And you know most of it never reaches court right? Out of court settlements. The legal process favors big companies that can afford small armies of lawyers over individuals and small businesses that would have to take out loans just to pay for their pre-trial costs.
It is one thing to point out unanswered questions in the interest of inspiring scientific curiosity and another thing entirely to imply that these unanswered questions cast doubt on the theory as a whole when that is blatantly false. I assume that you are referring to the latter, and no, I absolutely am not okay with that because it is just as absurd to imply that evolution is bunk because there are unanswered questions as it is to imply that Newtonian gravity is bunk because there are unanswered questions. And that is not an exaggeration in the slightest.
We still don't know if gravity is the fourth fundamental force or the result of some other (as of yet) unexplained phenomenon. Does that mean that we should start printing physics textbooks that present both the the Newtonian theory gravity and the theory that God put ether on the earth in the second day so that its mass might hold down humans and prevent them from ascending to heavens until they were saved by their lord Jesus Christ? Of course, the textbooks would present a "balanced review" that allows children who are less than ten years old to apply their "critical thinking skills" and develop their own "informed opinions."
It is most certainly not a myth. Fresh foods are more expensive because they are perishable. Even barring that, you have to deal with the existence of food deserts, as I mentioned in my response to the comment above:
Not that simple. That all assumes that you have access to a grocery store. Most low income urban families do not. Cities (with the exception of the fashionable ones like Boston, NY, and SF) just don't have any grocery stores. Case in point, the closest grocery store to my apartment is four miles away. I have a car, so I can drive, but those who don't need to take two city buses whose timing doesn't line up very well. It usually takes about an hour each way because of a thirty minute layover between the two buses. And even if the commute didn't take so long, it's not easy to try to take a half dozen grocery bags with you on the city bus. That is why they say that so many of these urban areas are food deserts.
When you factor in the time cost, it's a lot cheaper to get the Oreos from the Seven Eleven that's a just five minute walk away.
It is most certainly not a myth. Fresh foods are more expensive because they are perishable. Even barring that, you have to deal with the existence of food deserts, as I mentioned in my response to the comment above:
Cities (with the exception of the fashionable ones like Boston, NY, and SF) just don't have any grocery stores. Case in point, the closest grocery store to my apartment is four miles away. I have a car, so I can drive, but those who don't need to take two city buses whose timing doesn't line up very well. It usually takes about an hour each way because of a thirty minute layover between the two buses. And even if the commute didn't take so long, it's not easy to try to take a half dozen grocery bags with you on the city bus. That is why they say that so many of these urban areas are food deserts.
Not that simple. That all assumes that you have access to a grocery store. Most low income urban families do not. Cities (with the exception of the fashionable ones like Boston, NY, and SF) just don't have any grocery stores. Case in point, the closest grocery store to my apartment is four miles away. I have a car, so I can drive, but those who don't need to take two city buses whose timing doesn't line up very well. It usually takes about an hour each way because of a thirty minute layover between the two buses. And even if the commute didn't take so long, it's not easy to try to take a half dozen grocery bags with you on the city bus. That is why they say that so many of these urban areas are food deserts.
Step 1: Rent an apartment across the street from the stock exchange
Step 2: Cook delicious hot pockets in the microwave while the interference messes with the traders' signals
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Eat delicious hot pockets
Not quite sure how you see the FRS as 'private' - it's a national reserve bank established by legislation. It also, crucially for this discussion, is not responsible for issuing US dollars - that's the US Department of the Treasury.
Wrong. Paper bills are Federal Reserve Notes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Note). The Department of the Treasury has nothing to do with issuing Federal Reserve Notes. The US Mint (a part of the Treasury) is responsible for issuing coins.
Your original claim was that "no bank or financial institution will ever be able to do as much harm to a population as a bad government." Of course the Weimar Repulic screwed up, but I'm saying that private banks in the US were able to screw up just as badly. It's stupid to put private enterprise on a pedestal as if they are immune to making the same mistakes that big government does.
No bank or financial institution will ever be able to do as much harm to a population as a bad government.
The Panic of 1857 was caused by the irresponsible printing of paper currency by private banks, and the Panic of 1837 (which in urban areas saw unemployment rates on the level of the Great Depression) was greatly exacerbated by it, so history would indicate otherwise.
I think you're missing the point. Numbers two and three, interest because of the technological wow-factor and interest due to speculation will fade away with time. At that point, all that will be left is interest in the anonymity that Bitcoin provides. And if governments think that this anonymity facilitates crime, they will do everything within their power to either shut Bitcoin down or take over the system, just as Hadas said.
Are you serious? Could you imagine a world where it was legal to eavesdrop on cell phones? People complain about warrantless government wiretapping today... if your perverse fantasy world were to come to fruition, every cell phone call would be "a matter of the public record" just like a posting on an internet forum, and police departments across the country would be having a warrantless cellphone wiretapping bonanza.
Should we make it legal for ISP's to read our emails while we are at it? After all, we are willingly sending our information over their networks, aren't we? Or perhaps our friendly neighborhood postmen should be able to take a peek inside our mail?
a very long time ago, in the midst of the war of 1812, the more radical half called for cession from the union. the not so radical half denounced them.
After the war ended, with more favorable terms for the US that anticipated, they were more or less discredited as a whole, with mass defections to the democratic-republicans who more or less accepted the defectors, mostly the moderates, while quietly blocking remaining whigs from all aspects of political life.
You got the Whigs mixed up with the Federalists. That's about 70 years off. And you expect us to believe your historical argument?
The democratic republican party from that day foward dominated politics ever since. The party then split into the now familiar Democratic and Republican parties we see today over slavery.
Also false. The Democrats are offshoots of the Democratic-Republicans. The Republicans are offshoots of the Whigs, which were the opposition party to the Democratic-Republicans.
Don't know why I'm taking the bait, but let's do this:
Iran marching toward a nuclear weapon
And what do you propose Obama should have done? Invade Iran?
Egypt and Libya handed over to the Islamists on a silver platter
The new Libyan government is not Islamist. I have no idea where you got that. Besides, Gaddafi was rabidly anti-American. Any new regime is bound to be more pro-US. As for Egypt, Morsi's cabinet has many secular officials from Mubarak's party
45% increase in debt.
Because of the Bush tax cuts.
Regulatory policies strangling business
Name one.
That perfect health care for all, casuing businesses to not hire and drop coverage to put more people on the dole.
Give evidence: a scientific study.
Unemployment above 8%
GDP Growth below 2%
Changed his mind four times on that OBL kill, which was set up by the hardwork of Bush, Bush worked 8 strong, Obama got the save.
It was under the Bush administration that the army screwed up royally at Tora Bora. We had OBL surrounded at let him get away. Bush had nearly eight years to get OBL, and yet you want to give Bush credit for something that happens three years after his term is up? I certainly don't blame Obama for being hesitant to call in the raid. Operation Eagle Claw was a massive failure and embarassment and he was worried about a similar thing happening. (Combined with lots of anger from Pakistanis.) Don't foget that it was Defense Secretary Gates, originally appointed by Bush, who was most against the raid.
Domestic energy production hamstrung, while billions of tax dollars wasted on masturbatory green energy companies, run by his cronies.
Ah, the classic "black man is racist against white people."
Hundreds of Mexican citizens and a US law enforcement officer dead because of Obama/Holder's agenda on guns.
I'm surprised that you care about Mexicans considering the xenophobic vibe that comes from the rest of this post. Or maybe you are implying that one US life is equal to hundreds of Mexican lives?
Photo ID laws being challenged because they interfered with typical Democrat voters, the Dead and Illegal Aliens.
You're missing the point. Sure, Windows isn't as open as Android, but it is way more open than the walled garden crap that is iOS, which is what Gemmel seems to think is good.
The constitutional protection of firearms was not born of "survival need" but of the need to defend one's self from a dangerous government.
I have zero idea where you got that idea. The Constitution protected the right to bear arms so that each state would be able to quickly assemble and equip a militia in the event that the country had to defend itself. The idea was that the federal army would remain small while state militias would make up the bulk of the fighting force. There are some people today who are worried about a big federal government, but that was never a fear of the writers of the Constitution because they were trying to remedy the issue of a national government that was too weak. They certainly wouldn't have wanted too see a federal government that was too powerful, but I they probably didn't think that there was a significant possibility of the federal government ever getting that powerful, considering how much bickering there was between the states at the time.
As far as "defending" your self against the government, let's think about a situation in which that might actually happen. A future fascist federal government sends in a death squad of five highly trained soldiers equipped with automatic rifles and ceramic armor into your house to kill you and your family. Do you really think you are going to be able to defend yourself with a semi-automatic pistol that you've only ever used at the firing range? No. What would really happen if there were a conflict between the people and the US government is something akin to what happend in Libya and what is happening in Syria right now. Those rebel militia groups obtained most of their arms illegally. They didn't need a second ammendment to help them.
Some quick googling suggests that STLport is very stable on Symbian. Nonetheless, I can see where you are coming from--probably not a good idea to write C++ applications for Symbian. But your argument is not a good defense for Linus because I highly, highly doubt that Linus was trying to target systems like Symbian with git. C++ is portable enough for most situations. See my reply to another commenter above.
This may shock you, but C library implementations also vary from platform to platform. You will have the same trouble using 3rd party libraries that were linked with different implementations of the C standard library. So how does this prove that C++ is less portable than C?
You are right to an extent. C++ is not as portible as C, but it is definitely among the top five most portable languages. And yet there is disproportionate bashing of C++'s perceived lack of portability. Meanwhile, Java is praised for its portability. "Write once, run anywhere." Of course, the official JVM was also only written once, and it was written in C++, so Java only runs on a subset of platforms on which C++ is usable. Wouldn't you think that this makes C++ more worthy of the "Write once, run anywhere" label?
My point is that, yes, C++ is less portable than C, but it is portable enough for most programs. You can't honestly expect me to believe that Linus wrote git in C because he was worried about whether he would eventually be able to build git on Symbian.
If you are using the size_type erase(iterator pos) provided my MSVC++, then you are using a nonstandard extension, so you shouldn't be surprised if your code does not port to GCC.
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And you know most of it never reaches court right? Out of court settlements. The legal process favors big companies that can afford small armies of lawyers over individuals and small businesses that would have to take out loans just to pay for their pre-trial costs.
It is one thing to point out unanswered questions in the interest of inspiring scientific curiosity and another thing entirely to imply that these unanswered questions cast doubt on the theory as a whole when that is blatantly false. I assume that you are referring to the latter, and no, I absolutely am not okay with that because it is just as absurd to imply that evolution is bunk because there are unanswered questions as it is to imply that Newtonian gravity is bunk because there are unanswered questions. And that is not an exaggeration in the slightest.
We still don't know if gravity is the fourth fundamental force or the result of some other (as of yet) unexplained phenomenon. Does that mean that we should start printing physics textbooks that present both the the Newtonian theory gravity and the theory that God put ether on the earth in the second day so that its mass might hold down humans and prevent them from ascending to heavens until they were saved by their lord Jesus Christ? Of course, the textbooks would present a "balanced review" that allows children who are less than ten years old to apply their "critical thinking skills" and develop their own "informed opinions."
When you factor in the time cost, it's a lot cheaper to get the Oreos from the Seven Eleven that's a just five minute walk away.
Ugh. Posted this in the wrong place. Slashdot's Javascript seems to be acting up for some reason.
Not that simple. That all assumes that you have access to a grocery store. Most low income urban families do not. Cities (with the exception of the fashionable ones like Boston, NY, and SF) just don't have any grocery stores. Case in point, the closest grocery store to my apartment is four miles away. I have a car, so I can drive, but those who don't need to take two city buses whose timing doesn't line up very well. It usually takes about an hour each way because of a thirty minute layover between the two buses. And even if the commute didn't take so long, it's not easy to try to take a half dozen grocery bags with you on the city bus. That is why they say that so many of these urban areas are food deserts.
I'll grant that that probably isn't enough to call it a fork.
The first Wikipedia article you linked to proves you wrong:
Step 1: Rent an apartment across the street from the stock exchange
Step 2: Cook delicious hot pockets in the microwave while the interference messes with the traders' signals
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Eat delicious hot pockets
Not quite sure how you see the FRS as 'private' - it's a national reserve bank established by legislation. It also, crucially for this discussion, is not responsible for issuing US dollars - that's the US Department of the Treasury.
Wrong. Paper bills are Federal Reserve Notes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Note). The Department of the Treasury has nothing to do with issuing Federal Reserve Notes. The US Mint (a part of the Treasury) is responsible for issuing coins.
Your original claim was that "no bank or financial institution will ever be able to do as much harm to a population as a bad government." Of course the Weimar Repulic screwed up, but I'm saying that private banks in the US were able to screw up just as badly. It's stupid to put private enterprise on a pedestal as if they are immune to making the same mistakes that big government does.
No bank or financial institution will ever be able to do as much harm to a population as a bad government.
The Panic of 1857 was caused by the irresponsible printing of paper currency by private banks, and the Panic of 1837 (which in urban areas saw unemployment rates on the level of the Great Depression) was greatly exacerbated by it, so history would indicate otherwise.
I think you're missing the point. Numbers two and three, interest because of the technological wow-factor and interest due to speculation will fade away with time. At that point, all that will be left is interest in the anonymity that Bitcoin provides. And if governments think that this anonymity facilitates crime, they will do everything within their power to either shut Bitcoin down or take over the system, just as Hadas said.
Are you serious? Could you imagine a world where it was legal to eavesdrop on cell phones? People complain about warrantless government wiretapping today... if your perverse fantasy world were to come to fruition, every cell phone call would be "a matter of the public record" just like a posting on an internet forum, and police departments across the country would be having a warrantless cellphone wiretapping bonanza. Should we make it legal for ISP's to read our emails while we are at it? After all, we are willingly sending our information over their networks, aren't we? Or perhaps our friendly neighborhood postmen should be able to take a peek inside our mail?
Typo in my last post: Whigs were the opposition to the Democrats. They were themselves an offshoot of the Democratic-Republicans.
a very long time ago, in the midst of the war of 1812, the more radical half called for cession from the union. the not so radical half denounced them. After the war ended, with more favorable terms for the US that anticipated, they were more or less discredited as a whole, with mass defections to the democratic-republicans who more or less accepted the defectors, mostly the moderates, while quietly blocking remaining whigs from all aspects of political life.
You got the Whigs mixed up with the Federalists. That's about 70 years off. And you expect us to believe your historical argument?
The democratic republican party from that day foward dominated politics ever since. The party then split into the now familiar Democratic and Republican parties we see today over slavery.
Also false. The Democrats are offshoots of the Democratic-Republicans. The Republicans are offshoots of the Whigs, which were the opposition party to the Democratic-Republicans.
Check your facts before typing up your argument.
Iran marching toward a nuclear weapon
And what do you propose Obama should have done? Invade Iran?
Egypt and Libya handed over to the Islamists on a silver platter
The new Libyan government is not Islamist. I have no idea where you got that. Besides, Gaddafi was rabidly anti-American. Any new regime is bound to be more pro-US. As for Egypt, Morsi's cabinet has many secular officials from Mubarak's party
45% increase in debt.
Because of the Bush tax cuts.
Regulatory policies strangling business
Name one.
That perfect health care for all, casuing businesses to not hire and drop coverage to put more people on the dole.
Give evidence: a scientific study.
Unemployment above 8%
GDP Growth below 2%
Changed his mind four times on that OBL kill, which was set up by the hardwork of Bush, Bush worked 8 strong, Obama got the save.
It was under the Bush administration that the army screwed up royally at Tora Bora. We had OBL surrounded at let him get away. Bush had nearly eight years to get OBL, and yet you want to give Bush credit for something that happens three years after his term is up? I certainly don't blame Obama for being hesitant to call in the raid. Operation Eagle Claw was a massive failure and embarassment and he was worried about a similar thing happening. (Combined with lots of anger from Pakistanis.) Don't foget that it was Defense Secretary Gates, originally appointed by Bush, who was most against the raid.
Domestic energy production hamstrung, while billions of tax dollars wasted on masturbatory green energy companies, run by his cronies.
Because of the moratorium on oil drilling? Gas prices barely changed: http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2011/01/gno_inc_study_says_economic_im.html
A racist running the Justice Department.
Ah, the classic "black man is racist against white people."
Hundreds of Mexican citizens and a US law enforcement officer dead because of Obama/Holder's agenda on guns.
I'm surprised that you care about Mexicans considering the xenophobic vibe that comes from the rest of this post. Or maybe you are implying that one US life is equal to hundreds of Mexican lives?
Photo ID laws being challenged because they interfered with typical Democrat voters, the Dead and Illegal Aliens.
We don't live in a third world country. Voter fraud is extremely rare in the US: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/16/opinion/la-ed-voter-id-laws-20120716
You're missing the point. Sure, Windows isn't as open as Android, but it is way more open than the walled garden crap that is iOS, which is what Gemmel seems to think is good.
The constitutional protection of firearms was not born of "survival need" but of the need to defend one's self from a dangerous government.
I have zero idea where you got that idea. The Constitution protected the right to bear arms so that each state would be able to quickly assemble and equip a militia in the event that the country had to defend itself. The idea was that the federal army would remain small while state militias would make up the bulk of the fighting force. There are some people today who are worried about a big federal government, but that was never a fear of the writers of the Constitution because they were trying to remedy the issue of a national government that was too weak. They certainly wouldn't have wanted too see a federal government that was too powerful, but I they probably didn't think that there was a significant possibility of the federal government ever getting that powerful, considering how much bickering there was between the states at the time.
As far as "defending" your self against the government, let's think about a situation in which that might actually happen. A future fascist federal government sends in a death squad of five highly trained soldiers equipped with automatic rifles and ceramic armor into your house to kill you and your family. Do you really think you are going to be able to defend yourself with a semi-automatic pistol that you've only ever used at the firing range? No. What would really happen if there were a conflict between the people and the US government is something akin to what happend in Libya and what is happening in Syria right now. Those rebel militia groups obtained most of their arms illegally. They didn't need a second ammendment to help them.
Some quick googling suggests that STLport is very stable on Symbian. Nonetheless, I can see where you are coming from--probably not a good idea to write C++ applications for Symbian. But your argument is not a good defense for Linus because I highly, highly doubt that Linus was trying to target systems like Symbian with git. C++ is portable enough for most situations. See my reply to another commenter above.
This may shock you, but C library implementations also vary from platform to platform. You will have the same trouble using 3rd party libraries that were linked with different implementations of the C standard library. So how does this prove that C++ is less portable than C?
You are right to an extent. C++ is not as portible as C, but it is definitely among the top five most portable languages. And yet there is disproportionate bashing of C++'s perceived lack of portability. Meanwhile, Java is praised for its portability. "Write once, run anywhere." Of course, the official JVM was also only written once, and it was written in C++, so Java only runs on a subset of platforms on which C++ is usable. Wouldn't you think that this makes C++ more worthy of the "Write once, run anywhere" label? My point is that, yes, C++ is less portable than C, but it is portable enough for most programs. You can't honestly expect me to believe that Linus wrote git in C because he was worried about whether he would eventually be able to build git on Symbian.
Rebuttal. This is just one guy's opinion, so take it for what you will.
The standard the following are the proper overloads for std::map::erase:
void erase(iterator pos);
size_type erase(const key_type& key);
void erase(iterator start, iterator end);
If you are using the size_type erase(iterator pos) provided my MSVC++, then you are using a nonstandard extension, so you shouldn't be surprised if your code does not port to GCC.