The civil war was about slavery and Lincoln's election, as an abolitionist Republican, arguably precipitated it even before he was sworn in, just like Obama's reputation as a liberal took the market for a nosedive.
For proof:
a) the confederate constitution is a copy of the us constitution, but, with a clause adding that slavery is a natural right and the government cannot ban slavery.
b) the most contentious issue between north and the south, was, in fact slavery. It existed with the infamous compromise in the original constitutional convention, with a series of incidents running all along the 1800's leading up to the civil war - bleeding kansas, dredd scott, the compromises.
c) abolition was the animating social issues of the day.
It's true that there were other issues. The south, being agrarian, favored free trade so they could buy cheaper British manufactured goods. The north was protectionist, and the south saw this as a sort of blackmail. As it is, the north became an economic powerhouse and won the war BECAUSE of its protectionism. This debate continues to this day. Right now the southern and agrarian ideas of free trade carry the day but the thing is, any study of history shows that free trade and a lack of workers rights makes you lose wars. Just ask the south.
The thing is, Republicans tend to be bigger spenders on space than Democrats, particularly manned space flight. Democrats tend to argue that putting people in space is a luxury and we should be spending money on the poor, or, pursue unmanned flights for the science.
Republicans tend to argue that manned space flight is a national security thing. It doesn't hurt the cause that two of the largest Nasa facilities are in traditionally Republican areas - Texas and Florida.
IF you name this station after a liberal, you may as well push the dang thing into the atmosphere,for all the support that it will get.
Having calmed down a bit, I understand what they were trying to do. It's about all these fools out there claiming that there is a single silver bullet cause. I've heard people preach about mercury in vaccines so many times I just want to scream. They didn't use mercury any more when my son was vaccinated and if anything, he gets way more mercury exposure from coal burning power or even the environment than he does from a vaccine. IT's just incorrect.
Believe me, I understand the urge to find that one thing that, if you could fix your son, you would. I read the article, and I was like, "ahah, the vinyl floors have got to go!". But, there's no magic fix, just a lot of ABA therapy, and an acceptance that my son is going to be different - and, a healthy re-examination of myself - perhaps I'm on the spectrum too, and gave a piece of it to my son.
If this is an April Fools joke. My kid's autistic. Now that all our fine scientists got a good laugh at his expense, I hope their kids all die of cancer.
Well, not really, but I am pissed off. Fucking assholes. At least we should shoot them all.
At the same time the NSL's are being curtailed, the current administration is seeking expanded powers for the IRS to go after imagined "tax cheats". The IRS will have broader and sweeping powers to go after people who are guilty of not paying their taxes until they prove themselves innocent.
Some things on tap: requiring small businesses to use bank accounts for all transactions, implying that the IRS can scan your bank. Having the government track all your transactions - even internationally.
This administration doesn't see any attack on personal freedom when the IRS rifles through your bank accounts or papers. Nor does it see any attack on personal freedom when guns are regulated and fire is essentially taxed until banned and all of our interactions with the environment are monitored.
But... if you call someone overseas in Iran, and the government listens in, now THAT's when the government crosses the line. What a token joke! Civil rights in the Obama administration is like having a choice of a dildo to get ass raped with.
If you skim the thing, it seems pretty real, but once you get into it, you find gems like:
"[Pauses to answer a call from his iPhone]"
"Internet Explorer has always been the leader of executing client-side scripts, but that didnâ(TM)t stop Microsoft from continuing its thirst for excellence by including a completely new JavaScript engine called JSE, which stands for JavaScript Speedy Engine"
This article is just great...what sucks for Microsoft is, everyone wishes this article were true!
Wow, these guys re-invented the little plastic sheet you had to replace every now in then in the Intellivision controller because the buttons and disc eventually wore through the circuits. Still the best controller ever, but... dang!
Coming off of blowing 700B to bail out a bunch of stupid banks, the USA now caps off 200B in space investments to have astronauts fight over potty time.
Oh, don't be turning my sweeping statements against me with self contradiction now! Ruins the drama of the whole thing. You are supposed to react emotionally to my opening slam of reviewers, not actually -think- about it!:-)
"Due to the efficiency of Visual Studio 9 over GCC"... I don't want to pick a compiler flamewar here, but I think it is fair to say that making blanket statements about one particular compiler producing faster code than another is pretty ignorant. There are some things VC does that GCC doesn't do, and vice versa, compiler switches can make a big difference, and you really would need to study the most commonly used code in OO under both compilers to see who is, in fact, generating better code, and, incidentally, for which processor.
Except that that worker is a line worker doing very 'boring' jobs similar to a helpdesk line in the IT world which makes $12/hour top?
I would argue that today's programming is almost as much assembly line taylorism as building a car is, and, programming is by far an easier job, because there's no physical labor, modern wizards make it pretty easy to put together basic data screens, you sit in an air conditioned building or even at home...
Bottom line is, if you think that you are somehow immune to international wage pressure because you are a programmer, you are pretty stupid. There's a billion people in all of NATO nations, and five billion in the rest of the world, and they all make less money than you.
Protectionism works. In fact, it works right now for Asian countries, worked quite well for the USA for over 100 years, and worked quite well for the UK before that. It works EVERYWHERE it has been used.
The fact is, the protectionism caused the Great Depression story is just that, a story, like Ghosts and Goblins. The cause of the Great Depression was monetary failure and if anything a run on the pound brought about by free trade precipitated that.
Time to kick the asian exporters out. They don't play fair to NATO, so screw them.
Game reviewers are the worst bunch of people on the planet. I'm sick of reviewers panning a game because the enemies do not have a great A/I, or there is a paucity of options. Just like every movie does not have to be Star Wars, or every song does not have to be a symphony, not every video game needs to be an ultra realistic tactical shooter with advanced A/I enemies and 900 combat moves.
I, for one, am actually rather excited by the new Wolfenstein.
1) The screen shots look pretty cool to me, or at least cool enough. I mean, did we bail on Dr. Who because it was not Star Wars?
2) Killing Nazis is NOT dated and overused, as the game reviewers say. Killing Nazis never goes out of style. I would even argue that, if a video game does not have a Nazi to kill in it at some point, it almost automatically sucks.
3) Sometimes I do not want to fight people that are as smart as I am, or smarter. The great genius of the first Doom wasn't the 3d graphics. It was that the 3d graphics were used to provide a great venue to just exterminate thousands of on-screen enemies. The quantity of killing in a video game is often better than the act of hunting down one person.
4) The so-called realism of a tactical shooter is just as much a fantasy as the other game plays it replaces. Statistically, squad on squad infantry engagements are not the way most people in wars get killed. If you have infantry engaging other infantry, that means the sides did something wrong, as you want to kill the other guy's infantry with the likes of artillery, cluster munitions, mines, chemical weapons, and other assorted goodies before they even engaged. That's not to say that it doesn't happen, but it is to say that in the case of war, the largest causes of death are not from enemy gunmen and so the whole concept of balanced teams and play is absurd.
Yeah, all the IT people laugh at that overpriced, overfed GM autoworker. How dare they get paid $40 an hour to build cars! How ironic it is, that those programmers never realized that if a country could paid someone 1/8th US wages to build cars, that maybe they could pay someone to program computers at the same discount. The only way to protect your standard of living is to kick foreign competition out. The USA and EU should form an exclusive trading block, and just screw the rest of the world. That means you, India and China...
Please read the bold part. Parent stated fact and was downmodded for it.
I didn't even condemn them for being a liberal shill site, just a shill site. Of course conservatives have their shill sites. But, you still have to have some honesty and say that's what they are.
Mods based on opinion have no place on slashdot and are against the moderator guidelines. The Mod should have posted a reply if he/she disagreed rather abusing moderator power.
Mods based on opinion are a fact of life on slashdot. When the conservative mods who are on slashdot mod my post, it will go back up. Generally conservative leaning or seemingly conservative leaning posts get modded down right away, then gradually go back up after hours. Also, if you trash Europe in a post, that will usually bounce up right away if you do it when Europe is asleep, and then becomes a good troll when Europe wakes up.
And what are you? You're a right-wing-know-nothing with a dumb name and a wife that would look at home in Nazi Germany guarding prisoners.
Oh be quiet you Godless backstabbing traitor to America. You should be happy that your liberal backstabbing friends have finally ruined the United States to pave the road to your socialist plots. Some day we will have you up against the wall for your perfidy, but until then, enjoy the ruin that you have created, you jap car driving traitor.
What you write here makes me believe you know little about standards, C++ and HTML. For example, in what way does HTML make promises "about everything"? Where does it say what a H1 heading should look (or sound, or feel) like?
I was using the term HTML liberally to include CSS. CSS is VERY strict about how things should appear on the screen. In contrast, C++ is famously unconcerned with how types are to be represented.
] Is there a word to describe that feature that's not covered by a trademark claim?
Don't know, and the thing is, it's not even a good word. Intellisense, Intellimouse, all those "Intelli-gent" brands of Microsoft sound corny. "Smart"...
Maybe we should call it "TypeList", because, you type and get a list.
Fractals are basically the incorporation of decisions into iteratively applied functions of some kind. Physics normally uses mathematics of varying degrees of curves and shapes and spaces to describe things and these functions are continuous to a degree, and so its pretty reasonable to think that such descriptions could be imprecise. Math tends to see "switch and loop and jump" statements as inelegant and those are the essence of fractals.
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The civil war was about slavery and Lincoln's election, as an abolitionist Republican, arguably precipitated it even before he was sworn in, just like Obama's reputation as a liberal took the market for a nosedive.
For proof:
a) the confederate constitution is a copy of the us constitution, but, with a clause adding that slavery is a natural right and the government cannot ban slavery.
b) the most contentious issue between north and the south, was, in fact slavery. It existed with the infamous compromise in the original constitutional convention, with a series of incidents running all along the 1800's leading up to the civil war - bleeding kansas, dredd scott, the compromises.
c) abolition was the animating social issues of the day.
It's true that there were other issues. The south, being agrarian, favored free trade so they could buy cheaper British manufactured goods. The north was protectionist, and the south saw this as a sort of blackmail. As it is, the north became an economic powerhouse and won the war BECAUSE of its protectionism. This debate continues to this day. Right now the southern and agrarian ideas of free trade carry the day but the thing is, any study of history shows that free trade and a lack of workers rights makes you lose wars. Just ask the south.
But really, the civil war was about slavery.
The thing is, Republicans tend to be bigger spenders on space than Democrats, particularly manned space flight. Democrats tend to argue that putting people in space is a luxury and we should be spending money on the poor, or, pursue unmanned flights for the science.
Republicans tend to argue that manned space flight is a national security thing. It doesn't hurt the cause that two of the largest Nasa facilities are in traditionally Republican areas - Texas and Florida.
IF you name this station after a liberal, you may as well push the dang thing into the atmosphere,for all the support that it will get.
Having calmed down a bit, I understand what they were trying to do. It's about all these fools out there claiming that there is a single silver bullet cause. I've heard people preach about mercury in vaccines so many times I just want to scream. They didn't use mercury any more when my son was vaccinated and if anything, he gets way more mercury exposure from coal burning power or even the environment than he does from a vaccine. IT's just incorrect.
Believe me, I understand the urge to find that one thing that, if you could fix your son, you would. I read the article, and I was like, "ahah, the vinyl floors have got to go!". But, there's no magic fix, just a lot of ABA therapy, and an acceptance that my son is going to be different - and, a healthy re-examination of myself - perhaps I'm on the spectrum too, and gave a piece of it to my son.
If this is an April Fools joke. My kid's autistic. Now that all our fine scientists got a good laugh at his expense, I hope their kids all die of cancer.
Well, not really, but I am pissed off. Fucking assholes. At least we should shoot them all.
At the same time the NSL's are being curtailed, the current administration is seeking expanded powers for the IRS to go after imagined "tax cheats". The IRS will have broader and sweeping powers to go after people who are guilty of not paying their taxes until they prove themselves innocent.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123802635823642761.html
Some things on tap: requiring small businesses to use bank accounts for all transactions, implying that the IRS can scan your bank. Having the government track all your transactions - even internationally.
This administration doesn't see any attack on personal freedom when the IRS rifles through your bank accounts or papers. Nor does it see any attack on personal freedom when guns are regulated and fire is essentially taxed until banned and all of our interactions with the environment are monitored.
But... if you call someone overseas in Iran, and the government listens in, now THAT's when the government crosses the line. What a token joke! Civil rights in the Obama administration is like having a choice of a dildo to get ass raped with.
If you skim the thing, it seems pretty real, but once you get into it, you find gems like:
"[Pauses to answer a call from his iPhone]"
"Internet Explorer has always been the leader of executing client-side scripts, but that didnâ(TM)t stop Microsoft from continuing its thirst for excellence by including a completely new JavaScript engine called JSE, which stands for JavaScript Speedy Engine"
This article is just great...what sucks for Microsoft is, everyone wishes this article were true!
Little blurb in article:
"Graph created in Excel to showcase superiority..."
Wow, these guys re-invented the little plastic sheet you had to replace every now in then in the Intellivision controller because the buttons and disc eventually wore through the circuits. Still the best controller ever, but... dang!
Coming off of blowing 700B to bail out a bunch of stupid banks, the USA now caps off 200B in space investments to have astronauts fight over potty time.
Our country is just screwed.
Even if that one person is a game reviewer?
Oh, don't be turning my sweeping statements against me with self contradiction now! Ruins the drama of the whole thing. You are supposed to react emotionally to my opening slam of reviewers, not actually -think- about it! :-)
"Due to the efficiency of Visual Studio 9 over GCC"... I don't want to pick a compiler flamewar here, but I think it is fair to say that making blanket statements about one particular compiler producing faster code than another is pretty ignorant. There are some things VC does that GCC doesn't do, and vice versa, compiler switches can make a big difference, and you really would need to study the most commonly used code in OO under both compilers to see who is, in fact, generating better code, and, incidentally, for which processor.
That you can't be without it for a few hours?
Except that that worker is a line worker doing very 'boring' jobs similar to a helpdesk line in the IT world which makes $12/hour top?
I would argue that today's programming is almost as much assembly line taylorism as building a car is, and, programming is by far an easier job, because there's no physical labor, modern wizards make it pretty easy to put together basic data screens, you sit in an air conditioned building or even at home...
Bottom line is, if you think that you are somehow immune to international wage pressure because you are a programmer, you are pretty stupid. There's a billion people in all of NATO nations, and five billion in the rest of the world, and they all make less money than you.
It's only a matter of time.
Protectionism fails.
Protectionism works. In fact, it works right now for Asian countries, worked quite well for the USA for over 100 years, and worked quite well for the UK before that. It works EVERYWHERE it has been used.
The fact is, the protectionism caused the Great Depression story is just that, a story, like Ghosts and Goblins. The cause of the Great Depression was monetary failure and if anything a run on the pound brought about by free trade precipitated that.
Time to kick the asian exporters out. They don't play fair to NATO, so screw them.
Game reviewers are the worst bunch of people on the planet. I'm sick of reviewers panning a game because the enemies do not have a great A/I, or there is a paucity of options. Just like every movie does not have to be Star Wars, or every song does not have to be a symphony, not every video game needs to be an ultra realistic tactical shooter with advanced A/I enemies and 900 combat moves.
I, for one, am actually rather excited by the new Wolfenstein.
1) The screen shots look pretty cool to me, or at least cool enough. I mean, did we bail on Dr. Who because it was not Star Wars?
2) Killing Nazis is NOT dated and overused, as the game reviewers say. Killing Nazis never goes out of style. I would even argue that, if a video game does not have a Nazi to kill in it at some point, it almost automatically sucks.
3) Sometimes I do not want to fight people that are as smart as I am, or smarter. The great genius of the first Doom wasn't the 3d graphics. It was that the 3d graphics were used to provide a great venue to just exterminate thousands of on-screen enemies. The quantity of killing in a video game is often better than the act of hunting down one person.
4) The so-called realism of a tactical shooter is just as much a fantasy as the other game plays it replaces. Statistically, squad on squad infantry engagements are not the way most people in wars get killed. If you have infantry engaging other infantry, that means the sides did something wrong, as you want to kill the other guy's infantry with the likes of artillery, cluster munitions, mines, chemical weapons, and other assorted goodies before they even engaged. That's not to say that it doesn't happen, but it is to say that in the case of war, the largest causes of death are not from enemy gunmen and so the whole concept of balanced teams and play is absurd.
Yeah, all the IT people laugh at that overpriced, overfed GM autoworker. How dare they get paid $40 an hour to build cars! How ironic it is, that those programmers never realized that if a country could paid someone 1/8th US wages to build cars, that maybe they could pay someone to program computers at the same discount. The only way to protect your standard of living is to kick foreign competition out. The USA and EU should form an exclusive trading block, and just screw the rest of the world. That means you, India and China...
As opposed to YOUR favorite political news blog,
Nope, actually, when I go to a political blog, I expect it to be shilling for whatever it is they shill for. But they are still shills....
Here in the reality-based community "liberal" and "political shill" are not synonyms
That's some definition of reality ya got there!
Please read the bold part. Parent stated fact and was downmodded for it.
I didn't even condemn them for being a liberal shill site, just a shill site. Of course conservatives have their shill sites. But, you still have to have some honesty and say that's what they are.
Mods based on opinion have no place on slashdot and are against the moderator guidelines. The Mod should have posted a reply if he/she disagreed rather abusing moderator power.
Mods based on opinion are a fact of life on slashdot. When the conservative mods who are on slashdot mod my post, it will go back up. Generally conservative leaning or seemingly conservative leaning posts get modded down right away, then gradually go back up after hours. Also, if you trash Europe in a post, that will usually bounce up right away if you do it when Europe is asleep, and then becomes a good troll when Europe wakes up.
And what are you? You're a right-wing-know-nothing with a dumb name and a wife that would look at home in Nazi Germany guarding prisoners.
Oh be quiet you Godless backstabbing traitor to America. You should be happy that your liberal backstabbing friends have finally ruined the United States to pave the road to your socialist plots. Some day we will have you up against the wall for your perfidy, but until then, enjoy the ruin that you have created, you jap car driving traitor.
You can't take the Huff seriously. IT's a political shill site.
What you write here makes me believe you know little about standards, C++ and HTML. For example, in what way does HTML make promises "about everything"? Where does it say what a H1 heading should look (or sound, or feel) like?
I was using the term HTML liberally to include CSS. CSS is VERY strict about how things should appear on the screen. In contrast, C++ is famously unconcerned with how types are to be represented.
] Is there a word to describe that feature that's not covered by a trademark claim?
Don't know, and the thing is, it's not even a good word. Intellisense, Intellimouse, all those "Intelli-gent" brands of Microsoft sound corny. "Smart"...
Maybe we should call it "TypeList", because, you type and get a list.
He selects a subset of integers... if positive then... :-)
Fractals are basically the incorporation of decisions into iteratively applied functions of some kind. Physics normally uses mathematics of varying degrees of curves and shapes and spaces to describe things and these functions are continuous to a degree, and so its pretty reasonable to think that such descriptions could be imprecise. Math tends to see "switch and loop and jump" statements as inelegant and those are the essence of fractals.