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I saw this on reddit today. Sorta takes your thought to its logical conclusion.

Equivocation logical fallacy on your part.

http://i.imgur.com/GLV7s.jpg

The point being made is that "Incomes" was defined by the SCOTUS as "Profits". The government and you are using a different definition of the word, "gross wages" which the SCOTUS rejected.

Gun control advocates do the same thing in regards to the second amendment. "Well regulated" in that usage means kept in proper working order. They deliberately use a different meaning of the word to mean "Heavily government controls." A very Stalin-esque thing to do.

Just because people like Irwin Schiff are right on the issue doesn't mean they are going to win. It was wrong for whites to take the Indians land, doesn't mean it didn't happen. The holocaust was wrong, that didn't stop the German government from doing it. Interring Japanese-Americans and effectively stealing their property was wrong, but the US government still did it anyway. They fact that they ARE getting away with it doesn't make it right either. If it did then you would have to say that Stalin murdering tens of millions of people was right because he got away with it.

You are someone who simply resists change and goes looking for faults where there isn't any in a hope to poison anything that would affect your equilibrium.

You obviously have been looking at Win7 with detest from the beginning if you haven't learnt just how much better it is at multi-tasking than XP. You're living in the dark ages to spite your nose.

Also, I am running Windows 7 and can search contents of files on network shares, no problem. Proof: http://i.imgur.com/iRm8U.png

The Poles all but endorsed Romney

Yeah.

I couldn't agree more; http://i.imgur.com/Z3xdh.jpg

Cute. If you had a profile you could click on it and see this on the top right: http://i.imgur.com/2fPxv.png I'll give the troll attempt a solid 2/10. Also check out my 400,000s user number. Good day sir, or madam.

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Nintendo is doomed if it continues to price its games in the traditional sense.

Nintendo has been doomed for a long while, you know. ;)

This line makes sense with the original summary. http://imgur.com/8gxyC

It should be mentioned, fusion power is easily within reach. Check out this graph. Why not make a push for it?

Look at the graph before you comment about funding.

Here are some references:

From 2009, Obama has four years to save the world.
From 2009, Global Warming is now irreversible
From 2006, the end of the world as we know it
2005, Past the Point of No Return
2004, Damage becoming irreversible
1989, We Have 10 Years.

Personally I think we've missed a huge opportunity to fund fusion research. It wouldn't actually take that much from a global community perspective. If Copenhagen had focused on funding Fusion instead of trying to make transfer payments to 3rd world countries, they could have gotten support and actually accomplished something. It would have been great. Oh well.

This is what Apple wants all their competitors to use.

http://i.imgur.com/olQxJ.jpg

Says it all.

That's what these are for http://i.imgur.com/L68TB.jpg

And this is what he comes back with.

"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." -- Princess Leia

http://youtu.be/-wntX-a3jSY

"Did you know that if you put a little hat on a snowball, can last a long time in Hell?" -- Dogbert.

http://i.imgur.com/iFd5w.jpg

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BMO

as you are that a problem does exist. Really does it? Ready to turn the world's economy on it's head to to fix this supposed problem? Of course you are, because you are SURE.

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http://i.imgur.com/yQwlx.jpg

How Google sees itself: http://i.imgur.com/cnqsX.jpg. Where do I even start? If governments were relly serious on attacking organized crime they would go against money laundering, all the way up to the top. Instead, we have this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18866018/ And this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs/ So, dream on...

Just look at Facebook's own 'open compute' datacenter. It's designed more to look cool than it is to be useful; they even want to change the spacing on racks (without going metric!), just because.

I say ignore them, stick with the known and/or develop a _true_ Open server design.

Don't like it? Go into your BIOS and turn it off. The specification mandates that it have a disable option. How hard is it to disable? Take a look at this image: http://imgur.com/QW1Pp

Here is a representative image to compare: Pixelated Kid - Imgur

I'm hoping to end up like this gamer couple

We've already seen how this ends up:

http://i.imgur.com/q0ycr.png

Fixed that link for you

Also, for completeness sake.

Fixed that link for you

Also, for completeness sake.

Your statement isn't really accurate.... I have Sprint, and my phone works great.

I live near on the lake in Cleveland. Around here, Verizon is notorious for having terrible service. I used to be a Verizon customer, and I would get 0-1 bars in the house, and would drop calls all of the time. I told Verizon about the problem, and they said I needed to update to a newer phone. Verizon will never admit a problem with their network, even if it is clear there is one.

Switched to Sprint a couple of years ago and I have consistently had 3-4 bars, plus 4G coverage, never a dropped call. Plus I can use my phone all I want without any concerns about going over in my data charges.

Perhaps Sprint used to have bad coverage, but this *really* isn't the case anymore. Sprint has stepped up their coverage areas to where their phones work pretty much everywhere. In the areas where Sprint doesn't have native coverage, you still have unlimited roaming on other networks.

Here is a sample comparison in coverage maps in my area:

http://i.imgur.com/XyLqi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/CkXQM.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/N90Yw.jpg

The top one is Sprint, and the bottom one is Verizon. At least in my region, Sprint works everywhere. Verizon is spotty - all of the white parts on the Verizon map are dead zones.

Verizon markets themselves as the carrier with the best coverage, although in practice I haven't really found that to be true. They still have a major problem with dead zones.

Your statement isn't really accurate.... I have Sprint, and my phone works great.

I live near on the lake in Cleveland. Around here, Verizon is notorious for having terrible service. I used to be a Verizon customer, and I would get 0-1 bars in the house, and would drop calls all of the time. I told Verizon about the problem, and they said I needed to update to a newer phone. Verizon will never admit a problem with their network, even if it is clear there is one.

Switched to Sprint a couple of years ago and I have consistently had 3-4 bars, plus 4G coverage, never a dropped call. Plus I can use my phone all I want without any concerns about going over in my data charges.

Perhaps Sprint used to have bad coverage, but this *really* isn't the case anymore. Sprint has stepped up their coverage areas to where their phones work pretty much everywhere. In the areas where Sprint doesn't have native coverage, you still have unlimited roaming on other networks.

Here is a sample comparison in coverage maps in my area:

http://i.imgur.com/XyLqi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/CkXQM.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/N90Yw.jpg

The top one is Sprint, and the bottom one is Verizon. At least in my region, Sprint works everywhere. Verizon is spotty - all of the white parts on the Verizon map are dead zones.

Verizon markets themselves as the carrier with the best coverage, although in practice I haven't really found that to be true. They still have a major problem with dead zones.

Your statement isn't really accurate.... I have Sprint, and my phone works great.

I live near on the lake in Cleveland. Around here, Verizon is notorious for having terrible service. I used to be a Verizon customer, and I would get 0-1 bars in the house, and would drop calls all of the time. I told Verizon about the problem, and they said I needed to update to a newer phone. Verizon will never admit a problem with their network, even if it is clear there is one.

Switched to Sprint a couple of years ago and I have consistently had 3-4 bars, plus 4G coverage, never a dropped call. Plus I can use my phone all I want without any concerns about going over in my data charges.

Perhaps Sprint used to have bad coverage, but this *really* isn't the case anymore. Sprint has stepped up their coverage areas to where their phones work pretty much everywhere. In the areas where Sprint doesn't have native coverage, you still have unlimited roaming on other networks.

Here is a sample comparison in coverage maps in my area:

http://i.imgur.com/XyLqi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/CkXQM.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/N90Yw.jpg

The top one is Sprint, and the bottom one is Verizon. At least in my region, Sprint works everywhere. Verizon is spotty - all of the white parts on the Verizon map are dead zones.

Verizon markets themselves as the carrier with the best coverage, although in practice I haven't really found that to be true. They still have a major problem with dead zones.

2. A dozen formulations of the Lorentz Contraction as a result of the pre-Einsteinian ether,

There's your Lorentz derivation. And that's pre-Equestrian ether, my good sir!

I saw this back during the SOPA trial. During the hearings the people on the left did everything they could to try to push it through, the people on the right were more or less the only ones speaking out against it.

One has to wonder why the $2 trillion+ in taxes we pay every year don't buy us as much influence over the legislative process as $100,000 in campaign contributions by various corporate interests. Why aren't election campaigns funded by tax dollars instead of private donations?

Maybe you should ask the first President to refuse matching funds and who thinks (or used to) he can raise a Billion Dollars for this election why elections are funded by however much you can raise instead of a fraction of that in taxpayer money.

The answer is obvious. There's a massive donation collection system in place ran by the two major parties and their surrogates that can raise an order of magnitude more money than taxpayers would (rightfully so) be willing to spend. And, when you consider that only half of the taxpayers actually pay income tax (yes, everyone pays sales, FICA, etc, but those wouldn't fund something like this) then you are forcing half the people to support candidates they may or may not want elected while the other half don't have to pay anything.

At least in the current system (except for matching funds) money is raised from people who actually support the candidate and want them to win. Nobody is forced under threat of fines or imprisonment to contribute via taxes to candidates that they don't support. Even unions are supposed to allow their members to opt out of the political portion of their dues.

BTW, President Obama and his supporting PACs will outspend Romney's campaign and PACs this year. The "fundraiser underdog" appeal is just that: a fundraising strategy. He raised Three-Quarters of a Billion Dollars for the 2008 election, nearly three times McCain's reported budget of $277 million (including matching funds) for primaries and the general election. Since McCain opted into matching funds and received (from what I can find) $84.1 million he was apparently limited to spending $168.2 million for the general election.

Apple's environmental strategy

With Mountain Lion telling three year old Macs your too old and even worse iPad 1s not getting iOS6. Apple filling the landfill with tons of junk.

I live in the US, so yes. This shows the bribery used for this particular lawmaker and law: http://i.imgur.com/77CtK.png

I saw this back during the SOPA trial. During the hearings the people on the left did everything they could to try to push it through, the people on the right were more or less the only ones speaking out against it.

One has to wonder why the $2 trillion+ in taxes we pay every year don't buy us as much influence over the legislative process as $100,000 in campaign contributions by various corporate interests. Why aren't election campaigns funded by tax dollars instead of private donations?

http://i.imgur.com/lnIee.jpg

I think that makes it clear that I disagree with removing evolution material from textbooks.

This exactly what I do as well. At the absolute worst it ends up looking like this:

http://i.imgur.com/3T3xh.jpg

and I have a decent amount of things running in the background there. No swap, and I know exactly what you're talking about when it comes to "the difference it makes." When I restart, I dread the 'spin-up' time for everything to get into the cache where it belongs :P

But yeah, 16GB of ram and that graphic shows exactly how it should be used.

I bring you an image with a relevant sentiment attached.

I'll just leave this here.

Obligatory : Reginald Barclay

... but they began to hate it too : image

And how is closing a file not freeing a resource?

Closing a file is freeing a resource, that was not my point. My point is that freeing that resource should not throw an exception. If there's an error, handle it in the destructor itself because at that point it's too late to throw anything, and if you really must throw something then don't expect it to be caught, because there really is no way to catch an exception from an object with either static or thread_local storage duration even if you ignore everything else I said. If the user of the class is really interested in making sure that all the data has been flushed (or in handling exceptions if it isn't), they should call sync() before deleting; try delete is simply stupid; either it really deletes appropriately or everything is fucked up and the program must abort.

Solid argument you have there -- restate your personal definition of a destructor, then declare that I must be wrong if I disagree. I am just going to guess that you have not spent much time reading the C++ standard, though, since your argument applies equally to the C++ standard itself.

I don't know exactly which standard is that you're reading, but I am reading ISO/IEC-14882 Third edition 2011-09-01 AKA the final publication of the C++11 standard, not a draft or an outdated standard, and it states the following regarding the destructor for basic_filebuf:

"Effects: Destroys an object of class basic_filebuf<charT,traits>. Calls close(). If an exception occurs during the destruction of the object, including the call to close(), the exception is caught but not rethrown (see 17.6.5.12)." [27.9.1.2p5].

As in the previous post, I will ignore the rest of what you wrote since on top of having completely destroyed your line of thought here, I have actually demonstrated that you are to blame for the things that you are accusing me of doing.

Whats news is that Slashdot's headlines are getting worse by the day. "Banned ALL Linux users on wine!" Wow! Really? Wonder what the folks in this thread might say about that? (User using wine; also, this post)

Very clearly, this is only "all linux users" for certain, low-percentage values of "all". From the posts on battle.net, it appears that "all" is roughly in the vicinity of "10". But congrats on yet another inflammatory headline, slashdot. Drive those clicks!

Here's a quick mock-up of how it will look: http://i.imgur.com/2aA3Z.jpg

What are the guys at Cisco thinking, really? http://i.imgur.com/x9im4.jpg

Haha what?

Your healthcare system was the most expensive to taxpayers in the entire western world, and yet completely substandard unless you bought ridiculously expensive health insurance. Then it was just expensive.

As an example: http://i.imgur.com/UH2Ko.jpg

How can any system where a guy can crash his Vespa into a trailer a 5mph, spend a month in a hospital due to fluid in his lungs etc. and receive a bill for six hundred thousand dollars possibly be the best in the world by any metric? Luckily for him, he's a veteran, so the VA ate most of it. Now he "only" owes $80K.

The only ones who benefited from your "absolute best" healthcare system were the insurance companies.

You're absolutely delusional. Come visit the developed world sometime and see how real healthcare works. Yes, we'll treat you even though you're a foreign citizen. Because that's how a civilized society works.

You won't like it.

What? Is the <a href="http://imgur.com/8XuOr"></a> not working now? Fucking idiots. That bold part was supposed to link to: http://imgur.com/8XuOr

said Meredith Chin, Facebook's manager of product communications. 'I'm seeing this whole meme around the idea that it's us pushing...

Can someone please explain to me wtF she's babbling about? Did I, yet again, miss another round of an occasionally hilarious meme, further isolating me from the collective consciousness of my people?

Fusion is actually making real progress. The problem is, it's expensive, and there is not enough funding for the critical experiments that need to be done. This graph shows the issue clearly

This is different than strong AI, where no one has a clue what experiments need to be done to even begin, where everything everyone is working on in the field has serious problems.