Curiously, it got no recognition? Hm, perhaps rightly so...
Only the core language was free and they tried to sell all kinds of extensions, it was a weird commercial enterprise with all kinds of snake oil claims. Moreover, REBOL programs are about as readable and hard to maintain as Forth programs. In fact, it comes across as nothing more than Forth with some syntactic sugar on top. Perhaps I'm wrong about that, but that's the impression the language made, and the additional and frankly quite annoying language advocacy didn't make it appear any better.
Good point. Forth is definitely among the useful obscure languages. It is used as a shell for EFI, so it's preinstalled almost everywhere even if you don't have an operating system installed yet!
Picolisp is kind of obscure but awesome if you've got the time to get into it. The most obscure language I know and have actually used in the past is probably Powermops, though. But it's not really obscure either, just another object-oriented Forth.
Thinking about, I don't think I know any language that is more obscure than C++...
People sometimes forget that Hitler was elected, and this election was (among other factors) possible because Nazis were spreading hate speech and violence directly on the streets. Once a certain amount of terror and propaganda is reached, you can stage almost any coup.For this reason Germany is a modern democracy that was designed deliberately with the failure of the Weimarer Republic in mind. One of the many concepts to correct this mistake is that democracy in Germany can defend itself. One of the built-in defense mechanisms is that the German high court can prohibit parties. Another built-in defense mechanisms is that hate speech can be restricted in order to make certain forms of propaganda less effective. The sharing of power is also much more elaborate in the German constitution than in older democracies.
By the way, if a totalitarian government would somehow grasp power in Germany and abolish certain parts of the constitution, then the new constitution would be void and every citizen would have a right to fight this new government. This right is in a sense more radical than the US right of bearing arms in a militia, but clearly influenced by it.
To cut a long story short, whatever you think of those speech restrictions in the end, they have not been put into place without thought.
WTF are you talking about? Germany was never great under Hitler for anyone! He deliberately steered the country into a two-front war that the country could never win and left it in ruins. Hitler was directly responsible for the death of over 80 million people, including around 1.5-3 civilian German casualties and around 5 million German military casualties.
Or did you mean to say "Germany was great under Hitler between 1933 to 1939 for his followers except that most of them died right aftwards"? (Not that I'd care for Nazis, just wanted to clarify that it certainly wasn't great from them either...)
At least in the EU I see no long future for Windows 10's illegal built-in surveillance tools. The EULA violates local laws in many EU countries and probably also EU law, and it is only a matter of time until some EU commission will put an end to it.
Or, at least I hope so, because at one point or another I'll be forced to upgrade to this pile of shit.:/
For me there is only one important thing: Whether the browser allows developers to implement the most aggressive ad blockers possible. I want everything blocked, images removed, content rerendered, flash rewritten, etc. -- whatever it takes to remove ad, remove ad blocker warnings, skip screens, and so on. Everywhere.
So is the change good or bad? Does it allow ad blockers to be further improved or not? If yes, I'll continue using firefox. If no, I'll use another browser.
You don't need millions of people, just a couple of computers with [insert your favourite heuristic data mining technology here] to filter out the uninteresting stuff. The remaining thousands of emails are then read by analysts.
The problem is that this kind of surveillance replaces initial reasonable suspicion by automated methods that have many false positives.
I've never understood why people simply assume there can't possibly be any basis in this story.
Many people do not assume that, they have tentatively concluded it after studying the case, the publicly available evidence and Swedish law. Unless your only source of information is Fox News, it's not rocket science.
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Bullshit. But it helps that the upgrade is pushed down the throat of millions if not billions of existing users...
Curiously, it got no recognition? Hm, perhaps rightly so...
Only the core language was free and they tried to sell all kinds of extensions, it was a weird commercial enterprise with all kinds of snake oil claims. Moreover, REBOL programs are about as readable and hard to maintain as Forth programs. In fact, it comes across as nothing more than Forth with some syntactic sugar on top. Perhaps I'm wrong about that, but that's the impression the language made, and the additional and frankly quite annoying language advocacy didn't make it appear any better.
Good point. Forth is definitely among the useful obscure languages. It is used as a shell for EFI, so it's preinstalled almost everywhere even if you don't have an operating system installed yet!
Only Bliss is obscure among these. The others are more or less mainstream.
Picolisp is kind of obscure but awesome if you've got the time to get into it. The most obscure language I know and have actually used in the past is probably Powermops, though. But it's not really obscure either, just another object-oriented Forth.
Thinking about, I don't think I know any language that is more obscure than C++...
To answer your question, just read your own post. You've explained in detail why issuing a diplomatic passport wouldn't work.
People sometimes forget that Hitler was elected, and this election was (among other factors) possible because Nazis were spreading hate speech and violence directly on the streets. Once a certain amount of terror and propaganda is reached, you can stage almost any coup.For this reason Germany is a modern democracy that was designed deliberately with the failure of the Weimarer Republic in mind. One of the many concepts to correct this mistake is that democracy in Germany can defend itself. One of the built-in defense mechanisms is that the German high court can prohibit parties. Another built-in defense mechanisms is that hate speech can be restricted in order to make certain forms of propaganda less effective. The sharing of power is also much more elaborate in the German constitution than in older democracies.
By the way, if a totalitarian government would somehow grasp power in Germany and abolish certain parts of the constitution, then the new constitution would be void and every citizen would have a right to fight this new government. This right is in a sense more radical than the US right of bearing arms in a militia, but clearly influenced by it.
To cut a long story short, whatever you think of those speech restrictions in the end, they have not been put into place without thought.
uhm...1.5-3 million civilian casualties, of course...
WTF are you talking about? Germany was never great under Hitler for anyone! He deliberately steered the country into a two-front war that the country could never win and left it in ruins. Hitler was directly responsible for the death of over 80 million people, including around 1.5-3 civilian German casualties and around 5 million German military casualties.
Or did you mean to say "Germany was great under Hitler between 1933 to 1939 for his followers except that most of them died right aftwards"? (Not that I'd care for Nazis, just wanted to clarify that it certainly wasn't great from them either ...)
No, it would still happen. Perhaps you'd catch some terrorists faster after they have committed their crimes but you already catch them fast anyway.
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I use Linux for all my work and Windows only for gaming, so it's surely an alternative for some of us.
At least in the EU I see no long future for Windows 10's illegal built-in surveillance tools. The EULA violates local laws in many EU countries and probably also EU law, and it is only a matter of time until some EU commission will put an end to it.
Or, at least I hope so, because at one point or another I'll be forced to upgrade to this pile of shit. :/
For me there is only one important thing: Whether the browser allows developers to implement the most aggressive ad blockers possible. I want everything blocked, images removed, content rerendered, flash rewritten, etc. -- whatever it takes to remove ad, remove ad blocker warnings, skip screens, and so on. Everywhere.
So is the change good or bad? Does it allow ad blockers to be further improved or not? If yes, I'll continue using firefox. If no, I'll use another browser.
You don't need millions of people, just a couple of computers with [insert your favourite heuristic data mining technology here] to filter out the uninteresting stuff. The remaining thousands of emails are then read by analysts.
The problem is that this kind of surveillance replaces initial reasonable suspicion by automated methods that have many false positives.
I've never understood why people simply assume there can't possibly be any basis in this story.
Many people do not assume that, they have tentatively concluded it after studying the case, the publicly available evidence and Swedish law. Unless your only source of information is Fox News, it's not rocket science.
If security is their concern, they could also use an inherently safer language like e.g. Ada instead. Just saying...
Do people have troubles making phone calls nowadays? Is the US telephone network so fragile?
I can't remember having had any trouble making a phone call and have never had a connection dropped, so I'm wondering what this article is about.
But to be fair, I have experienced update loops in Windows 7 in the past, too :(
Your requirements fit perfectly to some actual ethicists I know.
He has spoken very wisely, because the original AC post was indeed the rant of a complete moronic idiot and it is wise to call things by their name.
If by "diet drink" you mean "Coca Cola Zero" or other drinks with tons of artificial sweetener in them, then he might have had a point.
Ice cold fresh water is an awesome diet drink, though.
Here they come...
I'm glad they do that because Uber is an illegally operating taxi company.
And yes, I am 100% pro EU.
That's not true, because there are only finitely many images.
I don't get it. What the fuck does the "minimum" in "minimum wage" mean?
Has the US redefined the English language?