Your analysis devolves basically into "people are always bad", and even though I am often cynical enough to indulge in that idea for periods of time I think evidence empirically shows that, no, people aren't inherently and always bad, and yes, there are some people who really feel a duty to country and public service and actually want to do a good job.
Becoming cynical and accepting the situation as unchangable is/exactly/ what those "greedy or despotic" politicians want you to do after all.
To elaborate even further, since in a two party system, there is not effective threat from a third party, the parties can collude against the people while using the other party as the eternal "bogeyman". "Hey, you better vote for us or you'll get screwed even HARDER!" It also tends to divide people on irrelevant and superficial things rather than actual policy. For instance, the parties are mostly culturally divisive. I vote for candidate X because he has a southern twang and you vote for candidate Y because he has a new england accent; because, in fact, their effective policies on a vast variety of things are very similar. Total BULLSHIT craven reasons that just serve to divide and distract the country.
Unless you are in a swing state, your vote will almost certainly NOT COUNT, as one or the other candidate will probably win rather safely. In that scenario it is a WASTE to vote for those who are going to inevitably win or lose anyway (e.g. Kerry in Texas, Bush in New York). So go ahead and vote your conscience and at least pump up the statistics of the/popular/ vote. As 2000 showed us, Badnarik could even theoretically win the popular vote and STILL not win the electoral vote. But it at least puts it on the radar (any third party, I don't care, Green, Constitution, Socialist, whatever).
And even if you are in a swing state, you could participate in vote "swapping" (at your own risk of course) whereby you trade a "safe" vote in your state with some other guy in a decided state who votes your way. It's sort of sad that you'd have to circumvent to process to actually get representative government. Democracy by hook or crook eh?
As for/why/ to do this. I suppose it's to raise the stature of third parties and generate interest in local third party candidates. Short of armed revolution, or some drastic election reform, it's the only option you really have.
They are moving to eclipe's java development tools which include a compiler which is faster than the standard Sun compiler (at the moment I presume). The compiler is used for compiling JSPs.
How do things like rollovers and cursor changes work then? I wonder if this could be incorporated into X or toolkits directly via some sort of event-masking system, e.g. ALL_EYE_CANDY_EVENTS vs. YO_IM_ON_A_MODEM_SO_CHILL_OUT_WITH_THE_USELESS_EVE NTS
Who died and gave me power to decide? I don't know, considering I DIDN'T, I WAS JUST ASKING A RHETORICAL QUESTION. But thanks for the uptight knee jerk backlash reaction.
There are already qualifications to types of speech. The foremost example of course relates to public (or presidential) safety. Other ones relate to truth in advertising, and truth in financial affairs. I should be able to pump up my stock by saying I found a ton of oil in my back yard right? I mean it's FREE SPEECH right?
I suppose it is not infeasible that there could be other potential qualifications to free speech, (like perhaps that it is our tax dollars that pave and clean the roads?), and while simply having such a discussion would not mean I necessarily support any or all of those "qualifications, of course it would be pointless to attempt to have this discussion with you because
OMIGOD I'M TRYING TO ROB YOU OF YOUR FREEDOMS I'M SUCH A COMMIE IDIOT WHY DON'T I READ THE CONSTITUTION
Isn't there a different standard between scrawling business advertisements and expressing political views? I really don't think advertising a soda beverage has the same worth to the society at large as the ability to express political views. And anyway, would you the Coke driver get arrested and his truck confiscated? Or would he just get a slap on the wrist.
"features like this should be developed as close to the FS as possible"
Think about what you are saying. A "file" "system" is a way (one of many ways) to organize and find data. A relational database is another way. I don't see any reason to layer one type onto an arbitrarily chosen OTHER type. Perhaps what you are really saying is that the file system should be developed as close as possible to a mine-able relational database, i.e., bring the file system metaphor UP in abstraction, not bring the search metaphor DOWN. "Searching files" isn't the goal. "Finding data" is the goal, regardless of whether it happens to reside on a particular file system metaphor. With the amount of data we have these days, the idea of a system of files is almost useless, as we have millions of files and no one-dimensional tree "system" will make them easy to access. You might as well have a completely opaque database or flat file data store with an intelligent query system on top. Enter ideas like orthogonal persistence, etc.
Calm down. All third parties need to do to gain access to the electoral system is:
1) petition each state with a simple signature count of 300% of the state population 2) to include the recently formed state of Atlantis 3) provide a simple proof that your great^4 grandfather was a citizen of the united states, ate only the chocolate portion of neopolitan ice cream, and owned exactly 2 dogs. 4) lift 3 times your body [politic] weight over your head 5) demonstrate faster than light travel
That's 6 [1] easy steps! Come on, stop whining.
[1] 6th step omitted, file a simple FOIA request to obtain it
Maybe because the most interesting ways to travel happen to be mostly horizontal? I mean there weren't many trade routes from the Arctic to the Antarctic right? So I don't think vertical global travel (ok, perhaps up and down the coasts of africa) was very interesting.
And even if there is some sort of bizarre shift effect...wouldn't the shift be/uniform/ accross the spectrum? I mean you could still split it out, right.
3) If you have a white collar job you probably aren't 4) starving to death therefore 5) you are probably just WHINING and need to 6) STFU and get on with it.
Really, if your white collar job is so bad, then give it up for a more meaningful job, like catching bullets with your body in some war, or digging ditches or farming or something. White collar workers get to whine, but they should whine in their designated avenues of beourgious art and literature.
"If we could attack the terrorist heads within hours of a major attack, we might be able to keep them from trying anything."
Wow...you really think that people (which are well educated and lead a comfortable lifestyle) willing to blow themselves up on a moments notice are really going to be deterred by threats against them? If those "al Qaeda" memos are true, disproportionate retaliation, as well as an overall erosion of the US economy (due in no small part to constant terrorism hysteria - just this morning I hearde that some business organization rated terrorism as the leading business problem) is EXACTLY what the fuckers want.
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Your analysis devolves basically into "people are always bad", and even though I am often cynical enough to indulge in that idea for periods of time I think evidence empirically shows that, no, people aren't inherently and always bad, and yes, there are some people who really feel a duty to country and public service and actually want to do a good job.
/exactly/ what those "greedy or despotic" politicians want you to do after all.
Becoming cynical and accepting the situation as unchangable is
To elaborate even further, since in a two party system, there is not effective threat from a third party, the parties can collude against the people while using the other party as the eternal "bogeyman". "Hey, you better vote for us or you'll get screwed even HARDER!" It also tends to divide people on irrelevant and superficial things rather than actual policy. For instance, the parties are mostly culturally divisive. I vote for candidate X because he has a southern twang and you vote for candidate Y because he has a new england accent; because, in fact, their effective policies on a vast variety of things are very similar. Total BULLSHIT craven reasons that just serve to divide and distract the country.
Unless you are in a swing state, your vote will almost certainly NOT COUNT, as one or the other candidate will probably win rather safely. In that scenario it is a WASTE to vote for those who are going to inevitably win or lose anyway (e.g. Kerry in Texas, Bush in New York). So go ahead and vote your conscience and at least pump up the statistics of the /popular/ vote. As 2000 showed us, Badnarik could even theoretically win the popular vote and STILL not win the electoral vote. But it at least puts it on the radar (any third party, I don't care, Green, Constitution, Socialist, whatever).
/why/ to do this. I suppose it's to raise the stature of third parties and generate interest in local third party candidates. Short of armed revolution, or some drastic election reform, it's the only option you really have.
And even if you are in a swing state, you could participate in vote "swapping" (at your own risk of course) whereby you trade a "safe" vote in your state with some other guy in a decided state who votes your way. It's sort of sad that you'd have to circumvent to process to actually get representative government. Democracy by hook or crook eh?
As for
Various cultures have had this view, including hindus, who I believe insert a level of elephants either on or below the turtle.
Although the lameness filter is generally useless and annoying...I have to admit, it pretty accurately flagged that post. That was truly lame. :D
RTFA
They are moving to eclipe's java development tools which include a compiler which is faster than the standard Sun compiler (at the moment I presume). The compiler is used for compiling JSPs.
Sounds like y windows.
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How do things like rollovers and cursor changes work then? I wonder if this could be incorporated into X or toolkits directly via some sort of event-masking system, e.g. ALL_EYE_CANDY_EVENTS vs. YO_IM_ON_A_MODEM_SO_CHILL_OUT_WITH_THE_USELESS_EV
Right about now shouldn't somebody be getting worried about resonance cascades and portals to hell.
Who died and gave me power to decide? I don't know, considering I DIDN'T, I WAS JUST ASKING A RHETORICAL QUESTION. But thanks for the uptight knee jerk backlash reaction.
There are already qualifications to types of speech. The foremost example of course relates to public (or presidential) safety. Other ones relate to truth in advertising, and truth in financial affairs. I should be able to pump up my stock by saying I found a ton of oil in my back yard right? I mean it's FREE SPEECH right?
I suppose it is not infeasible that there could be other potential qualifications to free speech, (like perhaps that it is our tax dollars that pave and clean the roads?), and while simply having such a discussion would not mean I necessarily support any or all of those "qualifications, of course it would be pointless to attempt to have this discussion with you because
OMIGOD I'M TRYING TO ROB YOU OF YOUR FREEDOMS I'M SUCH A COMMIE IDIOT WHY DON'T I READ THE CONSTITUTION
Yes, I'd say it's been a catastrophic success!
Isn't there a different standard between scrawling business advertisements and expressing political views? I really don't think advertising a soda beverage has the same worth to the society at large as the ability to express political views. And anyway, would you the Coke driver get arrested and his truck confiscated? Or would he just get a slap on the wrist.
So now all your ClearChannel crapscape sounds terrific!
"features like this should be developed as close to the FS as possible"
Think about what you are saying. A "file" "system" is a way (one of many ways) to organize and find data. A relational database is another way. I don't see any reason to layer one type onto an arbitrarily chosen OTHER type. Perhaps what you are really saying is that the file system should be developed as close as possible to a mine-able relational database, i.e., bring the file system metaphor UP in abstraction, not bring the search metaphor DOWN. "Searching files" isn't the goal. "Finding data" is the goal, regardless of whether it happens to reside on a particular file system metaphor. With the amount of data we have these days, the idea of a system of files is almost useless, as we have millions of files and no one-dimensional tree "system" will make them easy to access. You might as well have a completely opaque database or flat file data store with an intelligent query system on top. Enter ideas like orthogonal persistence, etc.
Calm down. All third parties need to do to gain access to the electoral system is:
1) petition each state with a simple signature count of 300% of the state population
2) to include the recently formed state of Atlantis
3) provide a simple proof that your great^4 grandfather was a citizen of the united states, ate only the chocolate portion of neopolitan ice cream, and owned exactly 2 dogs.
4) lift 3 times your body [politic] weight over your head
5) demonstrate faster than light travel
That's 6 [1] easy steps! Come on, stop whining.
[1] 6th step omitted, file a simple FOIA request to obtain it
wow, i think you just discovered the ONLY grammatical inconsistency in english EVER. good job.
Maybe it's because those shoes are weird and not at all mouth-shaped.
ACK I actually said Jonathan Stewart!
Sigh, I accept full responsibility and punishment...
"Tea, Earl Grey." "Awww fuck my old boots, it's half-cold and stewed you fucker"
Oh man, what I wouldn't give to actually hear Jonathan Stewert proclaim that!
MAKE IT SO BITCH!
Maybe because the most interesting ways to travel happen to be mostly horizontal? I mean there weren't many trade routes from the Arctic to the Antarctic right? So I don't think vertical global travel (ok, perhaps up and down the coasts of africa) was very interesting.
"but chances are it's a just 'mental thing'"
but...
didn't you just spend your whole post explaining how your problems were decidedly NOT a "mental thing"?
And even if there is some sort of bizarre shift effect...wouldn't the shift be /uniform/ accross the spectrum? I mean you could still split it out, right.
3) If you have a white collar job you probably aren't 4) starving to death therefore 5) you are probably just WHINING and need to 6) STFU and get on with it.
Really, if your white collar job is so bad, then give it up for a more meaningful job, like catching bullets with your body in some war, or digging ditches or farming or something. White collar workers get to whine, but they should whine in their designated avenues of beourgious art and literature.
Yeah, what about those Venezuelans training with the help of the CIA to overthrow the leftist Chavez government in terrorist training camps in south Florida? Does that sort of thing make it into the news?
"If we could attack the terrorist heads within hours of a major attack, we might be able to keep them from trying anything."
Wow...you really think that people (which are well educated and lead a comfortable lifestyle) willing to blow themselves up on a moments notice are really going to be deterred by threats against them? If those "al Qaeda" memos are true, disproportionate retaliation, as well as an overall erosion of the US economy (due in no small part to constant terrorism hysteria - just this morning I hearde that some business organization rated terrorism as the leading business problem) is EXACTLY what the fuckers want.
Moron. Rot13 is ODD. Use ROT12, it's the last stable version.