Seconded... A friend does porn and thinks it's one of the greatest career choices she's ever made. She would consider these new laws a violation of her civil rights.
Not to mention, they are usually extremely biased against American cars.
Mind you, there are a lot of not great things about American cars, but TGUK would try to convince you that they are fueled by eating babies alive, and could have their efficiency rated at babies-per-mile.
But he's using a bureaucratic process he rallies against, while ignoring equally valid/legitimate options within the confines of the processes that he often argues for.
The GP may overstate the seriousness of the issue, but otherwise, he's pretty spot on.
You sound like one of those people who cannot grasp and handle (the admittedly imperfect) reality.
He was offered (a) an option to buy the site, for, given that it's a political site, quite a reasonable sum (and anyway, free market, who cares if it's reasonable, if it isn't, it doesn't sell!) and (b) the option to have free use of the site/domain as long as it remained in control of the original owners.
He was offered the same options he get in the free market (possibly better than the free market, since then they wouldn't necessarily have the threat of interference), yet he uses the option that he wouldn't have in the free market, that he's always rallying against. I'd say the GP has this pretty spot on.
Not to mention, he is implying that forcibly taking the domain from the group is his only/primary option, whereas they did give him a price (and a not-exorbant, given the circumstances one at that) to take it, or the option of a very large degree of use/control for free.
He's got shreds of honesty, but they are negative valued.
So, you are saying the ability of people or groups to influence others in arbitrary ways, is linked to the idea of video games influencing individuals in specific ways (specifically to cause violence).
It can just as well be argued, that that video games reduce violence by providing a vicarious outlet for violence, so people don't actually go around doing it for real. Sorry to break your false association/link there.
except it cannot get enough votes to challenge the primary parties, unless people start voting for it first.
And, with more primary parties, the 'entry point' to becoming a primary party becomes lower. Hopefully, sooner or later the tide will turn and we can get more than 2 primaries, and have some faster cycling of parties.
I think we may generally be past that point, however the government and corporations have gotten so intertwined with their political game of twister-fellato, that the public will have a lot of trouble overcoming them merely by voting in a system where they are convinced that a vote other than for a primary party, is a wasted vote.
Bad, in this sense is: Does it not perform the desired task? Is it difficult to use? Is it inefficient?
I'd have to say "no" on the first 2, and for #3, only in terms of space, and that's just so it can be easy to use without special tools. Could it be better? Sure, a bit of math so you can have formatting that handles multiple length specification types would be nice. better compatibility (less 'independent additions') between browsers would be nice too.
What exactly would you consider a better technology?
Pure HTML is nothing more than an SGML derivative, like XML, and for the use of formatting, is not bad. CSS, as a way of taking some of the ambiguity and potential for different interpretations on formatting, is also not bad. JavaScript... OK, yeah, this language could be better. It has a lot of nifty features that can do more harm than good, and is missing one or two nice features (like good type identification, rather than prototype checking, which can have quirks in different browsers).
Everything else is a non-standard and/or proprietary add-on.
Can you think of a better alternative out there that fulfills all the same needs? About the only thing I can think of doing to improve it is replace JavaScript with python (mostly to fix the missing features), Java or C# - and then tweak CSS and HTML a bit to add a few extra features.
By the way, the needs of HTML, as far as I can observe: To present data on a wide variety of systems, where presenting the data accurately is more important than minor (and even major) variances in formatting, as may be called for by the platform presenting the document(s).
Ahh. Yes, I agree, no country owes equality to non-citizens. They should provide equal personal protection under the law to visitors who obey the law, but that's about it.
The headline, while someone oddly phrased, says that Google Chrome will no longer be built with concern running on RHEL 6. The other way around would imply that RHEL 6 would have some change to it or it's update/patch cycle to remove concern for the continued operation of Google Chrome.
I've certainly heard people with that view called racists before (specifically racist towards Mexicans or Chinese, which is ironic, given that by adding these comments, the people calling the original "offender" racists, are in fact, being racists).
A lot of 'pro-capitalism' individuals may squeal about how the government and it's influence are bad, and how great free market is, but they also are the very first to turn a blind eye if they can make a profit from it. Their goal isn't an effective economy, a well run and organized civilization, providing goods for the market, etc. Their goals are to have the larges proportion of wealth possible, regardless who/what else it may hurt.
In this case, why get something for $250,000 when he can use a group he villified to get it for much less? Assuming he doesn't want to go much further into politics, he won't have to worry too much about burning the bridges of the supporters who made the site...
And how many of your ancestors were the best? How many jobs/positions need filling that can use something other than the best?
There are plenty of Americans who will take the "muck" jobs (I was once one, when I needed to be). However there are also plenty who won't (I can think of two individuals I know who leech off of others because they only will accept jobs in their desired fields). These immigrants will compete with the Americans willing to muck when needed, yes - but generally we are also the Americans willing to go without and compete right back to survive.
However, more people in the muck jobs can expand parts of the economy and allow more specialized positions to be open, for both those of us who can compete in those as well (such as myself), and those who won't take the muck jobs.
I haven't had flash for six of the past seven years. I've not missed it terribly. But then again, I've not got kids, as you say.
About a year ago I got a computer with good virtualization extension on the CPU. Woo-hoo! Youtube! And they come out with H.264 stuff, so I only sometimes need it to watch a video:-)
I'd pretty much agree to the "we should use base 2, computers are base 2"
However, the article makes a bit of an overstatement. This is not a kernel dweeb vs. marketing dweeb issue. This is a software developer vs. hardware developer issue.
Sofware developer: Base 2 is easier to work with. We use base 2 (or more precisely, the base (2^10) derivative). Hardware developer: If we use base 10 (or more precisely, the base (10^3) derivative) our drives appear larger.
The point of the system is that it is easy to calculate/work with. While base 10 is easier for humans, base 2 can have some efficiency shortcuts (add the option of using shifts instead of multiplies/divides). Since the vast majority of the time, we see the data at an twice abstracted level (simplified, abbreviated, through CLI or GUI applications), and the exceptions are almost always still slightly abstracted (through code, use of hex/octal/etc. rather than the native bits and bytes), what is easier for the humans (who rarely deal with it direct) is less important than what is more efficient for the computer.
Actually, given that Germany is more northerly than most of the US (I think even with Alaska in the average to skew it north, even though they have a small population) - the southern most point is as Northerly as about the middle of North Dakota, the middle is north of the continental US, and the northern parts reach further north than the southern tip of Alaska. It would surprise me very much if the US didn't get more sunlight per unit area than Germany, per year.
I'd need to find the numbers for Germany to be sure, but the only thing that could make the average worse for the US at this point, is cloud cover, and given the geographical layouts, I doubt Germany averages to less than the US overall.
First off. I'm a Catholic. That guy was not rational. Good examples of rational, sticking in the theistic realm, would be St. Francis of Assisi (a little odd, but rational) or Pope John Paul II.
The only people who don't think so are bigots who have never bothered to read his stuff on it's own merits.
You have manage to, ironically, make the first biggoted statement in this thread - and boy is it a doozy. I was only considering ONE individual as nuts, you just claimed a whole crowed. Admittedly most of them that I've seen are quite short sighted - not realizing their atheism is actually a religion even if it lacks a deity - and is not more or less rational than any deific belief system - since there's no proof either way. Then again, I've seen many sane and rational atheists too, not trying to push atheism on others, just arguing it is what they believe.
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Seconded... A friend does porn and thinks it's one of the greatest career choices she's ever made. She would consider these new laws a violation of her civil rights.
Not to mention, they are usually extremely biased against American cars.
Mind you, there are a lot of not great things about American cars, but TGUK would try to convince you that they are fueled by eating babies alive, and could have their efficiency rated at babies-per-mile.
If it wasn't reviewed on Top Gear UK, it wasn't reviewed!
Wait, what is this "unbiased" you speak of?
But he's using a bureaucratic process he rallies against, while ignoring equally valid/legitimate options within the confines of the processes that he often argues for.
The GP may overstate the seriousness of the issue, but otherwise, he's pretty spot on.
You sound like one of those people who cannot grasp and handle (the admittedly imperfect) reality.
He was offered (a) an option to buy the site, for, given that it's a political site, quite a reasonable sum (and anyway, free market, who cares if it's reasonable, if it isn't, it doesn't sell!) and (b) the option to have free use of the site/domain as long as it remained in control of the original owners.
He was offered the same options he get in the free market (possibly better than the free market, since then they wouldn't necessarily have the threat of interference), yet he uses the option that he wouldn't have in the free market, that he's always rallying against. I'd say the GP has this pretty spot on.
Not to mention, he is implying that forcibly taking the domain from the group is his only/primary option, whereas they did give him a price (and a not-exorbant, given the circumstances one at that) to take it, or the option of a very large degree of use/control for free.
He's got shreds of honesty, but they are negative valued.
Yeah, TW scares the hell out of me, I know too many people who are stuck with TW since they are in areas with TW monopolies.
So, you are saying the ability of people or groups to influence others in arbitrary ways, is linked to the idea of video games influencing individuals in specific ways (specifically to cause violence).
It can just as well be argued, that that video games reduce violence by providing a vicarious outlet for violence, so people don't actually go around doing it for real. Sorry to break your false association/link there.
except it cannot get enough votes to challenge the primary parties, unless people start voting for it first.
And, with more primary parties, the 'entry point' to becoming a primary party becomes lower. Hopefully, sooner or later the tide will turn and we can get more than 2 primaries, and have some faster cycling of parties.
catch-22
I think we may generally be past that point, however the government and corporations have gotten so intertwined with their political game of twister-fellato, that the public will have a lot of trouble overcoming them merely by voting in a system where they are convinced that a vote other than for a primary party, is a wasted vote.
Well, neither did the person I was replying to.
Bad, in this sense is:
Does it not perform the desired task?
Is it difficult to use?
Is it inefficient?
I'd have to say "no" on the first 2, and for #3, only in terms of space, and that's just so it can be easy to use without special tools. Could it be better? Sure, a bit of math so you can have formatting that handles multiple length specification types would be nice. better compatibility (less 'independent additions') between browsers would be nice too.
What exactly would you consider a better technology?
Pure HTML is nothing more than an SGML derivative, like XML, and for the use of formatting, is not bad.
CSS, as a way of taking some of the ambiguity and potential for different interpretations on formatting, is also not bad.
JavaScript... OK, yeah, this language could be better. It has a lot of nifty features that can do more harm than good, and is missing one or two nice features (like good type identification, rather than prototype checking, which can have quirks in different browsers).
Everything else is a non-standard and/or proprietary add-on.
Can you think of a better alternative out there that fulfills all the same needs? About the only thing I can think of doing to improve it is replace JavaScript with python (mostly to fix the missing features), Java or C# - and then tweak CSS and HTML a bit to add a few extra features.
By the way, the needs of HTML, as far as I can observe:
To present data on a wide variety of systems, where presenting the data accurately is more important than minor (and even major) variances in formatting, as may be called for by the platform presenting the document(s).
Ahh. Yes, I agree, no country owes equality to non-citizens. They should provide equal personal protection under the law to visitors who obey the law, but that's about it.
No, it would be saying the opposite.
The headline, while someone oddly phrased, says that Google Chrome will no longer be built with concern running on RHEL 6.
The other way around would imply that RHEL 6 would have some change to it or it's update/patch cycle to remove concern for the continued operation of Google Chrome.
I've certainly heard people with that view called racists before (specifically racist towards Mexicans or Chinese, which is ironic, given that by adding these comments, the people calling the original "offender" racists, are in fact, being racists).
I'm not sure how you find this surprising.
A lot of 'pro-capitalism' individuals may squeal about how the government and it's influence are bad, and how great free market is, but they also are the very first to turn a blind eye if they can make a profit from it. Their goal isn't an effective economy, a well run and organized civilization, providing goods for the market, etc. Their goals are to have the larges proportion of wealth possible, regardless who/what else it may hurt.
In this case, why get something for $250,000 when he can use a group he villified to get it for much less? Assuming he doesn't want to go much further into politics, he won't have to worry too much about burning the bridges of the supporters who made the site...
And how many of your ancestors were the best?
How many jobs/positions need filling that can use something other than the best?
There are plenty of Americans who will take the "muck" jobs (I was once one, when I needed to be). However there are also plenty who won't (I can think of two individuals I know who leech off of others because they only will accept jobs in their desired fields). These immigrants will compete with the Americans willing to muck when needed, yes - but generally we are also the Americans willing to go without and compete right back to survive.
However, more people in the muck jobs can expand parts of the economy and allow more specialized positions to be open, for both those of us who can compete in those as well (such as myself), and those who won't take the muck jobs.
I haven't had flash for six of the past seven years. I've not missed it terribly. But then again, I've not got kids, as you say.
About a year ago I got a computer with good virtualization extension on the CPU. Woo-hoo! Youtube! :-)
And they come out with H.264 stuff, so I only sometimes need it to watch a video
Or you're NASA?
I'd pretty much agree to the "we should use base 2, computers are base 2"
However, the article makes a bit of an overstatement. This is not a kernel dweeb vs. marketing dweeb issue. This is a software developer vs. hardware developer issue.
Sofware developer: Base 2 is easier to work with. We use base 2 (or more precisely, the base (2^10) derivative).
Hardware developer: If we use base 10 (or more precisely, the base (10^3) derivative) our drives appear larger.
The point of the system is that it is easy to calculate/work with. While base 10 is easier for humans, base 2 can have some efficiency shortcuts (add the option of using shifts instead of multiplies/divides). Since the vast majority of the time, we see the data at an twice abstracted level (simplified, abbreviated, through CLI or GUI applications), and the exceptions are almost always still slightly abstracted (through code, use of hex/octal/etc. rather than the native bits and bytes), what is easier for the humans (who rarely deal with it direct) is less important than what is more efficient for the computer.
Nothing wrong if the solution to one problem (or an added benefit from the solution) can solve others. It's called efficiency.
Actually, given that Germany is more northerly than most of the US (I think even with Alaska in the average to skew it north, even though they have a small population) - the southern most point is as Northerly as about the middle of North Dakota, the middle is north of the continental US, and the northern parts reach further north than the southern tip of Alaska. It would surprise me very much if the US didn't get more sunlight per unit area than Germany, per year.
I'd need to find the numbers for Germany to be sure, but the only thing that could make the average worse for the US at this point, is cloud cover, and given the geographical layouts, I doubt Germany averages to less than the US overall.
Damnit you bastard. I used up all my modpoints.
And you beat me to that point.
+1 funny psudomod...
First off. I'm a Catholic. That guy was not rational. Good examples of rational, sticking in the theistic realm, would be St. Francis of Assisi (a little odd, but rational) or Pope John Paul II.
You have manage to, ironically, make the first biggoted statement in this thread - and boy is it a doozy. I was only considering ONE individual as nuts, you just claimed a whole crowed. Admittedly most of them that I've seen are quite short sighted - not realizing their atheism is actually a religion even if it lacks a deity - and is not more or less rational than any deific belief system - since there's no proof either way. Then again, I've seen many sane and rational atheists too, not trying to push atheism on others, just arguing it is what they believe.
bah. Hunter2 is good enough for anyone!
Oh, and I don't want to lengthen my passwords, the shortest on anything that matters is 17 character mixed case + symbols + numbers.