Yeah, banning alcohol gave the mafia more power, drugs, the cartels. Making things people want illegal has a long track record of just making it worse. Hearts and minds, man. .
You really want to add something more to the list of things people ignore and are scofflaws about?
Look what happens when there's a ban - who gets rich and powerful, often lobbies to keep the ban in place? Don't you think we have corruption enough as is?
That's what everyone told me even when I was vaping at 24 mg nicotine. I used to chain smoke my entire waking hours, and some people didn't like to come visit because they had to (in their words) burn their clothes and take a shower every time.
Of course it got even better when I vaped less, then quit for real.
I've managed to totally quit since last spring. Smoked > 44 years, vaped 2. Vaping helped me quit like you wouldn't believe, even though I used pretty strong juice. A whole lot of that "activity" thing and habit is just so different. You light a cigarette and you're gonna smoke the whole thing (or let the ashtray do it and stink the place up at your cost).
With vaping, I'd eventually just get to take one or two hits, put it down, and forget about it - even lose the thing for around an hour on some days. (yes, when you really lose it - overnight ship by air seems cheap! - and then you find the original of course).
I had to quit smoking - I was going to die of emphysema, couldn't make it up a flight of stairs that well. Went to vape, immediate improvements, but after a year of getting better, I started getting worse again, and I was using top of the line stuff, replacing coils and wicks often etc. I started letting myself only vape 5 min per hour, and the same 5 min, say top of the hour to 5 after, and if I forget or start late, too bad - wait an hour. You can do it! I started forgetting after a couple months, and once I almost forgot for an entire day. I bit the bullet and just quit - > $1000 of cool vape stuff and juice sits on my shelf for the next guy.
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*You* have to do it - it's not easy or without some pangs. It's nice to be free after 3 packs a day for > 40 years (almost 45 IIRC). And the bucks, holy cow, even with the expensive mechs and such - I had been buying nearly 3 cartons of cigs a week - at $55 each. I was suddenly rich! It's frigging great, the odd pang - that's what they make beer for.
I don't disagree that the self-medicating of nicotine helped me too - it let me get past being to nervous to get going on stuff - there's a lot of reasons you see the real do-ers of the world smoking. But when it's killing you, it's no longer worth it, and by then you've got the habit of doing stuff anyway - just as hard to kick, but why would you?
I'm starting to think I'm going to be lucky by not living that long. When people have nothing more to lose, to they really start voting from the rooftops, or only if George Soros or CIA pay for that?
And who did Hip Hop Virtual Machine for "Personal Home Page"...oh, it was facebook, they don't eat their own dogfood?
Of course, everything is in C at some level, or nearly. Some of us still use a bit of ASM.
rakudo handles rationals as...rationals. Like bigrat in perl5, only perfectly, no precision loss at all. But it's not a fad like...whatever TF facebook wants us to use.
Agreed. Just saying something I know about myself solved this long ago (it's an add-on in perl5, builtin in 6). Doesn't surprise me if Lisp had it too - even slower and more memory intensive than perl perhaps. My point was, this "news" didn't even solve it...and if it did, it'd be "old news" as you seem to agree.
Of course we did. A: the parts of gov have turf issues with talking to one another. B: while it's effectively illegal, even if they do it anyway, if they have a hard on to bust someone with clout - it has to look legal, parallel construction might not fly.
As stated by several amicus briefs. We have treaties with most other countries where this would be an issue, all we have to do is deal with them. If they don't want to give it up, well...do you do war or what? Further, if MS gives up the stuff - they're breaking the law in the other country. Does it seem reasonable to demand someone else break the law? It might be legal, since we have any number of illogical, unconstitutional, just-us laws, but gheesh. Solve it the way it was already solved, you lazy govt fscks. The US is only the US, we don't own the world much as many stupid people might wish that as our empire ends - which is why we're thrashing around like a wounded animal these days. .
To reiterate - there's already a legal way to do this where no one breaks any laws if the other country agrees. We should be done at that point and respect others. This might be the only time in recent memory I'm on the side of Microsoft.
Pi in what time-space environment. Time-space is only flat if there is zero mass energy around - all the way out to infinity. The official value of pi is wrong if there is any mass-energy warpage of time-space. There is no place in the universe where there is no such warping. It's a pretty math construct, but so is a flat space-time. Doesn't mean it exists.
Yeah, I know, no one likes a smart-ass - especially if they're right.
SJWs are assholes and in your face about it. I'd guess a policy of helping Darwin along and murdering them would be worse than whining about them? After all, if just using a wrong pronoun hurts them, it ought to be really easy to just kill them off, right?
No, no, the donut shop...they probably hid it at the police station parking lot or it's a cop who has the bike, they'd never look there, but they might stumble across it at the donut shop - so that's where it ain't.
There's this perl5 module that actually solved this exactly quite some time ago - no compromise at all, but as Damian Conway says, we suck at marketing - if you need a bigrat to solve your problem. Perl 6 (which should have a different name and many now call Rakudo) - has this as a built-in. Rational numbers are kept exact all the way through calculations, period, if built from...rational numbers in the first place (won't help with pi or sqrt 2 of course).
One of the best conference presentations ever given about anything happens to cover this - skip past the boring intros. Computer scientists will get the dry humor in say "the Alan Machine" reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
No, of course not. It got there on purpose and in serious violation of the rules, we know that, NSA themselves say so. They also say they talked to the guy, and well...
The justice I would have gotten when I had a serious clearance (above TS) for doing far less ain't gonna happen to this guy.
Seems it's more important to use any event to push some agenda we had already (they hate Kaspersky because it detects their stuff and warns the targets) as in "never let a crisis go to waste".
Fake news isn't a new thing. Spin isn't new and was going on long before the name was coined.
I'm pretty sure this is "one of those". I used to work in that biz, or well, ELINT, long before there was any sort of serious internet.
You misspoke, you went down, hard. Now, not so much. Look at all the corruption recently revealed in the elected gov't - either side of the aisle, as well as the bureaucracy - and the banks. And everyone getting the best law their money can buy... .
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Maybe one or two fall guys got perp walked - out of hundreds and hundreds? We've lost rule of law in the US. Sucks.
That's what I'm saying.
The only accident here was getting caught, and I've heard that refrain all too often from way too many of late.
It's like some version of the shoe shop ray that makes people who used to be reasonable into unreasoning partisans who believe anything that confirms the bias they were fed by...partisans. Thinking for oneself is so...hard these days, evidently.
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You really want to add something more to the list of things people ignore and are scofflaws about?
Look what happens when there's a ban - who gets rich and powerful, often lobbies to keep the ban in place? Don't you think we have corruption enough as is?
That's what everyone told me even when I was vaping at 24 mg nicotine. I used to chain smoke my entire waking hours, and some people didn't like to come visit because they had to (in their words) burn their clothes and take a shower every time. Of course it got even better when I vaped less, then quit for real.
With vaping, I'd eventually just get to take one or two hits, put it down, and forget about it - even lose the thing for around an hour on some days. (yes, when you really lose it - overnight ship by air seems cheap! - and then you find the original of course). I had to quit smoking - I was going to die of emphysema, couldn't make it up a flight of stairs that well. Went to vape, immediate improvements, but after a year of getting better, I started getting worse again, and I was using top of the line stuff, replacing coils and wicks often etc. I started letting myself only vape 5 min per hour, and the same 5 min, say top of the hour to 5 after, and if I forget or start late, too bad - wait an hour. You can do it! I started forgetting after a couple months, and once I almost forgot for an entire day. I bit the bullet and just quit - > $1000 of cool vape stuff and juice sits on my shelf for the next guy.
.
*You* have to do it - it's not easy or without some pangs. It's nice to be free after 3 packs a day for > 40 years (almost 45 IIRC). And the bucks, holy cow, even with the expensive mechs and such - I had been buying nearly 3 cartons of cigs a week - at $55 each. I was suddenly rich! It's frigging great, the odd pang - that's what they make beer for.
I don't disagree that the self-medicating of nicotine helped me too - it let me get past being to nervous to get going on stuff - there's a lot of reasons you see the real do-ers of the world smoking. But when it's killing you, it's no longer worth it, and by then you've got the habit of doing stuff anyway - just as hard to kick, but why would you?
I'm starting to think I'm going to be lucky by not living that long. When people have nothing more to lose, to they really start voting from the rooftops, or only if George Soros or CIA pay for that?
Looks good but no Linux support. I DID buy sublime text - not all linux guys are free-only.
And who did Hip Hop Virtual Machine for "Personal Home Page"...oh, it was facebook, they don't eat their own dogfood? Of course, everything is in C at some level, or nearly. Some of us still use a bit of ASM.
rakudo handles rationals as...rationals. Like bigrat in perl5, only perfectly, no precision loss at all. But it's not a fad like...whatever TF facebook wants us to use.
Too bad I used up all my mod points and now can only comment. So, the iPhone users are just not capable of adapting to Slashdot?
First google search on NHS leak records:
https://www.google.com/search?...
+1 Funny!
Agreed. Just saying something I know about myself solved this long ago (it's an add-on in perl5, builtin in 6). Doesn't surprise me if Lisp had it too - even slower and more memory intensive than perl perhaps. My point was, this "news" didn't even solve it...and if it did, it'd be "old news" as you seem to agree.
Security has to be designed in to be good. Patched later on - how's that working out for Intel just now?
Maybe someone will make an app that makes iPhones actually work right on the internet....Nah.
100% die, it's only a matter of when. What planet are you from?
Of course we did. A: the parts of gov have turf issues with talking to one another. B: while it's effectively illegal, even if they do it anyway, if they have a hard on to bust someone with clout - it has to look legal, parallel construction might not fly.
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To reiterate - there's already a legal way to do this where no one breaks any laws if the other country agrees. We should be done at that point and respect others. This might be the only time in recent memory I'm on the side of Microsoft.
Pi in what time-space environment. Time-space is only flat if there is zero mass energy around - all the way out to infinity. The official value of pi is wrong if there is any mass-energy warpage of time-space. There is no place in the universe where there is no such warping. It's a pretty math construct, but so is a flat space-time. Doesn't mean it exists. Yeah, I know, no one likes a smart-ass - especially if they're right.
SJWs are assholes and in your face about it. I'd guess a policy of helping Darwin along and murdering them would be worse than whining about them? After all, if just using a wrong pronoun hurts them, it ought to be really easy to just kill them off, right?
No, no, the donut shop...they probably hid it at the police station parking lot or it's a cop who has the bike, they'd never look there, but they might stumble across it at the donut shop - so that's where it ain't.
There's this perl5 module that actually solved this exactly quite some time ago - no compromise at all, but as Damian Conway says, we suck at marketing - if you need a bigrat to solve your problem. Perl 6 (which should have a different name and many now call Rakudo) - has this as a built-in. Rational numbers are kept exact all the way through calculations, period, if built from...rational numbers in the first place (won't help with pi or sqrt 2 of course). One of the best conference presentations ever given about anything happens to cover this - skip past the boring intros. Computer scientists will get the dry humor in say "the Alan Machine" reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Maybe one or two fall guys got perp walked - out of hundreds and hundreds? We've lost rule of law in the US. Sucks.
That's what I'm saying.
The only accident here was getting caught, and I've heard that refrain all too often from way too many of late.
It's like some version of the shoe shop ray that makes people who used to be reasonable into unreasoning partisans who believe anything that confirms the bias they were fed by...partisans. Thinking for oneself is so...hard these days, evidently.
Look around this thread.
Not flamebait unless truth is flammable.
I'd mod this up if I could. Damn partisans miss the point - they're all crooked as hell.