The average Pakistani, and even the Pakistani government, has very little power to accept or reject anything. Virtually all power lies with the Pakistani army and its intelligence service, thanks to US "aid". This aid is moreover not entirely voluntarily any more today, as its main purpose now appears to be to keep a completely messed up corrupt bunch of people in power, in an attempt to reduce the risk of a completely messed up bunch of other people that may be allied with Al Qaeda or the Taliban from taking over that power (which includes the keys to nuclear weapons).
I bet the anti-Western/foreigner feelings, which often include vehemently defending what is considered to be one's own primary/distinguishing values/traditions, are to a large extent inspired by the fact that they feel it is this same West that keeps their country's leadership hijacked. I have a Pakistani colleague at the university, and he recently told me their civil government regularly has to ask the military for funding rather than the other way around, simply because almost all direct monetary US aid ends up with the military. It's insane.
Photovoltaic is WAY fucking worse than nuclear when you take production byproduct into account.
That very much depends on the manufacturer. Even in the US there are several that score quite well in this regard (under the thresholds set by the EU, which has the most stringent related rules in the world).
No need to be anti-religion, just a realistic understanding of Islam. In general Christians, Sikhs, Jews, Hindus, atheists, Wicans, etc all get on without wanting to exterminate and kill eachother
That's exactly the sort of reasoning that ISIS uses about 'the West'. In general, the world's countries do not regularly invade other countries, perform summary executions using drones that kill a lot of innocent people at the same time, interpret a "no fly zone" mandate by the UN Security Council as a license to bomb the hell out of everything below, have a pretty bad history in terms of the regime changes they supported or instigated,... The West is however full of countries that either do this, or virtually unconditionally support those who do. Hence, the "realist view" of the West is supposedly that they are dangerous killers if you live elsewhere in the world, and that they should be fought/excluded by all means possible.
Realism is a very abused term, because reality at a societal level is so complex that it is seldom possible to make generalised statements about it that reflect reality as a whole, rather than just a part of it. E.g., regarding Boko Haram (the group that kidnaps school girls and destroys entire villages, using Islam/sharia as justification), have a look at an earlier post of mine and the linked articles. The violence and killing in that case may well have nothing to do with Islam at all in the end.
Firstly, why can't the development team put together a single website with up to date info about this game?
Google turns up http://supertuxproject.org/ as the first hit. It's strange the summary doesn't link it, although I guess it might have risked diverting some clicks to the phoronix page.
Nevertheless, the West did come out on top, and therefore made the greatest contributions to human progress by far.
And at the same time, we have also greatly damaged human progress in various ways (I won't speak in absolutes, because I'll frankly admit I have no idea who would "win" that particular contest for any given time period). E.g.
by making pretty much everything subservient to trade/GDP, we're wasting large amounts of human happiness (and thereby, ironically, also of GDP — burnouts, suicides, mental breakdowns,...)
by primarily valuing hard science education and regurgitating large volumes of knowledge, we're not exploiting vast amounts of human creativity
by imposing our societal model on the rest of the world, we have thrown away centuries of social evolution and often replaced it with things that don't necessary work well in the same context. I don't have a link in English handy, but I recently read an interesting interview in Dutch with a simple yet telling example. Paraphrased: "In many of those countries, there were traditional systems that just worked. If person A stole a cow from person B, they went to talk under a tree and worked it out. We replaced that with a system of courts, lawyers and police officers. Now, the person with the biggest bribes wins and the other loses. We made those changes with arguments about democratisation, human rights and international justice, but in practice those people mainly see misery." (it's in the context of explanations for why there is a significant amount of unhappiness with the West in large parts of the world, and why the simplistic messages of the likes of Al Qaeda, Boko Haram and Daesh at the very least get some grudging understanding there even when people find their methods abhorrent)
I'm quite happy with my computer and the internet, but at the same time I think it's good to realise that there's more to human progress than just raw technology and power.
I always found it ironic how islamic extremists demonize the West as the great satan, while driving cars, communicating with technologies and killing with weapons and explosives that are all products of western civilization.
Beating the enemy with his own weapons, hanging the capitalists with the rope they sold,... Nothing new under the Sun there.
Yes, because gay kids seeking support online is valueless, right?
They still can seek support online, also without parental supervision. This ruling only states that Facebook, or any other company or organisation, cannot require them to divulge their personal details (at least not without parental consent). And yes, that does sound like a good thing to me, especially for kids that may be insecure about their sexuality.
For better or worse, what Delphi does has become a de facto or so-called industrial standard. Just like Apple with Objective-C and Swift. Official standards are indeed not a guarantee for success.
FPC comes with a (mostly) TP-compatible graph unit for Windows (32 and 64 bit). It doesn't use BGI drivers, because it doesn't need to. Your mouse code won't work though, since you can't access the mouse driver under Windows using DOS interrupts. We do have our own cross-platform mouse unit you may want to use instead.
Why the fuck would anyone bother supporting 16-bit MSDOS? Really?
Simply because someone cares. Someone else is also reviving Amiga 68k support, because he cares. Our compiler is generally modular and generic enough so that such support does not result in too much interference with other functionality, or luggage that makes things unmaintainable over time.
Where's the CP/M support for Z80 then?
It'll get added as soon as you provide good quality patches for it:)
I thought I added the link to my original summary, but it seems to have gotten lost when I submitted it. In any case, Sourceforge's Project of the Month April 2014 interview with the founder of the Free Pascal Compiler, Florian Klaempfl, contains a good overview of the project's history, goals and development methodology.
Do you want to outlaw something traded under this agreement in your own country? Nope! Your government will be tried in an international court!
It's not even a court. It's an ad-hoc panel that consists of private lawyers. Worse: very expensive lawyers that spend most of their time representing parties in front of similar panels. They can even rule over complaints filed by parties that they have previously represented.
I would strongly recommend to read the analysis of ISDS by the European Economic and Social Committee, as it appears in CETA (a TPP-style agreement between the EU and Canada that is now also in the ratification phase). It contains a lot of interesting information and citations of other documents.
This is not a resolution by the member states. The member states are represented at the EU level by the EU Council of Ministers. The European Parliament is the (only) directly elected part of the EU structure, which often is at odds with the Council of Ministers (where the ministers often think more of national interests than of EU interests) and the Commission (which tends to do the opposite, or is too much steered by bureaucrats).
are willing to violate their extradition treaties with the United States, the resolution is more or less meaningless.
You piqued my interest, so I looked up the extradition treaty between the US and Belgium. It provides for exclusions for "political offences". If there would be sufficient political will, Snowden's offence could definitely be argued to constitute a political offence. There's also an exception possible if the requested state determines that the request is politically motivated.
So, while I doubt there would be sufficient political courage/will on behalf of the Belgian government to stand up to the US government in this case, there would not be any technical/legal problem as far as the extradition treaty is concerned (in my layman opinion).
We have a lot of bacteria in our gut that, as it turns out, are quite beneficial and even necessary to our well-being. I would be surprised if killing 99% of dental bacteria does not come with ill effects.
The "Safe Harbour" agreement (which allowed US companies to basically wave their hand and say "yes, of course we comply with your privacy safeguards") was ruled to run counter to the EU privacy directive as interpreted in the light of articles 7 and 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
This EU privacy directive and its national implementations are, however still in full force.
The USAF was not out to bomb that hospital. It was a horrible mistake.
They've said it was collateral damage, then a horrible mistake, then because the Afghani army asked for it, then because there was a Pakistani agent who was coordinating Taliban attacks from the hospital,... And just yesterday the US army rammed the gate of the hospital with a tank to "investigate" things.
Whatever it was, it looks like everything but a "horrible mistake".
The true sign of a supremacy Is who gets to decide at each given minute When the rule of law is applied and when it's suspended
You can't spell justice without the US And it's called justice cause it's just us that's justified In judging just cause, just wars, and just evidence Just test this justice and get just iced if you mess with us
...
I'm reassured by the many who were plainly disturbed And who questioned the way in which 'justice was served' If it was served, it can be served to us just the same So what brand of justice do we want done in our name?
The published Angler nginx proxy server configuration contains
deny 150.26.0.0/16;
That block belongs to the Japanese "Ministry of Agriculture,Forestry and Fisheries - Agriculture,Forestry and Fisheries Research Council". I wonder what the story is behind that.
Homeopathic medicine is fucking water, that's it, plain old water.
I know.
You may get some minor placebo benefits from drinking magic water,
Or major placebo effects.
but literally ANYTHING (including real medicine) can act as a placebo if the patient has blind faith it will work
The thing is that some people tend to place way more faith into magic water than in real medicine:) In particular if real medicine hasn't worked for treating their symptoms (for whatever reason).
The problem here is that the vast majority of politicians do not understand how to research an everyday scientific question
The problem here is that a bunch of people are throwing a hissy fit because some consistently leftwing backbencher managed to get elected as president of the previous mirror image of the Conservative party, and they're pulling out the stops on all fronts. I mean, Slashdot as a platform to wage a campaign against the leader of the UK Labour Party, really?
Look at the actual letter the guy signed. What they mention there does make sense. They don't argue in favour of placebos as cancer or pneumonia treatments, but rather as an aid for treating things that are hard to treat using traditional medicine (probably exactly because they may often primarily be the result of things wrong "in the head" rather than of infections or other identifiable, medicine-treatable causes). And to be clear, with "in the head" I don't mean "mentally ill", because e.g. chronic and phantom limb pain have nothing to do with mental illness and are very real, but can also be treated sometimes by trickingthe brain.
Other than the compliments/complements thingie and the "organic matter" tidbit, he does have a point about the fact that they can be complementary. Back in the days, Slashdot even posted a real story on this topic, which linked to a pretty interesting article.
And to clarify: they only checked for what they call "weak repeatability": was it possible to get the code from the original researchers and if yes, was it possible to build it (or did the author at least explain how he himself managed to build it). They did not even investigate whether they could replicate the reported results with the the code that built.
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The average Pakistani, and even the Pakistani government, has very little power to accept or reject anything. Virtually all power lies with the Pakistani army and its intelligence service, thanks to US "aid". This aid is moreover not entirely voluntarily any more today, as its main purpose now appears to be to keep a completely messed up corrupt bunch of people in power, in an attempt to reduce the risk of a completely messed up bunch of other people that may be allied with Al Qaeda or the Taliban from taking over that power (which includes the keys to nuclear weapons).
I bet the anti-Western/foreigner feelings, which often include vehemently defending what is considered to be one's own primary/distinguishing values/traditions, are to a large extent inspired by the fact that they feel it is this same West that keeps their country's leadership hijacked. I have a Pakistani colleague at the university, and he recently told me their civil government regularly has to ask the military for funding rather than the other way around, simply because almost all direct monetary US aid ends up with the military. It's insane.
I raise you a blog post by the head of an actual game development company: http://www.lar.net/2012/01/02/...
Photovoltaic is WAY fucking worse than nuclear when you take production byproduct into account.
That very much depends on the manufacturer. Even in the US there are several that score quite well in this regard (under the thresholds set by the EU, which has the most stringent related rules in the world).
No need to be anti-religion, just a realistic understanding of Islam. In general Christians, Sikhs, Jews, Hindus, atheists, Wicans, etc all get on without wanting to exterminate and kill eachother
That's exactly the sort of reasoning that ISIS uses about 'the West'. In general, the world's countries do not regularly invade other countries, perform summary executions using drones that kill a lot of innocent people at the same time, interpret a "no fly zone" mandate by the UN Security Council as a license to bomb the hell out of everything below, have a pretty bad history in terms of the regime changes they supported or instigated, ... The West is however full of countries that either do this, or virtually unconditionally support those who do. Hence, the "realist view" of the West is supposedly that they are dangerous killers if you live elsewhere in the world, and that they should be fought/excluded by all means possible.
Realism is a very abused term, because reality at a societal level is so complex that it is seldom possible to make generalised statements about it that reflect reality as a whole, rather than just a part of it. E.g., regarding Boko Haram (the group that kidnaps school girls and destroys entire villages, using Islam/sharia as justification), have a look at an earlier post of mine and the linked articles. The violence and killing in that case may well have nothing to do with Islam at all in the end.
Firstly, why can't the development team put together a single website with up to date info about this game?
Google turns up http://supertuxproject.org/ as the first hit. It's strange the summary doesn't link it, although I guess it might have risked diverting some clicks to the phoronix page.
Nevertheless, the West did come out on top, and therefore made the greatest contributions to human progress by far.
And at the same time, we have also greatly damaged human progress in various ways (I won't speak in absolutes, because I'll frankly admit I have no idea who would "win" that particular contest for any given time period). E.g.
I'm quite happy with my computer and the internet, but at the same time I think it's good to realise that there's more to human progress than just raw technology and power.
I always found it ironic how islamic extremists demonize the West as the great satan, while driving cars, communicating with technologies and killing with weapons and explosives that are all products of western civilization.
Beating the enemy with his own weapons, hanging the capitalists with the rope they sold, ... Nothing new under the Sun there.
Yes, because gay kids seeking support online is valueless, right?
They still can seek support online, also without parental supervision. This ruling only states that Facebook, or any other company or organisation, cannot require them to divulge their personal details (at least not without parental consent). And yes, that does sound like a good thing to me, especially for kids that may be insecure about their sexuality.
For better or worse, what Delphi does has become a de facto or so-called industrial standard. Just like Apple with Objective-C and Swift. Official standards are indeed not a guarantee for success.
What's the status of Lazarus ? Still under active development ?
Absolutely: http://www.lazarus-ide.org/
FPC comes with a (mostly) TP-compatible graph unit for Windows (32 and 64 bit). It doesn't use BGI drivers, because it doesn't need to. Your mouse code won't work though, since you can't access the mouse driver under Windows using DOS interrupts. We do have our own cross-platform mouse unit you may want to use instead.
Why the fuck would anyone bother supporting 16-bit MSDOS? Really?
Simply because someone cares. Someone else is also reviving Amiga 68k support, because he cares. Our compiler is generally modular and generic enough so that such support does not result in too much interference with other functionality, or luggage that makes things unmaintainable over time.
Where's the CP/M support for Z80 then?
It'll get added as soon as you provide good quality patches for it :)
23 years ago? That makes it 1992? I was using Turbo Pascal in 1989!
Yes, Florian started the project when it became clear Borland was not going to create a 32 bit version of TP/BP.
I thought I added the link to my original summary, but it seems to have gotten lost when I submitted it. In any case, Sourceforge's Project of the Month April 2014 interview with the founder of the Free Pascal Compiler, Florian Klaempfl, contains a good overview of the project's history, goals and development methodology.
Do you want to outlaw something traded under this agreement in your own country?
Nope! Your government will be tried in an international court!
It's not even a court. It's an ad-hoc panel that consists of private lawyers. Worse: very expensive lawyers that spend most of their time representing parties in front of similar panels. They can even rule over complaints filed by parties that they have previously represented.
I would strongly recommend to read the analysis of ISDS by the European Economic and Social Committee, as it appears in CETA (a TPP-style agreement between the EU and Canada that is now also in the ratification phase). It contains a lot of interesting information and citations of other documents.
Unless those member states
This is not a resolution by the member states. The member states are represented at the EU level by the EU Council of Ministers. The European Parliament is the (only) directly elected part of the EU structure, which often is at odds with the Council of Ministers (where the ministers often think more of national interests than of EU interests) and the Commission (which tends to do the opposite, or is too much steered by bureaucrats).
are willing to violate their extradition treaties with the United States, the resolution is more or less meaningless.
You piqued my interest, so I looked up the extradition treaty between the US and Belgium. It provides for exclusions for "political offences". If there would be sufficient political will, Snowden's offence could definitely be argued to constitute a political offence. There's also an exception possible if the requested state determines that the request is politically motivated.
So, while I doubt there would be sufficient political courage/will on behalf of the Belgian government to stand up to the US government in this case, there would not be any technical/legal problem as far as the extradition treaty is concerned (in my layman opinion).
We have a lot of bacteria in our gut that, as it turns out, are quite beneficial and even necessary to our well-being. I would be surprised if killing 99% of dental bacteria does not come with ill effects.
It does: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
TLDR: having caries may help protect against head and neck cancers.
The "Safe Harbour" agreement (which allowed US companies to basically wave their hand and say "yes, of course we comply with your privacy safeguards") was ruled to run counter to the EU privacy directive as interpreted in the light of articles 7 and 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
This EU privacy directive and its national implementations are, however still in full force.
The USAF was not out to bomb that hospital. It was a horrible mistake.
They've said it was collateral damage, then a horrible mistake, then because the Afghani army asked for it, then because there was a Pakistani agent who was coordinating Taliban attacks from the hospital, ... And just yesterday the US army rammed the gate of the hospital with a tank to "investigate" things.
Whatever it was, it looks like everything but a "horrible mistake".
The true sign of a supremacy
Is who gets to decide at each given minute
When the rule of law is applied and when it's suspended
You can't spell justice without the US
And it's called justice cause it's just us that's justified
In judging just cause, just wars, and just evidence
Just test this justice and get just iced if you mess with us
...
I'm reassured by the many who were plainly disturbed
And who questioned the way in which 'justice was served'
If it was served, it can be served to us just the same
So what brand of justice do we want done in our name?
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The published Angler nginx proxy server configuration contains
deny 150.26.0.0/16;
That block belongs to the Japanese "Ministry of Agriculture,Forestry and Fisheries - Agriculture,Forestry and Fisheries Research Council". I wonder what the story is behind that.
Homeopathic medicine is fucking water, that's it, plain old water.
I know.
You may get some minor placebo benefits from drinking magic water,
Or major placebo effects.
but literally ANYTHING (including real medicine) can act as a placebo if the patient has blind faith it will work
The thing is that some people tend to place way more faith into magic water than in real medicine :) In particular if real medicine hasn't worked for treating their symptoms (for whatever reason).
The problem here is that the vast majority of politicians do not understand how to research an everyday scientific question
The problem here is that a bunch of people are throwing a hissy fit because some consistently leftwing backbencher managed to get elected as president of the previous mirror image of the Conservative party, and they're pulling out the stops on all fronts. I mean, Slashdot as a platform to wage a campaign against the leader of the UK Labour Party, really?
Look at the actual letter the guy signed. What they mention there does make sense. They don't argue in favour of placebos as cancer or pneumonia treatments, but rather as an aid for treating things that are hard to treat using traditional medicine (probably exactly because they may often primarily be the result of things wrong "in the head" rather than of infections or other identifiable, medicine-treatable causes). And to be clear, with "in the head" I don't mean "mentally ill", because e.g. chronic and phantom limb pain have nothing to do with mental illness and are very real, but can also be treated sometimes by tricking the brain.
Other than the compliments/complements thingie and the "organic matter" tidbit, he does have a point about the fact that they can be complementary. Back in the days, Slashdot even posted a real story on this topic, which linked to a pretty interesting article.
Is Pascal used anywhere still?
We still get a lot of downloads, so I assume yes :)
I am not sure I understand. What even is a paper in computer science?
There's list of 601 examples on the linked page.
In spite of the gut feeling of the submitter, it's not much better in at least computer science: http://reproducibility.cs.ariz...
And to clarify: they only checked for what they call "weak repeatability": was it possible to get the code from the original researchers and if yes, was it possible to build it (or did the author at least explain how he himself managed to build it). They did not even investigate whether they could replicate the reported results with the the code that built.