Dear AC, perhaps we are using different definitions of "obsession." Here's mine: when something cannot possibly benefit your life in any measurable way whatsoever, and you devote energy to pursuing it anyway, this is something of an obsession.
Sorry, no; an obsession is just a troubling preoccupation. Benefit has nothing to do with it.
Of course I read the summary. Don't be stupid. The article is not about men. It is about men who are attracted to women. There is an underlying heterosexual assumption.
Would you argue that from a scientific, logic point of view, homosexuality is not a flaw? I mean, if ever I saw a trait that evolution would suppress, this would be it.
Why is that the measure of whether something is acceptable? Besides, if you're going to be perfectly "logical" and "scientific" about this, then you should be rejecting the supposition that homosexuality is a trait that evolution would suppress--because it hasn't been suppressed, has it?
gay people are different
Different from what? Heterosexuals? Why is that the measure? And I challenge you to define "heterosexual" and "homosexual" as distinct identities in such a way that they meaningfully describe people's behavior. It's not possible.
You were told that because you're flying airplanes in which getting out of a flat spin is practically impossible. It is quite possible to get out of a flat spin if your engines have vectored thrust.
As another poster noted below, you can make it even shorter by omitting "unsigned." The only operations performed on the members of s are & and +, which operate identically on signed and unsigned integers.
Well, you failed, but not because of your comments about work. You seem to be suggesting that when a baby wakes up in the middle of the night, it is beyond comprehension for the baby's father to get up and take care of it.
There ya go. And no, it doesn't just affect HTTP. They're intercepting NX responses from DNS, so any software that relies on DNS--anything that has anything to do with the Internet--won't work properly when a nonexistent domain is entered.
This isn't about the web, this is about the Internet--there's a difference. The web is just one tiny piece of the Internet, and there are 65,000 other services that require a properly functioning domain name system. Screwing it up in a way that only "works" for the web is totally unacceptable.
A-fucking-men. I'm reminded of a thread a few years back about "what makes a geek." There was all kinds of self-aggrandizing masturbatory bullshit about being more intellectually inclined than everyone else, or more naturally curious--the implication being that non-geeks are just stupid couch potatoes who have no redeeming interests or ideas about anything. But the quality that really stands out, time after time, is the need to prove others wrong. This point is reinforced every time someone's spelling is sarcastically corrected, every time a reply starts with simply "No." or "Um," and every time someone is made fun of for not having encyclopedic knowledge of a particular subject. And it's being reinforced right now, by this stupid fucking article about a person who is so hard up to point and laugh at someone that he can't take the time to stop and think about how the thing he's disparaging might be valuable, even if he's right.
I'm as guilty of it as anyone else. Look at my comment history and you'll find that I have, quite recently, given people shit for being wrong about something. But it's fucking bullshit, it's the reason the rest of the world hates us, and it needs to stop.
I think you have this precisely backwards. The GPL is about protecting the rights of users to modify the software they use and distribute those modifications. So it does, in fact, give control to the end user--the sort of control that Microsoft does not tend to give--while the author relinquishes some control.
The reason it's OK to make an all-black group but not an all-white group is that white people are the ones with the privilege, the ones who bought and sold black people as slaves, and the ones who still, today, enjoy advantages that are invisible to them but plainly visible to everyone else. We teach white history in schools. White people still dominate positions of power in business, law, medicine--you name it. We *just now* finally got around to putting the first Chinese American in Congress, the first African American in the Oval Office, and the first Latina on the Supreme Court. And we still have a long way to go before we have anything that even remotely resembles racial equality. So, no, you can't make an all-white group, because that would only reinforce the existing racial power asymmetries; but it's OK to make an all-black group because they still suffer at the hands of these asymmetries.
For the record, the site really isn't too much more than a place were people post random news, and a forum which is dominated by in-fighting, trolling, and a bizarre 'shit-in-his-shoes' meme
So you're saying it's essentially identical to Slashdot, but with an unfortunate twist on "hot-grits-in-pants."
This is one of the most irritating things about working in Ruby. Most of the people writing gems don't seem to have ever learned version numbering conventions, so it's not at all uncommon to have a point release (e.g., 1.1.2 -> 1.1.3) that breaks API compatibility. The Merb folks have been the worst offenders, in my experience.
The most irritating thing about this is that the documentation for the gem system has an entire section devoted to version numbers. It very clearly explains the major/minor/bug fix convention. Evidently nobody has read it.
This is a curious description of how aviation works in the U.S. While it's certainly possible for GA flights to "do their own thing" if they stay out of any airspace more restrictive than Class E, this is by no means representative of GA as a whole. A Cessna flying under instrument rules will be in constant contact with ATC. Even if you're just flying under visual rules, you have to get landing and takeoff clearances at controlled airports, you need a clearance to enter Class B airspace, and you need permission to transition through Classes C and D. Outside of controlled airspace, a pilot flying under visual rules can voluntarily request radar advisories. And at the extreme end, corporate and charter jets are considered GA too, and they fly in Class A airspace every day.
But to answer the original question, you're not required to file a flight plan if you're flying under visual rules. If you choose to file, the FAA isn't required to give you a weather briefing at that time, but most pilots ask for one.
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Dear AC, perhaps we are using different definitions of "obsession." Here's mine: when something cannot possibly benefit your life in any measurable way whatsoever, and you devote energy to pursuing it anyway, this is something of an obsession.
Sorry, no; an obsession is just a troubling preoccupation. Benefit has nothing to do with it.
Well, strictly speaking, a UTI is a burning need for cranberry juice.
Of course I read the summary. Don't be stupid. The article is not about men. It is about men who are attracted to women. There is an underlying heterosexual assumption.
I object to the suggestion that only men (and all men, at that) are attracted to women.
Yes, I recall reading a warning about this in (I think) the literature that came with my 360.
Would you argue that from a scientific, logic point of view, homosexuality is not a flaw? I mean, if ever I saw a trait that evolution would suppress, this would be it.
Why is that the measure of whether something is acceptable? Besides, if you're going to be perfectly "logical" and "scientific" about this, then you should be rejecting the supposition that homosexuality is a trait that evolution would suppress--because it hasn't been suppressed, has it?
gay people are different
Different from what? Heterosexuals? Why is that the measure? And I challenge you to define "heterosexual" and "homosexual" as distinct identities in such a way that they meaningfully describe people's behavior. It's not possible.
Nope.
You were told that because you're flying airplanes in which getting out of a flat spin is practically impossible. It is quite possible to get out of a flat spin if your engines have vectored thrust.
As another poster noted below, you can make it even shorter by omitting "unsigned." The only operations performed on the members of s are & and +, which operate identically on signed and unsigned integers.
I'm not trying to be misogynist here
Well, you failed, but not because of your comments about work. You seem to be suggesting that when a baby wakes up in the middle of the night, it is beyond comprehension for the baby's father to get up and take care of it.
If any one feature could ensure the continuation of C++ as a language
I see what you did there.
Yup.
cat /etc/services
There ya go. And no, it doesn't just affect HTTP. They're intercepting NX responses from DNS, so any software that relies on DNS--anything that has anything to do with the Internet--won't work properly when a nonexistent domain is entered.
This isn't about the web, this is about the Internet--there's a difference. The web is just one tiny piece of the Internet, and there are 65,000 other services that require a properly functioning domain name system. Screwing it up in a way that only "works" for the web is totally unacceptable.
A-fucking-men. I'm reminded of a thread a few years back about "what makes a geek." There was all kinds of self-aggrandizing masturbatory bullshit about being more intellectually inclined than everyone else, or more naturally curious--the implication being that non-geeks are just stupid couch potatoes who have no redeeming interests or ideas about anything. But the quality that really stands out, time after time, is the need to prove others wrong. This point is reinforced every time someone's spelling is sarcastically corrected, every time a reply starts with simply "No." or "Um," and every time someone is made fun of for not having encyclopedic knowledge of a particular subject. And it's being reinforced right now, by this stupid fucking article about a person who is so hard up to point and laugh at someone that he can't take the time to stop and think about how the thing he's disparaging might be valuable, even if he's right.
I'm as guilty of it as anyone else. Look at my comment history and you'll find that I have, quite recently, given people shit for being wrong about something. But it's fucking bullshit, it's the reason the rest of the world hates us, and it needs to stop.
The day Slashdot finally figures out character encodings is... well, at this rate, probably never.
I think you have this precisely backwards. The GPL is about protecting the rights of users to modify the software they use and distribute those modifications. So it does, in fact, give control to the end user--the sort of control that Microsoft does not tend to give--while the author relinquishes some control.
Agreed. The responses to this article are revolting. :/
The reason it's OK to make an all-black group but not an all-white group is that white people are the ones with the privilege, the ones who bought and sold black people as slaves, and the ones who still, today, enjoy advantages that are invisible to them but plainly visible to everyone else. We teach white history in schools. White people still dominate positions of power in business, law, medicine--you name it. We *just now* finally got around to putting the first Chinese American in Congress, the first African American in the Oval Office, and the first Latina on the Supreme Court. And we still have a long way to go before we have anything that even remotely resembles racial equality. So, no, you can't make an all-white group, because that would only reinforce the existing racial power asymmetries; but it's OK to make an all-black group because they still suffer at the hands of these asymmetries.
arranging some catering
;-)
Ah yes, I remember fondly my days as a raver: the music, the community, the delectable hors d'oeuvres...
For the record, the site really isn't too much more than a place were people post random news, and a forum which is dominated by in-fighting, trolling, and a bizarre 'shit-in-his-shoes' meme
So you're saying it's essentially identical to Slashdot, but with an unfortunate twist on "hot-grits-in-pants."
I always assumed it was a movie. ;)
This is one of the most irritating things about working in Ruby. Most of the people writing gems don't seem to have ever learned version numbering conventions, so it's not at all uncommon to have a point release (e.g., 1.1.2 -> 1.1.3) that breaks API compatibility. The Merb folks have been the worst offenders, in my experience.
The most irritating thing about this is that the documentation for the gem system has an entire section devoted to version numbers. It very clearly explains the major/minor/bug fix convention. Evidently nobody has read it.
Oh good, let's keep equating gay people with pedophiles, and let's do it on hearsay and rumor. Lovely.
This is a curious description of how aviation works in the U.S. While it's certainly possible for GA flights to "do their own thing" if they stay out of any airspace more restrictive than Class E, this is by no means representative of GA as a whole. A Cessna flying under instrument rules will be in constant contact with ATC. Even if you're just flying under visual rules, you have to get landing and takeoff clearances at controlled airports, you need a clearance to enter Class B airspace, and you need permission to transition through Classes C and D. Outside of controlled airspace, a pilot flying under visual rules can voluntarily request radar advisories. And at the extreme end, corporate and charter jets are considered GA too, and they fly in Class A airspace every day.
But to answer the original question, you're not required to file a flight plan if you're flying under visual rules. If you choose to file, the FAA isn't required to give you a weather briefing at that time, but most pilots ask for one.