Those scenarios require trust in your fellow traveller, and it's all governments' job to eliminate that trust and redirect it towards government-authorized agents. If you believe that only the government can save you, then you have to depend on them for more and more of your life's decisions, and you become a sheep instead of a citizen.
This is probably getting back to the idea that we no longer purchase items, we license them for use. There's probably something in all the legal verbiage that basically states that you don't own the phone or its contents, and that the real owners are the people who sold you the "license". This insidious meme is spreading, and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that we'll soon be licensing food for use...
Have you even read the history of the crusades? Who was expanding/conquering? Should Europe have surrendered to the Muslims/Ottoman Empire? I don't justify the atrocities of the crusades, but it was better than surrender.
Apparently enough people believe the flaws of Christianity and of Christians are bad enough that we should excuse and permit attempts to impose Islamic belief on ourselves and our posterity, and believe that it would indeed have been better if Europe had become Islamified. These people believe "better late than never" when it comes to Sharia et. al.
Yes. Yes He is. It is racist to suggest otherwise.
Remember, dissent is no longer patriotic, paying as much in taxes as possible is, Republicans are fascists, and only the Federal Government cares about you.
He worked at GM in quality assurance from the early 60's through the late 80's, mostly in middle management. I trust his insider information more than I trust the opinion of a pseudonymous Slashdot poster. If that troubles you, if you consider me a troll for repeating what he told me, fine. I still trust him more than I trust you.
This is an absolutely valid point. The software seems to not detect this aberrant input signal behavior. A lesson for software coders everywhere: validate your inputs, restrict your outputs... where it is possible to do so.
I have had this discussion over and over with younger coders, and especially with managers (and senior architects who should know better). I've been writing software for 25+ years professionally and 5 years in school before that, and the one thing I've learned is "never trust the inputs or the return values from functions". If you assume that data will always be correct or that functions will always return correct values, you will write buggy software that will fail. It really isn't that hard to check the inputs against correct values and to handle them when they're incorrect, nor is it hard to check what comes back from a function call for errors. I've heard the "it takes too long, it's a waste of time to design, it'll cost too much, it's too much overhead in the code, bad things will never happen because..." arguments for decades, and they're always bogus.
I had a friend who taught me well how to become a defensive programmer, because she was a master at breaking my early attempts at professional code. The biggest problem I had was she would do something I hadn't expected with the code, break it, and when I asked why she did that, she would say "well, the code let me do it, so..."
I learned to never trust the user or my fellow programmers.
My brother-in-law worked at GM back then, and he said that what the idiot engineers did was try to convert an existing gasoline engine design to use diesel fuel, with the expected results.
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Don't forget the sugar lobby demanding high prices for their products through subsidies etc. making the corn syrup alternative relatively cheap.
Just don't get carried away in your revenge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NxLtVG9_eg&feature=related
Those scenarios require trust in your fellow traveller, and it's all governments' job to eliminate that trust and redirect it towards government-authorized agents. If you believe that only the government can save you, then you have to depend on them for more and more of your life's decisions, and you become a sheep instead of a citizen.
This is probably getting back to the idea that we no longer purchase items, we license them for use. There's probably something in all the legal verbiage that basically states that you don't own the phone or its contents, and that the real owners are the people who sold you the "license". This insidious meme is spreading, and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that we'll soon be licensing food for use...
Have you even read the history of the crusades? Who was expanding/conquering? Should Europe have surrendered to the Muslims/Ottoman Empire? I don't justify the atrocities of the crusades, but it was better than surrender.
Apparently enough people believe the flaws of Christianity and of Christians are bad enough that we should excuse and permit attempts to impose Islamic belief on ourselves and our posterity, and believe that it would indeed have been better if Europe had become Islamified. These people believe "better late than never" when it comes to Sharia et. al.
Well, welcome to the world of classified information, where if operatives get outed, they get a bullet in the back of the head.
Maybe they should stop doing things that make them deserve getting shot in the head?
Like existing?
The ignorant think 2012 is scarier than global warming. I wish they could put it off its only been a handful of years since 2000.
Well, 2012 is an election year...
Don't people get sick of doomsdays?
Flash! Plague of doomsday fears could cause humanity's extinction! Tabloid journalism at 11!"
Or really weird breakfast cereal.
Yes. Yes He is. It is racist to suggest otherwise. Remember, dissent is no longer patriotic, paying as much in taxes as possible is, Republicans are fascists, and only the Federal Government cares about you.
Well, they do have seniority...
Sounds like a business opportunity opened up. Bike leasing for would-be ferry riders, working on both sides.
Maybe it's an "on-demand" currency printer...
"Just in time... served".
He worked at GM in quality assurance from the early 60's through the late 80's, mostly in middle management. I trust his insider information more than I trust the opinion of a pseudonymous Slashdot poster. If that troubles you, if you consider me a troll for repeating what he told me, fine. I still trust him more than I trust you.
Obviously this would never happen if we had open-source automobiles...
This is an absolutely valid point. The software seems to not detect this aberrant input signal behavior. A lesson for software coders everywhere: validate your inputs, restrict your outputs... where it is possible to do so.
I have had this discussion over and over with younger coders, and especially with managers (and senior architects who should know better). I've been writing software for 25+ years professionally and 5 years in school before that, and the one thing I've learned is "never trust the inputs or the return values from functions". If you assume that data will always be correct or that functions will always return correct values, you will write buggy software that will fail. It really isn't that hard to check the inputs against correct values and to handle them when they're incorrect, nor is it hard to check what comes back from a function call for errors. I've heard the "it takes too long, it's a waste of time to design, it'll cost too much, it's too much overhead in the code, bad things will never happen because..." arguments for decades, and they're always bogus.
I had a friend who taught me well how to become a defensive programmer, because she was a master at breaking my early attempts at professional code. The biggest problem I had was she would do something I hadn't expected with the code, break it, and when I asked why she did that, she would say "well, the code let me do it, so..."
I learned to never trust the user or my fellow programmers.
My brother-in-law worked at GM back then, and he said that what the idiot engineers did was try to convert an existing gasoline engine design to use diesel fuel, with the expected results.
You could be pickled.
I think most Tolkien fans would agree that elves had higher morals than that.
Hollywood, however, has none. Thus we get...Frodo saving the shire from dinosaurs on frickin pogo sticks--30 years before he was born.
"... and the hardest part was training the dinosaurs to ride pogo sticks!"
What religious reasons have been used to prevent adult (autologous) stem cell research (which this apparently uses)?
You mean "if only there were a bunch of UNION people who needed jobs who could do this for us."
So where does someone who embraces new technology and free enterprise, but is suspicious of authority fit in?
Outliers...
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make publicly traded...
There may be a kernel of truth there, though they've been the captains of industry in the past...
"Logic is little tweeting bird. Logic is pretty flower, that smells baaaad."
Do you lie all the time?