When my teachers started prohibiting use of encyclopedias for reports since the articles were considered to be too terse. Never looked at one since. OT, that reminds me that I tried reading them from A-Z as a kid, only got to C though.
Lots of highway speed limits are intentionally kept low as a potential revenue source, and the city planners know it. There was a great story about 5-10 years back about students who drove at the speed limit on I-95 in all lanes to keep traffic from passing them faster than the posted speed limit. They created a MASSIVE traffic jam in the DC/Baltimore area because city planners depend on traffic moving 10-20 mph faster than posted speed limits. Of course, that doesn't stop you from getting a ticket for going that fast when they need the money.
Do a Google search for city officials demanding police write more tickets specifically to generate revenue, NOT for increased safety. There have been several stories on communications leaked from these conversations.
My local municipalities all started sending cops out on fishing expeditions to supplement their income during the recession. One lawyer I talked to said the ticket rates for one city in one month exceeded that for the whole year. They started sweeps for buckled drivers and even drivers license checkpoints. I would've loved to see these drivers making all these cops go to court to defend their tickets.
Maybe YOU don't have a problem with the time switch, but it absolutely destroys me for a few weeks afterwards. This morning was terrible and even though I'm normally awake at this time, I feel like I just got up for a 6am flight. Some of us do really poorly with the switch.
I suppose now the US will form a shadow imperial government dedicated to it's own dark deeds while publicly displaying a facade of pro-Democracy and anti-Authoritarianism until they amass total power over the world economies. Oh, wait...
"You sir are incorrect. She was waiting eagerly for my return from Africa, even dumped her loser replacement boyfriend as soon as the word came I was due in town."
Of course, that would all be in my head because no one mouths off to Red.
If the government does it, it has to be wrong. If a private company does it, it has to be right. Even if that means paying a private company 2x as much to do a job the government has been more than capable of for 50 years.
There's no profit motive for scientific research and that's exactly what the first Mars missions will be since, until the tech is well established, there won't be a profitable way to get to Mars. The only way private industry goes first is if the US government (I don't think China, Russia, or the ESA is that stupid) overpays Boeing to do it for them while losing all the new tech patents in the same process so that they'd have a monopoly on the routes.
If you don't want to more and more corporate-produced, demographically-designed artists, start buying your damned CDs from the people you like instead of downloading it for free and complaining about how crappy music is nowadays. I'm not even a huge music fan, but I make a point to buy CDs when I hear something I like.
A lot of those cultures also never developed "Western" materialism and greed. I think it's because when you live in a society where the living is pretty easy-going (compared to a European caveman), you probably don't need to be so competitive over resources.
Gas prices have nothing to do with supply and demand. They have everything to do with deregulating commodities laws on oil and subjecting us to the suits on Wall Street manipulating prices. Hell, they don't even have to warehouse oil, just make a virtual promise to buy in bulk.
Because very simply, governments will always have *some* power and with *some* power there's profit to be made in legalized bribery (campaign contributions). The only way for your suggestion to work is to go the "On the duty of civil disobedience" route which means NO government, which will never work unfortunately.
Because Romney was pretty vocal about being against the auto bailout while being *for* the corporate bailouts. Santorum might have even had the same positions, but Romney is the one fighting against the "Clueless, privileged aristocrat" stereotype. A quick poll I read this morning gave Santorum a 47-10 lead among Democrats in Michigan. It's pretty settled strategy that you do what you have to to get the nomination, then worry about tacking to the center for the general election.
I read something to that effect in an insightful post here years ago. The problem with the world is you can get rich by lying, cheating, obfuscating the legal process, FUD, and a host of other tactics that might not land you in jail, but that we mostly agree is immoral (even those engaging in those acts). But, we live in a world where youdon't get the promotion when Bob from marketing is willing to lie to clients to up his sales numbers, the girl who sold me my new cable service lied about the actual cost and when a deal-breaker upgrade was due, hell even BSing women at bars pays off more than "being yourself."
I watched a few of the "Gone Native" webcasts on the C++ extensions, and it's crazy what they're doing with the language. Are the features useful? Yes, but they're taking a complex language and slapping on yet more functionality. Some new C++ code syntax doesn't even *look* like C++ anymore it's so different. Not everyone is a C++ guru and the language is bad enough supporting so many different paths to the same implementation outcomes. This is just going to make staffing, testing, training, and code review that much worse trying to juggle yet another barrel-full of C++ "improvements".
They need to just start from scratch and create a limited subset of features that doesn't pretend to be C and doesn't lug around all of the past mistakes in the standard, and call it C+++.
I can't tell you how many links I've read about some YouTube video having "gone viral" only to see a link with about 1000 hits or so (no doubt associated with the reporter).
You call the users of GPS jammers "criminals." While they might be, then so are people speeding. They could very well be people who hate being tracked by their government.
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When my teachers started prohibiting use of encyclopedias for reports since the articles were considered to be too terse. Never looked at one since. OT, that reminds me that I tried reading them from A-Z as a kid, only got to C though.
Lots of highway speed limits are intentionally kept low as a potential revenue source, and the city planners know it. There was a great story about 5-10 years back about students who drove at the speed limit on I-95 in all lanes to keep traffic from passing them faster than the posted speed limit. They created a MASSIVE traffic jam in the DC/Baltimore area because city planners depend on traffic moving 10-20 mph faster than posted speed limits. Of course, that doesn't stop you from getting a ticket for going that fast when they need the money.
Do a Google search for city officials demanding police write more tickets specifically to generate revenue, NOT for increased safety. There have been several stories on communications leaked from these conversations.
My local municipalities all started sending cops out on fishing expeditions to supplement their income during the recession. One lawyer I talked to said the ticket rates for one city in one month exceeded that for the whole year. They started sweeps for buckled drivers and even drivers license checkpoints. I would've loved to see these drivers making all these cops go to court to defend their tickets.
Maybe YOU don't have a problem with the time switch, but it absolutely destroys me for a few weeks afterwards. This morning was terrible and even though I'm normally awake at this time, I feel like I just got up for a 6am flight. Some of us do really poorly with the switch.
Looks like the driver ran into a bridge and killed himself and one kid.
I suppose now the US will form a shadow imperial government dedicated to it's own dark deeds while publicly displaying a facade of pro-Democracy and anti-Authoritarianism until they amass total power over the world economies. Oh, wait...
"You sir are incorrect. She was waiting eagerly for my return from Africa, even dumped her loser replacement boyfriend as soon as the word came I was due in town."
Of course, that would all be in my head because no one mouths off to Red.
If the government does it, it has to be wrong. If a private company does it, it has to be right. Even if that means paying a private company 2x as much to do a job the government has been more than capable of for 50 years.
There's no profit motive for scientific research and that's exactly what the first Mars missions will be since, until the tech is well established, there won't be a profitable way to get to Mars. The only way private industry goes first is if the US government (I don't think China, Russia, or the ESA is that stupid) overpays Boeing to do it for them while losing all the new tech patents in the same process so that they'd have a monopoly on the routes.
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If you don't want to more and more corporate-produced, demographically-designed artists, start buying your damned CDs from the people you like instead of downloading it for free and complaining about how crappy music is nowadays. I'm not even a huge music fan, but I make a point to buy CDs when I hear something I like.
A lot of those cultures also never developed "Western" materialism and greed. I think it's because when you live in a society where the living is pretty easy-going (compared to a European caveman), you probably don't need to be so competitive over resources.
Make sure to call me if that blob starts moving towards earth!
Gas prices have nothing to do with supply and demand. They have everything to do with deregulating commodities laws on oil and subjecting us to the suits on Wall Street manipulating prices. Hell, they don't even have to warehouse oil, just make a virtual promise to buy in bulk.
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Because very simply, governments will always have *some* power and with *some* power there's profit to be made in legalized bribery (campaign contributions). The only way for your suggestion to work is to go the "On the duty of civil disobedience" route which means NO government, which will never work unfortunately.
hell i can't think of a single thing the man did better and that's just fricking sad.
Finding Osama Bin Laden for one. Oh, you were speaking in hyperbole.
MNTHOOPFA? Doesn't look like the lazy schmuck who came up with that one endured much pain...
Because Romney was pretty vocal about being against the auto bailout while being *for* the corporate bailouts. Santorum might have even had the same positions, but Romney is the one fighting against the "Clueless, privileged aristocrat" stereotype. A quick poll I read this morning gave Santorum a 47-10 lead among Democrats in Michigan. It's pretty settled strategy that you do what you have to to get the nomination, then worry about tacking to the center for the general election.
That's a geek fail so hard I would've wasted mod points on an AC for once. Do me a favor and don't code any metric-to-standard NASA subroutines.
I read something to that effect in an insightful post here years ago. The problem with the world is you can get rich by lying, cheating, obfuscating the legal process, FUD, and a host of other tactics that might not land you in jail, but that we mostly agree is immoral (even those engaging in those acts). But, we live in a world where youdon't get the promotion when Bob from marketing is willing to lie to clients to up his sales numbers, the girl who sold me my new cable service lied about the actual cost and when a deal-breaker upgrade was due, hell even BSing women at bars pays off more than "being yourself."
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Your complain boils down to "C++11 has some changes".
That's not my complaint, your level of comprehension maybe
I watched a few of the "Gone Native" webcasts on the C++ extensions, and it's crazy what they're doing with the language. Are the features useful? Yes, but they're taking a complex language and slapping on yet more functionality. Some new C++ code syntax doesn't even *look* like C++ anymore it's so different. Not everyone is a C++ guru and the language is bad enough supporting so many different paths to the same implementation outcomes. This is just going to make staffing, testing, training, and code review that much worse trying to juggle yet another barrel-full of C++ "improvements".
They need to just start from scratch and create a limited subset of features that doesn't pretend to be C and doesn't lug around all of the past mistakes in the standard, and call it C+++.
I can't tell you how many links I've read about some YouTube video having "gone viral" only to see a link with about 1000 hits or so (no doubt associated with the reporter).
You call the users of GPS jammers "criminals." While they might be, then so are people speeding. They could very well be people who hate being tracked by their government.