> We all know how smallpox spreads. We do not know how to cure it.
Um... we did cure it, in a sense. Smallpox (thanks to vaccinations) no longer exists in the wild. I'm sure someone will be able to come up with an apt computing metaphor...
This isn't actually all that new. About 30 years ago,I had a sidevalve motor Morris Minor, built in about 1952 (it was one of the very early models, anyway), and if I'd wanted to adjust the tappets, I would've had to remove the inlet and exhaust manifolds first. As you can imagine, I put up with the clatter. Shit, you just about had to lift the motor to change the oil. I drove it into the ground, but I wish I'd kept it - they're worth a fortune these days...
I think the reason that Australia is actually a more robust democracy than the US, and that Australians seem to have less of an impulse towards Fascism, is largely down to compulsory attendance at a polling station on election day. And once you're there, you might as well vote.
_Some_ wine drinkers have a glass with dinner... I tend to end up drinking the whole bottle once I open it. You know, a glass (or maybe two) while I'm cooking, then another glass (or maybe two) while I'm eating, then... hey, it's _nearly_ empty (only a glass or two left), and it'll probably spoil if I don't drink it tonight... Fortunately we have a lot of good, cheap, red wine in Australia (white wine is for sheilas and poofters, imo).
I also like beer, btw, and mostly only drink my own.
As an aside, you're unlikely to get a winegut because wine is generally more thoroughly fermented so there's far less residual sugar than beer.
Your rule of thumb seems to have a fundamental flaw... I've always thought that conservatives generally didn't reason too clearly at all.
Who would Osama vote for? Probably the incumbent, as Dubya is doing more to destroy the fundamental freedoms you Americans prize so highly than any three presidents before him (including such sweethearts as Nixon).
You make an excellent point. This is hauntingly reminiscent of similar statements made at the height of the Great Military Adventure in Vietnam - that the only way to save the Vietnamese people from the horrors of Communism was to utterly destroy their country for them. It was bullshit then, and it's bullshit now. It's similar people saying these things, as well.
Are you fucking insane? You don't have _any_ left-wing media in your country (I'm assuming you're an American) except for those things that hardly anyone reads like "New Left Review" and "Mother Jones".
In Australia we get two ballot papers at a Federal election - one for the House of Representatives (which typically has less that 6 choices on it), and another for the Senate, which, last election, had nearly 100 names on it. Each candidate's name has to have a number between 1 and max(candidates) next to it, with no duplicates. These ballots get hand-counted, and we have a senate result usually within a couple of days. I really don't see the problem.
As an atheist, I deeply resent being called a Post-Modernist - the two belief systems (although calling Post-Modernism a system is probably a stretch) have nothing to do with each other.
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Off-topic, I know, but quicksort is only quicker than others (sometimes) on data that can be held in memory. If you need to sort massive amounts of data, algorithms based on the multi-tape sort-merge (see Knuth) are much, much, much faster.
No, not both, but you won't know whether or not Schroedinger's cat is pissed off till you put your hand in its box and it comes out bleeding (or not). Oh, wait, that sounds just like a normal cat in a box.
The chair I use for preference is one of those weird-looking backless seats with a knee-pad. They don't look particularly comfortable, but they _force_ correct posture, and also make you get up every half-hour or so to get the pressure off your knees.
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> We all know how smallpox spreads. We do not know how to cure it.
... we did cure it, in a sense. Smallpox (thanks to vaccinations) no longer exists in the wild. I'm sure someone will be able to come up with an apt computing metaphor ...
Um
Maybe the fuse in the back ...
This isn't actually all that new. About 30 years ago,I had a sidevalve motor Morris Minor, built in about 1952 (it was one of the very early models, anyway), and if I'd wanted to adjust the tappets, I would've had to remove the inlet and exhaust manifolds first. As you can imagine, I put up with the clatter. Shit, you just about had to lift the motor to change the oil. I drove it into the ground, but I wish I'd kept it - they're worth a fortune these days ...
I'm still having a bit of trouble with the notion that moving from UNIX to Windows was regarded as an upgrade.
I tried reading Ayn Rand. Once. I damn' near gnawed my own head off, it was so awful.
Silicon dioxide is hardly a waste material ... after all, without it, what would you drink beer out of?
You must be an Australian.
I think the reason that Australia is actually a more robust democracy than the US, and that Australians seem to have less of an impulse towards Fascism, is largely down to compulsory attendance at a polling station on election day. And once you're there, you might as well vote.
_Some_ wine drinkers have a glass with dinner ... I tend to end up drinking the whole bottle once I open it. You know, a glass (or maybe two) while I'm cooking, then another glass (or maybe two) while I'm eating, then ... hey, it's _nearly_ empty (only a glass or two left), and it'll probably spoil if I don't drink it tonight ... Fortunately we have a lot of good, cheap, red wine in Australia (white wine is for sheilas and poofters, imo).
I also like beer, btw, and mostly only drink my own.
As an aside, you're unlikely to get a winegut because wine is generally more thoroughly fermented so there's far less residual sugar than beer.
Your rule of thumb seems to have a fundamental flaw ... I've always thought that conservatives generally didn't reason too clearly at all.
Who would Osama vote for? Probably the incumbent, as Dubya is doing more to destroy the fundamental freedoms you Americans prize so highly than any three presidents before him (including such sweethearts as Nixon).
You make an excellent point. This is hauntingly reminiscent of similar statements made at the height of the Great Military Adventure in Vietnam - that the only way to save the Vietnamese people from the horrors of Communism was to utterly destroy their country for them. It was bullshit then, and it's bullshit now. It's similar people saying these things, as well.
> the mainstream media and pundits on the Left
Are you fucking insane? You don't have _any_ left-wing media in your country (I'm assuming you're an American) except for those things that hardly anyone reads like "New Left Review" and "Mother Jones".
"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" was _not_ left wing. Libertarian, perhaps.
Heinlein.
In Australia we get two ballot papers at a Federal election - one for the House of Representatives (which typically has less that 6 choices on it), and another for the Senate, which, last election, had nearly 100 names on it. Each candidate's name has to have a number between 1 and max(candidates) next to it, with no duplicates. These ballots get hand-counted, and we have a senate result usually within a couple of days. I really don't see the problem.
I think the problem for most of the rest of us is that fucking other countries is what the US does best ...
As an atheist, I deeply resent being called a Post-Modernist - the two belief systems (although calling Post-Modernism a system is probably a stretch) have nothing to do with each other.
It's some catch, that Catch-22.
Outstanding!
Off-topic, I know, but quicksort is only quicker than others (sometimes) on data that can be held in memory. If you need to sort massive amounts of data, algorithms based on the multi-tape sort-merge (see Knuth) are much, much, much faster.
I never knew photons could interfere with themselves ... how do they do it? I mean, they don't have hands, or genitals, come to that.
Three problems. A square cup is also more likely to tip your beer all over your shirt.
I suspect that the mere act of doing a MBA will turn you into a PHB, despite your best efforts.
No, not both, but you won't know whether or not Schroedinger's cat is pissed off till you put your hand in its box and it comes out bleeding (or not). Oh, wait, that sounds just like a normal cat in a box.
Just start from the outside, and work your way inwards ...
The chair I use for preference is one of those weird-looking backless seats with a knee-pad. They don't look particularly comfortable, but they _force_ correct posture, and also make you get up every half-hour or so to get the pressure off your knees.