The sad thing about congressional corruption is that most of the information about it is public. Being corrupt behind closed doors is one thing, but doing it openly is a mark of true contempt.
Which in issues like the NSA is the same as Bush's party line was. Still, keep believing you can score political points by pretending that the R's are better defenders of the 4th Amendment than the D's. I've also got a bridge to sell you.
The NSA has already shown a willingness to lie to Congress, what does he expect?
To make some important points. To anyone who needs it spelled out, the question serves two purposes. First, it plants a concern in people's minds by suggesting a possibility. Second, when the NSA is caught spying on congress, it's one more lie to hang them by (a fellow can hope, can't he?). It's all the better question because his fellow congresscritters will be more upset by the NSA spying on them than mere constituents.
Since VC wars are almost as much fun as language wars, and I've already donned my Nomex underwear, why not Mercurial? It isn't as popular as git, but it's not going to die either (e.g. Python project uses Hg). It seems that most people or organizations that have actually sat down and evaluated Hg vs. git have chosen Hg. Examples include Google's online repository and Fog Creek's Kiln. Both now also support git, but that's because of demand by users. Of course user demand is, at least from a marketing PoV, important, but why the user demand for git over Hg? Both have technical pros and cons (and fortunately for both the dev teams compete with each other), but Hg has always had a much better command line user interface, better GUI integration, and was well designed from the ground up to be portable, as opposed to a pile of shell scripts and C programs to run on Linux. Arguably git's use on the Linux kernel is a factor, but why? For all its visibility and importance, the Linux kernel is but one FOSS project, and the vast majority of FOSS devs don't work on it.
Now for the statement that some will see as flamebait:-) but which is a sincere observation. I think the difference is the fanboi factor; people who think that git is the choice because it's from Linus, the ultimate cool kid. No, I don't think everyone who uses git does so because they're a fanboi. I suspect the main reason is going with that flow, but it's the fanbois who originally pushed that flow so hard. As your mother used to say, if all your friends decided to jump off a cliff, would you jump too? Vociferous debate welcome.
It would have been a waste of electrons anyway, he's of the opinion that...
I think his opinion is, to put it nicely, ridiculous. So what? I don't know about roman_mir in particular, but I see a lot of this downmodding of posts that are clearly not trolls or flamebait.
Don't disturb his paranoid fantasies about civilization being destroyed by "wacko environmentalists". Next he may start talking about "enviro-terrorists". After that, Sasquatch. The entertainment is priceless.
It seems like Slashdot mods are becoming worse censors by the day, trying to hide any opinion they don't agree with.
I completely disagree with the PP, which is an extreme libertarian PoV. However, it's not a troll or flamebait in any way. I was going to tell him just how wrong he is, but instead find myself complaining about the fact that in order for a non-AC poster to get a -1, he had to have been modded down by at least 2 points.
Don't forget the crony capitalist resistance from the railroad to the construction of the pipeline in order to prevent loss of revenue.
Do you know for a fact that this is a serious factor? There's lots of crony capitalism in the US, but I haven't heard of railroads trying to stop pipelines.
I have seen railroads in both the US and in Europe... many of the railroads in the US are really lagging behind when it comes to capacity, reliability and safety measures.
It's true that passenger rail service is much better in Europe, but for freight it's the exact opposite. Many people, European and American, don't realize that because mostly they see passenger trains. For all the integration of passenger train service, there are still compatibility problems between different European countries in freight service. The fancy railways are almost entirely passenger service. How much freight does the TGV carry?
The US moves a much larger percentage of its freight by rail than Europe. People don't even see much of that rail network because a lot of it runs through large but thinly populated parts of the country, using different rights-of-way than the roads.
Like a friend of mine says about his Google glass, The best feature is that...
Wait until you start seeing a lot of pictures like that posted to the Internet, with little notes like "I took this with my Google Glass". You think the reactions now are hostile? You ain't seen nuttin yet.
I used to feel the same way about cell phone users
Get serious. I was far from an early cell phone adopter (which was especially funny when I was designing cell phone chips), but neither I, nor any but a tiny minority, objected to anything about them except the occasional inconsiderate idiot. Don't yack on it when you're in a theater or something, and whether or not you want one, there's little to object to. Contrast that to the outright hostility on a site that's visited by the last people likely to be technophobes. Big difference.
Forward another decade or two, let people get used to the things and Google Glass rev 5 will be considered normal.
You're assuming that it ever catches on. Judging from the reactions on this board, where technophobes are pretty thin on the ground, that doesn't seem too likely. Contrast that to many other gizmos where, especially on sites like this, the response is usually overwhelmingly positive. Tell Sergey to play with one of his other toys - this one isn't going to cut it.
You're thinking of socio-economic class. This is a little different. It separates the class of people stupid and rude enough to walk around wearing Google Glass from the class of people who aren't.
Yes and no. When it comes to physical attractiveness, if you take someone, and then have N randomly selected other people rate their attractiveness, you'll get a mean and a standard deviation. Of course that's not the most important thing to you (or your possible partner) as only your opinion matters (though the mean will of course affect how much attention someone gets).
Ok, that part's obvious, but there is an interesting effect. I wish I could find a link to the study, but I can't right now. Basically, if someone is fairly attractive, the SD of opinion will be comparatively small. However, if you look at the people that a given person finds the most attractive, there will generally be a much larger SD for them. In other words, most people more or less agree on who is reasonably attractive, but who they find most attractive is likely to be someone of who that opinion is not widespread.
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The sad thing about congressional corruption is that most of the information about it is public. Being corrupt behind closed doors is one thing, but doing it openly is a mark of true contempt.
I'd say that those senators who support "free speech zones" are clearly enemies of the constitution.
I support a free speech zone - it's called the United States.
who votes along Obama's party line
Which in issues like the NSA is the same as Bush's party line was. Still, keep believing you can score political points by pretending that the R's are better defenders of the 4th Amendment than the D's. I've also got a bridge to sell you.
At least he believes in evolution, unlike certain members of the other side.
The NSA has already shown a willingness to lie to Congress, what does he expect?
To make some important points. To anyone who needs it spelled out, the question serves two purposes. First, it plants a concern in people's minds by suggesting a possibility. Second, when the NSA is caught spying on congress, it's one more lie to hang them by (a fellow can hope, can't he?). It's all the better question because his fellow congresscritters will be more upset by the NSA spying on them than mere constituents.
It is absolutely Emacs' fault that that the default keybindings are still set up for MIT Lisp machines
Then how come I have no trouble using Emacs on a bog standard laptop?
Emacs ... byzantine key combos
What are you talking about? It's not Emacs' fault that some later programs decided to break compatibility.
So Github isn't the Eclipse repository?
Heretic, apostate, blasphemer! (I can never remember the differences between the three).
You will spend eternity in a circle of hell where you're forced to use Notepad.
Since VC wars are almost as much fun as language wars, and I've already donned my Nomex underwear, why not Mercurial? It isn't as popular as git, but it's not going to die either (e.g. Python project uses Hg). It seems that most people or organizations that have actually sat down and evaluated Hg vs. git have chosen Hg. Examples include Google's online repository and Fog Creek's Kiln. Both now also support git, but that's because of demand by users. Of course user demand is, at least from a marketing PoV, important, but why the user demand for git over Hg? Both have technical pros and cons (and fortunately for both the dev teams compete with each other), but Hg has always had a much better command line user interface, better GUI integration, and was well designed from the ground up to be portable, as opposed to a pile of shell scripts and C programs to run on Linux. Arguably git's use on the Linux kernel is a factor, but why? For all its visibility and importance, the Linux kernel is but one FOSS project, and the vast majority of FOSS devs don't work on it.
Now for the statement that some will see as flamebait :-) but which is a sincere observation. I think the difference is the fanboi factor; people who think that git is the choice because it's from Linus, the ultimate cool kid. No, I don't think everyone who uses git does so because they're a fanboi. I suspect the main reason is going with that flow, but it's the fanbois who originally pushed that flow so hard. As your mother used to say, if all your friends decided to jump off a cliff, would you jump too? Vociferous debate welcome.
Sincerely,
Don Quixote
Wow. Talk about a tenuous implication (to put it as politely as possible).
It would have been a waste of electrons anyway, he's of the opinion that ...
I think his opinion is, to put it nicely, ridiculous. So what? I don't know about roman_mir in particular, but I see a lot of this downmodding of posts that are clearly not trolls or flamebait.
If they'd just made the rails out of Rearden metal....
They'd have a railroad just as realistic as any of Ayn Rand's fantasies.
Don't disturb his paranoid fantasies about civilization being destroyed by "wacko environmentalists". Next he may start talking about "enviro-terrorists". After that, Sasquatch. The entertainment is priceless.
It seems like Slashdot mods are becoming worse censors by the day, trying to hide any opinion they don't agree with.
I completely disagree with the PP, which is an extreme libertarian PoV. However, it's not a troll or flamebait in any way. I was going to tell him just how wrong he is, but instead find myself complaining about the fact that in order for a non-AC poster to get a -1, he had to have been modded down by at least 2 points.
Don't forget the crony capitalist resistance from the railroad to the construction of the pipeline in order to prevent loss of revenue.
Do you know for a fact that this is a serious factor? There's lots of crony capitalism in the US, but I haven't heard of railroads trying to stop pipelines.
I have seen railroads in both the US and in Europe ... many of the railroads in the US are really lagging behind when it comes to capacity, reliability and safety measures.
It's true that passenger rail service is much better in Europe, but for freight it's the exact opposite. Many people, European and American, don't realize that because mostly they see passenger trains. For all the integration of passenger train service, there are still compatibility problems between different European countries in freight service. The fancy railways are almost entirely passenger service. How much freight does the TGV carry?
The US moves a much larger percentage of its freight by rail than Europe. People don't even see much of that rail network because a lot of it runs through large but thinly populated parts of the country, using different rights-of-way than the roads.
Like a friend of mine says about his Google glass, The best feature is that ...
Wait until you start seeing a lot of pictures like that posted to the Internet, with little notes like "I took this with my Google Glass". You think the reactions now are hostile? You ain't seen nuttin yet.
I used to feel the same way about cell phone users
Get serious. I was far from an early cell phone adopter (which was especially funny when I was designing cell phone chips), but neither I, nor any but a tiny minority, objected to anything about them except the occasional inconsiderate idiot. Don't yack on it when you're in a theater or something, and whether or not you want one, there's little to object to. Contrast that to the outright hostility on a site that's visited by the last people likely to be technophobes. Big difference.
Forward another decade or two, let people get used to the things and Google Glass rev 5 will be considered normal.
You're assuming that it ever catches on. Judging from the reactions on this board, where technophobes are pretty thin on the ground, that doesn't seem too likely. Contrast that to many other gizmos where, especially on sites like this, the response is usually overwhelmingly positive. Tell Sergey to play with one of his other toys - this one isn't going to cut it.
I don't own
Thus you're asserting the OP's superiority by stating that he isn't stupid or obnoxious enough to buy something like that.
spread FUD
Outright ridicule is not spreading FUD.
belies my own insecurities about people I try to disparage by calling hipsters
Dream on. Ridicule is often heaped on people simply because they're ridiculous.
"Class Divide"?
You're thinking of socio-economic class. This is a little different. It separates the class of people stupid and rude enough to walk around wearing Google Glass from the class of people who aren't.
Being ... attractive ... [is] always subjective
Yes and no. When it comes to physical attractiveness, if you take someone, and then have N randomly selected other people rate their attractiveness, you'll get a mean and a standard deviation. Of course that's not the most important thing to you (or your possible partner) as only your opinion matters (though the mean will of course affect how much attention someone gets).
Ok, that part's obvious, but there is an interesting effect. I wish I could find a link to the study, but I can't right now. Basically, if someone is fairly attractive, the SD of opinion will be comparatively small. However, if you look at the people that a given person finds the most attractive, there will generally be a much larger SD for them. In other words, most people more or less agree on who is reasonably attractive, but who they find most attractive is likely to be someone of who that opinion is not widespread.
That may be, but if you want truly great fries use suet. It may kill you, but at least you'll die happy.