Are we really supposed to pretend that the Russians pose a credible threat to the West? Or are they just relying on boomers failing ability to understand current events to trigger that emotional band-wagoning against the villain of yore?
Russia has been TRYING to be a credible threat to the West for quite some time, and Putin has been very open about this.
No, not North Korea or World War III style threats, but Putin sees Russian power as a check on the influence of the US in areas where he thinks it doesn't belong. He is representative of an old guard in Russia who see the collapse of the Soviet Union as the greatest calamity of the 20th Century (Putin said explicitly that). They greatly resent the influence of the West and NATO, and consider the countries nearby as being theirs, or specifically, in their sphere of influence. So they'll see Turkey's alliance with NATO as an explicit threat, one to break, and any alliances of other former USSR territories with the West is another betrayal.
Usual attack-the-messenger, just as bad as the attacks on Wikileaks.
Do you have any reason to doubt the evidence so far that the Russians are behind the recent attacks? Do you have anything other than a caricature of a politician to support the assertion that this is BS from Hillary? Do you trust the Russians so much that you think there's no way it's them, this has to be a false flag perpetuated by the DNC, the Press, national security experts, and unaffiliated security experts?
Where the fuck are the Visigoths to come climbing over OUR walls? Seriously, it's about time. If Rome was like this near the end, they probably welcomed it.
Be careful of what you wish for. While Rome had its circuses, it was infinitely better than just about anything else that came after for the next 500 years.
Fair Use is what's called an "affirmative defense". That means the only way to get out of a copyright claim by Fair Use is to *go* *to* *trial* and convince a judge or a jury to agree that you didn't copy to much of the origina
Of course. But then again, you can sue whether or not you have a case.
If Corporation X crunches the numbers and realizes that their case would be tossed out on fair use grounds, then they're a lot less likely to spend the money on a lawsuit in the first place.
I always liked assignment and comparison in the same statement. Though I understand why it'd be an anathema to some.:-D public String getLastFour(Employee employee)
if (employee != null)
if ((Address address = employee.getPrimaryAddress()) != null)
if ((ZipCode zip = address.getZipCode()) != null)
if ((String lastFour = zip.getLastFour()) != null)
return lastFour;
throw new FMLException("Missing data");
Better yet, an if statement checks if something is true, so "if ((String lastFour = zip.getLastFour()) != null)" and "if (String lastFour = zip.getLastFour())" are equivalent. It's one of those C things that makes for delightfully compact code, but has a few pitfalls, Since if you used == instead of =, the problem with the statement might not be immediately obvious. And confusing starting/closing parentheses has been a problem in that situation, though an IDE (or even vi) helps greatly.
Of course, the biggest problem is that this example breaks Slashdot's automatic content filtering. "Try less whitespace and/or less repetition?" My original comment was fine, thank you. I had to remove all the curly brackets -- it just wouldn't let me post this until after I removed the curly brackets, no matter how much junk text I put at the end. Thanks, Slashdot.
As a linux nerd I spent two decades laughing at M$'s incompetence. But I have to give credit where credit is due. I hate the fact that C# is my current favorite high-level general purpose language.
Do you still have to use that horrible Mono implementation on Linux? If we could bypass that, I might give it a look..
Those losses will be fraudulent access to your bank accounts, fraudulent loans in your name, and an all manner of crime conducted with false credentials. Anyone want to bet those costs will be shunted onto the public?
Any costs that a company incurs is naturally going to be passed on to consumers (or insurers, who will pass those costs back to the company through increased premiums). I'm not sure why we would think, or want, it to be any other way.
Fuck you. We're not your children . Stop treating us as if we were.
And of course his counter-argument, not that I buy into it, is that the encrypt-everything group is acting like children, pouting and shouting "won't" like Abdullah with Tintin. It IS a sea-change -- the ability of law enforcement to conduct these sorts of investigations, which they've done since the founding of the country, is being closed device by device. Did you think they wouldn't fight back? In their mind, the right to absolute privacy, which hasn't existed before, does not override their right to conduct well-regulated(*) surveillance. In our mind, it does.
(*) Yeah, I know, 'well-regulated' is laughable, which is why we're in this mess at all.
The blue wall of silence similarly degrades my trust in police and law enforcement.
I fear our police, FBI, NSA, CIA, TSA, ATF, ICE, etc more than criminals these days, and by a decent margin.
The worst things to have happened to the police in the last decades have been the disappearance of community policing and the decay of the inner city. No longer do the police walk around on the beat as a trusted and respected member of the community that everyone knows and has talked to. Instead, the police have developed a "perpetually under siege" mentality, with an us-vs-them attitude towards the community they patrol, ready to lash out at a moment's notice. They have more in common with partisan suppressors or soldiers fighting terrorists in Iraq during the worst of the occupation rather than the police of decades past.
Hey I liked the original (derogatory) usage of Social Justice Warrior. It got the point across, was a pretty accurate depiction of those we used to call "white-knight shit-stirrers."
But now it's basically the new "Nazi." It's just something you call someone else when you don't like their opinions (usually anything left of Objectivism) whether their opinions are anything like what the original SJWs did.
TNG is a good, semi intellectual show, with a moderate amount of diversity, but doesn't push things too far, from a time when society wasn't so polarized.
Except perhaps in the first season, when Troi wore her cheerleader outfit.
Actually nearly the entire first season can be skipped, and much of the second.
Seems to me that the same methods of luring animals will be effective in both situation. As long as it lures, that's what both hunters and researchers want.
If god really didn't want them to eat the fruit, he wouldn't have put that tree there, or at least would have made it somehow inaccessible. Punishing them for something that is essentially his fault is bad parenting.
Or, it reflects a very strict, authoritarian, Old Testament way of thinking: "You do not do this thing that I tell you not to do, because I told you not to do it. You don't need any reason other than "I told you not to do that," and if you disobey, the punishment will be harsh. I am your Lord, and you will do as I command. Putting this temptation here is a test for you. Yielding to temptation is YOUR own personal failure and no other, and your punishment will be deserved."
Do you have a problem with the content of the sig?
"SJW" is a completely useless term (it didn't used to be...). It means absolutely nothing now, as it's been so overused that it means anything at all, anything the speaker doesn't like. Now it's really only an indication that the speaker is a bit of a dullard, or has been entirely disconnected from the Internet since the start of GamerGate.
Again, the two are not equivalent. The RNC email accounts were intended for political not official use (and they even had a law to point to which mandated this separation!).
That was the intention, but not the result. During the attorney-firing controversy, White House officials conducted official business on private servers set up by the RNC. The RNC then admitted that those emails were lost. Now it's not quite apples to apples in similarity, as Bush himself was not known to be one of those people, nor were these top-secret documents.
We hate her because she belongs in prison, not running for President.
Funny! Still waiting for those amazing revelations that will finally tell us about these horrible crimes she's supposedly been doing. Still waiting.. still waiting. Thank God the election is over in two months, but I'm not looking forward to the following four years of the same bullshit.
You've got to admit that the internet makes election years way less stuffy than they used to be.
In other words, it just becomes shit-flinging without the substantive debate? Well it sucks that we're interested more in "entertainment" from our election cycles than actually seriously trying to find the best person to run the country.
Is this left-wing-global-warming SJW trope a big thing in the real world or is it a few posters making a lot of noise? And why is global warming left wing?
It's probably seen as being left wing due to its association with the environment movement, which has long been left wing. And also, the fossil fuel industry is allied with right-wing politicians in the US. And finally, it is generally a conservative trend to not want to change the way things are. If climate change is real, it naturally follows that some major economic changes will need to occur, a fundamentally un-conservative stance.
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Are we really supposed to pretend that the Russians pose a credible threat to the West? Or are they just relying on boomers failing ability to understand current events to trigger that emotional band-wagoning against the villain of yore?
Russia has been TRYING to be a credible threat to the West for quite some time, and Putin has been very open about this.
No, not North Korea or World War III style threats, but Putin sees Russian power as a check on the influence of the US in areas where he thinks it doesn't belong. He is representative of an old guard in Russia who see the collapse of the Soviet Union as the greatest calamity of the 20th Century (Putin said explicitly that). They greatly resent the influence of the West and NATO, and consider the countries nearby as being theirs, or specifically, in their sphere of influence. So they'll see Turkey's alliance with NATO as an explicit threat, one to break, and any alliances of other former USSR territories with the West is another betrayal.
Quick, blame the Russians for fucking EVERYTHING
Usual attack-the-messenger, just as bad as the attacks on Wikileaks.
Do you have any reason to doubt the evidence so far that the Russians are behind the recent attacks?
Do you have anything other than a caricature of a politician to support the assertion that this is BS from Hillary?
Do you trust the Russians so much that you think there's no way it's them, this has to be a false flag perpetuated by the DNC, the Press, national security experts, and unaffiliated security experts?
Where the fuck are the Visigoths to come climbing over OUR walls? Seriously, it's about time. If Rome was like this near the end, they probably welcomed it.
Be careful of what you wish for. While Rome had its circuses, it was infinitely better than just about anything else that came after for the next 500 years.
Fair Use is what's called an "affirmative defense". That means the only way to get out of a copyright claim by Fair Use is to *go* *to* *trial* and convince a judge or a jury to agree that you didn't copy to much of the origina
Of course. But then again, you can sue whether or not you have a case.
If Corporation X crunches the numbers and realizes that their case would be tossed out on fair use grounds, then they're a lot less likely to spend the money on a lawsuit in the first place.
I always liked assignment and comparison in the same statement. Though I understand why it'd be an anathema to some. :-D
public String getLastFour(Employee employee)
if (employee != null)
if ((Address address = employee.getPrimaryAddress()) != null)
if ((ZipCode zip = address.getZipCode()) != null)
if ((String lastFour = zip.getLastFour()) != null)
return lastFour;
throw new FMLException("Missing data");
Better yet, an if statement checks if something is true, so "if ((String lastFour = zip.getLastFour()) != null)" and "if (String lastFour = zip.getLastFour())" are equivalent. It's one of those C things that makes for delightfully compact code, but has a few pitfalls, Since if you used == instead of =, the problem with the statement might not be immediately obvious. And confusing starting/closing parentheses has been a problem in that situation, though an IDE (or even vi) helps greatly.
Of course, the biggest problem is that this example breaks Slashdot's automatic content filtering. "Try less whitespace and/or less repetition?" My original comment was fine, thank you. I had to remove all the curly brackets -- it just wouldn't let me post this until after I removed the curly brackets, no matter how much junk text I put at the end. Thanks, Slashdot.
As a linux nerd I spent two decades laughing at M$'s incompetence. But I have to give credit where credit is due. I hate the fact that C# is my current favorite high-level general purpose language.
Do you still have to use that horrible Mono implementation on Linux? If we could bypass that, I might give it a look..
It does explain the popularity of Lil' Kim, whose only visible body parts are feet, breasts, and eyes.
Those losses will be fraudulent access to your bank accounts, fraudulent loans in your name, and an all manner of crime conducted with false credentials. Anyone want to bet those costs will be shunted onto the public?
Any costs that a company incurs is naturally going to be passed on to consumers (or insurers, who will pass those costs back to the company through increased premiums). I'm not sure why we would think, or want, it to be any other way.
Fuck your condescending self-righteous tone with a cactus, IMO.
I guess you kindof proved his point..
Here's my take on that.
Fuck you. We're not your children . Stop treating us as if we were.
And of course his counter-argument, not that I buy into it, is that the encrypt-everything group is acting like children, pouting and shouting "won't" like Abdullah with Tintin. It IS a sea-change -- the ability of law enforcement to conduct these sorts of investigations, which they've done since the founding of the country, is being closed device by device. Did you think they wouldn't fight back? In their mind, the right to absolute privacy, which hasn't existed before, does not override their right to conduct well-regulated(*) surveillance. In our mind, it does.
(*) Yeah, I know, 'well-regulated' is laughable, which is why we're in this mess at all.
The blue wall of silence similarly degrades my trust in police and law enforcement.
I fear our police, FBI, NSA, CIA, TSA, ATF, ICE, etc more than criminals these days, and by a decent margin.
The worst things to have happened to the police in the last decades have been the disappearance of community policing and the decay of the inner city. No longer do the police walk around on the beat as a trusted and respected member of the community that everyone knows and has talked to. Instead, the police have developed a "perpetually under siege" mentality, with an us-vs-them attitude towards the community they patrol, ready to lash out at a moment's notice. They have more in common with partisan suppressors or soldiers fighting terrorists in Iraq during the worst of the occupation rather than the police of decades past.
Easy to say as an anonymous coward. Put you name beside the comment
Isn't that kindof the point of encryption? It lets you say what the powers that be don't want you to say.
Hey I liked the original (derogatory) usage of Social Justice Warrior. It got the point across, was a pretty accurate depiction of those we used to call "white-knight shit-stirrers."
But now it's basically the new "Nazi." It's just something you call someone else when you don't like their opinions (usually anything left of Objectivism) whether their opinions are anything like what the original SJWs did.
She's chubby, but she DOES know how to flaunt what she's got and does it from time to time.
TNG is a good, semi intellectual show, with a moderate amount of diversity, but doesn't push things too far, from a time when society wasn't so polarized.
Except perhaps in the first season, when Troi wore her cheerleader outfit.
Actually nearly the entire first season can be skipped, and much of the second.
Seems to me that the same methods of luring animals will be effective in both situation. As long as it lures, that's what both hunters and researchers want.
If god really didn't want them to eat the fruit, he wouldn't have put that tree there, or at least would have made it somehow inaccessible. Punishing them for something that is essentially his fault is bad parenting.
Or, it reflects a very strict, authoritarian, Old Testament way of thinking: "You do not do this thing that I tell you not to do, because I told you not to do it. You don't need any reason other than "I told you not to do that," and if you disobey, the punishment will be harsh. I am your Lord, and you will do as I command. Putting this temptation here is a test for you. Yielding to temptation is YOUR own personal failure and no other, and your punishment will be deserved."
That didn't work out well for them in the long term. Even the Pah Wraith alliance Dukat crafted was a big dud.
Be charitable, I'm pretty sure this means the cat is part of the resistance movement against the Cylons.
It's the INTERNET'S fucking cat
It doesn't belong to you. The cat, and her trademarks, belong to the owner.
Seeing something on the Internet doesn't give the Internet ownership.
Do you have a problem with the content of the sig?
"SJW" is a completely useless term (it didn't used to be...). It means absolutely nothing now, as it's been so overused that it means anything at all, anything the speaker doesn't like. Now it's really only an indication that the speaker is a bit of a dullard, or has been entirely disconnected from the Internet since the start of GamerGate.
Again, the two are not equivalent. The RNC email accounts were intended for political not official use (and they even had a law to point to which mandated this separation!).
That was the intention, but not the result. During the attorney-firing controversy, White House officials conducted official business on private servers set up by the RNC. The RNC then admitted that those emails were lost. Now it's not quite apples to apples in similarity, as Bush himself was not known to be one of those people, nor were these top-secret documents.
We hate her because she belongs in prison, not running for President.
Funny! Still waiting for those amazing revelations that will finally tell us about these horrible crimes she's supposedly been doing.
Still waiting.. still waiting.
Thank God the election is over in two months, but I'm not looking forward to the following four years of the same bullshit.
You've got to admit that the internet makes election years way less stuffy than they used to be.
In other words, it just becomes shit-flinging without the substantive debate? Well it sucks that we're interested more in "entertainment" from our election cycles than actually seriously trying to find the best person to run the country.
Is this left-wing-global-warming SJW trope a big thing in the real world or is it a few posters making a lot of noise? And why is global warming left wing?
It's probably seen as being left wing due to its association with the environment movement, which has long been left wing. And also, the fossil fuel industry is allied with right-wing politicians in the US. And finally, it is generally a conservative trend to not want to change the way things are. If climate change is real, it naturally follows that some major economic changes will need to occur, a fundamentally un-conservative stance.