There seem to be recurrent posts concerning the sexuality of african-american men on Slashdot. I wonder, is this a way for you to express your fears, or rather, your secret desires and wildest dreams? Maybe you should visit a gay bar and approach a black man, to get to the bottom of it. Life is short and you might miss out on things which you may come to regret for the rest of your life.
Nicely said. My thoughts exactly, except when mentioning US partisanship, I suppose there is also a lot of money, power, ego and ruthless self-interest involved -certainly not the "greater good" of the country- which makes this subject an order of magnitude more complex than what you outline above. Apart from this, I couldn't have said it any better. Kudos.
Okay, let me make up for poking fun of you by providing some constructive criticism of your original comment. You know, 98% of stories on Slashdot -or stuff I read in practically any news source, for that matter- doesn't really apply to me and has no impact on my life. I think this is a pretty obvious thing. Yet it doesn't diminish the wish and the value of staying informed about things, because it's good not to be an ignorant, assumptive piece of shit about stuff.
Funny that I have to explain this to you, but there it is.
I'm not sure why we make such a big deal about extraterrestrial water. Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, Oxygen the third. Seems like a logical assumption that there should be plenty of H2O around. I understand that water is critical for life. But it seems to me like yet another application of the anthropic principle. Life is probably based on water because water is abundant to begin with. The interesting question is, what are the rare conditions that enabled life on Earth, vs. Mars, Mercury or the Moon. Water doesn't seem to be one of them.
You might want to explain what "CWP firing error rate" is supposed to mean. As googling it, only reveals "Concealed Weapons Permit", which I am not sure can be fired erroneously or otherwise.
What I do know from life experience however, is that in a theater, there are people all around you, except maybe directly above and below you.
Right. The bad guy walks back into the cinema with his gun. Raises it into texters face, and *BAM* headshot! Brave, well armed Americans in the audience do the only logical thing of drawing their own weapons and *BAM* *BAM* *BAM* shoot the bad guy once in his guts, the other shot goes astray and the third one pierces a little girls lung, right through her popcorn bag. Bad guy is seriously hurt, but he's not down yet. Instinctively he defends himself and shots another two shots into the audience *BAM* *BAM*, he's a trained ex-police officer so he scores another headshot right in the eye while another shot ricochets of a wall and obliterates a guys jaw as he was fleeing the scene. Finally another gunman aims true and hits bad guy right in the chest. America wins!
Casualties: 1 bad guy (internal bleeding) 1 texter (headshot wound) 1 brave american hero (headshot wound) 1 little girl (suffocation in own blood) 1 pussy fleeing dude, hospitalized, survived, will talk funny for the rest of his life. Serves him right for not standing his ground
An outdated hack? That sounds mean... SWT was great at the time when it was needed. It is the reason why Eclipse never felt like a bloated, slow memory hog, in comparison to other Java applications of similar scope, like Netbeans. With SWT you had native, memory efficient UI components, whereas AWT/Swing duplicated everything into inefficient Java heap memory with slow Java2D rendering. It is true that now, with all the performance improvements Java and Swing have received, you barely notice a difference, so SWT isn't as essential as it used to be, but I still think it has the nicer API. Today I would probably use JavaFX
You can have a native platform UI with Java if you use SWT instead of Swing or JavaFX. There is some benefit to be had from Java applications looking uniform across all operating systems, however.
The U.S. has a higher GDP per capita than most large European countries, even higher than the richest, most developed and most populous country in Europe, Germany. Despite this, there are much more homeless and poor people in the U.S. than in Europe, and far more incarcerated people. Why? The shear between poor and rich in the U.S. is extreme, most likely the largest among western countries. Imagine how much rich people in the U.S. make if they manage to pull up the GDP per capita rating above a country like Germany, despite 1/7th of the population relying on food stamps. Why are the rich so rich and the poor so poor? Well, slavery has been outlawed in the U.S. so corporations have been smart about it and exporting industry into third world countries were quasi slavery is legal. The difference between paying a decent wage in the U.S. and paying next to nothing is pocketed by the wealthy 2%; CEO's, managers, shareholders. In practice, this is a direct money transfer from the middle-class to the upper-class. That's globalization for you. A popular argument in favor of the system claims that goods have become cheaper as a result, and we can all afford a better lifestyle. Yes, many goods have indeed become cheaper, but this is a result of increased production and technological expertise, not because they are cheaper to produce. The profit margin on your latest iPad is still immense. Also, people without jobs and income can't afford much of anything, so those who can afford a better lifestyle become less and less.
Now, after being sabotaged out of the middle-class, in the U.S. you are screwed because there is no social safety net to speak of. In the U.S. there is no room for socialism. There is no money for it either, because most of the tax money flows into the channels of those who can afford the best lobbyists. In the U.S. everything revolves around money, and those with it have been shaping the political landscape in their favor, creating a positive feedback cycle in which more and more tax money flows into corporations in form of subsidies, foreign military aid (more subsidies), government contracts (even more subsidies), wars (yet another name for subsidies), prisons (there is an entire industry in the U.S. revolving around prisons and hence interested in keeping crime up and having even minor offences punishable by prison sentence), etc. Needless to say, there is just not enough money to go around for schools and infrastructure, let alone welfare, when you have all these government subsidies to fulfill, which keeps America's industry competitive and healthy. Yes, that industry that just outsourced another development plant to India. So, the middle class is cannibalized, the rich get richer, the poor stay poor, everybody looks on because that is the way politics and economics work in the country of endless capitalism, all the while the heart of America disintegrates and everyone wonders, just how did the Chinese become so rich and successful all of a sudden? Well, here it is for you: American CEO's saved Communism while showing us the fatal flaws of capitalism!
Actually, if you are in a hurry, you can gift the city to an unfriendly neighbor, like Norway, and then attack it relentlessly until it is conquered, and then raze it to the ground. Move all the corpses to the sweet spot and cast a high-level necromancy spell.
1. Build settlers until the population is reduced to one. 2. Build one final settler. 3. Confirm that you want to disband the city. 4. Settle somewhere else.
Actually... if a thermomuclear weapon would be detonated above the volcano at the moment of eruption, wouldn't the pressure from the bomb equalize the pressure of the eruption, perhaps even pushing all the debris and ash back down on the ground? So everyone will still be deaf and slightly radioactive, but at least we don't have to contend with all that ash and ice age business.
It's not Asimov who was wrong. It's reality that has failed to catch up to Asimovs' predictions. We really should have a moon base, tight population control and algae foodstuffs by now.
Yes, I always have coins in my pocket. In the EU, coins have different sizes and rim patterns, so they are easy to differentiate by touch alone. This is great for blind people, but for me as well. Whenever I need 1€, 2€, 50 cents, etc, I put my hand in my pocket, feel for it, and quickly have the currency at my disposal without having to take out and open my wallet. Its a fast and convenient way to pay for small things. If you live in a bad neighborhood, I suppose that this technique also lowers the chances of someone running away with your wallet. No see, no take.
What data? I just need to walk outside. It's end of December in Germany and we have 6C outside. Tomorrow 12C are forecast. I doubt I will see any snow at all this year. When I was a kid, we used to build snowmen and do battle with snowballs at this time.
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There seem to be recurrent posts concerning the sexuality of african-american men on Slashdot. I wonder, is this a way for you to express your fears, or rather, your secret desires and wildest dreams? Maybe you should visit a gay bar and approach a black man, to get to the bottom of it. Life is short and you might miss out on things which you may come to regret for the rest of your life.
Don't dream it, be it.
Nicely said. My thoughts exactly, except when mentioning US partisanship, I suppose there is also a lot of money, power, ego and ruthless self-interest involved -certainly not the "greater good" of the country- which makes this subject an order of magnitude more complex than what you outline above.
Apart from this, I couldn't have said it any better. Kudos.
aka Land of the Derp, home of the homeless.
What happened to you U.S.A? You used to be cool.
I find your lack of humor disturbing.
Okay, let me make up for poking fun of you by providing some constructive criticism of your original comment.
You know, 98% of stories on Slashdot -or stuff I read in practically any news source, for that matter- doesn't really apply to me and has no impact on my life. I think this is a pretty obvious thing. Yet it doesn't diminish the wish and the value of staying informed about things, because it's good not to be an ignorant, assumptive piece of shit about stuff.
Funny that I have to explain this to you, but there it is.
Poo, poo Ubuntu dev didn't get late Chweesmas plesent from Valve.
I'm not sure why we make such a big deal about extraterrestrial water. Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, Oxygen the third. Seems like a logical assumption that there should be plenty of H2O around.
I understand that water is critical for life. But it seems to me like yet another application of the anthropic principle. Life is probably based on water because water is abundant to begin with. The interesting question is, what are the rare conditions that enabled life on Earth, vs. Mars, Mercury or the Moon. Water doesn't seem to be one of them.
Maybe it's because Python is so flexible, simple and straightforward that it can be easily used for everything.
25% is near nothing, hey? Then I suppose you wouldn't mind donating 25% of your net monthly income to charity? Help make the world a better place.
You might want to explain what "CWP firing error rate" is supposed to mean. As googling it, only reveals "Concealed Weapons Permit", which I am not sure can be fired erroneously or otherwise.
What I do know from life experience however, is that in a theater, there are people all around you, except maybe directly above and below you.
Right. The bad guy walks back into the cinema with his gun. Raises it into texters face, and *BAM* headshot! Brave, well armed Americans in the audience do the only logical thing of drawing their own weapons and *BAM* *BAM* *BAM* shoot the bad guy once in his guts, the other shot goes astray and the third one pierces a little girls lung, right through her popcorn bag. Bad guy is seriously hurt, but he's not down yet. Instinctively he defends himself and shots another two shots into the audience *BAM* *BAM*, he's a trained ex-police officer so he scores another headshot right in the eye while another shot ricochets of a wall and obliterates a guys jaw as he was fleeing the scene. Finally another gunman aims true and hits bad guy right in the chest. America wins!
Casualties:
1 bad guy (internal bleeding)
1 texter (headshot wound)
1 brave american hero (headshot wound)
1 little girl (suffocation in own blood)
1 pussy fleeing dude, hospitalized, survived, will talk funny for the rest of his life. Serves him right for not standing his ground
Well, Columbus fucked that one up over 500 years ago, so it's a little late for that.
An outdated hack? That sounds mean... SWT was great at the time when it was needed. It is the reason why Eclipse never felt like a bloated, slow memory hog, in comparison to other Java applications of similar scope, like Netbeans. With SWT you had native, memory efficient UI components, whereas AWT/Swing duplicated everything into inefficient Java heap memory with slow Java2D rendering. It is true that now, with all the performance improvements Java and Swing have received, you barely notice a difference, so SWT isn't as essential as it used to be, but I still think it has the nicer API. Today I would probably use JavaFX
Maybe the guts of it aren't. To a developer though, Dalvik is 95% Java.
You can have a native platform UI with Java if you use SWT instead of Swing or JavaFX. There is some benefit to be had from Java applications looking uniform across all operating systems, however.
The U.S. has a higher GDP per capita than most large European countries, even higher than the richest, most developed and most populous country in Europe, Germany. Despite this, there are much more homeless and poor people in the U.S. than in Europe, and far more incarcerated people. Why? The shear between poor and rich in the U.S. is extreme, most likely the largest among western countries. Imagine how much rich people in the U.S. make if they manage to pull up the GDP per capita rating above a country like Germany, despite 1/7th of the population relying on food stamps. Why are the rich so rich and the poor so poor? Well, slavery has been outlawed in the U.S. so corporations have been smart about it and exporting industry into third world countries were quasi slavery is legal. The difference between paying a decent wage in the U.S. and paying next to nothing is pocketed by the wealthy 2%; CEO's, managers, shareholders. In practice, this is a direct money transfer from the middle-class to the upper-class. That's globalization for you. A popular argument in favor of the system claims that goods have become cheaper as a result, and we can all afford a better lifestyle. Yes, many goods have indeed become cheaper, but this is a result of increased production and technological expertise, not because they are cheaper to produce. The profit margin on your latest iPad is still immense. Also, people without jobs and income can't afford much of anything, so those who can afford a better lifestyle become less and less.
Now, after being sabotaged out of the middle-class, in the U.S. you are screwed because there is no social safety net to speak of. In the U.S. there is no room for socialism. There is no money for it either, because most of the tax money flows into the channels of those who can afford the best lobbyists. In the U.S. everything revolves around money, and those with it have been shaping the political landscape in their favor, creating a positive feedback cycle in which more and more tax money flows into corporations in form of subsidies, foreign military aid (more subsidies), government contracts (even more subsidies), wars (yet another name for subsidies), prisons (there is an entire industry in the U.S. revolving around prisons and hence interested in keeping crime up and having even minor offences punishable by prison sentence), etc.
Needless to say, there is just not enough money to go around for schools and infrastructure, let alone welfare, when you have all these government subsidies to fulfill, which keeps America's industry competitive and healthy. Yes, that industry that just outsourced another development plant to India.
So, the middle class is cannibalized, the rich get richer, the poor stay poor, everybody looks on because that is the way politics and economics work in the country of endless capitalism, all the while the heart of America disintegrates and everyone wonders, just how did the Chinese become so rich and successful all of a sudden? Well, here it is for you: American CEO's saved Communism while showing us the fatal flaws of capitalism!
Sorry that you got modded Flamebait. If it makes you feel better, all other universes modded you +5 Funny.
Ah, you beat me to it. :)
Actually, if you are in a hurry, you can gift the city to an unfriendly neighbor, like Norway, and then attack it relentlessly until it is conquered, and then raze it to the ground. Move all the corpses to the sweet spot and cast a high-level necromancy spell.
1. Build settlers until the population is reduced to one.
2. Build one final settler.
3. Confirm that you want to disband the city.
4. Settle somewhere else.
Actually... if a thermomuclear weapon would be detonated above the volcano at the moment of eruption, wouldn't the pressure from the bomb equalize the pressure of the eruption, perhaps even pushing all the debris and ash back down on the ground? So everyone will still be deaf and slightly radioactive, but at least we don't have to contend with all that ash and ice age business.
It's not Asimov who was wrong. It's reality that has failed to catch up to Asimovs' predictions. We really should have a moon base, tight population control and algae foodstuffs by now.
Fortunately we don't have nearly as many companies the size of Coca Cola, so I think we're safe.
Yes, I always have coins in my pocket. In the EU, coins have different sizes and rim patterns, so they are easy to differentiate by touch alone. This is great for blind people, but for me as well. Whenever I need 1€, 2€, 50 cents, etc, I put my hand in my pocket, feel for it, and quickly have the currency at my disposal without having to take out and open my wallet. Its a fast and convenient way to pay for small things. If you live in a bad neighborhood, I suppose that this technique also lowers the chances of someone running away with your wallet. No see, no take.
What data? I just need to walk outside. It's end of December in Germany and we have 6C outside. Tomorrow 12C are forecast. I doubt I will see any snow at all this year. When I was a kid, we used to build snowmen and do battle with snowballs at this time.