You get bonus points for using the words "high-quality" and "MySQL" in the same sentance with a straight face. Postgres, maybe... but MySQL? Popularity != Quality. For reference, listen to a Britney Spears album.
Sorry to burst your bubble... but (contrary to popular belief) Lincoln's primary motive in issuing the Emancipation Proclamation was not a moral judgement on the institution of slavery. Lincoln's primary motivation was always the preservation of the Union - nothing more, nothing less. Issuing the Emancipation Proclimation was nothing more or less than a strategic decision designed to help end the war.
In his own words:
"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."
The true measure of Lincoln's character was that he was willing to subordinate his personal opinions on slavery to his sworn duty to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States".
There is no way in hell I will install that spyware invested crap called Kazaa Media Desktop.
This is the kind of thing that VMWare is perfect for. Set up a virtual windows machine and run untrusted apps in that and save the good files over to a Samba share on the host box. When you're done, you can blow away the VM.
McDonalds's food sucks, but people still eat there. Not because of product superiority, but because of aggressive marketing
I think the key to the success of McD's is more one of ubiquitiy and consistency than of strict advertising. You can walk into any McD's in the world and know exactly what you are going to get in terms of price, quality, and surroundings. It's not that the quality is high -- but it is uniform. People for the most part are not very adventerous; most people will chose a known quantity (especially when it comes to food), even it it's not very good, rather than take a risk on something new. You can be in a totally strange city and walk into a McD's that looks exactly like the one in your home town and get a McGreaseburger that tastes exactly like the one back home. For a lot of people, that level of familiarity is comforting. The other big thing in McD's favor is that they are *everywhere*. If you're hungry, no matter where you are, more than likely there's a McD's nearby -- instant gratification.
Have you seen her pics? Regardless of what she says, there are a couple of shots where she's leaning back and you can clearly see the scars under her breasts from her boob job. Looks like she had a pretty good surgeon, but they're still frankentits.
The point that you are missing is that it is a better use of police resources to spend their time and effort protecting the public from PHYSICAL harm than from MORAL harm. When cops are ticketing bimbos for flashing thier tits at a bar, they aren't out ticketing drunk drivers or doing something USEFUL with the public's money.
As others have said on this thread, the complaint was filed by the owner of the bar, so likely he would be an eyewitness to say that the photo was taken in his bar while the establishment was open to the public. Since a citizen filed a credible compaint, the police have to take *some* kind of action.
Several other people have noted that this is probably a CYA tactic on the part of the bar owner. Nudity + Alcohol = Legal Trouble. He could be fined, arrested, and/or lose his liquor license for running an unsanctioned "adult entertainment" business if he didn't take steps to prevent nudity in his establishment. Zoning boards are notorously fickle about this sort of thing. I'm sure the publicity this is generating for him isn't hurting him either.
Rights most certainly ARE defined by the government.
BZZZT. Wrong answer. You must have slept through Civics 101. All rights are natural and inherent. The government is granted authority, by the people, to infringe on those rights in specific and well-defined circumstances; likewise the government is specifically enjoined from infringing on certian rights under any circumstance. That is what the Bill of Rights is all about -- it's not a list of things that the government allows us to do, it's a list of things that we forbid the government from doing to us.
God damit!! It's not a fucking game, it's your life you're betting
If it was just YOUR life you were risking, then (IMHO) there would be no problems. I'm all in favor of removing any obsticle that hinders the process of idiots removing themselves from the gene pool.
The point is that it's not just YOUR life that you are risking -- you are also risking MY life and my CHILDREN'S lives. I don't give a rat's ass if you wrap yourself around a telephone pole, but if you hurt my kids you better pray to your preferred diety that the police get to you first.
some people act like all cops are crooked and dishonest
I have a lot of respect for cops -- I'm related to several. I'll agree that most cops are decent, hard-working folks doing a shitty job
However, there are a significant number of cops who are crooked, dishonest, and/or lazy. Police Officers are given a huge amount of trust, power, and leeway. Some of them abuse thier position. Even otherwise honest and competent cops often feel as though they are above the law, and not without a certian amount of justification. Even when cops are caught breaking the law, they often get no more than a formal reprimand, whereas an average citizen who committed the same offense would go to jail. The concequences for abusing their power are miniscule compared to the amount of damage they can do. The police need to be held to a higher standard of conduc than the general public, and the concequences for misusing their power need to be severe and applied without exception. Until this happens, the police are like a half-wild guard dog: a useful protector, but all too likely to turn and bite those who they are supposed to protect.
Tolkien made up his own language for the fun of it
More accurately, Tolkien made up multiple languages for the fun of it. Tolkien's writings on Middle Earth contain at least 7 well-developed fabricated languages:
Quenya (old/formal Elvish)
Sindaran (modern/conversational Elvish)
Adunaic (the language of Numenor)
Westron (The Common Tongue, a descendant of Anduic)
Rohirric (Language of Rohan, an offshoot of Anduic)
The Black Speech of Mordor (Orcish)
Khuzdul (Dwarvish)
The dialect of Westron used in The Shire and Bree (Soval Phare) could be considered a seperate language as well.
There are several other languages mentioned or alluded to, but which are minimally developed in grammar and vocabulary (EG, Old Entish, Valarin). A good resource for learning more about Tolkien's linguistics is online at http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/tolkien.htm l
The abundance of abandond projects on Sourceforge would appear to disagree with you
Do you think, perhaps, that the reason there are so many abandoned projects is because they suck, are irrelevant, outdated, or duplicative? How many half-assed winamp clones does the world need? Do we really need 2000 different email clients, or yet another piece of desktop eye candy?
Open source development is a Darwinian process. The strong prosper and the weak either die off or adapt themselves to survive in an isolated niche. If a project is so uninteresting or so obscure that it can't attract a new maintainer, then it deserves to die. The carcass remains part of the ecosystem -- scavangers are free to pick the bones for anything useful, or someone can come along and breathe new life into it.
The Simple Life had a bigger audience than the interview with President Bush
No big suprise there. Paris Hilton is a spoiled rich idiot riding on the coattails of her grandfather. Everyone knows that. Shrub is a spoiled rich idiot riding on the coattails of his father. Everyone know that too. On one channel, we have Shrub making a fool of himself while wearing a grey wool suit, and on another we have Paris making a fool of herself while wearing skimpy clothes. They both have the same intellectual value (zero), so which one has a higher entertainment value? Maybe if Shrub leaked a sex tape to the internet (shudder!) his ratings would go up.
A spokesperson in the linked Guardian article is quoted as saying "it is virtually impossible to steal a new car without access to the correct keys."
On which planet? Now if they said "it is virtually impossible to hot-wire a new car without the correct keys", there might have been a germ of truth to that statement. There are other ways to steal a car without having to drive it away. The organized car theives (as opposed to the casual joy-riders) will keep on using tow trucks to haul their booty away to the chop-shop. An organized car theft ring will have the car stripped and the incriminating bits dumped somewhere before the owner even notices that their car is missing.
It's a popular misconception that professional car thieves target high-end luxury vehicles. Nothing can be further from the truth. People who make their living stealing cars know that a car is worth several times as much when broken down into parts than it is sold whole. Therefore, they steal the cars for which there is a high demand for cheap parts -- older, popular, mid-range family cars (as the linked article states). There's not as much demand for used luxury car parts, because there are fewer luxury cars on the road, and the people who own them are more likely to demand new parts.
I don't want Lojack and I don't want OnStar. I already have a system for preventing my car from being stolen, and a safety net to protect me in case my prevention system fails. The prevention mechanism is called "situational awareness", and the backup system is called "insurance".
Your personal safety is your personal responsibility. Big Brother / Big Nanny schemes are not necessary, nor are they as effective as personal vigilance.
Correlated subqueries are nothing compared to derived tables:
Select foo from ( select bar as foo from baz ) as derived_foo where...
It's a highly useful technique that often lets you avoid having to create a view or temp table.
And of course you are still allowed to carry a walking cane. I don't know about you, but I think 3 feet of solid hardwood is a far more effective weapon than a razor blade.
I seriously considered buying my ex-boss a copy of Death March by Ed Yourdon.
Of course, that might not have the effect my ex-coworkers would like, since the book is about how to survive Death Marches, instead of how to avoid creating them.
The important question is: can the boring hardware store flourescent lamp can run on 12V dc?
Obviously the standard ballast in the fixture will have to be replaced, as it expects 120V AC input. I don't even know if low-voltage DC ballasts are available (although I'm sure they are). An LED based system might have an *overall* higher efficiency if if allows you to avoid transformer / inverter losses. You can't just look at the light bulb -- you have to take the entire system into account.
The point people are trying to make isn't about the voltage, it's about avoiding the ac-dc conversion. Inverters are horribly inefficient. If you're living off-grid, you want everything to run on DC current, and preferably at some multiple of 12V, so you avoid transformer & inverter lossage.
High voltage AC is much less lossy if you are transmitting it several miles. In a cabin setting, I doubt there will be any cable runs longer than 50 feet, so a predominantly low-voltage DC system would be highly efficient.
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IIRC, NT and it's successors are written primarily (>95%) in C++.
You get bonus points for using the words "high-quality" and "MySQL" in the same sentance with a straight face. Postgres, maybe... but MySQL? Popularity != Quality. For reference, listen to a Britney Spears album.
In his own words:
The true measure of Lincoln's character was that he was willing to subordinate his personal opinions on slavery to his sworn duty to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States".Have you seen her pics? Regardless of what she says, there are a couple of shots where she's leaning back and you can clearly see the scars under her breasts from her boob job. Looks like she had a pretty good surgeon, but they're still frankentits.
Several other people have noted that this is probably a CYA tactic on the part of the bar owner. Nudity + Alcohol = Legal Trouble. He could be fined, arrested, and/or lose his liquor license for running an unsanctioned "adult entertainment" business if he didn't take steps to prevent nudity in his establishment. Zoning boards are notorously fickle about this sort of thing. I'm sure the publicity this is generating for him isn't hurting him either.
The point is that it's not just YOUR life that you are risking -- you are also risking MY life and my CHILDREN'S lives. I don't give a rat's ass if you wrap yourself around a telephone pole, but if you hurt my kids you better pray to your preferred diety that the police get to you first.
However, there are a significant number of cops who are crooked, dishonest, and/or lazy. Police Officers are given a huge amount of trust, power, and leeway. Some of them abuse thier position. Even otherwise honest and competent cops often feel as though they are above the law, and not without a certian amount of justification. Even when cops are caught breaking the law, they often get no more than a formal reprimand, whereas an average citizen who committed the same offense would go to jail. The concequences for abusing their power are miniscule compared to the amount of damage they can do. The police need to be held to a higher standard of conduc than the general public, and the concequences for misusing their power need to be severe and applied without exception. Until this happens, the police are like a half-wild guard dog: a useful protector, but all too likely to turn and bite those who they are supposed to protect.
The dialect of Westron used in The Shire and Bree (Soval Phare) could be considered a seperate language as well. There are several other languages mentioned or alluded to, but which are minimally developed in grammar and vocabulary (EG, Old Entish, Valarin). A good resource for learning more about Tolkien's linguistics is online at http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/tolkien.htm l
Open source development is a Darwinian process. The strong prosper and the weak either die off or adapt themselves to survive in an isolated niche. If a project is so uninteresting or so obscure that it can't attract a new maintainer, then it deserves to die. The carcass remains part of the ecosystem -- scavangers are free to pick the bones for anything useful, or someone can come along and breathe new life into it.
It's a popular misconception that professional car thieves target high-end luxury vehicles. Nothing can be further from the truth. People who make their living stealing cars know that a car is worth several times as much when broken down into parts than it is sold whole. Therefore, they steal the cars for which there is a high demand for cheap parts -- older, popular, mid-range family cars (as the linked article states). There's not as much demand for used luxury car parts, because there are fewer luxury cars on the road, and the people who own them are more likely to demand new parts.
Your personal safety is your personal responsibility. Big Brother / Big Nanny schemes are not necessary, nor are they as effective as personal vigilance.
Correlated subqueries are nothing compared to derived tables: Select foo from ( select bar as foo from baz ) as derived_foo where ...
It's a highly useful technique that often lets you avoid having to create a view or temp table.
Just carry a cane. IF you can fake a limp convincingly, I can't imagine that they'd take it away from you.
And of course you are still allowed to carry a walking cane. I don't know about you, but I think 3 feet of solid hardwood is a far more effective weapon than a razor blade.
Of course, that might not have the effect my ex-coworkers would like, since the book is about how to survive Death Marches, instead of how to avoid creating them.
Better run out and get two more so you can have RAID 0+1. RAID 0 with retail IDE drives is downright scary.
Obviously the standard ballast in the fixture will have to be replaced, as it expects 120V AC input. I don't even know if low-voltage DC ballasts are available (although I'm sure they are). An LED based system might have an *overall* higher efficiency if if allows you to avoid transformer / inverter losses. You can't just look at the light bulb -- you have to take the entire system into account.
High voltage AC is much less lossy if you are transmitting it several miles. In a cabin setting, I doubt there will be any cable runs longer than 50 feet, so a predominantly low-voltage DC system would be highly efficient.
Hear, hear. My saddlebag is 8 years old -- it's housed 3 laptops in that time and it will probably outlive my next three as well.