pretty good entry, although you omitted the painful steps of installing all dependencies (depbhelper, bison, texi2html amongst others), and you get a few points off for using 'sudo' instead of 'fakeroot'. All in all, a good contribution. Two kudos.
And where, my dear friend, do you want to go to? Europe is worse than the US wrt this in many aspects. Wiretapping runs rampant; most EU countries tap more than the US. It's almost a done deal EU-wide that ISP's are forced to store all IP contacts of their customers for at least a year so that law-enforcers can browse that without any judicial oversight. VOIP will go as well. Oceania is not much better. Nor is Asia. This leaves you the choice between South-America, Africa and Canada, for what that is worth. I would like to suggest you to fight this battle at home. Big brother is here to stay, and there's no escaping this without refraining from communicating alltogether. Good luck.
Are you referring to the now famous and then well-established mathematician Andrew Wiles? As far as I know the only scepsis he encountered was that of his peers deeming a decade of research into Fermat's last theorem a tiny bit useless. His actual result was thoroughly scrutinized but quickly accepted.
Then of course there have been thousands of crackpots that have claimed to have found the Fermat proof (i.e., the proof Fermat himself claimed he found). These were indeed regarded with utter hostility as their claims were almost certainly bogus. Wiles never was considered part of that league however, and he did solve it.
That's the prisoner of war clause. There's also the citizen clause, and given that quite a few of those in Gitmo have actually not been found on a field of war but rather been handed over by some random Afgani warlord for bounty, the citizen clause might apply. But then again, who fucking cares: they're Arabs anyway, fuck them all.
And what has being a veterinarian have to do with anything? You're one of those?
About dictators. In the European view, the US has a very weird relationship with dictators and democracies. For one, the US doesn't seem to have any problem disposing of democracies and replacing them with a dictatorship if they so desire (Chili comes to mind). A socialist-democratic government seems to be worse than a ruthless dictatorship in the American view. America has destroyed more democracies than any other (democratic) nation ever. Most (European) democracies have been pushed towards true representative democracy through socialism (not communism). America is the exception here, not the rule. America doesn't like that and has been a detriment to democracy, much like the USSR.
From this, only one rational conclusion can be drawn wrt the foreign policies of the US. The US doesn't care about democracy, it doesn't care about foreign populations to decide on their rule on their own, it doesn't care about freedom. The bottom line is simply as it has always been: the almighty buck rules. US military is there for one purpose and one purpose only: to protect the economic interests of the American corporations. The deaths of US soldiers in Iraq is simply the sacrifice they make to try to make the US-rich richer. From this perspective most actions of the US government, including Iraq, make sense. And this is not bad per se. Our politics are usually concerned about the same (including attempts to destroy budding democracies, dictatorships are much more profitable trade partners). The problem lies in the unbridled and obnoxious hypocrisy that US policy is about morality, democracy and freedom. This is what makes our sensitive European stomachs turn. It's even more disgusting to see the poor, mentally challenged US populace take the propaganda hook, line and sinker; thinking that actually they're doing something noble. I'm sorry, your country does not want to get rid of dictators, it's much more profitable to have them around. The American troops will leave Iraq only when the US can trade on their terms with the established government, not sooner.
Given the track record of Good Old-Fashioned AI in building something genuinely useful, I'm afraid Semantic content and Intelligent Agents will not be involved in great things for a while. Maybe in 50 years;)
... and given that the many useful classes give stuff back in the form of Object, this is all very helpful...
In any case, C++ has all but abandoned the C-style form of casting, which forms the syntactical basis for Java's casting mechansims: currently C++ sports dynamic_cast (Java-style cast with dynamic type check, returns 0 if the cast fails), static_cast (does not do type checking, but still does a basic compile time check like java. It is present if there's no way that the cast can fail; at least if the programmer thinks that is the case), and reinterpret_cast (interprets bit_patterns as anything you want, the most liberal form of casting).
As usual in C++, you don't pay for what you don't use, if you don't need a runtime type-check, the language doesn't insist you should use one.
Can't help myself to be obnoxious: although this is alleviated a bit with Java 1.5 (Java C# edition), Java has traditionally be statically typed when it isn't necessary (MyObject object = new MyObject(); int x = 4;.... Really, a proper compiler (like Ocaml's) can infer such types!) and runtime-typed when it would actually be useful (MyObject object = (MyObject) array.get(index);/* Sure hope that guy from the cubicle over there actually put a MyObject in there, let's check his code... */). That and no way for a proper library to use any form of overloading (the BigDecimal.add() fiasco), plus the tendency to write everything as a member where a function would actually do nicely (BigDecimal.add() again!) makes Java indeed a fairly loosely typed and inflexible tool. Ah well, also Cobol gave job security.
Just as a little clarification. The act of war was committed by the nation that harbored Al-Quaida, and allowed it to use it as a base for their actions. Al-Quaida itself was and is a loose organization of troublemakers that need (and can) be put down by regular police action. Terrorists are not, in any way, a danger for a nation: they are a mere nuisance. They only become a real threat when they have a safe piece of land to use for training an plotting. Terrorists cannot commit acts of war, only nations can. Nations harboring terrorists can, by proxy, be condemned for the actions of the terrorists they protect.
Thus, for all practical purposes, the war on terror ended the moment that the US seized control in Afghanistan. This has been recognized by all (former) allies of the US as an important step to take. All the other stuff is simply a power-grab and the settling of old scores. Really nothing to do with any war on terror.
Nice troll, let's feed it. Can you come up with a single instance of post-WWII interference of the US military on foreign soil that has directly protected the freedom inside the US, instead of hampering it? Some of the wars were aimed at keeping out the boogey-man of communism, most were aimed at helping the US corporations to maintain a profitable venture abroad. These being the same corporations that are slowly destroying your freedom.
The US standing military has always been a mercenary corps for economic benefit; the two world wars were the exception, not the rule.
t's a general statement and it holds true in general. In general the US system for higher education is better. Not every American university is better than every European university.
In my experience this is complete nonsense. The top education in the US is the best of the world, but it goes downhill quickly after that. Some complete unscientific experiences by me and some of my collegues, tells me that, on average, EU universities beat US universities and 'universities' hands down.
Ah, the joys of Civ. I particularly liked to bring a large continent to Republic, or even Democracy, and then when my population was big enough to be able to afford lots and lots of these little Einstein guys, I would turn Fundamentalist and start to become ruler of the world. No problem with the population, still enough progress being made, tithes to keep my tax-office happy and being able to unencumberedely attack whoever I liked.
Hmm, on second thought, this doesn't sound too original...
Ah, but for the IBM's of this world we've got the patent trolls. They simply are a legal firm that owns a couple of patents. No software being made, nothing tangible produced, only lawsuits. Even IBM is defenseless against these guys, and they know it.
It's about time that we start to be able to patent legal procedure and legal argument next to business methods and software. See how the lawyers feel when their favorite argument gets patented by their competitor.
He actually was claiming that it was a republic (or actually republicatric [sic]), using the second (!) lemma in the dictionary definition of a republic. The first lemma is simply that a republic is a form of government where the head of state is elected. A monarchy doesn't qualify. However, the first lemma for a democracy states that it is either an indirect (representative) or a direct (Athenian) democracy. All current democracies are indirect, including the US (which incidentally is a republic as well). Calling a representative democracy a republic is a very pedantic,and confusing point, one that only people from the US seem to make. Do you guys learn this at school or something?
Being from a continent that has a multitude of constitutional monarchies, republics and non-constitutional democratic monarchies (UK), calling all these democratic states that have different ways of determining the head of state a republic seem to miss a point or two. Spain is a democratic monarchy, not a republic, let alone republicratic.
Our (Dutch) windows clients/servers at work are on the same network, via VPN, and work together with the windows clients/servers from HQ in the US. How do you suppose this will interoperate when our EU boxes will use a different network protocol as their US brethren?
And if content providers only provide WMF formatted content because they know that every (windows) user has that installed, the user is supposed to do what? Not use their computer? Microsoft was well underway to own the messenger for all electronic content, thereby owning our culture. Not bad that someone tries to stop that.
That's true. What's also true is that the annual budget of the entire EU bureaucracy is less than 1% of the gross national income of its 25 members. That's about 40% of the budget of a small nation such as the Netherlands (112 billion vs. 260 billion). And yes, most of it (45%) goes to agriculture.
Why is a five-page SQL-query a problem? SQL is just a programming language and five pages of code is really not much. I usually churn out that much on a Saturday morning before breakfast. Why does 1 million lines of C run fast, while 5 pages of SQL is a complete hog?
The point being that the DBMS might actually understand these issues, it does a piss-poor job at implementing them. Please give me concurrency, replication, locing, optimisation, scalability, failure, error recovery, and robustness primitives in the language instead of this chickenbone-waiving SQL type of code, and we'll see if we can actually avoid databases being the risee of the computing world by actually creating code that is portable, concurrent, reflective, scalable and robust.
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pretty good entry, although you omitted the painful steps of installing all dependencies (depbhelper, bison, texi2html amongst others), and you get a few points off for using 'sudo' instead of 'fakeroot'. All in all, a good contribution. Two kudos.
And where, my dear friend, do you want to go to? Europe is worse than the US wrt this in many aspects. Wiretapping runs rampant; most EU countries tap more than the US. It's almost a done deal EU-wide that ISP's are forced to store all IP contacts of their customers for at least a year so that law-enforcers can browse that without any judicial oversight. VOIP will go as well. Oceania is not much better. Nor is Asia. This leaves you the choice between South-America, Africa and Canada, for what that is worth. I would like to suggest you to fight this battle at home. Big brother is here to stay, and there's no escaping this without refraining from communicating alltogether. Good luck.
Then of course there have been thousands of crackpots that have claimed to have found the Fermat proof (i.e., the proof Fermat himself claimed he found). These were indeed regarded with utter hostility as their claims were almost certainly bogus. Wiles never was considered part of that league however, and he did solve it.
And what has being a veterinarian have to do with anything? You're one of those?
And calling of the investigation won't help. Well done, dictator.
From this, only one rational conclusion can be drawn wrt the foreign policies of the US. The US doesn't care about democracy, it doesn't care about foreign populations to decide on their rule on their own, it doesn't care about freedom. The bottom line is simply as it has always been: the almighty buck rules. US military is there for one purpose and one purpose only: to protect the economic interests of the American corporations. The deaths of US soldiers in Iraq is simply the sacrifice they make to try to make the US-rich richer. From this perspective most actions of the US government, including Iraq, make sense. And this is not bad per se. Our politics are usually concerned about the same (including attempts to destroy budding democracies, dictatorships are much more profitable trade partners). The problem lies in the unbridled and obnoxious hypocrisy that US policy is about morality, democracy and freedom. This is what makes our sensitive European stomachs turn. It's even more disgusting to see the poor, mentally challenged US populace take the propaganda hook, line and sinker; thinking that actually they're doing something noble. I'm sorry, your country does not want to get rid of dictators, it's much more profitable to have them around. The American troops will leave Iraq only when the US can trade on their terms with the established government, not sooner.
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Cool, this electronic stuff! But wait, what's lectronic supposed to mean? I really feel gnorant now, need an apple.
Given the track record of Good Old-Fashioned AI in building something genuinely useful, I'm afraid Semantic content and Intelligent Agents will not be involved in great things for a while. Maybe in 50 years ;)
Nice try. Now go find a bunch of businesses that don't use Microsoft for the desktop and argue again against the monopoly status.
In any case, C++ has all but abandoned the C-style form of casting, which forms the syntactical basis for Java's casting mechansims: currently C++ sports dynamic_cast (Java-style cast with dynamic type check, returns 0 if the cast fails), static_cast (does not do type checking, but still does a basic compile time check like java. It is present if there's no way that the cast can fail; at least if the programmer thinks that is the case), and reinterpret_cast (interprets bit_patterns as anything you want, the most liberal form of casting).
As usual in C++, you don't pay for what you don't use, if you don't need a runtime type-check, the language doesn't insist you should use one.
Can't help myself to be obnoxious: although this is alleviated a bit with Java 1.5 (Java C# edition), Java has traditionally be statically typed when it isn't necessary (MyObject object = new MyObject(); int x = 4; .... Really, a proper compiler (like Ocaml's) can infer such types!) and runtime-typed when it would actually be useful (MyObject object = (MyObject) array.get(index); /* Sure hope that guy from the cubicle over there actually put a MyObject in there, let's check his code... */). That and no way for a proper library to use any form of overloading (the BigDecimal.add() fiasco), plus the tendency to write everything as a member where a function would actually do nicely (BigDecimal.add() again!) makes Java indeed a fairly loosely typed and inflexible tool. Ah well, also Cobol gave job security.
Just as a little clarification. The act of war was committed by the nation that harbored Al-Quaida, and allowed it to use it as a base for their actions. Al-Quaida itself was and is a loose organization of troublemakers that need (and can) be put down by regular police action. Terrorists are not, in any way, a danger for a nation: they are a mere nuisance. They only become a real threat when they have a safe piece of land to use for training an plotting. Terrorists cannot commit acts of war, only nations can. Nations harboring terrorists can, by proxy, be condemned for the actions of the terrorists they protect.
Thus, for all practical purposes, the war on terror ended the moment that the US seized control in Afghanistan. This has been recognized by all (former) allies of the US as an important step to take. All the other stuff is simply a power-grab and the settling of old scores. Really nothing to do with any war on terror.
Nice troll, let's feed it. Can you come up with a single instance of post-WWII interference of the US military on foreign soil that has directly protected the freedom inside the US, instead of hampering it? Some of the wars were aimed at keeping out the boogey-man of communism, most were aimed at helping the US corporations to maintain a profitable venture abroad. These being the same corporations that are slowly destroying your freedom. The US standing military has always been a mercenary corps for economic benefit; the two world wars were the exception, not the rule.
In my experience this is complete nonsense. The top education in the US is the best of the world, but it goes downhill quickly after that. Some complete unscientific experiences by me and some of my collegues, tells me that, on average, EU universities beat US universities and 'universities' hands down.
Ah, the joys of Civ. I particularly liked to bring a large continent to Republic, or even Democracy, and then when my population was big enough to be able to afford lots and lots of these little Einstein guys, I would turn Fundamentalist and start to become ruler of the world. No problem with the population, still enough progress being made, tithes to keep my tax-office happy and being able to unencumberedely attack whoever I liked.
Hmm, on second thought, this doesn't sound too original...
It's about time that we start to be able to patent legal procedure and legal argument next to business methods and software. See how the lawyers feel when their favorite argument gets patented by their competitor.
He actually was claiming that it was a republic (or actually republicatric [sic]), using the second (!) lemma in the dictionary definition of a republic. The first lemma is simply that a republic is a form of government where the head of state is elected. A monarchy doesn't qualify. However, the first lemma for a democracy states that it is either an indirect (representative) or a direct (Athenian) democracy. All current democracies are indirect, including the US (which incidentally is a republic as well). Calling a representative democracy a republic is a very pedantic,and confusing point, one that only people from the US seem to make. Do you guys learn this at school or something?
Being from a continent that has a multitude of constitutional monarchies, republics and non-constitutional democratic monarchies (UK), calling all these democratic states that have different ways of determining the head of state a republic seem to miss a point or two. Spain is a democratic monarchy, not a republic, let alone republicratic.
Talking about lack of logic: you're claiming Spain is a republican monarchy?
Our (Dutch) windows clients/servers at work are on the same network, via VPN, and work together with the windows clients/servers from HQ in the US. How do you suppose this will interoperate when our EU boxes will use a different network protocol as their US brethren?
And if content providers only provide WMF formatted content because they know that every (windows) user has that installed, the user is supposed to do what? Not use their computer? Microsoft was well underway to own the messenger for all electronic content, thereby owning our culture. Not bad that someone tries to stop that.
That's true. What's also true is that the annual budget of the entire EU bureaucracy is less than 1% of the gross national income of its 25 members. That's about 40% of the budget of a small nation such as the Netherlands (112 billion vs. 260 billion). And yes, most of it (45%) goes to agriculture.
Why is a five-page SQL-query a problem? SQL is just a programming language and five pages of code is really not much. I usually churn out that much on a Saturday morning before breakfast. Why does 1 million lines of C run fast, while 5 pages of SQL is a complete hog?
The point being that the DBMS might actually understand these issues, it does a piss-poor job at implementing them. Please give me concurrency, replication, locing, optimisation, scalability, failure, error recovery, and robustness primitives in the language instead of this chickenbone-waiving SQL type of code, and we'll see if we can actually avoid databases being the risee of the computing world by actually creating code that is portable, concurrent, reflective, scalable and robust.