Socialism is not social.
Socialism and National Socialism are completely opposite ideologies. Except for the authoritarianism, the death camps, the political prisoners....
The only idiots who think National Socialism is (present tense) not socialism are, unsurprisingly, socialists.
My information comes from an ex-Nazi. NSDAP was a teacher's union. Then Hitler took over and added a bunch of New Age mysticism.
Mussolini's trip from socialist to fascist was even faster.
Whenever a socialist institution fails, often murderously, it is tacitly removed from the roster. You hear the word games all the damn time, "Communism is not Socialism" and "Nazism is not Socialism" and "Marxism is not Marxist."
Yet while the regimes lasted, they collected academic honors and public accolades from the West's fifth column. Pol Pot was their hero for a while. As was Robert Mugabe. Castro still is. I suppose it helps if you don't look too close, or talk to people who lived under these socialists.
The biggest difference is the body count. Communist Socialism has killed a hundred million humans. The Nazis were merely their pikers.
I cannot recommend The Road to Serfdom highly enough. Left vs. Right is stupid, the real choice is between freedom and slavery.
160VDC potential, nearly the same as US household wall socket voltages. DC is as different from AC as black is from white black white black white black....
Bull, the chemistry sets were dumbed down long before 9-11. Anti-terrorism has nothing to do with it. It's all about chem-set manufacturers getting sued (by armies of trial lawyers) and the liberal nanny state "protecting" our kids. That's so right it bears repeating,
Bull, the chemistry sets were dumbed down long before 9-11. Anti-terrorism has nothing to do with it. It's all about chem-set manufacturers getting sued (by armies of trial lawyers) and the liberal nanny state "protecting" our kids. Imagine the disclaimers that would need to be printed on the box, in the instruction book, and on the individual reagent bottles....
"Do not drink copper sulfate solutions.... Bunsen burners may cause burns.... Remove baby before closing the instruction book...."
Would have to be printed in English, Chinese, Basque, and all other languages with more than three speakers, which thankfully means nobody will need to code a disclaimer for ASYST.
If barratry had been so popular two centuries ago, the Industrial Revolution would have been sued to death in its crib:
In its dangerous, Underwriters' Laboratory uninspected, two inches too high, bars too close together *and* too far apart, non-fire-retardant, lead-painted crib.
Here we are, six years in, and dickheads are still playing anti-semantic games.
A thing is what it is, no matter what it is called.
This thing is called "The War on Terror." The name means the thing, it does not define the thing. Not even a dictionary can define the referent.
It's just plain dishonest to complain about the name. If it had been called "The War on Terrorism" the same dickheads would be bitching that it should be called "The War on Terror."
Look at the nature of the enemy. Singletons, NGOs, and governments are all in the mix. This is no accident. By spreading responsibility among loosely-definable actors, they can get our dickhead fifth columnists to fight for them.
Make no mistake - those who complain about terminology at this late date are working for the enemy. They are too stupid to realize it since they are the issue (physically and intellectually) of several generations of useful idiots, so they can't be shot for treason. Besides, treason is cool.
The armed forces of the United States of America can defeat any (and probably all) other organized military on the planet. By the simple expedient of eschewing official organization, the enemy can throw our fifth columnists and their elected representatives into an infinite regress of dickhead definitions.
"The War on Terror" is a perfectly good name. "Terror" is an appropriately broad concept which includes singletons, NGOs, and governments. It includes non-Islamic terrorists such as LTTE. "Terror" in this sense includes "terrorism" and "terrorists."
"Terror" is the root class for the targeting of civilians and the forces tasked with their protection, and any actor who does so is engaging in terrorism and is a terrorist.
Of course, some anti-semantic asshole will point out that "interface" is a more specific term for this kind of "class" since "interface" can describe a structure which might not include any instance variables....
And by so missing my point, such dickheads will prove my point.
any field that has "Science" in the name isn't.. Which helps explain why my "Computer" Science classes had such a large component of Political Science, taking up to a quarter of the classroom time.
I blame Parnas.
It should be possible to get a science education in a Computer Science program. It should be possible to learn about computing in a Computer Science program.
As long as politics plays such a huge part in CS programs, their graduates will know precious little about computing or science.
Maybe in a couple of centuries it will have the rigor of a decent scientific discipline. There is a lot of damage to repair.
Until then, I prefer the term "Practical Logician."
I shudder to think would would happen if the tuning system got activated accidentally mid-song. And I am wondering how it would sound to go from slack-key to 12et while playing. Holding a single chord and letting the thing try its best.
No, they just blow up abortion clinics, but somehow, that's not labeled "terrorism".
It most certainly is terrorism, and is treated as such, even by President Bush's
FBI:
"A Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested and charged a 27-year-old for allegedly planting a bomb at a women's health clinic in South Austin that performs abortion procedures."
There's no telling who he could have hurt or killed with his bomb. The mailman. The utility meter reader. Someone on the bomb squad cleaning up his mess. I-35 was partially closed, increasing traffic danger.
It is for jackasses like this that the death penalty must remain.
I fired her a week later because he had no clue how a FET worked! Golly, I knew that in fifth grade. Because FETs are like tubes and I understood tubes. Of course, the math was above my head, I was only about four foot tall.
Ain't it fun teaching graduates with technical degrees from allegedly decent schools? Things like what "ground" is, and where to look up RS-232 signaling.
Time to tear down the schools and go back to guilds and apprenticeships.
Ironically, the FUD comes from greens, that should be supporting the things. But then again they've protested hydroelectric (kills fish), wind (kills birds), geothermal (OMG, it is cooling our crusts), so/shrug. That's because Greens have a very tiny, self-centered view of the world.
They want the world to look pretty, and do not care who gets hurt to make it that way.
The very concept of a "gigawatt" scares the hell out of them, no matter how it is generated, no matter how it is used. Human activity is bad.
These self-centered aesthetes do not want to understand modernity. Note how their aintellectuals delight in "post-modern" fantasies. How their only answer to millenia of progress is "deconstruction," a synonym for destruction, a mass of ideas so stupid even Noam Chomsky called bullshit on it.
And they have the gall to call themselves "Progressives."
Greens puff up their pride by speaking for things that cannot speak. They speak for animals they will never see. They speak for land they do not own. They speak for rivers, for mountains, for the very air and sky.
If they do not see themselves as religious fundamentalists, they need mirrors.
It is why they are allied with Islamic fundamentalists: their goal, all of them, is a return to a pre-modern Dark Age. Back when there were far fewer than a billion humans.
George Washington and our founding fathers were considered terrorists. Because he targeted so many babies and burned down so many towns. Held all those hostages. Shot civilians in cold blood.
Please.
Nobody with a brain ever considered George Washington a terrorist.
I suspect you're confused because so many real terrorists, like Ho Chi Minh, have compared themselves to George Washington. There are millions of useless idiots who believe claims like Ho's, and some of them may have forced you to parrot their idiocy to pass their class.
It's okay now. You can think for yourself. Don't be scared of thinking, researching, learning. Start with a dictionary to learn what "terrorist" means, and an encyclopedia to learn a general outline of Washington's life.
To really open your mind to the possibilities of Washington, you might also learn about and keep in mind the concept of "ethics," especially that component which is alien to terrorists and aintellectuals alike: honor.
They actually have legislation in place to prevent the media from reporting about the final results in the eastern and central provinces while polling stations are still open in the west! Why the fuck can't the US manage that? We cannot manage that because one party has control of the media.
Ja, ja, there are two exceptions, and look how the Party-controlled media reacts to them.
Naturally, the Party uses its media to its advantage. Which is why the Party reported their wishes for 2000's Florida vote as fact, before the polls had closed in Florida.
Then the gallmonging Party accused their opponents of voter suppression!
Care to point out the flaws in the study? A W is one of the two test glyphs.
For nearly seven years, the W has been a bumper sticker in itself, with one version set in a classy serif face on a plain black field, and another version in fascist angular red white and black.
He should have chosen less loaded symbols, like SEX and TAX.
This "study" wouldn't, or shouldn't, pass in a sixth grade science class.
Do we have another Sokal affair here? Somebody just trying to find out if editors are asleep?
There are plenty of arguments that argue for everyone having nukes. Because the Janjaweed are such nice people!
Okay, okay, you meant "governments" by the word "everyone."
Because President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is such a sane sensible person. Much smarter than Bush, too. Better-looking than the nuclear-armed Mad Magyar Sarkrazy!
To hell with humanitarian missions. What the Third World really needs is their own nuclear weapons.
How could a mod call this a flame?
It shares half a shelf with the Standard ML and Haskell books. The other half taken up by the shrink wrapped "The Art of Computer Programming" that has been sitting on there since the store opened. That's funny.
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This is still an issue because it is yet another way to attack America.
They go for the troops in the field.
They go for the generals in Congress.
They go for the President in Washington.
It is all of a piece. Attack, attack, attack.
The only idiots who think National Socialism is (present tense) not socialism are, unsurprisingly, socialists.
My information comes from an ex-Nazi. NSDAP was a teacher's union. Then Hitler took over and added a bunch of New Age mysticism.
Mussolini's trip from socialist to fascist was even faster.
Whenever a socialist institution fails, often murderously, it is tacitly removed from the roster. You hear the word games all the damn time, "Communism is not Socialism" and "Nazism is not Socialism" and "Marxism is not Marxist."
Yet while the regimes lasted, they collected academic honors and public accolades from the West's fifth column. Pol Pot was their hero for a while. As was Robert Mugabe. Castro still is. I suppose it helps if you don't look too close, or talk to people who lived under these socialists.
The biggest difference is the body count. Communist Socialism has killed a hundred million humans. The Nazis were merely their pikers.
I cannot recommend The Road to Serfdom highly enough. Left vs. Right is stupid, the real choice is between freedom and slavery.
Not this useless Vaughn Walker again.
Bad judge, bad decision.
Yup.
An "unusual starting substance" would be something like pure boron.
Well, I learned last night that you can make your own steroids with Red Bull and Super Glue so it's time to dust off the pyrex!
Chili killed the dinosaurs?
Damn, I gotta try some of that!
"Do not drink copper sulfate solutions.... Bunsen burners may cause burns.... Remove baby before closing the instruction book...."
Would have to be printed in English, Chinese, Basque, and all other languages with more than three speakers, which thankfully means nobody will need to code a disclaimer for ASYST.
If barratry had been so popular two centuries ago, the Industrial Revolution would have been sued to death in its crib:
In its dangerous, Underwriters' Laboratory uninspected, two inches too high, bars too close together *and* too far apart, non-fire-retardant, lead-painted crib.
Here we are, six years in, and dickheads are still playing anti-semantic games.
A thing is what it is, no matter what it is called.
This thing is called "The War on Terror." The name means the thing, it does not define the thing. Not even a dictionary can define the referent.
It's just plain dishonest to complain about the name. If it had been called "The War on Terrorism" the same dickheads would be bitching that it should be called "The War on Terror."
Look at the nature of the enemy. Singletons, NGOs, and governments are all in the mix. This is no accident. By spreading responsibility among loosely-definable actors, they can get our dickhead fifth columnists to fight for them.
Make no mistake - those who complain about terminology at this late date are working for the enemy. They are too stupid to realize it since they are the issue (physically and intellectually) of several generations of useful idiots, so they can't be shot for treason. Besides, treason is cool.
The armed forces of the United States of America can defeat any (and probably all) other organized military on the planet. By the simple expedient of eschewing official organization, the enemy can throw our fifth columnists and their elected representatives into an infinite regress of dickhead definitions.
"The War on Terror" is a perfectly good name. "Terror" is an appropriately broad concept which includes singletons, NGOs, and governments. It includes non-Islamic terrorists such as LTTE. "Terror" in this sense includes "terrorism" and "terrorists."
"Terror" is the root class for the targeting of civilians and the forces tasked with their protection, and any actor who does so is engaging in terrorism and is a terrorist.
Of course, some anti-semantic asshole will point out that "interface" is a more specific term for this kind of "class" since "interface" can describe a structure which might not include any instance variables....
And by so missing my point, such dickheads will prove my point.
I blame Parnas.
It should be possible to get a science education in a Computer Science program. It should be possible to learn about computing in a Computer Science program.
As long as politics plays such a huge part in CS programs, their graduates will know precious little about computing or science.
Maybe in a couple of centuries it will have the rigor of a decent scientific discipline. There is a lot of damage to repair.
Until then, I prefer the term "Practical Logician."
You know that Eddie adjusts his B string to make the thirds okay for the songs that need them. Watch for it.
(having started van Halen worship late in life I make up for it by assuming false familiarity, ergo "Eddie")
Me trying to break strings but only succeeding in pulling out the patch cord.
It most certainly is terrorism, and is treated as such, even by President Bush's FBI:
"A Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested and charged a 27-year-old for allegedly planting a bomb at a women's health clinic in South Austin that performs abortion procedures."
There's no telling who he could have hurt or killed with his bomb. The mailman. The utility meter reader. Someone on the bomb squad cleaning up his mess. I-35 was partially closed, increasing traffic danger.
It is for jackasses like this that the death penalty must remain.
Ain't it fun teaching graduates with technical degrees from allegedly decent schools? Things like what "ground" is, and where to look up RS-232 signaling.
Time to tear down the schools and go back to guilds and apprenticeships.
They want the world to look pretty, and do not care who gets hurt to make it that way.
The very concept of a "gigawatt" scares the hell out of them, no matter how it is generated, no matter how it is used. Human activity is bad.
These self-centered aesthetes do not want to understand modernity. Note how their aintellectuals delight in "post-modern" fantasies. How their only answer to millenia of progress is "deconstruction," a synonym for destruction, a mass of ideas so stupid even Noam Chomsky called bullshit on it.
And they have the gall to call themselves "Progressives."
Greens puff up their pride by speaking for things that cannot speak. They speak for animals they will never see. They speak for land they do not own. They speak for rivers, for mountains, for the very air and sky.
If they do not see themselves as religious fundamentalists, they need mirrors.
It is why they are allied with Islamic fundamentalists: their goal, all of them, is a return to a pre-modern Dark Age. Back when there were far fewer than a billion humans.
The only honest, moral Green is a suicide.
Here's a hint: if an organization's name has the word "responsibility" in it, that organization is full of shit.
Move on to a better source.
Please.
Nobody with a brain ever considered George Washington a terrorist.
I suspect you're confused because so many real terrorists, like Ho Chi Minh, have compared themselves to George Washington. There are millions of useless idiots who believe claims like Ho's, and some of them may have forced you to parrot their idiocy to pass their class.
It's okay now. You can think for yourself. Don't be scared of thinking, researching, learning. Start with a dictionary to learn what "terrorist" means, and an encyclopedia to learn a general outline of Washington's life.
To really open your mind to the possibilities of Washington, you might also learn about and keep in mind the concept of "ethics," especially that component which is alien to terrorists and aintellectuals alike: honor.
Gutsy Gibbon sure can play guitar!
If John Noble Wilford went to work for another paper, the NYT could and should shut down.
It's amazing that a competent reporter would want to work for such a pile of shit as the NYT.
Like does cure like.
That's the way it works with alcohol.
Ja, ja, there are two exceptions, and look how the Party-controlled media reacts to them.
Naturally, the Party uses its media to its advantage. Which is why the Party reported their wishes for 2000's Florida vote as fact, before the polls had closed in Florida.
Then the gallmonging Party accused their opponents of voter suppression!
For nearly seven years, the W has been a bumper sticker in itself, with one version set in a classy serif face on a plain black field, and another version in fascist angular red white and black.
He should have chosen less loaded symbols, like SEX and TAX.
This "study" wouldn't, or shouldn't, pass in a sixth grade science class.
Do we have another Sokal affair here? Somebody just trying to find out if editors are asleep?
Okay, okay, you meant "governments" by the word "everyone."
Because President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is such a sane sensible person. Much smarter than Bush, too. Better-looking than the nuclear-armed Mad Magyar Sarkrazy!
To hell with humanitarian missions. What the Third World really needs is their own nuclear weapons.
Bono is such a fool.