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Too many people pick up these menial jobs and expect to work at them for the rest of their lives and never better their own situation ... A retail job, should be for teens, college students, people in transition during their career, or retired folks who need to keep working. Stocking shelves at Walmart is not a career.

Have you seen who work these jobs? Jobs which were once held by up and coming young people are held by older people now. It's not uncommon to see exclusively immigrants in these positions.

Add to that the government increasing minimum wages that puts a disincentive on trying to advance one's own position.

Inflation and stagnant wages are real issues. Here is a fun series of charts illustrating wealth redistribution since 1979.

While I didn't find the article reprinted anywhere, I did find a blog response that works normally: http://morethanannie.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/dear-mr-ingersoll-dear-mr-foust/

Here, check this out

http://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/race-potboiler-from-ron-unz/

Overall, the correlation between murder rate and percent black in the state data is 0.82

...this is where you say that race doesn't exist or there's no such thing as IQ or institutional racism White cisprivilege.

So what's the bloody point of linking to a short URL "service"? This isn't twitter you fucknut. Just link to the URL directly:
http://sareeahkeelyn.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/cart13.jpg
In fact, that's easier than making a short URL to link to. I think you must be insane.

I highly recommend subscribing to retraction watch, which republishes and discusses retraction notices.

If the LibreOffice guys were smart, they'd be contributing as many of their changes as possible to the upstream project, so they won't have to do extra maintenance, and more people would benefit from them.

AOO hardly ever was and certainly is not "upstream" anymore for LibreOffice:
LibreOffice commits by group
  (and the old "OpenOffice.org" is a common ancestor of both projects)

Errr... the dino's farted out about 65 million years ago. My guess is their farts would have dissipated by 5 millions years ago seeing as methane has about a net lifetime of 8.4 years in the atmosphere.

Don't let science blind you, just continue to use whatever you are using.

Actually, it's all the tobacco smoke. Didn't you see Gary Larsen's (Far Side) illustration of what really killed the dinosaurs?

http://humormedication.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/gary-larson-dinosaurs/

Other nations are always free to attempt to invade the United States, just as much as any other nation, which is why everyone has a standing army or is allied with someone who does. There's this thing called 'war' have you heard of it? You are incredibly naive, so maybe not, do some research.

OMG an atrocity committed during an uprising, let me appear surprised for you.. there, can you see it? Total shock. On my meat carcass face.

Look, people do evil shit to each other without even the pretense of being a military force. I am not proud of that incident any more than I'm proud of the bajillion other incidents committed by the human race. I hope the soldiers involved were tried in court and sentenced harshly. I don't however find anything particularly unique about it though. Shall I name off some European atrocities? How about some Buddhist ones, I mean they're peaceful and chill, they'd never commit an atrocity right? Right? ..right?

It's nice to have ideals and stuff, but you have to live with some realism too dude or life is just going to kick you in the balls and leave you crying.

The most important part is that between calibre & ApprenticeAlfs de drm tools, every ebook purchased on Amazon can be de-DRMed in 10 seconds. I buy non-DRMed books whenever possible & remove the DRM on the rest.

I'd like to buy the DRMed stuff elsewhere like in the apple store to push competition in this amazon dominated marketplace but not being able to remove the junk brings be back to amazon.

Are you arguing that the Mail's article is wrong?

Yes.

Because it's an article about a report from the UK Met Office.

No. It's an article that draws conclusions from data released by the Met Office. There was no report. This is once of several facts that the Daily Mail got wrong. See the Met Office's reply to the Mail's article here for more details.

Also, you don't have a problem with all of the alarmist press releases from that same organisation, do you?

Did you not see where I said, "it's worth noting that those who believe in climate change can do much the same to come up with the opposite results"? Of course I have a problem with alarmism or the manipulation of results. But the subject was one particular manipulation. If one had to respond to every distortion and manipulation made in the press when responding to any one, then I suppose even the whole world could not contain the books that would be written.

It seems to me that you only believe the bullshit the Met Office give out if it supports your already strongly held opinion, otherwise it's fine.

It seems to me that you're making baseless assumptions about a total stranger. It happens I don't have a 'strongly held opinion' on the matter--at least on the precise causes of climate change. I do have some tentative conclusions based on the data I've seen, but I'm willing to change my mind. What I certainly am, however, is a conservative and a traditionalist. As such, I recognize the radical changes--social, economic, technological, and environmental--that have occurred since the beginning of the industrial revolution and I am not inclined to assume that they're unmixed blessings. Clearly some good has come, even great good, but as a conservative I will always remain skeptical of those who would claim there is no cost, that nothing is lost, and that every change is 'progress', especially when those who make the claim stand to gain the most. Yet this is the claim of the industrial capitalists and certain segments of the press which defend them when it comes to the environment.

Gah. Sorry. fq_codel is getting a 50x improvement on congested networks. Forgot my end tag. :(

No, if you watch the movie, self-directed autonomous drones, plus a computer virus, are how SkyNet gets started, at least in one world line.

However, my question about this article is that they are getting a 70% improvement over New Reno, which is a pretty old algorithm. is getting a 50x improvement on congested networks. So it's hard to see the win here—this algorithm sounds like it's actually quite a bit worse than one designed by human intelligence.

Gun laws just seem to be some of the best known.

FTFY. Gun laws just tend to make for more entertaining stories due to intense feelings on both sides of the issue.

Please rest assured that your nation's lawmakers are busy making ignorant laws for *all* fields. Being a software developer, I've heard of a good few stupid laws regarding software and computer issues. Being related to an MD, I also know a bit about medical related legislative stupidity. My guess is that since congress is composed of lawyers the same is true of every field of knowledge outside of law itself (although to some degree that too).

I couldn't agree more that Congress should consult a weapons expert when considering any legislation regarding firearms, but I think we shouldn't stop there. It would be great if it were a requirement for Congress to hear relevant expert opinions before any law is passed.

P.S. Apologies for the Pelosi rag :/ Couldn't help myself. I really do believe that this is a bi-partisan problem though.

wrt to Colorado; tired of being governed by coastal state refugees a set of rural counties in Northern Colorado are pursuing statehood.

No, a few people in those rural counties are pursuing it. And they're fucking nuts if they think anything will come of it, because guess where all the water for their crops comes from?

The aquifer, just like everybody else.

Implying Obama hasn't taken care of business?

He's been getting so much done, he's had time to comment on a trial in Florida! Forget about the IRS, Syria, Benghazi, Fast and Furious (fuck everyone involved in this), NSA unconstitutional domestic spying, keeping tax cuts, patriot act garbage. There is a long list of issues that really need to be addressed in this country, and we're too busy squabbling about little shit.

He averted an econopocalypse. There were not runs on the banks. FDIC didn't come into play. The stock market bounced back, if not the job market.

The whole thing began because of pressure from the government on the banks. In addition, 290,000 fewer people were counted as unemployed because they were not actively looking for work. That drop in those seeking jobs was the reason the unemployment rate fell to 7.6%, the lowest since December 2008. Second Largest Employer In America Is Temp Agency. And the stock market? Is not a bastion for the American middleclass.

He ramped down our military action in Iraq and Afghanistan. In such a way that was a non-newsworthy event. This is a SLAM DUNK.

Not according to the facts. All because of this due to the military industrial complex not to mention the deaths of thousands, for what, freedom?

But all in all he's got shit done. Despite the massive resistance he's facing from the Republicans.

Fuck all the partisan posturing. What's the narrative when he had a democrat majority in the senate and House? Why don't we take an objective look at what both of the hands are doing to for the body they're attached to?

Unless you have a perfect distribution of wealth there will always be a top 1%. What has happened to the top 1% in the country since the '80's is what the parent was talking about. http://rwer.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/25-graphics-showing-upward-redistribution-of-income-and-wealth-in-usa-since-1979/

Or Klinefelter's Syndrome, trisomy-23.

Still, you can't rationally take the position that all advancement in medical science must be blocked because there is a potential for the pertinent information to be misused.

Think about what you are suggesting here. Condemning someone to a life of violence (to say nothing about their victims) because you purposely avoided looking for a cure?

Is that the approach we took with AIDS? Drug addiction? Heart disease? Typhoid?

Surely it must be possible to work on both problems at once, in the Law and the Lab?

Check out the new Kepler release. Kepler was an iteration with a focus on improving the performance issues Juno had.

http://eclipse.org/kepler/

Kepler is pretty nice UX wise.

http://waynebeaton.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/eclipse4css1.png

Look at the grey and white areas around the toolbar and window controls and tell me that it's a "pretty nice UX". Seriously, have they actually tested using this on Linux?

Your signature tells me that you shouldn't have a gun yourself...

which is exactly why i got an automated self-defense laser cat.

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But before recorded history we have some reconstructed history from artifacts. Tracing the histories of domesticated plants and animals also give us some insight into earlier histories. Then there is genetic and DNA research. As our technology improves we get greater insights and better reconstructed history. For example, now we can now answer when we started wearing clothes. http://scienceandreason2.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/when-did-humans-start-wearing-clothes/

So we are not simply going to say it started with the Egyptians. We will say it started with the Africans.

http://analienmind.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/28_att00031.jpg

It's also about levers. I wonder if people like your arm-mangling Eritrean friend have more favorable muscle insertions, e.g, Chimpanzees being considerably stronger pound for pound than humans? http://brettpyne.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/chimpanzee-strength-vs-human-strength/

Targeting US citizens does require an individual warrant, but the NSA is able to collect Americans' communications without a warrant if the target is a foreign national located overseas.

I notice you carefully decided not to quote the first sentence of that paragraph:

Blanket orders from the secret surveillance court allow these communications to be collected without an individual warrant if the NSA operative has a 51% belief that the target is not a US citizen and is not on US soil at the time.

Why did you leave that out?

51% Believe? How the hell do you measure that?
The way I read it is any half assed idle speculation is sufficient to avoid even asking for a warrant at any time.

Is there anyone left on planet earth who still believes the Meta Data Only nonsense?

Did the NSA buy Skype for Microsoft? Did the NSA demand the routing of all conversations through Microsoft's own servers, instead
of the distributed nodes used in the original Skype design?
Where is Microsoft actually hosting their Skype servers? Are they using "overseas" Asure data centers so that the 51% can be met?

By a quirk of history, this particular culture won and imposed it customs on everyone else.

Polygamy isn't "natural" to humans. We are naturally almost monogomous. If you're a younger person this might not make a lot of sense, but you will discover it is the truth when your "light goes on".

Humans aren't strictly monogamous as male anatomy testifies; however, that is not the same as saying we are naturally polygamous. Sexual jealously can tear societies apart, which is why polygamous situations involve a *rich* man and a couple of women of different ages -- the youngest being the "love" interest.

No-one else really likes this arrangement -- which is also a biological imperative -- and it is no accident that monogamy is dominant.

Humans are born to suffer with all the competing desires inside of them. The sooner your light goes on, the happier you'll be.

Yes, there is. Come here and trying riding on some random sidewalk and see if you don't get stopped by the cops.

Random? Sure, stochastically speaking, choosing a random sidewalk in California carries some small probability that one will be in violation of a municipal law, a much smaller probability one will get cited, and an almost infinitesimal probability that some ignorant pipsqueak will try to pick a fight, although, in the last case, cycling will almost certainly be legal on that particular sidewalk, because, as has already been established, the pipsqueak is ignorant.

If you're in the L.A. area, you can review this to figure out what areas you can pick fights in without yourself being arrested for Being So Wrong That the Law Must Intervene:
http://ladotbikeblog.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/la-county-sidewalk-riding-part1/

"Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!"

Doesn't prove much since the default install doesn't have much running.

Windows XP SP2 in the default install has the firewall enabled. So how many remote holes (of the sort the OpenBSD bunch are talking about) have there been since?

From the looks of the critical security updates - the remote exploits in Windows likely require the user to do something extra first- like visit a malicious site with a vulnerable browser. Or install additional applications.

Try that with OpenBSD and you'd get pwned too, or does OpenBSD securely sandbox web browsers and other applications by default nowadays? Have things improved much since 3 years ago: http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/the-insecurity-of-openbsd/

Hear Yea, Hear Yea! Some Arrogant Cunt on /. makes a baseless claim with ZERO evidence and this stupid shit gets modded up?? It is on the Internet so it must be true!! Riiiight. *face palm*

How about looking at NASA's own evidence of the STS missions before going off half-cocked and looking like an total idiot.

* Evidence: The Case For NASA UFO's
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/117264/Evidence_The_Case_For_NASA_UFOs__Full/

* The URZI UFO Case - The Full Story - Authentic & Complete
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_09AQClOIQ
Note: @54:12 - 54:28 has some great hi-res shots. The craft(s) definitely looks Pleiadian. e.g. http://aquariuschannelings.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/smogmeinichols.jpg

> Here's the truth. No aliens have visited the earth, and they never will. Not ever.
[[citation required]] from the self claimed armchair expert.

> If Stephen Hawking is right,
So he is an expert in Xenology now?? Based on what _experience_ ??

Here's a news flash. He's a BRILLIANT physicists HOWEVER he's a total idiot about Xenology. He has ZERO knowledge, only beliefs. That's like going to the Doctor and asking the best way to understand "The Source." An Expert in the WRONG frield.

> Maybe they want to trade with us. Yeah, right.
You must be the life of the party. Apparently you don't understand the value of humor: Namely the gift of being able to create it, give it, and receive it. It is so sad to see "you don't get it." :-( Here's a joke for you: Boy, are you ever in for a rude surprise in ~ 10 years.

> The question of why aliens might "want to come here" is fundamentally flawed because we are forming that question from our current (tiny) viewpoint.
You are absolutely correct on one thing: Your own myopic view is completely unable to see the bigger picture:

NAMELY: Do you even understand the concept of being able to visit how your great^N--grandchildren are doing?

FOR THE RECORD: Earth is the ONLY planet with Free Will. Aliens* have as much as to learn from us as we from them.

Specifically: How we are [slowly] working on transformering ourselves from being extreme negativity & limitations to one of positiveness and abundance. The Earth (and all the many life forms it hosts) is much more an experiment in the evolution of Consciousness. We celebrated passing the "marker" back in 2012 that "Yes, Humans are able to spiritually grow up and not be total idiots like we used to be in the past by over-developing our Male Science mind and completely ignore our Female Spiritual Side and destroying ourselves in the process."

* NOTE: Technically there is no such thing as aliens when we share the same DNA - both physically and spiritually.

> We're just not as advanced or as important as we like to think. In the end, there's no compelling reason to think they'd be interested in meeting us.
The perfect example of the average human: No self-worth, places artificial limitations on themselves, unable to grok the bigger picture. Sad. ;-( I hear they have this thing called self-esteem now a days. You may want to check it out.

Humans are one of the greatest experiments ever designed. You want to try embracing your heritage sometime. When you meet an alien ask him who his/her "parents are", and who their "children" are, and "your importance." You might be shocked at the self respect they give you.

--
Before you can learn, you must first unlearn. That is, stop your ego from being delusional in that "you think you already know when you don't."

And who created the bitcoin software? We don't know but I'm sure they are having fun selling off coins they got for free to suckers who just finished eating their tulip bulbs.

The creator of the software is presumed to have earned about 1 million BTC (currently worth around 50-100 million USD) but he hasn't spent any of it. So he's either dead, a true believer in his baby, or paranoid about his privacy and personal implications of being associated with Bitcoin.

So it's not Satoshi or the group calling themselves that who are cashing in. It's the early adopter crowd who saw the massive potential of a speculative investment to attract other speculators. These people have done nothing to improve the technical side of Bitcon, they are too busy talking their book and trying to convince everyone how Bitcoin is the next big thing.

Specifically, advertising needs to be prohibited from all situations where a person has paid for access or entrance to something. More ideally, it would also be prohibited from any context where the person hasn't explicitly agreed to be subjected to ads in exchange to some product or service.

What would that ball game cost if all advertising was eliminated from inside the stadium? Could the fans afford it?
Could the team afford to fly to their next game, or would they all be taking the train?

Most likely these things drive the inflated contracts we pay athletes these days.

Is a train, or an airplane or even a bus is a different proposition?

Major airlines don't seem to advertise anything, except themselves.
Every city bus I've ever been in has advertising. (Some of it left over from the Pleistocene.)
New York Subways have always had advertising in the trains. Seattle light rail, none. (Although the cars are configured for advertising, it appears not to be in use yet).

You can close your eyes, or read your book, listen to your music and shut out all the ads, but bone conduction seems a little over the top.

Now I know what this thing in Idiocracy is: Windows 8 with "Modern" interface! It makes perfect sense!

You paraphrased the contents from the link located at "UI sluggishness" that you happened to quote from the summary.. The link that goes to "Project Async and Responsive." I'll copy the link below for you: https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/announcing-project-async-responsive/
The link talks all about how they are trying to offload things from the main thread, which causes things like the 5-10 second halt when rendering a new tab. It's all waiting there for you to read it....

I think it's the pauses. This is mostly speculation, but from what I understand Firefox runs very quickly but much of it is still single-threaded (or in simpler terms, most of what it does is running in a single sequential order). That means Firefox might be doing important calculations lightning fast in the background, but while those calculations are running the graphical window in front of you pauses temporarily. Chrome is better at multi-threaded, multi-process execution, so the user interface is responsive while background work happens.

Both might take 12 seconds to render a particular web page, but Chrome might load one visual element every few tenths of a second for the entire 12 seconds. Firefox will appear to load half the page, freeze for 9 seconds, then load the last bits. Either way you're done in 12 seconds, but Firefox gives the impression of being painfully slow.

The good news is, per the article Firefox is putting a renewed investment in asynchronous operations: https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/announcing-project-async-responsive/ (same link as up top) and further up in the discussion someone mentioned that Firefox has decided to revisit their abandoned project to split individual browser tabs into separate threads and processes http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3929071&cid=44165865

It doesn't matter that much if one is slightly faster in Javascript or rendering when Firefox will halt up for 5-10 seconds rendering a new tab. Maybe it's faster than Chrome, but if I have to wait for it, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how much Firefox devs work on "UI sluggishness" if it's a single thing can lock up all input to the browser.

You do realize you quoted the part of the summary that is a link that leads to a page called, "Project Async & Responsive"? Here guys, I'll copy the link down here for you all, https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/announcing-project-async-responsive/ I can't believe how many mods didn't RTFA either judging from the mod points of your post...

Or you know, you could just use java: http://vertxproject.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/vert-x-vs-node-js-simple-http-benchmarks/

How is any reconstruction not "cherry picked"?

Where would you have it start? At the end of the ice age? Why not at the end of Ediacaran period? No? How about Permian? What period would you start with and why?

It's ALL cherry picked to support the conclusion they want to reach.

Nonsense. If it has been warming from 1997 to date, it has been warming from 1996 to date, it has been warming from 1995 to date, etc.; it has been warming from 1999 to date, it has been warming from 2000 to date, it has been warming from 2001 to date, etc.; but it has NOT been warming from 1998 to date, and you conclude from that that the climate has now switched over to cooling, that is very definitely cherry picking, even if you fuzz it up as "Global Cooling that has been going on for the past 15 or so years", as though you could pick any year back then, rather than it's just your faulty memory which has some faded postit note saying "see, AGW is fake after all" without marking what particular specific year is the only one that works for your argument.

Here's a nice piece of cherry picking by Roy Spencer, utilizing not just 1998, but also March 2011.
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/uah_march2011.png
which is conveniently forgotten 18 months later, back to the default just 1998 cherry picking
http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_Dec_2012_v5.51.png

see also
http://www.data360.org/temp/dsg1655_990_600.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Satellite_Temperatures.png/800px-Satellite_Temperatures.png

For the rest of us "gee. 1998 was a freakishly hot year, wasn't it?"

So, 2009 is now only the second hottest year in recorded history, not the first hottest.A lot of folks might think that having the two hottest years in the past few centuries all within 15 years might be an indicator that it's warmer now; particularly if you notice that the first half a decade of the 21st century was also right up there.

Of course, if you took seriously the denialist arguments that "there are lots of things that affect climate" and "climate is cyclic", you'd notice that the high points of the El Nino (hot) years starting 1998 till now are on the average suddenly about 0.2 degrees C hotter than they were 1980 through 1995, just as the high points of the La Nina (cool) years from 1996 to 2008 are on the average suddenly about 0.15 degrees C warmer than they were from 1979 through 1989.

Why stop there? It has definitely cooled from noon today till midnight now, I therefore declare that we are in a cooling trend.

*Sigh* Really didn't mean to start a flame-war, but wow. you guys are all so not even willing to talk about the issues. To debate civilly and kindly. It's sad really. This is why I think people on the Left are so not worth debating most of the time. It goes to a hyperbolic ragefest immediately. If you'd do a bit a of googling there are quite a few highly credentialed climate scientists who are not going along with the crowd. Here's one. http://flaggman.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/global-warming-is-a-bunch-of-hooey-legendary-professor-of-scientific-climatology/ There's more (including the top Harvard/Yale(?) climate scientist (can't remember his name right now and i'm very tired but you can google if you are even the least open-minded) who was basically ostracized by scientists being paid off by grants and more worried about getting their funding than facts.

I think P.J. O'Rourke saw this coming: http://historyofeconomics.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/pj-orourke-1-1.jpg?w=700

5 - realize that you really are not important at all. you posting photos of your cat is not of interest at all to the CIA.

Well That's a relief

"And of course you cannot switch it off because everyone who wants to do so will be seen by it as danger and eliminated."

http://obront.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/is-there-a-god-sci-fi-short-story/

See also my comment here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3892591&cid=44080213

Been drinking a bit too much caffeine today?

While this alleged incident is reprehensible, I don't think it warrants going John Wayne Bobbit on the perp. It's no excuse for the behavior however I do wonder why from the blog posting there's this:

Note: There will be no names named here. The perpetrator is not named. Likewise the heroes of the story who probably saved me from going to jail and at the very least comforted me when it felt like the floor was going to fall through are left unnamed. That said if you want to know the names I am willing to discuss it privately.

Okay, this raises a few questions, no names mentioned, no charges filed and I guess maybe the Police were involved or not but... shit, the blog posting reads more like "The Vagina Monologues" and goes wandering around. It may make a great chapter in an upcoming novel but I'm not discounting what she's saying either, it just doesn't ring true when you won't say "Look, this MF named Mr. ______ tried to rape me. And these other folks ______ _______ saw it." Look, if you're assaulted go to the authorities, file charges and name names. If this guy is a bad apple and he needs to be called out otherwise this is an incident that *maybe* happened and without at least some other folks stepping forward and saying "yeah, I saw it" or "yeah, he raped me" then these can be considered hearsay or fiction. If you're going to put it in a Blog, put the names down for Christ sake.. Shit last year two guys making jokes were lambasted as being chauvinists all across the Internet for something that is magnitudes less significant than this supposed incident. You know what, I call that offensive but it's also free speech.

Now, I'm not condoning violence against women, especially Rape but let's also not forget how lynchings start and recently the infamous case of DSK and how that all fell apart. Yeah DSK was(or is) a womanizer and probably didn't deserve all the BS he received, or maybe he did: including losing his position with the World Bank. I kind of put these kinds of stories in along with what Roseann Barr did a few years ago with "Repressed Memories."

So please put the chainsaw down and look objectively at what this person and their story and certainly cheer for her standing up to this guy but don't start eviscerating every guy out there.
 

He was just really into Ayn Rand:

http://jezebel.com/5490207/a-welcomed-rape-sex-and-ayn-rand

http://politicalfilm.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/atlas-shat-ayn-rands-manifesto-of-rape-and-terrorism/

http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2012/08/23812/

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2010/03/10/internal-affairs-how-ayn-rand-followers-rationalize-welcomed-rape/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021259973

So please. Your oppressing him because of his philosophical belies.

Fucking libs !

NYC hicks.

If you think the world ends at the border of your home town you are a hick. Even if your 'home town' is NYC.

No offense, but your geography is lacking. See this map.

How can he be accused of rape, exactly, when both women have been quoted in interviews, stating that they were NOT raped?

"Oh, no officer, he didn't rape me."

"Your honor, I'm asking that you sign a warrant of arrest for rape, because the witness states that she has not been raped."

That's a pretty shallow observation. Not all victims of domestic violence want to confront their accusers and sometime recant under pressure. That's why there should always be an investigation.

The only facts that apparently are not in dispute is that there was an official complaint field with the Stockholm police by two women 2010-Aug-20 against Mr Assange and that on 2010-Aug-30, he admitted under questioning by the Stockholm police that he actually had sex with both of these two accusers and that there is a physical evidence of this (a condom), but it was consensual. To me that is tantemount of an accusation (maybe true or not, but still an accusation), so I don't know where you get your information.

Also, your assertion that the women have recanted is not exactly true. One of the presumed women (Ms. Arden), has actually posted on her blog that it actually happen and that she has been horrified by the threats made against her by presumed Assange sympathisers have pretty much ruined her life. The reported recanting/exonerating quote was published a unconfirmed tabloid report Aftonbladet by an anoymous person that claimed she was one of the two women. Hard to say if this was an actual quote of the person involved or not.

I started with mercurial, and loved it. Git seemed too much trouble, but I found some features that made me switch and never look back:

- named, super fast branching
- merge multiple branches (only two at a time in mercurial)
- speed
- progress indicator on push/pull/clone (maybe this has improved in mercurial, but I used to sit staring at a blinking cursor for minutes wondering when/if the operation will finish)

This is a great comparison article. Nothing wrong with mercurial, but going back would make me miss the things from above.

Have Subversion still those horrible .svn in every single sub-directory?

You know, with Git I can just move/copy the .git directory and have the whole repository.
You know I can just do:
cd /my/usb/stick
git clone file://my/repository
And have all my files.

PS: looks like they try to make svn more like git. The only real problem with git is submodules, but anything else you can do with git. The argument that with git you have more smaller projects, is actually a good thing. Never heart before that modularity is bad. But since your users running away from you, you have to make some arguments*.

* http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/eclipse-community-survey-results-for-2013/

The adoption of Git as a developers primary source code management system continues to move forward and at the expense of Subversion. Interestingly, Subversion continues to be the #1 SCM but just barely. If you combine Git and GitHub usage, Subversion leads by only 1.5% points. Next year I am sure Git and GitHub will be #1.

From the survey: Git (+Github) 36%, Svn 38%

http://bigrab.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/tin-foil-hat.jpg

No, see the last tweet here.

http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/sweet-billy-adam-orth.jpg?w=804

Thats a silly remark insulting rural places. Any company would fire anyone who made such comments.

We are still animals, we are driven to mate, to prize health and vitality in prospective partners, and outward appearance and youthful appearance continues to be one of the visual indicators of health and vitality.

I'm sure you will all be really surprised - nay, shocked, awed and stunned to discover that beautiful people sell more products and services than their average looking counterparts,
http://psysociety.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/beautiful-people-beautiful-products/ .. that beautiful people earn more money than average looking peers,
http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/08/news/funny/beautiful_money/

Sorry, we're all stuck in meat suits being driven by genetic operating code millenia old. Are you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9p8LXD5UDs