Therefore, the Constitution does NOTHING to prevent the state of California from requiring the recitation of the pledge
Except for a minor thing called the 14th amendment, which applies the Bill of Rights to the states (in practice and intent, if not in the plain text of the law.)
The first thing most Atheists tell you when you meet them is they don't belive in God.
Really? That doesn't accord with the atheists I've met, or what I know about atheist's beliefs. (It's not generally an evangelical belief system.) How do you know - do you take an interview of everyone you meet to find out their religion? Furthermore, I never seen an atheist wear a piece of clothing to proclaim to the world their religion, but I've seen many cross or Star of David necklaces and FROG/WWJD (Fooley rely on God / What would Jesus do) wristbands and other pieces of clothing.
Why not? Congress, the courts, state legislatures, all have ways of changing the national rules. That's the whole point of Congress.
majority rules
Not in the US - read the Constitution. Pre-Amendments, it didn't even provide for people to elect senators or the president. The first amendements were added to prevent the majority from taking certain actions detrimental to the rights of minorities.
Read the Constitution again. Pre-Amendments, it didn't provide for people to elect senators or the president. The first amendements were added to prevent the majority from taking certain actions detrimental to the rights of minorities. If you want to live in a country where majorities rule, I suggest you move, because the US isn't it.
Ever since the "liberation" of the people in the twenties this country has had an incredible exponential increase in social problems.
Yeah, because look at how Al Capone runs everything . . . oops, that was the 1920's. Well, look at how cocaine is openly sold in stores . . . oops, that was the late 1800's. What about the way our kids are forced to work at hard labor under dangerous conditions . . . oops, that before the 1920's too. Look at how blacks are held in slavery - um, how women can't vote? What, exactly, are you talking about?
disease [has] [...] increased dramatically
Huh? I don't remember anyone near to me getting smallpox, nor do I remember any flu epedemic wiping out millions. Life expectancy has consistently gone upwards.
My latest encounter with this bug was with Skill (a Scheme/Lisp derivative used in the Cadence VLSI design toolset). I've seen it in other languages as well.
That's not a bug; it's doing exactly what you said. If I'm comparing two values, I don't expect the language to arbitrarily round off. How can it know whether I care about that extra precision?
> do something like atof(sprintf("%.3f",X))
Or you could do something like abs(X - 1).01 for comparison or float (long_integer (X * 100)) / 100 (which depends on long_integer being long enough to hold X * 100, of course.) Both of which should be tremendously more efficent.
There is no requirement that any creative works be published, but if they are and the author has a registered copyright there are two copies of the work at the LOC.
In most cases. The Library of Congress doesn't have archives of early film, though, as nitrate film was too volatile for them to store.
If you want to swim in the financial waters, you need to speak the financial language.
Slashdot isn't financial waters. Any good speaker knows that you pick your language to match what the audience will respond to. If you can't speak techie, then you probably can't think techie. If can't figure out when it's inappropiate to speak financial, you probably can't figure out when it's inappropiate to think financial.
If you're really over 40, you should know by now that no one really gives a damn what you like, especially when you're the 500,000th person to show up at the party and then start bitching about it.
There's no "scientific bent" here. The majority of the folks here are undegreed kids, very few have any formal scientific training.
And you know this how? There's enough anonymity to make that claim impossible to check.
In any case, I wasn't claiming they all understood Lorentz contraction; a scientific mindset is not something picked up with your bachelor of science. A scientific mindset is rarely taught in schools, but can be easily picked up by anyone who is willing to read, learn, and think logically, including undegreed kids.
It has a geek anti-establishment pro-Apple/Linix[sic] bent.
Gee, you think? Do you go into churches and complain when they have a religious bent, too? That's what slashdot is; if you don't like it, then go somewhere else.
If you're over 40, you are treated like crap on slashdot.
"On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog." You communicate in a reasonable, polite fashion, and no one knows or cares how old you are. Yes, some opinions are prone to getting modded down, but going into any group of strongly like-minded people and expressing a contrary position isn't going to get you listened to. Even if the group is neutral, some people may be hostile to your idea. (This is true no matter what the composition of the group.) Yes, being a community with some scientific bent, Slashdot doesn't tend to accept arguments from authority or arguments from age. That's a good thing; it means everyone can get heard, and good ideas tend to rise to the top. If you don't have good ideas, or can't express them, well, then I guess all you can do is whine about it.
If you worked your whole life to build a company would you want the government to say, nah, thats not yours anymore,
If you worked your whole life to raise a slave, would you want the government to say, nah, that's not yours anymore?
I have given you no power to take it from me.
If you chose to live in a law-bound society, and exercise those laws to build a legal phantasm, I don't see why you should be surprised when those laws put limits on that phantasm. A corporation is not a book or something else you can exercise personal dominion over; it is held together merely by strength of law.
The only reason you can build a limited-liability corporation is because the people let you. If they chose not to let you do things with that limited-liability corporation, well, you knew that when you signed the contract creating it or when you bought into it.
in the US today i can go to jail for agreeing with Al Quade (i dont but im using it as an example) and expressing that
If you do go to jail, your lawyer will have you out quickly and will be suing for false arrest. There's nothing in the least illegal about agreeing with Al-Qaeda. John Lindh was arrested for assisting murderers; i.e. for his actions, not his speech.
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CONS of source based distros
* You need a compiler and all the include files installed.
* You often get random changes in what is built depending on what include files are installed where.
* When libfoo1 and libfoo2 can be installed at the same time, but libfoo1-dev and libfoo2-dev have the same files, it's very hard to install packages where one of which depends on libfoo1 and the other libfoo2.
But fiction needs consistency and a connection to the real world to be successful. What if Captain Ahab had chased Moby Dick to land, wherein Moby and Ahab's ship sprouted legs and continuted chase? Would you have accepted that? Some of these physics errors are nearly that bad to anyone familiar with the subject, and come in movies that are set in realistic settings that shouldn't have whales sprouting legs and Macs interfacing with alien technology on an instant's notice.
However, used bookstores have been around for a long long time, and they always seem to have a good selection, even in small towns.
A good selection? In my small town of 4,000, there's one used stuff store that carries books; it had one or two books of interest to me until I bought them. In my college town of 35,000, there are a couple good used bookstores; but while I can find some light sci-fi reading, finding the hundred year old books of interest for Project Gutenberg or finding a book covering the narrow non-fiction subject I'm reading about at the time are virtually impossible. I have no problem finding them on the net.
The absolute resolution of any optical system, be it a common microscope, or a super yet to be invented CCD, is limited to half the wavelength of the visible light being used. Obviously deep violet light gives the maximum resolution.
For, any optical system using visible light, of course. Colors exist outside visible light, they just aren't visible to the unassisted eye.
There were a few stragglers still cranking around in SmallTalk a few years back
You mean like IBM? Last time I heard, VisualAge's IDE (and probably more) was written in Smalltalk.
but at this point the prospects for this language having a real imapct is zilch.
You mean, besides the impact it has already had? Smalltalk's OO strongly influenced how Java's OO was set up, among other things.
Throw it up on the scrap heap with Lisp and the other dead way-cool languages.
Um, Lisp? You know, the language that drives Sawfish and Emacs? It's hardly dead.
What is it with people's desire to throw away all languages but a couple of the cool new ones? A compiler doesn't stop working because some one comes up with a new language; and a large part of the reason these languages die is because people go "does anyone use that language anymore" and use something different, whether or not there's actually support for the language, or whether or not it would be the best language for the job, or whether or not you would enjoy writing it in that language most. Guess what; there are good compilers for Ada and Lisp and O'Caml and Smalltalk on Linux and all major platforms, and besides the libraries which do exists, all those languages may interfacing C from them easy. If you feel like it would be easiest to use them, or it would produce the best code, use them! Maybe it will provoke a renassiance in the language; or maybe it will just get the job done well in an enjoyable fashion.
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Therefore, the Constitution does NOTHING to prevent the state of California from requiring the recitation of the pledge
Except for a minor thing called the 14th amendment, which applies the Bill of Rights to the states (in practice and intent, if not in the plain text of the law.)
Simply define the word "God" as a legal term
It's been tried. The courts correctly recognize it as bullshit.
these alleged humans (the liberals)
Alleged humans. Great phrase for a pogrom.
The first thing most Atheists tell you when you meet them is they don't belive in God.
Really? That doesn't accord with the atheists I've met, or what I know about atheist's beliefs. (It's not generally an evangelical belief system.) How do you know - do you take an interview of everyone you meet to find out their religion? Furthermore, I never seen an atheist wear a piece of clothing to proclaim to the world their religion, but I've seen many cross or Star of David necklaces and FROG/WWJD (Fooley rely on God / What would Jesus do) wristbands and other pieces of clothing.
Changing the freaking rules is not an option
Why not? Congress, the courts, state legislatures, all have ways of changing the national rules. That's the whole point of Congress.
majority rules
Not in the US - read the Constitution. Pre-Amendments, it didn't even provide for people to elect senators or the president. The first amendements were added to prevent the majority from taking certain actions detrimental to the rights of minorities.
majority rules
Read the Constitution again. Pre-Amendments, it didn't provide for people to elect senators or the president. The first amendements were added to prevent the majority from taking certain actions detrimental to the rights of minorities. If you want to live in a country where majorities rule, I suggest you move, because the US isn't it.
Ever since the "liberation" of the people in the twenties this country has had an incredible exponential increase in social problems.
Yeah, because look at how Al Capone runs everything . . . oops, that was the 1920's. Well, look at how cocaine is openly sold in stores . . . oops, that was the late 1800's. What about the way our kids are forced to work at hard labor under dangerous conditions . . . oops, that before the 1920's too. Look at how blacks are held in slavery - um, how women can't vote? What, exactly, are you talking about?
disease [has] [...] increased dramatically
Huh? I don't remember anyone near to me getting smallpox, nor do I remember any flu epedemic wiping out millions. Life expectancy has consistently gone upwards.
My latest encounter with this bug was with Skill (a Scheme/Lisp derivative used in the Cadence VLSI design toolset). I've seen it in other languages as well.
.01 for comparison or float (long_integer (X * 100)) / 100 (which depends on long_integer being long enough to hold X * 100, of course.) Both of which should be tremendously more efficent.
That's not a bug; it's doing exactly what you said. If I'm comparing two values, I don't expect the language to arbitrarily round off. How can it know whether I care about that extra precision?
> do something like atof(sprintf("%.3f",X))
Or you could do something like abs(X - 1)
There is no requirement that any creative works be published, but if they are and the author has a registered copyright there are two copies of the work at the LOC.
In most cases. The Library of Congress doesn't have archives of early film, though, as nitrate film was too volatile for them to store.
When will the ability to run a .class file from a command line be part of the kernel?
Since at least version 2.2. See BINFMT_JAVA (obsolete) and BINFMT_MISC when compiling your kernel.
Can you speak both financial and tech speak? I can't.
No. But I'm not in charge of a Linux corporation - Ransom Love is. It's not an important skill for us, but it is for him.
If you want to swim in the financial waters, you need to speak the financial language.
Slashdot isn't financial waters. Any good speaker knows that you pick your language to match what the audience will respond to. If you can't speak techie, then you probably can't think techie. If can't figure out when it's inappropiate to speak financial, you probably can't figure out when it's inappropiate to think financial.
/. is turning into society of nosy old women, poking their noses in everyone else's business and bitching and moaning when they don't do like /. would.
s/nosy old women/humans/g. Or better yet,
s/of nosy old women//g.
I don't like [...]
If you're really over 40, you should know by now that no one really gives a damn what you like, especially when you're the 500,000th person to show up at the party and then start bitching about it.
There's no "scientific bent" here. The majority of the folks here are undegreed kids, very few have any formal scientific training.
And you know this how? There's enough anonymity to make that claim impossible to check.
In any case, I wasn't claiming they all understood Lorentz contraction; a scientific mindset is not something picked up with your bachelor of science. A scientific mindset is rarely taught in schools, but can be easily picked up by anyone who is willing to read, learn, and think logically, including undegreed kids.
It has a geek anti-establishment pro-Apple/Linix[sic] bent.
Gee, you think? Do you go into churches and complain when they have a religious bent, too? That's what slashdot is; if you don't like it, then go somewhere else.
If you're over 40, you are treated like crap on slashdot.
"On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog." You communicate in a reasonable, polite fashion, and no one knows or cares how old you are. Yes, some opinions are prone to getting modded down, but going into any group of strongly like-minded people and expressing a contrary position isn't going to get you listened to. Even if the group is neutral, some people may be hostile to your idea. (This is true no matter what the composition of the group.) Yes, being a community with some scientific bent, Slashdot doesn't tend to accept arguments from authority or arguments from age. That's a good thing; it means everyone can get heard, and good ideas tend to rise to the top. If you don't have good ideas, or can't express them, well, then I guess all you can do is whine about it.
Where do you get this? How do you make the leap of illogic from `I own a gun, and believe in a right to self-defense'[...]
no one will argue that the prohibition of kiddie porn mags is a bad thing (no one i wont shoot on sight will argue it anyway....)
Shooting someone on sight is not self-defense.
If you worked your whole life to build a company would you want the government to say, nah, thats not yours anymore,
If you worked your whole life to raise a slave,
would you want the government to say, nah, that's
not yours anymore?
I have given you no power to take it from me.
If you chose to live in a law-bound society, and exercise those laws to build a legal phantasm, I don't see why you should be surprised when those laws put limits on that phantasm. A corporation is not a book or something else you can exercise personal dominion over; it is held together merely by strength of law.
The only reason you can build a limited-liability corporation is because the people let you. If they chose not to let you do things with that limited-liability corporation, well, you knew that when you signed the contract creating it or when you bought into it.
I make no apologies
You make no apologies for being willing to commit cold-blooded murder of someone, just because they disagree with you?
in the US today i can go to jail for agreeing with Al Quade (i dont but im using it as an example) and expressing that
If you do go to jail, your lawyer will have you out quickly and will be suing for false arrest. There's nothing in the least illegal about agreeing with Al-Qaeda. John Lindh was arrested for assisting murderers; i.e. for his actions, not his speech.
CONS of source based distros
* You need a compiler and all the include files installed.
* You often get random changes in what is built depending on what include files are installed where.
* When libfoo1 and libfoo2 can be installed at the same time, but libfoo1-dev and libfoo2-dev have the same files, it's very hard to install packages where one of which depends on libfoo1 and the other libfoo2.
imagine the zine writer sits in the Netherlands, where pictures of nude children sunbathing are legal.
They're legal in the US, too.
they are supposed be fictional.
But fiction needs consistency and a connection to the real world to be successful. What if Captain Ahab had chased Moby Dick to land, wherein Moby and Ahab's ship sprouted legs and continuted chase? Would you have accepted that? Some of these physics errors are nearly that bad to anyone familiar with the subject, and come in movies that are set in realistic settings that shouldn't have whales sprouting legs and Macs interfacing with alien technology on an instant's notice.
However, used bookstores have been around for a long long time, and they always seem to have a good selection, even in small towns.
A good selection? In my small town of 4,000, there's one used stuff store that carries books; it had one or two books of interest to me until I bought them. In my college town of 35,000, there are a couple good used bookstores; but while I can find some light sci-fi reading, finding the hundred year old books of interest for Project Gutenberg or finding a book covering the narrow non-fiction subject I'm reading about at the time are virtually impossible. I have no problem finding them on the net.
The absolute resolution of any optical system, be it a common microscope, or a super yet to be invented CCD, is limited to half the wavelength of the visible light being used. Obviously deep violet light gives the maximum resolution.
For, any optical system using visible light, of course. Colors exist outside visible light, they just aren't visible to the unassisted eye.
There were a few stragglers still cranking around in SmallTalk a few years back
You mean like IBM? Last time I heard, VisualAge's IDE (and probably more) was written in Smalltalk.
but at this point the prospects for this language having a real imapct is zilch.
You mean, besides the impact it has already had? Smalltalk's OO strongly influenced how Java's OO was set up, among other things.
Throw it up on the scrap heap with Lisp and the other dead way-cool languages.
Um, Lisp? You know, the language that drives Sawfish and Emacs? It's hardly dead.
What is it with people's desire to throw away all languages but a couple of the cool new ones? A compiler doesn't stop working because some one comes up with a new language; and a large part of the reason these languages die is because people go "does anyone use that language anymore" and use something different, whether or not there's actually support for the language, or whether or not it would be the best language for the job, or whether or not you would enjoy writing it in that language most. Guess what; there are good compilers for Ada and Lisp and O'Caml and Smalltalk on Linux and all major platforms, and besides the libraries which do exists, all those languages may interfacing C from them easy. If you feel like it would be easiest to use them, or it would produce the best code, use them! Maybe it will provoke a renassiance in the language; or maybe it will just get the job done well in an enjoyable fashion.