Have you dealt with the Browning Hi-Power? The single-action first shot is annoying, but it is the most comfortable and most accurate pistol I've ever had the pleasure of carrying.
In a letter to God, President and CEO of the not-for-profit organization called "Heaven," EvilPeople,INC.(tm) executives, together with several satellite companies, demanded that God release the source for Life(tm) and allow it to become an open and manipulatable standard.
"We think that Heaven having control of Life(tm) prevents competitors utilizing it's full potential. We tried a competing product, Death(tm), and it didn't work out as well, and now, well, frankly, we're a bit twizzled," said EvilPeople,INC.(tm) Maximum Leader Jormungandr. "We've made Death(tm) a free and open standard. We want to see God do the same."
Life(tm) is a closed architecture program that has remained a necessary, but closed, system for thousands of years.
I started programming because I had a problem to solve. I focused on what I wanted to accomplish, not syntax or method or anything else. That isn't to say I didn't think about things like modularity, clarity, documentation, testing, etc - I did. I read a lot of the common texts - Brooks' _Mythical Man Month_, McConnell's _Code Complete_, Raskin's _The Humane Interface_, Spolsky's website, and a host of articles. I didn't start out with a language in mind. I started out with a result in mind. All of those things helped me to understand that my program existed to solve a problem. It wasn't there to keep me busy. I wasn't writing it because I wanted to use every neat trick I'd ever heard of. I was trying to make my life, and the lives of those around me, easier. I don't know how well I accomplished that, but I did build a program that did what it was supposed to do.
"If you were Swiss, a rather rich society with folks of a certain phlegmatic temper and not those trigger happy cowboys, I might have less stomach pains with the all those guns around."
The day I was laid off I had a pistol in my pocket. I accepted the news, cleaned out my workspace, and went home. I didn't shoot anyone. I didn't even threaten anyone. Now, I'm an American southerner. I live in a crime-ridden place called Memphis, Tennessee. I'm not rich. In fact, I'm not even poor. I'm broke. However, I am deliberate in my actions and peaceful in my outlook. So though I don't meet your national or economic criteria, I do have the sense of responsibility and restraint appropriate to an armed individual. The fact of the matter is that I do not seek the approval of those who would deny me the ability to protect myself. To summarize: Drop the requirements for "Swiss" and "rich" and I agree with you.
Right - some dude used that effect to play "Fool on a Hill" for the old Homebrew Computer Club way the fuck back in the day. I googled and flipped through _Fire_in_the_Valley_ but I couldn't find a reference. My eternal bad.
I dunno, as I'm not seated in the same shithole you are. Perhaps you can get someone to tug your head out of your ass so you can look for it your damn self.
Most aircraft carriers and all attack and missle subs are nuclear. The rest of the navy is petropropelled - aircraft carriers actually carry some fuel for their escort ships.
I was with you until you got to irregardless. The word you were reaching for is regardless. That said, the mod wars don't bother me as I turned off visible moderations and surf Oldest First, Nested, -1.
Perhaps the comparasion is more apt than you have made it out to be - remember, the new instruction didn't cause the hacker who did it any problems, but it trashed the work of another user of that system - she ran some programs that depended on a particular path, and they corrupted it. Sure, they *thought* they had covered all their bases, but they hadn't. It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature.
Read the book sometime - it has Lee Atwater as the man with the plan, George the Father as the man with the button, and the war wasn't staged, it was real (Gulf War). It also has people being killed to keep it quiet. Now, I'm sure it was pure fiction, but it was pure fiction that managed to make use of real situations in a believable manner.
I can't tell if you are serious or mistaken - I assume you mean belt-fed (such as an machine or chain gun) and not bolt-fed (such as a deer or sniper rifle)
A fascinating and informative page had the following to say on the subject:
Unlike mammals, birds don't urinate. Their kidneys extract nitrogenous wastes from the bloodstream, but instead of excreting it as urea dissolved in urine as we do, they excrete it in the form of uric acid. Uric acid has a very low solubility in water, so it emerges as a white paste. This material, as well as the output of the intestines, emerges from the bird's cloaca. The cloaca is a multi-purpose hole for birds: their wastes come out of it, they have sex by putting their cloacas together, and females lay eggs out of it.
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I don't believe you.
Leo Fender died in 1991. Other than that, I agree with this post.
You're right, but you forget to mention even-order harmonics vs. odd-order harmonics.
Have you dealt with the Browning Hi-Power? The single-action first shot is annoying, but it is the most comfortable and most accurate pistol I've ever had the pleasure of carrying.
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I started programming because I had a problem to solve. I focused on what I wanted to accomplish, not syntax or method or anything else. That isn't to say I didn't think about things like modularity, clarity, documentation, testing, etc - I did. I read a lot of the common texts - Brooks' _Mythical Man Month_, McConnell's _Code Complete_, Raskin's _The Humane Interface_, Spolsky's website, and a host of articles. I didn't start out with a language in mind. I started out with a result in mind. All of those things helped me to understand that my program existed to solve a problem. It wasn't there to keep me busy. I wasn't writing it because I wanted to use every neat trick I'd ever heard of. I was trying to make my life, and the lives of those around me, easier. I don't know how well I accomplished that, but I did build a program that did what it was supposed to do.
A chink in the Chinaman's armor? No shit? Cool!
"If you were Swiss, a rather rich society with folks of a certain phlegmatic temper and not those trigger happy cowboys, I might have less stomach pains with the all those guns around."
The day I was laid off I had a pistol in my pocket. I accepted the news, cleaned out my workspace, and went home. I didn't shoot anyone. I didn't even threaten anyone.
Now, I'm an American southerner. I live in a crime-ridden place called Memphis, Tennessee.
I'm not rich. In fact, I'm not even poor. I'm broke.
However, I am deliberate in my actions and peaceful in my outlook.
So though I don't meet your national or economic criteria, I do have the sense of responsibility and restraint appropriate to an armed individual.
The fact of the matter is that I do not seek the approval of those who would deny me the ability to protect myself.
To summarize: Drop the requirements for "Swiss" and "rich" and I agree with you.
Nerd3: Don't look so scared. I wore gloves.
Right - some dude used that effect to play "Fool on a Hill" for the old Homebrew Computer Club way the fuck back in the day.
I googled and flipped through _Fire_in_the_Valley_ but I couldn't find a reference.
My eternal bad.
Now where's my arts grant application template...
I dunno, as I'm not seated in the same shithole you are.
Perhaps you can get someone to tug your head out of your ass so you can look for it your damn self.
I've followed this thread, and I think I love you.
In the "he's got the right idea" sense, of course.
Most aircraft carriers and all attack and missle subs are nuclear. The rest of the navy is petropropelled - aircraft carriers actually carry some fuel for their escort ships.
I was with you until you got to irregardless. The word you were reaching for is regardless. That said, the mod wars don't bother me as I turned off visible moderations and surf Oldest First, Nested, -1.
Perhaps the comparasion is more apt than you have made it out to be - remember, the new instruction didn't cause the hacker who did it any problems, but it trashed the work of another user of that system - she ran some programs that depended on a particular path, and they corrupted it.
Sure, they *thought* they had covered all their bases, but they hadn't.
It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature.
You forgot to log in.
I'll hold that FP for you while you get an account.
The way I heard it, the pilot isn't there for emergencies.
He's there to feed the dog.
Read the book sometime - it has Lee Atwater as the man with the plan, George the Father as the man with the button, and the war wasn't staged, it was real (Gulf War).
It also has people being killed to keep it quiet.
Now, I'm sure it was pure fiction, but it was pure fiction that managed to make use of real situations in a believable manner.
I can't tell if you are serious or mistaken - I assume you mean belt-fed (such as an machine or chain gun) and not bolt-fed (such as a deer or sniper rifle)
Urine.
A fascinating and informative page had the following to say on the subject:
Good point. I hereby retract my claim.
Fuck off, AC.
I claim this post for the memory of *BSD.
I agree. Are you hiring?
Taco, I never knew.