Ahhh. Makes sense sort of. I picked up on the "Arguments must be capitalized" thing, but not that functions must *not* be capitalized. It works fine for me when I don't capitalize the function.
Since I'm totally new to it I might be doing something wrong. The simple example I posted before doesn't spew parens anymore so you obviously did something. This doesn't work though:
Factorial Number = if (Number <=1 ) then 1 else (Number * Factorial (Number -1))
Factorial 5
if ( 5 ( if ( 1 ( if ( 1 ( if ( 1 ( if ( 1 ( if ( 1 ( if ( 1 ( if
(can't post due to Slashdot lameness filter, much stuff like ( 1 * <= ( 1 - 1 ) ) ) ) then 1 else then 1 else ( 5 * Factorial ( 5 - 1 ) )
California's large Mexican population makes Mexican Coca-Cola readily available. The bottles are Spanish, with English stickers stuck on after import. Read the sticker carefully, they do make some HFCS soda in Mexico too; but most are real sugar. Also, the Mexican Coke comes in green 355 mL bottles. I just wish it came in the little 8 oz. bottles; but you can't have everything.
What about the 98.6%? We aren't billionaires. We aren't communists. We just want common sense. We're not radical. We're well-balanced, healthy centrists. The only options being presented are all burning with a deathbed fever of corporate fascism or hard-left radicalism that will leave us dying in a sweat-soaked poltical deathbed.
It's a fine idea until 1337 Polibot wins by a margin of 4 billion votes in a write-in campaign and the referendum on dictatorial powers pases. Then the first act of the administration requires us to do our taxes in binary and funds a "Kill all humans" campaign. What? A glitch you say? We can't change it. It's democracy. It's sacred. Kill all humans.
LOL, a small fraction of acres poorly managed in Virginia, a little buildup from some other posters, and I wonder how many people who have not visited both states will start to think they look similar.
In Virginia it's even faster. When I was a kid they cleared a piece of land for development. Then they stopped the process for a few years. By the time they were actually ready to break ground for construction some of the sapplings were 10 feet high. Maples are particularly aggressive there. If you don't clean your gutters for two years, 3 foot maples will sprout and thrive on the moist leaf litter.
Regardless of the outcome, there is a good side effect of all this. All the equipment will be checked like crazy. Everything is going to be blueprinted to perfection. We might even advance the whole science of measurement. We might come up with better procedures for QA that could be transferred to other experiments. I hope influential people are taking notes and applying what they learn to other situations.
They put some bugging hardware in a cool looking case, they're probably selling it (I tuned out after looking at the pictures) and somehow they got on Slashdot. What I want to know is, where do I purchase the marketing grenade? They're not telling. That's where the real money is.
Furniture is FREE here, if you don't mind a couch that you probably want to reupholster, fiberboard shelving, etc. Every once in a while a nice solid wood piece appears; but it's usually too heavy to move without a truck. That's usually why it's free. I had a desk like that I saved from the dumpster and brought home from school. If I were not already renting a truck I would have left it. When I got tired of it, we gave it for free to... a guy with a truck.
They lean pretty far left up there. Surely he must have had coffee with a communist or two. Stop him at customs and interrogate him the next time he enters the US.
(noted with sarcasm and reference to the HUAC. If you don't know what HUAC stands for, don't moderate).
Controversy over AGW aside, this means nothing. The world can warm while some regions gain, lose, or maintain ice. It's GLOBAL climate change so what matters is the GLOBAL ice pack.
IMHO, rich people earning N times more without producing N times much isn't a problem. OTOH, when income and wealth disparity reach certain critical levels (value for N may or may not be the appropriate measure) then some redistribution is necessary.
Once again it's a balance. Absolute redistribution is bad because you end up with the people at the lazy poor people as you describe. On the other hand, holding to the fiction that wealth is always deserved leads to oligarchy. IMHO that's where the US is now.
Another problem is that the political system tends to be adversarial. Anybody who argues for moderation is looked down upon from both sides. In the legal system that works out OK. Opposing lawyers argue in absolutes, you reach a verdict, and after appeals are exhausted it's usually right. An adversarial political system is more problematic. If the fascists or the communists win, we all lose.
There's a subtle point here that needs elaborating. I fully embrace the notion that a concentration of wealth is bad. I fully embrace the notion that special privelege based on station at birth is bad.
The problems come when we try to guarantee equality of outcome, rewarding those who have no talent or discipline equally with those who have talent and discipline.
There's a balance. Absolute privelege is bad. Absolute redistribution and leveling is bad. If you understand that balance then you should see how I appreciate and even applaud your narrative; yet continue to prefer equality of opportunity with a safety net as opposed to equality of outcome.
2. If you try to change rule no. 1, you just make things worse.
In this case, if the tax system were based on something other than realization the middle class people with small capital gains would probably get screwed over with tax bills they can't pay and/or tricky tax filings that would increase the already severe time and money problem of complying with our complex tax codes. Meanwhile, the rich would only pay a small portion of their wealth to find accounting methods to optimize their taxation under the new regime.
Also, nice try at stirring up class warfare on Slashdot.
Thanks. I've seen that site pop up in Google results before. I always thought it was just a dump of the fortune file that comes with bash. It looks like it's dedicated to quotes and not the bash shell, which is kind of odd since it seems like that would be a useful domain. Then again, maybe not enough people care about bash anymore. Not much of a shell hacker myself...
Slashdot Mirror
Ahhh. Makes sense sort of. I picked up on the "Arguments must be capitalized" thing, but not that functions must *not* be capitalized. It works fine for me when I don't capitalize the function.
Since I'm totally new to it I might be doing something wrong. The simple example I posted before doesn't spew parens anymore so you obviously did something. This doesn't work though:
Factorial Number = if (Number <=1 ) then 1 else (Number * Factorial (Number -1))
Factorial 5
if ( 5 ( if ( 1 ( if ( 1 ( if ( 1 ( if ( 1 ( if ( 1 ( if ( 1 ( if (can't post due to Slashdot lameness filter, much stuff like ( 1 * <= ( 1 - 1 ) ) ) ) then 1 else then 1 else ( 5 * Factorial ( 5 - 1 ) )
Enter:
Bar Blah = Bar Blah
Bar 5
Nested (((( hilarity ensues, presumeably when it hits a hard-coded recursion bailout.
California's large Mexican population makes Mexican Coca-Cola readily available. The bottles are Spanish, with English stickers stuck on after import. Read the sticker carefully, they do make some HFCS soda in Mexico too; but most are real sugar. Also, the Mexican Coke comes in green 355 mL bottles. I just wish it came in the little 8 oz. bottles; but you can't have everything.
hope on your home network
Nice Freudian slip.
What about the 98.6%? We aren't billionaires. We aren't communists. We just want common sense. We're not radical. We're well-balanced, healthy centrists. The only options being presented are all burning with a deathbed fever of corporate fascism or hard-left radicalism that will leave us dying in a sweat-soaked poltical deathbed.
Sue the lawyers
Bomb the bomb makers.
It's a fine idea until 1337 Polibot wins by a margin of 4 billion votes in a write-in campaign and the referendum on dictatorial powers pases. Then the first act of the administration requires us to do our taxes in binary and funds a "Kill all humans" campaign. What? A glitch you say? We can't change it. It's democracy. It's sacred. Kill all humans.
You also can't use mass transit in farming communities
The next time I'm driving along Hwy 1 and see berry pickers waiting for the bus, I'll be sure to tell them that.
Where do I go to complain against the UNs policies?
Arms dealers.
LOL, a small fraction of acres poorly managed in Virginia, a little buildup from some other posters, and I wonder how many people who have not visited both states will start to think they look similar.
In Virginia it's even faster. When I was a kid they cleared a piece of land for development. Then they stopped the process for a few years. By the time they were actually ready to break ground for construction some of the sapplings were 10 feet high. Maples are particularly aggressive there. If you don't clean your gutters for two years, 3 foot maples will sprout and thrive on the moist leaf litter.
Regardless of the outcome, there is a good side effect of all this. All the equipment will be checked like crazy. Everything is going to be blueprinted to perfection. We might even advance the whole science of measurement. We might come up with better procedures for QA that could be transferred to other experiments. I hope influential people are taking notes and applying what they learn to other situations.
Everybody in macadamia is nuts!
They put some bugging hardware in a cool looking case, they're probably selling it (I tuned out after looking at the pictures) and somehow they got on Slashdot. What I want to know is, where do I purchase the marketing grenade? They're not telling. That's where the real money is.
Furniture is FREE here, if you don't mind a couch that you probably want to reupholster, fiberboard shelving, etc. Every once in a while a nice solid wood piece appears; but it's usually too heavy to move without a truck. That's usually why it's free. I had a desk like that I saved from the dumpster and brought home from school. If I were not already renting a truck I would have left it. When I got tired of it, we gave it for free to... a guy with a truck.
They lean pretty far left up there. Surely he must have had coffee with a communist or two. Stop him at customs and interrogate him the next time he enters the US.
(noted with sarcasm and reference to the HUAC. If you don't know what HUAC stands for, don't moderate).
A keyboard, how quaint.
Controversy over AGW aside, this means nothing. The world can warm while some regions gain, lose, or maintain ice. It's GLOBAL climate change so what matters is the GLOBAL ice pack.
...if you use dots.
IMHO, rich people earning N times more without producing N times much isn't a problem. OTOH, when income and wealth disparity reach certain critical levels (value for N may or may not be the appropriate measure) then some redistribution is necessary.
Once again it's a balance. Absolute redistribution is bad because you end up with the people at the lazy poor people as you describe. On the other hand, holding to the fiction that wealth is always deserved leads to oligarchy. IMHO that's where the US is now.
Another problem is that the political system tends to be adversarial. Anybody who argues for moderation is looked down upon from both sides. In the legal system that works out OK. Opposing lawyers argue in absolutes, you reach a verdict, and after appeals are exhausted it's usually right. An adversarial political system is more problematic. If the fascists or the communists win, we all lose.
There's a subtle point here that needs elaborating. I fully embrace the notion that a concentration of wealth is bad. I fully embrace the notion that special privelege based on station at birth is bad.
The problems come when we try to guarantee equality of outcome, rewarding those who have no talent or discipline equally with those who have talent and discipline.
There's a balance. Absolute privelege is bad. Absolute redistribution and leveling is bad. If you understand that balance then you should see how I appreciate and even applaud your narrative; yet continue to prefer equality of opportunity with a safety net as opposed to equality of outcome.
1. The rich always have it better.
2. If you try to change rule no. 1, you just make things worse.
In this case, if the tax system were based on something other than realization the middle class people with small capital gains would probably get screwed over with tax bills they can't pay and/or tricky tax filings that would increase the already severe time and money problem of complying with our complex tax codes. Meanwhile, the rich would only pay a small portion of their wealth to find accounting methods to optimize their taxation under the new regime.
Also, nice try at stirring up class warfare on Slashdot.
What's stopping me from selling numerous copies of my MP3s and retaining my original copies?
The increasing odds with each transaction that you will be observed conducting illegal activity.
Thanks. I've seen that site pop up in Google results before. I always thought it was just a dump of the fortune file that comes with bash. It looks like it's dedicated to quotes and not the bash shell, which is kind of odd since it seems like that would be a useful domain. Then again, maybe not enough people care about bash anymore. Not much of a shell hacker myself...