For those that don't know, timecop is a raw provider for the Naruto anime series from the Dattebayo translation group (http://yhbt.mine.nu/). The whole GNAA is a just an inside joke or something, or maybe he really is a GN.
Not to say that being part of an anime translator group give you creditability, but at least he's not a troll.
Now, I say this in partial jest, but, you complain of overcrowding of prisons and the practice of reducing overcrowding? If we didn't have capital punishment, we'd have even more criminals!;)
Actually, the percentage of the prison population on death row is less than one-tenth of one percent, if even that. So, it's not a factor in "reducing overcrowding". The main objection is the 5% innocence rate (from cases where they rechecked and discovered that the crime wasn't commited, mostly DNA evidence), and in this context, the idea that violence will solve society's problems.
Overcrowding of prisons is mainly a problem with the drug war. There are close to 2 million arrest each year, with 40% of those arrested for marijuana possession alone. The state and federal governments spend over 50 billion dollars each year on the War on (some) Drugs.
Actually, the "Trenchcoat Mafia" had nothing to do with them. They were actually just a group of kids that liked to wear trenchcoats, and the kids nicknamed them the Trenchcoat Mafia. Nothing malicious about it at all.
This, of course, was a little known fact that barely made it into the media. The MSM basically found the phrase and tacked it onto their list of "facts".
BTW, even as a novice Perl developer, I can confirm that repeated use of and $_ will add several cm to your manhood.
In all seriousness, I hate the use of $_, implied or not. (Especially if it's omitted and used as the default variable.) Yes, it makes the code short, and maybe even use slightly less memory, but I prefer to just create a named variable and use those, instead of looking at:
And trying to figure out exactly where $_ gets garbled, or to even figure out what it's doing. Named variables describe what it is. The more you subtract from that, the more unreadable the code becomes. For God's sake, the language was written by a linguist. It was designed to make programs somewhat English-readable. At least take the time to do that, instead of going off on some golfing powertrip.
HTML, by the way, was never meant to have an IMG tag. By your logic, it still wouldn't have one today. Similarly, we'd only ever use 7-bit ASCII and not Unicode.
This difference is that the IMG tag was added through the proper channels. Plans were discussed, other tags were added, the standard was refined. Nothing was a rushed fuckjob for the simple fact of looking cool. Security, functionally, and everything else was thought through.
Microsoft can do what everybody else does and get stuff added through the proper channels. If they want to complain about it taking too long, or ideas getting rejecting because the security model is fucking stupid, they can see Figure 1.
Because it's a gambling game. It's a GAME...that requires lots of money. You need to be rich to get richer. And if you gamble wrong (remember, the house is always ahead), you get shafted and become broke.
There are dozens of other methods to produce electricity, ranging from wind power to pig dung to bananas. The problem is our instinct to take ONE source and say that it's the answer to all of our problems. No, you need to use ALL sources, wherever they may be.
Use wind power where there's wind. Put a solar panel on every roof with a lot of sun. Put a Mr. Fusion for all of our cars (with the billions of tons of biomass we waste every day).
The good part about all of these sources is the worse case scenerio is not going to cause a city to be unpopulated for 100 years. Nuclear will do that. We've seen it. I don't care how much you minimize it. Somebody will fuck it up and we'll have a disaster on our hands. Even if you're going to promote nuclear, wait until fusion is ready. Fission is such a dirty and sloppy way of splitting atoms.
Nuclear power is very safe, and has some long-term benefits that our world is ignoring. Any power plant can kill you - a coal-fired plant can catch fire, possibly releasing tons of harmful toxins into the air; a hydro plant could fail, either letting millions of gallons of water downstream in seconds. Either case is a pretty catastrophic environmental event.
The problem is fixability. Even the Exxon oil spill and Iraq oil fires were fixable. Our solution to Chernobyl: bury the fucker. Even then, it took thousands of deaths just to do that. The ENTIRE CITY is no longer safe for at least another 50-100 years.
Really? Damn! That bastard got a job writing for Wired? But, there's no Jon Katz filter on Wired. Now I've going to have to be weary of the author of every article, lest he shows up.
He's a robot cop patrolling the streets of Hong Kong. She's a eight-year-old school student trying to learn the ropes of crime-fighting. They fight crime!
Saying that it's another DS9 is an offense to DS9 fans. DS9 was no ST:TNG (though, I admit after watching older episodes of TNG, it's not the glory show it used to be), but it was an excellent series with a nice story arc near the end. Voyager and Enterprise, OTOH...
I find that taking a crack at the source is futile on the Internet. If you doubt the source, FIND ANOTHER SOURCE! It's easy...just do a search on Google News. It's not hard, and it makes you look smarter. The Internet gives you the tools to research things, it's original purpose after all, so use them.
[This is not a flame; this is a public education notice.]
Re:Or maybe Howard Dean... (Score:4, Interesting) - With the MP3 link Re:Or maybe Howard Dean... (Score:0, Offtopic) - With the rebuttal
Ahem, mods on crack. If you're going to make them offtopic, make them both offtopic or don't mod them at all.
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Hanging by a thread is a vast understatement, and it wasn't just at the end. Bruce Boxleitner (Captain Sheridan) said in a interview that the job was so stressful to him because he would never know if he would wake up the next morning and still have a job, since the series was constantly in a battle over cancellation.
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For those that don't know, timecop is a raw provider for the Naruto anime series from the Dattebayo translation group (http://yhbt.mine.nu/). The whole GNAA is a just an inside joke or something, or maybe he really is a GN.
Not to say that being part of an anime translator group give you creditability, but at least he's not a troll.
I thought of that, but couldn't you use a better/popular word than stealth?
Now, I say this in partial jest, but, you complain of overcrowding of prisons and the practice of reducing overcrowding? If we didn't have capital punishment, we'd have even more criminals! ;)
Actually, the percentage of the prison population on death row is less than one-tenth of one percent, if even that. So, it's not a factor in "reducing overcrowding". The main objection is the 5% innocence rate (from cases where they rechecked and discovered that the crime wasn't commited, mostly DNA evidence), and in this context, the idea that violence will solve society's problems.
Overcrowding of prisons is mainly a problem with the drug war. There are close to 2 million arrest each year, with 40% of those arrested for marijuana possession alone. The state and federal governments spend over 50 billion dollars each year on the War on (some) Drugs.
Actually, the "Trenchcoat Mafia" had nothing to do with them. They were actually just a group of kids that liked to wear trenchcoats, and the kids nicknamed them the Trenchcoat Mafia. Nothing malicious about it at all.
This, of course, was a little known fact that barely made it into the media. The MSM basically found the phrase and tacked it onto their list of "facts".
In the tradition of T-Shirt Hell: the new geek shirt "I Swear...I didn't know she was 9 lines."
BTW, even as a novice Perl developer, I can confirm that repeated use of and $_ will add several cm to your manhood.
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In all seriousness, I hate the use of $_, implied or not. (Especially if it's omitted and used as the default variable.) Yes, it makes the code short, and maybe even use slightly less memory, but I prefer to just create a named variable and use those, instead of looking at:
while (<>) {
s/\D+//g;
alarm;
reverse log if (exp);
select pop;
foreach (split
print;
s/\d+/ord.hex.oct/e;
s/\A/-/g; s/\Z/\n/g;
print;
}
}
And trying to figure out exactly where $_ gets garbled, or to even figure out what it's doing. Named variables describe what it is. The more you subtract from that, the more unreadable the code becomes. For God's sake, the language was written by a linguist. It was designed to make programs somewhat English-readable. At least take the time to do that, instead of going off on some golfing powertrip.
Or Lizard Wrangler, in reference to some coders for Mozilla.
Jerky Boys' Chickety China the Chinese Chicken
"You press Staaar-Seven-Two-Three."
Probably the only really funny thing the Boys produced.
OSX isn't available for PC laptops. Sorry, try again.
You can tell by the 4-digit number in your name.
HTML, by the way, was never meant to have an IMG tag. By your logic, it still wouldn't have one today. Similarly, we'd only ever use 7-bit ASCII and not Unicode.
This difference is that the IMG tag was added through the proper channels. Plans were discussed, other tags were added, the standard was refined. Nothing was a rushed fuckjob for the simple fact of looking cool. Security, functionally, and everything else was thought through.
Microsoft can do what everybody else does and get stuff added through the proper channels. If they want to complain about it taking too long, or ideas getting rejecting because the security model is fucking stupid, they can see Figure 1.
Because it's a gambling game. It's a GAME...that requires lots of money. You need to be rich to get richer. And if you gamble wrong (remember, the house is always ahead), you get shafted and become broke.
There are dozens of other methods to produce electricity, ranging from wind power to pig dung to bananas. The problem is our instinct to take ONE source and say that it's the answer to all of our problems. No, you need to use ALL sources, wherever they may be.
Use wind power where there's wind.
Put a solar panel on every roof with a lot of sun.
Put a Mr. Fusion for all of our cars (with the billions of tons of biomass we waste every day).
The good part about all of these sources is the worse case scenerio is not going to cause a city to be unpopulated for 100 years. Nuclear will do that. We've seen it. I don't care how much you minimize it. Somebody will fuck it up and we'll have a disaster on our hands. Even if you're going to promote nuclear, wait until fusion is ready. Fission is such a dirty and sloppy way of splitting atoms.
Fine...Chernobyl then.
Nuclear power is very safe, and has some long-term benefits that our world is ignoring. Any power plant can kill you - a coal-fired plant can catch fire, possibly releasing tons of harmful toxins into the air; a hydro plant could fail, either letting millions of gallons of water downstream in seconds. Either case is a pretty catastrophic environmental event.
The problem is fixability. Even the Exxon oil spill and Iraq oil fires were fixable. Our solution to Chernobyl: bury the fucker. Even then, it took thousands of deaths just to do that. The ENTIRE CITY is no longer safe for at least another 50-100 years.
That I would put in the "UNfixable" catagory.
Chain of Command (TNG - Picard is captured and tortured by Cardassians - another fine performance by Stewart)
One cannot mention this episode without:
THERE...ARE...FOUR LIGHTS!!!!!
Same thoughts here. In fact, everybody's thoughts. One would think that the planet would benefit from increased levels of THC :)
Really? Damn! That bastard got a job writing for Wired? But, there's no Jon Katz filter on Wired. Now I've going to have to be weary of the author of every article, lest he shows up.
He's a robot cop patrolling the streets of Hong Kong. She's a eight-year-old school student trying to learn the ropes of crime-fighting. They fight crime!
Try again!
Spoken like a true non-user of broadband. *smack* As an employee of a broadband company, I'll just quietly snicker at this comment.
Saying that it's another DS9 is an offense to DS9 fans. DS9 was no ST:TNG (though, I admit after watching older episodes of TNG, it's not the glory show it used to be), but it was an excellent series with a nice story arc near the end. Voyager and Enterprise, OTOH...
I find that taking a crack at the source is futile on the Internet. If you doubt the source, FIND ANOTHER SOURCE! It's easy...just do a search on Google News. It's not hard, and it makes you look smarter. The Internet gives you the tools to research things, it's original purpose after all, so use them.
[This is not a flame; this is a public education notice.]
All he does is bitch and moan about his problems in life.
Okay, how is this different than....ummmm...every single songwriter in history?
Hmmm...isn't China embracing Linux?
Re:Or maybe Howard Dean... (Score:4, Interesting) - With the MP3 link
Re:Or maybe Howard Dean... (Score:0, Offtopic) - With the rebuttal
Ahem, mods on crack. If you're going to make them offtopic, make them both offtopic or don't mod them at all.
Hanging by a thread is a vast understatement, and it wasn't just at the end. Bruce Boxleitner (Captain Sheridan) said in a interview that the job was so stressful to him because he would never know if he would wake up the next morning and still have a job, since the series was constantly in a battle over cancellation.