As an occasional pedestrian (less than once a month over the last 38 years) in Toronto I can testify that Toronto drivers are lousy. I've got a crossing signal and drivers are forcing their way through the crosswalks pedestrians be damned. I've even had a driver yell at me because he twice attempted to hit me and I refused to give him a third chance when he waved me through the crosswalk he had just vacated. Toronto drivers suck damn it. The cyclists suck too. Not fond of whatever the Toronto Cyclist Union is calling themselves these days either.
I gave up conventional cycling and ride an E-Bike due to a permanent leg injury that attempting to ride a conventional bike made worse.
I ride to work (about 20 miles or 30 km) I see lots of bad cyclists and bad drivers who violate the rules of the road constantly. E-Bike riders and surprisingly motorcycle drivers around here are *better* which is not to say perfect at best as a group they are *good*. I admit I sometimes make errors. I also get harassed by drivers telling me to "get on the sidewalk where I belong", by pedestrians telling me I'm not allowed on the bike path/lane or "shared use" paths (bikes, pedestrians, skaters and skateboarders etc) in spite of the law saying I'm to ride where conventional bikes do. Some if you talk to them and explain the actual law will acknowledge their error others won't even talk just yell and harass and deny anything you say - even when they are in fact riding their bike illegally with not lights for example. A few have complimented me on the care I take not to endanger other path users no matter how stupidly they behave.
I've been stopped by police 4 times. 1/ What are you riding, 2/ missed a stop sign that I couldn't see due to overhanging branches that blocked my view from near the curb. A driver who is nearer the center line could see it. Wasn't ticketed and now I watch across the road to see the back of stop signs facing the other way. 3/ My route took me on a path where there was a road block due to a fatal accident and I wasn't allowed through leaving me 3 choices, wait till the investigation ended (hours) go over a bridge with much faster traffic or go the wrong way on a one way street (no sidewalk to walk the bike on and in front of the cop) and 4/ The cop has a personal policy against E-Bikes on bike lanes. Yeah he was making up his own laws and got threatening when I asked about the law being changed and cited the actual law which I HAVE read. Only once had I made an actual error and that was because the sign was not visible from the curb where I am supposed to ride. As a conventional cyclist I was stopped once for my headlight not working. Since I was actually on a private parking lot not a street and the cop didn't see me on a street I don't know if he could have ticketed me or not legally. He accepted me partially true answer about the batteries dying, they had died the prior night and were in fact fully charged in the charger at home where I had forgotten them along with the topped up spared I'd finished that ride with so "It was true from a certain point of view":).
Paula Deen lost millions because she said a bad word about someone who had held a gun to her head, twenty years after it happened.
You know I'd never heard of this woman so I looked it up. You are in fact totally wrong.
She in fact did not have her show renewed when a court case was started against her, her brother and her company alleging "several instances of sexual and racial workplace discrimination." The gun incident was one she admitted (during the case as testimony) to using the word Nigger about and the show was already canceled by then, it didn't cause the cancellation.
Remember, Microsoft designed the tools that people use for creating the machines... the ACPI table in particular. And they were designed to shit on Linux.
Not quite accurate. Microsoft was one of a GROUP of companies that worked on that. If I recall correctly a E-Mail was unearthed in one of the anti Microsoft lawsuits (Comes?) from Bill Gates about how they should mess up ACPI when used on Linux.
This was the same Bill Gates who later went on about a "Kinder, gentler capitalism.
Worse than land mines. The land mine goes off once and is done with its killing/maiming. The "weapon" can keep killing until its magazine is empty and may be mobile to search out targets. The location land mines are deployed in can be known. A mobile autonomous weapon endangers a much larger area. If it can repower/refuel/reload itself the endangered area is much larger again. If it is intelligent enough it could use other resources to multiply its killing power such as firing weapons at targets to cause explosions (refinery tankage for example or tanker trucks). Intelligent enough and it could fight a guerrilla war lasting months or years.
Over the long term the danger of AI is our turning over the means of production to them then "provoking" them into attacking us. They need not even have self awareness or awareness of us as people, just have us be a problem to be solved where violence is the discovered solution.
Take it up with Disney for all the OUT OF COPYRIGHT works they plagiarized in making movies. They have benefitted greatly by the public domain but refuse to add to it.
Lucky fucking you. I've twice had updates screw the pooch. One when it replaced the CURRENT driver for the motherboard with a GENERIC and incompabtilbe one resulting in a bludescreen. The other was an IE update that blocked all access to the internet. You could CONNECT but NOT access with ANY program. Which is a good reason why IE should NEVER have been INTEGRATED with Windows. MY FUCKING COMPUTER MY FUCKING DECISIONS ON WHO CONTROLLS IT! Namely ME damnit!
Back in the 20s and 30s in the US, the mob ran roughshod over the land. The only way devised to corral them-- because of massive corruption on local, state, and federal levels-- was to invoke tax laws. It worked. It got Capone, and a bunch of the mob.
What really ended that era of gangsterism? Prohibition was repealed. We didn't see the return of that type of gangsterism until the war on drugs.
The war on drugs doesn't stop or restrict drug use it creates wealthy powerful gangsters.
This type of privacy violating law needs to go. If you are suspected of a crime the cops should need to get a warrant to have the banks show them your transactions. Monitoring your finances without a warrant is not fundamentally different than tapping your phone or planting a GPS on your car without one.
I've already encountered address errors where due to the GPS having erroneous data the driver was unwilling to accept he was not at the right place. How do you handle a robot that KNOWS it is droppng its load on you and it is wrong? A human can have the sign on the bulding and the street sign pointed out to them to prove they are wrong. How do you reason with the software?
How many loads redirected by hackers before they need men to "ride shotgun" on the load?
He SAYS he is giving away 90% of his wealth. Most of what he has "given" away so far is in his charity - which he controls. Tax free and growing. Much of what he gives away is to promote his own interests like when the Indian province had its education system going Linux till he gave them money to buy Microsoft stuff. His charity has also lobbied in support of patent laws that Microsoft likes and against those that would allow cheaper drugs for places like Africa. When you still control it and use it for your own benefit it hasn't been given away.
If someone in Germany downloaded Nazi stuff from you who should be liable under German law you or them? Your action was in your home nation and that is where you should be liable
Indeed - the page actually mentions the rhythm method, the Catholic's favoured method.
Someone please help me understand. How is the rhythm method not a form of contraception and as such just as much a sin as any other method of contraception?
Because they have faith that it isn't. Facts don't matter when you have faith.
A search is not unreasonable if it yields evidence of a crime. This case, if any, is a shining beacon for why we need ubiquitous surveillance, including private property. If it saves just one life, it's worth the effort.
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A search is not unreasonable if there are FACTS known that make it PROBABLE that it will yield evidence of a crime AND that judgement is made by a judge not by the one advocating the search.
Read 1984 by Orwell for a view of where "ubiquitous surveillance" leads. Note that novel is not a "How to manual" though it seems politicians disagree.
Only if you creatively redefine both of the terms to mean something they don't in a colloquial usage. Which, in turn, would make the great-grandparent's definition of life useless — because it did not contain the necessary (re)definitions of the terms it used.
Since the terms are used here in a scientific context colloquial definitions do not apply but scientific ones do.
Yeah, fuck them! How dare they try to protect themselves from theft on PRIVATE property that no one is REQUIRED to go to.
Fuck them indeed.
The MPAA does not own the copyrights. (Copyright misappropriation is also not theft). The MPAA also does not own the theatres. So they don't really get to set the rules as they are also not the government.
The majority of us did not have money to spare for Macs. I have no doubt that they were the best personal computers around. I used them.
For less expensive computers, there was the BASIC interpreter. Not as WYSIWYG or simple and Beginners need to think when coding, even at that level. It also had the advantage of being close to a standard untill MS teurned it into QBasic then dumped it.
BASIC is what we need again but standardised and improved a lot.
http://freebasic.net/
Official Website
FreeBASIC is a free/open source (GPL), BASIC compiler for Microsoft Windows, DOS and Linux.
When used in its "QB" language mode, FreeBASIC provides a high level of support for programs written for QuickBASIC. Many programs written for QuickBASIC will compile and run in this mode with no changes needed. However, for compilation in the FreeBASIC default language mode, most substantial programs will require changes.
FreeBASIC is a self-hosting compiler which makes use of the GNU binutils programming tools as backends and can produce console, graphical/GUI executables, dynamic and static libraries. FreeBASIC fully supports the use of C libraries and has partial C++ library support. This lets programmers use and create libraries for C and many other languages. It supports a C style preprocessor, capable of multiline macros, conditional compiling and file inclusion.
FreeBASIC has been rated close in speed with mainstream tools, such as GCC.
Put your "new atheism" away and grant them equal respect;.
Ok. So what respect do they grant others? They condemn them to eternal suffering for having the audacity to not believe as they are told to believe without evidence. They assume that they are superior due to their faith and any unbeliever or other believer is automatically wrong. I don't think they want to be treated that badly. I've had a bible thumper tell me that I should be burnt at the stake. Don't think he wants that for himself though.
They want to be treated better than they want to treat others. Doesn't work well.
Just because they are religious doesn't entitle them to respect. Otherwise they would respect the Taliban and honour killing and genital mutilation etc etc.
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As an occasional pedestrian (less than once a month over the last 38 years) in Toronto I can testify that Toronto drivers are lousy. I've got a crossing signal and drivers are forcing their way through the crosswalks pedestrians be damned. I've even had a driver yell at me because he twice attempted to hit me and I refused to give him a third chance when he waved me through the crosswalk he had just vacated. Toronto drivers suck damn it. The cyclists suck too. Not fond of whatever the Toronto Cyclist Union is calling themselves these days either.
I gave up conventional cycling and ride an E-Bike due to a permanent leg injury that attempting to ride a conventional bike made worse.
I ride to work (about 20 miles or 30 km) I see lots of bad cyclists and bad drivers who violate the rules of the road constantly. E-Bike riders and surprisingly motorcycle drivers around here are *better* which is not to say perfect at best as a group they are *good*. I admit I sometimes make errors. I also get harassed by drivers telling me to "get on the sidewalk where I belong", by pedestrians telling me I'm not allowed on the bike path/lane or "shared use" paths (bikes, pedestrians, skaters and skateboarders etc) in spite of the law saying I'm to ride where conventional bikes do. Some if you talk to them and explain the actual law will acknowledge their error others won't even talk just yell and harass and deny anything you say - even when they are in fact riding their bike illegally with not lights for example. A few have complimented me on the care I take not to endanger other path users no matter how stupidly they behave.
I've been stopped by police 4 times. 1/ What are you riding, 2/ missed a stop sign that I couldn't see due to overhanging branches that blocked my view from near the curb. A driver who is nearer the center line could see it. Wasn't ticketed and now I watch across the road to see the back of stop signs facing the other way. 3/ My route took me on a path where there was a road block due to a fatal accident and I wasn't allowed through leaving me 3 choices, wait till the investigation ended (hours) go over a bridge with much faster traffic or go the wrong way on a one way street (no sidewalk to walk the bike on and in front of the cop) and 4/ The cop has a personal policy against E-Bikes on bike lanes. Yeah he was making up his own laws and got threatening when I asked about the law being changed and cited the actual law which I HAVE read. Only once had I made an actual error and that was because the sign was not visible from the curb where I am supposed to ride. As a conventional cyclist I was stopped once for my headlight not working. Since I was actually on a private parking lot not a street and the cop didn't see me on a street I don't know if he could have ticketed me or not legally. He accepted me partially true answer about the batteries dying, they had died the prior night and were in fact fully charged in the charger at home where I had forgotten them along with the topped up spared I'd finished that ride with so "It was true from a certain point of view" :) .
You know I'd never heard of this woman so I looked it up. You are in fact totally wrong.
She in fact did not have her show renewed when a court case was started against her, her brother and her company alleging "several instances of sexual and racial workplace discrimination." The gun incident was one she admitted (during the case as testimony) to using the word Nigger about and the show was already canceled by then, it didn't cause the cancellation.
Not quite accurate. Microsoft was one of a GROUP of companies that worked on that. If I recall correctly a E-Mail was unearthed in one of the anti Microsoft lawsuits (Comes?) from Bill Gates about how they should mess up ACPI when used on Linux.
This was the same Bill Gates who later went on about a "Kinder, gentler capitalism.
Worse than land mines. The land mine goes off once and is done with its killing/maiming. The "weapon" can keep killing until its magazine is empty and may be mobile to search out targets. The location land mines are deployed in can be known. A mobile autonomous weapon endangers a much larger area. If it can repower/refuel/reload itself the endangered area is much larger again. If it is intelligent enough it could use other resources to multiply its killing power such as firing weapons at targets to cause explosions (refinery tankage for example or tanker trucks). Intelligent enough and it could fight a guerrilla war lasting months or years.
Over the long term the danger of AI is our turning over the means of production to them then "provoking" them into attacking us. They need not even have self awareness or awareness of us as people, just have us be a problem to be solved where violence is the discovered solution.
Take it up with Disney for all the OUT OF COPYRIGHT works they plagiarized in making movies. They have benefitted greatly by the public domain but refuse to add to it.
Lucky fucking you. I've twice had updates screw the pooch. One when it replaced the CURRENT driver for the motherboard with a GENERIC and incompabtilbe one resulting in a bludescreen. The other was an IE update that blocked all access to the internet. You could CONNECT but NOT access with ANY program. Which is a good reason why IE should NEVER have been INTEGRATED with Windows. MY FUCKING COMPUTER MY FUCKING DECISIONS ON WHO CONTROLLS IT! Namely ME damnit!
Mentor of Arisia.
Statistically some will be "special". Just because you are not doesn't mean they won't be.
So how fast does it run SETI@home?
Back in the 20s and 30s in the US, the mob ran roughshod over the land. The only way devised to corral them-- because of massive corruption on local, state, and federal levels-- was to invoke tax laws. It worked. It got Capone, and a bunch of the mob.
What really ended that era of gangsterism? Prohibition was repealed. We didn't see the return of that type of gangsterism until the war on drugs.
The war on drugs doesn't stop or restrict drug use it creates wealthy powerful gangsters.
This type of privacy violating law needs to go. If you are suspected of a crime the cops should need to get a warrant to have the banks show them your transactions. Monitoring your finances without a warrant is not fundamentally different than tapping your phone or planting a GPS on your car without one.
I've already encountered address errors where due to the GPS having erroneous data the driver was unwilling to accept he was not at the right place. How do you handle a robot that KNOWS it is droppng its load on you and it is wrong? A human can have the sign on the bulding and the street sign pointed out to them to prove they are wrong. How do you reason with the software?
How many loads redirected by hackers before they need men to "ride shotgun" on the load?
Its in the secret part of course. You aren't authorized to see it of course.
He SAYS he is giving away 90% of his wealth. Most of what he has "given" away so far is in his charity - which he controls. Tax free and growing. Much of what he gives away is to promote his own interests like when the Indian province had its education system going Linux till he gave them money to buy Microsoft stuff. His charity has also lobbied in support of patent laws that Microsoft likes and against those that would allow cheaper drugs for places like Africa. When you still control it and use it for your own benefit it hasn't been given away.
Finally proof of the existance of the Ether. Now onto the subether. R.I.P E.E. Smith. ;)
If someone in Germany downloaded Nazi stuff from you who should be liable under German law you or them? Your action was in your home nation and that is where you should be liable
You would submit a problem ticket. If enough people submit them, it becomes a priority for a paid developer to address the issue.
It becomes a priority to fix for the next paid for release. For a patch to the current release? Only if they must.
Indeed - the page actually mentions the rhythm method, the Catholic's favoured method.
Someone please help me understand. How is the rhythm method not a form of contraception and as such just as much a sin as any other method of contraception?
Because they have faith that it isn't. Facts don't matter when you have faith.
No problem so long as it says "Eat ME!"
A search is not unreasonable if it yields evidence of a crime. This case, if any, is a shining beacon for why we need ubiquitous surveillance, including private property. If it saves just one life, it's worth the effort.
Incomplete
A search is not unreasonable if there are FACTS known that make it PROBABLE that it will yield evidence of a crime AND that judgement is made by a judge not by the one advocating the search.
Read 1984 by Orwell for a view of where "ubiquitous surveillance" leads. Note that novel is not a "How to manual" though it seems politicians disagree.
Only if you creatively redefine both of the terms to mean something they don't in a colloquial usage. Which, in turn, would make the great-grandparent's definition of life useless — because it did not contain the necessary (re)definitions of the terms it used.
Since the terms are used here in a scientific context colloquial definitions do not apply but scientific ones do.
Yeah, fuck them! How dare they try to protect themselves from theft on PRIVATE property that no one is REQUIRED to go to. Fuck them indeed.
The MPAA does not own the copyrights. (Copyright misappropriation is also not theft). The MPAA also does not own the theatres. So they don't really get to set the rules as they are also not the government.
The majority of us did not have money to spare for Macs. I have no doubt that they were the best personal computers around. I used them.
For less expensive computers, there was the BASIC interpreter. Not as WYSIWYG or simple and Beginners need to think when coding, even at that level. It also had the advantage of being close to a standard untill MS teurned it into QBasic then dumped it.
BASIC is what we need again but standardised and improved a lot.
http://freebasic.net/
Official Website
FreeBASIC is a free/open source (GPL), BASIC compiler for Microsoft Windows, DOS and Linux.
When used in its "QB" language mode, FreeBASIC provides a high level of support for programs written for QuickBASIC. Many programs written for QuickBASIC will compile and run in this mode with no changes needed. However, for compilation in the FreeBASIC default language mode, most substantial programs will require changes.
FreeBASIC is a self-hosting compiler which makes use of the GNU binutils programming tools as backends and can produce console, graphical/GUI executables, dynamic and static libraries. FreeBASIC fully supports the use of C libraries and has partial C++ library support. This lets programmers use and create libraries for C and many other languages. It supports a C style preprocessor, capable of multiline macros, conditional compiling and file inclusion.
FreeBASIC has been rated close in speed with mainstream tools, such as GCC.
Put your "new atheism" away and grant them equal respect;.
Ok. So what respect do they grant others? They condemn them to eternal suffering for having the audacity to not believe as they are told to believe without evidence. They assume that they are superior due to their faith and any unbeliever or other believer is automatically wrong. I don't think they want to be treated that badly. I've had a bible thumper tell me that I should be burnt at the stake. Don't think he wants that for himself though.
They want to be treated better than they want to treat others. Doesn't work well.
Just because they are religious doesn't entitle them to respect. Otherwise they would respect the Taliban and honour killing and genital mutilation etc etc.
The No True Scotsman fallacy has been replaced by the Pure Enkaran fallacy courtesy of Babylon 5.