In my experience, CS programming competitions tend to have entertaining problems that should keep the kid's attention. The American Computer Science League has a small handful of quizzes and example problems posted on their website here. ACSL's contests are designed so that each difficulty level's problem builds upon the previous problem. Another example is the International Olympiad in Informatics, which has problems from each of their contests here.
So you support someone from making disparaging remarks about an establishment and now that establishment has to prove those remarks as wrong? Isn't our society based on "innocent until proven guilty"? How about the folks who posted those comments show proof (e.g. pictures, audio recordings, etc)? If you make a comment prove it, then the defenders can refute your statements.
"Your comment is a mortal insult to me and has harmed me and my business greatly. I shall now be forced to sue you for it. Prepare your proof that you didn't cause any harm."
Now do you see why it doesn't work the way you want?
If the U.S. lifts drug prohibition, you wouldn't be able to control people's use of it in critical situations such as an E.R. nurse, air-traffic controller, pilot, railroad engineer, etc. etc. etc.
And you can now? Or do you just hide your head in the sand and assume everyone around you doesn't do drugs, because "That would be illegal!1!!"
And how long would it be before drug-use discrimination lawsuits arise saying you can't not hire or fire someone simply because they use drugs?
This would change from the way it is now, because...? The supreme court's come down on the side of drug tests again and again: http://www.slate.com/?id=2067710 Changing this would require more than just repealing drug bans, there'd have to be new legislation to make stoner a "protected class" or whatever.
It takes both dedication and thought. The wonder of it is that with more thought, you can use less dedication.
(These diet ideas even work better if you live alone, unlike most diet ideas that work best when you have someone to suffer with you.) Prepare your own food on weekends and freeze it (there are plenty of meals that can be made in large batches that are perfect for this: home-made spaghetti sauce, stir fry, brisket, etc). If you don't have a tolerance for eating the same thing day after day, freeze up multiple batches and thaw whatever you feel like having. If your employer has a fridge and a microwave, use them, especially if you face a long commute home. You'll eat less if you eat dinner earlier (when you're not starving) (and when you don't have access to seconds), and you'll be less likely to succumb to the siren call of the McDonald's on the way. When you get home, have an apple.
As for exercise, either you'll have to increase your dedication until you do the workout, or you'll have to increase your thought until you invent the auto-exerciser machine;)
Anything I create with CSS uses em-sizing, so when you browse with 200% font size, everything scales: text, images, and the space they are in.
How's that working for you with user-provided content? Has anyone named Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious logged in yet, or do you force everyone to not type more than 10 letters just in case it's too long? (Quick! How many ems is your username in the font I'm browsing with?) (And no, the answer is most emphatically not "just use 50em and everything will fit!")
Don't get me wrong, I think using tables for layout is a travesty, but until CSS actually gets to the point where I can fit boxes to the arbitrary text they contain, claiming that CSS can replace tables is equally heinous. Someone else suggested that it was time for CSS to learn arithmetic, and I agree.
Half of what everyone whines about in CSS can be eliminated simply by letting page authors do { height: heightOf(contentdivid); } Suddenly, all the javascript kludges and hardcoded column heights go away. Throw in { width: widthOf("Some Text"); } and I'll go home a happier man. Make my nipples explode with delight by giving me float:all-the-way-left; so that blocks wrap to a new line rather than wrap to the edge of whatever just happened to be sticking down a pixel (such as when mixing <select> and plain <input> in a form)
Uh, didn't this used to be called Enum? (e164.arpa.)?
Given a phone number, ENUM told you how to reach that person..tel seems to be a hierarchy, (badly) organized by names, occupations, locations, and whatever else they felt like using to answer the same question when you don't have the phone number.
You think a Senator has to take his shoes off to fly?
Given that Senator Kennedy had a pretty tough time getting off the no fly list, I'm going to suspect that the answer is "yes". At least if they're not flying a public jet.
Only if it started as zero. if the government owed one dollar, took in 100 dollars and spent 100 dollars, it'd still owe 1 dollar.
The question is bullshit. As another person pointed out, governments have other sources of revenue than taxes (eg, printing currency, sale of resources) and other expenses than just spending (eg, destruction of currency).
Taking the test, I have to say that I think they may have gotten confused, what with high school teaching one semester of economics and one semester of government these days. Otherwise, why would I need to define "profit"?:P
I got 31/33. Missed the questions on Puritans and Stephen Douglas. A few of them have fairly loaded options that made it trivial to guess the right one, I probably guessed at another 3-4.
The companies in charge of access to the internet DON'T want it to work better. They would rather induce scarcity in order to scare servers like Amazon, Google, iTunes and so on into paying for their "packet protection service". Pure profit, no investment needed.
And no, as Bell Canada has just shown, thinking that competition is going to fix it is wishful thinking. Unless someone comes up with the trillions of dollars to rewire the entire internet at once and lock the behemoths out of the loop, you could make the most badass ISP ever and lose all your customers when the established players lock you out.
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Why does not the UK police use that money to train their people or hire new specialists instead of trying to build a perpetuum mobile?
Because the "top brass"'s nephew only sells USB trinkets, not training for specialists.
In my experience, CS programming competitions tend to have entertaining problems that should keep the kid's attention. The American Computer Science League has a small handful of quizzes and example problems posted on their website here. ACSL's contests are designed so that each difficulty level's problem builds upon the previous problem. Another example is the International Olympiad in Informatics, which has problems from each of their contests here.
It's much more draconian than the 3 activations and buy a new game from EA.
And apparently just as ineffective.
So you support someone from making disparaging remarks about an establishment and now that establishment has to prove those remarks as wrong? Isn't our society based on "innocent until proven guilty"? How about the folks who posted those comments show proof (e.g. pictures, audio recordings, etc)? If you make a comment prove it, then the defenders can refute your statements.
"Your comment is a mortal insult to me and has harmed me and my business greatly. I shall now be forced to sue you for it. Prepare your proof that you didn't cause any harm."
Now do you see why it doesn't work the way you want?
If the U.S. lifts drug prohibition, you wouldn't be able to control people's use of it in critical situations such as an E.R. nurse, air-traffic controller, pilot, railroad engineer, etc. etc. etc.
And you can now? Or do you just hide your head in the sand and assume everyone around you doesn't do drugs, because "That would be illegal!1!!"
And how long would it be before drug-use discrimination lawsuits arise saying you can't not hire or fire someone simply because they use drugs?
This would change from the way it is now, because...? The supreme court's come down on the side of drug tests again and again: http://www.slate.com/?id=2067710 Changing this would require more than just repealing drug bans, there'd have to be new legislation to make stoner a "protected class" or whatever.
and still be extremely nasty in hanging on to their monopoly status
Why, you're absolutely right! Just the other day I was nearly mown down by a Budwiser thug with a tommy gun just for ordering a Guiness at the bar.
And just think, if it were legal, you'd be able to stop having to pay for most of the above.
How do we fix it?
Fortunately, I get several dozen emails a day on how to fix small penises.
actually do something with it
It takes both dedication and thought. The wonder of it is that with more thought, you can use less dedication.
(These diet ideas even work better if you live alone, unlike most diet ideas that work best when you have someone to suffer with you.) Prepare your own food on weekends and freeze it (there are plenty of meals that can be made in large batches that are perfect for this: home-made spaghetti sauce, stir fry, brisket, etc). If you don't have a tolerance for eating the same thing day after day, freeze up multiple batches and thaw whatever you feel like having. If your employer has a fridge and a microwave, use them, especially if you face a long commute home. You'll eat less if you eat dinner earlier (when you're not starving) (and when you don't have access to seconds), and you'll be less likely to succumb to the siren call of the McDonald's on the way. When you get home, have an apple.
As for exercise, either you'll have to increase your dedication until you do the workout, or you'll have to increase your thought until you invent the auto-exerciser machine ;)
so is the Air Force, as Congress only has the power to fund an army or a navy
Actually, the Air Force is a part of the army that just happens to be able to jump really high.
What was it? Cheap enough for the masses or a social elitism?
Could the masses afford Coca(ine)-Cola?
Anything I create with CSS uses em-sizing, so when you browse with 200% font size, everything scales: text, images, and the space they are in.
How's that working for you with user-provided content? Has anyone named Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious logged in yet, or do you force everyone to not type more than 10 letters just in case it's too long? (Quick! How many ems is your username in the font I'm browsing with?) (And no, the answer is most emphatically not "just use 50em and everything will fit!")
Don't get me wrong, I think using tables for layout is a travesty, but until CSS actually gets to the point where I can fit boxes to the arbitrary text they contain, claiming that CSS can replace tables is equally heinous. Someone else suggested that it was time for CSS to learn arithmetic, and I agree.
Half of what everyone whines about in CSS can be eliminated simply by letting page authors do { height: heightOf(contentdivid); } Suddenly, all the javascript kludges and hardcoded column heights go away. Throw in { width: widthOf("Some Text"); } and I'll go home a happier man. Make my nipples explode with delight by giving me float:all-the-way-left; so that blocks wrap to a new line rather than wrap to the edge of whatever just happened to be sticking down a pixel (such as when mixing <select> and plain <input> in a form)
I would have suggested just killing everyone, but that would have excited the necrophiliacs.
If somebody, anybody, finds it sexually stimulating then it can be pornography.
Now that's just asking for trouble. Should we chop off everyone's feet because someone out there has a foot fetish?
at least discover what may be an Achilles heal(the real strength of trolls.)
Real trolls would discover the Achilles heel, then tell the company that their idea looks excellent.
protection accorded journalists
What "protection accorded journalists"?
Uh, didn't this used to be called Enum? (e164.arpa.)?
Given a phone number, ENUM told you how to reach that person. .tel seems to be a hierarchy, (badly) organized by names, occupations, locations, and whatever else they felt like using to answer the same question when you don't have the phone number.
You MUST design everything as if there is NO CLI
Hm, a Dialog or ncurses based frontend to clamav's livecd? Sounds interesting...
You think a Senator has to take his shoes off to fly?
Given that Senator Kennedy had a pretty tough time getting off the no fly list, I'm going to suspect that the answer is "yes". At least if they're not flying a public jet.
and they're allowed to censor whatever they want from their customer forum
And we're allowed to call them out on it.
government debt is zero
Only if it started as zero. if the government owed one dollar, took in 100 dollars and spent 100 dollars, it'd still owe 1 dollar.
The question is bullshit. As another person pointed out, governments have other sources of revenue than taxes (eg, printing currency, sale of resources) and other expenses than just spending (eg, destruction of currency).
Taking the test, I have to say that I think they may have gotten confused, what with high school teaching one semester of economics and one semester of government these days. Otherwise, why would I need to define "profit"? :P
I got 31/33. Missed the questions on Puritans and Stephen Douglas. A few of them have fairly loaded options that made it trivial to guess the right one, I probably guessed at another 3-4.
The companies in charge of access to the internet DON'T want it to work better. They would rather induce scarcity in order to scare servers like Amazon, Google, iTunes and so on into paying for their "packet protection service". Pure profit, no investment needed.
And no, as Bell Canada has just shown, thinking that competition is going to fix it is wishful thinking. Unless someone comes up with the trillions of dollars to rewire the entire internet at once and lock the behemoths out of the loop, you could make the most badass ISP ever and lose all your customers when the established players lock you out.
relativistic ethics
What Would Jesus Do at 0.999c?
So wait, you want net neutrality, but you don't like this so-called "vigilantism"?
How could you possibly want a five course meal but not a brick to the face? What does either have to do with the other?