Most modern programming environments do enforce coding standards. We use Eclipse, and have project-wide format standards. As for it being a 'coding standard': I've always considered coding standards and formatting standards to be different things. Code reveiws are for coding standards, not for picking nits on whitespace. That said, you don't submit your code for review until you feel it's ready to submit it to the revision control system, so i don't know why you still have whitespace issues in your code.
I was with them until the "graded" part. Upon what criteria would they be graded? There's more to a policy than statistics, or experimentally verifiable facts. A policy's impact on human rights and individual liberty need to be taken into account.
They do. A decade ago, I saw a demo of some software developed for Brazil, which predicted likely locations for illegal poaching, logging, and mining based on past illegal activity, geographic features, and anything that looked like a road or hidden runway (even if the road or runway wasn't anywhere near the site).
Seriously. My wife and I have the family plan, and it works well for us. I lost my non-smartphone, and wanted to replace it with a cheap phone. I don't text, and I have no interest in paying an additional $500/year on data plans ($250 per phone, per year). They were very pushy trying to convince me I needed a smartphone and data plan. Worse than any car dealership I've ever been to.
What's a SIP phone? Is that anything like a cell phone? Or is it a traditional phone line? I've never heard of a SIP phone before.
Media server? I know a guy here in the office that has one of those. Never have seen one before, though.
I don't know how it could be cheaper to have a wired network in your house than a wireless network. For $150, you can get a wireless router and a few wireless adapters. Then you take about an hour or so to get the whole thing set up. How long would it take to wire 3 bedrooms, the living room, the great room, and the basement of my house (keeping in mind that the wires would have to be in the walls; exposed network cable running through the house would be unacceptable).
As for wireless network lag, my wireless connection seems to keep up with my cable modem just fine.
"Libertarianism wants to do away with external guarantees and wants to cut off the hands of government. The ultimate goal? A power vacuum and mano-a-mano resolution of perceived disputes."
Libertarians (both big L, small l) support government intervention to secure individual property rights, protect civil liberties, and to check the power of the many hands of government. In fact, those are the only things they want from government. A governnment whose only role is to make sure people aren't violating each other's rights.
You're the one who has no idea what he's talking about.
No. He's talking about the producttion of greenhouse gasses. The burning of fossel fuels isn't the only contributing factor (nor necessarily even a significant one) in greenhouse gas production.
As a Life-long Republican, I can tell you that we are not content with our leaders. But the Democrats keep fielding even worse candidates. If the current crop of Democrat leaders weren't pulling so far to the left, I wouldn't have to keep supporting such socially conservative politicians.
They might not get quite as many votes, because they wouldn't have been able to organise their campaign as well, but that's what democracy's about -- the power of people to influence how the government is run.
There is a difference between legally influencing the elections and illegally influencing the elections. Disrupting a political rally is illegal. It's a violation of the right to free speech. You have the right to speak, but don't have the right to stop other from speaking.
However, I think that his "arguments" are fatally flawed. Cheney is supposed to be serving the public, and any "advice" that can only be provided if it's source is concealed from the public is surely NOT in the public interest. If it WAS in the public interest, the source would not be afraid of exposure in the first place.
Not remotely true. Everything a spokesman for a corporation says is thoroghly massaged by their legal department before being made public. Anything said off the cuff could jepordise the companies financial well-being. But that's no way to get a candid look at the energy industry. In order to hear the real deal, sans corporate spin, you have to guarantee that those people participating in the meeting will not have their comments made public.
This is no different that Hillary Clinton's private meetings with members of the health care industry back during Clinton's first term. You aren't going to get an in-depth view of the state of any industry by listening to corporate spin. And corporate spin is all you will get you don't promise to keep the meetings private.
After reading just a few paragraphs its obvious that these guys don't realize that the difference between retracting the call that Gore won Florida with calling it for Bush is rather huge.
The article goes in depth about each major news channel, detailing exactly what time each anounced calls and retractions. It explicitly makes the distinction between calling if for Bush/Gore, and retracting a call.
As for Moore's reserch, I don't doubt that he does research his facts. He then takes those facts out of context, and only presents them after twisting them to his own agenda. Moore has shown, time and again, that a half-truth is just another form of a lie.
Of course, the thing to realize is that for the most part Kerry has been keeping out of this overt Bush bashing.
Even assuming this were true, when you vote for Bush, you vote for the Republican party, and when you vote for Kerry, you are voting for the Democrat party.
Now, if the Democrats (as a party) don't want to define themselves in terms of the rabid OMFGBUSHISEVIL crowd, they shouldn't have invited Moore to sit in the presidential box at the convention. The conventions are there to show the country where the parties stand, and where they want to go from here. That one simple gesture went a long way toward defining the direction that the Democrats (the party, not necessarily the rank-and-file) want to take this country.
Imagine the shit-storm if the Republicans have Michael Savage sit in their presidential box at the RNC.
The KKK, and many white-supremacy groups, remain legal because they, unlike Crimethinc, are very careful not to openly advocate illegal activities. If any individual KKK member came out and gave a speech to the general public, in which he advocated stringing minorities up by their toes, they'd be prosecuted, too. The KKK has been around a long time, and unfortunately, they know how to toe the legal line.
No more than "murder" is interchangable with "terrorism".
Ultimately, murder, vandalism, and other assorted crimes are not necessarily terrorism. What makes an act "terrorism", is the reason behind the act. If I kill you for your watch, it's not not terrorism. If I kill you as a warning to others not to say what you're saying, or do what you are doing, it's terrorism.
Likewise, if I destroy your property, harrass you, and restrict your ability to freely move about, all in an effort to make you afraid to participate in something you have a right to participate in, that's terrorism.
Vandalism is not terrorism. Nor is murder. They can however, be used for terrorism. In this case, Crimethinc is advocating the use of vandalism and (even worse) restricting travel, as a means of terrorising Republican convention-goers.
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Opps. when I said "Most modern programming environments do enforce coding standards" i *meant* that they enforce *formatting* standards.
Most modern programming environments do enforce coding standards. We use Eclipse, and have project-wide format standards. As for it being a 'coding standard': I've always considered coding standards and formatting standards to be different things. Code reveiws are for coding standards, not for picking nits on whitespace. That said, you don't submit your code for review until you feel it's ready to submit it to the revision control system, so i don't know why you still have whitespace issues in your code.
Outsourcing to a private company. What's wrong with contracting out jobs?
I was with them until the "graded" part. Upon what criteria would they be graded? There's more to a policy than statistics, or experimentally verifiable facts. A policy's impact on human rights and individual liberty need to be taken into account.
They do. A decade ago, I saw a demo of some software developed for Brazil, which predicted likely locations for illegal poaching, logging, and mining based on past illegal activity, geographic features, and anything that looked like a road or hidden runway (even if the road or runway wasn't anywhere near the site).
"...for trying to use the product they bought."
Seriously. My wife and I have the family plan, and it works well for us. I lost my non-smartphone, and wanted to replace it with a cheap phone. I don't text, and I have no interest in paying an additional $500/year on data plans ($250 per phone, per year). They were very pushy trying to convince me I needed a smartphone and data plan. Worse than any car dealership I've ever been to.
What's a SIP phone? Is that anything like a cell phone? Or is it a traditional phone line? I've never heard of a SIP phone before.
Media server? I know a guy here in the office that has one of those. Never have seen one before, though.
I don't know how it could be cheaper to have a wired network in your house than a wireless network. For $150, you can get a wireless router and a few wireless adapters. Then you take about an hour or so to get the whole thing set up. How long would it take to wire 3 bedrooms, the living room, the great room, and the basement of my house (keeping in mind that the wires would have to be in the walls; exposed network cable running through the house would be unacceptable).
As for wireless network lag, my wireless connection seems to keep up with my cable modem just fine.
"Libertarianism wants to do away with external guarantees and wants to cut off the hands of government. The ultimate goal? A power vacuum and mano-a-mano resolution of perceived disputes."
Libertarians (both big L, small l) support government intervention to secure individual property rights, protect civil liberties, and to check the power of the many hands of government. In fact, those are the only things they want from government. A governnment whose only role is to make sure people aren't violating each other's rights.
You're the one who has no idea what he's talking about.
No. He's talking about the producttion of greenhouse gasses. The burning of fossel fuels isn't the only contributing factor (nor necessarily even a significant one) in greenhouse gas production.
As a Life-long Republican, I can tell you that we are not content with our leaders. But the Democrats keep fielding even worse candidates. If the current crop of Democrat leaders weren't pulling so far to the left, I wouldn't have to keep supporting such socially conservative politicians.
They might not get quite as many votes, because they wouldn't have been able to organise their campaign as well, but that's what democracy's about -- the power of people to influence how the government is run.
There is a difference between legally influencing the elections and illegally influencing the elections. Disrupting a political rally is illegal. It's a violation of the right to free speech. You have the right to speak, but don't have the right to stop other from speaking.
However, I think that his "arguments" are fatally flawed. Cheney is supposed to be serving the public, and any "advice" that can only be provided if it's source is concealed from the public is surely NOT in the public interest. If it WAS in the public interest, the source would not be afraid of exposure in the first place.
Not remotely true. Everything a spokesman for a corporation says is thoroghly massaged by their legal department before being made public. Anything said off the cuff could jepordise the companies financial well-being. But that's no way to get a candid look at the energy industry. In order to hear the real deal, sans corporate spin, you have to guarantee that those people participating in the meeting will not have their comments made public.
This is no different that Hillary Clinton's private meetings with members of the health care industry back during Clinton's first term. You aren't going to get an in-depth view of the state of any industry by listening to corporate spin. And corporate spin is all you will get you don't promise to keep the meetings private.
After reading just a few paragraphs its obvious that these guys don't realize that the difference between retracting the call that Gore won Florida with calling it for Bush is rather huge.
The article goes in depth about each major news channel, detailing exactly what time each anounced calls and retractions. It explicitly makes the distinction between calling if for Bush/Gore, and retracting a call.
Since you can't be bothered to do a Google search yourself, I'll provide a link to a site that does a resonable job of discrediting Moore:
s -i n-Fahrenheit-911.htm
http://www.davekopel.com/Terror/Fiftysix-Deceit
Also, see bowlingfortruth.com
As for Moore's reserch, I don't doubt that he does research his facts. He then takes those facts out of context, and only presents them after twisting them to his own agenda. Moore has shown, time and again, that a half-truth is just another form of a lie.
The GOP didn't have to discredit Moore. The bipartisan 9/11 Commision already did.
And Moore is just as much or an idealogue as Savage, if not worse.
This is worse. CrimethInc is trying to stick his fingers in other people's ears.
Yep. Same thing. And, as a card-carrying Republican, I think he should be punished.
But that's the point. The director DID face charges.
Because they were Fascists. But it would be quite a stretch to consider fascism to be an more a trait of the extreme right than the extreme left.
Yes. Same kid. CrimethInc.
Of course, the thing to realize is that for the most part Kerry has been keeping out of this overt Bush bashing.
Even assuming this were true, when you vote for Bush, you vote for the Republican party, and when you vote for Kerry, you are voting for the Democrat party.
Now, if the Democrats (as a party) don't want to define themselves in terms of the rabid OMFGBUSHISEVIL crowd, they shouldn't have invited Moore to sit in the presidential box at the convention. The conventions are there to show the country where the parties stand, and where they want to go from here. That one simple gesture went a long way toward defining the direction that the Democrats (the party, not necessarily the rank-and-file) want to take this country.
Imagine the shit-storm if the Republicans have Michael Savage sit in their presidential box at the RNC.
but half the weight has some big advantages come moving time And during shipping time. For larger displays, the cost of shipping is not trivial.
How expensive would it be to host static content (pdfs) that are of interest to mabye 0.001% of the population?
Keep in mind, we're not talking abut making all publicly available research available for free. Just the taxpayer funded research.
Excellent question.
The KKK, and many white-supremacy groups, remain legal because they, unlike Crimethinc, are very careful not to openly advocate illegal activities. If any individual KKK member came out and gave a speech to the general public, in which he advocated stringing minorities up by their toes, they'd be prosecuted, too. The KKK has been around a long time, and unfortunately, they know how to toe the legal line.
No more than "murder" is interchangable with "terrorism".
Ultimately, murder, vandalism, and other assorted crimes are not necessarily terrorism. What makes an act "terrorism", is the reason behind the act. If I kill you for your watch, it's not not terrorism. If I kill you as a warning to others not to say what you're saying, or do what you are doing, it's terrorism.
Likewise, if I destroy your property, harrass you, and restrict your ability to freely move about, all in an effort to make you afraid to participate in something you have a right to participate in, that's terrorism.
Vandalism is not terrorism. Nor is murder. They can however, be used for terrorism. In this case, Crimethinc is advocating the use of vandalism and (even worse) restricting travel, as a means of terrorising Republican convention-goers.