Actually Madison was against direct democracy, but why confuse us with the particulars, it would only confuses our statist little minds. Kook videos are the only education we need.
It is funny how often this nonsense pops up, as if there was an organized effort to confuse the terms "democracy" and "republic", to make people believe one is bad and the other good, opposites in some sort of Sesame Street version of political philosophy. I wonder what motivation they could have to do such a thing.
Of course, they always leave out the fact that China is a republic, or that the Soviet Union was a republic. Republic just means there isn't a monarch, that the government is a public thing. It doesn't mean people are actually free or can participate in their government.
Or to put it another way - every democracy is necessarily a republic, but not every republic is a democracy. So you'd think these people, if they were logical, would be for more democracy, since they like republics so much.
Apparently the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. And look, someone is already doing damage control for Max, removing the Nazi connection from his page: Max Mosley.
I don't know what kind of shit school you went to, but I graduated fifteen years ago, and literally nothing I learned in school is out of date.
Maybe you shouldn't have gone to a place that promised to teach you Java, and instead went to one that promised to teach the theory of programming languages and maybe how to implement one or two in a compiler.
You mean right-wingers have deliberately taken something out of context so they can have a three minute hate? I don't think that has ever happened before.
But if you really need them, perhaps that should be a signal that a lower-level language is more appropriate for that particular component in the system.
Yeah, that worked real well when j2me was the only game in town. The phone companies were so amenable breaking out of the sandbox.
As one of those "real programmers" who did work around the sign bit for bignum math, I laugh at you and the anonymous retard above, who didn't even get the bitmask right. Being able to work around other people's stupidity is something that "real programmers" can do, but it isn't something that makes them a "real programmer".
The actual problem are the passive-aggressive douchebags who make it a contest to see who gets to pay for everyone's meal, and later whine about how some people never pay for everyone's meal, so that they can be both the altruistic Christian hero and the exploited supply-sider hero.
Imagine if the Democrats actually did something other than scream about Republicans wanting to destroy the Federal government.
They passed the Affordable Care Act, that's a pretty significant doing something. They're trying to pass a real budget. But the Republicans are throwing a fit and shutting down the government because it rustles their jimmies so.
It's funny how you people take reality, swap the names around, and then use your fiction to herp derp both parties are the same.
Simulating momentum has been a UI gimmick almost as long as there have been UIs. I remember when it was all the rage for ANSI viewers to do accelerated scrolling. I think some of them even bounced when you got to the top or bottom.
Fuck no. That would turn comments into a "pay to win" scenario, and every ideologue and fanboy with an axe to grind will subscribe and all we'd see in the default view are the most motivated posters yelling at each other.
Though as a money-making gimmick for Slashdot I'm sure it'd make bank in the short term.
I wish reddit would adopt the metafilter model, though. If each bannination costs a shit-poster five bucks to be seen again, we'd see a lot less shit-posters, and a lot more volunteers for modding.
Attention is a scarce resource and should not be wasted, especially on people whose only real goal is to feel important by having someone who matters pay attention to them.
Most "dissent" is rightly "silenced". They can go gibber in their own venues without disrupting the grown-ups' conversation.
There is no groupthink except whining about groupthink. Groupthink is nothing more than what everyone else believes that you don't.
You want to know what the real problem is? People modding based on eloquence rather than content. You can write the dumbest shit and get it modded up if it sounds good.
most rich people still look past it and still care enough for humanity that even beyond their higher taxes they are also the most generous and donate a much high percentage to charity
False. Though of course you know that, you write like a Poe troll.
Global private wealth is about $50 trillion. The top thousand could handle $800 billion without exhausting their resources.
The problem is the economic instability it would create, as so much of the world's production capacity is devoted to a vanity project useless to 99.99999% of the population. Plus there is the fact that wealth is only as real as everyone else believing it is yours. Something like this would spawn a global class war, and rightly so.
This is just more mindless Google fanboy anti-Apple hate.
It's not like this a trojan you have to turn on the installation of non-market applications and go to a pirate app store to get installed. You actually have to have the device.
And this is just like a jailbreak, so it is a good thing.
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Really? Then whence does your butthurt flow?
Actually Madison was against direct democracy, but why confuse us with the particulars, it would only confuses our statist little minds. Kook videos are the only education we need.
It is funny how often this nonsense pops up, as if there was an organized effort to confuse the terms "democracy" and "republic", to make people believe one is bad and the other good, opposites in some sort of Sesame Street version of political philosophy. I wonder what motivation they could have to do such a thing.
Of course, they always leave out the fact that China is a republic, or that the Soviet Union was a republic. Republic just means there isn't a monarch, that the government is a public thing. It doesn't mean people are actually free or can participate in their government.
Or to put it another way - every democracy is necessarily a republic, but not every republic is a democracy. So you'd think these people, if they were logical, would be for more democracy, since they like republics so much.
Apparently the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. And look, someone is already doing damage control for Max, removing the Nazi connection from his page: Max Mosley.
I don't know what kind of shit school you went to, but I graduated fifteen years ago, and literally nothing I learned in school is out of date.
Maybe you shouldn't have gone to a place that promised to teach you Java, and instead went to one that promised to teach the theory of programming languages and maybe how to implement one or two in a compiler.
What did you expect when hiring "techs"? You're only going to get the people who couldn't hack it as an engineer or programmer.
All the major networks also blamed Al Qaeda for 9/11. None of them reported both sides! The media is so biased!
Had Loki show up at WWDC and give his little speech. They'd all be on their knees groveling immediately.
You mean right-wingers have deliberately taken something out of context so they can have a three minute hate? I don't think that has ever happened before.
It would throw an exception at the site of the cast. Why do you think Java would be dumber than C with warnings turned off?
You apparently don't know the difference between something the VM should be doing and having to repeat stupid boilerplate like this a thousand times:
if (index < 0) throw new IllegalArgumentException()
Yeah, that worked real well when j2me was the only game in town. The phone companies were so amenable breaking out of the sandbox.
As one of those "real programmers" who did work around the sign bit for bignum math, I laugh at you and the anonymous retard above, who didn't even get the bitmask right. Being able to work around other people's stupidity is something that "real programmers" can do, but it isn't something that makes them a "real programmer".
You're hurting an animal for the wrong reason! Quick, get the morality police! This person sprayed Raid on a roach and enjoyed it!
The actual problem are the passive-aggressive douchebags who make it a contest to see who gets to pay for everyone's meal, and later whine about how some people never pay for everyone's meal, so that they can be both the altruistic Christian hero and the exploited supply-sider hero.
They passed the Affordable Care Act, that's a pretty significant doing something. They're trying to pass a real budget. But the Republicans are throwing a fit and shutting down the government because it rustles their jimmies so.
It's funny how you people take reality, swap the names around, and then use your fiction to herp derp both parties are the same.
Simulating momentum has been a UI gimmick almost as long as there have been UIs. I remember when it was all the rage for ANSI viewers to do accelerated scrolling. I think some of them even bounced when you got to the top or bottom.
But no, Apple invented everything.
They should change it to "Hacker Chariot Archers". Scouts are weak-ass units that die in almost any fight. Chariot archers will fuck their shit up.
Fuck no. That would turn comments into a "pay to win" scenario, and every ideologue and fanboy with an axe to grind will subscribe and all we'd see in the default view are the most motivated posters yelling at each other.
Though as a money-making gimmick for Slashdot I'm sure it'd make bank in the short term.
I wish reddit would adopt the metafilter model, though. If each bannination costs a shit-poster five bucks to be seen again, we'd see a lot less shit-posters, and a lot more volunteers for modding.
Attention is a scarce resource and should not be wasted, especially on people whose only real goal is to feel important by having someone who matters pay attention to them.
Most "dissent" is rightly "silenced". They can go gibber in their own venues without disrupting the grown-ups' conversation.
There is no groupthink except whining about groupthink. Groupthink is nothing more than what everyone else believes that you don't.
You want to know what the real problem is? People modding based on eloquence rather than content. You can write the dumbest shit and get it modded up if it sounds good.
That's a hurtful stereotype. There are plenty of trolls and drunkards whose comments reach +5 Insightful.
False. Though of course you know that, you write like a Poe troll.
It has jailbreaks, and that's a good thing.
Guarantee, eh? I bet you a thousand dollars you're wrong.
Global private wealth is about $50 trillion. The top thousand could handle $800 billion without exhausting their resources.
The problem is the economic instability it would create, as so much of the world's production capacity is devoted to a vanity project useless to 99.99999% of the population. Plus there is the fact that wealth is only as real as everyone else believing it is yours. Something like this would spawn a global class war, and rightly so.
This is just more mindless Google fanboy anti-Apple hate.
It's not like this a trojan you have to turn on the installation of non-market applications and go to a pirate app store to get installed. You actually have to have the device.
And this is just like a jailbreak, so it is a good thing.
Sweet FSM, look at all the replies to this blatant troll.
I guess he's right about one thing - Republicans are dumb as bricks.