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A lot of the "problems" the United States has the Netherlands shares, like immigration (the Turkish, etc.). I absolutely loved the two years I spent there and only hope that they don't buy into the US corporate way of messing stuff up

I try hard, desperately hard, to feel bad that Western Europe as we know it will no longer exist in 50 years. Why? First, start with the policy of multiculturalism. What is multiculturalism? It's the belief that one's culture is no better or worse than any other culture. When you truly believe that, you've already sewn the seeds of your culture's inevitable extinction. If you don't believe your culture is any better than any other culture, you have no reason to perpetrate it's continuation through marriage and family. I don't need to tell you that marriage, the birthrate, and Judeo-Christianity in Europe is in rapid decline in favor of a more hedonistic and nihilistic model.

Seeking pleasure is all well and good, but the problem is that socialist economies like those in Western Europe need lots of worker bees working and paying taxes so the native Europeans can work 30 hour weeks and take half the year off on vacation or sick time. To achieve this they need to import workers...lots of them...many from Islamic nations...folks who do not believe in multiculturalism...they see Europe and the West as morally decadent and believe their way is better. Many are happy to take advantage of all the freebies and education inherent with socialist economies, while all the while loathing the host-countries' values.

This type of model can only sustain itself for a generation or two before the host country wakes up one day and finds itself an unwelcome stranger in its own land all without a single shot having been fired. Welcome to your brave new future, Europe.

A lot of the "problems" the United States has the Netherlands shares, like immigration (the Turkish, etc.). I absolutely loved the two years I spent there and only hope that they don't buy into the US corporate way of messing stuff up

I try hard, desperately hard, to feel bad that Western Europe as we know it will no longer exist in 50 years. Why? First, start with the policy of multiculturalism. What is multiculturalism? It's the belief that one's culture is no better or worse than any other culture. When you truly believe that, you've already sewn the seeds of your culture's inevitable extinction. If you don't believe your culture is any better than any other culture, you have no reason to perpetrate it's continuation through marriage and family. I don't need to tell you that marriage, the birthrate, and Judeo-Christianity in Europe is in rapid decline in favor of a more hedonistic and nihilistic model.

Seeking pleasure is all well and good, but the problem is that socialist economies like those in Western Europe need lots of worker bees working and paying taxes so the native Europeans can work 30 hour weeks and take half the year off on vacation or sick time. To achieve this they need to import workers...lots of them...many from Islamic nations...folks who do not believe in multiculturalism...they see Europe and the West as morally decadent and believe their way is better. Many are happy to take advantage of all the freebies and education inherent with socialist economies, while all the while loathing the host-countries' values.

This type of model can only sustain itself for a generation or two before the host country wakes up one day and finds itself an unwelcome stranger in its own land all without a single shot having been fired. Welcome to your brave new future, Europe.

if I have a character named Ferro Man, who wears an armored suit, am I infringing on Iron Man?

No, you'd be infringing on Ferro Man

if I have an Asian character with claws named "The China Wolf"? Am I infringing [on Wolverine]?

No, but you might be infringing on Lady Deathstrike.

And yes, it is becoming much more difficult to come up with fresh superhero ideas as copyright terms get longer and longer.

indeed, isacc asimov already proposed this.
http://www.free-definition.com/Metric-time.html

I'll bring this up a little since it was posted by an AC below my post and might not get noticed. It deals with the Goalkeeper, apparently a Dutch equivalent to the Phalanx system, though it's 30mm vs. the Phalanx's 20mm:

http://www.gdatp.com/products/protection/goalkeepe r/goalkeeper.htm

Here's a link I found on Goalkeeper:

http://www.free-definition.com/Goalkeeper-CIWS.htm l

Thanks, nameless AC! I didn't know about this.

The Flemington Markets (where the victim worked) have always attracted a criminal element, as silly as it sounds more than a few of the produce stall vendors there have a connection to organised crime (note that in this city "organised" crime is way down the ladder in severity from the American Mob.)

I live in out in the midst of all this, and have seen first hand the way these guys operate. Make eye contact and they will literally go berserker on you. I watched three carloads of these guys stomp the living shit out of a scrawny 19 or 20 year old guy because he told them to "fuck off" after they threw fireworks at his girlfriend. I've seen brawls outside my apartment that could be called small riots and I've been attacked myself after one of these macho dickheads sexually assaulted my girlfriend in front of me. One new years eve I was in a crowd at Darling Harbor counting down at midnight, right on the stroke of midnight a gang of these guys linked arms, charged the crowd and just started wailing on anyone they could catch. Minutes later they'd fled. It's not politically correct to identify a gang by it's ethnicity but a large degree of their behavior arises out of environmental factors, especially their treatment of women and their gang-culture of machismo-on-steroids violence. Drive by shootings are a new phenomenon in this country and nearly all of them in this city are internecine warfare between rival groups of Lebanese and Arab young men, typically over the drug trade. In 1998 a police station was shot up with a fully automatic weapon.

Which brings me to my point that if they were dressed in paramilitary gear it was probably more to do with that than any exposure to Counterstrike. This wasn't some random assault by kids "corrupted" by some computer game, it was more than likely a gang reprisal where the assailants were known to the victim.

The rise of Lebanese gangs in Sydney

Sydney police besieged in their own station by Lebanese gang

Serial gang rapes in Sydney

Bilal Skaf, the leader of the rapists converted to radical Islam in jail and has openly avowed his support of Al Qaeda and sent death threats to the judge and witnesses at his trial.

The grandparent was referring to the use of the word 'sans', which IRL means 'without' (in French), but is also used to signify a font-type (sans-serif, which is often shortened to plain 'sans').

You didn't miss a whole lot therefore, it wasn't a very funny post.

Yea. I am amazed that Webster's is not a trademark. I wonder when Frisbee (R) and Ethernet (R) will lose there status. Soon we'll hear "Jump Drive brand USB flash memory drive devices from Lexar Media, Inc. (R)". See this for more on lost trademarks.

LASER is an acronym. I'm not shouting.

You are shouting.

It's good that you know the concept of acronyms. Now learn the concept of acronyms being assimilated into everyday language.

Nobody capitalizes laser, scuba, sonar etc. anymore.

Some people call these words anacronyms, from anachronistic + acronym.

The definition I've always used is "a dynamic language permits a program to dynamically change it's behavior at runtime". Here is the best reference I could find. Dynamic typing is a separate (but related) issue.

Note that Objective-C and Dylan both have efficiency as a major priority, including native compilation. Also Scheme (Bigloo is one example) has several implementations that generate native code.

Java is dynamic (despite what the above link claims at the bottom;) and uses a static (strong) type system.

last time I checked, monster trucks didn't fall into the "high performance" category.

Your Cut and paste skills, however, are legendary.