The militia was every white male between the ages of 18 and 45 who was a landowner. You weren't eligible to serve in the militia if you weren't white, weren't a property owner, weren't male.
You were required to keep your firearm stored at home (none of this open carry stuff).
It's probably a good example of how "male white privilege" has been around for a long time.
It's not hard to prevent circular references - just restructure your code to avoid them. If you have a circular reference, you're probably doing something wrong, or at least lazy.:-)
The only trick I used was what every kid hears from their parents - if you take something, put it back when you're finished/ It applies to malloc() as much as it applies to your toys when you were a kid.
Which is why people should learn assembler before learning c or c++ - they'll have more respect for memory allocation.
You need to learn your history - gcc was so bad that it was scrapped. EGCS was renamed GCC and took it's place. What you call GCC today is actually EGCS.
And the source of the problems that led to the scrapping of GCC? RMS.
The GCC/EGGS thing is not ancient history, because we're still seeing that RMS is becoming more of a roadblock (and embarrassment) as time goes on.
BTW - After years of pushing games for linux users, steam only has 1% of their user base using linux. Linux isn't dying in the gaming world, simply because it was never really alive. And the hugely overpriced steambox isn't going to change that.
Playstation and Apple use FreeBSD for a reason - it makes financial sense. So there are literally orders of magnitude more gamers using FreeBSD than linux, and that's not going to change.
As for compilers - I don't use templates, I don't use the STL, I agree with linus that the programmers who depend on such are generally sub-par. What *I* want is a compiler that has all that crapola stripped out of it. It would be damned fast, both at compile time and at run time.
What if somebody knows he is depressed, gets the apropiate care, and still don't want to spend years with the hope that maybe he could manage the depresion, and prefers to die?
Medication helps, but there are side effects. Therapy helps, but it's not a cure-all. My latest bout has been going on for more than 6 months; more than half a year of not being able to stay awake for more than a few hours at a time, isolated from the regular ebb and flow of life, unable to concentrate because of the side effects of the meds, reminding myself to keep my promise not to make any important decisions when I'm down in the dumps, trying to avoid the obvious - that it (life) is really not worth all this hassle.
I'd rather be like I am when I'm not in the grips of a major depressive episode; however, if I believed there was no hope of having a "normal life" for at least a while before the next bout, I'd pull the plug. Not because I want to, but because the alternative is worse. Not being "me" sucks.
A world sterilized to the point where it 'prevents' suicides by forcing miserable people to deal with hopeless situations is not a nice place for anyone to live in.
There's a huge difference between hopeless situations such as people dealing with a terminal cancer that can't be cured no matter what, and people who feel that they have no other alternative but to kill themselves because they can't get the help they need to get their life back on track. Throw in the taboos, stigma, blame-the-victim-for-being-weak, and sheer reluctance to address the issues surrounding mental illness, and you've got a recipe for disaster.
People will readily admit to having cancer, heart disease, COPD, and all other sorts of physical diseases... but "mental illness"? To paraphrase Michael Landsberg, telling people you have to cut a meeting short to see your doctor or dentist - no problem. To tell them you have to cut the meeting short to see your psychiatrist... not so good.
Courts are making the determination that someone below the physical age of majority was of sufficient maturity at the time to be tried as an adult on a regular basis. Age is just an arbitrary number, which in many cases doesn't stand up under inspection.
those determined to exit this sphere of existence will find a way to do so.
Ok, too hard to RTFA, but at least RTFS. It is not about those who are sufficiently determined to find a way.
How many people would progress from a form of "impulse suicide because the opportunity presented itself" to "I can't take it any more - one way or another I'm outta here"? Certainly some will. Unless preventing the easy impulse methods is accompanied by better mental health care, all you're doing is kicking the can down the road.
and also there is a bigger chance for another person to notice how depressed they are, and offer help
Don't bet on it. The usual reaction is some variant of "you just have to pull yourself out of it." Even when you tell them point blank that you can't stop thinking about killing yourself.
If you want to go old school, the age of majority at the time of the founding was 21. So the parent is wrong when saying that who is "child" is clear cut.
And blacks, women, and children were all property. Do you really want to go back to that as some sort of "gold standard"?
Also a house is burgled, not burglarized you fucking yanks.
Not a yank, f*cking or otherwise. And having seen the quality (or lack thereof) of the video from security systems, you're better off with a couple of really big dogs.
Natural cause-and-effect is kind of fuzzy and can lead to incorrect generalisations, which we call "superstitions"; but process thinking has to be rigid, complete and unambiguous.
I guess you never heard of the expression "In theory, theory and practice should be the same, whereas in fact they're not."
Cause and effect does not lead to "incorrect generalizations" - those are observer errors or biases.
And "process thinking" has all the same problems of observer errors and biases. People make mistakes all the time. Until you can come up with the perfect person, you cannot guarantee that any process is "complete and unambiguous". Also, it's a fundamental error to create a process that is rigid - things that are rigid tend to break.
GCC was never "the best compiler out there". At one point it was SO bad that they had to switch to EGCS and rename that to GCC. You can also get compilers from Intel, Pathscale, etc., that perform better. Pick your poison:-)
Doesn't mean that it doesn't suck big time. TR1 sucked. The STL sucks. Templates suck. The original goal of c++ - c with classes - was good, but come on - this has gone way too far off track.
Yes one can make such an argument. It would however not be based on reality and would be easily disproved by research data and statistics.
Most people that are suicidal don't want to suffer a painful death.
Most people have their darkest moments while at home.
There are many, many ways to kill yourself that don't involve a painful death, unlike guns, which may take out part of your brain but leave you alive and permanently handicapped.
Got access to prescription meds for yourself or your family? A lot of them are lethal when overdosed. Insulin, for example. You can inject 600 units of NPH (slow-acting insulin) followed by 300-600 units of Novolin-Toronto (regular-actng insulin) and even if your body survives, you'll be brain-dead.
It depends on the carrier. Telus released it last month, Rogers this week. But you really really want to stay with Kit Kat. Their new "Material" design is not exactly user-friendly. - especially the black text on a dark grey background for "Cancel", some weird typos, the habit of almost always opening the phone app when I swipe to unlock... not impressed.
The "CC" in CCTV originally stood for "Charge Coupled", as in "Charge Coupled Device" - the sensor in the camera. Today's "Closed Circuit" cameras often use wifi, since it's easier to install. So don't be a jerk, mkay?
That watch is UGLY. If I wanted a chunky watch (I don't) I'd go buy something for $20-$30 at walmart that at least wouldn't look quite so bad. A lot of people are going to wear this once, twice, then wear a long-sleeved sweater to hide it.
From the other people's comments, I was expecting "kinda ugly." Not "OMG please tell me they switched the babies 'cuz that one can't be mine!" ugly.
Any bets this is Apple's Zune moment? About the only good thing to say about this watch is that, like the Zune, nobody's going to want to steal it.
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The militia was every white male between the ages of 18 and 45 who was a landowner. You weren't eligible to serve in the militia if you weren't white, weren't a property owner, weren't male.
You were required to keep your firearm stored at home (none of this open carry stuff).
It's probably a good example of how "male white privilege" has been around for a long time.
The only trick I used was what every kid hears from their parents - if you take something, put it back when you're finished/ It applies to malloc() as much as it applies to your toys when you were a kid.
Which is why people should learn assembler before learning c or c++ - they'll have more respect for memory allocation.
Yes, I've been doing that a lot lately, because it's true. But don't take my word for it - ask Linus.
You need to learn your history - gcc was so bad that it was scrapped. EGCS was renamed GCC and took it's place. What you call GCC today is actually EGCS.
And the source of the problems that led to the scrapping of GCC? RMS.
The GCC/EGGS thing is not ancient history, because we're still seeing that RMS is becoming more of a roadblock (and embarrassment) as time goes on.
BTW - After years of pushing games for linux users, steam only has 1% of their user base using linux. Linux isn't dying in the gaming world, simply because it was never really alive. And the hugely overpriced steambox isn't going to change that.
Playstation and Apple use FreeBSD for a reason - it makes financial sense. So there are literally orders of magnitude more gamers using FreeBSD than linux, and that's not going to change.
As for compilers - I don't use templates, I don't use the STL, I agree with linus that the programmers who depend on such are generally sub-par. What *I* want is a compiler that has all that crapola stripped out of it. It would be damned fast, both at compile time and at run time.
It would need to climb significantly above 1% of users before it's even a competitor. 1% after how many years? That's pitiful.
Your exact words wore "at the time of the founding" - not what was written in the constitution per se. My point stands. :-)
A large number of female suicide attempts are screams for attention, they don't actually want to kill themselves.
And the men who kill themselves wouldn't have rather lived if they could have gotten help with their problems?
So why not at least put a few posters with the phone number of a hot line and a call box? And maybe the address of a drop-in clinic? Offer some help?
What if somebody knows he is depressed, gets the apropiate care, and still don't want to spend years with the hope that maybe he could manage the depresion, and prefers to die?
You might want to read what it's really like from TSN's Michael Landsberg.
Medication helps, but there are side effects. Therapy helps, but it's not a cure-all. My latest bout has been going on for more than 6 months; more than half a year of not being able to stay awake for more than a few hours at a time, isolated from the regular ebb and flow of life, unable to concentrate because of the side effects of the meds, reminding myself to keep my promise not to make any important decisions when I'm down in the dumps, trying to avoid the obvious - that it (life) is really not worth all this hassle.
I'd rather be like I am when I'm not in the grips of a major depressive episode; however, if I believed there was no hope of having a "normal life" for at least a while before the next bout, I'd pull the plug. Not because I want to, but because the alternative is worse. Not being "me" sucks.
A world sterilized to the point where it 'prevents' suicides by forcing miserable people to deal with hopeless situations is not a nice place for anyone to live in.
There's a huge difference between hopeless situations such as people dealing with a terminal cancer that can't be cured no matter what, and people who feel that they have no other alternative but to kill themselves because they can't get the help they need to get their life back on track. Throw in the taboos, stigma, blame-the-victim-for-being-weak, and sheer reluctance to address the issues surrounding mental illness, and you've got a recipe for disaster.
People will readily admit to having cancer, heart disease, COPD, and all other sorts of physical diseases ... but "mental illness"? To paraphrase Michael Landsberg, telling people you have to cut a meeting short to see your doctor or dentist - no problem. To tell them you have to cut the meeting short to see your psychiatrist ... not so good.
People don't kill themselves because they want to, but because they don't feel they have any other options left. Depression is depressing.
If that law ever gets enacted in my country, I will hang a rifle from the ceiling in front of my bay windows and report myself to the authorities.
By the time the cops get there, someone will have probably stolen your rifle, since they know you don't have it within easy reach :-)
Courts are making the determination that someone below the physical age of majority was of sufficient maturity at the time to be tried as an adult on a regular basis. Age is just an arbitrary number, which in many cases doesn't stand up under inspection.
those determined to exit this sphere of existence will find a way to do so.
Ok, too hard to RTFA, but at least RTFS. It is not about those who are sufficiently determined to find a way.
How many people would progress from a form of "impulse suicide because the opportunity presented itself" to "I can't take it any more - one way or another I'm outta here"? Certainly some will. Unless preventing the easy impulse methods is accompanied by better mental health care, all you're doing is kicking the can down the road.
and also there is a bigger chance for another person to notice how depressed they are, and offer help
Don't bet on it. The usual reaction is some variant of "you just have to pull yourself out of it." Even when you tell them point blank that you can't stop thinking about killing yourself.
If you want to go old school, the age of majority at the time of the founding was 21. So the parent is wrong when saying that who is "child" is clear cut.
And blacks, women, and children were all property. Do you really want to go back to that as some sort of "gold standard"?
Also a house is burgled, not burglarized you fucking yanks.
Not a yank, f*cking or otherwise. And having seen the quality (or lack thereof) of the video from security systems, you're better off with a couple of really big dogs.
Natural cause-and-effect is kind of fuzzy and can lead to incorrect generalisations, which we call "superstitions"; but process thinking has to be rigid, complete and unambiguous.
I guess you never heard of the expression "In theory, theory and practice should be the same, whereas in fact they're not."
Cause and effect does not lead to "incorrect generalizations" - those are observer errors or biases.
And "process thinking" has all the same problems of observer errors and biases. People make mistakes all the time. Until you can come up with the perfect person, you cannot guarantee that any process is "complete and unambiguous". Also, it's a fundamental error to create a process that is rigid - things that are rigid tend to break.
GCC was never "the best compiler out there". At one point it was SO bad that they had to switch to EGCS and rename that to GCC. You can also get compilers from Intel, Pathscale, etc., that perform better. Pick your poison :-)
Doesn't mean that it doesn't suck big time. TR1 sucked. The STL sucks. Templates suck. The original goal of c++ - c with classes - was good, but come on - this has gone way too far off track.
Yes one can make such an argument. It would however not be based on reality and would be easily disproved by research data and statistics.
Most people that are suicidal don't want to suffer a painful death. Most people have their darkest moments while at home.
There are many, many ways to kill yourself that don't involve a painful death, unlike guns, which may take out part of your brain but leave you alive and permanently handicapped.
Got access to prescription meds for yourself or your family? A lot of them are lethal when overdosed. Insulin, for example. You can inject 600 units of NPH (slow-acting insulin) followed by 300-600 units of Novolin-Toronto (regular-actng insulin) and even if your body survives, you'll be brain-dead.
Interestingly, many insulin suicides are by paramedics and non-diabetics.
It depends on the carrier. Telus released it last month, Rogers this week. But you really really want to stay with Kit Kat. Their new "Material" design is not exactly user-friendly. - especially the black text on a dark grey background for "Cancel", some weird typos, the habit of almost always opening the phone app when I swipe to unlock ... not impressed.
BTW - it's very easy to splice into the video cable and throw in a wireless repeater.
The "CC" in CCTV originally stood for "Charge Coupled", as in "Charge Coupled Device" - the sensor in the camera. Today's "Closed Circuit" cameras often use wifi, since it's easier to install. So don't be a jerk, mkay?
That watch is UGLY. If I wanted a chunky watch (I don't) I'd go buy something for $20-$30 at walmart that at least wouldn't look quite so bad. A lot of people are going to wear this once, twice, then wear a long-sleeved sweater to hide it.
From the other people's comments, I was expecting "kinda ugly." Not "OMG please tell me they switched the babies 'cuz that one can't be mine!" ugly.
Any bets this is Apple's Zune moment? About the only good thing to say about this watch is that, like the Zune, nobody's going to want to steal it.