This url does not work. The parent claims it should.
That said, even if RoR had a few PHP pages, that would not indicate that RoR is incapable of serving high loads... it might just mean that there is no legitimate reason for that page to be backed by rails (nothing particularly dynamic, etc.)
Everyone on slashdot is an idiot, and you're proof of why. You not only defend a wholesale attack based on a single, pointless fact, but you do so even when that fact isn't true.
A PHP tag on a webserver doesn't mean that the site is powered by PHP. It means that whoever compiled apache loaded a PHP module for possible use in one of the virtual hosts. That Apache also has FastCGI installed, which is routinely used for serving rails applications.
I know for a fact that several high-traffic websites use RoR extensively, but none of them are tech sites, so they don't go around advertising what is on the back-end.
I shouldn't have taken time to respond to your obvious troll, but I felt forced to because some gullible moderators gave you points for spewing lies and idiocy. Typical slashdot fare, I know, but give it a break.
You'd have a point if this wasn't simply the latest in a string of studies that all showed the same thing.
Instead of rushing to apply logic, you should have spent a bit more time learning about all the data that was available. If you had done so, you would have realized that this was just another metric that demonstrated a lack of improvement, rather than being the only or even the primary metric that showed no improvement.
I know, it's an unfair criticism. After all, research is hard, but a pointless and distracting game of "devil's advocate" is easy.
No half-reasonable person is going to buy this product for the environment. They might buy it because they want to setup a computer in an area that lacks power (or reliable power).
If you're not trolling, you are so fucking far-gone on the right-wing anti-environmentalist agenda that you're useless to society.
The world would be much better if people routinely asked 'what actions are ethically correct?' instead of stopping at 'are my proposed actions currently illegal in this country?'
It's often true that a damaging, dangerous or stupid action is legal, simply because laws are nearly always implemented as a blacklist, meaning that somebody has to think to ban the specific action in question.
The United States has an assumed Right of Privacy. EU countries all have clearly legislated rights to privacy. The fact that there may be a hole does not make an unnecessary, unexpected, and harmful intrusion acceptable. Legal, perhaps, but not acceptable.
Company: "Hey, we can gather a small amount of nearly useless data by secretly installing a piece of network-enabled software on their computer."
Ethical Employee: "But if everyone behaves like that, all computers will be devalued, as they will have huge piles of unmaintained, network-enabled software installed, and causing a wide variety of problems."
Sony: "Fuck the customers, I want to know how many people listen to Neil Diamond on their laptop!"
You might like one particular Latino, but I can tell you hate spics, you racist fuck.
You still claimed in your original post that illegal immigrants are members of a privileged overclass, an allegation so absurd as to prove that you are nothing more than a waste of carbon.
Please, for god's sake, kill yourself right the fuck now, you awful, racist idiot.
And whatever you do, don't claim more bullshit that illegal aliens are tools of the overclass to undermine the working class. Only the dumbest fucking idiot could come to that conclusion. I mean really... they work shitty jobs (picking fruit, day labor, low-end kitchen jobs), in a country that has extremely low unemployment.
I know that paranoid right-wing nutjobs love to claim that they are undermining the working class, but you've reached record levels of paranoid idiocy when you claim that illegal aliens are allowed to enter and remain in the country as part of a vast conspiracy to undermine the working class.
I mean, if you honestly believe any of that, just shoot yourself in the face, you paranoid idiotic fuck.
Dear fucking lord, I don't think I've ever read anything that stupid or paranoid in my life.
You're a racist idiot from Texas. You either voted for Bush or you didn't bother because you already knew which color your state was.
Either way, we all know you're 100% GOP propganda buying idiot. You've proved that in a least a dozen times.
i mean, honestly... you're claiming that ILLEGAL ALIENS are getting some sort of amazingly sweet deal, because they get to work long hours, for low pay, with the constant threat of deportation lingering over their head.
only a far-gone, right-wing retard would lump such utterly powerless people in with mega-corporations and the super-rich, claiming that they have elite and special powers.
Seriously. Step back from your idiotic Hannity-provided talking points for a fucking second and use your feeble brain. Do you *REALLY* think that Illegal Aliens are part of some sort of powerful overclass?
If you do, then please do us all a fucking favor, and illegal immigrate to some other country, and leave us the fuck alone, you idiotic shit.
Talk to the emergency rooms in a Northern city sometime. They'll tell you about costs incurred by legal citizens who simply lie about their identity to avoid payment (or who are simply indigent, thus making any collection attempt futile, and a waste of funds.)
Similar situations occur when the very poor decide they need cars, because of a lack of public transportation. Many of those cars are unsafe, unregistered and uninsured. My registration stickers have been stolen many times by people who use them to drive their illegal cars. And when one of them hits you, your recourse is an uninsured/underinsured rider clause on your own policy, the same as when your example illegal hits you.
The primary problem is not primarily about immigration status, it's primarily about income.
If you got rid of all the illegals (LOL) you'd just end up saying the same things about the extreme poor anyway.
As such I continue to say that there is no point in mentioning illegal immigration there, unless your goal was to weaken your primary argument, or demonstrate that you lack anything resembling vision and intelligence. (of course you already demonstrated that when you voted for Bush the second time.)
I see things differently (and more intelligently).
All of the studies I have seen about the true total cost of illegal immigration indicate that it is either a small cost or a small benefit overall. Either way, the effect is so close to neutral that I simply can't bring myself to care.
If it's a problem, it's #923 on the list of 'things the government should think about', and it should be treated as such. People who treat it as a dire problem are propagandists, nothing more.
Undocumented workers use false SSNs specifically so they can get employment in places that withhold and pay taxes. If they were working under the table, the whole SSN issue wouldn't be an argument.
The rest of your post is just racist idiocy. I mean, there is no possible way to show that Mexicans are somehow inferior to European immigrants, or that they don't want to become part of society. And most of your other complaints are things that relate to smaller subsets of the population (they don't all drive, let alone drive unregistered cars, etc...) and again, you are applying them to the entirety.
Please, next time just be more concise and say "I AM A RACIST WHO HATES SPICS". It'd be easier for everyone, and a lot more accurate.
You undermine your post by bringing in illegal immigration.
Nobody has ever really cared about people who use a false SSN to work and pay taxes, no matter their citizenship. Jail enters the picture when somebody wants to use an SSN that is assigned to somebody else to defraud.
Please quit with the illegal alien hysteria, or at least keep it factual if you feel the need to drag retarded political bullshit into every thread.
Out of curiousity, how many bills have gone to conference committee, and then failed to pass?
And while technically you're correct, reality is somewhat different. In reality, it's become common for the senators to be voting on the conference report without having had time to read it. This is particularly problematic if one of the changes might be something like the addition or removal of the word 'not'.
Sadly this is incredibly common. Frist had publicly announced his intention to attach the gambling ban to any must-pass legislation that came through.
It's not even the worst example of this kind of behavior. I think that is saved for the conference committee trick. If you're not aware, that is where the House and the Senate pass slightly different versions of a bill, and then a "conference committee" resolves the differences in the bill. But sometimes instead of just resolving a difference, they'll add in new language, or completely change the meaning of the laws that were just passed, thus neatly overriding the intent of the legislature.
The actual ban was a last-minute, backdoor provision, slipped into another bill with no debate and no formal vote.
It was widely expected to fail, but then Bill Frist tacked it onto a port security bill.
Looking at his lifetime donors, it doesn't appear to have been for a traditional special interest group. Instead, I think it was just a failing congressman, trying to appeal to the fascist evangelicals, who wish to legislate their morality on the rest of us.
Given that drug laws allow for the seizure of the home where the drugs were kept and the vehicles used to get the drugs, it would likely be a high-profit operation. Especially if they chased after drugs that aren't tolerated socially (PCP, Heroin, etc.) or chased after especially heavy users.
I'll be surprised if it doesn't happen in the next 30 years, in the United States.
It's comments like yours that make me realize that there is no hope for freedom in America.
I used to have hope, but lately I've realized that a vast majority of Americans don't care about freedom at all. Not for themselves, and not for the workers in the Chinese factories that make their toys.
But I have a feeling that I'm a lot more anti-authoritarian and liberty minded than you.
Falls over laughing.
I'm a registered libertarian.
I used to give Republicans the benefit of the doubt, that they simply believed less government was better, but anybody who still self-identifies as Republican has proved that this is not their core belief. Rather, your core belief is simply that you think "your team" should rule the entire fucking world.
This is not compatible with liberty or anti-authoritarianism, nor are most other GOP planks.
Go fuck yourself, you freedom-hating, brainwashed idiot. Quit drinking the fucking Kool-Aid.
It's not that long ago that members of opposing parties dined together, talked together and worked to come to consensus viewpoints.
Sure, one might not always agree with the outcome, but it's likely that the country as a whole is well represented by such a system.
This differs greatly from the system we have today, where politicians are so polarized that democrats and republicans no longer attend the same social occasions on a regular basis, and otherwise spend a lot of time with each other. They don't work with each other to find a way for everybody to be happy (or for everybody to only be a little unhappy.)
This is the real problem of ultra-partisanship, the fact that once it exists, it becomes very hard to do work for the common good, as the government instead serves only the party masters.
I'm not familiar with this ad, but if it exists, I'm certain MoveOn.org did not sponsor it.
I'm aware that some unfortunate user-created videos were submitted to MoveOn during a video contest, but that has nothing to do with my request for videos that were actually sponsored by a major Democratic group.
I know you're just a troll, but it's amazing how often the GOP members of the right-wing find a controversial user submission to a website, and then declare the whole site to be a hate site. It's as though they feel the need to invent new ways of lying.
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This url does not work. The parent claims it should.
That said, even if RoR had a few PHP pages, that would not indicate that RoR is incapable of serving high loads... it might just mean that there is no legitimate reason for that page to be backed by rails (nothing particularly dynamic, etc.)
Everyone on slashdot is an idiot, and you're proof of why. You not only defend a wholesale attack based on a single, pointless fact, but you do so even when that fact isn't true.
Thanks for reminding me why this site is useless.
You're just trolling.
A PHP tag on a webserver doesn't mean that the site is powered by PHP. It means that whoever compiled apache loaded a PHP module for possible use in one of the virtual hosts. That Apache also has FastCGI installed, which is routinely used for serving rails applications.
I know for a fact that several high-traffic websites use RoR extensively, but none of them are tech sites, so they don't go around advertising what is on the back-end.
I shouldn't have taken time to respond to your obvious troll, but I felt forced to because some gullible moderators gave you points for spewing lies and idiocy. Typical slashdot fare, I know, but give it a break.
Super Mario was released recently as a Wii download.
It's *awesome*. And good for way more than ten minutes.
My contention is that this is additional confirming evidence, not that any of them have demonstrable flaws.
You'd have a point if this wasn't simply the latest in a string of studies that all showed the same thing.
Instead of rushing to apply logic, you should have spent a bit more time learning about all the data that was available. If you had done so, you would have realized that this was just another metric that demonstrated a lack of improvement, rather than being the only or even the primary metric that showed no improvement.
I know, it's an unfair criticism. After all, research is hard, but a pointless and distracting game of "devil's advocate" is easy.
I sincerely hope you are trolling.
No half-reasonable person is going to buy this product for the environment. They might buy it because they want to setup a computer in an area that lacks power (or reliable power).
If you're not trolling, you are so fucking far-gone on the right-wing anti-environmentalist agenda that you're useless to society.
Python is a much cleaner language than both PHP and Ruby
PHP is a steaming pile of shit, but Ruby is a fine language for clarity. There's a pretty good comparison (written by a Python programmer) here.
As somebody with a fair pile of Ruby code, I'd say the weakness is not in the language itself (which is excellent) but in the run-time.
Two points:
1) Don't open your post with 'not really' if the premise was valid.
2) Most BSDs dropped the advertising clause a long time ago.
The world would be much better if people routinely asked 'what actions are ethically correct?' instead of stopping at 'are my proposed actions currently illegal in this country?'
It's often true that a damaging, dangerous or stupid action is legal, simply because laws are nearly always implemented as a blacklist, meaning that somebody has to think to ban the specific action in question.
The United States has an assumed Right of Privacy. EU countries all have clearly legislated rights to privacy. The fact that there may be a hole does not make an unnecessary, unexpected, and harmful intrusion acceptable. Legal, perhaps, but not acceptable.
Company: "Hey, we can gather a small amount of nearly useless data by secretly installing a piece of network-enabled software on their computer."
Ethical Employee: "But if everyone behaves like that, all computers will be devalued, as they will have huge piles of unmaintained, network-enabled software installed, and causing a wide variety of problems."
Sony: "Fuck the customers, I want to know how many people listen to Neil Diamond on their laptop!"
The GPL is just more honest and upfront
The BSD license says "You may do what you like with this code, so long as you let others do the same."
The GPL says "You may do what you like with this code, but if you do anything publicly you have to share the changes."
The latter is not more honest or upfront, it is just more restrictive.
You might like one particular Latino, but I can tell you hate spics, you racist fuck.
You still claimed in your original post that illegal immigrants are members of a privileged overclass, an allegation so absurd as to prove that you are nothing more than a waste of carbon.
Please, for god's sake, kill yourself right the fuck now, you awful, racist idiot.
And whatever you do, don't claim more bullshit that illegal aliens are tools of the overclass to undermine the working class. Only the dumbest fucking idiot could come to that conclusion. I mean really... they work shitty jobs (picking fruit, day labor, low-end kitchen jobs), in a country that has extremely low unemployment.
I know that paranoid right-wing nutjobs love to claim that they are undermining the working class, but you've reached record levels of paranoid idiocy when you claim that illegal aliens are allowed to enter and remain in the country as part of a vast conspiracy to undermine the working class.
I mean, if you honestly believe any of that, just shoot yourself in the face, you paranoid idiotic fuck.
Dear fucking lord, I don't think I've ever read anything that stupid or paranoid in my life.
Hilarious.
You're a racist idiot from Texas. You either voted for Bush or you didn't bother because you already knew which color your state was.
Either way, we all know you're 100% GOP propganda buying idiot. You've proved that in a least a dozen times.
i mean, honestly... you're claiming that ILLEGAL ALIENS are getting some sort of amazingly sweet deal, because they get to work long hours, for low pay, with the constant threat of deportation lingering over their head.
only a far-gone, right-wing retard would lump such utterly powerless people in with mega-corporations and the super-rich, claiming that they have elite and special powers.
Seriously. Step back from your idiotic Hannity-provided talking points for a fucking second and use your feeble brain. Do you *REALLY* think that Illegal Aliens are part of some sort of powerful overclass?
If you do, then please do us all a fucking favor, and illegal immigrate to some other country, and leave us the fuck alone, you idiotic shit.
Talk to the emergency rooms in a Northern city sometime. They'll tell you about costs incurred by legal citizens who simply lie about their identity to avoid payment (or who are simply indigent, thus making any collection attempt futile, and a waste of funds.)
Similar situations occur when the very poor decide they need cars, because of a lack of public transportation. Many of those cars are unsafe, unregistered and uninsured. My registration stickers have been stolen many times by people who use them to drive their illegal cars. And when one of them hits you, your recourse is an uninsured/underinsured rider clause on your own policy, the same as when your example illegal hits you.
The primary problem is not primarily about immigration status, it's primarily about income.
If you got rid of all the illegals (LOL) you'd just end up saying the same things about the extreme poor anyway.
As such I continue to say that there is no point in mentioning illegal immigration there, unless your goal was to weaken your primary argument, or demonstrate that you lack anything resembling vision and intelligence. (of course you already demonstrated that when you voted for Bush the second time.)
I see things differently (and more intelligently).
All of the studies I have seen about the true total cost of illegal immigration indicate that it is either a small cost or a small benefit overall. Either way, the effect is so close to neutral that I simply can't bring myself to care.
If it's a problem, it's #923 on the list of 'things the government should think about', and it should be treated as such. People who treat it as a dire problem are propagandists, nothing more.
while avoiding taxes altogether.
False.
Undocumented workers use false SSNs specifically so they can get employment in places that withhold and pay taxes. If they were working under the table, the whole SSN issue wouldn't be an argument.
The rest of your post is just racist idiocy. I mean, there is no possible way to show that Mexicans are somehow inferior to European immigrants, or that they don't want to become part of society. And most of your other complaints are things that relate to smaller subsets of the population (they don't all drive, let alone drive unregistered cars, etc...) and again, you are applying them to the entirety.
Please, next time just be more concise and say "I AM A RACIST WHO HATES SPICS". It'd be easier for everyone, and a lot more accurate.
You undermine your post by bringing in illegal immigration.
Nobody has ever really cared about people who use a false SSN to work and pay taxes, no matter their citizenship. Jail enters the picture when somebody wants to use an SSN that is assigned to somebody else to defraud.
Please quit with the illegal alien hysteria, or at least keep it factual if you feel the need to drag retarded political bullshit into every thread.
You (like most Libertarians) are an uninformed idiot.
The USPS doesn't get a single dime of my paycheck.
Out of curiousity, how many bills have gone to conference committee, and then failed to pass?
And while technically you're correct, reality is somewhat different. In reality, it's become common for the senators to be voting on the conference report without having had time to read it. This is particularly problematic if one of the changes might be something like the addition or removal of the word 'not'.
Sadly this is incredibly common. Frist had publicly announced his intention to attach the gambling ban to any must-pass legislation that came through.
It's not even the worst example of this kind of behavior. I think that is saved for the conference committee trick. If you're not aware, that is where the House and the Senate pass slightly different versions of a bill, and then a "conference committee" resolves the differences in the bill. But sometimes instead of just resolving a difference, they'll add in new language, or completely change the meaning of the laws that were just passed, thus neatly overriding the intent of the legislature.
Government is a hell of a scam.
The actual ban was a last-minute, backdoor provision, slipped into another bill with no debate and no formal vote.
It was widely expected to fail, but then Bill Frist tacked it onto a port security bill.
Looking at his lifetime donors, it doesn't appear to have been for a traditional special interest group. Instead, I think it was just a failing congressman, trying to appeal to the fascist evangelicals, who wish to legislate their morality on the rest of us.
Given that drug laws allow for the seizure of the home where the drugs were kept and the vehicles used to get the drugs, it would likely be a high-profit operation. Especially if they chased after drugs that aren't tolerated socially (PCP, Heroin, etc.) or chased after especially heavy users.
I'll be surprised if it doesn't happen in the next 30 years, in the United States.
It's comments like yours that make me realize that there is no hope for freedom in America.
I used to have hope, but lately I've realized that a vast majority of Americans don't care about freedom at all. Not for themselves, and not for the workers in the Chinese factories that make their toys.
Freedom is dead. Thank you for the sad reminder.
But I have a feeling that I'm a lot more anti-authoritarian and liberty minded than you.
Falls over laughing.
I'm a registered libertarian.
I used to give Republicans the benefit of the doubt, that they simply believed less government was better, but anybody who still self-identifies as Republican has proved that this is not their core belief. Rather, your core belief is simply that you think "your team" should rule the entire fucking world.
This is not compatible with liberty or anti-authoritarianism, nor are most other GOP planks.
Go fuck yourself, you freedom-hating, brainwashed idiot. Quit drinking the fucking Kool-Aid.
It's not that long ago that members of opposing parties dined together, talked together and worked to come to consensus viewpoints.
Sure, one might not always agree with the outcome, but it's likely that the country as a whole is well represented by such a system.
This differs greatly from the system we have today, where politicians are so polarized that democrats and republicans no longer attend the same social occasions on a regular basis, and otherwise spend a lot of time with each other. They don't work with each other to find a way for everybody to be happy (or for everybody to only be a little unhappy.)
This is the real problem of ultra-partisanship, the fact that once it exists, it becomes very hard to do work for the common good, as the government instead serves only the party masters.
I'm not familiar with this ad, but if it exists, I'm certain MoveOn.org did not sponsor it.
I'm aware that some unfortunate user-created videos were submitted to MoveOn during a video contest, but that has nothing to do with my request for videos that were actually sponsored by a major Democratic group.
I know you're just a troll, but it's amazing how often the GOP members of the right-wing find a controversial user submission to a website, and then declare the whole site to be a hate site. It's as though they feel the need to invent new ways of lying.