Can I ask you something? Why didn't you use your gun to stop the "unholy alliance of corporations and government" from forming in the first place? Why is it the millennials job to fix it after the fact, while you (and those of your generation) were asleep at the wheel?
People get robbed, scammed, kidnapped, and killed by drunk drivers all the time. The government only helps after the fact when it comes time to punish someone. But that's not what we're talking about here, we're talking about crime prevention.
Did the government prevent the Boston Bombing? No. Did they need access to all of our browser history without warrants to catch the guys who did it? No. Would access to all of our browser history have helped them prevent it? I doubt it. Is it worth the price of giving up that much of our liberty and privacy? Absolutely not.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. This argument is the same one that's always used when establishing a police state: "We need to violate your liberties in order to keep you safe from."
The government can't keep you safe from hackers or terrorists, they just won't tell you that because they are stupid, liars, or stupid liars. Not only that, but if you look at history you are far more likely to be killed by a government than a terrorist.
If Nasser was alive today, he would use the word Socialist to describe what he was and what he was doing. It has nothing to do with what I like or don't like. Project much?
Alright, I simplified a bit. Nasserism, named after Gamal Abdel-Nasser, the man who orchestrated the 1952 Revolution, from which the current Government is still derived, is based on Arab Nationalism and Socialism. Egypt under Nasser was very Socialist, taking and redistributing land, and establishing a largely public-sector based economy. Since Nasser's death, a lot of that has been relaxed, and even dismantled, to the point where Egypt could be fairly described as a Mixed economy today.
However, the military still comprises a significant portion (I believe around 1/3) of the economy. I do not mean that Egypt spends 1/3 of it's GDP on the military: remember the whole "you have two cows, the government takes them and sells you the milk"? Well, that's Egypt in a nutshell: like I said in the GP, you can buy orange juice and bread from the army.
This gets very complicated due to the high level of corruption and the so-called "deep state". The army is separate yet deeply entwined with the Government; they can often act as independent entities or the same entity. The police sometimes act as an arm of the military, and sometimes they go on strike and the army guns them down in the street. It's stupidly complex.
The point is, there are still a lot of things that remain from the days of Nasser, such as not being able to take large sums of money out of the country. This is because the Government might one day decide that they want your money. That's what was relevant to TFA. What was I going to do, give an entire history of a country that's over 5000 years old?
Pyramids yadda yadda yadda Cleopatra yadda yadda yadda Napoleon yadda yadda Bitcoin.
If you think the Egyptian Constitution or the Supreme Constitutional Court means anything, you're a fool. By the way, which Constitution is that? The 1971 Constitution that remained in place until the 2011 revolution? Or the interim one adopted afterwards? What about the highly controversial one that, due to the inclusion of a Blasphemy Law (something existing in other Islamic nations but not Egypt), passed with 64% support only 33% of the population, due to the other 67% boycotting the vote? Perhaps you're talking about the latest Constitution "amended" by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which miraculously passed in 2014 with 98.1% (of 36%) of the voters supporting it? Or maybe it doesn't fucking matter because it's a military dictatorship.
If an Imam speaks out against the army, they will throw his ass in fucking jail, or even kill him, without a second thought. Remember when the army massacred the protesters at the Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in August 2013? By the way, those protesters were calling for the establishment of an Islamic state.
There are laws based on Islam, but there are also civil laws from the era of Napoleon, and even laws left over from British rule. Again, it doesn't fucking matter because it's a military dictatorship. There's a theme here, are you picking up on it yet?
Speaking of the British, did you know their Head of State is also the leader of the Anglican Church? Shit, I guess that makes the UK a theocracy. Oh wait, no it doesn't because sometimes things are more complicated than they seem.
I love Python (disclaimer). But semicolons in other languages are more about splitting lines, not combining them, in my experience. That's a nice feature about being white space agnostic. Occasionally, like when splitting a string across multiple lines, you have to escape the line break, but you have to do that in Python as well sometimes, so it's a wash.
I agree, this is the one stupid thing about the language, I definitely prefer white space being completely irrelevant. But everything else about Python fucking rocks, so meh, you get used to it. Honestly I can't remember the last time it was an issue for me, and I use Python A LOT.
Meh, I'm not gonna contradict your IDE comparison, because I think IDE's in general just suck. I'd rather just code in NP++ or Kate or something, and compile from command line using makefiles or waf or whatever.
Egypt is a secular military dictatorship, not a theocratic one; don't get it confused with Saudi Arabia. Sisi is a former General, just like Mubarak was before him, and before that Sadat and Nasser were both Colonels. Remember that Sisi took power away from Morsi, who was part of the Muslim Brotherhood. He then proceeded to round up a lot of other Brotherhood members and throw them in jail (just like Nasser when he led the Free Officers coup in 1952).
If they're gonna kill him it'll probably be by hanging. Egypt is Socialist (in the real land-seizing, army-sells-you-orange-juice-and-bread kind of way, not the Bernie Sanders, public-health-care kind of way) so they don't like you taking large sums of money out of the country. That's my guess as to why they arrested this guy. As for the fact that there's "no law regulating digital currency", in a country where the President can round up Parliament and throw them in prison... it really doesn't fucking matter.
To sum it up, some bad guys didn't like the idea of a socialist utopia in Iran so the staged a coup that led to the shithole Iran is today.
Ahh yes, Operation Ajax. Those bad guys? The US and the UK.
But remember, the refugee crisis isn't our problem, the Middle East is just full of violent fucked up people completely independent of foreign meddling, right? Right?
Li Ion based batteries do poorly in heat, but the cold doesn't bother them anywhere near as much as the heat does.
I've used Li-ion batteries in a lot of product designs, and generally you shouldn't charge them below 0degC, and you shouldn't discharge them below -20degC. Keep in mind these aren't likely the same as the ones used in modern EVs, but I can't seem to find a source for that specifically...
As an aside, the only batteries I've found that are able to work reliably at -40degC are pure lead spiral wound (note: not lead-acid). The -40degC requirement is standard for outdoor industrial applications in Canada, and I imagine Norway would be similar.
Honestly, I'm pretty ignorant of this topic, lol. Never heard of the NBN until you mentioned it in the GGP. My curiosity has piqued though so I'll read up on it a bit.
Again, what you're describing (15Mbps/1TB @ $70 AUD) doesn't sound that bad. It's a bit expensive for the bandwidth, but like I said before the data cap is better than mine and I pay about the same (AUD and CAD are near par). I guess since you didn't include the "landline rental" fee then it might be a lot worse. Obviously I can't comment on the reliability, mine has been very reliable so there's that.
Lol, who's complaining? Like I said, outside of things I actually follow regularly, it's nice to just have some background noise while doing something else.
Look, I don't necessarily agree with the GP, but your point is just as stupid. Don't pretend that just because Europe has had its shit together for a few decades gives it the right to lord it over the rest of the world. History didn't begin yesterday.
The only reason Europe is at peace now is because it fought a war so unbelievably terrible that it all but destroyed itself. And it had to happen twice in less than a few decades, because they couldn't learn their lesson the first time. WWII might have been avoided if the European Allies had followed Wilson's 14 Points during the peace negotiations following WWI, and during the founding of the League of Nations. Instead, they did exactly the opposite and sowed the seeds of the next conflict with the Treaty of Versailles. Not to mention all the other terrible things that came as a result of the League, such as the Mandate system, which is at least partially responsible for the state the Middle East is in today.
The kind of nonsense you're spouting is basically the "white man's burden", the bullshit justification used by Europe for colonizing and subjugating people around the world. It's fine to uphold the virtues of modern Europe, but don't do so by repeating the rhetoric of the 19th Century.
Well I'm glad that the European Commission "voiced its stance", good that they got that privilege before taking it away from everyone else.
I can't believe you actually said "obey without question". Holy fucking shit. But that's OK, because I support your right to freedom of expression! Even incredibly stupid expression.
The pursuit of AI has always struck me as backwards. How can we create an artificial version of something we don't really understand? The human brain is the most complex thing in the universe, that we know of, and really only in the last decade or two have we begun to get a handle on how it works.
We know more about Pluto than we do about the thing we're using to study it.
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They are supposed to facilitate communication, not hide it.
The two are not mutually exclusive. You can facilitate communication and hide it, that is the exact purpose of cryptography.
Can I ask you something? Why didn't you use your gun to stop the "unholy alliance of corporations and government" from forming in the first place? Why is it the millennials job to fix it after the fact, while you (and those of your generation) were asleep at the wheel?
People get robbed, scammed, kidnapped, and killed by drunk drivers all the time. The government only helps after the fact when it comes time to punish someone. But that's not what we're talking about here, we're talking about crime prevention.
Did the government prevent the Boston Bombing? No.
Did they need access to all of our browser history without warrants to catch the guys who did it? No.
Would access to all of our browser history have helped them prevent it? I doubt it.
Is it worth the price of giving up that much of our liberty and privacy? Absolutely not.
On second thought, forget the blackjack.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. This argument is the same one that's always used when establishing a police state: "We need to violate your liberties in order to keep you safe from ."
The government can't keep you safe from hackers or terrorists, they just won't tell you that because they are stupid, liars, or stupid liars. Not only that, but if you look at history you are far more likely to be killed by a government than a terrorist.
If Nasser was alive today, he would use the word Socialist to describe what he was and what he was doing. It has nothing to do with what I like or don't like. Project much?
Alright, I simplified a bit. Nasserism, named after Gamal Abdel-Nasser, the man who orchestrated the 1952 Revolution, from which the current Government is still derived, is based on Arab Nationalism and Socialism. Egypt under Nasser was very Socialist, taking and redistributing land, and establishing a largely public-sector based economy. Since Nasser's death, a lot of that has been relaxed, and even dismantled, to the point where Egypt could be fairly described as a Mixed economy today.
However, the military still comprises a significant portion (I believe around 1/3) of the economy. I do not mean that Egypt spends 1/3 of it's GDP on the military: remember the whole "you have two cows, the government takes them and sells you the milk"? Well, that's Egypt in a nutshell: like I said in the GP, you can buy orange juice and bread from the army.
This gets very complicated due to the high level of corruption and the so-called "deep state". The army is separate yet deeply entwined with the Government; they can often act as independent entities or the same entity. The police sometimes act as an arm of the military, and sometimes they go on strike and the army guns them down in the street. It's stupidly complex.
The point is, there are still a lot of things that remain from the days of Nasser, such as not being able to take large sums of money out of the country. This is because the Government might one day decide that they want your money. That's what was relevant to TFA. What was I going to do, give an entire history of a country that's over 5000 years old?
Pyramids yadda yadda yadda Cleopatra yadda yadda yadda Napoleon yadda yadda Bitcoin.
If you think the Egyptian Constitution or the Supreme Constitutional Court means anything, you're a fool. By the way, which Constitution is that? The 1971 Constitution that remained in place until the 2011 revolution? Or the interim one adopted afterwards? What about the highly controversial one that, due to the inclusion of a Blasphemy Law (something existing in other Islamic nations but not Egypt), passed with 64% support only 33% of the population, due to the other 67% boycotting the vote? Perhaps you're talking about the latest Constitution "amended" by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which miraculously passed in 2014 with 98.1% (of 36%) of the voters supporting it? Or maybe it doesn't fucking matter because it's a military dictatorship.
If an Imam speaks out against the army, they will throw his ass in fucking jail, or even kill him, without a second thought. Remember when the army massacred the protesters at the Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in August 2013? By the way, those protesters were calling for the establishment of an Islamic state.
There are laws based on Islam, but there are also civil laws from the era of Napoleon, and even laws left over from British rule. Again, it doesn't fucking matter because it's a military dictatorship. There's a theme here, are you picking up on it yet?
Speaking of the British, did you know their Head of State is also the leader of the Anglican Church? Shit, I guess that makes the UK a theocracy. Oh wait, no it doesn't because sometimes things are more complicated than they seem.
Wow that's amazing. You should volunteer to do the VS 64bit upgrade for Microsoft for free!
Both?
I love Python (disclaimer). But semicolons in other languages are more about splitting lines, not combining them, in my experience. That's a nice feature about being white space agnostic. Occasionally, like when splitting a string across multiple lines, you have to escape the line break, but you have to do that in Python as well sometimes, so it's a wash.
I agree, this is the one stupid thing about the language, I definitely prefer white space being completely irrelevant. But everything else about Python fucking rocks, so meh, you get used to it. Honestly I can't remember the last time it was an issue for me, and I use Python A LOT.
Sold crack to him too.
Ahh, so you must work for the CIA.
Meh, I'm not gonna contradict your IDE comparison, because I think IDE's in general just suck. I'd rather just code in NP++ or Kate or something, and compile from command line using makefiles or waf or whatever.
Egypt is a secular military dictatorship, not a theocratic one; don't get it confused with Saudi Arabia. Sisi is a former General, just like Mubarak was before him, and before that Sadat and Nasser were both Colonels. Remember that Sisi took power away from Morsi, who was part of the Muslim Brotherhood. He then proceeded to round up a lot of other Brotherhood members and throw them in jail (just like Nasser when he led the Free Officers coup in 1952).
If they're gonna kill him it'll probably be by hanging. Egypt is Socialist (in the real land-seizing, army-sells-you-orange-juice-and-bread kind of way, not the Bernie Sanders, public-health-care kind of way) so they don't like you taking large sums of money out of the country. That's my guess as to why they arrested this guy. As for the fact that there's "no law regulating digital currency", in a country where the President can round up Parliament and throw them in prison... it really doesn't fucking matter.
To sum it up, some bad guys didn't like the idea of a socialist utopia in Iran so the staged a coup that led to the shithole Iran is today.
Ahh yes, Operation Ajax. Those bad guys? The US and the UK.
But remember, the refugee crisis isn't our problem, the Middle East is just full of violent fucked up people completely independent of foreign meddling, right? Right?
Li Ion based batteries do poorly in heat, but the cold doesn't bother them anywhere near as much as the heat does.
I've used Li-ion batteries in a lot of product designs, and generally you shouldn't charge them below 0degC, and you shouldn't discharge them below -20degC. Keep in mind these aren't likely the same as the ones used in modern EVs, but I can't seem to find a source for that specifically...
As an aside, the only batteries I've found that are able to work reliably at -40degC are pure lead spiral wound (note: not lead-acid). The -40degC requirement is standard for outdoor industrial applications in Canada, and I imagine Norway would be similar.
Honestly, I'm pretty ignorant of this topic, lol. Never heard of the NBN until you mentioned it in the GGP. My curiosity has piqued though so I'll read up on it a bit.
Again, what you're describing (15Mbps/1TB @ $70 AUD) doesn't sound that bad. It's a bit expensive for the bandwidth, but like I said before the data cap is better than mine and I pay about the same (AUD and CAD are near par). I guess since you didn't include the "landline rental" fee then it might be a lot worse. Obviously I can't comment on the reliability, mine has been very reliable so there's that.
Thanks for the info!
Lol, who's complaining? Like I said, outside of things I actually follow regularly, it's nice to just have some background noise while doing something else.
Look, I don't necessarily agree with the GP, but your point is just as stupid. Don't pretend that just because Europe has had its shit together for a few decades gives it the right to lord it over the rest of the world. History didn't begin yesterday.
The only reason Europe is at peace now is because it fought a war so unbelievably terrible that it all but destroyed itself. And it had to happen twice in less than a few decades, because they couldn't learn their lesson the first time. WWII might have been avoided if the European Allies had followed Wilson's 14 Points during the peace negotiations following WWI, and during the founding of the League of Nations. Instead, they did exactly the opposite and sowed the seeds of the next conflict with the Treaty of Versailles. Not to mention all the other terrible things that came as a result of the League, such as the Mandate system, which is at least partially responsible for the state the Middle East is in today.
The kind of nonsense you're spouting is basically the "white man's burden", the bullshit justification used by Europe for colonizing and subjugating people around the world. It's fine to uphold the virtues of modern Europe, but don't do so by repeating the rhetoric of the 19th Century.
Hmm, I guess that makes sense. Yeah, 20-50GB is basically average for any AAA game nowadays.
Well I'm glad that the European Commission "voiced its stance", good that they got that privilege before taking it away from everyone else.
I can't believe you actually said "obey without question". Holy fucking shit. But that's OK, because I support your right to freedom of expression! Even incredibly stupid expression.
The pursuit of AI has always struck me as backwards. How can we create an artificial version of something we don't really understand? The human brain is the most complex thing in the universe, that we know of, and really only in the last decade or two have we begun to get a handle on how it works.
We know more about Pluto than we do about the thing we're using to study it.
From what I've seen, there is no higher authority than "rich white guy".
I prefer the "Appy Apps" guy, at least he's concise.
Apps!