Wouldn't they need to buy many fewer machines and have many fewer employees? Don't the screeners always look at the tickets anyway (that's been my experience in the US)?
Use something clean and designed well like Python.
Many scientific computing organizations can never get enough memory and that's a problem when coding large data structures in Python. Python has a nice design, but the runtime still needs improvement. Perl6 is in the same boat.
Pretty much, in the sense that slavery and female oppression are symptoms of human behavor
Except they don't exist without laws that enforce them...
There's always going to be a bully and people who follow him, and then BAM! Instant dictator.
I'm all about not having dictators, but governments have been the most useful tool of dictators throughout history. When Hitler passed a law forbidding Jews to own guns in 1938, that was a government action. Then we have governments like the US supporting every dictator around since WWII.
Get rid of the government, and you'll find yourself needing to solve a lot of problems.
No doubt. But laziness doesn't excuse the killing of half a billion people. As Gandhi always said, "the means are everything."
How many did governments save?
You tell me (my number has easy citations). Governments saving people from other governments wouldn't count. Governments saving people from problems it created wouldn't count either.
There's a few places in the world that don't have government in any meaningful sense. Lessee... Darfur, Somalia...
Somalia's conditions are improving without a government. The fair measure is before and after, and comparing with neighbors.
Darfur was a mess because one group of people who want to be the government was at war with the other group.
Besides, who works the problems out? Everyone just magically agrees to the obvious solutions?
As I mentioned earlier, check out the works of Bob Murphy and other private law scholars, or Dubai's private law. I know in all my contracts I use a binding arbitration clause - the courts are the worst place to wind up with a problem.
My city maintains asphalt and concrete streets in poor neighborhoods. It doesn't maintain brick streets (even ones in upper middle class neighborhoods).
I don't get why you wouldn't be happier taking $50 off your tax bill and giving it to a private company (with all your other brick-street neighbors) to have a road that's in top shape. Can you expand on how your current situation is better?
The right thing to do is to pardon anyone and everyone who is convicted of a victimless crime.
I'll be testifying on a bill on Thursday that would allow this as a defense in a trial.
If you care about this kind of stuff, c'mon over to New Hampshire where we're actually making some progress. A thousand activists have moved so far (to join those of us already here) and 19,000 more are waiting for the mass move.
So really, I've spent about 7 years or so learning how to get stuff like this done.
Pay attention to Seth here, folks. I was with him at the State House in 2006 when we tried and failed, and I testified for his bill as an open source entrepreneur this time around when we won.
Others have tried and failed to get something like this through. At least in the US, this is a prime and major success. You guys should be taking notes and seeking to replicate his success in your local jurisdictions.
He can sign an executive order banning unconstitutional prosecutions, but frankly, that won't accomplish anything. If the people doing those unconstitutional prosecutions actually thought it was actually unconstitutional they probably wouldn't be doing it in the first place (and they probably can't be convinced that what they're doing is unethical or unconstitutional)
They don't have to be convinced - the Justice Department is part of the Executive Branch. They work for the President and the President can fire anybody who won't work for his goals. Just like Obama is prosecuting Amish for selling raw milk, selling arms to Mexican drug cartels, and raiding medical marijuana clinics - none of which has popular support - the President has wide latitude about what to pursue within the law.
Assuming he did sign all those pardons, his own party and voters would revolt against him. Pardoning drug criminals? The Republicans aren't ready for that. It defies conservative ideologies such as "once a criminal, always a criminal" and "(those) drugs are for hippies".
It's amazing how little principles matter to politicans. It was the Republican Congress with Bush II who passed the USAPATRIOT Act, NCLB, and Medicare Part D.
Without the support of Congress or the Senate there is little that Ron Paul can do, and each person in Congress, in particular, cares about the outcome on their next election which is always less than 2 years away.
Just four years ago, everybody in Washington was calling Paul a kook for even mentioning the Federal Reserve. Now Congress is auditing it and finding tens of trillions of dollars worth of problems. He's good at building coalitions. The strategy is to find issues of common agreement, and pursue those. Worry about the rest when those are solved.
And there are a lot of entrenched interests who would fight Ron Paul tooth and nail on almost every issue he advocates.
Absolutely. Yet we have the Tea Parties and the Occupy groups rising up in opposition.
Which is to continue the trend of risky business with the socialisation of losses and privatisation of winnings.
Exactly - which is why it's important to End the Fed before any of those things happen. Without an unlimited supply of money, the government will be forced into some level of austerity.
Your leader needs motivated followers who are willing to fill the streets to demonstrate that they won't take "no" for an answer.
Snipers use scopes that let you dial in the range and windage so that the cross hairs keep the point of aim and point of impact the same.
'Important' snipers do more than that - their scope adjustments are informed by satellite laser 'soundings' of the atmosphere between the sniper and his target. Pockets of varying air density and micro wind currents can apparently make enough of an impact at 1.5-2 miles to cause a bullet to stray several inches.
The distance is sufficient that those around the victim may never actually hear the report. I was told they only bother with this gear for very high value targets where deniability is important.
I know Mandriva has its fans, but from the few machines I've had to help bail out of Mandriva I found their idea about sensible defaults for just about everything to be bass-ackwards. From that start, what's the point?
Maybe my clean-shaven counterpart in the mirror universe is a Mandriva admin and they're still doing a strong business.
I am very much pro copyright. Though I am a purist who believes in fair use and and that limited duration should never have been extended past 14 years.
But copyrights require states to enforce them. And states are always corrupt and don't stick to the rules for very long.
I get that you might like the concept of a copyright in a theoretical world, but empirically the kind of copyright you want is one you can't have (for long, anyway).
It's kinda hard to make any guesses or draw analogies for a some hypothetical future civil war in US, though. What will it be fought over? What will be the sides?
Age, probably, and I'm sad to say it.
I better keep taking my vitamins so I can hope to blend in!
Sorry, but that's ignorant. If Ron Paul becomes president, he won't make pot legal, he won't put the country on the gold standard, and I'm not even sure if he will end the U.S. occupation of other countries.
Can you point to anything that suggests he's lying about this? Day one: he signs dozens of executive orders halting unconsitutional prosecutions and orders the military home. He pardons all non-violent drug offenders in principle, and signs each individual pardon request as they filter in.
If he survives beyond his inauguration ceremony, you're gonna see some serious shit. (Lincoln, Garfield, and Kennedy each got a few weeks to live after messing with the monetary system).
The Federal Reserve Chairman appointment of Jim Grant would come upon Bernanke's expiration of term - there's no way to short-circuit that one.
From their release page, I count 1403 issues resolved for this release.
That's a hell of an engineering effort for a six-week release. Kudos, Firefox devs.
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Somehow, the idea of "working around" security features built into the OS sounds like a horrible idea to me.
If they were proposing running a daemon on Linux to work around the Unix permissions model, I'd agree with you.
But they don't have to do that on Linux because the distros provide an update mechanism, which updates firefox. Or the apps can provide their own repository, and the OS infrastructure will handle the updates (e.g. Adobe updates my Flash for me via yum).
Supposedly Windows 8 will finally have this. They're calling it an app store, I think.
But, I also believe it is completely factual to say that artists who rely on the existing system will be hurt by any lack of sales resulting from copyright infringement (whatever that may be).
And the blip in history where musicians could aspire to be in sixth sigma of income earners will be noted in textbooks as being caused by a quirky combination of new technology, artificial scaricty imposed by a cartelized industry, and government regulations created to enforce that scarcity.
"When the new government was formed in 2032, real property rights were favored over 'intellectual' ones, thereby sustaining a boom in both economic and cultural output".
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its not worth the hassle to the staff
how about the hassle to the People?
Wouldn't they need to buy many fewer machines and have many fewer employees? Don't the screeners always look at the tickets anyway (that's been my experience in the US)?
Use something clean and designed well like Python.
Many scientific computing organizations can never get enough memory and that's a problem when coding large data structures in Python. Python has a nice design, but the runtime still needs improvement. Perl6 is in the same boat.
If the security measures do not match up to what the US wants, you have problems flying to the US...
If that were the reason they could figure out a way to only screen US-bound passengers.
Pretty much, in the sense that slavery and female oppression are symptoms of human behavor
Except they don't exist without laws that enforce them...
There's always going to be a bully and people who follow him, and then BAM! Instant dictator.
I'm all about not having dictators, but governments have been the most useful tool of dictators throughout history. When Hitler passed a law forbidding Jews to own guns in 1938, that was a government action. Then we have governments like the US supporting every dictator around since WWII.
Get rid of the government, and you'll find yourself needing to solve a lot of problems.
No doubt. But laziness doesn't excuse the killing of half a billion people. As Gandhi always said, "the means are everything."
How many did governments save?
You tell me (my number has easy citations). Governments saving people from other governments wouldn't count. Governments saving people from problems it created wouldn't count either.
There's a few places in the world that don't have government in any meaningful sense. Lessee... Darfur, Somalia...
Somalia's conditions are improving without a government. The fair measure is before and after, and comparing with neighbors.
Darfur was a mess because one group of people who want to be the government was at war with the other group.
Besides, who works the problems out? Everyone just magically agrees to the obvious solutions?
As I mentioned earlier, check out the works of Bob Murphy and other private law scholars, or Dubai's private law. I know in all my contracts I use a binding arbitration clause - the courts are the worst place to wind up with a problem.
My city maintains asphalt and concrete streets in poor neighborhoods. It doesn't maintain brick streets (even ones in upper middle class neighborhoods).
I don't get why you wouldn't be happier taking $50 off your tax bill and giving it to a private company (with all your other brick-street neighbors) to have a road that's in top shape. Can you expand on how your current situation is better?
Oh, don't worry - people who've never spent my time coding Perl will be by to bash sigils any time now.
13,100 feet to the lake.
Wow, I never realized just how much ice is down there. Apparently it can reach up to 3 miles in thickness.
That's as high as any of the Rocky Mountains in the US and has 200' of global sea level tied up in it.
What problem does Australia have that this is solving?
The right thing to do is to pardon anyone and everyone who is convicted of a victimless crime.
I'll be testifying on a bill on Thursday that would allow this as a defense in a trial.
If you care about this kind of stuff, c'mon over to New Hampshire where we're actually making some progress. A thousand activists have moved so far (to join those of us already here) and 19,000 more are waiting for the mass move.
They'll still exist, they'll still be sold, updated, etc. but they won't be classed as "Developer devices". That's it.
So, how "That's it" is it if you're an Android developer who lives in a CDMA-only area?
App developers can still run a simulator and load their apps on a 'consumer' phone, right?
It's the way of the world.
Just like slavery and female repression!
Get rid of the government, and you'll find yourself needing to solve a lot of problems.
Heaven forbid we work those things out. Governments only killed a half-billion people last century, that's not too high a price, is it?
my street hasn't been repaved since it was built in the 1930s
And you're against fee-for-service roads....
So really, I've spent about 7 years or so learning how to get stuff like this done.
Pay attention to Seth here, folks. I was with him at the State House in 2006 when we tried and failed, and I testified for his bill as an open source entrepreneur this time around when we won.
Others have tried and failed to get something like this through. At least in the US, this is a prime and major success. You guys should be taking notes and seeking to replicate his success in your local jurisdictions.
No, not really. That's a false choice. How about "Neither"?
The anarchistic thugs are fighting with the authoritarian thugs.
I recommend popcorn.
He can sign an executive order banning unconstitutional prosecutions, but frankly, that won't accomplish anything. If the people doing those unconstitutional prosecutions actually thought it was actually unconstitutional they probably wouldn't be doing it in the first place (and they probably can't be convinced that what they're doing is unethical or unconstitutional)
They don't have to be convinced - the Justice Department is part of the Executive Branch. They work for the President and the President can fire anybody who won't work for his goals. Just like Obama is prosecuting Amish for selling raw milk, selling arms to Mexican drug cartels, and raiding medical marijuana clinics - none of which has popular support - the President has wide latitude about what to pursue within the law.
Assuming he did sign all those pardons, his own party and voters would revolt against him. Pardoning drug criminals? The Republicans aren't ready for that. It defies conservative ideologies such as "once a criminal, always a criminal" and "(those) drugs are for hippies".
It's amazing how little principles matter to politicans. It was the Republican Congress with Bush II who passed the USAPATRIOT Act, NCLB, and Medicare Part D.
Without the support of Congress or the Senate there is little that Ron Paul can do, and each person in Congress, in particular, cares about the outcome on their next election which is always less than 2 years away.
Just four years ago, everybody in Washington was calling Paul a kook for even mentioning the Federal Reserve. Now Congress is auditing it and finding tens of trillions of dollars worth of problems. He's good at building coalitions. The strategy is to find issues of common agreement, and pursue those. Worry about the rest when those are solved.
And there are a lot of entrenched interests who would fight Ron Paul tooth and nail on almost every issue he advocates.
Absolutely. Yet we have the Tea Parties and the Occupy groups rising up in opposition.
Which is to continue the trend of risky business with the socialisation of losses and privatisation of winnings.
Exactly - which is why it's important to End the Fed before any of those things happen. Without an unlimited supply of money, the government will be forced into some level of austerity.
Your leader needs motivated followers who are willing to fill the streets to demonstrate that they won't take "no" for an answer.
Indeed.
Snipers use scopes that let you dial in the range and windage so that the cross hairs keep the point of aim and point of impact the same.
'Important' snipers do more than that - their scope adjustments are informed by satellite laser 'soundings' of the atmosphere between the sniper and his target. Pockets of varying air density and micro wind currents can apparently make enough of an impact at 1.5-2 miles to cause a bullet to stray several inches.
The distance is sufficient that those around the victim may never actually hear the report. I was told they only bother with this gear for very high value targets where deniability is important.
I know Mandriva has its fans, but from the few machines I've had to help bail out of Mandriva I found their idea about sensible defaults for just about everything to be bass-ackwards. From that start, what's the point?
Maybe my clean-shaven counterpart in the mirror universe is a Mandriva admin and they're still doing a strong business.
I am very much pro copyright. Though I am a purist who believes in fair use and and that limited duration should never have been extended past 14 years.
But copyrights require states to enforce them. And states are always corrupt and don't stick to the rules for very long.
I get that you might like the concept of a copyright in a theoretical world, but empirically the kind of copyright you want is one you can't have (for long, anyway).
You too, eh? Never thought that grocery store VHS rental would ever be relevant again!
there's nothing he could do about it except refuse to deploy troops anywhere and order everyone to take a 4-year vacation.
As they say, "That'll do, pig."
If Congress were to declare an actual War or emit a Letter of Marque or Reprisal, I'm quite sure he'd implement them, though.
Not a fan of wars, but he's still our best hope.
It's kinda hard to make any guesses or draw analogies for a some hypothetical future civil war in US, though. What will it be fought over? What will be the sides?
Age, probably, and I'm sad to say it.
I better keep taking my vitamins so I can hope to blend in!
Sorry, but that's ignorant. If Ron Paul becomes president, he won't make pot legal, he won't put the country on the gold standard, and I'm not even sure if he will end the U.S. occupation of other countries.
Can you point to anything that suggests he's lying about this? Day one: he signs dozens of executive orders halting unconsitutional prosecutions and orders the military home. He pardons all non-violent drug offenders in principle, and signs each individual pardon request as they filter in.
If he survives beyond his inauguration ceremony, you're gonna see some serious shit. (Lincoln, Garfield, and Kennedy each got a few weeks to live after messing with the monetary system).
The Federal Reserve Chairman appointment of Jim Grant would come upon Bernanke's expiration of term - there's no way to short-circuit that one.
Raise your hand if you couldn't code a parser that detects those characters and takes appropriate action, such as popping bidi characters.
Um, so do it and submit a patch against Slashcode?
Major version numbers should be for major features, not for bug fixes.
For better or worse, Firefox doesn't use versions numbers anymore. They're only numbering releases now - versioning is gone.
I personally like version numbers, but we can't complain about Firefox doing version numbers wrong when they're not longer using version numbers.
From their release page, I count 1403 issues resolved for this release.
That's a hell of an engineering effort for a six-week release. Kudos, Firefox devs.
Somehow, the idea of "working around" security features built into the OS sounds like a horrible idea to me.
If they were proposing running a daemon on Linux to work around the Unix permissions model, I'd agree with you.
But they don't have to do that on Linux because the distros provide an update mechanism, which updates firefox. Or the apps can provide their own repository, and the OS infrastructure will handle the updates (e.g. Adobe updates my Flash for me via yum).
Supposedly Windows 8 will finally have this. They're calling it an app store, I think.
But, I also believe it is completely factual to say that artists who rely on the existing system will be hurt by any lack of sales resulting from copyright infringement (whatever that may be).
And the blip in history where musicians could aspire to be in sixth sigma of income earners will be noted in textbooks as being caused by a quirky combination of new technology, artificial scaricty imposed by a cartelized industry, and government regulations created to enforce that scarcity.
"When the new government was formed in 2032, real property rights were favored over 'intellectual' ones, thereby sustaining a boom in both economic and cultural output".
Find me in the future.