ruthless right-wing pro-government paramilitaries like in some other Latin American countries in the past.
Correction: Latin American countries in the present (most obviously Colombia and the Northern Triangle). By the way, the paramilitaries aren't just pro-government, they are both controllers of the government and reinforced by it. Not on their own, of course, but typically as agents of capital using the paramilitaries to clear Indians off land they want to use as a banana farm or somesuch.
Those guns and bullets don't pay for themselves, and your typical campesino doesn't have the cash to buy even a single box of bullets or an olive jumpsuit.
Of course the armored door keeps out a knife attack, but that doesn't mean airport security is doing anything more useful than it was before it really went to hell.
don't forget the 9/11 hijackers used no guns or bombs.
Further: they used tiny knives which, if properly prepared, could be easily hidden inside the anus. If the blade is nonmetal (such things do exist), it would be totally undetectable by the current security procedures.
Heh, lookit all you lusers running code on websites.
*misses the entire last decade worth of innovation in web design* *having never experienced them, fails to understand the significance of web applications*
They don't need to know about you personally to understand the demographic you belong to, that's all they really care about. They've got someone else to watch who has the same consumptive habits aside from NoScript. You're anonymous inside the aggregate or anonymous behind NoScript. They don't need to know about you personally to have a good idea about how you behave in the areas they care about.
It doesn't really matter unless you're a Muslim looking for a religious charity, and in that case it would be the state observing you, not ZD, and they have much better tools than the proliferation of some stupid JS.
I'm not really talking about the codes in the article but about the almost completely broken insurance-health complex in the United States. Maybe you meant to address someone else...?
You're implying we ever escaped the first depression.
Haven't you heard? The Dow is back over 11k. The economy is doing great. Unemployment, poverty, and sickness? Those are sociological problems. You'll have to solve them yourselves.
Now if you'll excuse me, I must attend to my Wall Street Journal and a P'zone. Next time please lodge your complaint with your congressman; he'll get right on it.
This is designed to make it easier for insurance companies to deny payment in more situations. The overhead created will increase costs for everyone and that's good for the people at the top.
Hopefully the system implodes on itself.
We can't wait around for it to implode. If this occurs, there will be no healthcare at all for a while until a new system is created. What needs to be done is to create the new system now so that we have a much shorter window of pain.
Also, there's no evidence that it will hit some critical value where its internal contradictions would be the sole force to cause it to implode. More likely it'll just get worse and worse until it hits a point where it is pushed to collapse from the outside, facilitated by its internal weakness. We already know it to be illegitimate; it will likely prove weak as well if faced with serious opposition. It's more a question of how long we, the outside, are willing to wait to knock it over. Hoping won't accomplish anything.
Which, of course, raises plenty of important epistemological concerns: chiefly, what is a lie? Perhaps we could say it is speaking with the intent to deceive. But in what way is the speaker attempting to deceive, which pieces of information does he actually wish to conceal and which bits of misinformation are merely the detritus of a twisted story?
Even if an actual lie detector were to exist, it would be up to the operator to decide what it means. Nobody is really prepared to deal with that sort of weighty thinking on a consistently sound basis, especially not a policeman or a judge.
Maybe it should say something more like "I tried Python but decided it was too cumbersome, but I'm going to try OpenGL next because it seems like a neat language"
I totally disagree. The sooner we can get humans out from behind the wheel, the better. Driver error (for reasons you cite and many more) are at the root of the overwhelming majority of traffic accidents.
It's ridiculous that we must risk our lives (car wrecks are the leading cause of death for people in my age group) just to go somewhere, when there's other modes of transportation that are obvious and are being done well in nearly every other first world country besides the USA.
The state should stop wasting money on new highway projects, return extraneous bypasses to nature, and build bike infrastructure in the cities and competent passenger rail between them. It's cheaper both in dollars and human cost than to keep on with what we're doing, but very few places are bothering to try.
I just replaced my too-hot Phenom II with one of the dual-core 45w processors you mentioned and with the stock cooler my temperature never goes above 100F. I can't tell any difference in performance either, although it'll surely benchmark much lower. Next time I feel a bit spendy I'm going to go for a big copper heatsink with either a big slow fan or none at all. It'll be great!
Parent is modded "Funny", but it's true. I was hired to finish up a software project for a startup after they outsourced their web development to some students in India. The code I had to work with was a total mess. PHP code would jump in and out of HTML without warning, nothing was commented, and the spacing was completely random. On top of that, filenames weren't very descriptive, separate files were made for very basic functions, and there were tons of versions of the same files left over in the same directories as the functioning code with little to no indication on whether or not it was still used somewhere.
I find it so hard to believe that someone will take on a serious coding project and just disregard any sense of structure or organization at all.
The backwardness of the south with the conspicuous consumption and self-importance of the north, and the distinct charms of neither. The worst of both worlds.
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps they'll be on hold for "mere days"
ruthless right-wing pro-government paramilitaries like in some other Latin American countries in the past.
Correction: Latin American countries in the present (most obviously Colombia and the Northern Triangle). By the way, the paramilitaries aren't just pro-government, they are both controllers of the government and reinforced by it. Not on their own, of course, but typically as agents of capital using the paramilitaries to clear Indians off land they want to use as a banana farm or somesuch.
Those guns and bullets don't pay for themselves, and your typical campesino doesn't have the cash to buy even a single box of bullets or an olive jumpsuit.
Of course the armored door keeps out a knife attack, but that doesn't mean airport security is doing anything more useful than it was before it really went to hell.
He's not proposing to kill the monster, but turn it into a hungrier monster with sharper claws via privatization.
don't forget the 9/11 hijackers used no guns or bombs.
Further: they used tiny knives which, if properly prepared, could be easily hidden inside the anus. If the blade is nonmetal (such things do exist), it would be totally undetectable by the current security procedures.
Not that any of this matters...
I assure you, making a website that gets enough visitors to buy even a pack of beer per month using this method takes plenty of work.
Heh, lookit all you lusers running code on websites.
*misses the entire last decade worth of innovation in web design*
*having never experienced them, fails to understand the significance of web applications*
They don't need to know about you personally to understand the demographic you belong to, that's all they really care about. They've got someone else to watch who has the same consumptive habits aside from NoScript. You're anonymous inside the aggregate or anonymous behind NoScript. They don't need to know about you personally to have a good idea about how you behave in the areas they care about.
It doesn't really matter unless you're a Muslim looking for a religious charity, and in that case it would be the state observing you, not ZD, and they have much better tools than the proliferation of some stupid JS.
I'm not really talking about the codes in the article but about the almost completely broken insurance-health complex in the United States. Maybe you meant to address someone else...?
So far Microsoft has ignored ReactOS,
And so has everyone else, including Vladimir Putin, the real leader of Russia, since it works no better than Wine. Is it not based on Wine?
Doctor: "You wear skateboard pads to church?"
Those damn evangelicals are always trying new gimmicks to increase attendance. Xtreme 4 Jesus &c.
You're implying we ever escaped the first depression.
Haven't you heard? The Dow is back over 11k. The economy is doing great.
Unemployment, poverty, and sickness? Those are sociological problems. You'll have to solve them yourselves.
Now if you'll excuse me, I must attend to my Wall Street Journal and a P'zone. Next time please lodge your complaint with your congressman; he'll get right on it.
This is designed to make it easier for insurance companies to deny payment in more situations. The overhead created will increase costs for everyone and that's good for the people at the top.
Hopefully the system implodes on itself.
We can't wait around for it to implode. If this occurs, there will be no healthcare at all for a while until a new system is created. What needs to be done is to create the new system now so that we have a much shorter window of pain.
Also, there's no evidence that it will hit some critical value where its internal contradictions would be the sole force to cause it to implode. More likely it'll just get worse and worse until it hits a point where it is pushed to collapse from the outside, facilitated by its internal weakness. We already know it to be illegitimate; it will likely prove weak as well if faced with serious opposition. It's more a question of how long we, the outside, are willing to wait to knock it over. Hoping won't accomplish anything.
Which, of course, raises plenty of important epistemological concerns: chiefly, what is a lie? Perhaps we could say it is speaking with the intent to deceive. But in what way is the speaker attempting to deceive, which pieces of information does he actually wish to conceal and which bits of misinformation are merely the detritus of a twisted story?
Even if an actual lie detector were to exist, it would be up to the operator to decide what it means. Nobody is really prepared to deal with that sort of weighty thinking on a consistently sound basis, especially not a policeman or a judge.
How do operators of such devices define the proper thresholds for every individual?
Fabricated on the spot based on the operator's whim because they are running a scam, of course.
i lold
Maybe it should say something more like "I tried Python but decided it was too cumbersome, but I'm going to try OpenGL next because it seems like a neat language"
It's the secret that famed astronomer Dr. Ron Paul is taking to his grave...
Schmitt and Heidegger were pretty rational...
I totally disagree. The sooner we can get humans out from behind the wheel, the better. Driver error (for reasons you cite and many more) are at the root of the overwhelming majority of traffic accidents.
It's ridiculous that we must risk our lives (car wrecks are the leading cause of death for people in my age group) just to go somewhere, when there's other modes of transportation that are obvious and are being done well in nearly every other first world country besides the USA.
The state should stop wasting money on new highway projects, return extraneous bypasses to nature, and build bike infrastructure in the cities and competent passenger rail between them. It's cheaper both in dollars and human cost than to keep on with what we're doing, but very few places are bothering to try.
Unless he checked those books out, the records of which could be read by police
I just replaced my too-hot Phenom II with one of the dual-core 45w processors you mentioned and with the stock cooler my temperature never goes above 100F. I can't tell any difference in performance either, although it'll surely benchmark much lower.
Next time I feel a bit spendy I'm going to go for a big copper heatsink with either a big slow fan or none at all. It'll be great!
Parent is modded "Funny", but it's true. I was hired to finish up a software project for a startup after they outsourced their web development to some students in India. The code I had to work with was a total mess. PHP code would jump in and out of HTML without warning, nothing was commented, and the spacing was completely random. On top of that, filenames weren't very descriptive, separate files were made for very basic functions, and there were tons of versions of the same files left over in the same directories as the functioning code with little to no indication on whether or not it was still used somewhere.
I find it so hard to believe that someone will take on a serious coding project and just disregard any sense of structure or organization at all.
Yeah, I've had to work with Wordpress before too.
he lives in Virginia, mind you
The backwardness of the south with the conspicuous consumption and self-importance of the north, and the distinct charms of neither. The worst of both worlds.
It's especially surprising since they actually provide a decent Google Earth binary for Linux, but not the plugin for some reason.