However, AdBlock is illegally manipulating the author's content
Fuck you, buddy. Once it's made its way to my machine, it's not your content anymore, and doing whatever the fuck I want with it is fair use.
In claiming AdBlock is illegal, you're as ridiculous as a publisher who tries to ban highlighters so he can sell more study guides. It's not my responsibility to support your broken business model.
Of course it's an idea turned into something: it's that difference that counts. A particular sweater is the idea of a sweater turned into something too, isn't it? Does that mean you implement a sweater when you put it on? Come on.
Integration is a fancy word for installation. It's not implementation. If you allow OP's use of the term, it's perfectly fine to say "MyDistribution implements JoeWebServer, which implements HTTP 1.1." That's obviously nonsense. The two "implements" in that sentence refer to completely different concepts.
KDE is none of these things. KDE is a piece of software. It is a thing, neither a plan, nor an idea, nor a model, nor a design, nor a specification, nor a standard, nor an algorithm, nor a policy. Saying Mandriva implements KDE makes as much sense as saying you implement a sweater when you put it on in the morning.
Stop abusing the word "implement". Unless KDE became a concept, and the Mandriva people wrote code that embodies that concept, they didn't implement anything. You don't "implement" anything by installing it, deploying it, and configuring it.
What's the point of a project like this? I've seen plenty of stories in the form of "$TECHNOLOGICALLY_SOPHISTICATED_DEVICE made from $NATURAL_THING", and they're all useless gimmicks.
These guys used some natural materials to build a car. So fucking what? Either the natural materials require so much processing that they're practically "artificial" materials (like the Curran steering column), things we've known how to do for years (like building seats out of foam), or things that just destroy the utility of an object.
Furthermore, the production of these devices wouldn't be nearly as environmentally friendly if scaled up. How much fossil fuel would we expend growing the carrots for the steering columns, for example? I bet the carbon footprint wouldn't be much better than that of today's cars.
You want to help the environment? Work on real technology, not cheap dead-end gimmicks.
The human mind is not a special and unique snowflake. You are a computer. I am a computer. You are a computer. The brain is literally a quivering mound of hacks: look at fMRI studies sometime. We operate according to the same laws of physics that govern that boiler over in the corner. Get over yourselves already.
Look: maybe it was acceptable in the 18th century to imagine some special mechanism for the human mind, but no longer. There are simply no mental phenomena that require quantum mechanics to understand. It's far easier to suppose that we are simply flawed creatures that sometimes make bad decisions using heuristics adapted more for the African savannah than New York.
...calling this torture is stretching the definition to the point of breaking.
It doesn't have to qualify as "torture" to be petty, vindictive, and pointless. There was no positive reason for doing this, and it reflects poorly on the professionalism of our soldiers and our entire army.
Also, don't be so quick to dismiss our conscience: it's the distillation of millions of years of evolution. For all the differences in human culture, some moral principles are absolute (and are broken only under special circumstances, like Aztek sacrifices.) Quite a bit of moral variance disappears when you control for access to information and personal liberty.
It's debilitating for a country's people to think in extremes. Waterboarding is indeed worse than forcing someone to sit through a film over and over. But both are bad, and we shouldn't be doing either as a civilized people.
"Not the worse" is not the same as "good". It's a subtle concept, I know.
It's okay when we do it. We're the good guys, right? The designers of America's Army were unwittingly deep when they made the player's team always show up as the United States.
were very slightly 'less worse' than the alternative.
Oh, stop it already. The "they're all the same" meme is both pernicious and false. I don't know how any thinking person could claim after these eight disastrous years, there's no substantive difference between the parties. However flawed Gore and Kerry may have been, they at least wouldn't have ignored the rule of law and run the country like a kleptocracy. We should count ourselves lucky if we get excellence, but we should at least demand competence.
If you don't care about politics, the only people elected will be the ones who don't care about you. Indifference toward elections by the general public just enables (and encouraged) politicians to cater to special interest groups at the expense of the general welfare. That's not good for anyone.
The issue isn't the method of execution, but the incredibly sloppy rules of evidence and courtroom conduct. We ostensibly invaded Iraq to liberate its people and bring them democracy. By applying anything short of our own standards of justice, we betrayed both these purported goals and showed our true colors.
We need to respect the choices other people make
So why did we invade at all? Moral relativism is despicable on any day, but there's a special hell for people who use it only to advance their own goals.
Have you been SO blinded by the media and patriotism and hatred that you actually believe this?
Sadly, regarding approximately 30% of the population (which is the Republican approval rating's floor), the answer is "yes". For some people, the craving for an authoritarian father figure, religious zeal, or susceptibility to propaganda supplant reason and lead people to vote against their own interests. The same forces affect (or afflict) every society, but ours has been made particularly vulnerable by media consolidation, poor education, and a history of religious conservatism.
As with many problems, the solution begins with a little political bravery and continues with massive, sustained investment in education and critical thinking.
It's a mistake to blame the whole group for something a few individuals did.
Except when this group twice votes into power people who they know damn well will be shamelessly and relentlessly brutal. Shame on us all, as a people, for allowing a small group of thugs to pillage this nation and its reputation for the past eight years.
We're talking about a guy who _shredded_ dissenters in a giant machine here.
That's propaganda.
But for the sake of argument, let's assume Hussein really did that. That act still wouldn't justify our treatment of the man. There is no excuse for adding unnecessarily to the sum of human misery. He was tried (however poorly), found guilty, and executed. That consequence should be deterrent enough. Deliberately harassing him in the meantime does nothing except show the world that we've become petty thugs.
Do you endorse rape in our own prisons by any chance? I know plenty of people who do, and quite frankly, it's disturbing as hell. Revenge is not a valid public goal, even when you dress it up and call it "justice". Brutality diminishes us, not the criminals.
I hardly ever post comments like this, but the parent of this post does not deserve negative moderation. The recent worship of the military by one segment of the population is a harbinger of fascism. Soldiers are still human beings, and by criticizing them when they err, we keep them honest and preserve both their honor and the honor of our country.
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I hope your coworker left and sued the CEO. Nobody deserves that shit.
Neon Genesis Evangelion was particularly useful for learning JCL. The last few episodes were particularly relevant.
Fuck you, buddy. Once it's made its way to my machine, it's not your content anymore, and doing whatever the fuck I want with it is fair use.
In claiming AdBlock is illegal, you're as ridiculous as a publisher who tries to ban highlighters so he can sell more study guides. It's not my responsibility to support your broken business model.
Of course it's an idea turned into something: it's that difference that counts. A particular sweater is the idea of a sweater turned into something too, isn't it? Does that mean you implement a sweater when you put it on? Come on.
Integration is a fancy word for installation. It's not implementation. If you allow OP's use of the term, it's perfectly fine to say "MyDistribution implements JoeWebServer, which implements HTTP 1.1." That's obviously nonsense. The two "implements" in that sentence refer to completely different concepts.
KDE is none of these things. KDE is a piece of software. It is a thing, neither a plan, nor an idea, nor a model, nor a design, nor a specification, nor a standard, nor an algorithm, nor a policy. Saying Mandriva implements KDE makes as much sense as saying you implement a sweater when you put it on in the morning.
Stop abusing the word "implement". Unless KDE became a concept, and the Mandriva people wrote code that embodies that concept, they didn't implement anything. You don't "implement" anything by installing it, deploying it, and configuring it.
Are you sure about that?
Small numbers of well-trained, well-armed soldiers can outfight massively larger forces.
What's the point of a project like this? I've seen plenty of stories in the form of "$TECHNOLOGICALLY_SOPHISTICATED_DEVICE made from $NATURAL_THING", and they're all useless gimmicks.
These guys used some natural materials to build a car. So fucking what? Either the natural materials require so much processing that they're practically "artificial" materials (like the Curran steering column), things we've known how to do for years (like building seats out of foam), or things that just destroy the utility of an object.
Furthermore, the production of these devices wouldn't be nearly as environmentally friendly if scaled up. How much fossil fuel would we expend growing the carrots for the steering columns, for example? I bet the carbon footprint wouldn't be much better than that of today's cars.
You want to help the environment? Work on real technology, not cheap dead-end gimmicks.
The human mind is not a special and unique snowflake. You are a computer. I am a computer. You are a computer. The brain is literally a quivering mound of hacks: look at fMRI studies sometime. We operate according to the same laws of physics that govern that boiler over in the corner. Get over yourselves already.
Look: maybe it was acceptable in the 18th century to imagine some special mechanism for the human mind, but no longer. There are simply no mental phenomena that require quantum mechanics to understand. It's far easier to suppose that we are simply flawed creatures that sometimes make bad decisions using heuristics adapted more for the African savannah than New York.
The "problem" isn't unique to Javascript. Read What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic.
It doesn't have to qualify as "torture" to be petty, vindictive, and pointless. There was no positive reason for doing this, and it reflects poorly on the professionalism of our soldiers and our entire army.
The categorical imperative is useful, especially in this instance.
Also, don't be so quick to dismiss our conscience: it's the distillation of millions of years of evolution. For all the differences in human culture, some moral principles are absolute (and are broken only under special circumstances, like Aztek sacrifices.) Quite a bit of moral variance disappears when you control for access to information and personal liberty.
I addressed the halting problem in another post of mine.
It's debilitating for a country's people to think in extremes. Waterboarding is indeed worse than forcing someone to sit through a film over and over. But both are bad, and we shouldn't be doing either as a civilized people.
"Not the worse" is not the same as "good". It's a subtle concept, I know.
I hate replying to myself, but I couldn't give up a chance to show the change in inequality too.
You have no idea how true that is.
The 0.001% percent just covers the cases when both the article and the summary are completely wrong, incomprehensible, or otherwise content-free. :-)
It's okay when we do it. We're the good guys, right? The designers of America's Army were unwittingly deep when they made the player's team always show up as the United States.
Oh, stop it already. The "they're all the same" meme is both pernicious and false. I don't know how any thinking person could claim after these eight disastrous years, there's no substantive difference between the parties. However flawed Gore and Kerry may have been, they at least wouldn't have ignored the rule of law and run the country like a kleptocracy. We should count ourselves lucky if we get excellence, but we should at least demand competence.
If you don't care about politics, the only people elected will be the ones who don't care about you. Indifference toward elections by the general public just enables (and encouraged) politicians to cater to special interest groups at the expense of the general welfare. That's not good for anyone.
The issue isn't the method of execution, but the incredibly sloppy rules of evidence and courtroom conduct. We ostensibly invaded Iraq to liberate its people and bring them democracy. By applying anything short of our own standards of justice, we betrayed both these purported goals and showed our true colors.
So why did we invade at all? Moral relativism is despicable on any day, but there's a special hell for people who use it only to advance their own goals.
Sadly, regarding approximately 30% of the population (which is the Republican approval rating's floor), the answer is "yes". For some people, the craving for an authoritarian father figure, religious zeal, or susceptibility to propaganda supplant reason and lead people to vote against their own interests. The same forces affect (or afflict) every society, but ours has been made particularly vulnerable by media consolidation, poor education, and a history of religious conservatism.
As with many problems, the solution begins with a little political bravery and continues with massive, sustained investment in education and critical thinking.
Except when this group twice votes into power people who they know damn well will be shamelessly and relentlessly brutal. Shame on us all, as a people, for allowing a small group of thugs to pillage this nation and its reputation for the past eight years.
That's propaganda.
But for the sake of argument, let's assume Hussein really did that. That act still wouldn't justify our treatment of the man. There is no excuse for adding unnecessarily to the sum of human misery. He was tried (however poorly), found guilty, and executed. That consequence should be deterrent enough. Deliberately harassing him in the meantime does nothing except show the world that we've become petty thugs.
Do you endorse rape in our own prisons by any chance? I know plenty of people who do, and quite frankly, it's disturbing as hell. Revenge is not a valid public goal, even when you dress it up and call it "justice". Brutality diminishes us, not the criminals.
I hardly ever post comments like this, but the parent of this post does not deserve negative moderation. The recent worship of the military by one segment of the population is a harbinger of fascism. Soldiers are still human beings, and by criticizing them when they err, we keep them honest and preserve both their honor and the honor of our country.