We wiped an entire indigenous race of humans out of existence during colonization.
Umm...not quite sure what you mean by this. There are quite a number of Native Americans still around. Although, yes, we were huge, flaming assholes to them.
Voter identification is enforced in 30 states and will prevent free and open election for anyone without a picture ID
I wouldn't call that the issue so much as how easy it is to get said ID. We only want citizens voting in our elections, right? It's the same reasoning behind the "must have been born a citizen" candidate rules.
Gerrymandering, closed primary elections, and the 2000 florida voter scandal are all conclusive proof we do not even remotely represent a functional democracy and have not for quite some time.
Gerrymandering, yes. Last I heard anyone could register (or switch their registration) to the parties that hold closed primaries, can't they? So "closed" is rather misleading. Florida would seem to be an application of Hanlon's Razor (although I find it seems less and less accurate these days).
Most of the rest of your points, however, are well taken.
Let's go after them for what they're doing that's unconstitutional and against their mandate before we go after them for what they were specifically founded to do and is, indeed, their job.
Fix our own house first. Maybe if we get some more reasonable politicians in power, the U.S.'s stance towards the rest of the world will improve in the process anyway. Don't confuse the attitude of those in power with the attitudes of those they represent. Priorities.
I thought Black Iron Prison was Discordian...wasn't Dick doing his own thing? (I could be wrong on that though...BIP barely even mentions Discordianism, but it's linked to from the Principia Discordia site.)
Well if all whistleblowers sat on their hands about it it seems perfectly obvious that nothing would ever change, either. Sometimes you have to break the eggs.
Everything comes from the ground sooner or later (not to mention that all plants they're likely to eat grow in soil). Or are you saying that it's because the spice is derived from the root which physically grows in the ground?
You can offend a vegetarian with onions and garlic? Wat
Diet and fasting: Lacto-vegetarian diet of Ananda Marga avoids meat, fish, eggs and some substances which are claimed to have a negative effect on the mind.
I find it strange that Iran is trying to prosecute him for violating the privacy of people in every country OTHER THAN Iran...or, presumably, any other Western Infidel-blocking countries. If facebook is blocked in Iran, why would they give a fuck about it violating someone's privacy? Other than publicity.
One of the criticisms of the He-162 in the article was that bailing out pilots might get sucked into the jet engine...The He-162 had the first ejection seat.
Diverted to the air base at Ramon,[2] the F-15 landed at twice the normal speed to maintain the necessary lift, and its tailhook was torn off completely during the landing. Ziv managed to bring his F-15 to a complete stop approximately 20 ft (6 m) from the end of the runway. He was later quoted as saying "(I) probably would have ejected if I knew what had happened." However, he also (inaccurately) stated that above a certain speed, the F-15 acted "like a rocket" and didn't need wings.
Yeah okay, they probably couldn't have lifted off. But with the afterburners on, don't fighter jets share some borderline characteristics with rockets anyway?
A) The wing got knocked off, it didn't fall off, and B) they were theorizing that the body of the aircraft itself generated enough lift that one wing was technically unnecessary (the incident is mentioned on the lifting body page), but it sort of counts. I wonder if they can take off with only one wing.
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Well it doesn't really matter to the end user who set the setting, Microsoft or the OEM.
Okay, so you explicitly say auto-committing at the beginning but that sounds antithetical to "you can make lots of commits and actually USE your version control," which sounds like you're purposely choosing when to commit, not every X time period.
Even you're not talking about auto-committing, though, which was the whole original point of this article. In this context auto-commits aren't going to help you any more than pounding Ctrl+S every once in awhile, since they reflect your thought processes not at all, either.
Glad to see that somebody else had my same thought. The fuck? The whole point of committing is that you wait until you're fairly certain it works before you do it.
*cue mob of angry pitchfork-wielding, git-battlescarred developers when your autocommitted nonfunctional code fucks over a merge*
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even though for 15 years you've been able to just hit the power button and it would turn off properly.
Very large [citation needed]. I'll believe that when I see it. Maybe Windows 8 defaults to shut down (or Pseudo-Sort-of-Shut-Down-but-Really-Hibernate, more likely), but that's a configurable option and there is no way in hell I would just pound the power button before making damn sure what it was set to do.
Another part of the problem is that serving as a public representative is no longer considered a burden, but a fast track to power and wealth. Back in the colonial days, they had to give up their livelihood during the judicial season.
Sometimes a vote *against* a candidate you detest is more important than a vote *for* a candidate you actually believe in.
Although your opening line seems to kind of contradict the rest of your points, which seem good. If "vote for change" means "vote for the other major party," then yeah, I agree with everything you said.
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We wiped an entire indigenous race of humans out of existence during colonization.
Umm...not quite sure what you mean by this. There are quite a number of Native Americans still around. Although, yes, we were huge, flaming assholes to them.
Voter identification is enforced in 30 states and will prevent free and open election for anyone without a picture ID
I wouldn't call that the issue so much as how easy it is to get said ID. We only want citizens voting in our elections, right? It's the same reasoning behind the "must have been born a citizen" candidate rules.
Gerrymandering, closed primary elections, and the 2000 florida voter scandal are all conclusive proof we do not even remotely represent a functional democracy and have not for quite some time.
Gerrymandering, yes.
Last I heard anyone could register (or switch their registration) to the parties that hold closed primaries, can't they? So "closed" is rather misleading.
Florida would seem to be an application of Hanlon's Razor (although I find it seems less and less accurate these days).
Most of the rest of your points, however, are well taken.
Let's go after them for what they're doing that's unconstitutional and against their mandate before we go after them for what they were specifically founded to do and is, indeed, their job.
Fix our own house first. Maybe if we get some more reasonable politicians in power, the U.S.'s stance towards the rest of the world will improve in the process anyway. Don't confuse the attitude of those in power with the attitudes of those they represent. Priorities.
I thought Black Iron Prison was Discordian...wasn't Dick doing his own thing?
(I could be wrong on that though...BIP barely even mentions Discordianism, but it's linked to from the Principia Discordia site.)
When those in power have no consciences, they must be publicly shamed into changing their ways.
Well if all whistleblowers sat on their hands about it it seems perfectly obvious that nothing would ever change, either. Sometimes you have to break the eggs.
Alright. That's what I get for believing a /. summary I suppose.
Everything comes from the ground sooner or later (not to mention that all plants they're likely to eat grow in soil). Or are you saying that it's because the spice is derived from the root which physically grows in the ground?
You can offend a vegetarian with onions and garlic? Wat
Diet and fasting: Lacto-vegetarian diet of Ananda Marga avoids meat, fish, eggs and some substances which are claimed to have a negative effect on the mind.
They don't lynch you; they stone you. Yeesh, get it right.
I find it strange that Iran is trying to prosecute him for violating the privacy of people in every country OTHER THAN Iran...or, presumably, any other Western Infidel-blocking countries. If facebook is blocked in Iran, why would they give a fuck about it violating someone's privacy? Other than publicity.
One of the criticisms of the He-162 in the article was that bailing out pilots might get sucked into the jet engine...The He-162 had the first ejection seat.
Diverted to the air base at Ramon,[2] the F-15 landed at twice the normal speed to maintain the necessary lift, and its tailhook was torn off completely during the landing. Ziv managed to bring his F-15 to a complete stop approximately 20 ft (6 m) from the end of the runway. He was later quoted as saying "(I) probably would have ejected if I knew what had happened." However, he also (inaccurately) stated that above a certain speed, the F-15 acted "like a rocket" and didn't need wings.
Yeah okay, they probably couldn't have lifted off. But with the afterburners on, don't fighter jets share some borderline characteristics with rockets anyway?
A) The wing got knocked off, it didn't fall off, and B) they were theorizing that the body of the aircraft itself generated enough lift that one wing was technically unnecessary (the incident is mentioned on the lifting body page), but it sort of counts. I wonder if they can take off with only one wing.
Well it doesn't really matter to the end user who set the setting, Microsoft or the OEM.
Okay, so you explicitly say auto-committing at the beginning but that sounds antithetical to "you can make lots of commits and actually USE your version control," which sounds like you're purposely choosing when to commit, not every X time period.
Even you're not talking about auto-committing, though, which was the whole original point of this article. In this context auto-commits aren't going to help you any more than pounding Ctrl+S every once in awhile, since they reflect your thought processes not at all, either.
Also there's an electron gun pointed at your tower that triggers based on a geiger counter. The suspense!
All we need now is to involve a cat and poison somehow.
I miss that old floppy "whirrrrr...chunk-chunk" noise :(
Glad to see that somebody else had my same thought. The fuck? The whole point of committing is that you wait until you're fairly certain it works before you do it.
*cue mob of angry pitchfork-wielding, git-battlescarred developers when your autocommitted nonfunctional code fucks over a merge*
Yeah, there's no bold. Geez.
even though for 15 years you've been able to just hit the power button and it would turn off properly.
Very large [citation needed]. I'll believe that when I see it. Maybe Windows 8 defaults to shut down (or Pseudo-Sort-of-Shut-Down-but-Really-Hibernate, more likely), but that's a configurable option and there is no way in hell I would just pound the power button before making damn sure what it was set to do.
(and don't bother saying "unconstitutional", they tiptoed close to the line but the general opinion is that they didn't cross it).
That "general opinion" depends heavily on who you ask. This is Slashdot; I think the "general opinion" is the exact opposite here.
Another part of the problem is that serving as a public representative is no longer considered a burden, but a fast track to power and wealth. Back in the colonial days, they had to give up their livelihood during the judicial season.
So we're arguing rights Americans have but are ignored vs. rights serfs had but were ignored. Nice.
Sometimes a vote *against* a candidate you detest is more important than a vote *for* a candidate you actually believe in.
Although your opening line seems to kind of contradict the rest of your points, which seem good. If "vote for change" means "vote for the other major party," then yeah, I agree with everything you said.