Not really true; if she was 11 when he was born he would NOT be a US citizen:
If one parent is a U.S. citizen and the other parent is not, the child is a citizen if
* the U.S. citizen parent has been "physically present"[7] in the U.S. before the child's birth for a total period of at least five years, and
* at least two of those five years were after the U.S. citizen parent's fourteenth birthday
Being punished before being convicted is a fucking crime against humanity
"The soviet famines" were a crime against humanity; this is a crime against an individual.
But this is a non sequitur; I was using "is being punished" in the future tense, and it is almost certain that he will be convicted and punished for it, as he should be for an act that would have been called in days gone by "espionage"-- giving intelligence to our enemies (a subset of "the entire internet connected world").
These store their files in a restricted subdirectory in the user's homedir, and run in an extremely limited security context.
Thats the only good thing about them, and theyre so limited that it does me no good. Wonderful that skype cannot root my machine, but its worthless because it can only run full screen.
I guess you think "all niggers are lazy thieves"? No, of course not, that's racist? Then why the fuck would you think in much the same way about homeless people?
What are the greatest causes of homelessness?... For singles, the three most commonly cited causes of homelessness are:
* Substance abuse
* Lack of affordable housing
* Mental illness
At some point you cant blame the parents. When the "kid" is 23, hes well past the age that folks historically have been responsible for their own well-being.
There's being a loving father, and there's being an enabler. Sometimes the most loving thing is to let someone fail so that they can actually learn from it, while you're still there to help them pick up the pieces. Or do you think the situation improves in 10 years, when his father has died and he still hasnt gotten his act together?
Baloney, searching for information is tons easier today. I recall in my college days using Vivisimo to cluster search results to try to get more useful results; i havent done that in about 6 years because Google has gotten so much better at searching that its simply not necessary.
Say goodbye to google, youtube, Twitter, Slashdot, Facebook, Digg, Reddit, Gmail, Yahoo mail, drudge report, yahoo, bing, and probably a lot of others.
Im going to guess that sites in that list make up more than 50% of your web-usage by site-hit per day, and including youtube probably 80% of your web traffic.
But sure, they all have "bad business models", despite being some of the biggest sites on the internet.
An extra 3000 civilian deaths, which is absolutely insignificant in the context of the numbers we're talking about here. It would also be an extreme stretch to try to lump 9/11 under the responsibility of "the church".
On the flip side, Im not sure that fitting all army personnel with Windows 8 / metro is really the best way to engender feelings of peace and goodwill.
When youre dealing with a $600 million contract, I have a feeling the customer gets pretty much whatever they want. If they say "Hook us up with Windows 2000", I think MS will comply.
Maybe it will be good: A contract this large, they could easily insist that special GPOs be created that allow locking a desktop into desktop-only mode; and possibly (fingers crossed) such a gpo could trickle down to the rest of us.
Upper bound for the holocaust alone is 17 million. Upper bound for the USSR Famines is 8 million. Upper bound for WW2 is 72 million.
Plus, comparing an armed conflict to an ethnic purge? Not really a fair comparison, unless you pare the numbers for the crusades to only include the "other side's" losses, at which point its 0.1% compared to 0.8%, almost an order of magnitude of difference; and that 0.8% occurred in the span of 4 years, as opposed to the crusade's 200.
You dont need to do the math, Wikipedia already did it.
Crusades: 200 years, 0.3 – 2.3% of world population World War 2: 5 years, 1.7 – 3.1% Holocaust: 4 years, 0.17 - 0.76% USSR Famines: 7 years, 0.2 - 0.4%
When you look at the length of times, its not even close, nor is it even close when you consider that those percentages for the crusades are from "both" sides, while the figures for the holocaust and the famines were one-sided. Its the difference between a battle and a massacre.
Thanks for an unexpectedly civil response, a rarity on slashdot and the internet in general in a day when it is hip to be acerbic.
I would also have you consider whether it is fair to blame "the church" for things that self-proclaimed "christians" do. There is a lot of ambiguity over the terms "the church" and "christian", and it goes without saying that as admittedly sinful people, christians too can commit wrongs. "The church" gets a lot of flack as this long-standing monolith of vice, when it has undergone a lot of splits, dissolutions, and reformations over the years; I myself am a "baptist" and would not subscribe to what is generally meant by "the church" (Roman catholocism). I have also committed my share of wrongs, but dont think it would be fair to ascribe them to "baptists" when most baptists would acknowledge them as wrongs.
Their success is mostly because they produce some of the best and most efficient chips in any market.
You can argue that they got their by virtue of their HUGE R&D which were funded by the shady behavior you mention, but at this point choosing someone other than intel would be a principled, rather than technical, decision (unless you need high core count or extremely low power usage).
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Not really true; if she was 11 when he was born he would NOT be a US citizen:
If one parent is a U.S. citizen and the other parent is not, the child is a citizen if
* the U.S. citizen parent has been "physically present"[7] in the U.S. before the child's birth for a total period of at least five years, and
* at least two of those five years were after the U.S. citizen parent's fourteenth birthday
He can claim either, both, or neither of those nationalities, as he chooses. Got that? AS HE CHOOSES.
This isnt terribly relevant, but I dont believe thats quite how citizenship works in all situations, and the mother's age does matter.
Read up here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_citizenship_in_the_United_States#Statute.2C_by_parentage
Its a stupid argument, but best to have facts straight.
Being punished before being convicted is a fucking crime against humanity
"The soviet famines" were a crime against humanity; this is a crime against an individual.
But this is a non sequitur; I was using "is being punished" in the future tense, and it is almost certain that he will be convicted and punished for it, as he should be for an act that would have been called in days gone by "espionage"-- giving intelligence to our enemies (a subset of "the entire internet connected world").
Spoiler: They dont suck as much as having a leg amputated, but they suck considerably more than a traditional desktop browser.
These store their files in a restricted subdirectory in the user's homedir, and run in an extremely limited security context.
Thats the only good thing about them, and theyre so limited that it does me no good. Wonderful that skype cannot root my machine, but its worthless because it can only run full screen.
With the exception of the google sites, all of those use third party advertisement.
I guess you think "all niggers are lazy thieves"? No, of course not, that's racist? Then why the fuck would you think in much the same way about homeless people?
From :
What are the greatest causes of homelessness? ...
For singles, the three most commonly cited causes of homelessness are:
* Substance abuse
* Lack of affordable housing
* Mental illness
Guess PBS is racist now?
Most haven't even been taught how to plan or work, then suddenly they are on the streets becasue they are lazy.
I think "taught to work" happens when you get told "get a job or you do not eat".
At some point you cant blame the parents. When the "kid" is 23, hes well past the age that folks historically have been responsible for their own well-being.
There's being a loving father, and there's being an enabler. Sometimes the most loving thing is to let someone fail so that they can actually learn from it, while you're still there to help them pick up the pieces. Or do you think the situation improves in 10 years, when his father has died and he still hasnt gotten his act together?
Im sure it was on his orders that Manning was held in solitary as well.
Your reasoning isnt much better than his TBQH.
One committed treason and violated the code of ethics he agreed to. The other did not.
This is why one is being punished and the other is not. I am not aware of a precedent for the US government punishing someone for reporting treason.
Baloney, searching for information is tons easier today. I recall in my college days using Vivisimo to cluster search results to try to get more useful results; i havent done that in about 6 years because Google has gotten so much better at searching that its simply not necessary.
Say goodbye to google, youtube, Twitter, Slashdot, Facebook, Digg, Reddit, Gmail, Yahoo mail, drudge report, yahoo, bing, and probably a lot of others.
Im going to guess that sites in that list make up more than 50% of your web-usage by site-hit per day, and including youtube probably 80% of your web traffic.
But sure, they all have "bad business models", despite being some of the biggest sites on the internet.
An extra 3000 civilian deaths, which is absolutely insignificant in the context of the numbers we're talking about here. It would also be an extreme stretch to try to lump 9/11 under the responsibility of "the church".
I've heard in tales of legend that sharepoint is actually decent if you have an army of dedicated admins to keep it in some semblance of order.
Ive never seen such a thing, of course.
On the flip side, Im not sure that fitting all army personnel with Windows 8 / metro is really the best way to engender feelings of peace and goodwill.
When youre dealing with a $600 million contract, I have a feeling the customer gets pretty much whatever they want. If they say "Hook us up with Windows 2000", I think MS will comply.
There is no problem that Sharepoint cant solve.
The only concern is all the other problems it creates.
Maybe it will be good: A contract this large, they could easily insist that special GPOs be created that allow locking a desktop into desktop-only mode; and possibly (fingers crossed) such a gpo could trickle down to the rest of us.
See below, TL;DR the holocaust is generally a bigger "shock" both proportionally and when considering the short span in which it occurred.
Upper bound for the holocaust alone is 17 million. Upper bound for the USSR Famines is 8 million. Upper bound for WW2 is 72 million.
Plus, comparing an armed conflict to an ethnic purge? Not really a fair comparison, unless you pare the numbers for the crusades to only include the "other side's" losses, at which point its 0.1% compared to 0.8%, almost an order of magnitude of difference; and that 0.8% occurred in the span of 4 years, as opposed to the crusade's 200.
You dont need to do the math, Wikipedia already did it.
Crusades: 200 years, 0.3 – 2.3% of world population
World War 2: 5 years, 1.7 – 3.1%
Holocaust: 4 years, 0.17 - 0.76%
USSR Famines: 7 years, 0.2 - 0.4%
Per year, upper bound:
Crusades, 0.0115%
WW2, 0.6%
Holocaust, 0.17%
USSR Famines, 0.06%
When you look at the length of times, its not even close, nor is it even close when you consider that those percentages for the crusades are from "both" sides, while the figures for the holocaust and the famines were one-sided. Its the difference between a battle and a massacre.
Thanks for an unexpectedly civil response, a rarity on slashdot and the internet in general in a day when it is hip to be acerbic.
I would also have you consider whether it is fair to blame "the church" for things that self-proclaimed "christians" do. There is a lot of ambiguity over the terms "the church" and "christian", and it goes without saying that as admittedly sinful people, christians too can commit wrongs. "The church" gets a lot of flack as this long-standing monolith of vice, when it has undergone a lot of splits, dissolutions, and reformations over the years; I myself am a "baptist" and would not subscribe to what is generally meant by "the church" (Roman catholocism). I have also committed my share of wrongs, but dont think it would be fair to ascribe them to "baptists" when most baptists would acknowledge them as wrongs.
Just food for thought.
Their success is mostly because they produce some of the best and most efficient chips in any market.
You can argue that they got their by virtue of their HUGE R&D which were funded by the shady behavior you mention, but at this point choosing someone other than intel would be a principled, rather than technical, decision (unless you need high core count or extremely low power usage).
Im not aware of other players in the sub 10w region who can provide performance competitive with ANY of Intel's core line.
Before responding, possibly go take a look at performance-per-watt comparisons between a modern intel and anything ARM, theyre in different leagues.