As all persons are held innocent until they shall have been declared guilty, if arrest shall be deemed indispensable, all harshness not essential to the securing of the prisoner's person shall be severely repressed by law.
I don't pretend that I understand the internal machinations or politics of WikiPedia, but I have had several edits reverted because someone out there didn't like certain information being revealed. I included proper references for those edits, but when they go against the agenda of someone on the inside, you can't compete.
Nobody said anything about suing for money. Typical thinking of today, someone wronged you - time to cash in. No, some people just want the mistake fixed and I'm pretty sure the author would have been OK to just have the modification permitted.
Splendid. You don't like what someone says, get a judge to tell 'em to say something different.
That will produce code that works on most platforms but that will break horriblly on win64. C makes no gaurantees on the relationship between long and pointer. The type you are looking for is intptr_t.
Funny how it's the racist party trying to defend their agenda.
Which party is racist, exactly? One party's president sent federal troops to make sure minority schoolchildren could get into their local school over the best efforts of the governor of the other party.
Yup. And later on that presidents party made a concerted effort to get the votes of the people who elected that governer and succeeded. In doing so they changed their stance on issues of race and freedom. Parties don't stay the same over time. What they stand for changes.
The guy who wrote "The religion of the papists is superstitious and idolatrous; their faith and doctrine erroneous and heretical; their church in respect of both, apostatical; to give them therefore a toleration, or to consent that they may freely exercise their religion, and profess their faith and doctrine, is a grievous sin"
came up with a timeline that was "adopted by the roman catholic church"?
Would you areee that in a million years it is possible, via the mechanism of evolution, that a housecat will teach mathematics at a college level.
I await your response.
Obviously not.
The descendant of a housecat?
Almost certainly not.
Would one have expected the ancestors of H.Sapiens 1MY ago to be teaching college math? They probably handn't even discoverd fire. (Although they had discovered tool making, putting them in advance of the housecat).
t's not that I'd consider violating GPL. It's that I consider the terms of the license so objectionable that I wouldn't want to use it at all for any software I intended to sell.
Good. I'm happy for you. Let a million flowers bloom.
What I hate are the people who whine about the GPL taking away their "freedom" to base their stuff on GPL software and not give the same rights to others.
Freedoms 2, and to an extent, Freedom 3 of the GNU - the 'help your neighbor' clause - pretty much prevents a software creator from restricting distribution only to paying customers. If that ultimate goal is ever achieved, the only people writing software will be those who are doing it as a hobby.
Good points, but US forests were likely growing for much of the past few centuries, because they were not in equilibrium.
I still don't get what you're trying to say. Your own figures show that the US forest coverage has declined by 2,000,000 Km2 since pre-industrial times. So the forest has been a net carbon source, not a sink.
These days, forests in the US are used extensively for making paper and wood (as opposed to heating), which does result in carbon capture.
No. Most of that paper and wood is either burned after use or goes into landfill, where bacterial decay turns it into methane, then eventualy to CO2.
The only way for a forest to be a sink is for it to grow (which is of course impossible in the long term), or for the wood to be cut and sequestered somewhere outside the carbon cycle, which is something we have never managed to do.
And that doesn't even take into account carbon sinks. The US still is 30% forested and has 3,000,000 km2 of forests, down from about 5,000,000 km2 preindustrial, busily capturing CO2. For most of its history, the US was almost certainly a net carbon sink, with the switchover probably occurring sometime in the second half of the 20th century.
Wrong. Forests are not a carbon sink, they are a carbon store.
To be a carbon sink forests have to be expanding.
As you point out the US has lost about 2,000,000 km2 of forest - most of that carbon has gone into the atmosphere.
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As all persons are held innocent until they shall have been declared guilty, if arrest shall be deemed indispensable, all harshness not essential to the securing of the prisoner's person shall be severely repressed by law.
I don't pretend that I understand the internal machinations or politics of WikiPedia, but I have had several edits reverted because someone out there didn't like certain information being revealed. I included proper references for those edits, but when they go against the agenda of someone on the inside, you can't compete.
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Nobody said anything about suing for money. Typical thinking of today, someone wronged you - time to cash in. No, some people just want the mistake fixed and I'm pretty sure the author would have been OK to just have the modification permitted.
Splendid. You don't like what someone says, get a judge to tell 'em to say something different.
Free speach, what's that for?
This is all pretty much common knowledge by now.
It may be "common knowledge". But is it true?
If you don't know about them, I seriously doubt you are versed enough in the global warming debate to try to participate in it.
What debate? The science is the science. Debate policy, not fact.
Try looking at James Hansen and how democrats staged his first session in front of congress in 1988.
What on earth are you blathering about?
Also, look into the CRU East Angola emails.
I did. And?
That will produce code that works on most platforms but that will break horriblly on win64. C makes no gaurantees on the relationship between long and pointer. The type you are looking for is intptr_t.
Oh, they even managed to fuck that up!
What is sizeof(long)? 4? 16?
You are insane.
char is -128..127 or 0..255. If it matters use signed char or unsigned char.
Never use short int. (If you want 16bits use "int16" or "uint16" (correct spelling left as an exercise for the student)).
Use int for "normal" ints.
use long int if you want an int the same size as a pointer.
If you want 64 bits use "int64" or "uint64" (see 16 bits re spelling).
Debian isn't a desktop distribution, you got Ubuntu for that. But for a server you want a small and fast OS,
Uh, Debian is the distro I run on all my desktops.
And the idea of calling Debian "small"!
Global warming has been exaggerated in the past,
[citation needed]
we do have a record of leaked Emails that show what at minimum on the surface seems to be not only an agenda, but steps to implement it.
For example?
He was probably talking about French people.
Funny how it's the racist party trying to defend their agenda.
Which party is racist, exactly? One party's president sent federal troops to make sure minority schoolchildren could get into their local school over the best efforts of the governor of the other party.
Yup. And later on that presidents party made a concerted effort to get the votes of the people who elected that governer and succeeded. In doing so they changed their stance on issues of race and freedom. Parties don't stay the same over time. What they stand for changes.
One of the prime requirements for the YF22/YF23 was that the planes be able to supercruise - to reach supersonic speed without using afterburners.
No. Supercruise means to cruise at supersonic speed without using afterburners - Concorde did that (it's easier for a bigger plane).
Seriously,
You "checked"?
The guy who wrote "The religion of the papists is superstitious and idolatrous; their faith and doctrine erroneous and heretical; their church in respect of both, apostatical; to give them therefore a toleration, or to consent that they may freely exercise their religion, and profess their faith and doctrine, is a grievous sin"
came up with a timeline that was "adopted by the roman catholic church"?
What about not being able to minimize a window?
You can minimize if you want to - there's no real reason to do it, but you can.
And consequently, I guess, not being able to have multiple windows on the screen at the same time?
Are you talking about Gnome3 or that Ubuntu thingy? Gnome3 has no problem with multiple windows on the screen.
Since when has The Good Soldier Schweik(*) been obscure?
(Don't even want to try spelling it correctly - fuck slashcode and it's unicode handling).
Can an IP have a perpetual copyright in the US?
Wrong question.
You should be asking "can IP copyrighted after Steamboat Willy have other than perpetual copyright in the US?"
Don't worry, we'll still sell you blue jeans and movies.
Ok for the movies, but the blue jeans are made in India.
Speaking of fairy tales:
Would you areee that in a million years it is possible, via the mechanism of evolution, that a housecat will teach mathematics at a college level.
I await your response.
Obviously not.
The descendant of a housecat?
Almost certainly not.
Would one have expected the ancestors of H.Sapiens 1MY ago to be teaching college math? They probably handn't even discoverd fire. (Although they had discovered tool making, putting them in advance of the housecat).
http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-evolution-timeline-interactive
Making extensive use of, well, let's say "borrowed" technology
Yes, China borrowed from the US space program,
Do you really think so?
The Chinese stuff looks much more like a copy of the Soviet/Russian stuff to me.
After all, why copy something that you know didn't work?
OTOH Swiss economy (before this year, when they turned Franc into Euro)
This says all that needs to be said about your understanding of economics.
Ah. Just like fuedal lords used to be generous enough to provide land and pay, and if you didn't like it you left ?
You don't seem to understand the fuedal system - peasants wern't paid and in general couldn't leave.
t's not that I'd consider violating GPL. It's that I consider the terms of the license so objectionable that I wouldn't want to use it at all for any software I intended to sell.
Good. I'm happy for you. Let a million flowers bloom.
What I hate are the people who whine about the GPL taking away their "freedom" to base their stuff on GPL software and not give the same rights to others.
Freedoms 2, and to an extent, Freedom 3 of the GNU - the 'help your neighbor' clause - pretty much prevents a software creator from restricting distribution only to paying customers. If that ultimate goal is ever achieved, the only people writing software will be those who are doing it as a hobby.
So, RedHat are just in it for fun. Interesting.
Good points, but US forests were likely growing for much of the past few centuries, because they were not in equilibrium.
I still don't get what you're trying to say. Your own figures show that the US forest coverage has declined by 2,000,000 Km2 since pre-industrial times. So the forest has been a net carbon source, not a sink.
These days, forests in the US are used extensively for making paper and wood (as opposed to heating), which does result in carbon capture.
No. Most of that paper and wood is either burned after use or goes into landfill, where bacterial decay turns it into methane, then eventualy to CO2.
The only way for a forest to be a sink is for it to grow (which is of course impossible in the long term), or for the wood to be cut and sequestered somewhere outside the carbon cycle, which is something we have never managed to do.
And that doesn't even take into account carbon sinks. The US still is 30% forested and has 3,000,000 km2 of forests, down from about 5,000,000 km2 preindustrial, busily capturing CO2. For most of its history, the US was almost certainly a net carbon sink, with the switchover probably occurring sometime in the second half of the 20th century.
Wrong. Forests are not a carbon sink, they are a carbon store.
To be a carbon sink forests have to be expanding.
As you point out the US has lost about 2,000,000 km2 of forest - most of that carbon has gone into the atmosphere.