That didn't stop you from forcing your religion on homosexual couples in California.
In fairness, marriage is primarily a religious ceremony* that has no place in government. Domestic unions of some type, there's a government interest in that.
*Or non-religious ceremony. What-have-you. It's a ceremony with some mixture of religious, personal, social, and romantic significance. The only two important points are a) It has religious significance to many, and b) It should have no significance to the government.
Since you use C\C++ as your example of a language that uses double-equals, any language-specific comments in this reply refer to C\C++.
Wrongo. He was speaking equivalence, not assignment.
From OP:"... support making school tax == 0% for those parents..." This is quite clearly assignment, since it involves changing a value. Also, it is quite clearly not a test for anything, as there was no use of any output.
If it were a test for equivalence, the "making" (indicating change) would be operating on an r-value. (Equivelence tests return an r-value.) R-values, by definition, cannot have values assigned to them.
Pedantic: While recent extensions to the C++ standard allow modification of an r-value, that can only be done if that r-value is fed as a reference into a function. An r-value reference therefore has different rules than an r-value, and serves to (sometimes) replace the promotion of r-value to l-value that formerly happened whenever passed into a function.
Perl's smarter. Single equals does everything
There are advantages to two different operators. These are especially required in OOP with operator overloading.
That's one of the reasons I support making school tax == 0% for those parents with children who "opt out" of government school (for that year). The money that you are allowed to keep could then be used to afford that private school.
And if I were to send all zero of my children to private school? My 4-year-old? 2 out of 5 kids?
Also, your use of the double-equals sign is incorrect. In most programming languages, a single equals would be what you intend. Failing that, maybe colon-equals. But certainly not a double-equals.
Yes, we all know the reason. But apparently the reason we all know is different.
The Judaeo-Christian worldview is by-and-large anti-science.
Not really.
I mean, there are stories that discuss the importance of figuring out the world instead of having it spoon-fed and demanding evidence for asserted positions. Most foundational science was done by religious men in that tradition
even with the benefits of science staring them in the face, people still take these Iron Age myths as The Truth.
See, now that's the reason I assume there's such an anti-science backlash. You imply you believe science disproves religion. Therefore, you have to expect that some people will reject science instead of religion.
Stop framing the argument as "A or B".
Science can explain many things. And that's great. But, pretty much by definition, it cannot speak to the supernatural.
In closing, your attitude is causing people in Kansas to try to keep their children from learning about evolution. That is bad.
We all know that a biased experimenter often produces the results he is looking for; that is why we usually insist on double blind experiments in areas where bias is a factor.
Things are subjected to double-blind experiments during data-collection, not data-analysis. And usually that's when some measure of either a) qualitative analysis (to protect against biased collection) or b) the act of taking the measurement changes the measurement. (An example of B is a drug trial. Doctors do not have perfect poker faces, and hence information about whether the patient is on the placebo or not might leak to the patient if the doctor knows. Which, of course, would destroy the value of the placebo as a baseline.)
A liberal scientist will thus have a significantly higher burden of proof, which, in my experience with politically charged subjects such as AGW, has not yet been met.
Why would there be a higher burden of proof based on political leanings? If you want to say that the subset of data collected is biased, the response is a different dataset. And, in fact, scientific journals do have a bias towards publishing papers that go against the current understanding.
Without trust in the scientists the only way to really believe their results is to reproduce their experiments and see for ourselves. Unfortunately, most of us are not qualified to do so, hence today's political standoff.
There are several types of science, but there is one big dividing line: reproducible experiments (physics, chem, bio, small scale-micro) and data-mining the world (macro, sociology, etc.) (I broke these up by field, I should have done it by experiment type. Physics has it's theoretical based on observing the universe and sociology has it's surveys of random populations. But it's easier to understand this way).
You can data-mine yourself. FFS, the weather information climatologists use is published somewhere.
P.S. I hope the multiple worlds theory is correct, so we can run controlled experiments in alternate timelines to really understand macro systems.
They can enforce the rules as they wish (just like employers).
Not quite true. An employer can enforce a dress code forbidding anti-Vietnam War armbands. A school cannot.
A school is a government agency. Students "do not shed their rights at the schoolhouse gates". Employment is an interaction between two private entities. Employers do have limits, but fewer ones.
Not such a bad idea. Can you imagine how effective a 5 year old could be at cable runs at data centers and in office building ceilings?
Nor an original one. One of the first main uses of child labor in the industrial revolution was to climb into the tight locations under looms to jiggle equipment and fix threads. Of course, since they didn't turn the looms off, t'was a tad more dangerous.
Casinos exist to increase variance in wealth based on luck; insurance exists to decrease variance. Therefore, there's a very significant reason why society accepts one, and condemns the other.
When was the last time a non-english movie won, a horror movie, a bollywood movie (Slumdog was a British/American movie) etc. etc..
Well, it's an award given out by Americans. So, you know, bollywood/non-english speaking titles won't fair well.
When are people going to wake up that Oscars are voted for by an Elite cliquey non-elected panel of Hollywood insiders known as the Academy
Of course they're not elected. They're an industry award. It's a self-selecting group selected for their theoretical competence. See also the Royal Society in London, etc.
Some people are joyous to get the free pittance offered to them in "compensation"
It depends on the route. II find I usually get paid over $100 an hour to sit and read a book. Sometimes, I get an extra night of vacation (with paid hotel), and get $500 for my troubles.
Now, it does depend on what they are offering, but most domestic flights (in the US) happen every few hours (or even every hour)... at least between hubs.
So politicians are afraid to cut the real excesses which are the entitlement programs and they are afraid to fix the fucked-up tax code where 46% pay no income tax at all.
Once you factor in sales, payroll, income and capital gains taxes, those 46% pay a higher rate than Mitt Romney. Full stop.
(This has not been true the past few years with the payroll tax holiday, but it will be again soon and was when the economy was thriving.)
I wouldn't be surprised if family farms and businesses can somehow get caught up in this and harmed.
I would be... well with one exception. Look, with the estate tax, when Bush wanted to repeal it, using "family businesses" and "family farms", the counter-offer was exempting anything under $100 Million. You know what, if your family farm/family business is worth over $100 Million, you should have to pay some taxes on it. (The only family business I am aware of that is this large is the Mars corporation.)
Furthermore, it is unreasonable, however much we love this country, to presume replacing $1/hour Chinese workers (if they are lucky) with no benefits such as sick leave with $15/hour (at least) US workers with all the minimal benefits one would typically according to the law.
Well, labor costs make up a remarkably small percentage of the cost of manufacture. And transportation costs are rising.
From a purely capitalistic point of view, it makes no sense to do mind-numbing manufacturing in the US
Nitpick, but you are conflating capitalism minimizing costs. These need not be the same.
Also, see your quote below:
not to mention that our competitors actually produce HS graduates that know how to read, write and add fractions, which we don't.
We don't actually need people who can read, write, or do fractions for the majority of jobs.
But UTF-8? Is that a 8 bit standard, and if yes, how different is it from ASCII, aside from the 8th bit?
UTF-8 and UTF-16 (as well as others, like UTF-7), are variable length. Hence, both can exceed the number of characters you may expect.
I have no clue why various symbols are added. I assume it's a result of having way too much space.
I believe they do have mathematical symbols. And I believe that the Greek symbols are redefined. I mean, I can see slightly different font renderings for Capital Sigma (summation) and Capital Sigma (in Greek).
If it is a 16 bit standard, how can it be unlimited?
If it were a 16-bit standard, it couldn't be unlimited. But it's not. In two ways. First, Unicode is simply a number->meaning table, and doesn't specify actual in memory format. There are a lot of competing standards for that. Second, UTF-16 has 1.1 M values. UTF-32 has 4B. UTF-8 has a 2B or a 1.1M limit depending on the version.
Taxes usually work like that. No one supports being forced to pay more taxes than someone else in the same situation. People do support themselves, and other people in the same situation, paying more taxes.
Dodging taxes and exploiting loopholes... He is not dodging taxes or exploiting anything, his primary source of income has a 15% limit on it. The tax form with the paper will have that number and if you had most of your money coming from you will probably be paying similar tax rates. Blame the Tax law for this not the man.
If the man lobbies for the tax law (as Romney did), do we still have to "blame the law not the man"?
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In fairness, marriage is primarily a religious ceremony* that has no place in government. Domestic unions of some type, there's a government interest in that.
*Or non-religious ceremony. What-have-you. It's a ceremony with some mixture of religious, personal, social, and romantic significance. The only two important points are a) It has religious significance to many, and b) It should have no significance to the government.
Well, we tried the meetings approach first. But when we got no where, we fought.
Since you use C\C++ as your example of a language that uses double-equals, any language-specific comments in this reply refer to C\C++.
From OP:"... support making school tax == 0% for those parents..." This is quite clearly assignment, since it involves changing a value. Also, it is quite clearly not a test for anything, as there was no use of any output.
If it were a test for equivalence, the "making" (indicating change) would be operating on an r-value. (Equivelence tests return an r-value.) R-values, by definition, cannot have values assigned to them.
Pedantic: While recent extensions to the C++ standard allow modification of an r-value, that can only be done if that r-value is fed as a reference into a function. An r-value reference therefore has different rules than an r-value, and serves to (sometimes) replace the promotion of r-value to l-value that formerly happened whenever passed into a function.
There are advantages to two different operators. These are especially required in OOP with operator overloading.
And if I were to send all zero of my children to private school? My 4-year-old? 2 out of 5 kids?
Also, your use of the double-equals sign is incorrect. In most programming languages, a single equals would be what you intend. Failing that, maybe colon-equals. But certainly not a double-equals.
Yes, we all know the reason. But apparently the reason we all know is different.
Not really.
I mean, there are stories that discuss the importance of figuring out the world instead of having it spoon-fed and demanding evidence for asserted positions. Most foundational science was done by religious men in that tradition
See, now that's the reason I assume there's such an anti-science backlash. You imply you believe science disproves religion. Therefore, you have to expect that some people will reject science instead of religion.
Stop framing the argument as "A or B".
Science can explain many things. And that's great. But, pretty much by definition, it cannot speak to the supernatural.
In closing, your attitude is causing people in Kansas to try to keep their children from learning about evolution. That is bad.
Things are subjected to double-blind experiments during data-collection, not data-analysis. And usually that's when some measure of either a) qualitative analysis (to protect against biased collection) or b) the act of taking the measurement changes the measurement. (An example of B is a drug trial. Doctors do not have perfect poker faces, and hence information about whether the patient is on the placebo or not might leak to the patient if the doctor knows. Which, of course, would destroy the value of the placebo as a baseline.)
Why would there be a higher burden of proof based on political leanings? If you want to say that the subset of data collected is biased, the response is a different dataset. And, in fact, scientific journals do have a bias towards publishing papers that go against the current understanding.
There are several types of science, but there is one big dividing line: reproducible experiments (physics, chem, bio, small scale-micro) and data-mining the world (macro, sociology, etc.) (I broke these up by field, I should have done it by experiment type. Physics has it's theoretical based on observing the universe and sociology has it's surveys of random populations. But it's easier to understand this way).
You can data-mine yourself. FFS, the weather information climatologists use is published somewhere.
P.S. I hope the multiple worlds theory is correct, so we can run controlled experiments in alternate timelines to really understand macro systems.
Not quite true. An employer can enforce a dress code forbidding anti-Vietnam War armbands. A school cannot.
A school is a government agency. Students "do not shed their rights at the schoolhouse gates". Employment is an interaction between two private entities. Employers do have limits, but fewer ones.
Nor an original one. One of the first main uses of child labor in the industrial revolution was to climb into the tight locations under looms to jiggle equipment and fix threads. Of course, since they didn't turn the looms off, t'was a tad more dangerous.
So, instead of the US government, you want Google's Lucky Button to determine who owns the domain IBM?
What's wrong with riding the bus? Is it because it exudes "low-class" to you?
I would be happier to know they ride the bus... at least they're not trying to treat me because they're behind on their Porche payments.
Not that taking the bus is proof of lack of greed or needing of money, it just eliminates one source.
Casinos exist to increase variance in wealth based on luck; insurance exists to decrease variance. Therefore, there's a very significant reason why society accepts one, and condemns the other.
Well, it's an award given out by Americans. So, you know, bollywood/non-english speaking titles won't fair well.
Of course they're not elected. They're an industry award. It's a self-selecting group selected for their theoretical competence. See also the Royal Society in London, etc.
It depends on the route. II find I usually get paid over $100 an hour to sit and read a book. Sometimes, I get an extra night of vacation (with paid hotel), and get $500 for my troubles.
Now, it does depend on what they are offering, but most domestic flights (in the US) happen every few hours (or even every hour)... at least between hubs.
Once you factor in sales, payroll, income and capital gains taxes, those 46% pay a higher rate than Mitt Romney. Full stop.
(This has not been true the past few years with the payroll tax holiday, but it will be again soon and was when the economy was thriving.)
I would be... well with one exception. Look, with the estate tax, when Bush wanted to repeal it, using "family businesses" and "family farms", the counter-offer was exempting anything under $100 Million. You know what, if your family farm/family business is worth over $100 Million, you should have to pay some taxes on it. (The only family business I am aware of that is this large is the Mars corporation.)
Well, labor costs make up a remarkably small percentage of the cost of manufacture. And transportation costs are rising.
Nitpick, but you are conflating capitalism minimizing costs. These need not be the same.
Also, see your quote below:
We don't actually need people who can read, write, or do fractions for the majority of jobs.
UTF-8 and UTF-16 (as well as others, like UTF-7), are variable length. Hence, both can exceed the number of characters you may expect.
I have no clue why various symbols are added. I assume it's a result of having way too much space.
I believe they do have mathematical symbols. And I believe that the Greek symbols are redefined. I mean, I can see slightly different font renderings for Capital Sigma (summation) and Capital Sigma (in Greek).
You left out all the real-life examples, from WWI on, of using a plane as a weapon.
Also, that's a very US-centric attitude. Entebbe was a different kind of beast, for instance.
Actually, an invisible jet has utility beyond merely looking like Wonder Woman's. So that may be okay.
If I invent an invisible jet, I guess I'll have to talk to a lawyer.
It sets the stage perfectly for my insane sin tax on non-topless reporters.
If it were a 16-bit standard, it couldn't be unlimited. But it's not. In two ways. First, Unicode is simply a number->meaning table, and doesn't specify actual in memory format. There are a lot of competing standards for that. Second, UTF-16 has 1.1 M values. UTF-32 has 4B. UTF-8 has a 2B or a 1.1M limit depending on the version.
Yes, me and other people.
Taxes usually work like that. No one supports being forced to pay more taxes than someone else in the same situation. People do support themselves, and other people in the same situation, paying more taxes.
I thought unicode was unlimited? The coding methods might each have a limit, but the standard is unlimited.
That's a strange question. I'm not going to pay extra taxes. But I will support rules that raise my taxes.
If the man lobbies for the tax law (as Romney did), do we still have to "blame the law not the man"?