Sure you can. If you interpret it that way (I don't), the Constitution guarantees everyone a right to own a weapon ("bear arms"). Nowhere does it guarantee a right to own bullets.
The article also reports that Microsoft moved its German headquarters to Munich last year.
*sigh*... like this is going to be a rational vote for what's best in the city. And for a temporary boost in jobs, they're going to shoot themselves in the foot over the next 5 years. I never thought I'd see this narrow-minded short term profit mentality spread to Germany, of all places...
Lameness filter encounter:
Oh, I easily found the problem. I had written "House N______" and that word was the problem. I don't see how a word can be a problem. What you express with it maybe.
Here in Sweden and I assume in many others places too the common picture is that national-socialists are the ones who risk destroying democracy through democracy / by being elected and who can cause fascism and dictatorships because that's the message they have been brought up with all along but back in reality it's those same people who are the real fascists, anti-democrats, racists and sexists who want to limit freedom of speech, don't respect democracy and elections, don't want people to have their vote, think that "he's a middle-class white male!" is a reason to ignore someones opinion / not let them speak / ignore whatever interest that person had. There people call immigrants who are pro actual freedom rather than their socialist dreams house n*, traitors of "their people" and like a few days ago our prime-minister commented about how one woman with immigrant background had expressed her opinion in some foreign magazine about Swedish immigration(?) politics and how that was damaging and it also happen that those same people claim that those who are against their political view are "traitors of the nation"... Sure they aren't fascists and anti-democratic and pro freedom.... Such great "liberal"s and "democrat"s.
by demonizing the other side. This dehumanizes them and allows you to make ridiculous statements like the above post
That's the default method to operate of the left.
The people in charge like it when you do this because it divides people and allows the people in charge to pit the people against each other to their own benefit.
The left all the time talk about how the other side turn people and groups against each other but of course they are the most active ones of doing so against anyone who don't share their socialist view of equal outcome.
Ahem, I am going to try to frame this politely, but American politics differ from Swedish politics rather significantly. What you would know as a liberal in Sweden is roughly known as a Libertarian in the USA - Republicans tend to include some elements from them. The "traitor to nation" talk you describe is an example - listen to Obama and Trump talk for a while, watch which one of them starts turning into the "I'll build a nation for you, my loyal supporters". Before you engage on a primarily American forum, about American politics, knowing these distinctions is rather important.
Also, I'd like to enlighten you to a less socialist viewpoint. In my country, as an immigrant, you are not eligible for subsidized healthcare, you are not eligible for retirement income or social security, and you are fully expected to work as many hours as your job demands, sometimes without compensation or any sort of union representation whatsoever. We have no mandatory sick days laws nationally, and in fact any sort of vacation or off-time from work isn't required at all; only 10 days off per year is required for national holidays, and that's all some people get. Some of the states are ranked with Chad and Kyrgyzstan on quality of education due to lack of funding, teachers are required to repeat the exact words off a prewritten script with no deviation in some districts, and we suffer the lowest overall quality of life in the developed world. We have some of the weakest international privacy laws, we have some of the worst environmental standards and policies in the developed world, and we are getting an incompetent buffoon for a president. Officials are routinely and openly bribed by businesses to support a certain viewpoint, and this is 100% legal; Half the country is convinced evolution is a lie, that atheists are sinners sent by Satan to burn humanity, and that global warming is a conspiracy by the Chinese to undermine America's superiority
Based on his original SAT score of 1206, Bush's IQ was about 123. He also got good grades at Yale, which correlate with that as well. Also, whether or not you are defending Vietnam or Texas, or if your buddy runs the local guard air group, you still have to pass the same tests to go to and graduate from fighter pilot school in the military. Pretty sure that's what the OP was referring to.
Obama refused to release his specific school info, but we know the class average for his acceptance group of 67 was an SAT score of 1100, which would correlate to an IQ of 115, so that's the best info we have available for him.
Just because Bush spoke like a Texan, people make assumptions around intelligence based on his accent and choice of phrases, but don't let your regional prejudice override the actual facts available.
P.S. Trump's estimated IQ based on his Wharton acceptance is 156. Try not to be taken in by his carefully calculated public persona.
Stephen Hawking's IQ is 160. To clarify, you believe Trump's intelligence is comparable to Stephen Hawking's?
Here's what I'm mainly worried about -- now that Trump's President, the gloves come off of every single loud-mouthed, opinionated angry citizen who loves to moan and complain.
That's what you're "mainly" worried about? Christ almighty, but that is depressing. That was the second most cringy anti-Trump argument we kept hearing. Judging politicians as role models for the entire nation is getting really, really old. Didn't we, as a culture, mostly outgrow this shit in the late 90s with Monica? Can't we analyze presidential candidates in terms of policy and ability instead of their fucking manners (or their manner of fucking)?
The world's complex enough already and life's short, so why waste processor cycles arguing pointlessly?... One thing I did like about the Obama years was that he was a very approachable President.
Approachable... and Ineffective. He was an ineffective president. Yes, that is due in no small part to the Republicans' unprecedented scorched earth strategies, but he didn't respond to it appropriately. The two things he could have done were help reform his own party to minimize the influence of self-absorbed nutters and extremist elements, thus (hopefully) cementing the Democrats as The Sane Choice among swing voters... or he could have forcefully and repeatedly confronted the Republicans with the full reality of their rabid and moronic attacks, accomplishing the same thing whilst also possibly demoralizing some of the Republican base.
Instead, he stayed classy and low-key, fighting back largely through finesse, including utilizing that horrendous, repeatedly failed strategy of trying to give the Republicans enough rope to hang themselves.
I don't want a serene Buddha that children everywhere can look up to and emulate. I want someone who can get things done. The right things done. Trump, obviously, is not that person. But it's not too difficult to see how someone with a radically different values (and a less skeptical attitude) might think that he was.
Ehh, would you really? I mean, remember the situation that Obama came into. We were in the middle of a severe economic crisis, we had millions of people without healthcare, we were dealing with several massively expensive overseas wars that were the equivalent of Syria today. Would you really have wanted him to neglect these to yell things like "I grabbed yo wife's pussy McCain #Obamabinyolo08!"? For whatever you say about him, he hauled some serious ass in the first two years of his presidency, dealing with three major crisis at once, and while I wished later on he'd been a little more outspoken later on, what exactly was he supposed to do? I don't get the impression Ted Cruz would have backed down the whole Kenya thing if Obama had pointed out he'd also be ineligible since he was born in Canada, and it's not like he could close Guantanamo Bay with a congressional budget of exactly $0. He did try to do shit with his Executive Orders, and he made some major progress on environmental matters, but his hands were tied everywhere else, and of course when he does that stuff people complain of an abuse of power (helpful to remember Bush expanded many of these powers for himself...). Trump has the advantage of a supportive Congress at the moment, but once he pisses them off and they dump him for their 2020 candidate, you can watch as Trump struggles to do anything too. Congress always was, and always will be, far more significant than the president; Had they not blocked every idea stupidly just because it had Obama's signature, we probably wouldn't even be looking at some of the issues we are today.
The US lately is the sheep telling to two wolves that they have to become vegan.
Eh, I dunno. The story I hear is the sheep telling the two wolves that their diet isn't long term sustainable with only one sheep left, and the two wolves ignore it. We're moving into the what comes next phase...
Oh, it works, if my discussions with friends who voted for Hillary are any measure. Every last one of them conceded Hillary's weaknesses, but insisted she was a better pick than misogynistic, homophobic, racist Trump. And I can't really blame them for that opinion based on how much the media drilled that impression in. But while I agree that there are people who voted for the Great Pumpkin specifically because of the exaggerated and hysterical rhetoric used by the media, I think Hillary's defeat primarily came from her campaign's smugness about victory. The final weeks before the election, the message was consistently "Hillary's got this one, and Trump doesn't stand a chance." What hubris! What stupidity! That basically told all her supporters that it wasn't critical they get out and vote, while telling Trump's just how desperate the situation was.
But then, Hillary's campaign was a series of mismanaged debacles.
Errrrr, Trump was spouting the "I'm going to win, just wait and see!" line much more than she was. I mean, you don't remember his constant Twitter posts raving about how wrong the polls are and how he was destined for victory? I don't mean to come off as aggressive, but I have to say I strongly disagree, that was... trumpeted... out by both parties. And if I may, many of those articles about her were written by newspapers with the evidence we had, whereas he personally engaged on his tirade with no evidence. I mean, I'm just saying...
It is because Left Wingers keep parroting "Clinton won the Popular Vote" as if that mattered. When liberals offer that up, it opens up every other comparison out there. Hillary lost the election, popular vote doesn't count. If you wanted it to count, the vote totals would change, substantially. A lot of Republicans in California don't vote because what is the point?
The point is what it represents, a minority making a decision for the majority. Imagine if Texas' system was Austin on one district, Houston on another, and all of Texas' suburbs in the third. New social programs? Austin says yes, Houston says yes, so fuck the rest of Texas. You'd be pretty angry - so now, let's get a situation where someone in Wyoming has a vote four times as powerful as someone in California. It's pretty hypocritical to say that every vote is equal, and yet some votes get to be more equal than others. As much as I respect the idea of voting along cultural guidelines, the current system needs to change, because the balance of power is absolutely idiotic - It's bad enough when a city tramples the rest of the county's rights, but when small suburbs are now dictating their ideas over actual population centers? It's exactly what the system was created to guard against, and fails miserably at.
A riot is a form of civil disorder commonly characterized by a group lashing out in a violent public disturbance against authority, property or people. Riots typically involve vandalism and the destruction of property, public or private. The property targeted varies depending on the riot and the inclinations of those involved. Targets can include shops, cars, restaurants, state-owned institutions, and religious buildings.
To answer your question: no, tweeting and speaking are not riots.
So... if Trump's comments, which lead to death threats, don't classify as race rioting... How exactly do Obama's count?
California hasn't had a Republican senator in so long that I can't actually remember who it was.
Arnold was Governor, because well... he's Arnold. Nothing happened on his watch because both houses of the Legislature were D controlled. Now we have "Moonbeam" a complete and utter nutjob.
I've lived in California my whole life. I've lived in both Southern California, and Northern California, and have a pretty good idea how things are going here. Taxes are pushing just about everyone to the breaking point, and even left wing supporting industrialists are moving their plants to other parts of the country because of all the taxes and regulations.
It is so bad, that almost a 1/3 of California (land) wants to form a new state.
But if all you hear is the echo chamber, your views will be skewed.
Nothing happened? Seriously? You don't remember him passing budgets that scrapped hundreds of millions of dollars towards welfare and childcare, while raising taxes to soaring heights at the same time? I'm not going to lie, the 2/3 rule was awful, and the two chambers dragged their feet plenty, but ultimately Mr. Schwarzenegger's budgets were awful, and even after they were put into place they flopped. Mr. Brown, while undoubtedly boueyed a little bit by the recovery from the recession, as been pretty smart with the money so far, and while I have my complaints to, I would like to hear the case for him being worse than Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Also, to counter, there is a movement for the entire state of Texas to succeed the country, and Austin wants to succeed from Texas. Alaska wants to become its own country. Washington and Oregon want to become their own country. I'm not sure what California's has that's unique in that regard, especially when "Republican" doesn't correlate to "succeed" at all.
The United States is three times the size of India.
If you're talking about population. India is by far the world's largest democracy.
If you're talking about land size. Canada is the world's largest democracy. (unless you consider Russia democratic- then it is).
If you're talking about weight of the average person then... yes... in that scenario, the US is the largest democracy.
Actually, your last point is technically wrong. Mexico is. So now we don't even have that one:/
Here's what I'm mainly worried about -- now that Trump's President, the gloves come off of every single loud-mouthed, opinionated angry citizen who loves to moan and complain. By providing an example of "acceptable" behavior via his constant personal attacks on people
As opposed to all the race rioting spurred on by Obama's stupid comments about Trevon, Harvard Professors, Hands Up Don't Shoot, inviting BLM to the White House?
Or do those don't count because you agree with the cause?
Obama saying that blacks have a disadvantage after a shooting is race rioting, but retweeting an open neo-nazi and calling Mexicans rapists isn't???
Yes, just think about what terrible things the Clinton Foundation did, like:
Raised $313 million for R&D into new vaccines and medicines;
Helped provide better maternal and child survival care to more than 110 million people, and;
Provided treatment for more than 36 million people with tropical diseases.
Even worse, it spent 88% of its 2014 outlays directly on programs (rather than overhead) and that it only has to spend $2 to raise $100. A performance that poor gives it a solid "A" rating from charity watchdogs. We're all clearly better off without groups like this funneling money from rich donors to help poor people in underdeveloped countries around the world.
Source: http://fortune.com/2016/08/27/...
Exactly, that's why you support the Trump foundation, obviously. I mean, alright, so the foundation itself admits it's basically a scam to be a slush fund for its owners, and yes, it did buy that one painting for what was pretty obviously a transfer of cash, and alright, the owner refuses to release his tax return so we could check, but hey! At least it's not named Clinton, and that's what matters. ...
Even if that one actually does do verifiable charitable work.
More people in 49 states. If you take California out of the Popular Vote tally, Trump wins handily in 49 states. So much so, that the ONLY reason she won popular vote was because of the landslide that was California. And given that California Democrats just put Bernie supporters in power, we'll see how that plays out on the national level.
I am pretty sure that most Americans, including national Democrats don't want California Commies running things.
We can also take out Texas and she'd have won the electoral vote. What exactly is your point??? California's the most populous state in the country, they should get a correspondingly larger amount of say in what people are doing. I mean, should we exclude Montana because there are more moose than people?
Also, I think you should take a look at California's politics. There was a Republican senator in power until 2011, a Mr. Schwarzenegger, and California had a weak economy with a broke government that mostly floated on large companies, and he made it like that. Democrats won, now the state has a powerful and emerging economy, is restoring and modernizing its infrastructure, and is at the for front of civil rights. If you compare the record of Indiana and Louisiana vs California or Oregon Ohio and Oklahoma vs Massachusetts or Washington, I think I'm ready to cave in to the "commies". Education, public resources, things to actually spend your money on, and a much higher standard of living... Those are all pretty attractive I think, even though Nigeria's low cost of living and taxes are nice in the short term, I'm pretty sure you'll want Norway's standard of living after the romance.
When I take an objective look at the policies of President Trump, they differ significantly from those of Nazi Germany.
Trump doesn't bring in Nazi Germany's policies, definitely, but let's not kid ourselves here when he retweets people who are very open Nazi supporters. He may not be directly peddling their beliefs, but he sure as hell doesn't shy away from them either, and I'd have thought people who be a little more opposed to that. I'm German as well as American, and I still have a little chest in my attic that contains the Nazi papers for my grandmother, proving her "racial purity" and "ability to support the fatherland through childbirth". Next to that are the papers that notify her her husband was executed for "violations of peace and order", with his protesting. It serves as a nice reminder sometimes, what we were all collectively lucky enough to avoid. It's really not a sexy time period to have lived in, and I really would have thought that'd be more of a detriment to people who champion being against the Soviet Union and Russia, places with an absolutely awful record on human rights and standards of living. Ahhhh, but that's not a problem for people today either, eh?
isolationism and self-sufficiency
For the US, these don't really work. Think about it; what are our greatest industries? If you said agriculture, entertainment, and the dominance of the tech industry, you'd be correct. What use is a ridiculous surplus, movies, and a strong control of the industry if there's no use to sell them too? What exactly are we going to do with the ridiculous excess of corn we make every year if nobody wants to buy it?
The emphasis on greater border security, including the building of physical barriers, also backs up the idea that America won't be trying to expand its borders beyond where they are today. These are well-established borders, and have been for a very long time.
Fully agree. Once we collectively realized what asses we were to the Native Americans, thankfully, we (mostly) left behind our expansionist bullshit. I both think and hope we keep it that way. Fortunately, Obama was pretty in favor of border enforcement, as was Hillary Clinton, and virtually every other Democrat. The debate is about what we do with people who've lived in our own country for years but don't have our citizenship; it's probably worth noting that many people born, raised, and died in America also lack these papers or documents proving their citizenship except for maybe a birth certificate.
Actually enforcing long-standing immigration and border regulations is not "racism", as some people appear to incorrectly believe. These regulations apply to all people, regardless of race or other such attributes.
Not sure who this was aimed at, but Obama most definitely enforced immigration rules, and he even gets shit for that from some Democrats. If he let too many people stay, better ring up Bush, Bush Sr, or Reagan, because they all enforced their rules less than he did. (Regan even gave those criminal immigrants a permanent stay, clearly he must've been from Lithuania and only pretended to be an American and isn't really one)
Based on everything we've seen so far, President Trump's administration is actually putting the interests of all Americans first and foremost. This is the first time we've seen this in many decades.
The first comment I think you're flat out wrong. When you get past the Goldman-Sachs guy who wants to lower regulations on his industry, the EPA guy who wants to sue himself and then set precedent for stupid standards for his industry, and the president who wants to get insider deals for hiiiiiis industry, we can maybe start with Republicans & Trump repealing an act that will kill tens of thousands of people, or a guy who wants to concentrate on publicity stunts and shows focusing on his own glory i
Surely a stern talk and a 100 hours of community service would be a saner approach? He didn't do anything other than sell a tool, and while it's dubious where and who he sold it, he hasn't actually committed a crime yet, and it's not like a keylogger doesn't have legitimate purposes, nor is it illegal to possess one. Fucking over some kid for the rest of his life, in an environment where he's almost certain to repeat an offence, and turning him into a perpetual lifelong drain on the public, is not the answer - for either us or him. Yet another demonstration of my country's collective idocacy...
"This just in! NPM's record on packages has been broken by an 'EmeraldBot' from Slashdot, who now hosts the largest number of packages in the world, at 550,050 and growing. Each one represents a single byte of the compiled program leftpad++, and is soon expected to double in number with the introduction of rightpad++."
On a more serious note, NPM's claim is dubious at best because they split programs up into so many packages, some only providing a single function. A WHOLE PACKAGE FOR A FUNCTION. That view is largely dependant on what exactly you consider a package, and me personally, I need something more substantial than a literal copy and paste.
Watch out, people of Mesa! They're coming for your houses! They're coming for your low price commodities! They're coming for your open source OpenGL graphics stack! These are grave times for Arizona, indeed....
I assure you, I have lived in Cali for several continuous years, and I have the Soup Plantation receipts to prove it. California's road system is pretty decent, and when you look at its size, it's impressive. Even on the death hills by my house, there are railguards at the edges, no cracks in the roads, and they actually repair roads from wear and tear. Trying to navigate a mountain in New Hampshire is a nightmare, as is trying to get almost anywhere else; Californians are a lucky people (well, admittedly more so if the trees weren't dying, I suppose).
If you think California's roads are bad, I advise you to try New Hampshire's sometime. So granite is the state that we still use gravel and dirt roads, and when there's any asphalt to be seen, it's 35 years old and has fissures the size of the Grand Canyon. And yes, I've lived in both of these states. I think it's fair to say that California has a well maintained road network for its size, and if we're talking about a low tax state like New Hampshire or Indiana, you'd realize the difference almost immediately.
So you want public money to be used to overpay govt employees instead of getting the best value for the money by using the lower cost private sector provider. No wonder taxes are so high in California.
That's also why California has beautiful national parks, expansive and well maintained roads, and is the center of no less than three major industries. Oklahoma has low taxes, and that's about all it has. What good is cheap if it's absolutely worthless?
I respect the TIOBE index's goals, and I wouldn't be surprised if C actually is declining. It doesn't scale well with modern day projects, is a frightful source of bugs, and can be pretty tricky to work with between OS's. That being said, C is still an extraordinarily useful language, and I wish we taught it and encouraged younger programmers to learn it; for its many faults, it also has many virtues, especially its simplicity. Combined with its power and massive supply of existing software, it'd behoove a new programmer to at least consider learning it, even if it really is declining in popularity (always an iff-y proposition with an index that's fundamentally slanted against languages requiring little documentation or online consults).
Man, there's so many varieties of Object-Oriented C you could jizz your pants without even touching yourself.
C is the Primal Language. Before C we have clicks and whistles.
This isn't even a fucking conversation. I'm not hearing what anybody says except my own opinion, because I know my opinion is right, so this isn't a conversation.
What did that dude say in "Fight Club"? "This. Conversation. Is. Over."? Right? Well man thissuh conuhversationuh isuh nottah happenun.
This is some bullshit. Fuck, there are HLA interpreters that are more popular than JAVA -- WITH PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO CODE.
Man this is so much bullshit. I can't believe there's no viewpoint, no slant, no perspective, no synonym of whatsoever with this article.
That's the new owners of Slashdot. This site is dead. If you can diss C because some homie of yours called you up and needed some help raising interest in some particular market, towards a hopeful stock point, maybe on some IPO to come, maybe on something pre-existing, then fuck it, it ain't news any more, man, and it ain't for anybody but the "business school" {nested: "nerds"}.
When you say things like "This isn't even a fucking conversation. I'm not hearing what anybody says except my own opinion, because I know my opinion is right, so this isn't a conversation" and "What did that dude say in 'Fight Club'? 'This. Conversation. Is. Over.'? Right? Well man thissuh conuhversationuh isuh nottah happenun.", It becomes blindingly obvious you are either high on drugs, drunk with some shots I would pay to learn the composition of, or suffer an untreated case of a narcissistic personality disorder combined with the temperament of a three year old, because this is a public. forum, not your personal soapbox. You want to rant on about how unfair a major index has ranked a language you imply you know very little about, without any rational debate, feel free to take it to your Twitter page.
Oh. And uh, while I personally believe it's unethical to provoke those who are (at least at present) mentally incapacitated, I thought I should show you a little what the previous owners of Slashdot, Dice, ran a few years ago. I can sense the sound of your head exploding, eh?
You're so busy fucking yourselves, maybe all you need is a good hearty fuck you to shut your stupid ass the fuck up.
Really contributes to the discussion, a fantastic way to convince someone you are a reasonable person with a well thought out position.
Why don't you go ask mother fucking ANSI what they think about C's popularity?
I'm not sure what ANSI is supposed to help us, all they do is set standards. May as well as IEEE what they think of TCP's popularity.
Why don't you go around and check to see what code is compiling and executing?
This is so vague as to being entirely meaningless, but alright. Javascript is considered the world's #1 compiled language. Java bytecode comes after. Maybe Shell scripting or Python after that. Aside from how asinine and useless those measures are, since they tell you nothing about its popularity with developers, it seems awfully strange to pick a fight with a language that is only ever compiled once and never formally executed in its original form.
Why don't you fucking just learn a tiny little bit about the history of programming languages and their derivatives
I'm not sure what the history of programming languages is supposed to do about what today's measures are, given that how it scored in the past has little bearing on how useful it is today. I'm completely confused as to what you even mean by that, or why you even put it in here. Perhaps, because like the rest of your post, it was entirely devoid of any rational point or argument?
your stupid caking piehole about shit that you shouldn't even be propagandizing about, stop dumbing people the fuck down, and just to reiterate, the the fucking holy hell up?
You state things much more bluntly then I would like, but at its core, perhaps yes. If you have nothing to contribute, take your meds, knock yourself out, and stop vomiting yourself all over this page.
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Sure you can. If you interpret it that way (I don't), the Constitution guarantees everyone a right to own a weapon ("bear arms"). Nowhere does it guarantee a right to own bullets.
Major company acquires famous early 2000 era website, decides to update the looks to be modern and trendy... Slashdot Beta, anyone?
The article also reports that Microsoft moved its German headquarters to Munich last year.
*sigh*... like this is going to be a rational vote for what's best in the city. And for a temporary boost in jobs, they're going to shoot themselves in the foot over the next 5 years. I never thought I'd see this narrow-minded short term profit mentality spread to Germany, of all places...
Lameness filter encounter: Oh, I easily found the problem. I had written "House N______" and that word was the problem. I don't see how a word can be a problem. What you express with it maybe.
Here in Sweden and I assume in many others places too the common picture is that national-socialists are the ones who risk destroying democracy through democracy / by being elected and who can cause fascism and dictatorships because that's the message they have been brought up with all along but back in reality it's those same people who are the real fascists, anti-democrats, racists and sexists who want to limit freedom of speech, don't respect democracy and elections, don't want people to have their vote, think that "he's a middle-class white male!" is a reason to ignore someones opinion / not let them speak / ignore whatever interest that person had. There people call immigrants who are pro actual freedom rather than their socialist dreams house n*, traitors of "their people" and like a few days ago our prime-minister commented about how one woman with immigrant background had expressed her opinion in some foreign magazine about Swedish immigration(?) politics and how that was damaging and it also happen that those same people claim that those who are against their political view are "traitors of the nation"... Sure they aren't fascists and anti-democratic and pro freedom .... Such great "liberal"s and "democrat"s.
by demonizing the other side. This dehumanizes them and allows you to make ridiculous statements like the above post
That's the default method to operate of the left.
The people in charge like it when you do this because it divides people and allows the people in charge to pit the people against each other to their own benefit.
The left all the time talk about how the other side turn people and groups against each other but of course they are the most active ones of doing so against anyone who don't share their socialist view of equal outcome.
Ahem, I am going to try to frame this politely, but American politics differ from Swedish politics rather significantly. What you would know as a liberal in Sweden is roughly known as a Libertarian in the USA - Republicans tend to include some elements from them. The "traitor to nation" talk you describe is an example - listen to Obama and Trump talk for a while, watch which one of them starts turning into the "I'll build a nation for you, my loyal supporters". Before you engage on a primarily American forum, about American politics, knowing these distinctions is rather important.
Also, I'd like to enlighten you to a less socialist viewpoint. In my country, as an immigrant, you are not eligible for subsidized healthcare, you are not eligible for retirement income or social security, and you are fully expected to work as many hours as your job demands, sometimes without compensation or any sort of union representation whatsoever. We have no mandatory sick days laws nationally, and in fact any sort of vacation or off-time from work isn't required at all; only 10 days off per year is required for national holidays, and that's all some people get. Some of the states are ranked with Chad and Kyrgyzstan on quality of education due to lack of funding, teachers are required to repeat the exact words off a prewritten script with no deviation in some districts, and we suffer the lowest overall quality of life in the developed world. We have some of the weakest international privacy laws, we have some of the worst environmental standards and policies in the developed world, and we are getting an incompetent buffoon for a president. Officials are routinely and openly bribed by businesses to support a certain viewpoint, and this is 100% legal; Half the country is convinced evolution is a lie, that atheists are sinners sent by Satan to burn humanity, and that global warming is a conspiracy by the Chinese to undermine America's superiority
Based on his original SAT score of 1206, Bush's IQ was about 123. He also got good grades at Yale, which correlate with that as well. Also, whether or not you are defending Vietnam or Texas, or if your buddy runs the local guard air group, you still have to pass the same tests to go to and graduate from fighter pilot school in the military. Pretty sure that's what the OP was referring to.
Obama refused to release his specific school info, but we know the class average for his acceptance group of 67 was an SAT score of 1100, which would correlate to an IQ of 115, so that's the best info we have available for him.
Just because Bush spoke like a Texan, people make assumptions around intelligence based on his accent and choice of phrases, but don't let your regional prejudice override the actual facts available.
P.S. Trump's estimated IQ based on his Wharton acceptance is 156. Try not to be taken in by his carefully calculated public persona.
Stephen Hawking's IQ is 160. To clarify, you believe Trump's intelligence is comparable to Stephen Hawking's?
Here's what I'm mainly worried about -- now that Trump's President, the gloves come off of every single loud-mouthed, opinionated angry citizen who loves to moan and complain.
That's what you're "mainly" worried about? Christ almighty, but that is depressing. That was the second most cringy anti-Trump argument we kept hearing. Judging politicians as role models for the entire nation is getting really, really old. Didn't we, as a culture, mostly outgrow this shit in the late 90s with Monica? Can't we analyze presidential candidates in terms of policy and ability instead of their fucking manners (or their manner of fucking)?
The world's complex enough already and life's short, so why waste processor cycles arguing pointlessly? ... One thing I did like about the Obama years was that he was a very approachable President.
Approachable... and Ineffective. He was an ineffective president. Yes, that is due in no small part to the Republicans' unprecedented scorched earth strategies, but he didn't respond to it appropriately. The two things he could have done were help reform his own party to minimize the influence of self-absorbed nutters and extremist elements, thus (hopefully) cementing the Democrats as The Sane Choice among swing voters... or he could have forcefully and repeatedly confronted the Republicans with the full reality of their rabid and moronic attacks, accomplishing the same thing whilst also possibly demoralizing some of the Republican base. Instead, he stayed classy and low-key, fighting back largely through finesse, including utilizing that horrendous, repeatedly failed strategy of trying to give the Republicans enough rope to hang themselves. I don't want a serene Buddha that children everywhere can look up to and emulate. I want someone who can get things done. The right things done. Trump, obviously, is not that person. But it's not too difficult to see how someone with a radically different values (and a less skeptical attitude) might think that he was.
Ehh, would you really? I mean, remember the situation that Obama came into. We were in the middle of a severe economic crisis, we had millions of people without healthcare, we were dealing with several massively expensive overseas wars that were the equivalent of Syria today. Would you really have wanted him to neglect these to yell things like "I grabbed yo wife's pussy McCain #Obamabinyolo08!"? For whatever you say about him, he hauled some serious ass in the first two years of his presidency, dealing with three major crisis at once, and while I wished later on he'd been a little more outspoken later on, what exactly was he supposed to do? I don't get the impression Ted Cruz would have backed down the whole Kenya thing if Obama had pointed out he'd also be ineligible since he was born in Canada, and it's not like he could close Guantanamo Bay with a congressional budget of exactly $0. He did try to do shit with his Executive Orders, and he made some major progress on environmental matters, but his hands were tied everywhere else, and of course when he does that stuff people complain of an abuse of power (helpful to remember Bush expanded many of these powers for himself...). Trump has the advantage of a supportive Congress at the moment, but once he pisses them off and they dump him for their 2020 candidate, you can watch as Trump struggles to do anything too. Congress always was, and always will be, far more significant than the president; Had they not blocked every idea stupidly just because it had Obama's signature, we probably wouldn't even be looking at some of the issues we are today.
The US lately is the sheep telling to two wolves that they have to become vegan.
Eh, I dunno. The story I hear is the sheep telling the two wolves that their diet isn't long term sustainable with only one sheep left, and the two wolves ignore it. We're moving into the what comes next phase...
Oh, it works, if my discussions with friends who voted for Hillary are any measure. Every last one of them conceded Hillary's weaknesses, but insisted she was a better pick than misogynistic, homophobic, racist Trump. And I can't really blame them for that opinion based on how much the media drilled that impression in. But while I agree that there are people who voted for the Great Pumpkin specifically because of the exaggerated and hysterical rhetoric used by the media, I think Hillary's defeat primarily came from her campaign's smugness about victory. The final weeks before the election, the message was consistently "Hillary's got this one, and Trump doesn't stand a chance." What hubris! What stupidity! That basically told all her supporters that it wasn't critical they get out and vote, while telling Trump's just how desperate the situation was. But then, Hillary's campaign was a series of mismanaged debacles.
Errrrr, Trump was spouting the "I'm going to win, just wait and see!" line much more than she was. I mean, you don't remember his constant Twitter posts raving about how wrong the polls are and how he was destined for victory? I don't mean to come off as aggressive, but I have to say I strongly disagree, that was... trumpeted... out by both parties. And if I may, many of those articles about her were written by newspapers with the evidence we had, whereas he personally engaged on his tirade with no evidence. I mean, I'm just saying...
It is because Left Wingers keep parroting "Clinton won the Popular Vote" as if that mattered. When liberals offer that up, it opens up every other comparison out there. Hillary lost the election, popular vote doesn't count. If you wanted it to count, the vote totals would change, substantially. A lot of Republicans in California don't vote because what is the point?
The point is what it represents, a minority making a decision for the majority. Imagine if Texas' system was Austin on one district, Houston on another, and all of Texas' suburbs in the third. New social programs? Austin says yes, Houston says yes, so fuck the rest of Texas. You'd be pretty angry - so now, let's get a situation where someone in Wyoming has a vote four times as powerful as someone in California. It's pretty hypocritical to say that every vote is equal, and yet some votes get to be more equal than others. As much as I respect the idea of voting along cultural guidelines, the current system needs to change, because the balance of power is absolutely idiotic - It's bad enough when a city tramples the rest of the county's rights, but when small suburbs are now dictating their ideas over actual population centers? It's exactly what the system was created to guard against, and fails miserably at.
From https://infogalactic.com/info/Riot:
To answer your question: no, tweeting and speaking are not riots.
So... if Trump's comments, which lead to death threats, don't classify as race rioting... How exactly do Obama's count?
California hasn't had a Republican senator in so long that I can't actually remember who it was.
Arnold was Governor, because well ... he's Arnold. Nothing happened on his watch because both houses of the Legislature were D controlled. Now we have "Moonbeam" a complete and utter nutjob.
I've lived in California my whole life. I've lived in both Southern California, and Northern California, and have a pretty good idea how things are going here. Taxes are pushing just about everyone to the breaking point, and even left wing supporting industrialists are moving their plants to other parts of the country because of all the taxes and regulations.
It is so bad, that almost a 1/3 of California (land) wants to form a new state.
But if all you hear is the echo chamber, your views will be skewed.
Nothing happened? Seriously? You don't remember him passing budgets that scrapped hundreds of millions of dollars towards welfare and childcare, while raising taxes to soaring heights at the same time? I'm not going to lie, the 2/3 rule was awful, and the two chambers dragged their feet plenty, but ultimately Mr. Schwarzenegger's budgets were awful, and even after they were put into place they flopped. Mr. Brown, while undoubtedly boueyed a little bit by the recovery from the recession, as been pretty smart with the money so far, and while I have my complaints to, I would like to hear the case for him being worse than Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Also, to counter, there is a movement for the entire state of Texas to succeed the country, and Austin wants to succeed from Texas. Alaska wants to become its own country. Washington and Oregon want to become their own country. I'm not sure what California's has that's unique in that regard, especially when "Republican" doesn't correlate to "succeed" at all.
The United States is three times the size of India.
If you're talking about population. India is by far the world's largest democracy. If you're talking about land size. Canada is the world's largest democracy. (unless you consider Russia democratic- then it is). If you're talking about weight of the average person then... yes... in that scenario, the US is the largest democracy.
Actually, your last point is technically wrong. Mexico is. So now we don't even have that one :/
Make America Great(er in mass) again!
Here's what I'm mainly worried about -- now that Trump's President, the gloves come off of every single loud-mouthed, opinionated angry citizen who loves to moan and complain. By providing an example of "acceptable" behavior via his constant personal attacks on people
As opposed to all the race rioting spurred on by Obama's stupid comments about Trevon, Harvard Professors, Hands Up Don't Shoot, inviting BLM to the White House?
Or do those don't count because you agree with the cause?
Obama saying that blacks have a disadvantage after a shooting is race rioting, but retweeting an open neo-nazi and calling Mexicans rapists isn't???
Yes, just think about what terrible things the Clinton Foundation did, like: Raised $313 million for R&D into new vaccines and medicines; Helped provide better maternal and child survival care to more than 110 million people, and; Provided treatment for more than 36 million people with tropical diseases. Even worse, it spent 88% of its 2014 outlays directly on programs (rather than overhead) and that it only has to spend $2 to raise $100. A performance that poor gives it a solid "A" rating from charity watchdogs. We're all clearly better off without groups like this funneling money from rich donors to help poor people in underdeveloped countries around the world. Source: http://fortune.com/2016/08/27/...
Exactly, that's why you support the Trump foundation, obviously. I mean, alright, so the foundation itself admits it's basically a scam to be a slush fund for its owners, and yes, it did buy that one painting for what was pretty obviously a transfer of cash, and alright, the owner refuses to release his tax return so we could check, but hey! At least it's not named Clinton, and that's what matters.
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Even if that one actually does do verifiable charitable work.
More people in 49 states. If you take California out of the Popular Vote tally, Trump wins handily in 49 states. So much so, that the ONLY reason she won popular vote was because of the landslide that was California. And given that California Democrats just put Bernie supporters in power, we'll see how that plays out on the national level.
I am pretty sure that most Americans, including national Democrats don't want California Commies running things.
We can also take out Texas and she'd have won the electoral vote. What exactly is your point??? California's the most populous state in the country, they should get a correspondingly larger amount of say in what people are doing. I mean, should we exclude Montana because there are more moose than people?
Also, I think you should take a look at California's politics. There was a Republican senator in power until 2011, a Mr. Schwarzenegger, and California had a weak economy with a broke government that mostly floated on large companies, and he made it like that. Democrats won, now the state has a powerful and emerging economy, is restoring and modernizing its infrastructure, and is at the for front of civil rights. If you compare the record of Indiana and Louisiana vs California or Oregon Ohio and Oklahoma vs Massachusetts or Washington, I think I'm ready to cave in to the "commies". Education, public resources, things to actually spend your money on, and a much higher standard of living... Those are all pretty attractive I think, even though Nigeria's low cost of living and taxes are nice in the short term, I'm pretty sure you'll want Norway's standard of living after the romance.
When I take an objective look at the policies of President Trump, they differ significantly from those of Nazi Germany.
Trump doesn't bring in Nazi Germany's policies, definitely, but let's not kid ourselves here when he retweets people who are very open Nazi supporters. He may not be directly peddling their beliefs, but he sure as hell doesn't shy away from them either, and I'd have thought people who be a little more opposed to that. I'm German as well as American, and I still have a little chest in my attic that contains the Nazi papers for my grandmother, proving her "racial purity" and "ability to support the fatherland through childbirth". Next to that are the papers that notify her her husband was executed for "violations of peace and order", with his protesting. It serves as a nice reminder sometimes, what we were all collectively lucky enough to avoid. It's really not a sexy time period to have lived in, and I really would have thought that'd be more of a detriment to people who champion being against the Soviet Union and Russia, places with an absolutely awful record on human rights and standards of living. Ahhhh, but that's not a problem for people today either, eh?
isolationism and self-sufficiency
For the US, these don't really work. Think about it; what are our greatest industries? If you said agriculture, entertainment, and the dominance of the tech industry, you'd be correct. What use is a ridiculous surplus, movies, and a strong control of the industry if there's no use to sell them too? What exactly are we going to do with the ridiculous excess of corn we make every year if nobody wants to buy it?
The emphasis on greater border security, including the building of physical barriers, also backs up the idea that America won't be trying to expand its borders beyond where they are today. These are well-established borders, and have been for a very long time.
Fully agree. Once we collectively realized what asses we were to the Native Americans, thankfully, we (mostly) left behind our expansionist bullshit. I both think and hope we keep it that way. Fortunately, Obama was pretty in favor of border enforcement, as was Hillary Clinton, and virtually every other Democrat. The debate is about what we do with people who've lived in our own country for years but don't have our citizenship; it's probably worth noting that many people born, raised, and died in America also lack these papers or documents proving their citizenship except for maybe a birth certificate.
Actually enforcing long-standing immigration and border regulations is not "racism", as some people appear to incorrectly believe. These regulations apply to all people, regardless of race or other such attributes.
Not sure who this was aimed at, but Obama most definitely enforced immigration rules, and he even gets shit for that from some Democrats. If he let too many people stay, better ring up Bush, Bush Sr, or Reagan, because they all enforced their rules less than he did. (Regan even gave those criminal immigrants a permanent stay, clearly he must've been from Lithuania and only pretended to be an American and isn't really one)
Based on everything we've seen so far, President Trump's administration is actually putting the interests of all Americans first and foremost. This is the first time we've seen this in many decades.
The first comment I think you're flat out wrong. When you get past the Goldman-Sachs guy who wants to lower regulations on his industry, the EPA guy who wants to sue himself and then set precedent for stupid standards for his industry, and the president who wants to get insider deals for hiiiiiis industry, we can maybe start with Republicans & Trump repealing an act that will kill tens of thousands of people, or a guy who wants to concentrate on publicity stunts and shows focusing on his own glory i
Surely a stern talk and a 100 hours of community service would be a saner approach? He didn't do anything other than sell a tool, and while it's dubious where and who he sold it, he hasn't actually committed a crime yet, and it's not like a keylogger doesn't have legitimate purposes, nor is it illegal to possess one. Fucking over some kid for the rest of his life, in an environment where he's almost certain to repeat an offence, and turning him into a perpetual lifelong drain on the public, is not the answer - for either us or him. Yet another demonstration of my country's collective idocacy...
"This just in! NPM's record on packages has been broken by an 'EmeraldBot' from Slashdot, who now hosts the largest number of packages in the world, at 550,050 and growing. Each one represents a single byte of the compiled program leftpad++, and is soon expected to double in number with the introduction of rightpad++."
On a more serious note, NPM's claim is dubious at best because they split programs up into so many packages, some only providing a single function. A WHOLE PACKAGE FOR A FUNCTION. That view is largely dependant on what exactly you consider a package, and me personally, I need something more substantial than a literal copy and paste.
Watch out, people of Mesa! They're coming for your houses! They're coming for your low price commodities! They're coming for your open source OpenGL graphics stack! These are grave times for Arizona, indeed....
"expansive and well maintained roads"
Non-Californian detected!
I assure you, I have lived in Cali for several continuous years, and I have the Soup Plantation receipts to prove it. California's road system is pretty decent, and when you look at its size, it's impressive. Even on the death hills by my house, there are railguards at the edges, no cracks in the roads, and they actually repair roads from wear and tear. Trying to navigate a mountain in New Hampshire is a nightmare, as is trying to get almost anywhere else; Californians are a lucky people (well, admittedly more so if the trees weren't dying, I suppose).
well maintained roads
What the hell have you been smoking?
If you think California's roads are bad, I advise you to try New Hampshire's sometime. So granite is the state that we still use gravel and dirt roads, and when there's any asphalt to be seen, it's 35 years old and has fissures the size of the Grand Canyon. And yes, I've lived in both of these states. I think it's fair to say that California has a well maintained road network for its size, and if we're talking about a low tax state like New Hampshire or Indiana, you'd realize the difference almost immediately.
So you want public money to be used to overpay govt employees instead of getting the best value for the money by using the lower cost private sector provider. No wonder taxes are so high in California.
That's also why California has beautiful national parks, expansive and well maintained roads, and is the center of no less than three major industries. Oklahoma has low taxes, and that's about all it has. What good is cheap if it's absolutely worthless?
I respect the TIOBE index's goals, and I wouldn't be surprised if C actually is declining. It doesn't scale well with modern day projects, is a frightful source of bugs, and can be pretty tricky to work with between OS's. That being said, C is still an extraordinarily useful language, and I wish we taught it and encouraged younger programmers to learn it; for its many faults, it also has many virtues, especially its simplicity. Combined with its power and massive supply of existing software, it'd behoove a new programmer to at least consider learning it, even if it really is declining in popularity (always an iff-y proposition with an index that's fundamentally slanted against languages requiring little documentation or online consults).
"New languages"?
Pssht! As if!
Man, there's so many varieties of Object-Oriented C you could jizz your pants without even touching yourself.
C is the Primal Language. Before C we have clicks and whistles.
This isn't even a fucking conversation. I'm not hearing what anybody says except my own opinion, because I know my opinion is right, so this isn't a conversation.
What did that dude say in "Fight Club"? "This. Conversation. Is. Over."? Right? Well man thissuh conuhversationuh isuh nottah happenun.
This is some bullshit. Fuck, there are HLA interpreters that are more popular than JAVA -- WITH PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO CODE.
Man this is so much bullshit. I can't believe there's no viewpoint, no slant, no perspective, no synonym of whatsoever with this article.
That's the new owners of Slashdot. This site is dead. If you can diss C because some homie of yours called you up and needed some help raising interest in some particular market, towards a hopeful stock point, maybe on some IPO to come, maybe on something pre-existing, then fuck it, it ain't news any more, man, and it ain't for anybody but the "business school" {nested: "nerds"}.
When you say things like "This isn't even a fucking conversation. I'm not hearing what anybody says except my own opinion, because I know my opinion is right, so this isn't a conversation" and "What did that dude say in 'Fight Club'? 'This. Conversation. Is. Over.'? Right? Well man thissuh conuhversationuh isuh nottah happenun.", It becomes blindingly obvious you are either high on drugs, drunk with some shots I would pay to learn the composition of, or suffer an untreated case of a narcissistic personality disorder combined with the temperament of a three year old, because this is a public. forum, not your personal soapbox. You want to rant on about how unfair a major index has ranked a language you imply you know very little about, without any rational debate, feel free to take it to your Twitter page.
Oh. And uh, while I personally believe it's unethical to provoke those who are (at least at present) mentally incapacitated, I thought I should show you a little what the previous owners of Slashdot, Dice, ran a few years ago. I can sense the sound of your head exploding, eh?
You're so busy fucking yourselves, maybe all you need is a good hearty fuck you to shut your stupid ass the fuck up.
Really contributes to the discussion, a fantastic way to convince someone you are a reasonable person with a well thought out position.
Why don't you go ask mother fucking ANSI what they think about C's popularity?
I'm not sure what ANSI is supposed to help us, all they do is set standards. May as well as IEEE what they think of TCP's popularity.
Why don't you go around and check to see what code is compiling and executing?
This is so vague as to being entirely meaningless, but alright. Javascript is considered the world's #1 compiled language. Java bytecode comes after. Maybe Shell scripting or Python after that. Aside from how asinine and useless those measures are, since they tell you nothing about its popularity with developers, it seems awfully strange to pick a fight with a language that is only ever compiled once and never formally executed in its original form.
Why don't you fucking just learn a tiny little bit about the history of programming languages and their derivatives
I'm not sure what the history of programming languages is supposed to do about what today's measures are, given that how it scored in the past has little bearing on how useful it is today. I'm completely confused as to what you even mean by that, or why you even put it in here. Perhaps, because like the rest of your post, it was entirely devoid of any rational point or argument?
your stupid caking piehole about shit that you shouldn't even be propagandizing about, stop dumbing people the fuck down, and just to reiterate, the the fucking holy hell up?
You state things much more bluntly then I would like, but at its core, perhaps yes. If you have nothing to contribute, take your meds, knock yourself out, and stop vomiting yourself all over this page.