Peace, prosperity, and massive corruption
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1986-present - Joe Quimby presides over Springfield during the greatest period of peace, prosperity and massive corruption the town has ever known.
Sounds a lot like our non-toon government. Bring us prosperity and you can have all the blowjobs in the Oval office you want! If the economy had turned sour though, I doubt if Quim^H^H er... Clinton would have survived.
Just a question from someone who's never used such a tool - what do you use to autogenerate code?
You obviously have had some pretty heavy duty development experience, but then again I've written projects that run into tens of thousands of lines. It just seems that 40,000 lines of code is awfully minimal for something as heavy-duty as a VM. Do tell. I've never written anything other than simpler interpreter in terms of designing a language. Is it really that small of a project?
I love it when people explain seriously heavy duty programming in plain English. Thanks. Someday I'll compile a bunch of posts just like yours on a website.
If someone went to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton, and got good grades, you would be assured he was intelligent.
Perhaps. You're just as likely to get someone who communicated like this:
How are auditory stimuli influenced by contextual cues such as other stimuli ?
Rather than this:
How is our hearing affected by our other senses?
Our educational system serves more to enforce the division of social classes than it does to help humanity. Which is why people with degrees are so insistent that they are smarter than everyone else, and always are the first to defend the status quo.
I am proudly posting with my +1 bonus to show you that you also are misled by your singular source of information.
The athiest.org site gives the ridiculous example of Roman Emperor's heads engraved on coins as being real evidence that the Emperors existed, the coins being empirical fact of that. It is a completely facetious argument. Of course Jesus wasn't on a coin. Now repeat after me. DUHHHHHH!
There are many Roman historians, completely independent of Judaic or Christian influence that wrote about Jesus. Jesus lived and there is ample evidence, outside of the Bible, to show this.
just like any other news organization. And politics does indeed belong on Slashdot; the subject intrinically affects all geeks, and we've discussed political issues here for a long time.
IMO, Slashdot should state the candidates they support and not be wishy-washy about it.
>> For some reason, in this age of scientific enlightenment and reason it is truly sad to see someone hold such deep piety.
So I take it you will hold the writings of Issac Newton, and Albert Einstein higher than the words of the Bible. If you're so sure that science proves religion to be outdated then why were two of the greatest scientists in history also devout believers in God?
Instead of spouting your completely unconfirmed by science opinion that God does not exist, how about giving some proof? In fact, you cannot prove one way or another that there is no God. Neither can I. But I have personal experience of Him and while I can't prove that scientifically, for me that's all I need. I don't try to convert anyone else, and likewise, I don't appreciate people telling me my beliefs are nothing but fantasy.
No crapulence for me! I'll take two inches(in height and uh, you know) and 40 IQ points please!
Oh and, how about some of that "better than 20-20 vision". I'll also take photographic memory, and would it hurt to be able to run like Michael Johnson & jump like Michael Jordan?
Make my hair blonder, my skin creamier - oh my personality can suck sometimes so lets get rid of that. Gimme some of those outgoing genes so I can schmooze with the winners circle.
Man I tell you, once I get my genetic shopping list out of the way, you won't be able to recognize me!
This letter has been circulating on the net.
I was unable to track down the origin.
Go back and read it again. You can't give credit if you can't track the origin. The same thing is all over the net, in its uncredited form. I found it at stallman.org myself. Now its on slashdot.
>> don't forget there are 60 million or so of them(gun owners)
Actually its about 80 million. Also the anti-gun hysteria following Columbine actually caused the NRA's membership numbers to dramatically increase by 50%, from 3 million to 4.5 million.
I don't have the figures, but most politicians who operate on an anti-gun platform soon find it to be the demise of their campaign. There have been several examples of neck-and-neck congressional and senatorial races that had the balance dramatically tipped(for the other guy) when the candidate rolled out his/her anti-gun stance.
>> Why should "hate crime" legislation, if it is to exist at all, "include" gays? Scripture is very clear on this. Read the book of Leviticus. Hint: "put to death" does not mean "celebrate diversity."
Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's law.
When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind him that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate.
I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some of the specific laws and how to best follow them.
When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord (Lev. 1:9). The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. How should I deal with this?
I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as it suggests in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
I also know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Lev. 15:19-24). The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
Now I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
Then, Lev. 25:44 states that I may buy slaves from the nations that are around us. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans but not Canadians. Can you clarify?
A friend of mine also feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Lev. 10:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this?
And Lev. 20:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?
I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you can help.
Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.
>> since this is a technical forum, you damned idiot, not a pulpit for you to expound your personal political views..
Hmm...unless this is your troll account you haven't been around for very long. Slashdot has long been a pulpit for the editors to expound political views, and not only that, there are plenty of slashdotters who enjoy debating them.
In fact, I think Slashdot should codify what they believe in and go one step further and endorse candidates and political causes. Most news organizations do. Slashdot has always had a political edge, why not make the leap and back the candidates and causes you believe in?
That said, it would have to be done in a way that doesn't alienate opposing views, but encourages them to participate and join the debate.
>> With Koffice (and GNOME Office Suite which will be out and in good shape long before.NET for GNU/Linux) that last reason to bother with alternatively licensed (non-GPL) software is gone.
.NET isn't subscription based office software..NET is a runtime, its closest competitor is Java. So basically you'll have a virtual machine that runs on any OS, that supports components and programs written in any language. A.NET runtime on Linux would be pretty cool - if it works as well as they say, you could write a Python or Perl app that would run on Windows or any other OS that had the.NET VM installed.
>> that last reason to bother with alternatively licensed (non-GPL) software is gone
That's something any open source developer should be extremely careful with if they are going to try the.NET thing. M$ philosophy of making money is extremely ingrained in all their software, down to licensing things you have to think about just to write a component. There are good things about it. Microsoft has it set up to make it easy for individuals and small groups of people to make money writing software(just don't get too big). But being that you are forced to hide your source & program with lots of binary components whenever you use any M$ programming software, I don't see how it could possibly be compatible with anything that's GPL'd.
>> everyone spends more time at work performing pointless rituals and spends the rest of their lives watching predicatable television
I love it. Man, you made my day. I know people who have their entire lives planned out - from the schools they attend to their job to their vacations, clothes, car, you name it. I have to ask - is that really living?
The other thing I find fucked up about many people is that they, in one way or another, live in utter terror of whatever society or community they belong to. There are less and less people willing to stand up for themselves or speak their mind. So many people are afraid of what will happen if they don't toe the line. Ugh. I can't live that way. I need the freedom to live my life as I choose.
My only worry is - what if the percentage of people who think for themselves becomes so small, that there becomes virtually no escape from the prying eyes of the government, of society in general, for those who can? Say it gets to the point where you can't shop in certain stores because you didn't go to the right school or something equally as egregious. If our society is headed toward being a borg-like collective, I'm heading for the hills.
geez...some people never learn! It was widely acknowledged that boo.com failed because of all the slow-loading graphics, flash, and javascript which made it unusable to anyone without a fast(DSL+) connection.
Now they're planning a comeback...and even their announcement page has big graphics and javascript. They've commited the sin of disabling the back button to escape from the site. It really doesn't seem like they learned much from their original mistakes.
Yes - but I would still call it C using the iostream library(which incidentally avoids the printf vulnerability). Its not really C++ until you start using classes.
I hereby propose a patent for an easy way to factor prime numbers. According to Bill Gates, this is a major mathematical breakthrough.
One can factor prime numbers by simply entering them into my patent-pending PrimeFactor function.
Here is the proposed PrimeFactor function, implemented in C. This post serves as prior art, so don't think about stealing my solution to this major mathematical problem that has confounded humanity for centuries.
void PrimeFactor(double PrimeNum)
{
cout << "The factors of the Prime Number are 1 and " << PrimeNum << endl;
}
are you so naive as to believe that your actions, however small they may be, do not have consenquences?
I maintain certain truths are obvious to anyone with sense. We don't need scientific proof to tell us the sun comes up every morning. I'm not preaching, just stating what I find(but apparently others don't) obvious.
And yes, it was a perhaps lame attempt to encourage spammers not to spam. I'm not talking about the occassional good troll, but the foul-mouthed garbage and first post nonsense that contaminates/. The editors fault? I don't think so. The editors choice of stories, along with the quality posts, are what makes this site worthwhile. I'm just trying to say if you don't like it, leave and spare us the garbage.
And anyway, if you really want to discredit what I said, please explain how being a spammer will not negatively affect someones future. I don't need a formal proof, just an example of someone who suffered no ill consenquences from his or her youthful stupidity. Aha. Didn't think so.
What about this quote from the Thames Valley Police spokesman John Brett:
"They are wanting recompense for something they bought in goodwill - they want their money back. We are hoping this person will get in touch."
Goodwill? The British cops sound like they will be grateful for this person(who for all they know is the real thief). So I'd like to know - would they give this person the ransom and congratulate him for his goodwill? This definitely wouldn't happen in America, and I find it hard to believe it would happen in Britain. Here there would be no question - the person would go to jail for a long time if the cops got to him.
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Sounds a lot like our non-toon government. Bring us prosperity and you can have all the blowjobs in the Oval office you want! If the economy had turned sour though, I doubt if Quim^H^H er... Clinton would have survived.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
Thanks again.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
You obviously have had some pretty heavy duty development experience, but then again I've written projects that run into tens of thousands of lines. It just seems that 40,000 lines of code is awfully minimal for something as heavy-duty as a VM. Do tell. I've never written anything other than simpler interpreter in terms of designing a language. Is it really that small of a project?
I love it when people explain seriously heavy duty programming in plain English. Thanks. Someday I'll compile a bunch of posts just like yours on a website.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
Perhaps. You're just as likely to get someone who communicated like this:
How are auditory stimuli influenced by contextual cues such as other stimuli ?
Rather than this:
How is our hearing affected by our other senses?
Our educational system serves more to enforce the division of social classes than it does to help humanity. Which is why people with degrees are so insistent that they are smarter than everyone else, and always are the first to defend the status quo.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
The athiest.org site gives the ridiculous example of Roman Emperor's heads engraved on coins as being real evidence that the Emperors existed, the coins being empirical fact of that. It is a completely facetious argument. Of course Jesus wasn't on a coin. Now repeat after me. DUHHHHHH!
There are many Roman historians, completely independent of Judaic or Christian influence that wrote about Jesus. Jesus lived and there is ample evidence, outside of the Bible, to show this.
I found this link on Google. There are many others. Don't be fooled by this idiot. http://www.westar kch urchofchrist.org/library/extrabiblical.htm
And if this is a troll, well then IHBT. But I don't care. Your source is biased, and your information is incorrect.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
IMO, Slashdot should state the candidates they support and not be wishy-washy about it.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
So I take it you will hold the writings of Issac Newton, and Albert Einstein higher than the words of the Bible. If you're so sure that science proves religion to be outdated then why were two of the greatest scientists in history also devout believers in God?
Instead of spouting your completely unconfirmed by science opinion that God does not exist, how about giving some proof? In fact, you cannot prove one way or another that there is no God. Neither can I. But I have personal experience of Him and while I can't prove that scientifically, for me that's all I need. I don't try to convert anyone else, and likewise, I don't appreciate people telling me my beliefs are nothing but fantasy.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
Nope, didn't work. :(
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
Oh and, how about some of that "better than 20-20 vision". I'll also take photographic memory, and would it hurt to be able to run like Michael Johnson & jump like Michael Jordan?
Make my hair blonder, my skin creamier - oh my personality can suck sometimes so lets get rid of that. Gimme some of those outgoing genes so I can schmooze with the winners circle.
Man I tell you, once I get my genetic shopping list out of the way, you won't be able to recognize me!
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
This letter has been circulating on the net. I was unable to track down the origin.
Go back and read it again. You can't give credit if you can't track the origin. The same thing is all over the net, in its uncredited form. I found it at stallman.org myself. Now its on slashdot.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
Actually its about 80 million. Also the anti-gun hysteria following Columbine actually caused the NRA's membership numbers to dramatically increase by 50%, from 3 million to 4.5 million.
I don't have the figures, but most politicians who operate on an anti-gun platform soon find it to be the demise of their campaign. There have been several examples of neck-and-neck congressional and senatorial races that had the balance dramatically tipped(for the other guy) when the candidate rolled out his/her anti-gun stance.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
>> Why should "hate crime" legislation, if it is to exist at all, "include" gays? Scripture is very clear on this. Read the book of Leviticus. Hint: "put to death" does not mean "celebrate diversity."
Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's law.
When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind him that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate.
I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some of the specific laws and how to best follow them.
When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord (Lev. 1:9). The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. How should I deal with this?
I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as it suggests in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
I also know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Lev. 15:19-24). The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
Now I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
Then, Lev. 25:44 states that I may buy slaves from the nations that are around us. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans but not Canadians. Can you clarify?
A friend of mine also feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Lev. 10:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this?
And Lev. 20:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?
I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
Hmm...unless this is your troll account you haven't been around for very long. Slashdot has long been a pulpit for the editors to expound political views, and not only that, there are plenty of slashdotters who enjoy debating them.
In fact, I think Slashdot should codify what they believe in and go one step further and endorse candidates and political causes. Most news organizations do. Slashdot has always had a political edge, why not make the leap and back the candidates and causes you believe in?
That said, it would have to be done in a way that doesn't alienate opposing views, but encourages them to participate and join the debate.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
>> that last reason to bother with alternatively licensed (non-GPL) software is gone
That's something any open source developer should be extremely careful with if they are going to try the .NET thing. M$ philosophy of making money is extremely ingrained in all their software, down to licensing things you have to think about just to write a component. There are good things about it. Microsoft has it set up to make it easy for individuals and small groups of people to make money writing software(just don't get too big). But being that you are forced to hide your source & program with lots of binary components whenever you use any M$ programming software, I don't see how it could possibly be compatible with anything that's GPL'd.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
I love it. Man, you made my day. I know people who have their entire lives planned out - from the schools they attend to their job to their vacations, clothes, car, you name it. I have to ask - is that really living?
The other thing I find fucked up about many people is that they, in one way or another, live in utter terror of whatever society or community they belong to. There are less and less people willing to stand up for themselves or speak their mind. So many people are afraid of what will happen if they don't toe the line. Ugh. I can't live that way. I need the freedom to live my life as I choose.
My only worry is - what if the percentage of people who think for themselves becomes so small, that there becomes virtually no escape from the prying eyes of the government, of society in general, for those who can? Say it gets to the point where you can't shop in certain stores because you didn't go to the right school or something equally as egregious. If our society is headed toward being a borg-like collective, I'm heading for the hills.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
Now they're planning a comeback...and even their announcement page has big graphics and javascript. They've commited the sin of disabling the back button to escape from the site. It really doesn't seem like they learned much from their original mistakes.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
One can factor prime numbers by simply entering them into my patent-pending PrimeFactor function.
Here is the proposed PrimeFactor function, implemented in C. This post serves as prior art, so don't think about stealing my solution to this major mathematical problem that has confounded humanity for centuries.
void PrimeFactor(double PrimeNum)
{
cout << "The factors of the Prime Number are 1 and " << PrimeNum << endl;
}
Thank you for your consideration.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
You are having considerably greater success, percentage-wise, than I. :)
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
Doesn't it bug you to know Jon Katz predicted your immediate destiny?
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
I maintain certain truths are obvious to anyone with sense. We don't need scientific proof to tell us the sun comes up every morning. I'm not preaching, just stating what I find(but apparently others don't) obvious.
And yes, it was a perhaps lame attempt to encourage spammers not to spam. I'm not talking about the occassional good troll, but the foul-mouthed garbage and first post nonsense that contaminates /. The editors fault? I don't think so. The editors choice of stories, along with the quality posts, are what makes this site worthwhile. I'm just trying to say if you don't like it, leave and spare us the garbage.
And anyway, if you really want to discredit what I said, please explain how being a spammer will not negatively affect someones future. I don't need a formal proof, just an example of someone who suffered no ill consenquences from his or her youthful stupidity. Aha. Didn't think so.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
There is such a thing as karma. Not slashdot karma, but in real life. What goes around comes around, and you'll get yours eventually. Think about it.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
Shouldn't the version of gcc in the distro be the one they compiled the kernel with?
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
"They are wanting recompense for something they bought in goodwill - they want their money back. We are hoping this person will get in touch."
Goodwill? The British cops sound like they will be grateful for this person(who for all they know is the real thief). So I'd like to know - would they give this person the ransom and congratulate him for his goodwill? This definitely wouldn't happen in America, and I find it hard to believe it would happen in Britain. Here there would be no question - the person would go to jail for a long time if the cops got to him.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.