Sure, we'll sell you an anti-virus, you wouldn't want anything "bad" to happen to your data would you? We'll keep you nice and virus clean. What, you think we put those bugs in there accidently?
How would you like it if I decided to root through your house and send your stuff to ethopians since they are poor.
What you are talking about is redistribution of wealth. Its fine that you want to use money to help those in need. Do it with your own money though, not mine.
I already give my money to causes I find worthy. You give yours to causes you feel is worthy. We are both happy. But when I start taking your money and giving it to causes I feel are worthy there is a problem.
Tell me, how many professional sports stars are there in the world. Now, how many professional programmers are there in the world?
Simple explaination is supply and demand.
Humans screw up, plain and simple. Even in sports where folks want to see the best of the best, folks mess up. Now, that does not mean that we shouldn't look at programmers to not screw up, but when they do it should be reasonablely understandable.
So the fact that you didn't hear about it in the streamlined media is proof it didn't happen.
I guess the fact I haven't heard that aliens did an anal probe to Lars T means it happened too.
Not only did I not hear about it from the mainstream media, I didn't hear about it from anyone else. I didn't scour the net for information, but I do read enough sources to get a general idea of what is going on. Had I read an even remotely credible source during the war, I'd have checked it out. Heck, even if just to say ha ha, you're wrong.
Code reuse is a great idea. In theory. Where everyone wants to live, cause everything works in Theory.
Quite often it is easy to pull in someone elses library to work with your code. Though note, libraries. Libraries are designed to have some reuse to them. But the library has to have a static API that isn't going to change, which isn't always a safe assumption.
Another aspect is refactoring. Here at my current job I have spent the last month refactoring one of our applications. I used a lot of concepts from the original code, yet the implementation was not what we needed now. Originally the code was used for batch processing. However, the new code which does the same thing is built for a thread safe and high speed processing. The data structures it used originally had a different use.
So, one of the reasons to write your own code is for your own specific purpose. I like to look at other code before I write something, but rarely does someone else's implementation fit the mold for what I need.
As the other fellow said, who replied Al-J and these "other" news sites were not blocked on a national level. I think someone other than yourself would have mentioned something, or there is a much larger conspiracy out there to hide the fact.
I did some looking on the Pennsynlvania stuff. Yeah, I guess there is some law that says you can't goto child porn sites. You are right there.
I agree that the idea of censoring them is wrong. But wait, there's more! I disagree with censoring them because of the implementation. There does not seem to be a review process to see what sites are on the list. That is the wrong part.
Now, as far as child porn versus nazi sites. Child porn is wrong since the children have not reached the age of consent. I'd consider child porn on the level of child abuse. What they (child porn sites) are doing is illegal in the first place. The nazi sites that are blocked the folks portrayed on those sites are doing so with their own consent. While they may have made a bad decsion (and be complete idiots) they have a right to.
Just because you dsagree with them does not mean that you should desire for their site being censored.
How would you like it if the US decided that slashdot was just a bunch of liberal idiots and incited folks to be anti America so they decided to censor it.
Its easy when you are in the majority to say that other people are unreasonable. Heck, 150 years ago in the US these white supremacists would have been able to say you were bing unreasonable and tried to censor you.
A couple hundred years before that Galileo (sp?) was censored by the Church of the time because they were in the majority.
Consider next time you want to mod someone down because you disagree with what they say. Will history laugh at you for being so foolish?
Censorship of ideas is a bad thing (TM). Censoring disidents seems to histoically lead to the oppression of them. Look at China for instance (Maybe Godwin's Law needs to be updated to add China).
Any of those might be fine, as might Germany, France or England.
Myself, I have other issues with many of those other countries. I am not a big fan of being taxed any more than I already am. I don't know the tax rates in any of those countries, but I'd bet they are more than the US. I don't like the idea of nationalized health care, as Canada has, and Denmark and Sweeden probably have (I could look it up, but not worth it).
My point original point was that the US isn't this draconiam state where the government decides what you eat, where you work, what entertainment you are allowed. Folks seem to forget that.
Its easy to rail against the US when you are sitting infront of your GHz class machine, in air conditioning, eating 2000 calories a day. A US citizen has it pretty easy over all. I just mainly think that a lot of the folks here (especially teens and mid twenties folks) don't really appreciate the history of the US and the foundations of the country. Sure, we cannot rest on our laurels of history, but we can draw knowledge and drive towards a future.
They have it all wrong. It must be the US that is doing this. We know the US is the source of all censorship.
</sarcasm>
I love how everytime folks dislike a law (many of them bad) declare that they are going to move to Canada or Europe where freedoms really mean something.
Well, lets see. Strike out Germany, they censor the web. Strike out France, they also prevent auctions on WWII artifacts. England with their video cameras and national ID cards are out.
To tell the truth, I found I was able to get the the stormfront site that one of the links mentioned. Why? I live in the US. While we do have freedom issues here, I don't think they are quite the same as many other countries.
Here, you are allowed to go against popular ideas. You can be a racist if you like. You can hate whites, blacks, anyone you want. You can hate the government or current administration.
In the US you are able to create your own website and report any news you like. Infact, you can go to any website you wish, and you will actually get there (barring internet routing problems). The government isn't going to force ISPs to route around you.
While many of the reactionary laws from 9/11 are causing problems, we have Ashcroft fighting to keep those laws on the books. You know why? Because, they are not permanent, there was a sunset clause put into the law. You know what else? Ashcroft isn't having an easy go at it.
So, next time that you want to throw a temper tantrum that the US is removing your freedoms, keep in mind we could do much worse. We could be making it so you could not go to German sites or French sites or muslim sites or Christian sites.
This isn't to say we should have these PATRIOT acts and such, but here we have the power and ability to fight laws like that. I think our energy is best used in that fashion, not whining how some other country that has a good law here or there but also has some other horrible laws.
Hmmm, I run a ATI Radeon 9000 Pro card in a box with an AMD Athlon 1700+ and it stays around 50-55c. Over all the box is pretty quiet.
While folks have claimed terrible problems with ATI drives I can't say I have too much to complain about. In windows I do fine with WCIII and a number of other 3d games. In linux enemy territory test had a lot of graphics problems, but other games didn't seem to fare so bad. The ET stuff though I think is more the game than the card/drivers though. The game in both win and linux are less stable than san andreas fault.
You see, those folks in India that will be about of a job now have something they didn't have before the companies even came there, skills and infrastructure (sp?).
With those skills they are now able to produce some software on their own. Also, the infrastructure that was put in place to allow these folks to have jobs will remain to a degree.
Now, if we look at where they would be without the injection from these companies, it would be the same place, yet without the skills and infrastructure.
Sure, it wasn't a permanent boost to the economy, yet it was an injection of money into it. That will allow clever folks there to take the bonus they recieved and work it into their own infrastructure and skills, perhaps to make their own econmy stronger.
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Actually, predicting large groups is relatively easy.
Here in the US, for instance, the majority of folks from 20-65 that went to work today, will go to work tommorrow.
Its simple percentages. Now, predicting that one individual will commit a certain crime tommorrow is much more difficult.
What the article is aboutis predicting that high crime neighborhoods will have more crime. It seems pretty intuitive. And I guess that more than looking at the folks there in these neighborhoods, it'd do better to look at previous crime rates.
The article also mentions, which I think is the biggest point, that these predictions are going to help the politicians the most by allowing them to make decisions based on the predictions.
Whoa man... Some fall out the wrong side of the cage today?
She was part of an era of artists who were rarely sober. Some things haven't changed since then. I do not condone such behavior, but the music is a lot of fun.
Then, if you look at the original post that I was replying to:
Why dont you send a prayer and god will give you advice - or even a color laser printer!
The song fits in quite well. Whether you like Janis or not, its an appropriate post.
Perhaps you need to read something a little more relaxing. I'm sure I could find you a 404 somehwhere that is just screaming your name.
Slashdot Mirror
Or a protection racket?
Sure, we'll sell you an anti-virus, you wouldn't want anything "bad" to happen to your data would you? We'll keep you nice and virus clean. What, you think we put those bugs in there accidently?
I'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner.
creepy, isn't it? :-)
Okey, we can do that.
Intel Shipped 1,000 Millionth Computer Chip
Well, my question is similar, but does it count the chip recalls for those?
No, I wasn't alive then.
Four planes with people on it.
One those planes, people used cell phones to send their last regards to friends and family.
Each of those four planes crashed.
Coincidence? I think not.
Where it goes does not matter.
How would you like it if I decided to root through your house and send your stuff to ethopians since they are poor.
What you are talking about is redistribution of wealth. Its fine that you want to use money to help those in need. Do it with your own money though, not mine.
I already give my money to causes I find worthy. You give yours to causes you feel is worthy. We are both happy. But when I start taking your money and giving it to causes I feel are worthy there is a problem.
Tell me, how many professional sports stars are there in the world. Now, how many professional programmers are there in the world?
Simple explaination is supply and demand.
Humans screw up, plain and simple. Even in sports where folks want to see the best of the best, folks mess up. Now, that does not mean that we shouldn't look at programmers to not screw up, but when they do it should be reasonablely understandable.
So the fact that you didn't hear about it in the streamlined media is proof it didn't happen.
I guess the fact I haven't heard that aliens did an anal probe to Lars T means it happened too.
Not only did I not hear about it from the mainstream media, I didn't hear about it from anyone else. I didn't scour the net for information, but I do read enough sources to get a general idea of what is going on. Had I read an even remotely credible source during the war, I'd have checked it out. Heck, even if just to say ha ha, you're wrong.
Code reuse is a great idea. In theory. Where everyone wants to live, cause everything works in Theory.
Quite often it is easy to pull in someone elses library to work with your code. Though note, libraries. Libraries are designed to have some reuse to them. But the library has to have a static API that isn't going to change, which isn't always a safe assumption.
Another aspect is refactoring. Here at my current job I have spent the last month refactoring one of our applications. I used a lot of concepts from the original code, yet the implementation was not what we needed now. Originally the code was used for batch processing. However, the new code which does the same thing is built for a thread safe and high speed processing. The data structures it used originally had a different use.
So, one of the reasons to write your own code is for your own specific purpose. I like to look at other code before I write something, but rarely does someone else's implementation fit the mold for what I need.
As the other fellow said, who replied Al-J and these "other" news sites were not blocked on a national level. I think someone other than yourself would have mentioned something, or there is a much larger conspiracy out there to hide the fact.
I did some looking on the Pennsynlvania stuff. Yeah, I guess there is some law that says you can't goto child porn sites. You are right there.
I agree that the idea of censoring them is wrong. But wait, there's more! I disagree with censoring them because of the implementation. There does not seem to be a review process to see what sites are on the list. That is the wrong part.
Now, as far as child porn versus nazi sites. Child porn is wrong since the children have not reached the age of consent. I'd consider child porn on the level of child abuse. What they (child porn sites) are doing is illegal in the first place. The nazi sites that are blocked the folks portrayed on those sites are doing so with their own consent. While they may have made a bad decsion (and be complete idiots) they have a right to.
The grandparent's handle is egomaniac, what kind of response did you expect. :-) egomaniac probably knows everything.
Now, if his handler were "iliveinacave" the story poster might have had something to be ashamed of.
:-)
Yeah, most can survive on 2000 though.
I'm not saying most don't eat 4000, but 2000 should keep you comfortable with a relatively light amount of activity.
What sites? Its easy to make claims, tougher to back them up.
Just because you dsagree with them does not mean that you should desire for their site being censored.
How would you like it if the US decided that slashdot was just a bunch of liberal idiots and incited folks to be anti America so they decided to censor it.
Its easy when you are in the majority to say that other people are unreasonable. Heck, 150 years ago in the US these white supremacists would have been able to say you were bing unreasonable and tried to censor you.
A couple hundred years before that Galileo (sp?) was censored by the Church of the time because they were in the majority.
Consider next time you want to mod someone down because you disagree with what they say. Will history laugh at you for being so foolish?
Censorship of ideas is a bad thing (TM). Censoring disidents seems to histoically lead to the oppression of them. Look at China for instance (Maybe Godwin's Law needs to be updated to add China).
Any of those might be fine, as might Germany, France or England.
Myself, I have other issues with many of those other countries. I am not a big fan of being taxed any more than I already am. I don't know the tax rates in any of those countries, but I'd bet they are more than the US. I don't like the idea of nationalized health care, as Canada has, and Denmark and Sweeden probably have (I could look it up, but not worth it).
My point original point was that the US isn't this draconiam state where the government decides what you eat, where you work, what entertainment you are allowed. Folks seem to forget that.
Its easy to rail against the US when you are sitting infront of your GHz class machine, in air conditioning, eating 2000 calories a day. A US citizen has it pretty easy over all. I just mainly think that a lot of the folks here (especially teens and mid twenties folks) don't really appreciate the history of the US and the foundations of the country. Sure, we cannot rest on our laurels of history, but we can draw knowledge and drive towards a future.
They have it all wrong. It must be the US that is doing this. We know the US is the source of all censorship.
</sarcasm>
I love how everytime folks dislike a law (many of them bad) declare that they are going to move to Canada or Europe where freedoms really mean something.
Well, lets see. Strike out Germany, they censor the web. Strike out France, they also prevent auctions on WWII artifacts. England with their video cameras and national ID cards are out.
To tell the truth, I found I was able to get the the stormfront site that one of the links mentioned. Why? I live in the US. While we do have freedom issues here, I don't think they are quite the same as many other countries.
Here, you are allowed to go against popular ideas. You can be a racist if you like. You can hate whites, blacks, anyone you want. You can hate the government or current administration.
In the US you are able to create your own website and report any news you like. Infact, you can go to any website you wish, and you will actually get there (barring internet routing problems). The government isn't going to force ISPs to route around you.
While many of the reactionary laws from 9/11 are causing problems, we have Ashcroft fighting to keep those laws on the books. You know why? Because, they are not permanent, there was a sunset clause put into the law. You know what else? Ashcroft isn't having an easy go at it.
So, next time that you want to throw a temper tantrum that the US is removing your freedoms, keep in mind we could do much worse. We could be making it so you could not go to German sites or French sites or muslim sites or Christian sites.
This isn't to say we should have these PATRIOT acts and such, but here we have the power and ability to fight laws like that. I think our energy is best used in that fashion, not whining how some other country that has a good law here or there but also has some other horrible laws.
Hmmm, I run a ATI Radeon 9000 Pro card in a box with an AMD Athlon 1700+ and it stays around 50-55c. Over all the box is pretty quiet.
While folks have claimed terrible problems with ATI drives I can't say I have too much to complain about. In windows I do fine with WCIII and a number of other 3d games. In linux enemy territory test had a lot of graphics problems, but other games didn't seem to fare so bad. The ET stuff though I think is more the game than the card/drivers though. The game in both win and linux are less stable than san andreas fault.
I believe what you were thinking is:
Cheaters never prosper, but they win a lot more often.
Hmmm, a couple things here.
You see, those folks in India that will be about of a job now have something they didn't have before the companies even came there, skills and infrastructure (sp?).
With those skills they are now able to produce some software on their own. Also, the infrastructure that was put in place to allow these folks to have jobs will remain to a degree.
Now, if we look at where they would be without the injection from these companies, it would be the same place, yet without the skills and infrastructure.
Sure, it wasn't a permanent boost to the economy, yet it was an injection of money into it. That will allow clever folks there to take the bonus they recieved and work it into their own infrastructure and skills, perhaps to make their own econmy stronger.
Just a note. Well, another note is in order. Thank him.
Oops, you have a typo: patch.
Actually, predicting large groups is relatively easy.
Here in the US, for instance, the majority of folks from 20-65 that went to work today, will go to work tommorrow.
Its simple percentages. Now, predicting that one individual will commit a certain crime tommorrow is much more difficult.
What the article is aboutis predicting that high crime neighborhoods will have more crime. It seems pretty intuitive. And I guess that more than looking at the folks there in these neighborhoods, it'd do better to look at previous crime rates.
The article also mentions, which I think is the biggest point, that these predictions are going to help the politicians the most by allowing them to make decisions based on the predictions.
Whoa man... Some fall out the wrong side of the cage today?
She was part of an era of artists who were rarely sober. Some things haven't changed since then. I do not condone such behavior, but the music is a lot of fun.
Then, if you look at the original post that I was replying to:
Why dont you send a prayer and god will give you advice - or even a color laser printer!
The song fits in quite well. Whether you like Janis or not, its an appropriate post.
Perhaps you need to read something a little more relaxing. I'm sure I could find you a 404 somehwhere that is just screaming your name.
Ah yes, and here we arrive at the wonderful verse of Mathew 7:6.
Good night.