I like FORTH, and I've written a lisp interpreter in FORTH. However, it isn't a language you can debug easily.
Also, it is an interpreted language, despite the fact that it has a 'COMPILE keyword. Just like python, which has a far saner syntax (if you can even say FORTH has a syntax).
What I want is the ability to write C code in a lua like interpreter, and then to convert it to compiled C after it is debugged. Unfortunately, that really doesn't work for anything except toy programs.
Given the stated motivation of the perpetrators would "cyber-jihadi" be more accurate?
It shows clearly what is motivating the attackers (a desire to impose Sharia on the web - no criticism of Islam allowed, even if completely true) and it excludes those who merely are using the internet in a way the Government doesn't like (since they are not jihadis).
You are saying that the movie they are trying to supress is true? News to me...
This is probably a misguided effort by some young hackers, perhaps paid for by a rich Saudi. It is not terrorism unless you are terrified by it.
No, but they would CHARGE you to fuck them if they could.
If you think back a bit, unless you live in NYC or are in the military, your life has been SERIOUSLY affected by bankers in recent history, and probably not so much by reputed terrorists.
Doesn't ANYBODY remember 'Brazil'? What about those rogue duct repairmen? The concept of 'terrorism' is a tool for the state to control you. The country was much more compliant when we were cowering in our cupboards after 911, so much so that we were willing to let Cheney and Bush take us to war with a country that had not attacked us without a struggle. Even the NYTimes liked the idea of going to war after 911, it didn't much matter who with. Remember Judith Miller and the juiced up stories about WMD?
Here is a thought: 'they are only terrorists if you are terrified by them'...
However, there are apparently two forms of happiness. The happiness of being, and the happiness of remembering. The happiness of being is what you describe, whatever you are doing RIGHT NOW can be pleasant or unpleasant. The happiness of remembering is remembering those vacations with your kids, or remembering the violin lessons, the recitals, the fear resolving into pride, etc.
as far as creativity goes, I find that long walks are always a great way to generate ideas. I'm sure that is related to boredom. Also, being stuck in traffic jams. I never listen to the radio in the car, since that distracts me from thinking about whatever I've been obsessing on recently. The fact that YOU ARE STUCK, you can't really rescue yourself from it, and you might as well think about something useful seems to be part of it. If I was one to text friends, those moments would be lost to mindless chatter. I'd probably be happier in the short term, but less creative, as the original article suggests.
I've been investing for 40 years, and I've never known who is on the board of directors of a stock I own, other than for exceptions like companies I worked at. I guess most folks are like me, rather than like you. So, the fact that CEOs get attention makes their tenure attract or repel shareholders, whereas who is on the board has no such effect (except for perhaps day traders and other nuts).
Now, why boards don't fire directors is another matter. I guess they don't fire them because they would have to take time out of their golf games and counting their millions of dollars to find a replacement. Also, due to the regression to the mean effect, most bad directors will do better next period, so it probably makes sense. With that effect in mind, the right thing to do is fire the successful directors...
I have a conjecture that this is related to DHS, and NOT USPS. One test for this would be to do the same experiment from inside the US.
I'm just thinking that packages that are taped with ATHEIST tape probably attract more homeland security attention when coming into the country than other packages. If you want to try another experiment, try packages that are stamped with CHRISTIAN, and see if they get the same treatment. Then try MUSLIM or ALLAHU AKBAR and see what happens.
He is protesting something that is a complete and utter straw man. Nobody has suggested that any Americans could be targeted on american soil. He pulled it out of his ass, and has been duly chastised by both the administration AND by his own party, in the form of Lindsey Graham and John McCain beating him up publicly. Eric Holder has 'answered his question' with an unequivocal 'no', and there was no possibility that the answer would be anything else.
He is trying to grab attention, and has apparently done so. Shame on him, and shame on anybody who pays attention to his ranting.
You should become a democrat today then. Look at the facts. During republican presidents, the deficit rises. During democrat presidents, the deficit goes down unless they are cleaning up a recession, in which case it goes up until the recession is over. It has been the Republicans who have given up on fiscal responsibility since the Reagan years. Look here for more information.
However, there are lots of Jesus freaks in the ranks of the Democratic party. There just aren't as many Southern Baptist types, owing to the civil rights act of 1964.
Actually, my kids were exposed to all manner of crap in school. Fortunately, they were smart enough to sift through the shit and come up with a rational world view.
I believe that anyone who is exposed to evolution in a rational way sees that it makes way more sense than 'an old white guy hiding in the sky made the animals in a week, and also made fossils that seem to lead up to them to "test us"'. The sad part is when kids aren't exposed to evolution (or science) in a rational way, such as when they are home schooled in order to avoid it.
I suspect that NOT having creationism, er, intelligent design taught (even by a skeptic) makes it harder for parents to let their kids go to public school. So, in a way, I'm condoning the actions of these legislative idiots. At least they aren't cutting evolution science out of the textbooks (yet).
Knowing something about computers means you know that most systems, particularly at universities, are not very secure. That may or may not be the reason here, but it would at least make one think before putting everything up on the web.
It is also a pain in the ass if you already have a course designed, and you now have to go type everything in again.
You want a word to mean ONE THING. Not two things, based on whether it is better for you personally. That is the problem. Nobody cares what the 'real' definition is. They just want it to always mean the same thing, so they can compare different drives or systems.
you don't own the contents of a DVD. You own the right to play it for yourself. The physical media is your license.
This obsession with piracy is stupid. The cost of most content is so low these days that you could not possibly watch what you can afford. So, STFU and pay the $2
Charitable donations are done for free advertising or public image. That is a tangible benefit. If a CEO decides to start giving money to his friends (or other random folks), the shareholders will sue the corporation, and win a class action suit.
The ENTIRE DOCUMENT is redacted. This is the sort of thing that screams 'Well, here you go motherfucker! We have to give it to you, but we get to decide what parts are redacted, don't we?'
I should take advice from an anonymous coward who yells at me?
I seriously don't care what Facebook knows about me. The more they know, the less I have to see ads for feminine hygiene products and other productsI'm not interested in. That is the most annoying thing about broadcast media these days, their inability to determine which ads might actually interest me, and their attempt to overcome that by plastering 15 ads between segments. Facebook and their buddies are fixing that, and I'm grateful. Even the NYTimes page has directed ads these days, which makes it somewhat less annoying to read. I typically see ads for things that I've shown interest in at some point.
I suppose you'll say I'm more likely to get some asshole trying to pick my pocket through the internet, but having somebody know my phone number isn't going to let that happen. My phone number is listed, anybody can look it up already.
I wonder if one reasonable interpretation of the 2nd amendment could require periodic training of 'the militia'? Why couldn't the president require two weekends a month of training for firearm owners, so they would be ready if Mexico or Canada invades?
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I like FORTH, and I've written a lisp interpreter in FORTH. However, it isn't a language you can debug easily.
Also, it is an interpreted language, despite the fact that it has a 'COMPILE keyword. Just like python, which has a far saner syntax (if you can even say FORTH has a syntax).
What I want is the ability to write C code in a lua like interpreter, and then to convert it to compiled C after it is debugged. Unfortunately, that really doesn't work for anything except toy programs.
Given the stated motivation of the perpetrators would "cyber-jihadi" be more accurate?
It shows clearly what is motivating the attackers (a desire to impose Sharia on the web - no criticism of Islam allowed, even if completely true) and it excludes those who merely are using the internet in a way the Government doesn't like (since they are not jihadis).
You are saying that the movie they are trying to supress is true? News to me...
This is probably a misguided effort by some young hackers, perhaps paid for by a rich Saudi. It is not terrorism unless you are terrified by it.
No, but they would CHARGE you to fuck them if they could.
If you think back a bit, unless you live in NYC or are in the military, your life has been SERIOUSLY affected by bankers in recent history, and probably not so much by reputed terrorists.
Doesn't ANYBODY remember 'Brazil'? What about those rogue duct repairmen? The concept of 'terrorism' is a tool for the state to control you. The country was much more compliant when we were cowering in our cupboards after 911, so much so that we were willing to let Cheney and Bush take us to war with a country that had not attacked us without a struggle. Even the NYTimes liked the idea of going to war after 911, it didn't much matter who with. Remember Judith Miller and the juiced up stories about WMD?
Here is a thought: 'they are only terrorists if you are terrified by them'...
Interesting post. Sorry, no mod points left.
However, there are apparently two forms of happiness. The happiness of being, and the happiness of remembering. The happiness of being is what you describe, whatever you are doing RIGHT NOW can be pleasant or unpleasant. The happiness of remembering is remembering those vacations with your kids, or remembering the violin lessons, the recitals, the fear resolving into pride, etc.
as far as creativity goes, I find that long walks are always a great way to generate ideas. I'm sure that is related to boredom. Also, being stuck in traffic jams. I never listen to the radio in the car, since that distracts me from thinking about whatever I've been obsessing on recently. The fact that YOU ARE STUCK, you can't really rescue yourself from it, and you might as well think about something useful seems to be part of it. If I was one to text friends, those moments would be lost to mindless chatter. I'd probably be happier in the short term, but less creative, as the original article suggests.
I've been investing for 40 years, and I've never known who is on the board of directors of a stock I own, other than for exceptions like companies I worked at. I guess most folks are like me, rather than like you. So, the fact that CEOs get attention makes their tenure attract or repel shareholders, whereas who is on the board has no such effect (except for perhaps day traders and other nuts).
Now, why boards don't fire directors is another matter. I guess they don't fire them because they would have to take time out of their golf games and counting their millions of dollars to find a replacement. Also, due to the regression to the mean effect, most bad directors will do better next period, so it probably makes sense. With that effect in mind, the right thing to do is fire the successful directors...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/shortcuts/2013/mar/28/spamhaus-internet-attack-pr-stunt
I have a conjecture that this is related to DHS, and NOT USPS. One test for this would be to do the same experiment from inside the US.
I'm just thinking that packages that are taped with ATHEIST tape probably attract more homeland security attention when coming into the country than other packages. If you want to try another experiment, try packages that are stamped with CHRISTIAN, and see if they get the same treatment. Then try MUSLIM or ALLAHU AKBAR and see what happens.
He is protesting something that is a complete and utter straw man. Nobody has suggested that any Americans could be targeted on american soil. He pulled it out of his ass, and has been duly chastised by both the administration AND by his own party, in the form of Lindsey Graham and John McCain beating him up publicly. Eric Holder has 'answered his question' with an unequivocal 'no', and there was no possibility that the answer would be anything else. He is trying to grab attention, and has apparently done so. Shame on him, and shame on anybody who pays attention to his ranting.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6459/samsung-ssd-840-testing-the-endurance-of-tlc-nand
Actually, government spending as a percent of GDP has gone down since 2009. See this chart for more information.
You should become a democrat today then. Look at the facts. During republican presidents, the deficit rises. During democrat presidents, the deficit goes down unless they are cleaning up a recession, in which case it goes up until the recession is over. It has been the Republicans who have given up on fiscal responsibility since the Reagan years. Look here for more information.
However, there are lots of Jesus freaks in the ranks of the Democratic party. There just aren't as many Southern Baptist types, owing to the civil rights act of 1964.
Actually, my kids were exposed to all manner of crap in school. Fortunately, they were smart enough to sift through the shit and come up with a rational world view.
I believe that anyone who is exposed to evolution in a rational way sees that it makes way more sense than 'an old white guy hiding in the sky made the animals in a week, and also made fossils that seem to lead up to them to "test us"'. The sad part is when kids aren't exposed to evolution (or science) in a rational way, such as when they are home schooled in order to avoid it.
I suspect that NOT having creationism, er, intelligent design taught (even by a skeptic) makes it harder for parents to let their kids go to public school. So, in a way, I'm condoning the actions of these legislative idiots. At least they aren't cutting evolution science out of the textbooks (yet).
Knowing something about computers means you know that most systems, particularly at universities, are not very secure. That may or may not be the reason here, but it would at least make one think before putting everything up on the web. It is also a pain in the ass if you already have a course designed, and you now have to go type everything in again.
You want a word to mean ONE THING. Not two things, based on whether it is better for you personally. That is the problem. Nobody cares what the 'real' definition is. They just want it to always mean the same thing, so they can compare different drives or systems.
as long as they don't have weapons... they can look, but no touching.
you don't own the contents of a DVD. You own the right to play it for yourself. The physical media is your license.
This obsession with piracy is stupid. The cost of most content is so low these days that you could not possibly watch what you can afford. So, STFU and pay the $2
Look at Australia, Mite. Gun control works if you are serious about it, despite what Ann Coulter says.
It is something that happens inside you, and causes you to feel bad. It has nothing to do with injustice, as far as I can tell.
On the other hand, if somebody is depressed already, they may be sensitized to injustice, hopeless quests, etc.
Charitable donations are done for free advertising or public image. That is a tangible benefit. If a CEO decides to start giving money to his friends (or other random folks), the shareholders will sue the corporation, and win a class action suit.
Because governments are too close?
Why is that a problem? I like governments... They deal with my sewage. For that I'll be eternally grateful.
The ENTIRE DOCUMENT is redacted. This is the sort of thing that screams 'Well, here you go motherfucker! We have to give it to you, but we get to decide what parts are redacted, don't we?'
I should take advice from an anonymous coward who yells at me?
I seriously don't care what Facebook knows about me. The more they know, the less I have to see ads for feminine hygiene products and other productsI'm not interested in. That is the most annoying thing about broadcast media these days, their inability to determine which ads might actually interest me, and their attempt to overcome that by plastering 15 ads between segments. Facebook and their buddies are fixing that, and I'm grateful. Even the NYTimes page has directed ads these days, which makes it somewhat less annoying to read. I typically see ads for things that I've shown interest in at some point.
I suppose you'll say I'm more likely to get some asshole trying to pick my pocket through the internet, but having somebody know my phone number isn't going to let that happen. My phone number is listed, anybody can look it up already.
I want RPGs and heat-seeking missiles.
This is clearly your right under the 2nd amendment. You should apply to the supreme court for permission.
I wonder if one reasonable interpretation of the 2nd amendment could require periodic training of 'the militia'? Why couldn't the president require two weekends a month of training for firearm owners, so they would be ready if Mexico or Canada invades?
+1
Submitted to Barbara Boxer as potential legislation.