Slavory is still affecting us today. Segregration did not end until 1969. People are still alive from before 1969. Women's sufferage did not happen until 1920. There are less woman mentors, teachers, and role-models because of this and sexist social traditions.
The definition of affirmative action - "A policy or a program that seeks to redress past discrimination through active measures to ensure equal opportunity, as in education and employment."
There are basic prerequisites for equal opportunity: basic health care for all people, fair resources for education (districts with more to overcome get more money), and higher education scholarships. There are 40 million Americans that do not have health care. The war on drugs puts more blacks in prison than whites.
Affirmative action in it's modern day form does not punish white people. It is the promotion of minorities (non-white or women) if both people have the same qualifications. It does not employ quotes or other reverse discrimiation policies.
In my book, this is why I can't stand neither the Democrats nor the Greens. Libertarians have a much better sense of what equality really means, not overcompensation by creating two wrongs.
I'll explain this in terms that a Libertarian is used to. Think of equality as the contract and the government as an arbitrator who penalizes one group for their state supported breach of contract (wrong doings) of another people. This is why the terms of social equality and social justice apply to this situation.
I know that we are getting offtopic but oh well. Below I'll put in my 2 cents about homosexuals and abortion.
Don't confuse or label Bush as a representative for the whole party.
I would hope that you are not voting for him then. He is not a real conserative.
As a Christian, I believe that homosexuality is sinful.
Okay, I will admit that I'm not a Christian and that I'm glad that the Constitution prevents the unification of the government and religion. I do consider much of the Christian teachings sensible. In any case I think Jesus's disciples got many things wrong. The way they saw the world and Jeusus's teachings were affected by their own bias and faults. I think that they were best at relaying Jesus's words and actions.
I'm not even interested in difference between marriage and unions. I think that many married heterosexual couples have insulted the institution marriage more than loving homosexuals could.
Killing babies, though... man. That's a moral issue, not a religious one.
I'll agree that abortion is a moral and ethical question. I also agree that abortion is wrong although I cannot be bother to forcefully prevant other people from getting abortions. And Republicans can't be bother with peacefully persuading and enabling mothers to not have abortions. However, we should also care about the child after he or she gets out the womb. Social equality and the strengthening the family unit are very important for the child as well.
However, divorce is good because who needs a spouse that is an asshole or a parent that is an asshole.
These debates aren't about debating anything at all, they're an equal opportunity platform for the two major political parties (and no other parties) and their sponsors to try to spin things to the public.
Did you see the debate? It exceded my expectations. The previous Gore/Bush debates were a sad joke.
Apparently the mention of outsourcing, privacy, and security breach are enough. We also get to witness more bickering related to the presidential elections.
How was the two party issue by design? Explain this one to me. As I understand it, there is no inbuilt system of "Political Parties" in the US system the way there is in various other systems.
It is a two party system because of bad design. No run-off means that it encourages a two party system. If you get one vote it is an implicit 2-person ranking: the person you don't vote for is ranked second. If you get two choices that it could support a 3-party system: you can rank up to three candidates. Maybe the best voting system is to have an infinite or at least N-person voting system were N is large. Then it would be fair for N+1 parties to participate. You could call it a N-candidate instant run-off.
The people on the Fox News Channel are not really journalists. They are mostly advocates of the Republican Party. They usually have only wimpy liberals that you never heard of for the conservatives to beat-on. It has been
shown that watchers of the Fox News Channel are the most likely group of those who get most there news from TV to hold key misconceptions about 9/11 and the Iraq War.
Actually, it seems to me that Badnarik's answer on education is his most undeveloped. I find it hard to believe that literacy has decreased in the last 100+ years. Basically scarcity and the luck of heritage rule the aspects of the private world. It is a crime for these things dictate the access to basic education and health care.
I come here and notice that being smart or good is being made fun of - this, despite the fact that I'm in one of the US's top engineering schools. The ones with the social life are the ones who show off or the ones who throw ball. Even here, being really smart or nerdy is looked down. People do not respect the need for some of us to be introverted and reclusive, and people are branded as obnoxious or stereotyped as nerds or geeks, most often in a derogatory manner.
I assume you attend a school that is a large university. Since American universities try to be everything to everybody there are diverse groups on campus. The jocks and cool people will take over the social environment because they have been encouraged to do so all their life. It is usually beneficial to attend a small and more focused school that encourages hard work. At my school it is normal to see people working in the CS building on Friday afternoons, Saturdays, and Sundays. At other universities in my state that is not very common.
And you're wrong: it's stealing intellectual property. Oh, you can split hairs but you've made a fundamental violation.
No, you are wrong. There is no such thing as intellectual property. There are copyrights and there are patents. Obfuscating the difference is not helpful.
Considering that the RIAA doesn't have a monopoly over online music, it wouldn't really change the price of online music in general, only their price.
If you read my post more carefully, you would know that is exactly what I said. From my high and college economics classes, I believe that it does not matter if there is a collective monopoly. Companies cannot cooperate to come up with prices. The music companies have already been caught fixing prices. The settlement was on./ a while back. Price leadership is different. That is when many companies copy the price of another business without communication.
The post insinuates nothing of the sort, it just states what the trojan does. You jumped to that conclusion all by yourself.
Yes, one of the victims hinted something but did not actually speculate. My guess is Britany Spears, Metallica, and that annoying set painter perpetrated the attack.
They are allowed to raise the price they ask for their music...
The RIAA is just an organization composed of many companies. The entire RIAA cannot just decide to charge the same price to online music stores. That would be price fixing as well.
shoes.. thats the one important thing. Everything else is just BS.
I agree that shoes are the most important requirement. After running awhile other comforts start to matter as well. A beginner should just start out with cotton running clothes. You may evenually start to appreciate sythetic clothes when you improve at running. Double that if you are a somewhat bulky runner composed of muscle, lard, or whatever.
So, let me get this straight. SCO is trying to overtun the legal basis of the entire GNU project, the General Public License, but that's "almost trivial" compared to people calling an operating system built on GNU code "Linux".
NO, he clearly said that the contract dispute between SCO and IBM is trival compared to the issue of a user's freedom.
after coding 8 hrs a day, then coming home and gaming for a good 2-4 hrs my hands really hurt most of the time. shoudl probably game less... YA RIGHT!:>
Stop using emacs! Convert to the insert mode religion. Just kidding./me ducks and runs.
If you used to play NES games with the official controller, you know what I'm talking about. The unergonomic design of the original controller caused blisters for many an old-school gamer.
You mean the rectangular joypad? I never had any problems except a sore thumb. I would say I mostly played Mario. Maybe I did not play it enough.
From observing it used a few times I believe it means injured. I think it is slang that Britons use.
My mouse forearm is slightly more developed than my other arm from playing CS, and my hand is getting bigger. It wouldn't matter to much, but I'm female so my arms are pretty small. It's mostly only noticable to me, but still...
I would suggest some exercise that involves both arms. The worst gaming conditions I have had would be very stiff hands from playing too much Halo (because of that terrible control) and sleeping disorders from staying awake (because of FF3).
Although the UML is especially useful for OOD (which itself is not necessarily OOP - consider X Windows which is very OOD but composed of C functions) it was designed to be universal by basing it on an extensible a meta-model (which encapsulates the paradigms, a'la smalltalk).
Alright I concede that, but some seem to consider OOD the most useful and flexible paradigm. Hasn't C++ extended beyond simple OOD because it is not flexible enough.
Also, some of the key pieces of UML are quite useful for any programming paradigm - (eg use cases are probably the safest and most efficient way of analyzing software requirements as well as designing validation tests, regardless of your particular system (a point I'm quite willing to argue at length); another case in point is sequence/timing diagrams which work just as well for assembly language programming as for OO or functional languages).What to do about poorly documented legacy code? Well I've been involved in a couple of C code design capture efforts. Compared to OOD, the class diagrams came out rather boring and featureless (trivial data classes and great big class utilities). But they gave an exact design specification for the system (very useful for maintenance, incremental enhancements, and training future maintainers).So which language was your instructor using to demonstrate OOP?
He didn't demonstrate OOP in any language; he just lectured about UML, various characteristics of design methods, and some software anecdotes. It seemed like some glorified powerpoint outline that familarized us but didn't teach us. The course was supposed to be software construction.
Finally, the less you know about the design, the more difficult, time consuming, and costly the task of trouble-shooting/maintaining the codebase will be.
I have had some bad experiences maintaining/refactoring old code not because its methods were unclear but it was impossible to make architectual changes (even simple global changes) because subroutines were not used but original author used the "cut and paste" paradigm. Sorry for being way off-topic.
UML is for OOP languages. I would guess that most programming is related to maintainence and not design. I would guess that most code being maintained is non-OOP. So wtf do I do for an inherited project that has no concrete design docs and in a procedural language.
If my thoughts seem kind of pissed off or rude, sorry. I just got throught a course with an instructor that had an excruciatingly hard stiffy for OOP and UML. That was not even supposed to be the topic of the course.
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what book did you read? I ask this because I have no idea how you could say that the ending of Eon has anything to do with witchcraft
It has been awhile but it's the part when the main female character tries to create that ripped space thing with a "magic wand" and the help of the wise man she meets after she traveled down the tunnel thing.
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I haven't really customized my firewalls. All the software I use is free.
Win2k: AVG, Ad-Aware, SpyBot - Search and Destroy, Spyware Blaster
Linux: nada
Slavory is still affecting us today. Segregration did not end until 1969. People are still alive from before 1969. Women's sufferage did not happen until 1920. There are less woman mentors, teachers, and role-models because of this and sexist social traditions.
The definition of affirmative action - "A policy or a program that seeks to redress past discrimination through active measures to ensure equal opportunity, as in education and employment."
There are basic prerequisites for equal opportunity: basic health care for all people, fair resources for education (districts with more to overcome get more money), and higher education scholarships. There are 40 million Americans that do not have health care. The war on drugs puts more blacks in prison than whites.
Affirmative action in it's modern day form does not punish white people. It is the promotion of minorities (non-white or women) if both people have the same qualifications. It does not employ quotes or other reverse discrimiation policies.
In my book, this is why I can't stand neither the Democrats nor the Greens. Libertarians have a much better sense of what equality really means, not overcompensation by creating two wrongs.
I'll explain this in terms that a Libertarian is used to. Think of equality as the contract and the government as an arbitrator who penalizes one group for their state supported breach of contract (wrong doings) of another people. This is why the terms of social equality and social justice apply to this situation.
I know that we are getting offtopic but oh well. Below I'll put in my 2 cents about homosexuals and abortion.
Don't confuse or label Bush as a representative for the whole party.
I would hope that you are not voting for him then. He is not a real conserative.
As a Christian, I believe that homosexuality is sinful.
Okay, I will admit that I'm not a Christian and that I'm glad that the Constitution prevents the unification of the government and religion. I do consider much of the Christian teachings sensible. In any case I think Jesus's disciples got many things wrong. The way they saw the world and Jeusus's teachings were affected by their own bias and faults. I think that they were best at relaying Jesus's words and actions.
I'm not even interested in difference between marriage and unions. I think that many married heterosexual couples have insulted the institution marriage more than loving homosexuals could.
Killing babies, though... man. That's a moral issue, not a religious one.
I'll agree that abortion is a moral and ethical question. I also agree that abortion is wrong although I cannot be bother to forcefully prevant other people from getting abortions. And Republicans can't be bother with peacefully persuading and enabling mothers to not have abortions. However, we should also care about the child after he or she gets out the womb. Social equality and the strengthening the family unit are very important for the child as well.
However, divorce is good because who needs a spouse that is an asshole or a parent that is an asshole.
These debates aren't about debating anything at all, they're an equal opportunity platform for the two major political parties (and no other parties) and their sponsors to try to spin things to the public.
Did you see the debate? It exceded my expectations. The previous Gore/Bush debates were a sad joke.I don't see the relevance.
Apparently the mention of outsourcing, privacy, and security breach are enough. We also get to witness more bickering related to the presidential elections.
How was the two party issue by design? Explain this one to me. As I understand it, there is no inbuilt system of "Political Parties" in the US system the way there is in various other systems.
It is a two party system because of bad design. No run-off means that it encourages a two party system. If you get one vote it is an implicit 2-person ranking: the person you don't vote for is ranked second. If you get two choices that it could support a 3-party system: you can rank up to three candidates. Maybe the best voting system is to have an infinite or at least N-person voting system were N is large. Then it would be fair for N+1 parties to participate. You could call it a N-candidate instant run-off.
The people on the Fox News Channel are not really journalists. They are mostly advocates of the Republican Party. They usually have only wimpy liberals that you never heard of for the conservatives to beat-on. It has been shown that watchers of the Fox News Channel are the most likely group of those who get most there news from TV to hold key misconceptions about 9/11 and the Iraq War.
Actually, it seems to me that Badnarik's answer on education is his most undeveloped. I find it hard to believe that literacy has decreased in the last 100+ years. Basically scarcity and the luck of heritage rule the aspects of the private world. It is a crime for these things dictate the access to basic education and health care.
I come here and notice that being smart or good is being made fun of - this, despite the fact that I'm in one of the US's top engineering schools. The ones with the social life are the ones who show off or the ones who throw ball. Even here, being really smart or nerdy is looked down. People do not respect the need for some of us to be introverted and reclusive, and people are branded as obnoxious or stereotyped as nerds or geeks, most often in a derogatory manner.
I assume you attend a school that is a large university. Since American universities try to be everything to everybody there are diverse groups on campus. The jocks and cool people will take over the social environment because they have been encouraged to do so all their life. It is usually beneficial to attend a small and more focused school that encourages hard work. At my school it is normal to see people working in the CS building on Friday afternoons, Saturdays, and Sundays. At other universities in my state that is not very common.
And you're wrong: it's stealing intellectual property. Oh, you can split hairs but you've made a fundamental violation.
No, you are wrong. There is no such thing as intellectual property. There are copyrights and there are patents. Obfuscating the difference is not helpful.
Considering that the RIAA doesn't have a monopoly over online music, it wouldn't really change the price of online music in general, only their price.
If you read my post more carefully, you would know that is exactly what I said. From my high and college economics classes, I believe that it does not matter if there is a collective monopoly. Companies cannot cooperate to come up with prices. The music companies have already been caught fixing prices. The settlement was on ./ a while back. Price leadership is different. That is when many companies copy the price of another business without communication.
The post insinuates nothing of the sort, it just states what the trojan does. You jumped to that conclusion all by yourself.
Yes, one of the victims hinted something but did not actually speculate. My guess is Britany Spears, Metallica, and that annoying set painter perpetrated the attack.
They are allowed to raise the price they ask for their music...
The RIAA is just an organization composed of many companies. The entire RIAA cannot just decide to charge the same price to online music stores. That would be price fixing as well.
I agree that shoes are the most important requirement. After running awhile other comforts start to matter as well. A beginner should just start out with cotton running clothes. You may evenually start to appreciate sythetic clothes when you improve at running. Double that if you are a somewhat bulky runner composed of muscle, lard, or whatever.
lol. It took me about 2 minutes to figure that one out. It probably would have helped if I RTFA too.
Great, more from those zero population growth, WTO protesting hippies.
Maybe "Der Spiegel" has some kind of protection against using images outside their site?
Shouldn't there be a way to get around this?
I saw another example of an incorrect thumbnail. The wrong image was grabbed. It was an ad picture.
NO, he clearly said that the contract dispute between SCO and IBM is trival compared to the issue of a user's freedom.
after coding 8 hrs a day, then coming home and gaming for a good 2-4 hrs my hands really hurt most of the time. shoudl probably game less... YA RIGHT! :>
Stop using emacs! Convert to the insert mode religion. Just kidding. /me ducks and runs.
If you used to play NES games with the official controller, you know what I'm talking about. The unergonomic design of the original controller caused blisters for many an old-school gamer.
You mean the rectangular joypad? I never had any problems except a sore thumb. I would say I mostly played Mario. Maybe I did not play it enough.
First off, wtf is "knackered"?
From observing it used a few times I believe it means injured. I think it is slang that Britons use.
My mouse forearm is slightly more developed than my other arm from playing CS, and my hand is getting bigger. It wouldn't matter to much, but I'm female so my arms are pretty small. It's mostly only noticable to me, but still...
I would suggest some exercise that involves both arms. The worst gaming conditions I have had would be very stiff hands from playing too much Halo (because of that terrible control) and sleeping disorders from staying awake (because of FF3).
Alright I concede that, but some seem to consider OOD the most useful and flexible paradigm. Hasn't C++ extended beyond simple OOD because it is not flexible enough.
Also, some of the key pieces of UML are quite useful for any programming paradigm - (eg use cases are probably the safest and most efficient way of analyzing software requirements as well as designing validation tests, regardless of your particular system (a point I'm quite willing to argue at length); another case in point is sequence/timing diagrams which work just as well for assembly language programming as for OO or functional languages). What to do about poorly documented legacy code? Well I've been involved in a couple of C code design capture efforts. Compared to OOD, the class diagrams came out rather boring and featureless (trivial data classes and great big class utilities). But they gave an exact design specification for the system (very useful for maintenance, incremental enhancements, and training future maintainers). So which language was your instructor using to demonstrate OOP?He didn't demonstrate OOP in any language; he just lectured about UML, various characteristics of design methods, and some software anecdotes. It seemed like some glorified powerpoint outline that familarized us but didn't teach us. The course was supposed to be software construction.
Finally, the less you know about the design, the more difficult, time consuming, and costly the task of trouble-shooting/maintaining the codebase will be.I have had some bad experiences maintaining/refactoring old code not because its methods were unclear but it was impossible to make architectual changes (even simple global changes) because subroutines were not used but original author used the "cut and paste" paradigm. Sorry for being way off-topic.
UML is for OOP languages. I would guess that most programming is related to maintainence and not design. I would guess that most code being maintained is non-OOP. So wtf do I do for an inherited project that has no concrete design docs and in a procedural language.
If my thoughts seem kind of pissed off or rude, sorry. I just got throught a course with an instructor that had an excruciatingly hard stiffy for OOP and UML. That was not even supposed to be the topic of the course.
It has been awhile but it's the part when the main female character tries to create that ripped space thing with a "magic wand" and the help of the wise man she meets after she traveled down the tunnel thing.