Please. did you forget about the War on Drug Users? The ascendency of the religious right? Are you even aware of how many times Reagan raised taxes? Do you understand that his Reaganomics is responsible for the extreme economic inequality we are burdened with today?
Almost everything that is wrong with our government now can be traced back to Ronald Reagan.
Why do you assume that it's some time between conception and birth? Is there a logical reason for it, or just your cultural aversion to infanticide?
We can put some lower bounds on when personhood begins pretty easily with science though. e.g. Thalamocortical projections, which connect the sensory thalamus with the cognitive cortex don't even begin to form until 7 months gestation. Sensory awareness must be a part of any reasonable definition of personhood, and everything we know about the brain indicates that thalamocortical projections are required for awareness. Any threshold for personhood before 7 weeks is anti-scientific.
It's not just good for power. It's hard to stare at a white backlit source for a long time. Muted colors on a black background are the easiest on the eyes.
The very definition of responsibility is caring for those affected by your choices, whether the outcome was intentional or not.
The weasel word here is "those". "Those" affected by the decision to have unprotected sex are those who had the sex. There is no other "those", "them", "they", "he", or "she" involved. There is an "it", but it's just an "it".
The best way to care for those affected by the choice to have unprotected sex is to destroy the fetus as quickly as possible, so you can go back to having more sex.
By my understanding, it's to drum up interest in a new Larry game. I hope it works, but I think most people who are interested in old games are able to play them already through Dosbox or ScummVM.
I understand it just fine. I'm suggesting that maybe they could find something more productive to do, such as firebomb the offices of the bankers and politicians that wrecked the economy.
If more people turned to terrorism against the powerful, instead of harassing their neighbors, we might be able to do something about the power structure of our society.
Why can't MATLAB determine whether the arguments to the multiplication are scalars or matrices and just do the right thing? Isn't the multiplication of two 1x1 matrices the same as scalar multiplication anyway?
Why does it matter if the core language has GUI facility? If you're writing in C, you're going to call out to a library for your GUI anyway. Why not call out to a library from Julia? That's how we do it in R anyway, there are packages to interface with GTK, QT, WX, TCL/TK, etc.
Telemarketers are just doing their job. Tell them up-front "Please remove me from your list." and let them get on with it
No. The longer a telemarketer spends on the phone with someone, the fewer people he can harass. The fewer people he harasses, the less profitable the business model is. The less profitable the business model is, the less likely I will have to deal with telemarketers in the future.
Don't be mad at me. Be mad at the people who run the economy for not providing honest work.
What will make or break this language is the availability of addon packages for it. A lot of people who use R don't do much coding themselves. They read in data, preprocess it a little bit, and then apply one of the packages found in CRAN.
CRAN is like CPAN, but for R instead of Perl. And we can expect similar behavior from them. Perl probably wouldn't be anyone's first choice for a project these days, but the size and scope of CPAN makes it really really easy to benefit from the work of others. This is a lot of inertia, and a big reason why Perl is still used when newer languages have significant advantages.
There's so much software, particularly academic software, implemented in R that I just don't see it going away. e.g. the entire Bioconductor suite is implemented in R. Just about any bioinformatics paper you pick at random will refer to, if not contain R code.
How much work are we going to have to reimplement if we want everyone to use the one true numerical programming language? And if we don't want that, isn't it just contributing to fragmentation?
It would be nice if it worked that way, but it doesn't. SOPA died because it was legitimately against the business interests of Google, et al. It didn't die because we all asked Google nicely to oppose it.
Revolution is not a magic "reset the government" button. It's a form of election that puts a disproportionately high number of votes on those willing to kill, regardless of their reasons for wanting to do so.
This is true. But the threat of revolution is the only leverage we have left anymore. If you want to avoid a revolution, we need to reform the system. Anyone who is not serious about reform is pro-revolution.
The right to strike is a trivial derivative of our right to peaceably assemble, and the prohibition against involuntary servitude. Any law prohibiting strikes is unconstitutional.
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You're right. Things could collapse far quicker than anyone dares to imagine.
I tend to agree with you here, that sometime between 7 weeks and 7 months is the reasonable answer.
Oops, when I said 7 weeks, I meant 7 months. Any threshold for personhood before 7 months is anti-scientific.
Please. did you forget about the War on Drug Users? The ascendency of the religious right? Are you even aware of how many times Reagan raised taxes? Do you understand that his Reaganomics is responsible for the extreme economic inequality we are burdened with today?
Almost everything that is wrong with our government now can be traced back to Ronald Reagan.
Why do you assume that it's some time between conception and birth? Is there a logical reason for it, or just your cultural aversion to infanticide?
We can put some lower bounds on when personhood begins pretty easily with science though. e.g. Thalamocortical projections, which connect the sensory thalamus with the cognitive cortex don't even begin to form until 7 months gestation. Sensory awareness must be a part of any reasonable definition of personhood, and everything we know about the brain indicates that thalamocortical projections are required for awareness. Any threshold for personhood before 7 weeks is anti-scientific.
It's not just good for power. It's hard to stare at a white backlit source for a long time. Muted colors on a black background are the easiest on the eyes.
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The very definition of responsibility is caring for those affected by your choices, whether the outcome was intentional or not.
The weasel word here is "those". "Those" affected by the decision to have unprotected sex are those who had the sex. There is no other "those", "them", "they", "he", or "she" involved. There is an "it", but it's just an "it".
The best way to care for those affected by the choice to have unprotected sex is to destroy the fetus as quickly as possible, so you can go back to having more sex.
If the only way you can access the data is with a closed source, proprietary, for pay application, then no it's not an open format at all.
A format is open if and only if I can download the format specification free of charge and implement and distribute a free (as in GNU) reader.
Republicans were ike that post-Eisenhower and pre-George Bush.
Yes, we all remember those proud defenders of civil liberties, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
By my understanding, it's to drum up interest in a new Larry game. I hope it works, but I think most people who are interested in old games are able to play them already through Dosbox or ScummVM.
I understand it just fine. I'm suggesting that maybe they could find something more productive to do, such as firebomb the offices of the bankers and politicians that wrecked the economy.
If more people turned to terrorism against the powerful, instead of harassing their neighbors, we might be able to do something about the power structure of our society.
Why can't MATLAB determine whether the arguments to the multiplication are scalars or matrices and just do the right thing? Isn't the multiplication of two 1x1 matrices the same as scalar multiplication anyway?
Why does it matter if the core language has GUI facility? If you're writing in C, you're going to call out to a library for your GUI anyway. Why not call out to a library from Julia? That's how we do it in R anyway, there are packages to interface with GTK, QT, WX, TCL/TK, etc.
The people he is "protesting" to have nothing to do with the policies they are forced to implement.
Last I checked, involuntary servitude was unconstitutional.
Telemarketers are just doing their job. Tell them up-front "Please remove me from your list." and let them get on with it
No. The longer a telemarketer spends on the phone with someone, the fewer people he can harass. The fewer people he harasses, the less profitable the business model is. The less profitable the business model is, the less likely I will have to deal with telemarketers in the future.
Don't be mad at me. Be mad at the people who run the economy for not providing honest work.
Got examples in the last 2 decades where obscene content was censored by the U.S. Congress?
Sure. The imprisonment of Max Hardcore.
Objectionable material should not be seen by minors
I am able to object to censorship. Therefore, censorship is obejectionable. By your reasoning, censorship should not be seen by minors.
Like cigarettes or alcohol, basic protections need to be put in place.
I agree, we need basic protections against censorship.
What will make or break this language is the availability of addon packages for it. A lot of people who use R don't do much coding themselves. They read in data, preprocess it a little bit, and then apply one of the packages found in CRAN.
CRAN is like CPAN, but for R instead of Perl. And we can expect similar behavior from them. Perl probably wouldn't be anyone's first choice for a project these days, but the size and scope of CPAN makes it really really easy to benefit from the work of others. This is a lot of inertia, and a big reason why Perl is still used when newer languages have significant advantages.
There's so much software, particularly academic software, implemented in R that I just don't see it going away. e.g. the entire Bioconductor suite is implemented in R. Just about any bioinformatics paper you pick at random will refer to, if not contain R code.
How much work are we going to have to reimplement if we want everyone to use the one true numerical programming language? And if we don't want that, isn't it just contributing to fragmentation?
190F is "almost double" 140F?
Left and Right are completely irrelevant when it comes to civil liberties. One thing that the vast majority of both parties
In the US, both major parties are right wing. One is just more extreme than the other. There is exactly one moderate in Congress, Bernie Sanders.
It would be nice if it worked that way, but it doesn't. SOPA died because it was legitimately against the business interests of Google, et al. It didn't die because we all asked Google nicely to oppose it.
Revolution is not a magic "reset the government" button. It's a form of election that puts a disproportionately high number of votes on those willing to kill, regardless of their reasons for wanting to do so.
This is true. But the threat of revolution is the only leverage we have left anymore. If you want to avoid a revolution, we need to reform the system. Anyone who is not serious about reform is pro-revolution.
The country is too freedom-loving by nature...
That sounds awfully familiar somehow.
The real solution here is an in flight EEG. If you start emitting delta waves, indicating deeper sleep, it wakes you up.
The right to strike is a trivial derivative of our right to peaceably assemble, and the prohibition against involuntary servitude. Any law prohibiting strikes is unconstitutional.