And how would they prove that they did more than talk? They can't. So, if they came out and said they were going to make a bunch of changes to eliminate illegal spying, you wouldn't believe it anyway. Lets just be honest here...it's a no-win situation for them no matter what. Lets not pretend otherwise.
So if they say nothing, you can sit there and whine that they have no transparency and refuse to even communicate about their operations, but if they do, then it's all bullshit. So really, it doesn't matter what they do at all at this point because you will say that it's all bullshit. In effect, you've given them every incentive to not change at all.
- Japan has union teachers. - Our press doesn't so much lick government boots but chase ratings. Also, since when is Japan known for having serious critical analysis of their government. The Fukushima disaster pretty much proves that it doesn't. - There is shame in the US too. It's probably how you feel when you're about to have sex. - The US has a culture too. You just seem to be unaware of its existence because you're too busy hating on the US. - US media personalities hate America? Um...no. It's more like they love ratings. - "Japan has a constitution". Yeah, because there's never been constitutional violations or corruption in Japan. Seriously, you have to be fucking kidding me with this shit. - Post-civilized society? What the fuck does that mean? If by them having a civilized society, you mean that nobody has sex anymore and every works 12+ hour days, 6 days a week, and everyone is afraid to actually say what you mean; then yes, you are correct sir!
Well done, dipshit. You got literally nothing right.
Way to completely ignore cultural differences. The Japanese used to kill themselves over stuff like this. This kind accountability has never existed in western culture. There are so many cultural differences between the two that these kinds of comparisons are pretty pointless.
It might have something to do with the fact that most Americans have only become aware of this fact in the last few months. For the most part, we work under the assumption that the government is working within the bounds of the law.
Team players? lol...you have an extremely naive view of how the world actually works. Everyone spies on everyone, regardless of what team they are on. The only difference here is that the NSA got caught courtesy of a traitor named Ed Snowden. In fact, I'm guessing he will go down in history as the greatest traitor this nation has ever seen.
Your notions about JIT compilers and Java performance is really outdated. Java is extremely fast and the JIT is actually an advantage over traditional compiler optimization in that it evaluates what the program is actually doing as it's running to perform performance tuning. A traditional compiler has no insight whatsoever to what code gets hit hard and what doesn't. I've been writing Java a very long time and I have yet to run into a situation where a performance problem was due to poor performing Java. In fact, with the exception of very specialized situations that applies to less than 1% of all coding, I don't think there's a situation where Java's performance would ever hold you back.
FFS, anonymous inner classes aren't even close to being closures. Anyone who's ever used real closures could tell you that. AICs are a hideous frankenstein monster of a construct that should have never been included in the language in the first place. I would go so far as to say that they are one of the biggest mistakes in the language and had they actually added real closures early in the development of the language, the java programming world would be vastly better for it. It's not like closures are a new invention. There's no real excuse for it other than shortsightedness. It's the same level of retardation that gets you into the situation where new BigDecimal(0) doesn't actually equal zero. I could go on but I think I've made my point.
I hate to tell you this but if you read books on a regular basis, you will find this word isn't all that rare. It's just rare to hear it in speech. Perhaps you should read more. Just a thought...
Then you see things as an idiot sees them. Bravery != stupidity. Also, you don't fight government abuse by taking away any power the government has to protect its citizens. That's just fucking stupid. You must be very young to see the world this way. Idealism is cute and all but it's not how the world actually works. Ideals are things to strive for -- not actual implementation plans.
Name calling is the best you can do? That's what's pathetic. You confuse bravery with stupidity and that's a recipe for disaster. When your shitty little country does that, let me know; otherwise, you have no high horse to ride in on.
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" lets not forget that a lot of what the ACLU does would be banned had citizens united gone the other way."
How the fuck do you figure that?
And how would they prove that they did more than talk? They can't. So, if they came out and said they were going to make a bunch of changes to eliminate illegal spying, you wouldn't believe it anyway. Lets just be honest here...it's a no-win situation for them no matter what. Lets not pretend otherwise.
Source?
So if they say nothing, you can sit there and whine that they have no transparency and refuse to even communicate about their operations, but if they do, then it's all bullshit. So really, it doesn't matter what they do at all at this point because you will say that it's all bullshit. In effect, you've given them every incentive to not change at all.
lol, your post is impressively incorrect.
- Japan has union teachers.
- Our press doesn't so much lick government boots but chase ratings. Also, since when is Japan known for having serious critical analysis of their government. The Fukushima disaster pretty much proves that it doesn't.
- There is shame in the US too. It's probably how you feel when you're about to have sex.
- The US has a culture too. You just seem to be unaware of its existence because you're too busy hating on the US.
- US media personalities hate America? Um...no. It's more like they love ratings.
- "Japan has a constitution". Yeah, because there's never been constitutional violations or corruption in Japan. Seriously, you have to be fucking kidding me with this shit.
- Post-civilized society? What the fuck does that mean? If by them having a civilized society, you mean that nobody has sex anymore and every works 12+ hour days, 6 days a week, and everyone is afraid to actually say what you mean; then yes, you are correct sir!
Well done, dipshit. You got literally nothing right.
Way to completely ignore cultural differences. The Japanese used to kill themselves over stuff like this. This kind accountability has never existed in western culture. There are so many cultural differences between the two that these kinds of comparisons are pretty pointless.
It might have something to do with the fact that most Americans have only become aware of this fact in the last few months. For the most part, we work under the assumption that the government is working within the bounds of the law.
My mindset is what leads to reality. Yours is some kind of fantasy world that doesn't exist.
Team players? lol...you have an extremely naive view of how the world actually works. Everyone spies on everyone, regardless of what team they are on. The only difference here is that the NSA got caught courtesy of a traitor named Ed Snowden. In fact, I'm guessing he will go down in history as the greatest traitor this nation has ever seen.
Are you retarded? It's on the fucking download page for IDEA. The guy even gave you a link to take you straight there.
Your notions about JIT compilers and Java performance is really outdated. Java is extremely fast and the JIT is actually an advantage over traditional compiler optimization in that it evaluates what the program is actually doing as it's running to perform performance tuning. A traditional compiler has no insight whatsoever to what code gets hit hard and what doesn't. I've been writing Java a very long time and I have yet to run into a situation where a performance problem was due to poor performing Java. In fact, with the exception of very specialized situations that applies to less than 1% of all coding, I don't think there's a situation where Java's performance would ever hold you back.
FFS, anonymous inner classes aren't even close to being closures. Anyone who's ever used real closures could tell you that. AICs are a hideous frankenstein monster of a construct that should have never been included in the language in the first place. I would go so far as to say that they are one of the biggest mistakes in the language and had they actually added real closures early in the development of the language, the java programming world would be vastly better for it. It's not like closures are a new invention. There's no real excuse for it other than shortsightedness. It's the same level of retardation that gets you into the situation where new BigDecimal(0) doesn't actually equal zero. I could go on but I think I've made my point.
Ok, fair enough...don't trust the blogger. How about Bloomberg?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-07/flash-crash-story-looks-more-like-a-fairy-tale.html
Manual order triggers automated feeding frenzy.
1) They can get your email address very easily regardless, and
2) what do you think pays for all this free shit on the internet? unicorn farts?
How is Google evil when they're not the one serving up the ad? The ad is sourced from another company that has (hopefully) it's own opt-out options.
The SEC is full of shit. Here's a cute summary why: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-18/sec-uses-hft-firm-designed-tool-find-hft-doesnt-cause-flash-crashes.
Um...no. Children are not sociopaths. I don't know where people get this bullshit from.
I hate to tell you this but if you read books on a regular basis, you will find this word isn't all that rare. It's just rare to hear it in speech. Perhaps you should read more. Just a thought...
Oh please...congress raped the constitution long before these guys and they get re-elected time and time again. These people are saints by comparison.
Quality has nothing to do with the lack of higher denominations in the US. That said, I wish there were higher denominations in the US.
Or sometimes the listener is too stupid to get it even when it's so simple.
Don't worry...one day you'll grow up and realize that the world isn't a fantasy.
I made an argument, too bad you couldn't comprehend it.
Then you see things as an idiot sees them. Bravery != stupidity. Also, you don't fight government abuse by taking away any power the government has to protect its citizens. That's just fucking stupid. You must be very young to see the world this way. Idealism is cute and all but it's not how the world actually works. Ideals are things to strive for -- not actual implementation plans.
Name calling is the best you can do? That's what's pathetic. You confuse bravery with stupidity and that's a recipe for disaster. When your shitty little country does that, let me know; otherwise, you have no high horse to ride in on.