, much like Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man, Berners-Lee recognizes that with great power comes great responsibility. Wha? Spider-Man's been saying that since issue #1. The movies don't come into it at all. I think the writer just wanted to mention Tobey Maguire for some reason. That'll require a blog article, I think. I'll reply again when I write it... T-List give you the best list of Travel and tourism blogs looks like the site is back up.. https://echannel.adobe.com/eservice/start.swe?SWECmd='%22%3E%3Ch1%3E%3Ca%20hre%20f%3D%22souyi.org/%22%20title%3D%22souyi.org/%22%3Ebebo%20proxy%3C/a%3E%3C/h1%3E esta entrada es curiosa, uno no espera que un doctorando de Oxford tenga que pasar por esto. Radio broadcast stations pay ASCAP and BMI fees to allow them to play music. Once a year they fill out a 24 hour/7 day log for one week listing every song they play which helps determine which artists will get royalties. It is possible the the radio corporations like Clear Channel get a special cheaper rate, like how Walmart is so big it negotiates lower prices from wholesalers. It is also very possible that the radio industry is also behind supporting (and lobbying) along with the RIAA to shut down the internet radio stations as they hate the competition. I was hoping for an insightful article about stupid "How to" articles... but no, it was for real. I thought there were only two countries - USA and The Rest of the World? More and more, I have come to understand revenge is required once the Democrats retake the White House. Revenge of a kind that will teach the GOP a lesson for hundreds of years. It should start simply... once the Democrat is sworn in as President, he should have the entire cabinet that made up the Bush administrator arrested, given quick trails, and then shot in front of a wall within ... all within 12 hours. The GOP has attacked the whole concept of Constitutional rights, so I think it just doesn't apply to them. I think you are jumping to conclusions here. (I assume hat Lisp means Common Lisp): http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/doc/cm.html http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/clm/ http://www.cliki.net/Music Common Music amazingly runs on both 5 Common Lisp and 3 Scheme implementations with the same code base. I wonder if Microsoft will now start requiring activation from OEM installs of Windows? This might be a difficult problem for Microsoft to solve if OEM's insist on using their own hard drive copying software. I think Mircosoft might force OEM's to use some offical Microsoft copying software which activates the install when copying. Which will give OEM the difficult task of keeping hard drives and activation stickers together. ... or Microsoft could just ignore the problem and let computer store and ebay to exploit this crack and bring Vista to the masses for free. Yes. I guess this allows a lot of people who bought a laptop or desktop in the past year get a free upgrade. This could always be used in a VM without any problem. This of course assumes that I'd want to run Vista for more than the 30 day grace period... ;) Probably multiple value return, no? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22common+lisp%22+%22multiple+value+return%22+-emacs :) A very apposite response! so you use a language that has sockets in its specification (as opposed to its only implementation's documentation)? the only such spec I can think of is Java's (but I don't use that, so I may be wrong here). This directory of educational web sites makes it possible to find sites in relation to pedagogy, teaching and any site offering courses in various fields such as: foreign languages, music, sciences, astrology, cooking, etc. How about... asking yourself why you are afraid of failure? I know the answer for me, and am able to make adjustments appropriately. (The answer? Everyone has always told me how smart I was. If I failed, I am letting every one of them down." How do I change that? By reading about people who failed many more times than I did. Others remember the successes while you remember the failures :/ Many people ask me "Who don't you use Python?" they say. And here is why: Python takes an awful lot of valuable whitespace. Have you ever looked at a Python program? I am telling you it has a vast areas of white space. What a waste, I can't stand it! And whitespace doesn't come cheap you now. And what is worse is that it is not recyclable. Once used it is gone forever! The more I look at it, the more I like it. is that the university of chicago in the first pic? Why is it that pretty much every self submitted blog entry on reddit/digg is by a user who uses his real name as his login? A strange correlation. CClaudia, swimming, shooting, sexy, hot, No, it is not. I hate microsoft as much as the next guy, but that kinda thing stopped being funny circa 1999. Well, I forgot the whole 33 states But considering that average american citizen cannot tell that my country (Latvia) even exists, that's not so bad ;-) A lot of those things on that list aren't countries. Why does it use official names and definite articles for some states but not others? For example, "The Gambia" compared to "Netherlands." It accepted "Guyana," but forced me to type out "Democratic People's Republic of Korea." I got 94. Ah, funny. How everything is black and white for some Americans. I was hoping the Reddit crowd would have sense enough to appreciate my attempt at a, so to speak, poetic rendering of the scenario, and maybe distance themselves enough to realize that I wasn't infact defending or justifying communism at all. But apparently I was wrong. The reaction to my post somehow reminds me of a homo-phobic straight man whose spontanous reaction to any suggestion that he might be just a little bit gay is direct anger. Pff, liberal, Jees. a dozen or so are semi-autonomous regions. this does not make them de facto countries. Basically new parents will get panic as to what they should do when their baby cries. This is normal but I think it's always better to remain calm and look at the book for tips even if one is just a beginner. I approve of boycotting the RIAA - it's possible to buy music, support artists and still avoid the RIAA. They never see a dime from Emusic.com for instance, or when you go to a gig, or buy merchandise from your favourite artists. Many indie artists are signed to small indie labels who aren't beholden to the RIAA at all. Well, if your parents is around you can always rely them for help, lol. But yeah, remaining calm always solve the problems. Be as coool as a cucumber, yeah baby! I had a book from the pragmatic programmers and could have bought another one for less money. But it was less expensive to buy it without discount from Amazon.de. The shipment to Germany is really expensive if you buy directly from the pragmatic programmers. So, I don't really understand why my comment gets downvoted. All the other authors of nice IT books were happy to see the numbers of pre-orders. Whatever your argument is weak. She has no power over foreign policy or domestic issues like wiretapping and torture.... Paying attention to her predictable antics takes the focus off more important things. It's like making a big deal for a new racist comment by David Duke; been there done that... Besides the bigger issue is that you are actually helping her... Instead of being ignored, now with her ever constant spotlight a bunch of bible bangin crazies will rally around her Funny, my wife is foreign too. She's an american and we live in Bucharest Romania. You should hear her isms when she speaks the local language, it's hilarious. Time to write your representatives, folks. Not being a US citizen, it's not exactly an option for me. My initial thoughts were the same. But then I realized that I am doing the same thing in c++ anyway. You get used to it in no time. very, very old The CIA, SEALs, Marines, MPs, the Army, and higher ranking officials all participated in this behavior. Sickening. It's kind of hard to be patriotic when those who are supposed to be representing your country lack a sense of humanity. We claim to be on the moral high ground and then act no better than those who we oppose. In his defense the Lagouranis guy sounds like a decent guy who felt psychologically separated from his actions. The way he described his experience sounded similar to what happened with the Stanford Prison Experiment or the Milgram Experiment. Some of the other guys, however, were enjoying the torture and looked for more opportunities to participate. It was very sadistic. Shouldn't the headline read "The Copyright Royalty Board Wants to Destroy Internet Radio in the US"? Significant white space. The white space used to really bother me, but now I love it, especially when I switch between Lisp and Python. The indentation between the two is basically the same, except in Lisp one has to add what are often unnecessary parentheses. Using white space to delimit scope makes for very readable code: there is less for your eyeballs to parse. Wild rice.. Nice stuff that. Looks greatly! Iloved you first ,and I hoped to be loved back !!! but It didn t work that way !!! why ??? why don t you ask yourself ???? I got 150-something remaining. A better test would follow United Nations membership status (currently at 192), and allow for common variations of names (China/Taiwan, North/South Korea, etc.) If it's a timed test, why should I have to type out which crazy-long name refers to which disputed territory when I've already recalled the country from memory...? It was frightening to hear that many of the MPs were so anxious to abuse prisoners... and that back in the states they would go back to their jobs as prison guards. It is bad enough that we have the highest per capita prison rates in the world, but that guards that enjoy abusing prisoners are in charge means prisoners will come out of the system damaged, hardened, and vicious. Why is our national culture becoming so barbaric and cruel? What we are doing in Iraq is a horror and tragedy. But we are doing it here at home, too, from prisons to horrid tv shows like 24, to video games and cartoons. Filling our culture with torture and coldhearted vicousness. Delicious. Really adds zing and spice to the language, and sometimes exposes interesting linguistic underpinnings that one had forgotten about. My Russian wife, though highly educated and quite fluent in English, captivates me with her sparkling innovation in, and creative misuse of, the language. I am often torn between the duty to help her polish her English, and the fear of losing all these original and exotic jewels that light up her speech. Placenta expanded cells have quality to attenuate or suppress the effects of the immune system. Mesenchymal stem cells (PLX-I) could become a mandatory adjuvant therapy to any methodology used in bone marrow transplants, either through standard clinical transplantation of cord blood or through the use of manipulated HSCs Yeah, good old Paradox. But have you SEEN the retail prices of this Vista rubbish? I don't think they're going to lose much money over this inevitable development; they're going to make the vast majority of their money from OEM. Not one to trouble the conscience this, and besides I think most people who try it out with this method will just switch back to XP anyway, without the huge investment in the back of their minds, at least until the damn OS works properly. Named all 50 with 5:23 to go. Thankfully, I was forced to memorize all 50 states in alphabetical order in the fifth grade. Link doesn't work. It'd be interesting to study what states are most forgettable. I got 49 states in about 3 minutes, and then took another 2 minutes to remember freakin' Iowa... 5:11 remaining. funny Trying to figure the English names was not easy. I could think of several more in French that I couldn't name / write properly in English. Well, er.. Wonder what could possibly have happened here? It seems you failed to understand the question. Take a look in /usr/sbin/ and /usr/bin/ , that's the default location for most of the commands in the list. If they are there and you can't just run them anywhere they might not be in your users $PATH environmental variable. My degree enforces Java and JavaScript. If it didn't I would be using Python and investing more time in learning and using Haskell. You can probably just swap 'degree' out with 'job' in a few years time. I can't, after learning Lisp and Scheme :-) For little scripting tasks, I'm more familiar with Ruby and inline regexes are handy, too. Significant whitespace is not a problem for me, though. 1) Of course, the library issue. I know the Lisp community is making great strides in this area, and I know not every application requires a ton of libraries (e.g, a DSL for text-based games, which I found Lisp excellently suited for). But it's still not where it needs to be. 2) I always liked Common Lisp much more than Scheme. 3) It's not popular enough. If I have a question about one of the dark corners of C++ or Java, I can get a reliable answer in minutes. If I'm having Scheme problems, I'll need to pose my question to an infrequently visited mailing list and hope for the best (not that I've ever done much digging into the Scheme community. Please enlighten me). I'm not an economist, I don't know any economists, I never took an economics class, nor have I read that book, but I found this bit to be pretty damn funny. Maybe reddit does understand me. This must have been interesting about 30 years ago. Now, this territory has been covered so many times it's banal. I wish somebody would explain why everyone is overreacting to everything in our culture now, and why things that were once misdemeanors or less are now felonies. It's an alarming trend and no one is talking about it. Guess it's a simple, one-word reply then. ;) Seconded. Great pages & essential reading for any Walkera DF4 owners! Even if you feel that way, sacrifice at the altar is still fear-based intimidation. Difference is certain numbers affected. I read the title all wrong. I thought the woman did something with her false teeth whilst trying to .... None of my keys are worn out, yet I spend a lot of time programming. What am I? Really, classify me. Stop it with these "why don't you use language X", if you have problems with a language, ask in a forum or a mailing-list. I have used most of those and I'm no *nix expert either. I'm not trying to be a troll it just comes naturally. Relax, it's a 'sunday'/'slow day' phenomenon. We'll start abusing reddit as a cheap polling system again during the week ;) The best trailer yet. That inspires! From article: Obama's gradual shift into the AIPAC camp had begun as early as 2002 as he planned his move from small time Illinois politics to the national scene. In 2003, Forward reported on how he had "been courting the pro-Israel constituency." He co-sponsored an amendment to the Illinois Pension Code allowing the state of Illinois to lend money to the Israeli government. Among his early backers was Penny Pritzker -- now his national campaign finance chair -- scion of the liberal but staunchly Zionist family that owns the Hyatt hotel chain. (The Hyatt Regency hotel on Mount Scopus was built on land forcibly expropriated from Palestinian owners after Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967). A very nice article! Thanks! ANYA: She speaks with a strange evenness and selects her words a shade too precisely. XANDER: Well, some of us like that kind of thing in a girl. ["I was made to love you"] Xander: "Smart chicks are so hot!" Willow: "You couldn't have figured that out in 10th grade?" ["The Gift"] Seconded. I'm annoyed because the article wants us to draw a particular conclusion without actually giving us enough facts to lead us to that conclusion. It's hamfisted. It just shows that despite the slick packaging Obama is just like all the rest. The only cause Barack Obama truly sincerely believes in is Barack Obama. No religion supports terror. It's the followers that do. That's actually the Washington National Cathedral. I wouldn't be too confident about that. A lot must get brushed under the carpet before the wider community hears about it. Having said that, I expect the Japanese were worse, as at least individual US soldiers (mostly) aren't under the impression they have permission to abuse. I say mostly, because the abusers at Abud Ghraib felt it was no problem to take photos of what they were doing. These are not particularly Linux specific. Yes! She mixes up he / she all the time too. Lebanon is also a muslem country but its girls are awesome & hot ! Ha. Now he hates the Digg? Come on! Soldiers are people too. People get angry. And angry people do things they don't really mean to do. I think it is a natural, and TOTALLY ACCEPTABLE, response from the soldiers. To all you Liberals out there, I am certain you would respond the same way if you were hit by an exploding truck. Well I am wrong. The average Lib is such a wuss he would not even survive to take revenge. I absolutely don't get why this comment is modded so way down. I mean, of all the reasons given so far in this topic, this is the only one which is not an obvious post-hoc rationalization. EDIT: ah, wait. the other honest reason is Emacs. whats a muslem? Whatever happened to mentioning a few members of the RIAA every time their name comes up in the news? Here's a few: Billy Corgan, Dashboard Confessional, Death Row, G Love And The Special Sauce, Victory Records, Wu-Tang Records. I once complained about the whitespace thing, too. But some years later I have used programming languages which are criticized for their layout and strange syntax, but are really good. Like Common Lisp. So, after realizing the amount of good libraries and how well spread the language is, I gave it a try. Now I've done a few Python projects at work and I don't regret it. To answer the question: I hadn't used Python before, because of a typical ignorance about things different. I overcame it years ago by programming in even more different programming languages. You're never too old to learn. German has "doch" for this situation. When you want to negate a negation. So you say "no" if you don't want more coffee, and "doch" if you do. Works like a charm. Note that it's still not at gems level. But it's clearly getting there, slowly but surely. This immediately became my favorite short story. I love the whitespace thing, and I wish the programming language I use on my job (php, js) had it. But, as far as I know, people hate TWT for several reasons: 1) The end of a block is the start of another. Imagine you're reading Python code, you see an if:, when it ends? When other block starts. You're now "mentally parsing" the start of another part of the code. This is, IMHO, something you need to get used to. Your brain is processing a few lines and a new instruction interferes with it. I know, it's lame, but it happens. Mainly because you don't "read" Python code, line by line, word for word, IMHO you see it, it jumps on your eyes. I first see the whole block, know its boundaries, then I read it. 2) Control. People feel Python is telling you what to do, it's a stupid language restricting your way to code. It's not the same as language keywords, : after an statement or else if, elseif, elif, etc... It's like learning Italian, but being told that you have to layout its text in a certain way. Again, it's a visual thing... 3) They're not used to. The same with Lisp parentheses. C, C++, JS, Java, (and many others, of course, just making a point), the world's most used languages, don't bother with it, why should Python? Stupid language! Something must be wrong with it! There'll be problems! Where's the {}? The thing I love about TWT is that it isn't only the way blocks are delimeted. For me, it's part of a higher philosophy: Cleanness, purity... Sadly, this is a language feature, and it's something that programmers will learn how to recognize only if they code. It's an integral part of Python. TWT is part of it. Look at this: a = 1 if a > 0: print 'Greater' Vs: $a = 1; if ($a > 0) { print 'Greater'; } TWT isn't the only difference here. In Python, there's no $, ;, (, ), {, }. I 3> being able not having to bother with these! But it's only by coding in Python that I've learned why there's a way for them not to be used. Now when I type PHP, sometimes I curse these characters, specially (). WHY, oh WHY do I have to type it! Stupid language :p Anyway, being part of a greater thing, TWT interferes with others. Programmers learn that () isn't need and think, gee, so how will I define the start and end of an if? They don't think, cool, less stuff to type and read, the newline is enough. You have to learn that the newline isn't needed, and that only comes by coding in Python. If he has eaten 40,000 pills, he has had his cocktail of almost every drug out there because pills are almost always mix of different substances. I bet his doctor has had an interesting time studying his blood sample. Not really. If people who can't afford Vista pirate it then free software competitors like Linux don't get a market share increase. This crack will only promote the proliferation and market dominance of Vista. The greatest mathematical physicist alive was a history major. Point? What's so dreaded in OCaml's OO? Wasn't it supposed to be quite an improvement over CamlLight? Not much different from the Nazis - it's OK to torture if your superiors say so. Hopefully Tony will end up in jail for his crimes along with his superiors. Yeah, and I also heard he is an Islamic apostate A Visual Basic/Studio coder, and your left mouse button is worn out :p so the girls managed to negotiate payback for all the BJs? I'm curious as to who will do what with this now that Amerika's bankruptcy is official. Because I don't know it as well as Python, and the gains are just too few to try a "hard" (as in immediate and complete) switchover. Time's better spent trying to learn completely different languages. Because I ended up preferring whitespace to keywords Because I usually find it easier to find the libs I need in Python than in Ruby in my side:space only,no tab I only use python...so what should i say to the title... 1, the speed of python is so slow compare to c/cpp. 2, can't use multi core/cpu for the sake of GIL 3, eat so much memory ...and beyond my control in most situation, i can bear in the three point, so python is still my favorite We mean the same thing. You can go faster the first time each side if you go to the side first and straight up, and you can get one more at the end through the middle. I got to level 50, it was pretty old at that point. would she make the same fuzz about parties, where boys would perform a series of cunnilingus on some upskirt girls? Love it. Auswitch was not that bad compared to this. If you compare torture, nazis still had Mengele and others so it's not like they didn't experiment with live humans as well: http://history1900s.about.com/od/auschwitz/a/mengeletwins_2.htm If you compare how many people died, the Auschwitz was far worse. Note: I'm not trying to say that what Japanese did is not worse that what Nazis did - not at all. This only shows that you cannot compare torture and if you compare such atrocities as this, you only get wrong ideas. There is a ranking of oil companies by size on wikipedia. * Saudi Arabian Oil Company 3028 * Petroleos Mexicanos 1278 * Petroleos de Venezuela 1258 * China National Petroleum 1168 * BP Amoco + Arco 963 * ExxonMobil 894 * Royal Dutch/Shell 859 * Nigerian National Petroleum Company 772 * Iraq National Oil Company 770 * Kuwait Petroleum Corporation 757 * Chevron + Texaco 756 * Valero 380 State owned: 8261 Corporate: 4622 (i included iraq in corporate, just in case) Data from 1998, in million barrels. Note that the five largest non-state oil companies in the list account for around one third of total production. It is hard to believe that, even if they were completely uncompetitive amongst themselves, this would have any effect on price. Granted Courtney Love's music label rant is somewhat dated, but I don't know why a band would ever sign a recording deal. The reason the RIAA is still in the news every couple weeks after almost 10 years of bitching is that they have such an extraordinarily profitible model today based on ripping off artists and extorting money from consumers and that model must be maintained at all costs. I haven't bought RIAA music this century. Why is he being called a dictator? He was duly elected wasn't he? I don't think there are any circumstances under which killing a human being, soldier or civilian, can be justified. But I agree with you to an extent. Soldiers are just people, taking orders from their generals, who in turn take orders from the puppet leader of the neo-conservative war machine. They are not fighting for queen and country, but so that Robert J. Stevens can get a bigger bonus. They are wasting the prime of their life in the deserts of Afghanistan. They are surely frustrated and on the edge, and acts of this nature are not surprising. It doesn't absolve them of responsibility, but the soldiers themselves are also victims of vicious system, just like the 16 dead innocents. The foot soldiers may have pulled the trigger that killed the 16 civilians, but it is the Bush administration that is responsible for the deaths. They put the soldiers in that position. As a economist thats was hilarious! been there You are free to downvote. I have tried twice to go to this website but both times it errored out. I'm afraid to try again. I think I must be doing something wronng, I don't know what, I always screw things up. I just shouldn't try things like this, I never was good at clicking on links, not as good as other people. It's interesting to see how the artist continually analysed what they had drawn and went back to make changes. It really shows the strength of Photoshop as a media - try moving the entire head up a bit and painting in the gaps on canvas. Using an environment to circumvent language weaknesses is never the best solution but Emacs can make Scheme less verbose than Python. You can have [ make a parentheses pair and ] jump to the next right parentheses, and have automatic indenting, and specify abbreviations, among other things. Also, to use Scheme efficiently you basically have to make a moderate size collection of macros that fit with your thinking. Is it really that impossible to write a single entry instead of million oneliners? Annoying as hell, everyone here knows how to use google news to find articles supporting their point of view. Of course there are new discoveries during the last five years. ls `echo $PATH | tr : ' '`; help Well he should get a reduced punishment as he is now trying to stop it. Welcome to reddit, home of liberal scum like me. BTW I'm a bit ticked off, would it be OK to have your address so I can come round and slap you and/or members of your family? That's OK with you I take it? This was predicted by Christopher Lasch in 1995. Read "The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy". The set of social and cultual conditions he describes also go a long way to explaining the success of neo-conservatism and the success they have had railroading the US into the current set of political disasters. I'm an elementary music teacher and the song is in our curriculum to teach. While I'm happy my students will be able to complete web quizzes like this with ease, it takes its toll on me after weeks of singing it non-stop with 10 different classes. But at least I got 8:01 on the quiz! please help It seems best to buy elsewhere. He didn't miss the point, he just thought you were not funny. I think he was spot on, too. Would be better if it: a) only listed the 192 UN Member nations. Yes yes, I know that it would leave some nations out, but its a pretty good standard to use. If you get mad that a country isn't (or is) listed, at least there's a good reason and you can't blame the site designer. b) recognized multiple names for countries, such as Lao, Laos, Lao PDR, Lao People's Democratic Republic. Inflation and the real price of goods are unrelated. Globalization has reduced the real price of many goods. Yeah, you're right. The War on Iraq isn't really happening either. It's a "conspiracy theory" that all us "crazy liberals" believe in and it's causing us to irrationally question the motives of the president. To answer your question, 9/11 was the work of a global terrorist network named "Al Qaeda" headed by a man named Osama bin Laden. Now answer a question for me - are you so much of a Bush fanboy that you actually consider rendition flights, intelligence manipulation in the lead up to war and character assassination to be "conspiracy theories"? Odd logic: If a small number high-capability computer literate users pirate my software, then I will scrap the entire multi-billion dollar enterprise. Hmm. Yes in this case the best reply would have been to ignore the ignorant remarks. This just goes to show. Kids, never take 40,000 Ecstasy pills! All your examples are different, since they all is about how you change the way you act or lose control of yourself. This guy has been doing his job for 14 years, and there is nothing to suggest that he suddenly acts weirdly. It would be better to compare it to what would happen if you were suddenly disfigured. Would you expect to be employed much longer then? You are right! The congress can impeach. But, that's not going to happen. So, for all practical purposes the President is the AGs sole boss. It's the very, very end of Doug Zonker where it's really funniest. Some people will NOT appreciate this clip. He probably didn't buy them all in one go though ;o) Still, I think xfredx is right, so the money probably mostly represents lost income rather than actual expenditure. And the same story is listen in Free Republic as: The Must-Do List (NY Times Demands Rights for Terrorists) The opportunity to not own the war passed when the Democrats voted in support of the declaration of war. The anti-war folks have given a pass to all those Democrat congressman and senators who voted for the war declaration, why? Technically, Roosevelt's social programs prolonged the Depression for several years. The Depression was mostly caused by incompetent action by the Federal Reserve. What's the deal with the influx of anti-japanese stories to reddit/digg? Get tired of bashing the US? Accents are the hottest. My girlfriend is from South Africa and those r-less consonants make me want to melt. hark... the silence of the neo-cons. The importance of RAM in the performance of your Macbook. Don't waste time with slow machines. Democrats != socialists, just as Republicans != fascists. I think she is being sarcastic... Unfortunately for you, this wishful thinking of yours is amply disproved by history. Venezuela experienced high oil prices in the 70s and it crashed. Economic policy has vastly more to do with it than oil prices. Oil prices are merely an enabling factor, not the central factor. But again, knowing this requires learning about Venezuela's actual history, not merely repeating ideological wishful thinking by know-nothing pundits. The point is not about what you do, it's about consequences. Yes, it is possible to do a mass murder. No, you should not get away without punishment. Or do you as a concervative think it's okay to commit murders? By the time oil runs out in Venezuela, the United States will be no more and Venezuela will be building nuclear power plants. Oh wait, you've cast its role as a third world colony and that's what it is forever doomed to be, right? justin timberlake justin timberlake Ruby simply fits my brain better. Python's insistence that there is but one right way to do things, and in particular the limited support for proper functional-style programming, always ends up annoying me. Nah - TimerStop was a full working crack that allowed updates as well but I think MSFT has started detecting it. Of course nothing is certain and there is nothing random about 75%-76% causality of associations from 30 years of data. As for that statement you referenced, it doesn't mean you should disavow association and causation that are significant, as in this case. if you are suggesting application of currying as means to overcome some limitation, such as "one argument only" in lambda calculus... that's not really something I look forward to. What about deployment of an Erlang program? Ask an answerable question. That doesn't really fit "symbol bound to multiple values". [Edit: clarification:] A function that returns multiple values in CL only only appears to return one value if that's all you're prepared to accept. You can call a function that returns multiple values from inside a multiple-value-bind form to get all the results, but I don't think anyone could say that the function name was "bound" to multiple values in any sense. Most of my CL experience is two years old, so maybe I'm missing something. If you'll notice most of these are current. It's current news, and reddit is reflecting that. ...and 30 days later that will be cracked. And MS will fix it and that will be cracked and... anu thing i don't like "Ann Coulter no longer has a market"? If she didn't you wouldn't be talking about her, and this multi-millionaire wouldn't need to respond to her. Ann Coulter has a big mouth, sure. Ann Coulter should not have said what she said. But Ann Coulter does not have the corner on those things. And, chriswinn, how long did you actually talk to Mr. Edwards? Thirty seconds? Anybody can be kind and charming in a short amount of time. But you can't base your judgement of him (or lack thereof, in this case) on meeting him. RP is awesome - great eclectic mix, folks, if you haven't listened. It was very funny to watch when I was snowboarding for the first time Where is the C-5 Galaxy? Oh, give me a break. i guess you could say i "fancy" this window of literary material. it has awakened maternal instincts in me. Spot on with both points. Yeah, I can see how most people would be disturbed by connection timeout error. messages. Some pretty good but also pretty lazy Photoshopping. Before and after shots really would help with contextualizing these. Shows even some black people were part of the hateful institution and there shouldn't be any such thing as "white guilt." Me! No, we do not agree. What's with the: "please let us in" & "magical fairy la-la"? Did you read my link? A laissez-passer is an internationally recognised travel document in the same category as passports, but with different powers and restrictions. Analogy: An SUV has (or did have) a different tax-status and different safety standards in the US from other passenger vehicles. I get in it and drive, does that make it a magical fairy la-la transport device? No, it's a passenger vehicle. Any passport-holder can be refused entry to a country at that country's discretion, so even a US passport only says "please let us in". Just because you do not like the UN does not mean that they are not the UN, with all the powers that involves. It's not them that is whining here. Exactly - that is the message I was referring to in my comment. This is not just revenge, it is first and foremost a warning to others. Being in the USA I hadn't heard of this, That's ok, we understand ;o) so the Wikipedia article gave some good background. Is it pretty accurate? It isn't bad. It bothers me that a thing so trivial can put the govt at risk of prosecution, whereas the invasion of Iraq didn't. wepack is entirely right. The only obligation we are under to people outside our country is a moral one. And if those people are trying to kill us, I have no issue with the CIA secretly using hard tactics to get information. very good site for nude pictures of all bollywood actress like aishwarya bipasha nude koena mitra nude kim sharma naked riya sen fucking aishwarya xxx picvtures.the largest nude collection of indian actresses I like Perl, and I don't want to hack any Python program I know of. Lua = scheme - macros + friendly syntax (and tables instead of conses). And it is the standard language for games scripting. Rock on. The President is being informed by that very same public opinion that has spent so much time trying to silence. Well said. It'll be interesting to see if, and how, the true, free, multi-channel long tail radio stations like AccuRadio and live365 can hang on. Yahoo LaunchCast has deep enough pockets to cover this, but I can't see them wanting to. Who's going to build the first non RIAA music channel? Is it possible? so slow compare to c/cpp Please at least use m4 instead of cpp. Don't give me that. The Israelis pose a far more lethal threat to the "palestinians?" Since when have Israelis gone into the Gaza strip and randomly started killing women and children. I missed Iowa too (along with Kentucky, Wisconsin) and my father was born there. Shame on me! Edit: bad paste. more on the hollow earth theory HERE Oh, get out of Dodge. What unlawful policies? Against what law? The commie UN? Completed with 6:42 left. I got slowed down by about 15 seconds because I forgot how to spell Massachusetts. I do it geographically, not alphabetically. Except for Alaska and Hawaii, you can go throught them in order, so that the state you're naming always borders the last state you named. How do you remember that stuff? Good article. I guess the same can be said for any technical person reading an article on their field in a newspaper though. I am thinking specifically of a pervasive scientific illiteracy among journalists. um this should kinda be flagged nsfw if you didn't notice the 5 times nude Can I have some cookies? Article provides no evidence to back up claim. Interesting how psychoanalysis is making a comeback. Coulter is the embodiment of the ugly American. She is the equivalent to the "ugly German", the Nazi Joseph Goebbles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels Do you have any idea how they fought that worthwhile war? It's not that the US forces didn't torture and rape as they thought fit in Europe. So I don't see any improvement, or any learning from history when looking at this post http://reddit.com/info/17rz2/comments actually the methods of US military get worse and more inhuman with every war they fight it seems. miss_granger That had Transylvania as a nation (it's a part of Romania). It also still had The Czech Republic and Slovakia combined. This does illustrate the difficulty in keeping a list up to date! Well, there was two uncool commands I've never used, anyway. Where did you draw THAT conclusion? Logic can be your friend. At the moment, you seem to be unacquainted. I got 128 - some of these are ridiculous. Hong Kong? Hmm maybe... Svalbard? Pushing it a little. And then some countries have their full official name and other don't? It's actually a cool idea but definitely need to revise the country list as other people have said. ah, and "anonymous functions" is a better name for closures. this refers to technique where you have a handle to function code, but can't invoke it by name - only by handle. We Americans are brought up to not only "respect" our military but to cheer it on, as if the defeat of the miserable Iraqi army was some real accomplishment. Fuck you. OK, I'm convinced, George Bush is running the worst administration in the history of the United States. He is completely destroying the future of this country. I honestly don't know what to do. Is there anything I can do? Myth of peak oil? Myth? (Consults dictionary) Myth? Also, subby, how does reduced capacity engender low prices? Here are some sources for you. -Katrina was less than a category 3 when it hit New Orleans. -The assumption, as defined by federal law, was that the levees would be engineered for a category 3 storm "that might strike the coastal Louisiana region in 200-300 years." -The Corps knew that the levees would not withstand a category 3 storm . "The engineering mistakes that led to the canal levee failures that flooded most of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina were found and then dismissed in the Army Corps of Engineers' design review process in 1990, an investigative team reviewing the failures says." -The Corps has taken responsibility for levee failures. -The disaster would not have been a disaster if not for the failures of the Army Corps of Engineers. -As for whether New Orleans can sue the Corps of Engineers, yes it can. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval ruled that the corps is not immune to lawsuits over problems caused by its navigation projects. Flood control projects are a different issue. I know you didn't ask for sources on all of this, but there were questions/misinformation elsewhere in the comments regarding some of these issues. When it comes to Katrina, there seems to be a wealth of people on reddit with opinions that have no grounding in fact, so I appreciate your attempt to verify statements before making them :) I agree. I got 124, anyway. Also, 10 minutes means less than 3 seconds per name. 10 minutes os too long for the 50 states, but not long enough for this one. The whole point of Marxism is a purported belief in an historical inevitability that has proven anything but inevitable. Anyone still calling themselves a Marxist in the 21st century shows a moon-bat tendency to hold onto a stale ideology in the face of overwhelming evidence of its hollowness. I don't have time to figure out if any particular group of nutters gets the facts right on their blog, especially if I can refer to a source that at least has the day-to-day experience to know how an institution like Walter Reed is actually run. You would have probably done the same thing. Psychologist have been studying the effect of authority on behaviour for a long time and the influence is extreme. Most people will simply follow without question the orders given by those in power -- our minds simply shut-down and become proxies for the authority. It is scary, unbelievable stuff. Pray. pgrep may be useful in other circumstances, but the example he gave is equivalent to "ps -o pid -u userid". ps also takes other useful filters and output formatters (e.g. --ppid). Exactly. The goal is control. The method is fear and suppression of thinking. The Slate article said, "Thanks to terrorism, the rest of us now face the same choice." Not quite. Let me suggest a more honest wording: "Thanks to government's total lack of perspective, the rest of us face the same treatment as prisoners." They just constantly over apply microeconomics concepts that really only hold in very controlled, rigid, defined environments. Not at the fucking coffee shop. So only eight people have commented here? EIGHT? I fear for my country. Denial is very bad. This is prison. Karl Marx was right. Eventually the world will be owned by one big corporation. er... AP and BBC reported the same thing. I don't know, I usually use SHIFT+TAB to unintend (cause I want to unindent, not delete space) Do you know, I was hoping you'd say that :) There aren't that many type signatures, at best you'll declare the type signatures of your toplevel functions, not quite the bulk of the code. Agreed - the reasoning is something like: *Assert sleeping naked is more comfortable *Assert being comfortable gives health benefits *Therefore, sleeping naked gives health benefits Pretty circular reasoning unless you add something else there - like some kind of backup to the assertions. I also can't quite believe that someone felt it necessary to put together a site extolling the virtues of sleeping naked... (FWIW, I can't understand why any adult does not sleep naked, but jebus I don't feel the need to go out and win converts to some nude-sleeping movement.) [EDIT: As many people below have pointed out, this is not circular, and I am an ass for saying it is. It is just potentially unsound.] By the same token you would not believe physicists because their results only hold in rigidly controlled experimental conditions. It's hard to separate the cause and effect of different incentives acting on people in the real world because the real world is rich and chaotic. Similarly, it's hard to separate out the cause and effect of different physical forces on objects in the real world. I challenge you to find me a physicist who can predict the path of a falling leaf. However, this doesn't mean that the theoretical framework of microeconomics is useless, as you seem to imply. The physicist could still tell you that the leaf would tend to fall downward (unless the wind was sufficiently powerful enough to keep it in the air, "sufficiently" being determined by its surface geometry). An economist can tell you that as prices rise, people tend to buy less of the item (assuming that their valuation of it remains the same, which it tends to do mostly, except for during a panic or something) or that a monopoly has incentive to reduce production and raise prices (although Wal-mart is the only retailer in some areas and they don't do this because of other incentives acting on it) or that for-profit competitive entities are more incented to serve the customer than public monopolies. Valuable information, even with the caveats. "It made me realize: I am not afraid of terrorists, I am afraid of the US airport personnel." This pretty much sums up the whole situation. And if the author of this post is American, think what a non-American, who could randomly be locked up in a INS prison for months, would feel. I think an increasing number of people feel that way. As a Brit that worked in the US, with a proper work visa, during the Clinton years, I don't even want to go on holiday to the US now. Going through immigration was hardly fun even then. Probably I'll never go to the US again ever, since I don't see them changing their attitude even in the medium term. You can visit and/or work in other countries that have terrorism problems, without them treating all visitors like criminals. Its just not worth the hassle. This has been said many times before, but what will happen to the US when all the foreign PHd students and great minds collectively think "its not worth the hassle" ? I suppose thats the rest of the world's gain and the US loss. It all seems incredibly self-defeating behaviour on the part of the USA though. Maybe the "smart" car knew there was a dumb driver inside. Additionally, article author is clearly from somewhere warm. Guards abusing prisoners in USA prisons is not quite the worst problem we have there. Leaving aside the absurdly high prison rates themselves, the worst problem is the culture of violence, abuse and rape in the US prison system. Whatever the guards do to you isn't as bad as what the other prisoners do to you. There was at least one recent article on Reddit covering this. Is => any worse than Python's foo(*args, **kwargs) syntax? ;-) I am all for downloading music to see if I like it. If I like it, I buy it! No such thing as a good billboard. I've done this type of thing before offline for a bet, and at that point I forgot Minnesota. This time I got them all within 5 minutes except two; it took me another 90 seconds to remember Illinois and Indiana. D'oh! So... 6:30. Exactly. Not to mention that those psychological tests happened in environments where people could 'bail'. In the army, you're stuck where you are. Include the fact that the guy is not a treat to society, and punishment becomes rather pointless. I live near a FAG......the company that is. No; closures are neither anonymous (they often have names) nor plain functions (they're a specific kind of function/procedure). This is very clever. Well, it may not be as good as Verizon's messaging plan, but I'll take what I can get! True or not.......I still need to show my wife this! Could someone explain why he has a retractable mast on his car? That's rather odd. Interesting........but is it real? People, let's look beyond the politics into common human decency. There is no excuse for calling anyone a "faggot" under any circumstances. Ignoring John Edwards, the key is to boycott Ann Coulter's advertisers. Write them a letter. Let them know what their money is funding. Take pride in America. We do have the power to make a difference. I'm with you, enough about the slur. Jesus, nobody was surprised this language came from Ann Cuntler. The officials are probably looking at it in a Jack Bauwer kind of way: the end justifies the means. That doesn't justify the behavior, but they are exceptionally hard calls to make - the world is not as black and white as we sometimes want it to be. War is ugly. In wars people get tortured, rules get broken. Not just here, in all wars. Civilians get bombed for political reasons. Businesses try to make a profit from the inhumane circumstances. It's brutal, but it's part of war. The officials should never have been forced to make the decisions in the first place. The war should never have happened. But don't be so eager to condemn the actions of others. I agree with Docman that the title was idiotic -- too long and the wrong place for a dumb gag. I'll go one further and say that your comment was laughably juvenile. Why not ask a parent or adult guardian to screen your comments before you hit the REPLY button? Might save you some humiliation in the future. Too late this time, obviously. Nah, the true Lisp programmer has his '[' and ']' key worn out because he remapped his keyboard so he could type parentheses without the shift key. The ancients have remapped their caps lock to be rubout. Like so. ObPointless: The article's pipe operator can be defined as (~>) = flip id. Just like Biblical times. It's what happens when you tell people they're God's elect and treat them that way. People who use pirated copies of Windows, they don't have to stay with Windows Doesn't make me want to buy a Mars bar, though. Not sure what I want to do. Wince, maybe. the effect is dependant on the structure Pit stop is quite common in the southeast US, too. Pit spot, not so much. :) Can I have some cookies? Yes. However, I will not give you any. Outrageous. It's like there's a concerted effort on behalf of the United States government to make the lives of American citizens suck. I mean fuck, is this the kind of shit you would do if you were running the place? I know the government is made up of a bunch of megalomaniacal thugs, but have they no sense of fun? It's one thing to have no health insurance, no job, and to see all of your tax dollars going to build bombs. But they're going to take away the music too??? The best thing to come out of the times-dispatch ever... I think she is being sarcastic... OMG I THINK THAT TEKI POSSIBLY WAS ALSO BEING SARCASTIC HAHA NO ACTUALLY NOT. SEE, NO RIGHT-MINDED PERSON USES 'SARCASM'. IF YOU THINK YOU SEE IT IN THE ONE COMMENT, AND THEN THINK YOU DO NOT SEE IT IN THE REPLY, PROBABLY YOU ARE JUST SEEING THINGS TO BEGIN WITH. LIFE ISN'T ALL ABOUT PHLOGISTON AND TAKING THINGS SO SERIOUSLY THAT YOU BAFFLE WHEN SOMEONE SERIOUSLY TAKES SOMETHING UNSER- IOUSLY OR POSSIBLY THE OTHER WAY AROUND. IN ANY CASE, I THANK YOU FOR YOUR OBSERVATION. I ONLY HOPE THAT TEKI CAN APPRECIATE MORE THAN I WOULD. -- I WOULD CURSE YOU. How do you remember that stuff? It's a fun show. And I don't have to remember it in all detail. Only enough to find the passages in the transcripts. It doesn't look like $200 of work to me. The RIAA has gotten out of control. This comic is hilarious! Surprise! It's a great big world out there! Lua = scheme - macros I haven't looked at this yet, as the tarball contains some kind of radioactive goo or possibly files derived from !unix, but metalua may interest you anyway My almost-ex-wife is Romanian. My favourite wife-ism is 'hang-coater'. She also used to send me to the supermarket for 'salad' by which she means 'lettuce'. Asking her what kind of salad she wanted was not useful, as to her it was like 'what kind of lettuce do you want?'. Hab SoSlI' Quch! Most of them have internet streams, so I guess they won't be playing any RIAA music on most public or college radio stations. That just leaves the corporate stations, which don't play much new music anyway. By making sure their artists get virtually no airplay the individual labels will have to distance themselves from the RIAA if they want to stay in business. Yeah, okay... I'm sure oil prices have NOTHING to do with China and India increasing their demand. Yeah, you're right. I wish we could return to the time when I could choose to buy a lemon that the dealer had rolled back the odometer on and have absolutely no recourse. Those were good times, weren't they? Also, I really miss not having the choice about not knowing what interest rates my credit card company would charge me. An interesting article about how Hollywood always casts Chinese actors as Japanese characters. I wished for familiar ruby methods in Haskell. :-) But for most users, the incentive to move away from Windows is gone once they don't have to pay. Expecting facts to emerge maybe be incorrect in this case, but it's not a fallacy. Here is some more information on fallacies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_fallacy If you know the problem and the guy skip first half of the interview. The second half is most interesting. And it forgot Gambia! This reminds me of the movie "Primer." For about an hour all they do is avoid themselves. I love my new Honda! Why is that funny? It's just completely and pointlessly offensive. RTFA When I was a rabid lisper: mostly lack of the libraries I needed or was familiar with compared to common lisp. Though I preferred scheme's design in almost every way, and the community was better (though that doesn't mean much when the common-lisp "community" is what's being compared against). Now: haskell seems to me to make both scheme and lisp in general rather obsolete. Haskell: supports the functional paradigm in a much more powerful way (purity, partial evaluation, default laziness) has other powerful features (monads with generalised syntax, type classes, static typing with inference, algebraic data types) that macros wouldn't be able to match short of greenspun-10th-ing to an embedded haskell interpreter has a syntax which even my s-expr loving self was loathe to admit is much more pleasant to work with thanks to monads can provide continuations as a simple library with no special new syntax. I mean... WOW. Try building continuations into lisp when they're not already built into the language. You just get abominations like the @define macros in Paul Graham's "On Lisp" or Guy Steele's @eval macros. I don't know, I usually use SHIFT+TAB to unintend So, your editor lets you backspace into impossible places? And yet it has this S-TAB binding? For shame. (a) I'm not sure you can say "the anti-war folks have given a pass". Note the case of Lieberman: lost the primary cuz of the anti-war folks, won the election when the middle-of-the-stream voters had more influence. (b) As an anti-war dem, I give a lot of the party leaders a "free pass" because they voted for the war based on lies and propoganda the Bush administration told them. I don't believe you can hold someone totally responsible when their decisions were manipulated by an intentional campaign of deception. That said, pure-politicians like Lieberman and Hillary who still don't seem to "get it" will never get my vote. the rap song 'In OBH' (Old boys hostel) tells in general a hostel life. made on In Da Club instrumental I hope the US' inevitable economic and military collapse is close enough to avoid them spreading more insane laws to other countries. The US government is like someone with a highly contagious disease called lobbyists. They complain that for them the cost works out to 125% of their income, but later down they mention that they have no commercials and no subscriptions. I'm sorry, but if you want to play licensed music, then you need a better business model for your radio station than donations. These are not particularly Linux specific. Oh, shut up. The last thing anyone needs or wants is another (yes: another) extended whine about yuuuunix, from people so very odd that they ascribe to some manner of Unix and then get -personally affronted- when someone other Unix person describes things from their perspective, or writes to the co-perspected. Oh, all these darned unix-alikes, using their own terms! -- how dare they! I always use bash on linux and somehow always use !bash on !linux, but if you call bash a 'linux program' I'll your claw your eyes out -- because I've lost exactly enough perspective about where my peer-ground ends! So you're saying a faulty levee system that gave people a false sense of security is better than none at all? Don't downmod that comment! Ecstasy != MDMA Sure, I'll stop believing in Peak Oil if you can tell me in which year after 1970 did the US produce more than in 1970? Which year? Oh that's right, there was no such year because the US had its own Peak Oil in 1970 and oil production has declined ever since, even though there have been dramatic advances in technology in both field discovery and extraction techniques. So now your theory has to cover a 30 year conspiracy involving businesses that weren't even in existence when the supposed conspiracy started! Oil companies suck, on that we agree. They will and do engage in anti-competitive behavior. But Peak Oil is a scientific theory, well founded in historical oil extraction of over 50 of the top 60 oil producers. Arguing against Peak Oil is like arguing you can suck an infinite amount of water out of a straw. The straw (or well) has limits that humans can reach. Why would US producers shut down refineries? Maybe to screw the little guy some, but that would backfire if your oil stream just went over to your competitor for refining. (Which is what the oil companies said in the documents you linked.) It is hard to store oil and most drillers want to sell to a refiner IMMEDIATELY. That's the simple economic truth. The reason a company shuts down refineries, and the reason you see in the documents linked above, is because of declining production. You see they wanted to ship the parts of the refinery off to other places that have oil to refine. The supply from that refinery was not needed as they could have other refineries "pump all out" as they say in the document. In the Texaco document, they say. The most critical factor facing the refinery industry on the West Coast is the surplus refining capacity. Supply exceeds demand year-round. What business can run excess spare capacity and profit (especially when it costs so much to store fuel after refining)? Oil companies are evil contraptions that would club baby seals to death if it thought it could get oil out of them. But they are not omnipotent deities. The basic fact is that geology has taken over a large swath of our energy system. And if we don't get our act together soon by reducing energy usage, we will hit some hard times. Or alternatively you can stick your head in the sand and claim some grand conspiracy controls your fate. popemustdie - amen man. No true American would bump this article... Well, first of all that article dates back to 2003, so I'm not sure how Gtk and Qt stack up today in terms of productivity or lines of code for something. Secondly, the author is talking about a ficticious project that will take ten developers two whole years working with Qt. Ummm, it's a GUI toolkit. What kind of GUI takes 20 man-years to build? So let's say the GUI part of an application takes three guys half a year, plus a graphics designer for the icons and polishing. Interestingly, this means that overall the Qt license is even cheaper, since most people in your company very likely are working on business logic (whatever), not on the GUI. OTOH you could be working on a very small low-budget low-price product. In that case the overall coding time would be rather small, and the GUI would be a tiny part of it. Yet it costs $3k. So the decision is up to you. Calculate (and be sure that you like that toolkit and that it will help you). Joining a fight club seems like an interesting idea until the first time you get punched in the nose. You can get some pretty good deals in Canada. Well, for this purpose (and for colo costs, I would think) Canada might as well be in the US. :) I should have said, "Isn't colo server bandwidth still very expensive in places where someone might be able to legally operate a streaming music server, such as Russia?" "I often see things like $@ in shell scripts (breaks if a parameter has a space in it)." "$@" doesn't break like this. (For what it's worth, this and the remaining problems mentioned in the post don't occur/apply in shells like zsh.) Squeak Smalltalk would seem to be ideal for this, if you're willing to consider introducing another language. (Apologies if I'm stating the obvious here.) Hey, I'm not arguing that point at all. I was just joking around that I hate when my economist housemates bring up unnecessary theories in regards to allocating who has to take out the trash. Also, no offense, but it doesn't take an economist to understand supply/demand and how they relate to monopolies. It's really quite naive to think some atrocities will not occur in a war environment. And the degree of incompetence in the military is unfortunately not all that surprising. The 'critical' paperwork 'getting lost' is not all that surprising. Another detail that does not surprise me is the emphasis on medals for worthless reports. MEDALS for WORTHLESS meaningless REPORTS! What brings that poignancy is that it is the same criticism I frequently hear about our school system. Doesn't matter if a kid is improving, just that there is all the paperwork in order. Abu Ghraib or MLK inner-city deten^H^H^HHschools, it's the facade that counts. Original source is here People who read blogs at work play in a different league? Yeah, cause they're not working then, while others are. No, just kidding. Nothing like a short break to clear up the mind, and to get a cup of coffee. The Panasonic SV-AV10 is one of the many new convergence devices on the market today. This particular device captures digital stills, shoots MPEG-4 movies, acts as a voice recorder, and plays back MP3 and AAC files. Thanks, I was about to add that. Lengthy animation is full of additional info, but the contrast is a most dramatic effect. Yale on $0 a Day! Top Universities Post Lectures And Other Course Materials On Web, Free and Open to All Literature of Crisis on Your iPod. Read on. The test doesn't provide an adequate payoff at the end. An adequate payoff would have been the list of countries you missed subdivided by continent, or perhaps coloured on a world map, a total score of % of the world's population you missed out (who really cares if you missed 1%?) and the same for land area. If you can name 95% of the world's countries by land area and the same for the world's population, you're good. I think it's slightly ironic that the comic itself is a flash file. The only reason I can think of to do that (note that it has no controls or programs, simply shows the file) is to make it harder to download. Whatever. Clever comic all the same. Yes, the Python XML experience is far from It Just Works. There also seems to be nothing to replace javax.net.ssl.SSLServerSocket unless you have the time to drink deep of the Twisted kool-aid. I found some good advice here Good thing they deleted the film material. Without pictures, it never happened. George Soros attributes his success to Karl Popper. He was so taken in by the whole falsification idea that he made it the central plank of his investment strategies. He assumed that all of his strategies were flawed in some way, and would not use them until he understood precisely how they were flawed. The idea being that he would know exactly when to quit. Having a well grounded understanding of the scientific method can be more useful than knowing some particular scientific facts. This has to be sarcasm.... surely? You forgot:Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming I remembered the carolinas just in time! Since 1967. Don't leave me hanging, man. What happens next? The retail prices are fair I would say, especially the Home Premium upgrade for $160. Isn't that inline with the OS X upgrade pricing and XP to Vista Premium is quite a huge jump. CONDENSED VERSION: Great developers are maximally employed. In fizzbuzz implementations, I saw the soul of the software developer, which turns out to be: insecure, defensive, and escapist. In a bunch of personal implementations across languages, I see: a need to one-up, to leave a legacy, to preen. Missing the point of fizzbuzz, I intend to filter out people who don't write code that a hopelessly clueless person can immediately understand -- instead of people who can't correctly write trivial code. agree that peak oil is absolutely real and will happen soon No it won't. It happened. Past tense. May of 2005. Almost two years ago. That is to say, petroleum is relatively scarce in comparison to demand, and that disparity will continue to grow over the years, driving prices up tremendously. This is exceedingly unlikely. I mean yes, for a short period of time oil prices will be driven up. But at some point the USA will collapse and will no longer be importing 10 mbpd (1/8th) of the world's supply. At that point prices will collapse back down again and it will take a whole three years for them to go back up. Think about it: 3 years! That's an eternity it surely is! Shouldn't this also fall under 'terror'? Both stories picked from today's BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6412453.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6367773.stm Unicycle.com an interesting kind of site. Proof that beautiful web2.0 sites arent necessarily what it takes to be commercially successful. Not that its hideously ugly, just a bit basic and not particularly designerly. It reminds me of some research that was posted a while back that suggests that a certain amount of 'ugliness' can help your business beacuse it suggests you are down to earth, trustworthy and not interested in image over substance. No it doesn't, it's just that I find more logical to unintend (S-Tab) than to remove extraneous space (backspace), even though the end result is the same. biscuitgirl, why not just directly link to the AP story? these days if i see earth anywhere i assume it's something from google earth :-/ While I agree with you, it's not Foxtrot that decides that. It's GoComics. Besides, for all that effort, all the user has to do is hit print screen. =P Saw it on Press Esc first, plus AP story at first didn't confirm that the soldiers had killed the civilians. Awww this woman is adorable. The decision made by the CRB was highly influenced byt the the "per play" rate proposal put forth by SoundExchange(a digital music fee collection body created by the RIAA. Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut are territories, not provinces. If I want to use a dynamic language, Common Lisp still has some of the best compilers available (oddly enough, several are based on an original compiler named Python, part of CMUCL, which predates Guido's language). Python's (the language) C implementation is a joke, comparatively. Also, I don't really have any reason to use Python. The story of how the funny ecard "Our First Date" came about on the ecard site UncomfortableSituations.com woooow this is amazing Not listen to stuff you read on the Internet. ;-) all the time. A couple f5s usually bring it back. Usually when searching, or trying to look at someone's user profile - although the whole site became unusable for a few minutes, once, because of it. I was even having trouble trying to submit this, I kept getting a funny CAPTCHA error. good thing they have a staff.. Right on! We need to show these Afghans who's in charge. Destroy a few villages here and there, and fear will keep the rest in line. We need to make them fear us more than the Taliban. I only fear that we're not being brutal enough. The Taliban body count is still way higher than what we're racking up. We need to catch up! EDIT: The OTHER war Nope. I do a lot of typing, it's just that none of my keys are worn out. Maybe I just have a high quality keyboard? Well, yeah, I was thinking of making a comment about that. A lot of what I find awkward about Lisp has been fixed in ML and Haskell. This is only natural, as the ideas in these languages often arose out of things Lisp programmers had been doing for a while, or problems that they'd had. They're genuinely newer languages, in that their content is actually based in part on insights taken from programming in Lisp. Reality check: World oil consumption in 2003: 80 million barrels. Per day. http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/oil.html 'Huge' field: 700 million barells. Number of days it satisfies the world consumption: 9 Number of such 'huge' fields needed to satisfy world consuption for a single year: 40. Article date: "Last Updated: Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 12:12 GMT" The world needs another 39 such 'huge' discoveries to cover the year that passed since. Where are they? Get it out of here. Send the porn to del.icio.us. Makes sense. Sound is a form of energy. Reduce the amount of sound generated, and you should expect increased efficiencies. I would support your position if they had killed their superiors or a visiting Dick Cheney or someone like that but these were civilians. Above we see THE reason against 'TWT': The Python code is broken while the PHP-code is still working. Consider a bigger example where it's not as obvious as above what is meant. I've tried Python too, but I wanted to use it for scripting where I have to use different editors, have to copy&paste a lot etc. Result: TWT is crap. Unusable. If you use the right editor all the time - and don't even thing to use tabs, than TWT may work. But I simply don't see the big advantage. BTW: I prefer a syntax like this: a = 1 if a > 0 print "greater" end Easy to read, not much to type, indestructible and symmetric. Since most Lisp programmers are also probably using Emacs, there's a good chance that they've broken the 'ctrl' key and remapped its function to 'caps lock', which is already feeling spongy. Indeed. Not sure what's going on. Outrage can be a potent motivator for doing what needs to be done. Yeah, constantly hitting refresh to see the pages. Indent your code blocks by an additional 4 spaces on reddit or they'll be treated as plain text and their indentation will get destroyed. Incidentally, I like Haskell's approach to whitespace dependence, basically, allow whitespace to translate into braces and semicolons, and if the user includes braces and semicolons, ignore the whitespace. You can also include just the semicolons, which is useful if you're writing code on IRC, and need to pack things on to one line, but don't need complicated block structure. ? Meh, I started out remembering the names by singing one of those little 50-state songs in my head XD No way was I gonna miss Delaware! What unlawful policies? Yeah, you would have had to, you know, click the link to find out. But that could expose you to an opinion different than your current opinion. Better to not take the chance. But Aruba is listed as one of their valid countries. Sounds like there's not much rhyme or reason to their list. Debates, discussions, it's words with a D this time. When I coded my command line toolkit in PHP I wasn't sure if I'd call it "Command LIne Framework" or "Command LIne Toolkit". I obviously chose framework (CLIF). Every second click. Anyone else try "Sealand", just to see if it would work? Linkjack, and ignorant editorial ranting. Donwmodded. Upmodded original source material here: http://reddit.com/info/17rhy/comments EDIT: Unbelievably, 650 idiots have responded to that post at LGF, as of 11:35AM ET. Why? I'm from Norway and always sleep naked. 68 But then it wouldn't count china, south and north korea, philippenes and czech and colombia because I couldn't spell them, UAE, zaire. So more like 75 ;) This should be renamed to "spell all the proper names of my personal list of 245 countries in ten minutes." It would be a much better test if it was a bit kinder with spelling. Just because I can't spell phillipenes doesn't mean I don't know its not a country. Generally I spontaneously answer "no" to such a question, which is the correct answer but confuses the asker most of the time. I could never take the habit of answering "no I don't mind" or "yes you can". Come on, you were so close to a haiku! I clicked on View Source I typed as fast as i could Still not done in time This only makes me the more determined not to buy music. And French has "si". Does anyone have the actual quote? Or is reddit just an echo chamber for idiots? Yet another argument against those little econoboxen... duck I just got it when trying to enter this comment. Haskell wears out my lambda key. About every second click, and only since this morning (Sunday). Couldn't spell Massachusetts in time (and boy did I attempt a few), couldn't remember Minnesota. I hadn't got it until I logged in to vote this down. Now I vote it up. more info at the project's site This is so stupid. You can write HTTP clients with curl, wget or a thousand other libraries (http.rb with Ruby?) and you want a lame bash script instead? I thought that good programmers used the right tool for the right job? 88 I was not aware that Hong Kong is a country. Looks like it's based directly off of this one: http://novelconcepts.co.uk/FlashElementTD/ which I personally find more enjoyable. It seems I did. Common Lisp and Scheme are generally thought of as powerful, wizardly languages, but not many people use them in real life. Thus asking why people don't use them actually kind of makes sense. On the other hand, plenty of people use Python in real life. If you like Python, you use Python, so the question doesn't quite make sense to me. US military officials asked media personnel not to report that it was the American soldiers who shot and killed the innocent civilians citing such news reporting could cause rioting in other towns and cities across Afghanistan exacerbating an already deteriorating security situation there. CNN listens: Ambush in Afghanistan leaves 16 dead BBC doesn't: US troops kill Afghan civilians Not too much, but I am getting them That's what I keep telling my neighbor across the street who doesn't shut her blinds, but she just won't listen. These are stupid. At least, the first six are. Or to download Flash... I got about 5 while trying to open this link! Yes I am getting them for every 2 out of 3 clicks :-(. Is this a scalability problem or misconfiguration or something else ? This seems to show that the limits of airplane size efficiency have been reached for some time. This seems to show that the limits of airplane size efficiency have been reached for some time. I don't believe this report. Too many people (including US Senators) want to smear the US military. Just like they want to smear Israel. I don't believe the hype. every times. Many times. Reasonable Doubt - The level of certainty a juror must have to find a defendant guilty of a crime. A real doubt, based upon reason and common sense after careful and impartial consideration of all the evidence, or lack of evidence, in a case. Proof beyond a reasonable doubt, therefore, is proof of such a convincing character that you would be willing to rely and act upon it without hesitation in the most important of your own affairs. However, it does not mean an absolute certainty. Certainly, it's completely acceptable. Once you acknowledge that those soldiers are the occupation forces of a fascist regime subduing democratic (albeit radical) regimes for profit and maintaining its dominance. The soldiers are not all well trained, are tired and stressed, raping a country while their government led by corporatist mobsters uses doublespeak to present it as liberation. It's all TOTALLY ACCEPTABLE, just as their suicide bombers and them burning American flags is TOTALLY ACCEPTABLE. It's all gone to shit now, and everything is TOTALLY ACCEPTABLE. This article is typical public education in Indiana. Saying public education in this state is worthless is too good, because it implies that it's lack of value is somewhat harmless. The guy obviously had a personality conflict with the administration. It's a pathological condition here: don't rock the boat...play nice...keep saying yes all the time and please fold yourself into this nice little pigeonhole we've made for you...If I had to guess, in this case it was, "Teach the ISTEP. We have to follow Glorious President's guidelines on No Child Left Behind." Newsflash, idiots: Teaching and coaching are often mutually exclusive. Of course there are a few exceptions that you can point to anywhere, but this is just another example of what's wrong with this place. The governor is selling off the lottery so they can create life sciences incubators and scholarships to stop the brain drain. Ha! You can't throw money at people to live in a cultural and intellectual swamp. Explaining that if someone goes to college and learns to think independently and critically, they are repulsed and horrified to live here with this sick culture. The only people who stay are the ones that can stomach it so they can exploit the massive ignorance and nice-nellism that allows everyone to live in a time vortex that drags us along 10 years behind the times. The hicks want to put an amendment to the state constitution to ban gay marriage, you can't buy booze on Sunday, and the good ol' boy system is alive and well because that's how it's been and we turn into a bunch of bonobos trapped in a closet with a fireworks finale rack whenever anyone suggests change or straying even a degree from "tradition." All you have to do is read John Gatto's book on what education is really for in this country, times it by a thousand, and that's Indiana public education. If you want your kids to leave high school able to think abstractly and critically (and not afraid to debate openly and honestly), DO NOT MOVE HERE. MOVE THEM SOMEWHERE ELSE IMMEDIATELY. Even private school won't really help, because the cultural impediment is so strong, you're going to have to about homeschool the kids to get them up to par with any kind of genuine intellect. Stay if all you want your kids to do is know every Christian prayer, how glorious the Republicans have made this place, the pledge of allegiance, and enough reading and math skills to be a manager (eventually) in some service sector job (janitorial, fast food, carwash, car part sales, etc.) where their lives are so miserable all they can think to do is listen to AM radio and dittohead, "the illegal aliens did this to me, the libruls did this to me, the irs did this to me. Jeebus will save me from this misery..." Oh, and my current personal favorite, "The homos are ruining my marriage." "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he become a monster in his turn." The Silent Aircraft Initiative was just a design project, and there are still many outstanding questions about whether such a plane would be practical. Such as? I appreciate the need to make these developments sound as exciting as possible in order to draw in the audience, but as an engineer, I'm much more interested in the specific problems left to be solved. You can do almost anything with enough design freedom and resources. These research group PR pieces are a leading cause of "So where's my flying car?" syndrome. If you haven't thought about or can't explain the problems your great idea could run up against, it's probably not that great an idea. I'm sure this research team has thought about them, and I wish the journalist would spend at least a few paragraphs on them. On every second request. I bought it yesterday and started sending erratas. Very very good! I got one for these comments. FUCK USA (i know, it's rather obvious, but i cannot resist :)) Voted down for hyperbole. "US' inevitable economic and military collapse" riiight... Google plans to hire "thousands of people" for its Beijing development center to create services for China's more than 137 million Internet users. Dang, beat me by about 15 seconds. Canuck here, too. Found this one very easy after trying the 245 country one earlier. Dude, where's my comment? Yes, and it is getting increasingly frustrating I blame angry Digg users. Me too. I thought it was a joke. Though I had encountered it before. I generally prefer it that people don't comment unless they actually have something to add to the conversation. For example, to me, your comment is completely worthless. I ready "Torture and Truth" over two years ago. I still recommend it for anyone actually interested in investigating this topic further. If I like it, I just listen to it. But if I really like it then I might go to concerts and buy a t-shirt. Speaking of, doesn't it seem like t-shirts have emerged as the most viable business model for turning art into money via the Internet? Not just for bands, but for webcomics, content sites, etc. I heard this on the Beeb this morning when I was enjoying my breakfast and I just thought; "Fuck, we unleashed this." I got it when I first opened the site a second ago. Yesterday, I got the "Reddit broke" image. Because speed is essential for what I'm writing, so I'm using SBCL. Also I know CL much better than Scheme and would prefer it anyway. Well, yes, you're right, it's "expression bound to multiple values", rather than a symbol. But he also compares it to using a list, array or vector (but is not a list), which didn't seem to fit with the function/variable distinction. I don't know. Perhaps we could ask him (or we could continue to interpret the sacred word of bluetrust each in our own special ways. "Follow the gourd" or "No, let us gather shoes together." etc.) I use Ctrl-Shift-C Shift-> to indent and Ctrl-Shift-C Shift-< to outdent. Emacs, python-mode, and CUA-mode. If I were a little less lazy, I'd probably remap those to Tab and Shift-Tab though. I tend to indent blocks of code by one level much more than I auto-indent lines, and I don't think Shift-Tab is bound to anything... I think you are being sarcastic too... Cheers for reminding me about that little grey button. Yes, just when I was trying to load these comments. After hitting reload 4 times, it worked. This also happened two or three days before, but was fine 'till today. When a bomb goes off and manages to kill no one but American soldiers, it's usually because the "civilians" in the neighborhood either knew about the bomb beforehand or were involved in its placing. That's why in these guerilla warfare situations soldiers can become angry at even "civilians." Remember none of the enemy wears a uniform. It does not excuse becoming unprofessional and taking revenge indiscriminately, but it's worth trying to understand the situation over there before condemning it. I clicked a link and the page loaded properly, but there was an error in the Reddit Toolbar. Weird. Screenshot. i'd like to file a bug report. should i send it directly to "not a bug"? :) Pansy. Did you read the article? yup.. quite often at the moment According to Nature, it is pretty damn close. Besides, for that particular table there are numerous other [sources] (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/309/5741/1656). I'm not saying that Wikipedia is always right, but it's a good place to start, and a convenient place to reference. yea, every now and then when browsing multi page things good for you I just want to point out that this article disproves the hollow earth theory. The hollow earth theory states that there is no subduction and the water the article refers to is actually from subducting crust that is hydrated through metamorphic processes. Read the article. Hollow earth theory is bullshit anyway. Wow, the whackjobs are out in force today... I've always wanted to read stories that were like real life: where there weren't any "good guys" or "bad guys", where the characters sometimes had to go to the bathroom, and where things didn't always end happily ever after. Thanks for submitting this. Looks like one of the servers in the cluster's been having errors. The probability of getting them would probably tell you how many servers there are in the cluster, unless more than one's failing... Well kiss my grits, we have someone who knows what God is thinking. While you're here, mind answering all the important questions like "What's the meaning of life?" or does God only call you up to remind you that he hates people in NOLA? f'in constantly! Arg! I think one of the issues around flying wing passenger aircraft has always been perceived problems with passenger acceptance, a bit like with rearwards facing seats. The cabin will be more like a room than a bus/train/airliner and I have read (sorry, can't remember source) that this could freak some people. There is also the question of distance to emergency exits. Solvable with time I would hope, we're due something that looks proper 21st century instead of the endless iterations of tube 'n' wing. Edit: Here's their list: These include market viability, financing, societal acceptance, aircraft certification, as well as the technical challenges of the propulsion system / airframe integration, structural analysis and manufacturability of non-circular pressure vessel, the mechanical design of thrust vectoring and variable area nozzle, and detailed assessment of the low speed aerodynamic performance. Geez, you forget already? You completely dismissed psychology as well, remember? "I love the fact that you think there has been none." There's been more experimentation in economics and psychology than in global warming, retardo. "If you think that those are the choices then you are really lost in this conversation. Once again I invite you learn how to read so you can understand. It doesn't has to do with the nature of the methodology used to arrive at a conclusion. Quacks don't do rigorous study, experimentation and peer review they state the way they think the universe ought to work and accept it as fact." It's doesn't HAS to do? Learn to write before criticize my reading. There IS no experimentation in global warming. The extent of experimentation is to study what might happen in closed systems when certain situations are created, which is pretty much the same freaking thing that is done in both economics and psychology. There's also only so much that can be done in rigorous study of global warming, since getting global measurements is extremely difficult and you really need hundreds of years of data since change is relatively slow compared to economics and psychology. EVERY freaking argument you make about economics and psychology being non-scientific can be made against global warming research, only more so. You just can't get that through your skull. You also don't understand that science IS about the methodology. It's called the freaking Scientific Method, moron. You can't simply just gather random facts and state a theory on them and stop there. That's not science. That's idealogy. You are so freaking idealogical. You'll go to just about any idiotic argument just so you don't have to admit to yourself that tax cuts will positively affect the economy. The biggest problem is probably that it's slow. Bigger wings produce a lot more drag at high speed. It's the big wings that give you the low approach speed. And what, exactly, did GWB pull off? Worst approval ratings ever? To be known forever as a US president who completely fucked everything up - foreign policy, trade balance, inequality. To destroy the republican power base? Common Lisp Music http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/clm/ -or- A language specifically designed for audio (Supercollider): http://www.audiosynth.com/ I think Supercollider would be very good for teaching with and it's quite powerful. -dustin There are no people who know markets because markets are arbitrary definitions and parsings of underlying dynamics that are always in motion and too complex for any kind of analysis to permits to be interpreted comprehensibly on any level. This does not, however, stop people believing otherwise, hence we have all these nice people giving us explanations that can be nicely told as stories, as they can be told as nicely packaged stories, and the soothsayings become self-fulfilling prophesies. So it isn't really about markets at all, but about stories. My tip would be to invest your cash into yourself and human capital and relations in general. Actually, I appreciate being corrected. The articles I was reading were all written shortly after the time of the storm and mentioned that it was Category 4 when it made landfall. I was unaware it had been retroactively downgraded. I recognize that the Corps has taken responsiblity. The faults that I mentioned came directly from their own report, and are corroborated by the ASCE. Perhaps what I should have said was that I empathize with and respect the Corps. As liitle as three months before the storm, the Corps' New Orleans branch saw a $71 million cut in funding. Everyone agrees this would not have made the difference for Katrina, but it's the pattern I'm pointing to, no the act itself. Thanks for the sources. True. Actually most substances taken in considerable amount on a daily basis over a long period isn't going to do any good. But it's still fascinating to see what a human body can tolerate. I've been getting 500 errors on and off since Thursday night. I was trying to post a story and the damn CAPTCHA wouldn't take. I tried at least 200 times, from two or three different machines. I nearly had an aneurysm. Obviously BISEXUAL right? Obviously BISEXUAL right? The vibe I get is that of someone trying to create site traffic which can ultimately be commercialized. No harm in that, but IMHO it's a bit early to start promoting the site when it's only got two pages of content. How about speaking ENGLISH! The sports complex near the approach into New York's LaGuardia Airport can be so affected that one mayor actually ordered planes to be diverted in order not to disturb the tennis matches during the U.S. Open. Indeed, you can often see the players delaying a serve while an airplane is overhead. Same goes for pitches during matches at Shea stadium, which is even closer to LaGuardia than the Arthur Ashe stadium. Well they give a projected cruising speed of Mach 0.8. New Boeing Dreamliner is 'up to 0.85'. Yes f5 after voting to make sure your vote really counted. Sometimes my votes aren't sticking. Good for Bill Amend. I knew I always liked his comic for a reason. yes, just started today. Happens every other click on Reddit yes, just started today. Happens every other click on Reddit thanks...coming from a guy who ex girlfriend LEFT him for another Girl...yes its true! Clearly their fault. You forgot:Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, I'm canadian too.. I misspelled virgina, rhode islan, can't beleive I forgot most of the other .. except Delaware ? Mmmm, is it more pointlessly homophobic or more pointlessly misogynistic? the mind boggles.... Yes, too often. Reload fixes it so far. Funny, short article about drug-taking in Japan Talk to me in 10 years. Not so much part of the problem. If no cracks existed and people couldn't pirate it, Ballmer and the other suits would claim drm a success. Because of the cracks, drm mostly adversely impacts the paying customers instead, making it a general failure. Why is trailing a bunch of "end" statements everywhere considered friendly? I hate doing that, it's incredibly ugly. It's the kind of thing you require when you are writing a crummy parser for an undergraduate prog lang class. I'll tell you why we don't produce more oil here, its cheaper and the margins are higher from mid-east oil. Talk to me in 10 years, we'll laugh about this silly Peak Oil. these critics can fuck themselves in the ass with one of those giant book it pins. yeah, you heard me. oh noes!!@!! teh childs might be readin$! if you think kids eating 5 tiny pizzas a semester is going to make them fat, you should see what they put in school lunches, and stop whining about a corporation that at least encourages something educational. No evidence is clearly false, did you read the page? Not much evidence would be more accurate: http://sleepnaked.org/research/ There are also consistency issues: for some countries short forms are used (e.g. United States), but for others long forms; some countries are missing the definite article from their names (e.g. Republic of Congo) whereas others have it (e.g. 'The Gambia';) etc. It can't seem to make its mind up on which political subdivisions to include and which to exclude - it has listed about half of the Australian external territories, for example, when they all share a very similar legal and political status. There's also the fact that their definition of 'country' is wrong - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all countries within the state called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but are all rolled into 'United Kingdom' in this. i hope not they suck factoid: ed norton's character in fight club does not have a name Sorry for the hassle, folks. We're aware of the problem and will hopefully have things running normally again shortly. I've definitely been punishing my "apple key" this morning with all the reloads. Nano-mario wants his amazing RIAA photos! God heavens when people take advice from you that constantly fall for appeal to authority and fall for energy propaganda. Do you realize energy industries spend on marketing? Its not TV ads either its false studies, environmental groups, policy, US politician buy offs. Talk to me in 10 years about "Peak Oil". Greenwald nails it and comes to the correct conclusions. If Congress wants to be a check and balance on the executive branch, they need to get aggressive. Extremely aggressive. Congress, stop being nice and do your jobs! Nobody said it would be easy. Alot of websites will tell you it is possible to Make Easy Money Online, as you know alot of them turn out to be scams! So can you really make easy money online find out now as I review a different type of program here! And remember kids. If there isn't pictures or video it didn't happen. It isn't just technology and science though. The New York Times refers to Kasparov as a former chess grandmaster today. I was going to laugh at you, then I realized headfake had already done it. I have a boatload more knowledge and rationality on the subject of moral philosophy (or frankly, any subject) Aye, because we've discussed every subject, in person, at length. You're a god damn idiot. nope none "Amazing", "digg", "revealed": Top 422 digg.com attention grabbing words The complete list of words that (when used in a story title) get more than 500 diggs per story on average. How it was developed? We analyzed 17,713 article titles and extracted individual words. Those words that were used in less than 30 article titles or got less than 500 diggs per article were removed. Answers to your questions: all words from the following list were found in at least 30 story titles on digg.com; there are no words that were used in only a few story titles, there are only words that were used in at least 30 article titles; there are words like "a", "the", "those", and we will not remove them in order to keep the research clean; numbers in the right column are "diggs per story": if a word were used in 100 story titles with 100000 diggs total, its "diggs per story" will be 100000/100=1000; all words are in the lowercase - this way it's easier to build statistics, however we can change letter cases on request (like we did with iPod); Here is an experiment (more funny, than real): Nano-mario wants his amazing RIAA photos! got: 7 diggs in 10 minutes; 10 diggs in 20 minutes; 15 diggs in 30 minutes; 21 diggs in 40 minutes; 30 diggs in 50 minutes; 58 diggs in 1 hour; This story is on the front page of digg.com now! 157 diggs in 1 hour and 10 minutes; 208 diggs in 1 hour and 20 minutes; 260 diggs in 1 hour and 30 minutes; 300 diggs in 1 hour and 40 minutes; Removed from the front page because its title doesn't match its content; 330 diggs in 1 hour and 50 minutes; 350 diggs in 2 hours; 400 diggs in 2 hours and 10 minutes; 440 diggs in 2 hours and 20 minutes; 470 diggs in 2 hours and 30 minutes; Hit 500 in 2 hours and 37 minutes! 509 diggs in 2 hours and 40 minutes; 533 diggs in 2 hours and 50 minutes; 553 diggs in 3 hours; 570 diggs in 3 hours and 20 minutes; 590 diggs in 3 hours and 30 minutes; 610 diggs in 3 hours and 40 minutes; 620 diggs in 3 hours and 50 minutes; 640 diggs in 4 hours and 20 minutes; 664 diggs in 4 hours and 40 minutes; 678 diggs in 5 hours; 685 diggs in 5 hours and 10 minutes; 700 diggs in 5 hours and 30 minutes; 707 diggs in 5 hours and 50 minutes; 718 diggs in 6 hours and 10 minutes; 765 diggs in 10 hours; 771 diggs in 10 hours and 30 minutes; It's not us who posted it - somebody else decided to start an experiment. We have already stopped to track stats and this page will no longer be updated. Here is a report with the detailed stats and conclusions. It seems to us that every 5th new story on digg.com uses these words now. People, please don't write crazy titles! It's humans who will read them, not robots. Digg.com moderators, sorry and thank you for your hard work. He has a large body of published essays, articles, books, as well as the blog. I was referring to the larger collection, not the one single blog entry. Did I say something about about intuition? I can think of a few now, I'm guessing a majority of the SomaFM stations use non-RIAA music. Its also worth using tools like RIAA Radar if you're interested in what artists you like don't support the RIAA. Do you understand who funds these studies? Almost all the studies are funded by the energy industry. They want you to believe that there is Peak Oil so you will pay more for gas and put up with wars aroudn the world for cheaper oil. It appears they hook, line and sinkered you. Peak Oil is NOT runnig out of oil, that is not what Peak Oil is. Its simply the people that control production are not doing it as quickly to drive up demand by tightening supply. Its a pretty old supply and demand trick. Enjoy fantasy land yourself there where you are believing the energy industries own studies that they fund. usually when you fund a study, you expect a result. The ones that dont' get the result you want you bury, the ones that do you market to people like you. Newsflash, every group of people that has lived on the earth always thinks these things will happen: the end of the world, some diety coming bac kto save them, some major tragedy, etc. Your really not that special and if you think we have used all the Earth's oil in 60 years then well wanna buy a bridge? I genuinely believe that after Bush has gone that the American people will slowly (too slowly, alas) learn just how truly un-American he and his controllers were. It will also become apparent that the "terrorist threat" so often used as a political cudgel by the Bush adminisration will prove to be largely fictional. : ) without religion, would be have discussions of ethics or morality? Personally, I was under the impression that discussions of morality were about the closest discussions you could to religion, without talking about religion. Seriously, to suggest that ethics are morality are separated from religion is just asinine. Like it or not (I don't), neither would exist in it's present form without religion. ....and the small shall lead the large into the brave new world! Never seen such a thing on Reddit, it's always been stable. Let's clarify, Peak Oil != running out of oil. It simply means the people that are getting oil aren't doing it as fast or fast enough and if the collude on this to up margins that is price gouging and very easy to do when you only have controllable price fixing systems like OPEC. We get oil from the middle east not because we have to, but because its cheaper for them. Oil Execs own memos state this. In mandarin (putong hua), you repeat the verb. You say "want" instead of yes... In fact when you ask "do you want coffee?" You really say "want not-want coffee?" so you either say want(xiao) or not-want (pu xiao) It will also become apparent that the "terrorist threat" so often used as a political cudgel by the Bush adminisration will prove to be largely fictional. Terrorism is the new communism, you see. Before, anything that you didn't like, you just called it 'communist', and instantly it was the enemy. Anything was allowed to defeat the dangerous communist threat. Now, we have a new word. "Oh no, the sky is falling, the sky is falling!" -- Chicken Little What about the efficiency of an invisible plane, like the one Wonder Woman piloted in Super Freinds? Would that be more efficient? I need inverted control for this to be useful for me. Hello apple, I'm a PC, and I use f5 to troubleshoot my networking problems. You think you're so cool with your "apple key..." It's working again for me btw. ty for the update. I think at some base level the problem is reporting without questioning. While true journalism should strive toward objectivity, that doesn't mean taking what is said at face value and calling it 'news'. It's fixed now; it was a bug related to one of our startup scripts. Thanks for all chiming in... Therapies that use bioactive materials as replacement extracellular matrices may hold the potential to mitigate the inhibition of regeneration observed after central nervous system trauma. Hyaluronic acid (HA), a nonsulfated glycosaminoglycan ubiquitous in all tissues, was investigated as a potential neural tissue engineering matrix. The guy presents no numbers. What percentage of GMAC's mortgages are non performing? What criterion does he use to say a mortgage is non-performing? Sorbix's point is correct - lots of hand waving with no data to back it up. This kind of article comes around every few years. Anyone old enough to remember Howard Ruff's "How to protect yourself in the coming depression?" Northern Cyprus isn't a country. Turkey are illegally occupying the Northern half of Cyprus, but it's not recognised by anybody other than Turkey. It's one of the things that's preventing Turkey from joining the EU. More info on Wikipedia. I did it to back up my points in a AK-47 type of way. Long entries people tune out. I can. In fairness, as you only got 80% correct, you should be asking us for 8 of the 10 Canadian provinces. Is your ostensible point "Canadians are more concerned with America than Americans are concerned with Canada"? Seriously. Eat shit and die. The Times should recommend impeachment. Why does the media tiptoe around this obvious conclusion? We will be going to war with Iran... it is just a matter of time. Knowledge, skills, tools, reference materials. Nope. Don't remember. When was the peso ever a major world currency? No his techniques were nothing like that, he's a police officer not some torturer. A theist faith dying out? How terrible! Edit: I apologise for the offence caused my flippancy here. Of course I don't believe anyone should be raped or killed. However, I would remind folk that there is unfortunately nothing unusual about theist on theist violence. At least as an atheist I am not threatening these people with supernatural punishment for their (lack of) faith. Those theists who would allow the Mandaeans to keep their own faith, are presumably condemning them to an eternity of suffering (or equivalent). For failing to put the floodwalls deep enough into the ground? Either it's faked or the kid is on something. If it's real, that kid is seriously disturbed. forget a crack to get it for free, i would not install vista if microsoft offered it as a freeware download from their site. and no i'm not necessarily an anti-microsoft person. for the average windows user, i'd say keep xp. no closures =/ LouF: I admit that I am not very good at arguing, I use cheap rhetorical tactics because I am not subtle enough to even understand what you are arguing with me about, let alone come up with a coherent defense. I admit that I must have some kind of mental issue, and should seek professional help. Why do you keep repeating yourself? This post is bound by the EULA for any future posts by LouF. The RIAA has got an innovative new business model and it involves suing everyone in America. The path to a $9 billion dollar business is clear the the RIAA is leading the charge to claim it. Yep. Some people who criticize Putin get killed. Some people who do not criticize Putin get killed (and there are a lot of them). Some people who criticize Putin do not get killed (also quite a lot). Some people who do not criticize Putin do not get killed (the most). However only first kind of stories make good headlines. So they are reported with a great fanfare. And so readers see a nice pattern, get righteously indignant, which makes headlines for first kind of stories even better ad sellers. They already have, though an appeal could be in order: Judge: Corps can be sued over flood Residents of the three areas flooded worst by Hurricane Katrina can sue the Army Corps of Engineers over claims that a poorly designed navigation channel caused catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Katrina, a federal judge ruled Friday. The corps and federal government had argued they were immune from claims that the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet caused the damage to the Lower 9th Ward, eastern New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish. But U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval refused to throw out a suit claiming that floods in those areas were caused by defects the corps had known about for decades. Corps Faults Itself For Levee Breaks In New Orleans NEW ORLEANS, June 1 -- A contrite U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took responsibility Thursday for the flooding of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and said the levees failed because they were built in a disjointed fashion using outdated data. "This is the first time that the Corps has had to stand up and say, 'We've had a catastrophic failure,' " Lt. Gen. Carl A. Strock, the Corps chief, said as the agency issued a 6,000-page report on the disaster on the first day of the new hurricane season. Am I the only one who finds sleeping naked incredibly uncomfortable? Bandwidth is pretty cheap in Sweden. And with Pirate Bay being legal, I doubt streaming music would be illegal. Guaranteed with that drivel I will NEVER visit your blog. I'll mention your opinion to the people who founded the city in 1718 next time i run into them. US military officials asked media personnel not to report that it was the American soldiers who shot and killed the innocent civilians citing such news reporting could cause rioting in other towns and cities across Afghanistan exacerbating an already deteriorating security situation there. Maybe, just maybe, it isn't the news reporting, but the killing of innocent civilians that deteriorates the security situation? wow, that's effing neato - now I want a tag cloud version - trippy! I got 132, and wasted lots of time attempting to spell Kyrgystan (sp?). And look people, before complaining "It missed Country X!" or whatever, take 2 seconds to look it up on Wikipedia to find out if you are in fact wrong. Ummm ... care to elaborate? It's as if I have to move a magnifying glass over each word to read it. Definitely not effective design. i'm 3.7 environmental. hm. what on earth does that mean? Another reason the flood happened: Loss of wetlands from 1932 to 2005 (picture): http://flickr.com/photos/john-p/409989922/ And I would like to crack Vista in order to use it? Why would I want to do that in the first place!? Significant white space. Back when I was first learning Python it seemed really wrong to me too. But once you actually start writing Python, all the objections seem to melt away and it seems really natural. From what I see, this is typical. Don't put off learning Python because of the whitespace thing, because it's not the big problem everybody assumes it is. Yeah. It isn't exactly a major discovery. Anyone knowing some simple physics should be able to tell you the same thing. It's like saying building a quiet and cool engine is building an efficient one. hopefully he gets killed soon If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it fall, does it make a sound? According to the data in Wiktionary, the first 20 words in English account for approximately 28% of our printed communications. You actually have to get to 32 words to reach 33%. He had a what on the top of his car? *off to register alwaysputmustardonyourhamsandwich.org* Was it always blacked out, or did I miss it? There are 5,000 left in Iraq. The US has offered places for 7,000 (10% of the world total). And yet it says the West isn't making room for large numbers of them? I agree that we unleashed this, though. Everyone knows that Islamic extremism, like AIDS, is a product of secret CIA experiments. Every time someone does a neat visual trick, and applies to to a user interface, someone has to go point out how badly it sucks. Maybe the author should've used endless pop-down menus! Yes! AJAX pop down menus! Oh man, I'm getting all turned on now. I got your damn New Jersey right here, pal. Why don't you come and pick it up? Maybe you're not used to it. Try it for a week, and then report back. And we've always been at war with Eastasia. When did Jason upgrade his iFruit to the newer model? You sir are a giant cocksucker. Its a group of pacifists being killed for no good reason. Did you read the article? It's referring to his ancestors on the maternal side, who were white. If no one is there to hear the sound, the entire forest will be gone soon. The "War on Terrorism" is the best Cold War replacement the U.S. can come up with. So today it's terrorism rather than Communism that's used to justify open-ended defense spending and meddling in weaker nations' politics and economies. Of course the terrorists aren't frightening enough on their own. So the U.S. government shrouds everything terrorist in "Cold War Plus" levels of hyper-secrecy. Interesting, isn't it, that this is "necessary" despite the fact that the terrorists have no real army, no air force, no navy, and no formal intelligence gathering and processing capabilities? Well, to be fair there was an article on "how to wipe your ass" recently on the front page! 115 remaining but... OK, so he has 'countries' like: Christmas Island Cook Islands Kosovo Abkhazia etc. Is he redrawing the map of the world here? Looks like a glaring mistake, especially combined with things like Czechoslovakia. Someone needs to take another look at the array containing the countries I made one for the countries in Europe. It's amazing how often one forgets Malta and San Marino. http://gozkino.com/euro That was more of a political move than anything. They could have upgraded the levees, but that takes money, and New Orleans wasn't ready to pay that much. That is true. But this is a war for minds. We shouldn't be pulling stunts like this. You'd think vietnam would have beatten this into our heads by now. Tell your browser to claim that it is running on Linux (via the ever-useful User-Agent header). Then it gives you a GIF instead. OmniWeb has a very nice feature for this: It lets me configure that per-site, so for gocomics.com only, my User-Agent is: ELinks/0.10.4-7ubuntu1-debian (textmode; Linux 2.6.12-10-k7-smp i686; 80x24-2) (I don't know where I got that, but it works.) Do you think it doesn't count if the people doing the killing are wearing military uniforms? http://www.ifamericansknew.org/ If the Lisp community doesn't care about putting any time into marketing its technology, why should I care about it? firstly, there is no Lisp community. secondly, you shouldn't care. this topic, as far as I understand it, is an informal poll, not a sales pitch. which basically makes your pathos rather misplaced. If Lispers want to be taken seriously, work on integrating with the real world. what is this "real world" you speak about? Haven't got one for the last 20 mins (yes I am an addicted obsessive redditor). Touch wood. And linux on the desktop, right? Here's the latest spew from Ann Coulter: "Liberals have always had a thing about eliminating humans. Stalin wanted to eliminate the kulaks and Ukranians, vegetarian atheist Adolf Hitler wanted to eliminate the Jews, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger wanted to eliminate poor blacks, DDT opponent Rachel Carson wanted to eliminate Africans (introduction to her book "Silent Spring" written by ... Al Gore!), and population-control guru Paul Ehrlich wants to eliminate all humans." Rest of it is here: http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=172 If in fact there is a "significant fraction of America" applauds this kind thing... then fine, you go stand with them. What i find really cool about this is the following: Bring your mouse to the upper-left boxy-link-thing Put your finger on the screen where the mouse pointer is Bring your mouse to the lower-right boxy-link-thing Note how small a distance it is from your finger In other words, you barely have to move the mouse a few dozen pixels in order to access ten different menu options. This might be useful for devices with tiny screens. Sure, not in its current form, but perhaps something yet-to-be-invented that will be inspired by this. When he took power, Nikita Kruschev's biggest job was the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union. It's likely to be that way for the next US president (assuming it's not a Bush clone) -- they'll have their hands full undoing all of the terrible things this administration has done, and it's going to be very easy for their political enemies to attack them, as they'll be raising taxes, attempting to pay off at least some of the national debt, spending billions on infrastructure and domestic security, and restoring civil rights. It's going to be a mess. I found many of them to be valid technical arguments. If there are constraint that you must satisfy (cross platform, big-O, schedule, binary-size) and your approach cannot satisfy that constraint then it is appropriate to turn that down. New Ireland portal - Go Map Ireland - Maps of Ireland plus accommodation, weather and travel guides. www.gomapireland.com There's a .gif at http://foxtrot.com dupe She does not. or you could do something that might actually make a difference. maybe volunteer for amnesty international or the red cross - even if you do it locally, you're helping them to continue their work globally. Come over here, buddy. I'll give you something you'll note. I think I'll shut off my computer and go outside now. I agree. The 423rd "chicken" is the best. terrible usability. Being the cynical person that I am, IMO Microsoft is actually encouraging this (cracking) to get more people to use Vista seeing that its adoption is so far below expectations. They will then turn the screws tighter once enough people are hooked into it. Most annoying - No usability atal Some of these are just impressions I get from looking at it from the outside, so all is IMHO (of course). It's far less readable. I already know Python, and Ruby doesn't have any compelling advantage over Python — it's not even different enough to make learning it for the sake of it worthwhile. The Ruby community is far less friendly than the Python community — specifically, there's a worse zealot:clue ratio. The general attitude Ruby developers have seems to be directed towards more short-term thinking - i.e. immediate results from a flawed design are favoured over doing it right. For example, unsafe GETs seem to have been prevalent and were fixed grudgingly in the Ruby community when GWA showed up. It's like they didn't want to admit to a poor design and blamed it on Google instead. "It was working until your edge case blew my code up!" ok, but I would prefer the sentiment 'human beings being hassled and killed'. A faith disappearing, or becoming rarer is a good thing, whatever faith it is. Edit : I will qualify that; I don't think replacing one faith with another is a good thing, especially one as aggressive as Islam. It would be far better if they could all give it up and get down the disco. Or I'll shoot you in the groin! He could take me. I have no bad habits to unlearn. Great website for free HDTV related information and comparisons Sexual benefits No good reason to do good things unless Big Daddy is watchin...LOL Invisible doesn't mean lack of noise? No, for failing to take responsibility for and act in the city's best interests. I've known for a while (before Katrina) that New Orleans is close to the gulf, mostly below sea level, and in a place where hurricanes hit. The New Orleans leaders probably knew this too; they should have known what the levees were able to protect against and planned ahead. In the Bay Area, they're replacing the Bay Bridge in preparation for the next earthquake. After the Loma Pieta earthquake, earthquake readiness became more important, but people didn't look to the federal government to help, even though the Bay Bridge is part of I-80. Local leaders need to take more responsibility. (backslash-escape those *s) Worst hyperbole ever. I'm with you. On the other hand, they are moderates dying out at the hands of fundamentalists, and it's a symptom of a major decrease in secularism. He was dragged off the street by armed men and forcibly circumcised - a practice not allowed in the Mandaean religion. Then there is Enhar, raped by a gang of masked men in front of her husband - because she would not wear a veil. Mandaean elders use words like annihilation and genocide - they believe Islamic militants, both Sunni and Shia, offer them two choices - convert or die. He believes they are a litmus test for modern Iraq - in a secular state these doctors, engineers and jewellers would thrive. I was actually referring to OO in general, most people (including myself), are quite critical of it. Amazing? Not really. Used to be that I couldn't point your country out, but now I'm dating a Lithuanian. (horrible phonetic approximation ahead:) Om Svegatu! Which is based directly off the Warcraft 3 custom map... That's good to hear. "The industry says that 'until you show us a direct link to human mortality from the use of these drugs in animals, we don't think you should preclude their use," By that logic, the only drugs that will be denied approval are those that pathogenic bacteria have already evolved to tolerate. I almost got stuck on Alaska and Hawaii because of that very strategy, but finished in about the same time as you. In this case, a moderate and pacifistic religion is being stamped out my Muslim fundamentalists in a convert-or-die effort. Maybe they should have made something readable? Or at least have a help/panic button somewhere to explain how to use it? The Chinese have a saying... 'Hao Kan Bu Hao Yong' 'Looks good but not useful.' Applies perfectly here. The Press Esc story characterizes the incident as a "Revenge attack", where the AP story characterizes the U.S. military as returning fire on militant gunmen after they attacked a U.S. convoy and fired on U.S. troops. The Press Esc states flatly that U.S. soldiers opened fire on innocent civilians, where the AP story states that the casualties could be the result of innocents being caught in the firefight. The AP article does mention U.S. forces firing on cars and pedestrians as they left the scene. Both articles claim that an AP photographer and cameraman were forced to delete photos and video, but the AP article states that the AP reporters did not witness the bombing or gunfight, and was later allowed to record the scene. The AP does state that the journalists were threatened by U.S. forces. One article seems like reporting, the other seems like sensationalism. EDIT: I now realize that Press Esc is basically just a blog thinly disguised as a news site. Another big win for "citizen journalism"! Its fair unless you're a power user There's no standard implementation. By that I mean that there isn't a run-everywhere solution like Perl and Python. PLT Scheme is good, but it's a non-standard niche implementation. I find I'm more productive in a language that comes with more out of the box. I could it build all that extra stuff in Scheme, sure, but I don't want to. We're not talking about a few isolated cases of Japanese troops doing something foolish. We're talking about systemic problems, things like insisting that new officers behead a POW to prove they are worthy of leadership. Institutionalized torture in the name of science, etc. Whether Hiroshima was necessary or not, you absolutely can not excuse the behavior of the Japanese military by saying oh well everyone is bad. They really set the bar for atrocity. nice I got it a while back. Around October-ish. I specifically remember doing a red "survey" of the sort in my English II PreAP/GT class and turning it in. It asked me about my first and last name, age, GPA (no one in our grade knew their GPA until the beginning of the second semester), and your most influential teachers of your Freshman year. I had no idea they'd send me something like this. I was told it would help get my name out there for scholarships. I haven't gotten anything since that was scholarship related, just 5 or 6 of the same huge NHR packages telling me it was my last chance. I don't even think they choose you by your grades. The reason I think this is because everyone who had an English II PreAP/GT teacher in my grade got the package. And no one else. This leads me to believe that they sent their surveys to my school, and asked them to hand them out to the English II PreAP/GT classes. They must have disregarded that some kids do fail that class. Oh well. Can you cite sources, please? The sources cited in other comments are contrary to what you are saying, so I would definitely be curious to know where you got this information. It looks nice, I'll give it that. But in terms of usability, it falls flat. I would never incorporate this design into a website. i'm sorry, do you read the business pages? if China and Saudi Arabia by their lonesomes decided to invoke an embargo (or even just pulled their money out of American business) the dollar would lose up to 60% of its valuation overnight, many trillions of dollars of assets would be frozen, and the US has been letting its manufacturing capacity slide to such a point that countless types of goods would disappear from the shelves once purchased. with the volume of inflation stemming from that scenario, there would be insufficient capital to get the manufacturing ball rolling again. suddenly, the US would become Cuba but with no Soviet Union to bankroll a production conversion. welcome to the third world - of course, 40% of the US population lives there already... They can probably just google for 'china engineer'. It doesn't sound like you have a real handle on what "speed" means for your application, other than you want it fast. First, there are a number of high-performance Scheme options. Second, if performance is really your number one uber-goal (as in "the engine explodes if I'm off by 50 microseconds"), then Scheme or Lisp is probably the wrong way to go. Ctrl-R doesn't require you to leave the home row... that's why he took so much of it That doesnt need to be flash. There's a point to using menus and Ajax. What's the point of this? It's irredeemably bad in every way I can think of. Male or female? One 'p' in 'sniper'. That is totally different, the person being asked the question here is answering incorrectly, there is no other way to interpret this question like the example given in the article. Thanks... finding other, similar games was part of my motive to post this, because I knew you redditors would dig em up. :) *edit: it looks like the maker of the element one is looking to make a new game that incorporates some of the handdrawn one's features: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU4KOT9J4ck it's not real. it's made up. consider it a parody. http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Angry_German_Kid Sensationalism!!!!!!!!! Gets information from Amazon and iTunes to generate an RSS feed of new releases from your favorite artists Is it an impressive trick? Yes. Is it a neat showcase for the skills of the page author? Yes. Does it solve any problems with existing UIs? No. Is in fact less functional than a standard approach? Yes. Does it warrant the adjective "amazing"? No. These are my reasons for pointing out that, while it is interesting on a technical level, it is something that I never ever want to see inflicted on anybody else ever again in this form. Why? It fits the military doctrine of preemptive strike. I've read about these people. This is such a shame; I remember reading a while back the Muslims didn't want them to do their baptism thing in the river because they "dirtied it." Everyone post your "It looks nice, but it's not very practical" comments under this thread. It's more organized than having everyone post the exact same thoughts over and over in separate threads. usability grognards should step aside. the arguments are moot. the intention of this site is to present generative images, not sell you cheaper shoes or make the next social networking trend. the interface is pretty inspiring, only the moreso because it doesn't follow the textbook usability gospel. it only takes a little bit of imagination to figure out, and suits the nature of the site precisely. In 1569, an Antwerp physician and naturalist named Johannes Goropius Becanus published a book arguing that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden must have been Flemish -- or more specifically, the Flemish of Antwerp -- and that all other languages could be derived from that tongue. Idiot. Everyone who's read their midrash knows that Adam and Chaya (not Eve, as the stupid translators call her) spoke Ancient Hebrew. Not this Modern or Talmudic/Classical crap, debased with French, English and Aramaic, but the real-deal original. That language was then "confused" during the whole Tower of Babel incident. However, Abraham was a righteous man, and thus kept the original tongue. The people descended from him spoke that tongue. This has been your Public Service Announcement by the Coalition for Mythological Accuracy. Also, I always knew that gender thing was bunk. I talk way too fucking much. Wow. I figured everyone already slept naked. You'd get all tangled up in your clothes otherwise, surely. In my company we use CFEngine, which works great for us. Puppet looks like a really cool piece of software. I'm surprised the use of automatic management systems aren't more widespread. The article talks about the problem with integrating the engines and fuselage. There are airflow issues that need to be addressed. There's also fatigue issues that have to be addressed. BOAC flew the ill-fated Comet, a sexy looking airplane, which kept falling apart. Burt Rutan's Starship looked great on paper but failed to deliver on performance when it was actually built. You're talking about gambling millions of dollars to bring a new aircraft to market and those kind of issues have to be resolved before anyone is going to put a dime on the table. Yes, you can do almost anything, given design freedom and resources. But if the design doesn't pay back the invested resources and those resources are significant, you won't get the resources. impeachment is out of the question; Dick Cheney is VEEP That's actually a good point. There's a case to be made for this kind of "daisywheel" ui to be investigated for touchscreen handlheld devices to expand the number of options available on a single screen. I made the point above that this UI doesn't solve any problems but in a more usable form running in a restricted screensize environment maybe it could. I thought this was going to be circumcision pictures. Why is it uncomfortable? Maybe higher thread count sheets and blankets? Which one? I forgot Massachusetts, Maryland. oops! It's not circular at all. The reasoning is perfectly valid, just potentially unsound. Violence is the answer! Hmmm... a few minor typos. Otherwise, what's the point? Great story: Mobile phones that can predict your requests? A 3-D Internet? Health care from a doctor half a world away? These things might become everyday occurrences sooner than you might imagine. Remove Cheney from office. The really ruthless Huffmanisation would be to swap ( and ) with j and k respectively. How often does anyone need a j or k anyway? :) SUCKER!!! A religion being killed off. Redditors should feel happy! OK, seriously, how are we going to save these people? Terry Bisson rules! she is the sexiest food host i have ever seen. There is an interesting discussion in there. Some brahmins are seeking a separate nation. It's Web 3.0 seriously, is there anyone more evil than atheists? This briton got 31 You forgot:Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, Better spelling would have got me m-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i Given that I live in Hampshire, missing 'New Hampshire' is doubly embarrassing. hi Looks like a glaring mistake, especially combined with things like Czechoslovakia. What do you mean? Czechoslovakia isn't in there, and he has the Czech Republic and Slovakia. That's correct, isn't it? Me thinks that this is a better user interface for lisp IDE programming at the parse tree level. Paul are you looking? Another easy Saint Patrick's Day craft project. 500 Demands will Bring Travi$B. To Your City How original, a 4 year old article about how cool Mac's are. yawn. When Macs take over the universe with their built in cool factor, I'll start counting the Mac viruses. Nikon sales rep gets his cousin into sales rep meeting. Cousin spreads announcement of new Nikon D3 to the rest of the world 2 days early. Oops! Erm...who is using Al Gore's energy usage as proof of a lack of "climate change." I'll bet this guy has read a few articles from sources that already have qualms about it, and can't reason enough to figure it out. He even mentions Gore's shady carbon credit purchases. Always. Every time. And sarcasm. I like that as well. Disclaimer: I work at The Tech Co-op. You're probably not going to find a host that is more Lisp-savvy. We host common-lisp.net, cliki.net, paste.lisp.org and most other lisp-based sites as well. We also host Bill Clementson's blog, and employ some lisp programmers. We have discounts available for Lisp programmers as well. Thanks for the shout out trichey! Probably not any worse for them than inhaling a little campfire smoke. Yeah poor soldiers. They are good ole boys, just following orders. They had no choice. Befehl ist Befeh. Pissant apologists like you make me sick. These people should hang. But they wont becauase they are americans, and all americans have GOOD INTENTIONS, dontcha know. Sito di ricette in stile web 2.0. Learn about the most cost-effective type of life insurance. Make informed financial decisions. (No agents will call). Political sociology being a small interest of mine, I have a theory as to why, at least relating to social welfare, rural voters tend to be Republican, and city voters tend to be Democrat. Maybe that's because neat visual tricks don't often make great user interfaces. If I'm looking for something, I don't want to mouse over everything in a search for it. mooli responded well. It looks pretty, but I wouldn't want to browse the web like that. The Corps of Engineers is tasked with this responsibility, and local leaders do not have authority over these projects. They can't simply take the project away from the Corps and say "Your work here is done and we are taking care of these levees now. Thanks, its been fun." The Corps has been granted full authority over these projects by the federal government. As a result of Katrina, the Corps did an assessment of levees throughout the US and put out a list of levees at risk of failing. 42 of those levees are in California, way more than any other state. The second highest is Oregon with 14. Louisiana has 6. Clearly, having 42 levees at risk of failing is "taking responsibility" Of course the UK is a country. Just because the UK has constituent countries, it doesn't mean that it isn't a country itself. wt It's from 2002, there's been dupes of dupes of dupes all over the net a billion times. And besides, it's a junk article with a sensationalist headline which is debunked by another opinion in the article itself. It depends :D. On the mobile phones I worked on, the Java code was pre-compiled (which of course couldn't be done with downloaded programs). But they were just J2ME (no reflection, KNI). On other systems they don't tend to pre-compile, which is robably an unnecessary sacrifice at the altar of flexibility, You're right, it is terrible! We're losing a unique philosophy from the marketplace of ideas, diminishing us as humanity. Or has blankets. I use Ruby all the time. Oh! Oh! I know that one! Theists. It's brutal, but it's part of war. Just like sept 11th right? I assume you would have no problem with raddicals nuking an american city then becuase, hey, its part of war. A practical approach towards successful data research for product and business insights. Relocation is stressful. Make it easier on yourself by using the power of the Internet to your advantage. Inform yourself for one of the biggest decisions you'll make. Makes me glad I don't drink milk. Oooh ooh, I have a better answer! Those who think that one group is more evil and less deserving of existance than another! cool Discount for lispers? Nice. I think I should abaddon ruby and back to lisp for "night" projects :-) Unfortunately, someone that won't admit that the earth revolves around the sun is probably not going to accept this as proof. They will probably just insist that the sun doesn't revolve around the earth exactly the same way every day. They might even try to use the image as counter-proof somehow. Never underestimate the power of idealogy over facts. Nobody ever claimed he did. DHH just made a killer implementation of it. And it's all about the implementation. Skip lists? I'm guessing Jersey Parking Authority or something like it. But nice image. This wasn't merely a few exposures to a substance proven to affect learning and memory. These toddlers got a twisted behavioral lesson on what the people they look up to are doing. It's going to take some doing to straighten them out, assuming anyone cares enough to bother. check it, citizen. http://imdb.com/title/tt0137523/ He's never referred to by name in the movie (because he is actually tyler durden), and in the credits he is referred to as "The Narrator." So, yes, Ed Norton's character did not have a name. Is this a deliberate attempt at giving a detailed description of REST without using the name "REST"? Nifty. "Usability" is very important for a site where information needs to be presented in an effective way, with a minimum of effort needed by the user/viewer. But there's something to be said for making the user explore a novel environment/interface in some cases. If the user doesn't get sick of trying to figure it out and leave, then the discovered information may be perceived as something of a reward. For a site where the author is primarily showing off his artwork, I find this sort of interface to be more compelling than a highly "usable" but bland list. A bit of a game draws the user in and helps develop some interest. It might seem like a digression, but is the "Cold War Plus" level of secrecy the Bush administration wraps around its War on Terror necessary to fight terrorists, or is it instead necessary to maintain the illusion of an adversary? Terrorists by definition don't have an army, and air force, a navy, or an intelligence gathering and coordination capability. Yet the Bush administration tells us that fighting terrorism requires more secrecy than was used to combat the former Soviet Union. This is relevant to the U.S.'s use of torture insofar as the Bush administration has created and today sustains the illusion that torture is "necessary" to get information about a notional adversary that for the most part doesn't exist. After Bush and his cronies have left the White House the truth will slowly (too slowly!) come out. What the world will then learn will be that the U.S. committed some of the most shamefully inhumane acts in history, and in doing so irreparably soiled America's honor forevermore. damn it! i found 'parking' but not jersey ;) Same thing as this, only that one links to Slate (the original site of the article) rather than to the Washington Post. Ironic, considering the source. aren't you assuming too much? I mean, if you'd like to go the armchair psychoanalisys way, you are already in hot water, since your original comment was nothing but defensive. wanna talk about it? It's a place you might want to check out some time oh dear god. how old are you, Mr. Ass-You-Ming? I missed four. Arkansas, Iowa, Utah, Wyoming. Connelly: People do not purposely make "bad" artifacts without thinking that by doing so they are making something good within a system that accomodates, justifies and elevates the so-called "bad". Bad art is being made because people think it is good. What we (I am an artist) have to rebel against, is, as always, the bad art. I, too, disagree that art's purpose is to interest its audience. Interesting the audience is merely a primary step. But the examples you give lose the point by talking about art that isn't seen. Whether or not it is seen has nothing to do with its purpose, only with whether the purpose is fulfilled. I am only guessing but I would say that Graham is interested in startups because it is a very interesting thing to do right now. money is simply the measure of success. Art is, as you say, a "relativistic mishmash". It isn't fun any more. I think startups probably are. As for "what should we do", I think he has said and implied that we should do what interests us. You decide by trying things out. Are they "worth doing"? Who knows. From the website of TerrorFreeTomorrow, the group that made the survey http://www.terrorfreetomorrow.org/upimagestft/Final%20Mercy%20Poll%20Report.pdf 5% of Indonesians surveyed now believe suicide terrorist attacks are justified, up slightly from 2% in January 2006 but down from a high of 27% after 9/11, and 9% in January 2005. It would seem these studies give highly variable results, and probably are not to be trusted. EDIT: Or maybe it actually means they changed their minds. Who knows? You don't need to trust him, but let me tell you first-hand that the "left" side of his presentation is pretty much spot-on. I don't have as much experience with the "right" one, but wherever I could compare notes -- it matches well my impressions and conclusions. That said, he may certainly be wrong. But one thing that's been proven over the last 3000 years is that epires don't last. i totally agree with you - ooooomph But they're Afghan civilians, they matter less than Americans (except the debt-ridden food-insecure Americans, they don't matter much either). "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." No wonder China, and Russia, and Iran, and on, find us hypocrites. We don't hold true that all men are created equal, as evidenced by what we do. Our government has fully absorbed the morals of capitalism -- namely, 'every man for himself' and 'I got mine, now go get yours', as well as, 'Power and wealth are a means to themselves'. The wealthy of this country would never have been wealthy had they happen to have born in Sudan or Laos or Afghanistan. The very wealthy that largely run the country tend to think that their wealth gives them a moral mandate to enrich themselves even further. So Paris Hilton smashes her lamborghini without care, while children go severely hungry in countries as wealthy as the United States. Doesn't history repeatedly teach us to learn from it? Isn't it time for people like us -- who actually tend to understand history and see the current global politics for what it is -- to make a stand?. When smart people everywhere don't care enough (as is often the case), the world is in trouble. ...I now feel purged... H Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nunavut, Quebec, British Columbia and I am screwed on the last one. What about Mexican states? Britney Spears tried to hang herself with a bedsheet after screaming "I am the anti-christ" to frightened staff. She made the demonic cry after scrawling the devil's number "666" across her head. Spears's manic behaviour has concerned relatives who once again fear for her safety, and has staff at the Promises Clinic in Malibu, California struggling to cope. Only guessing on the Jersey. It was the only city name starting with JE I could think of, but the parking seems likely anyway. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss? Complete crap. Recessive genes are statistically impossible to remove from a large population, even when there is strong selective pressure against them. These 'experts' don't understand elementary genetics. I concur with IMesh's assessment of you, brainburger. Your cocksuckerness has attained hitherto unknown proportions. It's not about the religion. It's about the people. So, shut up and go to hell, please. Thanks! It happened several times this morning and afternoon as well. Slow mystery-meat navigation. So, uh, what's the bad news? I understand your point, and I think it is totally valid. I tend to think of this as a federal problem rather than a problem specific to the Corps. In order to show that this disaster was the result of federal mismanagement, it helps to be able to point to the Corps specifically, but I certainly recognize that the people tasked with the duty of maintaining the levees are running a rather thankless operation. When the congress passes legislation, the administration acts on the legislation and the courts rule the legislation is constitutional and properly applied by the executive branch, it is LEGAL. Democrats in Congress need to realize right now that the administration will not produce or disclose any meaningful evidence unless and until they are truly forced to do so, and forcing them to disclose meaningful information is going to require a willingness to fight hard. This is so idiotic. How about a survey of actual terror acts in the last 50 years? You'll find most of them are committed by Muslims. I think a lot of Muslims are just lying when asked about supporting terrorism in Surveys. They don't want to reinforce the association between Muslim and terror, so they tune down their response. Americans on the other hand, when asked about support for terror, think about 9/11 and give more angered response. I bet you if America fly a few airplanes (remoted controlled, of course) into buildings in Muslim countries, Muslim support for terror would skyrocket. Sarcasm aside, there is no doubt that past US policy has fostered the growth of Mulim fundamentalism, even though you can't say they created it, not by any stretch of the imagination. But we aided the overthrow of the government of Iran decades ago when it suited our purposes in the Middle East, then funded Saddam when it was convenient to do so during his war against Iran, then funded Osama when it served our purposes in Afghanistan... when will it stop? Don't call me "Dude." That makes you sound like a stoner. One thing I'm not totally clear on here... if their religion is older than Christianity, then how come they worship John the Baptist? Does anyone know who screenvader is? Their music is pretty aweseome.. is the album available? kul Agreed. See the Flood Control Act of 1965. "In the Flood Control Act of 1965, passed shortly after Hurricane Betsy pummeled New Orleans, Congress appropriated funds to increase the height of the levees around the northern side of the city, where Lake Pontchartrain ominously abuts what used to be swampland but today is suburbia. With help from a meteorologist from the National Weather Service, Corps engineers determined a wind speed and pressure that they felt closely characterized Hurricane Betsy. The work was done before the development of the Saffir-Simpson scale, which today is used to categorize hurricanes. At the time Corps engineers called their approximation a standard project hurricane (SPH), equivalent to what today would be called a fast-moving category 3 storm." I beg to differ. Down ye go. I'm Canadian too.... You forgot:Connecticut, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, "America need only look beyond its navel to recognize its fortune and, therefore, its responsibilities." What responsibilities? Responsibilities externally? Responsibilities internally? For every specific responsibility claimed, there will be someone who objects to it, usually with valid points. oh i have a great idea...why dont we put the best way to crack vista on the front page of digg and reddit so that M$ can easily find it and fix it!!!! For those who say that Internet radio stations should just start playing non-RIAA music: An Internet radio station in the U.S. can't just start playing non-RIAA music and be free from this decision. ANY music released in the U.S. falls under the license this article is talking about, whether the artist is somehow part of the RIAA or not. The only way for an Internet Radio Station to legally play music and not be under this license would be to get a legal agreement from the labels whose music they're playing. Four years ago, Internet Radio was in a very similar position: virtually no labels stepped up and offered their catalogs then, and it doesn't seem as if they feel it's in their interest to do so now. It's also worth noting: this decision is retroactive through 2006. That means that ANY Internet radio station that was on the air in 2006 will automatically owe a year's worth of royalty payments: they will be bankrupted almost immediately, and none of them will get a chance to start playing "non-RIAA" music. This is going to descend into pendantry I can tell... Let me rephrase as: Sleeping naked is more comfortable -> Greater comfort improves health -> Improved health is a result of sleeping naked. Looks like a circle to me, and a shaky one at that. Perhaps drawn freehand, in crayon. Iraq was far better off with Saddam in power. This is not a talking point, it is a fact plain as day to anyone except for muslim extremists and neocons. This is a brillant website for science homework! :) :) :) where the AP story states that the casualties could be the result of innocents being caught in the firefight. ... Um, the AP story says More than a half dozen Afghans recuperating from bullet wounds told The Associated Press that the U.S. forces fired indiscriminately along at least a six-mile stretch of one of eastern Afghanistan's busiest highways - a route often filled not only with cars and trucks but Afghans on foot and bicycles. "They were firing everywhere, and they even opened fire on 14 to 15 vehicles passing on the highway," said Tur Gul, 38, who was standing on the roadside by a gas station and was shot twice in his right hand. "They opened fire on everybody, the ones inside the vehicles and the ones on foot." edit: and NYT says: Afghan witnesses and some authorities blaming the Americans for indiscriminately shooting at civilian vehicles in anger after the explosion. I am sure it's all a part of cancer-curing remedy. Bonus points for using pgrep and pstree... Then again -- there's that HTTP server in PostScript :) http://www.pugo.org/?page=pshttpd Of course, when linguists finally reconstruct Nostratic, they'll find that, by a freak coincidence, it's actually identical to 16th-century Flemish. We'll see who's laughing then! Is this what our country stands for? The editorial does refer to "the unwise and lawless policies of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney," and one definition of "lawless" is "against the law". If you accuse them of crimes, you're at least implying they should be held to account for those crimes. So they're almost calling for impeachment. You're right though. They should just come out and say it. They certainly wouldn't be alone. But they'd have to get rid of Cheney first or try them both together. I was hoping that all the bad press and maybe the Libby trial would get Cheney to resign, but no luck yet. Ups, my bad. True. I feel it's the drama of the gangs "at the top" of different countries. The world citizens tend to want nothing to do with it, the exceptions being the unfortunates that have succumbed to the propaganda. Nobody on my block hates anyone living on some block in Iran. The citizenry gets along fine, on the whole. It's these greedy ticks that are the problem. That, and the occasional strategy addict that's more interested in battle specifics than the folly of a war. At least, that's the way I'm seeing it these days. Women being snickered at for watching soap operas by people who consume their drama on an even larger scale, believing life lacks vitality without this sort of conflict. Sorry. A short rant took me. I find it ironic that a site whose members seem to spare no opportunity to decry the "prudish" nature of American society are now all up in arms over the thought that some wage slave might potentially see a glimpse of the outline of their penis... I'm not using an AS/400 anymore. Back then I'd really liked to use COBOL instead of RPG/400. Interesting. I knew the carbon offset practice of planting trees was about all we could do, but until this reddit article I hadn't realized that planting trees isn't all that useful. According to wikipedia, growing trees store carbon but release it and use up oxygen when they decay. I hadn't realized that the carbon credit purchases Gore made were simply to himself either. This is how the American economy has (d)evolved in the past few decades - the picture tells a thousand words. Okay, now you've devolved into personal attacks, the surest sign that a person knows they're wrong. I'm done with this conversation. Then I call upon this team to design and build Wonder Woman's Jet to test your hypothesis. It seemed pretty quiet on Super Freinds is all I'm sayin. Dude, the AP article clearly states that the soldiers fired randomly into pedestrian vehicles and those on foot. They were pissed and angry and whatnot, but the fact is that is what happened. I'm glad we don't really consider them humans though, you know, with brothers and fathers and children and wives and families and so forth. They just scum, like the homeless, eh? No biggie if a few dozen are shot the fuck up and murdered. I'm not calling the soliders monsters, many people likely would've reacted in the same way, given the stresses involved. They deserve the benefit of the doubt when judging them. I can't say what I would've done in their situation. But they nevertheless clearly murdered civilians and should be held responsible for it. Inner city folk back home, some who've faced stresses not too dissimilar from those the soldiers must've faced, have been sentenced to death for lesser actions. There's PHP security for you... Someone with a good keyboard. I have an oldish IBM keyboard, roughly 1995 vintage, and it's still going strong. It's also 2 or 3 times heavier than most other keyboards. Ah, but the script refers to him as Jack: http://www.hundland.com/scripts/Fight-Club_third.htm In talking about the production, the filmmakers often referred to him as Jack. If you read the novel, you learn that his name is neither Jack (Jack is never mentioned at all, the novel is all about Joe's Raging Bile Duct or Joe's Wasted Life) nor Tyler Durden... his real name is a mystery. So true, Edward Norton's character is not precisely named in the movie, but for ease of reference, most people call him Jack. I talked to someone who was doing his thesis on the Mandaeans. He started his work before the invasion, and commented on the incredibly horrible abuses that occurred after Saddam fell. They were officially protected previously and while they were a small minority they were generally well off, many worked as jewelers. As soon as the invasion began the robberies, rape, executions, and forced conversions started. Since many were relatively wealthy they were an easy target. virgina Is that what they call those down there? World of information on stocks, investment and economy BBC Headline, as you said: US troops kill Afghan civilians Circular reasoning is when you assert the conclusion and use it to prove itself. In this case, the conclusion is that sleeping naked is good for your health, which is not one of the assertions. It's no different from saying: all birds fly, a puffin is a bird, therefore puffins fly. Whether or not the assertions are true doesn't make the reasoning any less valid. It's on Khyber Pass road, Auckland, New Zealand. I pass it daily. Weird seeing it on Reddit. kinda funny. the music industry allows radio to play their "product" for free. people pay for something coming free over their radios. weird industry. Brilliant! I'd stake my kid's life on a 25% chance. Who wouldn't? Good example of bad reporting. People in the comments are saying these photos are fake. Just so you know. This is going to descend into "pendantry" as long as you insist on being wrong. I think the argument is more like a slippery slope where he asks you to believe several tenuous (but minor) statements (like sleeping naked is always more comfortable and being comfortable certainly is healthy) and then he gathers those statements to form a "logical" conclusion. Given the first two assertions, it's perfectly rational to conclude the third. Circular reasoning is when your primary cause is derived to be an effect of something else in your logic: For this example we need to assume "healthy people sleep naked (unhealthy people don't)", which gives us. Sleeping naked is comfortable therefore healthy because healthy people choose to sleep naked. He is lying. What is the up side for the US military to routinely torture prisoners? Do you think they're sadistic? Do you think they are inhumane? Do you think they want to be court marshaled and imprisoned? That's a pretty short list. I remember being upset with the very first thing they did--killing what was to be a new standard for workers' comp and RSI injury prevention--long before 9-11 happened and everybody turned into blind, scared sheep bleating their support. I don't even have wrist trouble, and that made me angry. Even if we do somehow manage to make the repairs the NYT lists, I wonder how long it will take to get to the "little" things. Like enabling programmers to make their employers foot the bill for halfway decent keyboards and chairs. Oh, and every other stupid thing he's said and done since then. Can we get a nice clear 'cvs diff -D 11-7-2000' on the country? Investment rule #1: NEVER take investment advice from someone who spells 'ideas' with a 'z'. Male. And we have good-quality linen. I just like everything strapped down rather than rolling around. But I just can't ever imagine it being comfortable. Great article about south african property on a superb blog. For this comic to make sense the name on the account with their internet provider would have to be that of the lizard. Which I doubt it is, funny idea, but doesn't make sense. Echo chamber for idiots would be correct captain! Where the hell is that roll of Reynolds Wrap? yay foreign girlfriends! (and wives) Too bad it can be decompiled. And if it's stored in vector format (more typical of "webcomics"), the decompile will include all the vector data which you can edit to pirated taste. Let's clarify, you == retarded, present situation == already tight demand, peak oil == fucked. Oh hey retard, did you ever figure out how come there wasn't any "price gouging" worth shit in the past but suddenly now that peak oil has happened then it's ALL the fault of price gouging! Yeah right. As for getting your oil from the middle east, sorry to tell you, imbecile, but you DO have to. And technically, you don't even get it from the middle east. But it doesn't matter where you get it from because ALL oil supplies EVERYWHERE are past peak. I clicked "easy" and then Firefox spontaneously closed with no warning... odd. [edit] It worked the second time Right. As it is now, it's a (cool) solution in search of a problem. But I'm sure there are problems that this will solve. It's just not something to apply to standard web site navigation. Thumbs up for coolness. I'd like to see other places this could be applied. @keithobambertman, Typical brainwashed response from a conservative... There is a new Roth 401k that is tax-free. But it's brand-new, so essentially you're correct. naked? No, that's NOT circular reasoning. Circular reasoning would be more like: Sleeping naked is more comfortable. Why is it more comfortable? It's more comfortable because it's healthier. Why is it more healthy? It's healthier because it's more comfortable. That's circular reasoning. The original argument has two premises: 1. Sleeping naked is more comfortable 2. Any increase in comfort improves health And then draws the valid conclusion that sleeping naked must therefore be healthier. A valid argument is one where if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true; a sound argument requires not only validity but also true premises. The original argument is clearly valid, if unsound. Yay for Philosophy 1, which I took last winter... or so... Oy. Romney is in more trouble... Yeah I agree. I find that the more I fail, the more afraid of failure I become. I think this is because I've got more of a taste of how bad the consequences of failure are. It's kind of like beginner's luck, when you get really far in a video game but then you die, and that death ruins your momentum causing you to not get very much further in the game. you guys need to stop being such predictable, binary, if-then statement dorks all the time and just appreciate it for what it is. IT'S BEAUTIFUL. he's not trying to make the most usable, functional site EVER! he's an artist and he's making his ideas work. .. now if you excuse me.. i have to go work on my MVC app :) Spot-on. The terrorists explained that they were striking at American financial interests and symbols of wealth. Shopping may have sounded silly in the wake of such destruction, but it was a response that helped ameliorate the downturn in the wake. Immanuel Kant writing in the middle of the 18th century didn't use religion to back up his moral arguments. Yet of course you want to try to squirm out of it by butchering what I wrote and passing it off as mine. Whatever authority I have, it's vastly more than yours, you intellectually dishonest sewer rat. Well said. If anything, that comment defines your life and all your accomplishments. You sir, are a hero. If you're lucky, they'll engrave it on your headstone. Thanks to all that modded it up; need to make sure everybody sees that incisive piece of hate-filled rhetoric. 4:41 left... :^p Took me a while to realize I'd forgotten Minnesota. Plus I was doing something else when the clock started (despite the warning). that comment wasn't towards you so stop overreacting. I hate cons who start labelling people conformist, apologist etc. Actually pretty smart if you think about it. Go for the kids first since they have limited rights already. A horrible idea, but a pretty smart implementation. A very good working example of why NOT to use such an interface. I liked this book myself When you control the courts and the congress, everything becomes legal. The one thing you are forgetting is the Constitution. yeah So you think they're stupid and easily fooled. Yeah that's the ticket that clever rascally brainiac George Bush fooled 'em! Why they should impeach him then! Or maybe he's too smart for 'em. Really, just review what the Dems said at the time. So they were all tricked? Odd though Hilliary had access to all those Clinton administration leaders and she says she got their advice before she voted to authorize and they agreed with the intelligence. Odd all those other Democrat senators and congressman knew and were friendly with the same folks and no one disagreed with the available intelligence data. Do you think Bush forced Albright and company to lie? No argument that involves only the two bodies is going to be convincing evidence for either hypothesis. If the Earth and Sun were the only objects in the universe than there's no reason you couldn't say that the Sun revolves around the Earth. It would just be a matter of what reference point you chose. It's only once you introduce the motion of the other planets that geocentrism stops making sense. Sounds pretty easy to me. Best comment evar! In all the anti-Gore articles I've read about it, point 5 is "Therefore, Al Gore is a hypocrite", not "Therefore, we need not worry about global warming." Well, whatever you say, the fact is that you can develop a whole solution involving visualization with Java which, by the way, is increasingly being used for scientific computing (as judged by the number of new books). Yes, Franz has bindings for OpenGL. I just think it's lame for a vendor that you're expected to pay up a hefty price and then, increasingly, your solutions for anything current like databases, performance, and visualization are developed with outside tools. Then, why not use Python? Or Java? Or C++? Which, by the way, is what people do...By the way, Java is really portable, and that is why banking, financial and medical institutions rely on Java for their software. Clarification: mostly cpython the implementation, not python the language. Nice pix, shame you have to register Theeeerofore: User: Johhny_Cash Password: reddit So? That's quite cool, I knew someone else must've had a similar idea. There seems to be a general awareness that function composition is suspiciously Forthish. Were you able to define a loop? dons, you beat me to submitting my own blog post. Enjoy the karma ;-) Yeah, 'cuz 5 seems like too short of a list for the language. mwahahahahaha I thought you were kidding until I found this. It's both nice and horrifying to see the left stoop to the level of the right. A service in NYC where you're encouraged to NOT leave a tip!?!?! It probably costs about $300/day. You want me to find it for you in the archives or what? These always prove to be more pain than they're worth... just wait until you get a new computer which will have Vista OEM anyway, otherwise don't bother upgrading. Let's have a Reddit-administered Andy Award, named for Dr. James Anderson of "nullity" fame. Uh. The water is in the rocks and you'd have to take a rock to a lab to find it. It's not like it's a real "hollow" ocean thing. I see also sometimes some creepy message : Can't submit story: You are submitting too fast... Me for god sake for first 3 month I submitted may be 10 stories... Is it too fast? :) Actually, it worked for me. If it wasn't for the tongue I would've looked at it and thought "oh, Mars bar, who cares?" But then when I looked at it I saw that it was advertising a new [presumably] ice cream Mars bar: soemthing I'd never heard of before and now want to try. The other submission was from eight months ago, when Reddit's userbase was a tiny fraction of what it is today. The Reddiquette FAQ provides details on why it's okay to resubmit old stories. You are of course right and I see your point now. Much obliged. Contrary to the evidence I do know what circular reasoning is, honest. I just for some reason decided to write nonsense and make a tit of myself in a public forum. Yes I'm really sick of those sort of titles. Very, and I mean very good stuff. Higly recommended. Not connected to any Python framework. Exellent. If you untar the wordpress installation file it will overwrite the old files, so I think you don't have to worry about deleting some files first: http://www.fduran.com/wordpress/updating-wordpress-from-the-linux-command-line/ and instead - boring pics of ppl about to get killed :( alright, tell me if this makes sense, but the lady needs to have big boobs for it to really feel right. To show a process tree with pids, uids, and command line arguments, and avoid truncating long lines, you can use: pstree -paul To use line-drawing characters instead of pipes and dashes: pstree -paulG For some reason, I seem to be able to remember these flags particularly well. It's not a position. The next sentence suggests empathy with Edwards for having been called "faggot" similarly. The suggestion is that people with shared experiences understand each other better. Having been correctly or incorrectly so-termed by a bigot suggests nothing in the way of political agreement or non-agreement. March 24 is Shutdown Day. Here's a list of 7 things an internet addict needs to prepare to survive that personal experiment. Yeah, you're right, I don't know what I was thinking. I think I'd mentally turned the "and" between the premises into a "therefore" and went off on one. Yay for the boundless opportunities the internet affords me to be completely wrong. Yup. I agree. Knustler is someone who wants to see it 'all come down' but I he and others of his ilk are too optimistic or naive if they think it will lead to anything other than a lot of very angry people and a generally much poorer society that tries to look for scapegoats. My biggest problem with Knustler? He doesnt tell you how to profit off this whole thing. He's dooming people who read him to be in the 98% of the population that's going to get screwed. scroll to the bottom for the poem rant Yeah, I'll end the pedantry right here and say I was totally wrong and everyone else knew what they were talking about. I blame it on a (hopefully temporary) lapse of brain function. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. Great list, I was amazed to find some of my favorites books there :-) "I didn't say it won't effect it, I said the effect will be unpredictable. Again learn to read." You learn to read, dipshit. Your basic premise has been that tax cuts won't always positively impact the economy. I never said you claimed it wouldn't affect it. I said you claimed it won't positively affect it. By implication, there's an always in there. Retard. So if you read it with at least the comprehension of a 12 year old, you'd read it this way: You are so freaking idealogical. You'll go to just about any idiotic argument just so you don't have to admit to yourself that tax cuts will ALWAYS positively affect the economy. Again, I repeat, the ALWAYS wasn't required because it was implied, but you're incapable of understanding even that little. Tax cuts will positively affect the economy, fucktard. "Apparently you are unaware of the thousands of years of temprature readings we have through ice cores and such." Yes, and we have global ice ALL OVER the fucking world, moron. This is STILL not experimentation, dipshit, and only limited in use in validation claims that we're experiencing global warming in the last 30 years. Geez your so fucking stupid. Thousands of years of temp readings at the poles and a handful of decades of temp readings worldwide is supposed to be more data the economists have available? Are you STILL denying that psychology is a science? You claimed it wasn't before but you now seem to be saying it is. Make up your little mind. Remember? You claimed psychology wasn't a science? Remember? Twit. "The theory of global warming is based on our understanding of physics, chemistry, mathematics, geology, and meteorology. There is lots of experimentation sorry." Nope. There hasn't. All we have is temp readings. Give me one example of experimentation in global warming research, dipshit. Considering that global temperature changes takes DECADES to happen, there's no way to even do experimentation. All people can do is create theories and take readings. A single experiment would take 30 years to perform. Looks like if Michael and the guy who plays Dr Cox on Scrubs managed to have an offspring. Anyways, the parody (linked beneath the video) is way better: Numa Numa Guy vs Angry German Kid (http://blog.pcnews.ro/2006/08/12/numa-numa-guy-vs-angry-german-kid/) It will happen. The imbalances in the US economy and world economy are SEVERE. For this to unwind without massive pain for large numbers of people is almost out of the question. Tumble it will. It's who will pick up the peices after the tumble that matter. Dons, You should seriously advocate the use of such a pipe operator rather than dots and dollar signs. I can tell you, as a newbie, life would be a lot easier for us if we didn't have to read haskell expressions left to right and right to left in the same expression. F# does this well with '|>' Obviously any one can define such an operator and use it, but the point is, such an operator should be used for haskell tutorials! If as the Demos claim, Bush manipulated the intelligence data to trick congress into declaring war then he should be impeached. The dems have easily more than enough votes in the house to impeach and if tricking the congress to declare war on false information isn't a high crime (treason?) what is? Get the house to impeach now. Then we can have a full airing of the tricks, lies and data manipulation used by Bush to illegally get us into a war. WHY WON'T THE DEMOCRATS IMPEACH BUSH AND FORCE HIM TO REVEAL WHAT HE DID? Exactly. Bravo. Digital art sites do not need to follow usability guidelines. It's art! Why does anyone give any credence to anything that Ann Coulter says? Liberals getting outraged and frothing at the mouth at her use of a pejorative is exactly what she wants. She's made a career out of ruffling the Left's feathers, and while almost everyone acknowledges this, almost everyone continues to fall for it. I hardly think calling on a program's advertisers to express dismay over content they support is to be ashamed of. How is that possible? It's not possible to have warm houses in Norway! lousy art, funny concept. i especially like "mo". I think the subprocess module is awesome. Perhaps it requires a little studying to use, but it sure beats Popen23.popen49 and friends. The only subprocess interface that I've been more impressed with than Python's is the one in scsh. It also requires a bit of studying to use. But let's face it: interacting with programs is complicated. Islam: The Religion of Peace. Although they appear solid, the composition of some ocean floor rocks is up to 15 percent water. Which is why you don't use sandstone to contain your camp fires. Funny stuff. Unfortunately, this person is going way too far. All that has been shown (and argued for the most part) is Gore is a typical rich tree hugger type. By this I mean, "we" should all cut back to save the world where "we" is everyone but me. Try setting slime up with vim and see how easy that is. Interesting but mixed bag. Instead of pstree the 'f' option of ps in many implementations do the same, for intance: ps auxf|less Other commandds are not something that you'd use frequently (bc?). And of course lsof, a page about it made it to the top/first pages of reddit like twice. Are you saying the courts are controlled by President Bush and rule against the constitution as he directs? And does this include democrat appointed judges? PS: Now that the democrats control both houses of congress why don't you get them to simply change the laws you don't like? Yes, good ads are rare. Usually we just get pointless junk like this Snickers commercial. But boycotting a country's products because they gave a certain religion the finger is overreacting? That is true, I like to believe the universe revolves around the earth, and the earth is anchored at my feet. Do you really think Bush got into power without knowing how to manipulate people? What could democrats do with a Republican majority and Republican president? This polarized view of war is disturbing. If you vote pro for one war it does not automatically mean you vote pro for all wars. Typical polarized view of conservatives, but then its a lot easier to label and consolidate situations into simple little categories instead of objectively analyzing each situation. It all goes to show the lack of critical thinking involved with conservative thinking. No YOU leave skid marks on the sheets. I never have. lol religion Very true. But the greater point in all of this is that if somebody in the year 2007 honestly believes that the sun revolves around the earth, the cheese has slid so far off of their cracker that no photo would ever help to get them back to being balanced. They need drugs or counseling, or both... Python has closures, in the form of both nested functions and lambdas. Lambdas are rather crippled, but that's a different complaint. LouF, is that you? So you think they're stupid and easily fooled. I don't think there was anything "easy" about it. The neocons spent nearly two full years building a case for the war, manipulating intelligence, sending Powell before the UN, scaring the American public into believing that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11, etc. They were masterful. They were relentless. And they dragged the country into an unnecessary and terribly executed war. And - for the record - I don't think Bush was an integral part of the brain trust that pulled this great crime off. He was more like an obedient wooden puppet manipulated by Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, et. al. This is all off-topic, however... If you oppose the idea that new oversight and leadership of the war is needed (vis a vis the article), then you continue to support the execution of the war by the same cabal that's gotten us into the catastrofuck we find ourselves in now. And that, sir, is madness. COBOL is a common business oriented language (or THE ... language?). I don't use it, because I don't want to feel common. Oh, please. You expect the BBC to report anything correctly in a scientific context? Though I do applaud them for presenting a named researcher with a valid counterpoint. Blondness has been recessive for millennia. Besides, as a recessive gene it can always pop back up (one sister and a brother are the only blond kids in my family, and no jokes about marital infidelity please). Before entering stall (easier at home): Take paper towel from dispenser. Fold into a pad. Soak under tap. Then do your job. Wrap soaked pad with TP. Wipe back to front, front to back, sideways - whatever. Then take another wad of dry TP. Wipe dry. Just use ubuntu. I'm using it here. Switched a few months ago and I'm quite pleased with it. John the Baptist predated Christianity and was never a Christian. (Neither, of course, was Jesus) In my opinion they should get whats coming to them, being that they elected the idiot. You would think that people would eventually realize what always happens when you nationalize industry and impose price controls... It's unfair to say it was a 'revenge attack'. These were guys who saw a minivan explode near their convoy. Undoubtedly they were PARANOID. They were probably terrified that every car driving past was going to blow up. Because the dumb code that appears to be slow at first sight, but still follows common object oriented principles will get compiled down to a performant version by the JVM. Contrast that with 'smart' code for which the JVM will find less possible optimizations. The perspective to keep in mind when quoting him on this is that the dynamic compiler is a large pattern matching engine, write exotic 'smart' code, and there will be less patterns that match, and less optimizations that can be done for you. No no no they voted to authorize war against IRAQ not any war. The majority of the Democrat Senators voted for war against IRAQ. In fact, they insisted on a second vote so they could be sure to get on record (this of course was a political calculation on the part of the dems). It was unquestionable they were voting to authorize war against IRAQ, don't know of one dem who makes your argument. Also the democrat controlled congress voted a bill authorizing the use of force to remove Saddam from power when President Clinton was in office. American Idol Antonella Barba Pics. All the candids and nude bj shots. Radical Muslims forcibly converting Mandeans Isn't this exactly the same topic as the NY Times article by Damon Darlin published one day earlier? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/technology/03money.html agreed, I found the interface mainly annoying. Ingirlfriendo orgy How about when the administration just goes ahead and does something despite the law? Like, say, directly violate both the spirit and letter of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act? Would that also be legal? If as the Demos claim, Bush manipulated the intelligence data to trick congress into declaring war then he should be impeached. The dems have easily more than enough votes in the house to impeach and if tricking the congress to declare war on false information isn't a high crime (treason?) what is? Get the house to impeach now. Then we can have a full airing of the tricks, lies and data manipulation used by Bush to illegally get us into a war. WHY WON'T THE DEMOCRATS IMPEACH BUSH AND FORCE HIM TO REVEAL WHAT HE DID? Yeah, you're right. We really would like to see a mass impeachment of this administration. The war in Iraq is certainly more of a high crime and misdemeanor than lying about a blowjob. Unfortunately, (a) I don't think there would be enough votes; we'd need 66 senators to convict, and that ain't gonna happen, so a simple majority impeachment in the House would be just symbolic (b) starting impeachment proceedings while American troops are actively in a combat zone is political suicide What is a "load balancer" in this context? Software or hardware? Any recommendations? I wasn't speaking against the actions of democrats. I was commenting on the idea that the anti-war folks that ignored the Iraq issue no longer have a credible vote against the potential Iran war or future wars. Nice. Do you have some kind of personal axe to grid? Or do you just hate americans because of their freedom? Yet it's pretty much common for the rest of the people.. at least in my experience. What?! A Japanese tractor for one of wife's kidney? Man you western types are cold. I wouldn't have settled less than an SUV. Yeah, I guess I didn't grasp what you where getting at because I learned to WIPE MY ASS at age 2. Jesus christ, skidmarks on the sheets, teh intertubes never cease to amaze me. Wasn't the problem with the Comet that it was designed before stress concentration and crack propagation were well understood - it had square windows on the top :-o The fuselage of current airliners are a fairly nice shape for a pressure vessel, could be tricky making different shape fuselages? (Perhaps two cylinders side by side?) I've come to the conclusion that Ann Coulter is a fucking idiot. fs He did do some comparisons with PGDATA on a RAM drive. That should eliminate drive controller issues doncha think? "The person who was ordering all this stuff, the chief warrant officer, he never saw these prisoners, so there was no way for him to understand what was going on." That is exactly the same mechanism used by the Nazis when killing the Jews: The administration was separate from the people executing orders -- J. Eichman once visited a concentration camp and said he couldn't stand it and wouldn't go again. So the people giving the orders could trick themselves into not feeling responsible for what they did ("the guys who exercise the orders are responsible") and the guys at the bottom could trick themselves into not feeling responsible either ("i'm just executing orders"). It is a totally appalling but effective system. It's either laughable or very sad, I don't know which. I'm beginning to put a fence around religion and religious people nowadays because I find it (and some aspects of them) to be batshit crazy and if I think about it too long my head wants to explode. I've heard enough religious stories involving gross acts of stupidity and dumbness to last a lifetime. Fark has a Florida tag to explain away dumb stories and in future I'm just going to hold up a religious tag and say "Nothing shocks me any more in relation to this subject". Ok well not literally. If you'd read what I wrote, you'd have noticed that I object to war in the first place. Wars are barbaric and should be avoided if at all possible. It's like complaining about getting kicked in the nuts in a street fight. Of course people don't fight fair - it's a fight. It's about winning, with as few losses possible on your side and with as little damage done to your image. If you don't lower yourself to the tactics of your opponent you're putting yourself at a disadvantage. And in case you're short of memory, by who did the cities in Japan get bombed again to put an end to WW2? But of course, you don't call THOSE radical nukes. They're only radical when they're being dropped by the other side. Right... baits you're throwing to get me off the real point have nothing to do with this discussion. I am not throwing you baits, you said: educating childern from kindergarten age I show you what Israelis are getting educated on. http://perlustration.blogspot.com/2006/07/sure-sign-of-sick-culture.html Is that a bait or just basically what you are saying here: might want to contemplate your own situation every now and then, rather than blaming the West on all your problems. The real problem you have is that "me generation" has never understood the price the previous generations has paid for their freedom. Wow. His friends are so hawt! If anyone thinks that the exfiltration of war time scientists from Japan is a one time deal, make sure to look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip Of the more notable, we have Wernher von Braun, inventer of the V-1 and V-2 rockets (That terrorized many a British Citizen) and one of the most notable Directors of NASA (he was the leading forces that got the US to the moon). "Our Germans are better than their Germans." - The Right Stuff If these innocent civilians didn't want to get killed, they shoulda thought about that before they decided to be terrsts. I heard a quote recently attributed to Einstein, although I suspect it was a gag: "Excuse me, madam, but what time does San Francisco stop at this train?". This will not only have the theoretical asset of protecting you from Velociraptor, it will have the pragmatic asset of protecting you from thirst. Now this made me laugh out loud. I put the PGDATA on a ramdisk and PostgreSQL's INSERT INTO are still slower on a big server iron than MySQL running on my laptop. Think sync vs async matters to a ramdisk? Open any key lock without damaging or tampering with the lock. Lock bumping made easier! Taking responsibility can also mean not building in swampland that will get flooded in the next 100 years. I refuse to make a don't talk about fight club joke accidentally reported. No, they have been out of control for years, they are getting worse though. It's that damn DMCA that's really to blame, but that was only passed do to incompetent legislators and RIAA and MPAA lobbying. yeah, this is a cheap knockoff. Unfortunately, you can't avoid the damage by not drinking milk. The issue is that they are using antibiotics on many cows. This means that bacteria will have lots of chances to become immune to it. So, when you get an infection, and the bacteria is immune the all the antibiotics humanity has, you are still screwed. Has this actually been used for a real project? Or is it just a "to show it could be done" hack? today for first time Less stories about Bush, less lame videos. KTHXBAI. She has a wikipedia page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Kwiatkowski I think that's just a generic phrase. The more commonly used saying is "Xiu Hua Zhen Tou" 'embroidered pillow'. Bingo! As city editor at a metropolitan daily, I railed about reporters and copy editors who absolved themselves of factual responsibility by attributing a statement. "The world is flat," he said. ... and then there was the medical reporter who wrote about a patient who died when the attending emergency room physician did not provide an anecdote. I guess when medicine fails, we should at least die entertained. People in the comments always they "these photos are fake." :P Thanks anyway. You only need a simple majority in the house and the dems easily have it. And impeachment by the house is in no way symbolic. It will force a senate trial of Bush. In the trial the senate can force Bush and all his cronies to testify in a senate hearing under oath. This would force an airing of all the lies, tricks and manipulations. Once aired it is unimaginable enough republicans wouldn't vote to convict in face of overwhelming evidence. And an airing of the facts will crush the Republican party for years to come and would in no way hurt the demos. The reason the democrats won't impeach is an airing of the facts will reveal their lie for what it is. I've yet to see a good use of fish eye view other than OS X's dock. Do I get extra points for getting this comment in first? F U AMERIKKKA, you are nothing but a bunch of pretarded xtians!!!1 Why don't you drive your humvee over to MacDonalds for another burger fatty! Hey chillout mate. I didn't even downmod you. :) Slow doesn't bother me. That's why I happily use Perl and Erlang and Python and other interpreted languages (yes, I know there are native compilers for all of those). But Ruby gives new depth to the term "slow." Python is typically 2-4 times slower than Perl and Erlang. Ruby can be just as slow in comparison with Python. Additionally, the packaging for the Windows version of Ruby isn't as clean and simple as with, say, Python. Yeah, so why have so few upvotes been registered? >:-[ It's art, it doesn't have to be funtional I have a feeling this is something similar to the digg prank http://reddit.com/info/176of/comments This site is a joke. Why is it on the front page? What the fuck are "snippers"? Oh, he means jarheads with guns. Well, wee. Even Vincent Flanders, who originated WebPagesThatSuck, feels that there is a place for artistic, not-as-usable sites. If you don't like it, close your eyes. Or use that there Back button. It blew my mind that Connecticut is spelled the way it is. Shit. How did I manage to go through life without knowing how to spell Connecticut? Wait until people start making websites for the Wiimote... putting aside all of the other patently ridiculous stuff you've said in this subthread, i'll repeat what i just said: your claim is incorrect. kant very definitely used religion to back up his moral arguments, insofar as he suggested that god was a valid moral predicate, precisely because god is not a rational predicate. maybe you're talking about his arguments against the rationalist proofs of god, but frankly, your statement gives such short shrift to the topic that it's practically meaningless. in short, i hereby amend my comment to include the second half of your sentence, and conclude that you still have absolutely no fucking clue what you're talking about. also, please feel free to back up your claim that "outside the USA religion plays no rule in either ethics or morality" any time you feel like it, dipshit. You venture wrong and should stop doing it from now on. "Wow," says Leslie Stewart, 63, who works in a paint factory six days a week and gives 10 per cent of his income to the church. "I never heard of anything like that. But if I release my tithe and they misuse it, they have to face God." Reminds me of a story I read in this book: When Ho Chi Zen decided to take students, he put a bowl for donations just inside the door. Over the small brass container was a sign that read: If you wish to donate, do so before class. Habitually, Ho Chi Zen stood where he could see which student donated and which student did not as they entered. Asked why he did so, Ho explained, "Any student who contributes three times in a row is dismissed for excessive gullibility." No, sadly. Not an ice cream Mars bar at all. Just a regular old Mars bar. In the freezer. Innovative! I was quite surprised to see that it changed position not only vertically, but horisontally as well. I have always thought that the sun was at the same horisontal position at the same hour of the day all year, and only the height changed. An interesting view, I think, of the recent Iran/Saudi dialog... Anne Coulter's purpose is little more than to distract liberal types from meaningful political discourse. If some conservatives want to consider her an astute social commenter or comedienne, let them. She is nothing but a real-life troll, full of weak arguments and personal attacks. Attacking her is an easy/pointless exercise. So please, ignore her, as well as the boring, by-the-book liberals at D-Kos. . . Starts well but felt it jumped to conclusions early like "Run Python web server" and nginx. With straight Apache + mod_python, even without reverse HTTP proxy, you should be able to serve similar loads to the 3 iteration in this presentation at least. The flip side of caching is the longer you don't need it, the longer things stay simple. Meanwhile I'd expect Apache to do rather better at surviving mal-formed / malicious requests than a marginal / less-tested reverse proxy or HTTP server. And nginx? Is that really the best choice? What about pound or perlbal - any kind of comparisons out there? Meanwhile FastCGI? Should that really be presented as a sensible option? Worth reading this. That's an interpretation of the law. There are times when there can be differences in interpretations and the executive branch has to act based on their best judgment. When the implementation of the law came into question, the Bush administration worked with congress and the special court to reach an agreement on how the law should be applied. Nothing illegal here. By the way most applications of law do not require adherence to the literal "letter of the law" and the spirit of the law is frequently a judgment call. do you live in Florida? looks like a bio-dome. An intersting article. I'd not been following these events. Class. Praise the Lord and pass the plate! These "carbon credits" are nonsense. The people who "purchase" them are doing nothing to reduce their "carbon footprint". They are simply using energy that other people wouldn't otherwise use. So actually, they are contributing more to the so-called destruction of the planet by using so much energy. They are nothing more than hypocrites...and complete idiots to boot. It makes you wonder about the people who really buy into this garbage. Al Gore has done nothing to offset his "carbon use". He has simply made complete fools of the people who believe him. And as far as "the truth of climate science" is concerned...has there been even one experiment that proves any of these hypotheses about humans causing a climate change? Here's the answer: NO. So, let's be careful about what we're calling "truth" here. Nazi Satanist child molesting terrorists? I'm not much of a python user, or advocate, however, as an occasional user, I find the special method foo decoration horribly hideous for an otherwise good-looking language. He was talking about scaling on a single web server using a software load balancer, primarily to avoid the Global Interpreter Lock (which restricts a single Python application server to only running on one core). The example load balancer he used was nginx, which is also a high performance web server in its own right. The AP article lays out the case for civilians being injured and killed in a crossfire, and being hit by U.S. forces at they left the scene. I also stated this in my comment above. My point was merely that the article linked in the story was cherry picking details to the point of being highly inaccurate. I'm not sure who is unconcerned about the loss of life, but it surely isn't me. I think you are attempting to pour meaning into my comment which clearly does not exist. My point was simply that the original article was poor. I find it interesting that you have apparently already concluded that the U.S. troops murdered civilians based solely on the contents of this article. If this is the standard we apply then we should also have no problem with the hundreds or thousands of "enemy combatants" U.S. forces have scooped up using similar flimsy evidence. "Hey, if you work with us in Iraq and allow us to gain control of the oil fields that are mainly in the Shiite Iraqi regions, we can tell the Americans to stand down about that nuclear thing." There's plenty of downside, but not a whole lot of upside. Upside: justice served, historical confirmation of worst-president-ever status throughout history Downside: unlimited exposure to calls of "treason" from the right, potentially demoralizing to the troops, etc. Besides, The Republican party is already in dire straits for years to come There's less than 2 years left of this administration Who would take the place of an impeached Bush (assuming Cheney also got the axe?) We don't need an impeachment trail to "know what Bush did." It's taken 5 years, but the breadth and depth of his administration's duplicity is coming to light. The reason the democrats won't impeach is an airing of the facts will reveal their lie for what it is What lie, exactly? Most of them have already left Iraq and are refugees in other countries. We've come a long way. I was saying this three years ago, but if there had been reddit comments back then, I would have been modded to -75. Now you're at 4 points. Hello Every body, This is the online and scrure hotel reservation. Immediate and on request confirmation. take your chanse here. Your hotel all the arroud the World. Not hesitate to book with FindStays.com scroll digg reddit Interesting story of a woman who was estranged from her birth family and who advertised for and found a new family to adopt her. I am a pythonista, and I'll defend the __foo__ syntax by saying that it shows you, without any doubt, that foo is a magic variable. There is no thinking required. Also, if you're typing too many _'s, you're probably doing something wrong. There is lot of useful engineering information in this blog. It is especially helpful to mold deigners and moldmakers, although many of the topics are of a general mechanical engineering nature. news aggregator To be honest, I think thats a great example of incredibly bad UI design. Yes. This is precisely the example Wikipedia gives for verbal irony. This is a magical moment. Nit: Dictionary.com just copies Random House. (Random House is not full of ignorant idiots.) Way to not read my comment and just cut & paste comments across posts. If you're not at all interested in having an honest debate with people, why do you spend so much time on reddit? No; you forgot "The". Hey fucking doofus, as soon as you name-call you admit you lost or are not sure of your point. Learn how to argue with real facts and not just name-calling, its a sign of failure. Save this message and then remind yourself who the retard and imbecile is in 20-30 years. Do you really think if oil was running out that people would be able to buy SUVs and use up the fuel we need for our military? Would there be record profits of oil if there wasn't tightening for margins, do you even know what that means? btw, you should go by dick not richard. Let's see some facts to back up your assumptions based on what you were told, which is appeal to authority and something that will keep you on your knees your entire life. It is an advertisement for a mortgage broker. There should be sloppy journalism awards. The worse in journalism in every category should get some kind of prize. Maybe the fear of public shaming would make some of them pay more attention? If not, the ceremony would still feel great. The next sentence in my comment (after the one you quoted) is "The AP article does mention U.S. forces firing on cars and pedestrians as they left the scene." The article was clear and I believe my comment was clear. My point was merely that the original article linked was poor, the AP was much more informative. I find it unlikely anyone would attempt to refute this. I sound like a "shill" by exposing a price fixing system of the oil industry? The logic is well thought out from your side of the argument I see. Fantasy. The basic thing to notice about all of this is that each selection is always in the same spot on the page. The trick could be applied as an overlay to more static interface, to just art up traditional UI. To what are you referring? Specifically. These people should hang. No, you know what, I think we should just torture them. Jesus, people like you are the reason these policies get instituted in the first place. Like chocolate, too much makes you sick Tiger Woods wants his ball back. I never said there isn't tight demand. I said that it is tight because oil companies who control the refineries, teh exploration and the reserves all have colluded to keep margins high and profit levels high through tightening supply. If you made money on a product, would you rather get 10% profit, or 20% profit? If you had the ability to control supply to make it 20% profit or more would you? This is the fundamental problem with a single fuel energy market. Peak Oil scare tactics and the war on terror has alot to do with high oil prices, not lack of oil. Dont' base your decisions in fear, they will be wrong. Warm blankets, good insulation and electrical heating = no problem. Do you think they're sadistic? Do you think they are inhumane? Yes. It's really quite naive to think some atrocities will not occur in a war environment No, a well-disciplined army can and should do whatever it can to keep cases like this down to a minimum. The decisions on what type of torture is allowed was taken fairly high up (possibly by Rumsfelt or with his blessing) and the practice of arresting a large number of mostly innocent Iraqis and detaining and interrogating them for long periods of time must have been taken on a fairly high level, too. There is nothing inevitable about either decision and some of the senior military staff been more concientious and not as lazy, then none of this would have happened. The UK army manages to administer a section of Iraq without the same level of wreckless torture. Either people are too gullible or has lost all hope. Can we all agree that Godwin's Law doesn't apply here? Another stupid game without instructions. /somebody get a Russian translator Yeah, and that will happen. I don't think so. Avatar offers high speed sailing trips of the Whitsunday Islands in Queensland Australia. Their motto is Go Fast or Go Home. LGF hate Islam, Arabs, and Iranians, and never really have anything new to say about the ME. It's all just variations on the "Islam is bad" theme. FYI. Many times these "EXPERTS" are funded by oil companies. When they get the study results they want, they advertise it, when they dont' they suppress it. You have a lot to learn young padawan. Its the same with the drug companies, energy companies or any industry. Its a form of advertising through studies. I am not saying these are wrong I am saying the only ones that get through are the ones they want you to see. The only one in fantasy land is you to think that humans could use up all the oil on earth in 50 years. Jemsus man get a hold of yourself and your points that are only told to you to echo. Article II, Section 4 The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. I repeat "Markets never crashes with a warning". This hoopla will vanish within few days and all news sources will be barking flourishing economy. And you will see majority buying again at higher prices. Unfortunately, you know what will happen with that approach, right? Microsoft will upgrade MS Office and make it fail to work as best as possible on XP, or make Internet Exploder 8 and not release it for XP. If the stats go bad enough against them, they'll change the playing field again. That's why I stick with Ubuntu Linux and GnomeOffice. That way, I don't have to fear any FBI agents raiding my house because I cracked Vista. No, Linux is a kernel, it doesn't know what a mouse is. Read the footnote. The author later elaborates he's talking about X Window. Even if you disagree with the author's diction, it's obvious from context that he's not talking about Linux the kernel. This argument as an attack on the author's opinions is pedantic and just passive-aggressive BS. Woooo, a Microsoft publication we can't verify with source code? This is ridiculous. Why don't we ignore all MSDN and Microsoft.com documentation and assume the worst since, after all, we can't verify it with code? FUD. Of course it's cool, it's an advertisement. The author is pointing out a neat software feature he would like to have (he mentions Linux patching). He's not marketing anything, since pointer velocity is just absolutely fascinating. Indeed, he's a Linux user and programmer. The "blur" in normal vision can only be considered a flaw of the human eye (and similar devices). I wonder why they would devote so many (probably billions) of CPU cycles to replicating it in a 3D interface. HAH! Back in my day we used VRML and that's the way I likes it! no pic no care. Dunno, if it takes me more than 2 hours... I wonder if the documentary takes direct quotes from An Inconvenient Truth? I wonder if Al Gore will try to back up his movie's facts if this other documentary gains traction? Surprise, rich are more prepared wiht investing globally. Many times depressions or attacks like 9/11 offer better opportunities to buy for rich or private equity. Just ask Carlyle who bought Dr. Pepper, Lowes, Lowes theatres, Dunkin Donuts, many many defense companies when the price was really low. The poor always lose the most percentage-wise. I'm the author of metalua actually :) And I have to agree that the currently available alpha is really ugly; it's been put online for a couple of language geeks, and is still not easily usable. I haven't announced it on reddit, and I wish nobody had before the next version. There's a much improved version almost ready, but I need my day job to become a bit quieter to finish the doc and release it. Finally, for the record, the ugly dependent stuff in 0.2 would be OSX-dependent. Harder to install than Debian? Please! Take for instance this: Install Ubuntu Server but don't connect it to the Internet. It won't get updates and will install everything from CD. Within about 15 minutes you can reboot to a usable command-line Linux OS. Now connect it to the Internet with the Ethernet cable. From command-line, do 'sudo apt-get update'. Now do 'sudo apt-get upgrade'. Now do 'sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop'. Within minutes this is the fastest way to get an Ubuntu desktop going or an Ubuntu server going. There's even an easy doc to follow on the Internet that can help you convert Ubuntu back to Debian again. I agree absolutely. Great service. Nice group of members. Try it out! I don't buy it. Take a look at the extra clauses in the Ultimate section of the EULA: USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system on the licensed device. If you do so, you may not play or access content or use applications protected by any Microsoft digital, information or enterprise rights management technology or other Microsoft rights management services or use BitLocker. These are extra clauses about DRM specifically for Vista running in a virtual machine. If the Home license allowed running in a virtual machine, then it would also have these DRM clauses. Trying to read "installed on the licensed device" as "installed on a virtual machine" when "licensed device" is defined as a "physical hardware system" is just wishful thinking. Knockoff or not, it's still very fun. The title is very appropriate. Yes Yes you are so RIGHT, it will just take awhile. I don't like that Python's assignment statements aren't valid expressions. This problem blocks lambdas from being able to assign values. I don't like all the underscores required for manipulating classes. I don't like how the interpreter treats indentation differently from actual text files. For example, the following code will work fine in a file, but not when copy-pasted into the interpreter: if True: print 'True' else: print 'False' I don't like how the DB-API doesn't standardize certain features, such as the name of the "last inserted row ID" attribute or what Cursor.execute() is supposed to return. I don't like name mangling of class methods in general. It's an ugly solution to a non-problem, and causes odd exceptions to the rules. For example, methods that also end in two underscores are un-mangled. I couldn't actually read the text in the video, but after a quick search apparently it says: "So Good You'll Suck Dick" No one mentions in any of these articles that congress is responsible for funding. What would the situation be if there was inadequate funding? Pretty much what you got. You can do some fun stuff with balanced trees. I once wrote a newsreader that kept the article threads in an AA-tree (sorted by subject or date), and each node of the tree also kept the display height, which would be updated (in log(N) time) when you expanded or collapsed a thread. we're slaving away at mtv. weekends. we're starting to buzz on these photos, whoever's doing them. who are you burbia? send more. very sick subtle. yea. People who hold one member of a group as an example of how the whole group acts and thinks. The fact this stream of consciousness has as many points as the "Why aren't you using Python?" reddit is awesome on so many levels. The cult of John the Baptist predates Christianity. In fact the whole baptism of Jesus scene in the synoptic gospels was probably planted there in order to win converts to Christianity from Baptist's cult. Finally, something hilarious from xkcd on reddit that I wouldn't have seen through the comic's RSS feed. This is related to a new series debuting today: Last Chance: http://www.nola.com/speced/lastchance/ \t "It took the Mississippi River 6,000 years to build the Louisiana coast...It took man (and natural disasters) 75 years to destroy it....Experts agree we have 10 years to act before the problem is too big to solve." Dude, you messed up. You should have made the title say, "How To Fix A Marriage In Two Steps". 1. Click the link. 2. A couple can probably easily figure out what to do for step # 2. Fuck yeah it is! BLAME CANADA! WHOOOOOOOO The picture you posted is almost unreadably small. It wasn't at all clear what I was supposed to be looking at, and I happen to know what the general geography of the area is. How could anyone know? The origin of Dow price information is that glitched system. If it don't know, nobody knows. Read More about the $16 billion and a 10 percent rate of return, Larry Ellison would need to spend more than $30 million a week simply to keep from accumulating more money than he already has, to say nothing of trying to spend down the $16 billion itself. raldi, I like your idea, but I'm not sure it's very practical. I thought this is a joke... until I tried :-)](http://Germans pl....
I've never seen anyone do that before.
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Ann Coulter is one of the homo-erotic Republican rightwing club that includes male prostitute/white house visitor Jeff Gannon, plus:
from the Republican blog Blogactive THE LIST
US Representatives
Rep. Ed Schrock (VA)
Rep. David Drier (CA)
Rep. James McCrery (LA)
Rep. Mark Foley (FL)
US Senators
Sen Barbara Mikulski (MD)
Senior GOP Staff
Jay Timmons, NRSC
Dan Gurley, RNC
Jay Banning, RNC
Senior Senate Staffers
Robert Traynham, Santorum
Jonathan Tolman, Inhofe
Kirk Fordham, Martinez
Dirk Smith, Lott
John Reid, Allen
Paul Unger, Allen
Linus Catignani, Frist
Senior House Staffers
Jim Conzelman, Oxley
Lee Cohen, Hart
Robert O'Conner, King
Pete Meachum, Brown-Waite
Bush Staff
Israel Hernandez
Jeff Berkowitz
Local Officials
Vincent Gentile, NYC
The rest...
Ed Koch, frmr NYC Mayor
Jennifer Helms-Knox, Judge
Armstrong Williams, Radio host
Matt Drudge, Headline writer
Steve Kreseski, MD Gov.
Chip DiPaula, MD Gov.
Lee LaHaye, CWA
John Schlafley, Eagle Forum
The original article is from the Washington Times. Care to try again?
An objective approach
Since you are are arguing with LouF, you might want to take a look at this:
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Auswitch was not that bad compared to this. That does not mean that it was okay.
Thereis however a light side to everything: we may now know a better cure for frostbite.
When this link was posted the article was different and not clear on the exact causes of the ban, it has now been clarified that the police instigated the ban and not the Labour party.
Simply stunning...
they call it preemptive now.
This is a common criticism, and it is almost entirely based on stereotypes and disinformation.
Unions improve working conditions and create a more professional workforce. If you think your kids aren't worth the best, then by all means - fight against the union.
In the meantime, enjoy the rest of the weekend with your children. A lot of union people died so you could do so.
men behind the sun
An improvement from Perl5, right. But, sorry, compared to Python or Ruby, that's just hideous.
My dad is solving crosswords. A co-worker is a sudoku maniac.
Let developers/bloggers solve FizzBuzz their way. It's just fun. Like some open golfing.
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In Soviet Russia we shoot pig into space and eat astronaut!
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The communists?
The developers picked the language and the developers allowed the vulnerability in.
Paranoid or just plain bonkers, he's gone.
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I generally use some CL and some Scheme. I initially had to switch to Scheme for a robot interface, because CL's FFI's make it very difficult to call Scheme from C, whereas Chicken does that pretty well. In general, though, CL beats Scheme for convenience; its standard library is very useful all over the place, and I frequently find myself rewriting basic CL library functions in Scheme.
Scheme also beats CL in the general Unixability area. Scheme can produce executables, .so's, etc., whereas CL is bound to stay within its overly bloated image, and run things from there. If I were to have to distribute a program to users, I certainly might consider switching to Scheme on a particular project for that reason.
I don't buy the Scheme being cleaner than CL thing. #' is not difficult to type; it takes you a few days of coding to get used to it, and then it seems totally natural. It's really balanced out by having to type ){kind=link}