truth & mercy = justice long held spiritual axioms unchanged...
That has never been a spiritual axiom. For example, the old testament was "truth == justice". The new testament was "without mercy, you have nothing." Of course, with the "christian" nutbars out there using the old testament to bash people over the head/control people, it's understandable that many would make this mistake.
6: No judge would use this for a sentence in a case. Since mentally ill people tend to not exactly be rich in general, no judge would take advantage of that fact and pass longer sentences to keep the private prison campaign funds rolling in.
If someone is mentally ill to the point where they could not, at some time, tell right from wrong, they are not held criminally responsible, and are committed to a hospital until they are deemed to be a lower risk.
Which brings us to:
5: No DA would ever use this data for arrests so he or she can meet their quota to keep their campaign contributions coming in from the private prison lobby. Remember: 48 states signed an agreement stating they would keep their private jails at 90% or more capacity or else pay fines by the hour. With marijuana being legalized, those bed spaces have to be filled up somehow.
DAs wouldn't want any data that a person is mentally ill to be submitted to the court - it will screw up their conviction rate, which means those cells stay empty.
Now look at this:
4: This data would never be used by an ex-spouse as a way to say that the kids are in mortal danger and kill all rights completely in a divorce.
So what happens to all those people who are fighting to keep their kids, plan to drop this bomb, do their research and then find out that the only person in the relationship who is mentally ill is them? Or that they're both mentally ill? The most common form of mental illness is depression, and if it's controlled no judge will use it to decide a custody case.
I could go on, but why bother? Seems to me that there are to many from the tin-foil hat crowd who need to see a shrink. And give up their guns, before they hurt someone.
That's like saying 2 32-bit hashes on different values will always be unique - and their techniques are nowhere near that fine-grained. Switch the phone when you move. Problem solved.
However, you miss the point - your profile isn't you. They would actually have to do some legwork to tie it to you as an individual, and advertisers aren't going to do that. And the government already knows who I am.
Really, advertisers tracking me is a waste of time. A TOTAL waste of time. The only problem I have with it is the waste of bandwidth.
Nonsense. After writing assembler without a macro processor, I got Turbo Assembler and never looked back. It's also why I think Java sucks over C - lack of a macro pre-processor to abuse. And there's nothing to write a pre-pre-processor to use your own custom "language" and translate it so that it's suitable input for a pre-processor.
I've seen on/, many times a public corporation in the US, by law, has to use the cheapest developer possible, otherwise they will be sued for not maximizing their profits.
There is no such law. People like to repeat this because it "sounds logical." Even government contracts reserve the right not to accept the lowest, or any, bidder.
Or you could have a drone automatically pick it up after a set delay. And if you live in an open-carry state, stick a gun on it to show you're serious. And lasers. Gotta have lasers. And a gofundme campaign so PROFIT. And separate facebook and twitter accounts for your book-lending activities so you can cyber-bully those who don't return the books on time. And an SJW campaign for those mean, rotten book abusers who refuse to acknowledge it's all the guy's fault BECAUSE OKAY!
How anal-retentive or broken inside do you have to be to even worry about this sh*t? It's a BOOK! You've lent it to a FRIEND! Let it go... This whole thing reminds me of the saying "If you love something, let it go. If it comes back, it's yours. If it doesn't, get your shotgun and hunt it down."
When you lend out books, you have to expect a certain amount of "shrinkage." Or you can be a dick, not lend anything out, and not enrich the lives of those around you. Just remember, what goes around comes around.
Classical basic is a great way to get your brain ready for assembler, because you don't have the benefits more modern languages have. Also, every jmp instruction (jmp, jle, jgt, jne, etc) in assembler is a goto.
Claiming that someone is living in a bubble while the other's are not shows another bubble you're in. The bubble of ignorance.
Now let me guess your national TV and local media are targeted at you, since you are the one reading them, and you don't read any fashion magazines, or architecture magazines, investment magazines, or news papers targeted at the kind of people who can not only afford a bespoke suit but actually prefer wearing one.
But hey you only know what you know right? We all live in bubbles.
Of course the national media is targeted to Canadians. The vast majority of Canadians. And they have never used "bespoked", not in their programming, not in their ads. But the American media next door is targeted to Americans and they don't use it either.
And of course I wouldn't read fashion magazines targeted at selling me a suit. This is the second time you bring that up, and it shows you are working off of wrong assumptions that are actually insulting. I don't give a damn if it's custom fitted - why would any woman want a suit except maybe for Halloween? Even the butch lesbians I know don't. If it's something I really need to dress up for, a skirt or dress works just fine.
Additionally, the fact that you place more importance on appearance (custom-made suits, etc) than on performance shows just how shallow you are. Every time I've been interviewed on TV, I just wear whatever I'm wearing - it's the content that counts, because content is still king. It also makes sure that the focus is what I want to talk about, because it's not "all about me."
The places I worked for, I never bothered going to the meetings because they were boring wastes of time. Never missed anything either,but I *did* drive the bosses nuts. One-on-one conversations, making coffee in the morning and going around and talking to the other devs individually, got more done. The bosses couldn't say much because (1) I was the go-to person for all the programmers when they had problems, (2) I was the top dev, (3) I produced results, and (4) we eventually just stopped having meetings as everyone saw them for what they are - distractions, time wasters, bull sessions, and pissing contests.
Remember, the more people in a meeting, the less that gets done and the lower the collective intelligence of the group. No exceptions.
Unfortunately, most people don't have the courage to tell the boss "I'm going to the washroom." "When will you be back?" "5 minutes after this meeting ends."
Nonsense. Android still gives the answer from a web search, as well as various answers for where to bury a dead body. After the next US election, that last one might become really popular.
Never heard of Borland's good old Turbo Basic and it's successors, PowerBASIC, PBDos, PBCC, and PBWin? They all create stand-alone executables without needing a runtime or an interpreter. Makes it easy to distribute finished programs.
Or you could just dig up an old BASIC interpreter and a simple text editor. No need for linux, vim, gcc or whatever. Let them run it locally in a terminal (full-screen is nice for kid's eyes and makes it easier to spot a typo such as a single quote instead of a double quote, etc. Absolutely no need to add overhead such as a web browser and the need for both an internet connection and a server. You could do this on computers that are two or more decades old, so if they don't have a box at home (or someone else is using it) they can still play around. And no hassles about malware, antivirus, etc. A simpler, gentler time.
One of the important ones is to be able to understand the difference between the string "1" and the number 1. It's a good introduction to variable types.
Mutations that are neutral in one environment will "pop out" when the environment changes. When there's a drastic environmental change, all these environmentally-neutral changes that have accumulated can suddenly be selected for or selected out due to the new environment.
Go back in time and take a selection of dogs and dump them in Newfoundland. Very quickly, those that are less able to handle cold will be out-bred, and those who do not have thick black coats with two layers, so that they can even get warm enough to dry out in the middle of winter on a summer day, are going to be at a serious disadvantage. And since surface area (and heat loss) to body mass is higher in smaller dogs, the largest will have the best chance of surviving and breeding. Since the culling process in such a harsh environment would be extremely rapid, it won't take too many generations to produce a line of dogs that are large, black, two-layer coats, and resistant to cold. Any dogs that were not born with one or more of these traits would probably not live long enough to breed.
This also affects their behaviour. Newfies can afford to be easy-going dogs because there aren't too many threats to them in nature - they can kill a horse.
And in this case as easy to "unfix" as getting another burner phone. Do this every few years when you need a new phone. Prostitutes will sell their burner phones on craigslist or kijiji every few months and buy a new one using another bogus name for very obvious reasons.
Yes, but none of that implies that the cave-dwelling creatures selected for the loss of sight so that their visual cortex could be repurposed. They're blind regardless of whether they could see if introduced to light.
Never said it did. Just that the brain has a certain plasticity, and can repurpose parts to provide greater processing power for the other senses when blind (mri studies show this).
Any change that doesn't result in a "change of body shape/size/colour/function etc" isn't going to be selected for or against unless and until the environment changes. Then it may prove to be either beneficial, detrimental, a bit of both, or neutral. Even then, it's a crapshoot. Blue eyes are a recent recessive mutation that carries with it a three-fold increased risk of glaucoma, as well as other diseases. Being left-handed comes with its' own problems, such as increased risk of ptsd and psychosis (weird fun fact: the majority of transsexuals are left-handed). And yet both persist.
Consider that the average human has between 60 and 200 mutations. And that even traits that are harmful, such as juvenile diabetes and sickle cell anemia, are successfully passed on. Sure, sickle cell anemia provides some protection against malaria, but what possible advantage can type 1 diabetes confer, aside from high sugar content fractionally lowering the freezing point of blood? Kind of outweighed by kidneys and eyes going bad, nerve damage, and extremities developing ulcers that turn gangrenous if not treated?
But us mutating into cows? That's udder nonsense:-) Though all the guys trolling anonymously mutating into bulls would explain all their bullsh*t... still, anything's better than being a sheeple.
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truth & mercy = justice long held spiritual axioms unchanged...
That has never been a spiritual axiom. For example, the old testament was "truth == justice". The new testament was "without mercy, you have nothing." Of course, with the "christian" nutbars out there using the old testament to bash people over the head/control people, it's understandable that many would make this mistake.
Be more like Jimmy Carter, less like Ben Carson.
They claim people are asking for this. Let the ones who want it wear the wearable data collector, and the rest just won't bother.
6: No judge would use this for a sentence in a case. Since mentally ill people tend to not exactly be rich in general, no judge would take advantage of that fact and pass longer sentences to keep the private prison campaign funds rolling in.
If someone is mentally ill to the point where they could not, at some time, tell right from wrong, they are not held criminally responsible, and are committed to a hospital until they are deemed to be a lower risk.
Which brings us to:
5: No DA would ever use this data for arrests so he or she can meet their quota to keep their campaign contributions coming in from the private prison lobby. Remember: 48 states signed an agreement stating they would keep their private jails at 90% or more capacity or else pay fines by the hour. With marijuana being legalized, those bed spaces have to be filled up somehow.
DAs wouldn't want any data that a person is mentally ill to be submitted to the court - it will screw up their conviction rate, which means those cells stay empty.
Now look at this:
4: This data would never be used by an ex-spouse as a way to say that the kids are in mortal danger and kill all rights completely in a divorce.
So what happens to all those people who are fighting to keep their kids, plan to drop this bomb, do their research and then find out that the only person in the relationship who is mentally ill is them? Or that they're both mentally ill? The most common form of mental illness is depression, and if it's controlled no judge will use it to decide a custody case.
I could go on, but why bother? Seems to me that there are to many from the tin-foil hat crowd who need to see a shrink. And give up their guns, before they hurt someone.
So people who need help will no longer turn to the Internet for support. Gun control is a much better solution. It works elsewhere.
That's like saying 2 32-bit hashes on different values will always be unique - and their techniques are nowhere near that fine-grained. Switch the phone when you move. Problem solved.
However, you miss the point - your profile isn't you. They would actually have to do some legwork to tie it to you as an individual, and advertisers aren't going to do that. And the government already knows who I am.
Really, advertisers tracking me is a waste of time. A TOTAL waste of time. The only problem I have with it is the waste of bandwidth.
You can do structured programming as well as OOP in many languages, including assembler.
Nonsense. After writing assembler without a macro processor, I got Turbo Assembler and never looked back. It's also why I think Java sucks over C - lack of a macro pre-processor to abuse. And there's nothing to write a pre-pre-processor to use your own custom "language" and translate it so that it's suitable input for a pre-processor.
You'd probably be better off than some other states.
I've seen on /, many times a public corporation in the US, by law, has to use the cheapest developer possible, otherwise they will be sued for not maximizing their profits.
There is no such law. People like to repeat this because it "sounds logical." Even government contracts reserve the right not to accept the lowest, or any, bidder.
Riiight - blame the messenger, not the message. Nice wookie defense you got going there.
Or you could have a drone automatically pick it up after a set delay. And if you live in an open-carry state, stick a gun on it to show you're serious. And lasers. Gotta have lasers. And a gofundme campaign so PROFIT. And separate facebook and twitter accounts for your book-lending activities so you can cyber-bully those who don't return the books on time. And an SJW campaign for those mean, rotten book abusers who refuse to acknowledge it's all the guy's fault BECAUSE OKAY!
How anal-retentive or broken inside do you have to be to even worry about this sh*t? It's a BOOK! You've lent it to a FRIEND! Let it go ... This whole thing reminds me of the saying "If you love something, let it go. If it comes back, it's yours. If it doesn't, get your shotgun and hunt it down."
Sign the inside cover. Problem solved.
When you lend out books, you have to expect a certain amount of "shrinkage." Or you can be a dick, not lend anything out, and not enrich the lives of those around you. Just remember, what goes around comes around.
Classical basic is a great way to get your brain ready for assembler, because you don't have the benefits more modern languages have. Also, every jmp instruction (jmp, jle, jgt, jne, etc) in assembler is a goto.
Claiming that someone is living in a bubble while the other's are not shows another bubble you're in. The bubble of ignorance.
Now let me guess your national TV and local media are targeted at you, since you are the one reading them, and you don't read any fashion magazines, or architecture magazines, investment magazines, or news papers targeted at the kind of people who can not only afford a bespoke suit but actually prefer wearing one.
But hey you only know what you know right? We all live in bubbles.
Of course the national media is targeted to Canadians. The vast majority of Canadians. And they have never used "bespoked", not in their programming, not in their ads. But the American media next door is targeted to Americans and they don't use it either.
And of course I wouldn't read fashion magazines targeted at selling me a suit. This is the second time you bring that up, and it shows you are working off of wrong assumptions that are actually insulting. I don't give a damn if it's custom fitted - why would any woman want a suit except maybe for Halloween? Even the butch lesbians I know don't. If it's something I really need to dress up for, a skirt or dress works just fine.
Additionally, the fact that you place more importance on appearance (custom-made suits, etc) than on performance shows just how shallow you are. Every time I've been interviewed on TV, I just wear whatever I'm wearing - it's the content that counts, because content is still king. It also makes sure that the focus is what I want to talk about, because it's not "all about me."
The places I worked for, I never bothered going to the meetings because they were boring wastes of time. Never missed anything either,but I *did* drive the bosses nuts. One-on-one conversations, making coffee in the morning and going around and talking to the other devs individually, got more done. The bosses couldn't say much because (1) I was the go-to person for all the programmers when they had problems, (2) I was the top dev, (3) I produced results, and (4) we eventually just stopped having meetings as everyone saw them for what they are - distractions, time wasters, bull sessions, and pissing contests.
Remember, the more people in a meeting, the less that gets done and the lower the collective intelligence of the group. No exceptions.
Unfortunately, most people don't have the courage to tell the boss "I'm going to the washroom." "When will you be back?" "5 minutes after this meeting ends."
This is simply the dark side of marketing departments.
You make it sound like there is a light side.
Only if you forget to turn them over once in a while when staking them to the top of an ant-hill and covering them with honey.
Nonsense. Android still gives the answer from a web search, as well as various answers for where to bury a dead body. After the next US election, that last one might become really popular.
Never heard of Borland's good old Turbo Basic and it's successors, PowerBASIC, PBDos, PBCC, and PBWin? They all create stand-alone executables without needing a runtime or an interpreter. Makes it easy to distribute finished programs.
Or you could just dig up an old BASIC interpreter and a simple text editor. No need for linux, vim, gcc or whatever. Let them run it locally in a terminal (full-screen is nice for kid's eyes and makes it easier to spot a typo such as a single quote instead of a double quote, etc. Absolutely no need to add overhead such as a web browser and the need for both an internet connection and a server. You could do this on computers that are two or more decades old, so if they don't have a box at home (or someone else is using it) they can still play around. And no hassles about malware, antivirus, etc. A simpler, gentler time.
One of the important ones is to be able to understand the difference between the string "1" and the number 1. It's a good introduction to variable types.
Mutations that are neutral in one environment will "pop out" when the environment changes. When there's a drastic environmental change, all these environmentally-neutral changes that have accumulated can suddenly be selected for or selected out due to the new environment.
Go back in time and take a selection of dogs and dump them in Newfoundland. Very quickly, those that are less able to handle cold will be out-bred, and those who do not have thick black coats with two layers, so that they can even get warm enough to dry out in the middle of winter on a summer day, are going to be at a serious disadvantage. And since surface area (and heat loss) to body mass is higher in smaller dogs, the largest will have the best chance of surviving and breeding. Since the culling process in such a harsh environment would be extremely rapid, it won't take too many generations to produce a line of dogs that are large, black, two-layer coats, and resistant to cold. Any dogs that were not born with one or more of these traits would probably not live long enough to breed.
This also affects their behaviour. Newfies can afford to be easy-going dogs because there aren't too many threats to them in nature - they can kill a horse.
And in this case as easy to "unfix" as getting another burner phone. Do this every few years when you need a new phone. Prostitutes will sell their burner phones on craigslist or kijiji every few months and buy a new one using another bogus name for very obvious reasons.
Yes, but none of that implies that the cave-dwelling creatures selected for the loss of sight so that their visual cortex could be repurposed. They're blind regardless of whether they could see if introduced to light.
Never said it did. Just that the brain has a certain plasticity, and can repurpose parts to provide greater processing power for the other senses when blind (mri studies show this).
Any change that doesn't result in a "change of body shape/size/colour/function etc" isn't going to be selected for or against unless and until the environment changes. Then it may prove to be either beneficial, detrimental, a bit of both, or neutral. Even then, it's a crapshoot. Blue eyes are a recent recessive mutation that carries with it a three-fold increased risk of glaucoma, as well as other diseases. Being left-handed comes with its' own problems, such as increased risk of ptsd and psychosis (weird fun fact: the majority of transsexuals are left-handed). And yet both persist.
But us mutating into cows? That's udder nonsense :-) Though all the guys trolling anonymously mutating into bulls would explain all their bullsh*t ... still, anything's better than being a sheeple.