I can definately attest to the short life torque converters. I have not bought a ford since they screwed me over on fixing one that was still under warranty.
I really think that they just file tons of paperwork trying to get funding and use studies like this that get accepted to fun their real research that may already have funding, but probably not as much as they want.
Who can dispute the findings? They are all to subjective, so no one can actually say they didn't really do any work.
I just want to know who funded this study, because there is some stuff I'd love to research and I think I might able to talk them into giving me some money.
How long until terrorists start detonating bombs in the long waiting lines at the airport? Maybe everyone that wants to fly should first agree to have their home searched before they can buy a ticket.
...but I'm not sure that such a thing as a natural right has much logical support...
We have a fundamental disagreement on the definition of a right. Therefore we will probably not see eye to eye on anything else. I'll just agree to disagree with you...
Let us start with my rights. I believe a right is something that I have that someone else shouldn't be able to take away, without my consent. I believe that I am born with the following rights. There are no rights that are opposed to each other. If it appears that there are two rights that are opposed, one of them is not a right. I will list three basic rights that I believe we can all agree upon.
1. I have the right to exist.
2. I have the right to decide my own destiny.
3. I have the right to defend my rights.
Because of right number 2 I have freedom. I am free to work and receive compensation for my work. I am also free to not work if I so choose. The government does not give me these rights, these are my rights already.
Now here is where the government comes in. There are people who are perfectly willing to take my rights away by force. They are willing to take the things I've worked for and even my existence. As a citizen I have agreed to enter into a contract with my government. They will help to protect me and I will pay taxes and even agree to give my life, if called upon, to protect other citizens rights.
Now that the government exists things get confusing. There are some things that the government can do for me outside of this definition. Some of these things I may have a use for and some of them I may not. The majority of citizens will recognize that they benefit everyone in general, even if they do not benefit everyone individually.
The government will provide neutral arbitrators to settle disputes between myself and other citizens. This is a direct benefit to me and I am willing to pay for it via taxes.
The government can build roads. Since I'm willing to use the roads that they build and maintain, I must also be willing to submit to their rules about the roads, even though I indirectly paid for them.
The government will also make many laws and regulations to prevent citizens from accidentally or purposefully infringing on my rights. I will agree to live by these laws since my fellow citizens and I, who make up the government, have instituted them.
Now here is where I start having problems.
The government has decided that one group of citizens deserves benefits and another group of citizens does not.
The government has decided that it can better determine a more productive use of my time or property.
The government has decided that it should benefit more from a transaction than any of the transactees.
The government has decided that it will determine when I will relinquish any right or freedom derived from any right.
The government has decided that it creates rights and makes a new one.
The union is acting as a mini government and it has decided that its members have rights that its non members do not. It has also decided that its members must sacrifice their freedom to benefit the union as a whole. The government of which we are all citizens and those citizens should take offense at the unions who are exploiting some citizens to benefit others, because it has become the very type of entity that a government is supposed to protect us from.
The unions have become willing to voilate non-union members' rights and derived freedoms.
The ends rarely if ever justify the means.
Communism is largely based on this principle. the theory is that by taking away individual freedom and granting control to a central governing body, almost everyone will be in a better position. Of course a few will have to make some sacrifices, but everyone will be better off in the end. In practice very few fare better and the vast majority end up worse.
I don't believe that taking of freedom is ever justified, mainly because once lost it won't ever be freely returned even if the orginal reason that it was taken has long since cased to exist.
I think the vast majority of Christians feel this way, myself included. However with any group, religious or otherwise, a few people can skew the perception of the whole group and no matter what you or I say, people will believe whatever they want to believe.
The trouble with advice is that you don't know its good until you don't try it.
I see lots of posts here telling programmers they should do this and do that, but the truth can change quite a bit for each developer depending on their situtation. Some software will have millions of lines of code and countless developers who, over several years, have written commented and rewitten the code. The lessons learned by developing, testing, and maintaining that codebase will be completely different for a developer who maintains a codebase who only a handful of developers have ever touched.
Here is my advice.
1. Keep it simple. If its not simple you didn't spend enough time thinking it through. If you can barely understand it now you'll never be able to figure it out later.
2. Code Comments should not explain why or how, only what the intention of the code is. The why is irreleveant and the how will change.
3. Revisit your code from time to time even if you don't have too. Pick what you remember as your best and worst and take a look at them again.
4. Don't stop learning, ever. Keep expanding your knowledge and don't stick to just one language or platform. Having a specialty is fine, but much can be learned from examining other areas.
5. Listen to the advice of senior developers.
6. Make sure you, your superiors, and your clients are all crystal clear on the requirments before any coding begins.
7. There are exceptions to every rule and times when its purdent to break them, especially these.
I'm really glad that you posted this. The TI was my first computer and this is one of the games that my parents bought for me.
This clip of the music brings back a flood of childhood memories.
The sad thing is when these kids become normal naturally their parents and possibly the kids themselves will think, "Those drugs sure did the job."
In the best case there was no real harm done and the parents are just spent a load of cash. However, I can imagine many worst case senarios where the kid is not so lucky.
I don't think their major problem is that opensource is free. I think their major problem is that their development environment is oppressive and they change it every couple of years. Who wants to spend their time learning a new bug ridden API every two years that doesn't do anything different than the last version?
Making strawmen just makes them feel good about themselves. If they actually analyzed their position they may be forced to realize they're not as smart as they believe.
The Slashdot crowd has always been pretty left leaning, but the pendulum farther in that direction than it has ever been. Don't let it bother you, reality will come crashing down on them eventually.
You have no idea what you are talking about. They are preventing any drilling in the GOM for 6 months and each rig costs about $1,000,000 a day to be on site. The rigs will be moved out of the gulf if they are not active. Scheduling a new rig can take as long as 3 years and there are plenty of areas overseas that would love to have them ASAP, so they won't be sitting around doing nothing.
Its realatively cheap to run existing wells. The vast majority of work comes from drilling new wells. If that is on hold for 6 months the oil industry in the United States will be devestated, but that seems to be what everyone wants.
Dear Liberty,
You've always been true to me and loved me unconditionally, that's why its hard for me to write this letter. I've met someone else. She's everything I've ever wanted in a woman, she's educated in European ways and speaks with a sexy accent. Although I don't always understand what she says I'm sure she has my best interests at heart. As soon as she leaves her current lover overseas we are going to run away together and spend the rest of our lives living truely free. I'll always remember the good times we had together, I hope you can find someone that makes you as happy I know she is going to make me.
Sincerely,
The people of these United States
Slashdot Mirror
I can definately attest to the short life torque converters. I have not bought a ford since they screwed me over on fixing one that was still under warranty.
I really think that they just file tons of paperwork trying to get funding and use studies like this that get accepted to fun their real research that may already have funding, but probably not as much as they want. Who can dispute the findings? They are all to subjective, so no one can actually say they didn't really do any work.
I just want to know who funded this study, because there is some stuff I'd love to research and I think I might able to talk them into giving me some money.
How long until terrorists start detonating bombs in the long waiting lines at the airport? Maybe everyone that wants to fly should first agree to have their home searched before they can buy a ticket.
I know a great way to make them less objectionable in the U.S. Don't use them to violate my 4th amendment rights.
She's talking to herself and listening to what she sounds like in the device. She probably just purchased it and it was still a novelty to her.
...but I'm not sure that such a thing as a natural right has much logical support...
We have a fundamental disagreement on the definition of a right. Therefore we will probably not see eye to eye on anything else. I'll just agree to disagree with you...
Let us start with my rights. I believe a right is something that I have that someone else shouldn't be able to take away, without my consent. I believe that I am born with the following rights. There are no rights that are opposed to each other. If it appears that there are two rights that are opposed, one of them is not a right. I will list three basic rights that I believe we can all agree upon.
Because of right number 2 I have freedom. I am free to work and receive compensation for my work. I am also free to not work if I so choose. The government does not give me these rights, these are my rights already.
Now here is where the government comes in. There are people who are perfectly willing to take my rights away by force. They are willing to take the things I've worked for and even my existence. As a citizen I have agreed to enter into a contract with my government. They will help to protect me and I will pay taxes and even agree to give my life, if called upon, to protect other citizens rights.
Now that the government exists things get confusing. There are some things that the government can do for me outside of this definition. Some of these things I may have a use for and some of them I may not. The majority of citizens will recognize that they benefit everyone in general, even if they do not benefit everyone individually.
Now here is where I start having problems.
The union is acting as a mini government and it has decided that its members have rights that its non members do not. It has also decided that its members must sacrifice their freedom to benefit the union as a whole. The government of which we are all citizens and those citizens should take offense at the unions who are exploiting some citizens to benefit others, because it has become the very type of entity that a government is supposed to protect us from.
The unions have become willing to voilate non-union members' rights and derived freedoms.
Sometimes taking away some individual freedom...
The ends rarely if ever justify the means. Communism is largely based on this principle. the theory is that by taking away individual freedom and granting control to a central governing body, almost everyone will be in a better position. Of course a few will have to make some sacrifices, but everyone will be better off in the end. In practice very few fare better and the vast majority end up worse.
I don't believe that taking of freedom is ever justified, mainly because once lost it won't ever be freely returned even if the orginal reason that it was taken has long since cased to exist.
Truer words have never been spoken.
I don't know what you're talkinga bout we've always been at war with Eastasia.
I think the vast majority of Christians feel this way, myself included. However with any group, religious or otherwise, a few people can skew the perception of the whole group and no matter what you or I say, people will believe whatever they want to believe.
The trouble with advice is that you don't know its good until you don't try it.
I see lots of posts here telling programmers they should do this and do that, but the truth can change quite a bit for each developer depending on their situtation. Some software will have millions of lines of code and countless developers who, over several years, have written commented and rewitten the code. The lessons learned by developing, testing, and maintaining that codebase will be completely different for a developer who maintains a codebase who only a handful of developers have ever touched.
Here is my advice.
1. Keep it simple. If its not simple you didn't spend enough time thinking it through. If you can barely understand it now you'll never be able to figure it out later.
2. Code Comments should not explain why or how, only what the intention of the code is. The why is irreleveant and the how will change.
3. Revisit your code from time to time even if you don't have too. Pick what you remember as your best and worst and take a look at them again.
4. Don't stop learning, ever. Keep expanding your knowledge and don't stick to just one language or platform. Having a specialty is fine, but much can be learned from examining other areas.
5. Listen to the advice of senior developers.
6. Make sure you, your superiors, and your clients are all crystal clear on the requirments before any coding begins.
7. There are exceptions to every rule and times when its purdent to break them, especially these.
I'm really glad that you posted this. The TI was my first computer and this is one of the games that my parents bought for me. This clip of the music brings back a flood of childhood memories.
The sad thing is when these kids become normal naturally their parents and possibly the kids themselves will think, "Those drugs sure did the job."
In the best case there was no real harm done and the parents are just spent a load of cash. However, I can imagine many worst case senarios where the kid is not so lucky.
I don't think their major problem is that opensource is free. I think their major problem is that their development environment is oppressive and they change it every couple of years. Who wants to spend their time learning a new bug ridden API every two years that doesn't do anything different than the last version?
Obviously you don't know what you're talking about because... CENSORED
Making strawmen just makes them feel good about themselves. If they actually analyzed their position they may be forced to realize they're not as smart as they believe. The Slashdot crowd has always been pretty left leaning, but the pendulum farther in that direction than it has ever been. Don't let it bother you, reality will come crashing down on them eventually.
You have no idea what you are talking about. They are preventing any drilling in the GOM for 6 months and each rig costs about $1,000,000 a day to be on site. The rigs will be moved out of the gulf if they are not active. Scheduling a new rig can take as long as 3 years and there are plenty of areas overseas that would love to have them ASAP, so they won't be sitting around doing nothing. Its realatively cheap to run existing wells. The vast majority of work comes from drilling new wells. If that is on hold for 6 months the oil industry in the United States will be devestated, but that seems to be what everyone wants.
A coward dies a thousands deaths...
Its easy to talk tough when you have distance and Anonymity. The Texas thing used to really irritate me too, until I moved here.
You just made my point.
Dear Liberty, You've always been true to me and loved me unconditionally, that's why its hard for me to write this letter. I've met someone else. She's everything I've ever wanted in a woman, she's educated in European ways and speaks with a sexy accent. Although I don't always understand what she says I'm sure she has my best interests at heart. As soon as she leaves her current lover overseas we are going to run away together and spend the rest of our lives living truely free. I'll always remember the good times we had together, I hope you can find someone that makes you as happy I know she is going to make me. Sincerely, The people of these United States
It was true long before it was a song lyric.
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