In the Bronze Age - the period before we had discovered how to smelt iron - we had to use naturally occurring iron if we wanted iron artefacts. Well, no shit Sherlock. That's why it was still the Bronze Age and not the Iron Age.
Yes, that's because it's not a real encyclopaedia at all. It's a more or less random mishmash of largely plagiarized notes from unemployed people who are unemployed for a reason. The editing hierarchy actively discourages and deletes entries from people who know what they're doing, using "original research" or "PoV" as excuses. The writers are anonymous and unaccountable except to others in their editing cliques and lists of citations (which I could get from a Google search) take the place of analysis and balance.
scruples didn't hurt. He had little problem with raiding others ideas and pushing them out of the market. Many of the things he did to get on top of the pile would be actionable today.
Google suggests otherwise - industrial-scale copyright infringement? Just ignore it and no one will do anything about it. Global tax evasion? Get the law changed and move on - tax is so "statist", this is the (new) age of the unaccountable corporation.
They're not doing exactly the same things Gates did, but they are doing their things in the same style, and that's what actually works.
Save us from all those annoying "free to move to another supplier" politics! Free us from all those "agreed standards for interchange" politics! I've been so burdened with files and protocols that can be relied on to work no matter who makes the equipment or software. I can't take it much more!
How I wish EVERY standard had an "extended" version that only Microsoft systems understands! How I hate having word processing document formats that can be read by scripts to do analysis and manipulation on them! IT'S ALL POLITCS! I just want to shovel money into the nearest MS bank account. Is that so much to ask?
You are assuming that religious "extremists" are the only problem. In fact, monotheistic religions are the problem and the extremists are basically just those monotheists who have been activated by some perceived threat. All these religions have the same poisonous seed in them: the belief that if a member of the outside world (whether Jews, Christians, atheists, or just the wrong type of their own religion) tells the "wrong" thing to their kids then those kids will burn in some form of hell for eternity. That, quite simply, is motivation that justifies any crime, any atrocity on Earth as a triviality in the face of the infinite. Anyone that believes in a god-given monopoly on the truth is dangerous; make them feel that their truth is under genuine threat and they will turn into "extremists".
Given that the effects of the rating agencies' massive and corrupt dealing which led to the collapse of the world's banking system in 2010 were that, er, the rating agencies were allowed to continue exactly as before, I don't expect this will hurt Equifax too much. What will hit them harder, in all likelihood, is the possibility of insider-dealing pushing their share price low enough for Experian to buy them up and then ALL their data will be, once more, transfered to another party without any of the people the data relates to having any say whatsoever.
And don't forget that these companies exist to sell your details to the highest bidder anyway. All they're really worried about, aside from PR, is that this client hasn't paid for the info.
Governments want to get rid of cash so that the next time they have to bail out their friends in the banks for making huge errors in their business plans, they can charge normal punters negative rates, just like many currently do to corporate clients. Once cash is gone, we ALL have to use the banks and if they charge us, we have to pay it.
So, using plastic is in the long run a good way to make sure that you DO get robbed. By the bank.
Lies and propaganda. The Japanese had been trying to surrender for weeks before the bomb; the supposed sticking point being that they wanted to keep the emperor, which of course they did in the end. There was never any chance of American casualties because there was never any chance of a violent invasion being needed.
People like you make me sick, frankly. You're a disgrace to the human race and proof that even 4 million years of evolving a massive brain doesn't give some people the will power to use it instead of simply accepting all the crap that self-serving warcrats churn out to make sure that no one ever drags them in front of a court for the deliberate mass murder of civilians just to make apolitical point.
In short: go fuck yourself, scumbag.
you have a very cocooned and typical point of view of a lot western children (children in mind, if not actual chronological age), who have seen no real menace in their lives, and therefore see no reason to fight menace.
Yes, apart from being blown up by the IRA, having my grandmother shot dead and a friend blown to pieces it's all been pillows, harps, and peeled grapes here.
I see menace in the wasp's nest, and I see menace in the fool who stirrs the wasp's nest up. Which is more evil?
Take your head out of your ass and take a look around once in a while.
My point is that the military get far too much funding. I don't give a damn, frankly, if they're at risk. I didn't ask them to go and fight for Haliburton. They wanted the job and they expect everyone else to stump up the cost.
that these guys were constantly under threat from some uber-opponent instead of being the most over-funded organisation in history, capable of literally destroying all life on Earth. Why do they need MORE technology? Shouldn't they have to wait until they can use what they already have properly?
Don't forget: "Nina's serial killer boyfriend killed her and buried her somewhere and is having a laugh at Hans' predicament". I'll just repeat that: Nina's boyfriend has confessed to being a serial killer with "at least" 16 victims. That one pretty well kills any chance of a "guilty" verdict for me unless some very solid evidence turns up.
I agree with ya, mostly, but having 2 stacks is perfect if you're writing a Forth compiler.
I was being sarcastic about the lack of a need for 2 stacks, specifically because I have written Forth compilers myself. There are many other uses for multiple stacks, of course. 68K was a great programming model.
They also missed out one of the main reasons for the demise of assembler though - the rise and rise of x86 compatible CPUs with their shit-awful instruction set and 4 registers.
Oh, yes; so true. Actually, until AMD came along the x86 set only had 1 general purpose register where you could put data and know that it wouldn't be smashed as a side-effect of some instruction. Utter garbage of a processor family. Still is, really, if you're one of those nut-cases that think they might want TWO stacks on the go at the same time! Crazy, I know.
However, coming from my own personal experience, we didn't touch any.net back in school, and now, i'm out in the "real" world and everywhere I look is MS
And by a strange coincidence, everywhere I look I see buggy software developed by kids who know next to nothing about algorithms or, really, programming in general. Programming is a highly skilled job which has become synonymous with "crap and annoying" for most users all around the world. It's no surprise that Microsoft - a company with no concern for quality control whatsoever (and why should they: people literally have to buy their products whether they want them or not) - is king of that particular heap.
But most of these guys are fairly isolated and work in very small groups of other pissed of Muslims, it's far easier and more likely for them to just look this stuff up online.
This is information who's revelation could lead to death.
In what way? And are there really no people working for highly-funded terrorist networks who can't afford a decent telescope and take advantage of the dark, dark desert nights? If they can't get as good a dataset as these hobbyists then they're probably not much of a threat.
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In the Bronze Age - the period before we had discovered how to smelt iron - we had to use naturally occurring iron if we wanted iron artefacts. Well, no shit Sherlock. That's why it was still the Bronze Age and not the Iron Age.
Yes, that's because it's not a real encyclopaedia at all. It's a more or less random mishmash of largely plagiarized notes from unemployed people who are unemployed for a reason. The editing hierarchy actively discourages and deletes entries from people who know what they're doing, using "original research" or "PoV" as excuses. The writers are anonymous and unaccountable except to others in their editing cliques and lists of citations (which I could get from a Google search) take the place of analysis and balance.
We need more traitors like him to protect us from assholes like you who would sell us all down the river for any bastard wrapped in a flag.
scruples didn't hurt. He had little problem with raiding others ideas and pushing them out of the market. Many of the things he did to get on top of the pile would be actionable today.
Google suggests otherwise - industrial-scale copyright infringement? Just ignore it and no one will do anything about it. Global tax evasion? Get the law changed and move on - tax is so "statist", this is the (new) age of the unaccountable corporation. They're not doing exactly the same things Gates did, but they are doing their things in the same style, and that's what actually works.
Save us from all those annoying "free to move to another supplier" politics! Free us from all those "agreed standards for interchange" politics! I've been so burdened with files and protocols that can be relied on to work no matter who makes the equipment or software. I can't take it much more! How I wish EVERY standard had an "extended" version that only Microsoft systems understands! How I hate having word processing document formats that can be read by scripts to do analysis and manipulation on them! IT'S ALL POLITCS! I just want to shovel money into the nearest MS bank account. Is that so much to ask?
You are assuming that religious "extremists" are the only problem. In fact, monotheistic religions are the problem and the extremists are basically just those monotheists who have been activated by some perceived threat. All these religions have the same poisonous seed in them: the belief that if a member of the outside world (whether Jews, Christians, atheists, or just the wrong type of their own religion) tells the "wrong" thing to their kids then those kids will burn in some form of hell for eternity. That, quite simply, is motivation that justifies any crime, any atrocity on Earth as a triviality in the face of the infinite. Anyone that believes in a god-given monopoly on the truth is dangerous; make them feel that their truth is under genuine threat and they will turn into "extremists".
I meant that those actions may trigger an investigation which itself may well push the stock price down further.
Given that the effects of the rating agencies' massive and corrupt dealing which led to the collapse of the world's banking system in 2010 were that, er, the rating agencies were allowed to continue exactly as before, I don't expect this will hurt Equifax too much. What will hit them harder, in all likelihood, is the possibility of insider-dealing pushing their share price low enough for Experian to buy them up and then ALL their data will be, once more, transfered to another party without any of the people the data relates to having any say whatsoever. And don't forget that these companies exist to sell your details to the highest bidder anyway. All they're really worried about, aside from PR, is that this client hasn't paid for the info.
Governments want to get rid of cash so that the next time they have to bail out their friends in the banks for making huge errors in their business plans, they can charge normal punters negative rates, just like many currently do to corporate clients. Once cash is gone, we ALL have to use the banks and if they charge us, we have to pay it. So, using plastic is in the long run a good way to make sure that you DO get robbed. By the bank.
Lies and propaganda. The Japanese had been trying to surrender for weeks before the bomb; the supposed sticking point being that they wanted to keep the emperor, which of course they did in the end. There was never any chance of American casualties because there was never any chance of a violent invasion being needed. People like you make me sick, frankly. You're a disgrace to the human race and proof that even 4 million years of evolving a massive brain doesn't give some people the will power to use it instead of simply accepting all the crap that self-serving warcrats churn out to make sure that no one ever drags them in front of a court for the deliberate mass murder of civilians just to make apolitical point. In short: go fuck yourself, scumbag.
Yes, apart from being blown up by the IRA, having my grandmother shot dead and a friend blown to pieces it's all been pillows, harps, and peeled grapes here.
I see menace in the wasp's nest, and I see menace in the fool who stirrs the wasp's nest up. Which is more evil?
Take your head out of your ass and take a look around once in a while.
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Military blunders are rarely fixed by military solutions.
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Yes, because we'd not be able to do scientific research without killing people. That money would all just go to waste.
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Stop living in fear you spineless piece of shit.
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They'll probably be too busy laughing to say anything.
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It's not actually compulsory for super-powers to go straight to the nuclear option on day 1.
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I was being sarcastic about the lack of a need for 2 stacks, specifically because I have written Forth compilers myself. There are many other uses for multiple stacks, of course. 68K was a great programming model.
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Oh, yes; so true. Actually, until AMD came along the x86 set only had 1 general purpose register where you could put data and know that it wouldn't be smashed as a side-effect of some instruction. Utter garbage of a processor family. Still is, really, if you're one of those nut-cases that think they might want TWO stacks on the go at the same time! Crazy, I know.
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And by a strange coincidence, everywhere I look I see buggy software developed by kids who know next to nothing about algorithms or, really, programming in general. Programming is a highly skilled job which has become synonymous with "crap and annoying" for most users all around the world. It's no surprise that Microsoft - a company with no concern for quality control whatsoever (and why should they: people literally have to buy their products whether they want them or not) - is king of that particular heap.
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And then do what? What's the security issue?
In what way? And are there really no people working for highly-funded terrorist networks who can't afford a decent telescope and take advantage of the dark, dark desert nights? If they can't get as good a dataset as these hobbyists then they're probably not much of a threat.
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