But if no one participates with small amounts, the institutions that run the bitcoin exchanges will never get equal protection under law. So quit being a DOUCHE, and at least participate with small amounts so that Bitcoins can take off.
But if no one participates with small amounts, the institutions that run the bitcoin exchanges will never get equal protection under law. So quit being a DOUCHE, and at least participate with small amounts so that Bitcoins can take off.
You get your bitcoins scammed or stolen? Your recourse is...what?
"You get your USD scammed or stolen? Your recourse is...what?" - If you're stupid with your money, that's your own damn fault. No one said you must convert your entire life-savings into bitcoins. But if no one participates with small amounts, the institutions that run the bitcoin exchanges will never get equal protection under law. So quit being a douche, and at least participate with small amounts so that Bitcoins can take off. Bitcoin institutions may not have the same legal protections under law and they never will unless "non-gullible" people like you take a tiny leap.
They can "hang out with one another" at home, you know. Or at the movies. Or at a restaurant. Or at the local mall. But nooo, they choose a local bar, filled with a disproportionate concentration of horny guys. It's the same reason why they dress their best most of the time. Don't pretend like it isn't sexual.
Using your wealth to buy ownership of a piece of property is a much more sound investment than throwing your money away into the "rental black hole". Now, if you want to argue the merits of the whole "get mortgage that you can barely pay off over 30 years" kind of property owning, then yeah, you're spot on. The latter is just another way for the banks to suck out even more money from the plebs.
I hear you. The quality of developers that I saw at my university days, and the quality of developers I worked with, I'm not surprised. They fail to grasp a lot of really basic CS principles. And that's exactly because, what you said, they don't have a knack for programming. A lot of these individuals are smart, motivated, and really do get the job done, but they leave unmaintainable messes in their wake.
You may have slapped together something in 12 hours, but that doesn't make it any good. Quality software that is maintainable and extensible and self-documenting takes time. This thing you call "Skill" is nothing more than a caffeine-induced coding spurt. There are a multitude of other things that go hand in hand with software development.
For anyone that didn't catch the reference, or the abbreviation. That's "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri". It's more than a decade old, yet I still fire it up on my pc every once in a while to play. I'm so very grateful I copied the original disc onto my harddrive soon after I bought it.
And at the same time...this draconian wave of copyright that is coming our way would have you believe that what I did was illegal.
You've just started learning programming and already you're bashing OOP? I think you should pick a new field ASAP. Because abstraction, separation of concerns and OOP is here to stay, and you're on your way out already, buddy. Programming is not the field for you. Unfortunately, you and your boss won't figure this out until you've made a royal mess of the codebase with your "open_door" and "open_door_with_handle_but_only_halfway", and "open_sliding_door_with_handle_but_only_halfway(int* out_length_param, int* out_noise_level_param, int* out_angle_param)" functions. That is the type of code you'll be writing, and I would nuke it from orbit in a hearbeat. Ugh, I feel dirty just thinking about what sort of code you're already writing thinking it's so much better than the OOP way of doing it.
What kind of crack pipe are you smoking, buddy? There are bad "C programmers", and good "C programmers". And lets face it, most of both groups struggle to cope with object orientated programming, and a host of other simple programming topics because they're still stuck with their old ways. i.e. They will make horrible java/python/C# developers.
You seem to have more of a gripe with actual bad programmers and somehow attribute this to them only knowing Python/Ruby. That's rather silly, as if had they been taught programming in C/C++ they would have been better programmers. That is patently false. Programming is not for everyone.
I'd go so far as to say that "C programmers" are the LEAST versatile programmers out there. There way of programming is a hammer, and every single programming language and scenario looks like a nail to them. Humongously long functions, no objects, input/output parameters galore, no separation of concerns, deeply nested logic. Yes, I see this every day. They write horrible, unmaintainable, SUPER FAST little code blobs that no one can understand/debug except them in their little archaic environment. As if speed even matters anymore these days for 99+% of all the programming scenarios out there.
"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." Friedrich Nietzsche
Those same people are modding that person's comments as Troll.
No you don't have a choice to not participate. You need a passport(license, please) to leave. And you need the *other* country to accept you. There is no third option, because they don't let you have one. Either way you look at it, at least 49% of all people are being forced to deal with the decisions that the other 51% made. It's a sad fact of this thing you call democracy. Want to create your own country with your fellow other 49%? Not a chance the government will let you do that. And they'll use FORCE to keep you from breaking off and taking a chunk of their land. Oh, and *all* the land on this earth is taken by some government. Or do you want to live in the polar regions? So don't pretend like "we have a choice to not take part". If we CHOOSE not to take part, we're thrown in jail by FORCE. I don't know about you, but if I have something taken from me without my consent using the threat of force then that is stealing. Pure and simple.
Just because they become productive members of society, doesn't mean that they weren't hindered by being forced to take mandatory subjects that they didn't end up using, or wanting to use.
Perhaps we would have been more prepared to pick the thing we actually wanted to do if we were allowed to make the choice earlier!
But no, instead we are forced to "generalize" our education up until 21, pick one field at that point, and only 4 years after that, after finishing our degrees, are we able and kinda allowed to fully realize that we're not quite into what we picked.
Either way you look at it, you're forcing the kids to waste a good chunk of their lives on stuff they will hardly ever use. All for the sake of "maybe" it'll help them decide what they want to do.
I also cancelled my order. It's been THREE MONTHS today since I paid for my order with RSComponents. Today I cancelled my order with them. Tomorrow I reverse the payment with my CC provider. This is BS.
They harm children even less than they do animals, in movies. It's like a really really bad taboo to kill a child in a movie.
Same goes in games. In Fallout 3, there is a little town, called Lamplight or something, that you have to go through to do a story-required mission. They actively FORCE you not to kill the entire town to get to that one door. I mean, you can kill the entire capital wasteland's human community. But this one little town of a dozen or so brats? Not a chance. And to top it all off, the children really are a bunch of cocky brats that you just want to teach a lesson with a shotgun to their faces. Even if you do change your mind and reload to do their mission non-violently.
I mean, you walk into a Vegas casino, and there's a nonzero chance you'll walk out a multi-billionaire, but that doesn't justify it as a rational means of making money.
That is wholly mis-representing the argument at hand. In order for it to be a proper analogy to cryonics, we would have to state that this Vegas casino is the only place(and I do mean ONLY place) where money can be made, regardless of the odds offered. Cryonics may be risky, and the chances dodgy at best. But I re-iterate my point, it's better than eternal nothingness, or better yet. It is better than the even smaller chance that death is not the real end for us.
fraught with scandal and corruption that a reasonable conclusion is that it's a big scam in its current state.
Ok, again, I fail to see any proof of this?
So you flaunt two incidents as if they're definitive proof of something. I suggest you too research the matter yourself. I have, and frankly they don't bother me. One happened over thirty years ago, and the other one is about selfish relatives trying to grab headlines. Sure, that's an over-simplification of the events, yeah. But if you think that those two cases are proof of anything, then you're sorely mistaken.
You imply that the GP must be an unethical person, because he sees this as a scam, but I would argue he's just a person observant of historical behaviors.
Fine, I might have been a little harsh on him there. But I disagree with you about him being "observant". What exactly has he observed? What do you think he's observed?
They don't even freeze the tissue anymore. Well, the body they do with the standard cryogenic techniques. But your brain goes through a process called vitrification. This essentially bypasses the "freezing" and turns the water in your cells into a sort of glass state. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryopreservation#Vitrification
People really keep spewing this nonsense, and it is sad that they are so ill-informed. I mean, you can clearly see scientific breakthroughs benefiting newly preserved people. They don't point that out. They merely point out that freezing bursts cells and promptly end the discussion with "you're an idiot; you're being scammed".
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But if no one participates with small amounts, the institutions that run the bitcoin exchanges will never get equal protection under law. So quit being a DOUCHE, and at least participate with small amounts so that Bitcoins can take off.
Here's some reading for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy#Perfect_solution_fallacy
Please ignore "Chas". He has a very big, illogical, bone to pick with Bitcoins for some odd reason.
But if no one participates with small amounts, the institutions that run the bitcoin exchanges will never get equal protection under law. So quit being a DOUCHE, and at least participate with small amounts so that Bitcoins can take off.
Here's some reading for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy#Perfect_solution_fallacy
You get your bitcoins scammed or stolen? Your recourse is...what?
"You get your USD scammed or stolen? Your recourse is...what?" - If you're stupid with your money, that's your own damn fault. No one said you must convert your entire life-savings into bitcoins. But if no one participates with small amounts, the institutions that run the bitcoin exchanges will never get equal protection under law. So quit being a douche, and at least participate with small amounts so that Bitcoins can take off. Bitcoin institutions may not have the same legal protections under law and they never will unless "non-gullible" people like you take a tiny leap.
Dude, she has a female-implying name, what did you expect?
They can "hang out with one another" at home, you know. Or at the movies. Or at a restaurant. Or at the local mall. But nooo, they choose a local bar, filled with a disproportionate concentration of horny guys. It's the same reason why they dress their best most of the time. Don't pretend like it isn't sexual.
Nothing new here that traditional, more established VCS systems can't do. Stick to SVN/Mercurial/Git. Advertise your own product much, AC?
The equation applies to the downward acceleration, dolorous. It has nothing to do with forward acceleration.
Using your wealth to buy ownership of a piece of property is a much more sound investment than throwing your money away into the "rental black hole". Now, if you want to argue the merits of the whole "get mortgage that you can barely pay off over 30 years" kind of property owning, then yeah, you're spot on. The latter is just another way for the banks to suck out even more money from the plebs.
I hear you. The quality of developers that I saw at my university days, and the quality of developers I worked with, I'm not surprised. They fail to grasp a lot of really basic CS principles. And that's exactly because, what you said, they don't have a knack for programming. A lot of these individuals are smart, motivated, and really do get the job done, but they leave unmaintainable messes in their wake.
You may have slapped together something in 12 hours, but that doesn't make it any good. Quality software that is maintainable and extensible and self-documenting takes time. This thing you call "Skill" is nothing more than a caffeine-induced coding spurt. There are a multitude of other things that go hand in hand with software development.
For anyone that didn't catch the reference, or the abbreviation. That's "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri". It's more than a decade old, yet I still fire it up on my pc every once in a while to play. I'm so very grateful I copied the original disc onto my harddrive soon after I bought it.
And at the same time...this draconian wave of copyright that is coming our way would have you believe that what I did was illegal.
You've just started learning programming and already you're bashing OOP? I think you should pick a new field ASAP. Because abstraction, separation of concerns and OOP is here to stay, and you're on your way out already, buddy. Programming is not the field for you. Unfortunately, you and your boss won't figure this out until you've made a royal mess of the codebase with your "open_door" and "open_door_with_handle_but_only_halfway", and "open_sliding_door_with_handle_but_only_halfway(int* out_length_param, int* out_noise_level_param, int* out_angle_param)" functions. That is the type of code you'll be writing, and I would nuke it from orbit in a hearbeat. Ugh, I feel dirty just thinking about what sort of code you're already writing thinking it's so much better than the OOP way of doing it.
What kind of crack pipe are you smoking, buddy? There are bad "C programmers", and good "C programmers". And lets face it, most of both groups struggle to cope with object orientated programming, and a host of other simple programming topics because they're still stuck with their old ways. i.e. They will make horrible java/python/C# developers.
You seem to have more of a gripe with actual bad programmers and somehow attribute this to them only knowing Python/Ruby. That's rather silly, as if had they been taught programming in C/C++ they would have been better programmers. That is patently false. Programming is not for everyone.
I'd go so far as to say that "C programmers" are the LEAST versatile programmers out there. There way of programming is a hammer, and every single programming language and scenario looks like a nail to them. Humongously long functions, no objects, input/output parameters galore, no separation of concerns, deeply nested logic. Yes, I see this every day. They write horrible, unmaintainable, SUPER FAST little code blobs that no one can understand/debug except them in their little archaic environment. As if speed even matters anymore these days for 99+% of all the programming scenarios out there.
Skype started getting bloaty way before Microsoft bought it. Don't fall for that anti-MS propaganda.
We Windows users don't put up with the crap you mention. Must just be your build or your installation. Please try again, troll.
"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." Friedrich Nietzsche
Those same people are modding that person's comments as Troll.
No you don't have a choice to not participate. You need a passport(license, please) to leave. And you need the *other* country to accept you. There is no third option, because they don't let you have one. Either way you look at it, at least 49% of all people are being forced to deal with the decisions that the other 51% made. It's a sad fact of this thing you call democracy. Want to create your own country with your fellow other 49%? Not a chance the government will let you do that. And they'll use FORCE to keep you from breaking off and taking a chunk of their land. Oh, and *all* the land on this earth is taken by some government. Or do you want to live in the polar regions? So don't pretend like "we have a choice to not take part". If we CHOOSE not to take part, we're thrown in jail by FORCE. I don't know about you, but if I have something taken from me without my consent using the threat of force then that is stealing. Pure and simple.
Just because they become productive members of society, doesn't mean that they weren't hindered by being forced to take mandatory subjects that they didn't end up using, or wanting to use.
Perhaps we would have been more prepared to pick the thing we actually wanted to do if we were allowed to make the choice earlier!
But no, instead we are forced to "generalize" our education up until 21, pick one field at that point, and only 4 years after that, after finishing our degrees, are we able and kinda allowed to fully realize that we're not quite into what we picked.
Either way you look at it, you're forcing the kids to waste a good chunk of their lives on stuff they will hardly ever use. All for the sake of "maybe" it'll help them decide what they want to do.
Point being is that you're a bunch of hypocrites. Microsoft can do no "good" in your eyes, because you're blinded by your misguided hatred of them.
I also cancelled my order. It's been THREE MONTHS today since I paid for my order with RSComponents. Today I cancelled my order with them. Tomorrow I reverse the payment with my CC provider. This is BS.
They harm children even less than they do animals, in movies. It's like a really really bad taboo to kill a child in a movie.
Same goes in games. In Fallout 3, there is a little town, called Lamplight or something, that you have to go through to do a story-required mission. They actively FORCE you not to kill the entire town to get to that one door. I mean, you can kill the entire capital wasteland's human community. But this one little town of a dozen or so brats? Not a chance. And to top it all off, the children really are a bunch of cocky brats that you just want to teach a lesson with a shotgun to their faces. Even if you do change your mind and reload to do their mission non-violently.
I mean, you walk into a Vegas casino, and there's a nonzero chance you'll walk out a multi-billionaire, but that doesn't justify it as a rational means of making money.
That is wholly mis-representing the argument at hand. In order for it to be a proper analogy to cryonics, we would have to state that this Vegas casino is the only place(and I do mean ONLY place) where money can be made, regardless of the odds offered. Cryonics may be risky, and the chances dodgy at best. But I re-iterate my point, it's better than eternal nothingness, or better yet. It is better than the even smaller chance that death is not the real end for us.
fraught with scandal and corruption that a reasonable conclusion is that it's a big scam in its current state.
Ok, again, I fail to see any proof of this? So you flaunt two incidents as if they're definitive proof of something. I suggest you too research the matter yourself. I have, and frankly they don't bother me. One happened over thirty years ago, and the other one is about selfish relatives trying to grab headlines. Sure, that's an over-simplification of the events, yeah. But if you think that those two cases are proof of anything, then you're sorely mistaken.
You imply that the GP must be an unethical person, because he sees this as a scam, but I would argue he's just a person observant of historical behaviors.
Fine, I might have been a little harsh on him there. But I disagree with you about him being "observant". What exactly has he observed? What do you think he's observed?
It's a common misconception that Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen. Walt Disney, was in fact, cremated after his death in the 60's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney#Death
-XcepticZP
They don't even freeze the tissue anymore. Well, the body they do with the standard cryogenic techniques. But your brain goes through a process called vitrification. This essentially bypasses the "freezing" and turns the water in your cells into a sort of glass state. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryopreservation#Vitrification
People really keep spewing this nonsense, and it is sad that they are so ill-informed. I mean, you can clearly see scientific breakthroughs benefiting newly preserved people. They don't point that out. They merely point out that freezing bursts cells and promptly end the discussion with "you're an idiot; you're being scammed".
-XcepticZP