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  1. Re:Atheism... on If Programming Languages Were Religions · · Score: 1

    If every programming language were a religion, atheism would be using machine code.

    Nihilism is believing the computer doesn't exist.

  2. Re:If Programming Languages Were Religions? on If Programming Languages Were Religions · · Score: 1

    You forget the wikipedia link to The Holy C.

  3. Re:wow on If Programming Languages Were Religions · · Score: 1

    The Jews have a tendency to be clannish, and you have Jews talking about converts as "not real Jews" since they were not born Jewish. They have a bizarre system where you are Jewish if and only if (a) your mother is a Jew or (b) you convert. This has some rather strange consequences: Mom converts in here labor room, and so you are born Jewish and there is nothing you can do about it (once a Jew, always a Jew). The mother bit can from the far past where the Jews were raped and pillaged in Europe, and needed a way to define their own (you can't tell the father, but you can always tell the mother). Anyway, the confusion of the religion with ethnicity (or race you know what I mean, don't get hung up on definitions here) has many Jews talking about Jew converts and Jews.

  4. Re:What year is this? on Jobs Not Giving This Year's Macworld Keynote · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When does a year start? January 1st, (Gregorian year), US Labor day (US school year), fourth Sunday before Christmas (Christian year), the eleventh new moon before the winter solstice (Chinese new year), October 1st (US government fiscal year), some arbitrary annual event or season (some other year). You are being obtuse.

  5. Re:iPod, iPhone, then what? on Jobs Not Giving This Year's Macworld Keynote · · Score: 1

    A very wise person once pointed out to me that it doesn't matter how cool or great a product you have; if you can't convince someone to buy it it's useless.

    AKA "Real artists ship."

  6. Re:Understand the System Dymanics of Emergence on Computer Models and the Global Economic Crash · · Score: 1

    Many parts of this market is zero-sum, yet predicated on the fallacy of "infinite-growth". You cannot have it both ways, my friends. It must fail, and that can "easily" be shown mathematically.

    Which are zero sum? And please, I want the "easily" shown proof of failure. I'm not holding my breath.

  7. Re:Can somebody 'splain this? on Computer Models and the Global Economic Crash · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It sounds like those people were talking about the ideas of M0-3 and trying to extend it to debts. There is a reason M3 is no longer measured: as you go up the scale, the values become more and more meaningless/useless.

  8. Re:surprise? on Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest · · Score: 1

    AAC=American Alpine Club.

    Thank you.

    Your Wikipedia link refers to professional football.

    Actually, it is all football. Please reread.

    See, http://www.livescience.com/health/060614_sport_injuries.html for injury stats.

    Okay, your link says 418,260 football injuries, without saying how many participants; absolute numbers are misleading (as doti said). Further, the topic is deaths, not injuries, which was what the linked article refers to.

  9. Re:And file sharers may be violating copyright law on RIAA May Be Violating a Court Order In California · · Score: 1

    He did say "a bit south of canada".

  10. Re:USC? on RIAA May Be Violating a Court Order In California · · Score: 1

    Nah, those got filtered before the RIAA went forward.

  11. Re:This is an inaccurate article title on RIAA May Be Violating a Court Order In California · · Score: 2, Insightful

    NYCL is a L (from NYC), and therefore is going to be careful what he says.

  12. Re:Obligatory on RIAA May Be Violating a Court Order In California · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And so's your wife! (That's what she said.)

  13. Re:Must be a slow news day, this is old on The Best Burglar Alarm In History · · Score: 1

    but there is little new here.

    Especially since it isn't any good for the stated purpose. From his site:

    Actual rotation speed is about 10 seconds per revolution which is easy for thieves to avoid I guess.

  14. Re:Don't take freedom for granted on Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo? · · Score: 1

    It shows that the government, in at least one case, has caused those present to be fearful about speaking out, and that such pressures to keep silent can be subtle. To him, the risk multiplied by the cost of losing legal status in this country was more than he was willing to test. The USCIS is extremely fickle, and you do not want to rock the boat in any way. Publicly expressing anti-US sentiment (in the eyes of some)? I can see why he would not want to do that.

  15. Re:Don't take freedom for granted on Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo? · · Score: 1

    Anchor babies are in reference to people living outside the US while having a child with US citizenship, say, as a result of having a child while attending school here or perhaps visiting. Thus, what you said does not apply.

    While citizenship is highly likely, he is not guaranteed citizenship. That was the point. There are a number of questions on the application regarding activities harmful to the US government, and having a child that is a US citizen does not change that the application could be denied.

  16. Re:A good idea for early detection of mental illne on Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia · · Score: 1

    One of the many reasons I have trouble 'fitting in', especially at social gatherings, is my inability to detect sarcasm. It can be terrifying when someone says something that could be interpreted 'literally' as demeaning or cruel but is only 'joking around' etc.

    A lot of normal people have problems understanding others' intentions; I know I sometimes do. I usually respond with some form of "Are you joking?", "You're joking", or some such. I also will simply not respond if that is possible, like when in a group.

    I also tend not associate with those who say things I do not like. That tends to fall out of me being rather open with how I think: a possibly mean/joking comment sometimes gets a "That's not nice" in a light-hearted tone, which is taken as a joke by those who were joking and a rebuff by those who were serious.

    Oh, and thank you for your post. I find it very instructive to know how others think/feel. It helps me understand the world and how to make it a better place. And good luck.

  17. Re:surprise? on Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia claims 90 indirect fatalities and single digit direct fatalities per year for American football with an estimated 1.8 million participants, which is .00005%-.000005%. This is orders of magnitude different the 3.4% and 2.5% quoted in the article, so even if the numbers are off on Wikipedia by two orders of magnitude, the point stands. Further, the football death rates still can not be compared, since the rates for climbing are per climb, not per year, and there are many football games each year. We do not have a 2.5%-3.4% mortality rate for football players per game. Sorry, your statement of "more people die from football injuries every year than climbing" is nonsense, exactly in the way the GP describes.

    Oh, and I couldn't figure out what "AAC" means: the top ten Google hits don't seem to make sense in this context.

  18. Re:That's cooperation, one of two ways to self-gov on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    Yes, but probably because I did not mention it explicitly. I am talking about how they have taken things like Apache, forking and internalized them. They do not contribute their changes back or otherwise help the Apache community.

  19. Re:Firefox Issues? on Change.gov Uses Google Moderator System · · Score: 1

    Firefox 2.0.0.18 is just fine.

  20. Re:And when his real wife comes home... on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 1

    Really, that would be like saying no one would get "Han shot first."

  21. Re:It's an old story on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 1
  22. The northern counterpart on A Telescope In a Cubic Kilometer of Ice · · Score: 1

    Apparently there is a northern counterpart to this: ANTARES, though the article on Km3net says that that is a pilot project for Km3net.

  23. Re:Nut gallery oddly subued on A Telescope In a Cubic Kilometer of Ice · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's nothing there. ANWR actually has wildlife.

  24. Re:I'm not inviting a spam-fest on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Linux needs Windows to run on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    On a serious note, some old Macs do actually require MacOS on them to properly initialize hardware that Linux can't. It is kind of weird: the Mac goes halfway through the boot process, and then it acts like it is rebooting and goes into Linux.