So did Trump, but he actually got his party's nomination. I can't imagine McAfee being nominated by the Libertarian Party.
He won't. Gary Johnson has a pretty commanding lead. Still, even if he did, I'd vote for him before Clinton or Trump, because no matter how crazy he is, he's still better than either of them.
At the end of the day, that's the ultimate authority behind any political system - if you don't follow the rules someone has the means to force you.
That's true, but the big question is how often many rules should there be?
Every capitalist transaction is finally backed up with a gun. Don't pay, we'll sue you / arrest you. Refuse to be arrested we'll shoot you.
A capitalist transaction should involve voluntary exchange. The buyer wants something they value more than money, and the seller is offering something because they value the money more than what they're offering. If you're not paying, you're committing theft, so it's hard to call that a capitalist transaction...
The author advises these beginners to try rewriting a library which already exists (despite this being considered as a prohibited practice by many).
This is how I learned a lot about Perl, C, C++ and to a much lesser extent JavaScript
This was my second course is computer science after the introductory C++ course. We basically had to rewrite the STL, implementing vectors, linked lists, double-linked lists, etc. It was a very good exercise and really made you have to think about memory management, the proper order to do things in, etc. Assembly was a real grind though. I have tons of respect for anyone who can write assembly. It was interesting learning how to tweak your programs with it, taking advantage of how much time certain operations take, so you could reorder them to make them more efficient.
If you can't think of a game to make. Buy a board game and make a digital version of it.
I would recommend starting out with simple games and then increasing in difficulty. See if you can write a text version of Black Jack. After you get a working version, try to do a GUI based version. Then try something like Pong, Breakout, Tetris, etc. Now try expanding them. Maybe Breakout with power-ups! Other people have done it. Once you pick up techniques to make these games, you'll have a much better idea of what to write on your own.
Yes. Out of 320,000,000 people, we've managed to narrow down the selection to these three gems; a communist, a proto-facsist, and a criminal. Yeah, pretty much fucked no matter how you look at it.
Then there's whoever the LP will nominate. They will be on the ballot in all 50 states. Gary Johnson, the likely nominee is currently polling at 11%, which is really big for a third party candidate this early in the election cycle. I imagine he would poll even higher if he were included in the Presidential debates this fall.
ISIS poses very little threat to the average American, but the beast we're feeding to keep us "safe" from them is a bigger danger. Even though I know I'm not doing anything wrong, I always tend to get a little nervous whenever there's a cop behind me. You never know when you're going to get pulled over & harassed for having the wrong bumper sticker on your car.
While I respect your principles, I feel the need to point out that a third-party vote usually winds up being wasted - or, worse, splits the vote for the more sensible candidate(s) allowing the least desirable one to win.
Voting your conscience is never a wasted vote. Besides, winning isn't the only goal for an election. Third parties face an uphill battle getting on the ballot every year. Ballot access is usually determined by the percentage gained by the top of ticket candidate. If the Libertarian Party candidate got 5-10% in the election, it would wipe out a lot of unnecessary spending & man hours just trying to get your candidates on the ballot the next time. That time & money can be put into actually campaigning instead. Some of us look at the long picture.
Regardless of how self serving or fraudulent you may think she is, the odds of Hilary accidentally plunging the whole planet into world War three due to ineptitude seems significantly lower than with Trump.
Yes. Instead, Hillary the War Hawk will plunge the whole planet into WWIII intentionally.
It will be interesting to see what the rest of the GOP do now. After a year of trashing Trump, calling him all sorts of things, they are either going to have to eat several courses of humble pie or rip the party apart by continuing to oppose their official candidate.
This happens every election cycle, but I think this is the nastiest I can remember in my lifetime. However, the rank & file have already begun to consolidate behind him, realizing that he's still better than Hillary in their opinion. I saw Bobby Jindahl on the news last night saying that he will now be supporting Trump since he's the nominee. Trump also toned down the rhetoric last night in his victory speech, which will probably help everyone on the R side settle down.
The polls suggest that Trump will find it hard to beat Hillary, because despite some popularity he also has a higher disapproval rating than anyone in the history of politics. Then again you can never rule anyone out in a two horse race. For me a Trump win would be a nightmare scenario, but I'm also kind of curious to see how the rest of the world would react.
Most recent polls show Trump closing on Clinton or tied with her. Regardless, I won't be voting for either of them, since it's not a binary choice. Interesting to note, the Libertarian Party got a nice bump in traffic last night after Cruz announced he's dropping out.
I find it puzzling that Christians in particular seem to be irritated by the idea of a lack of free will.
Isn't it conflictive to believe in an all-knowing and all-powerful deity while at the same believing in freedom of choice?
More than once I've seen a religious person irritated when the notion of determinism came up in a discussion.
What is the connection there?
Depends on what you mean by free will. Martin Luther for instance said that we have free will in the things below us, but not in the things above us. For instance, you are free to choose if you're going to eat an apple or an orange, take one job instead of another, etc., but you don't have free will in regard to your salvation. That is predetermined by God.
Has anyone done a story wherein a civilisation launches a generation ship, expecting it to travel for a couple thousand years? But in the meantime, the group left behind develop FTL / wormhole generators / what have you and send a second group to the target planet to await the first?
Yeah, you just did! I'm going to nominate you for a Nebula. It's even better than "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love"!
I had an iPhone 4 for 4 years (oddly never experienced the reception problem), then upgraded to an iPhone 6 Plus. I'll probably have that one for 4 years as well. It makes phone calls, sends email, browses the web, lets me play games or read books during down time. Newer features such as pressure sensitive screens or "live" photos, 3D photos, or being able to pour a bottle of champagne on them aren't really killer features. Mostly they strike me as gimmicks that don't give me an overwhelming desire to upgrade.
I think the term still fits if you look at the the protectionist aspects of mercantilism. Clearly they're not protecting corporations for a state, but they're still using state power to protect them from competition.
That's odd, because actually it's Google Maps that full of these bugs, telling people to turn left or U-turn were you aren't allowed to, or sending them over private property and bus-only streets.
I typically use Google Maps over Apple Maps on my iPhone because I like the interface better. I haven't run into any of the problems you've described, and I use it quite often for my travel. I've run into a few strange issues, like one time it showed me to circle around a block to get to an intersection that was visible from my current location and no legitimate traffic reason for taking that route, but this is the exception instead of the rule.
You should read that Wikipedia link you gave, because Mercantilism wasn't what you described it as. The intention (apparent or real) had nothing to do with protecting consumers
You misunderstood what I wrote.I didn't say mercantilism had anything to do with protecting consumers. I'm saying that our current government system passes laws & regulations under the claim of protecting consumers when the reality is that it protects big business by shielding them from competition. McDonald's & Walmart can afford a minimum wage hike, mom & pop corner stores operating on low margins can't. Almost every form of licensing and regulation helps to give the existing players an advantage over those who are considering entering the market.
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So did Trump, but he actually got his party's nomination. I can't imagine McAfee being nominated by the Libertarian Party.
He won't. Gary Johnson has a pretty commanding lead. Still, even if he did, I'd vote for him before Clinton or Trump, because no matter how crazy he is, he's still better than either of them.
At the end of the day, that's the ultimate authority behind any political system - if you don't follow the rules someone has the means to force you.
That's true, but the big question is how often many rules should there be?
Every capitalist transaction is finally backed up with a gun. Don't pay, we'll sue you / arrest you. Refuse to be arrested we'll shoot you.
A capitalist transaction should involve voluntary exchange. The buyer wants something they value more than money, and the seller is offering something because they value the money more than what they're offering. If you're not paying, you're committing theft, so it's hard to call that a capitalist transaction...
The author advises these beginners to try rewriting a library which already exists (despite this being considered as a prohibited practice by many).
This is how I learned a lot about Perl, C, C++ and to a much lesser extent JavaScript
This was my second course is computer science after the introductory C++ course. We basically had to rewrite the STL, implementing vectors, linked lists, double-linked lists, etc. It was a very good exercise and really made you have to think about memory management, the proper order to do things in, etc. Assembly was a real grind though. I have tons of respect for anyone who can write assembly. It was interesting learning how to tweak your programs with it, taking advantage of how much time certain operations take, so you could reorder them to make them more efficient.
If you can't think of a game to make. Buy a board game and make a digital version of it.
I would recommend starting out with simple games and then increasing in difficulty. See if you can write a text version of Black Jack. After you get a working version, try to do a GUI based version. Then try something like Pong, Breakout, Tetris, etc. Now try expanding them. Maybe Breakout with power-ups! Other people have done it. Once you pick up techniques to make these games, you'll have a much better idea of what to write on your own.
Find a small problem that you are in fact facing in your day to day life, and write code that would solve it.
All my (computing) problems are either big or already solved. : /
There you go. Write a program that creates small problems for you! ;-)
Yes. Out of 320,000,000 people, we've managed to narrow down the selection to these three gems; a communist, a proto-facsist, and a criminal. Yeah, pretty much fucked no matter how you look at it.
Then there's whoever the LP will nominate. They will be on the ballot in all 50 states. Gary Johnson, the likely nominee is currently polling at 11%, which is really big for a third party candidate this early in the election cycle. I imagine he would poll even higher if he were included in the Presidential debates this fall.
It's hard to pick up in my message, but I was being sarcastic...
Conservatives at least claim to be for smaller government, which could be a direct threat to Facebook, since they are a CIA operation after all...
the IRS, NSA, and Hillary/Trump are not valid values.
They could be if you're traveling abroad.
Why don't Americans fear their own government most?
Because they've had 13-17 years or so of public indoctrination.
I can't wait for the War On Chicken Sandwiches.
When chicken sandwiches are outlawed, only outlaws will have chicken sandwiches.
ISIS poses very little threat to the average American, but the beast we're feeding to keep us "safe" from them is a bigger danger. Even though I know I'm not doing anything wrong, I always tend to get a little nervous whenever there's a cop behind me. You never know when you're going to get pulled over & harassed for having the wrong bumper sticker on your car.
While I respect your principles, I feel the need to point out that a third-party vote usually winds up being wasted - or, worse, splits the vote for the more sensible candidate(s) allowing the least desirable one to win.
Voting your conscience is never a wasted vote. Besides, winning isn't the only goal for an election. Third parties face an uphill battle getting on the ballot every year. Ballot access is usually determined by the percentage gained by the top of ticket candidate. If the Libertarian Party candidate got 5-10% in the election, it would wipe out a lot of unnecessary spending & man hours just trying to get your candidates on the ballot the next time. That time & money can be put into actually campaigning instead. Some of us look at the long picture.
Isn't that Calvinism?
I don't think so, but they might have a similar belief.
Regardless of how self serving or fraudulent you may think she is, the odds of Hilary accidentally plunging the whole planet into world War three due to ineptitude seems significantly lower than with Trump.
Yes. Instead, Hillary the War Hawk will plunge the whole planet into WWIII intentionally.
It will be interesting to see what the rest of the GOP do now. After a year of trashing Trump, calling him all sorts of things, they are either going to have to eat several courses of humble pie or rip the party apart by continuing to oppose their official candidate.
This happens every election cycle, but I think this is the nastiest I can remember in my lifetime. However, the rank & file have already begun to consolidate behind him, realizing that he's still better than Hillary in their opinion. I saw Bobby Jindahl on the news last night saying that he will now be supporting Trump since he's the nominee. Trump also toned down the rhetoric last night in his victory speech, which will probably help everyone on the R side settle down.
The polls suggest that Trump will find it hard to beat Hillary, because despite some popularity he also has a higher disapproval rating than anyone in the history of politics. Then again you can never rule anyone out in a two horse race. For me a Trump win would be a nightmare scenario, but I'm also kind of curious to see how the rest of the world would react.
Most recent polls show Trump closing on Clinton or tied with her. Regardless, I won't be voting for either of them, since it's not a binary choice. Interesting to note, the Libertarian Party got a nice bump in traffic last night after Cruz announced he's dropping out.
I find it puzzling that Christians in particular seem to be irritated by the idea of a lack of free will.
Isn't it conflictive to believe in an all-knowing and all-powerful deity while at the same believing in freedom of choice?
More than once I've seen a religious person irritated when the notion of determinism came up in a discussion.
What is the connection there?
Depends on what you mean by free will. Martin Luther for instance said that we have free will in the things below us, but not in the things above us. For instance, you are free to choose if you're going to eat an apple or an orange, take one job instead of another, etc., but you don't have free will in regard to your salvation. That is predetermined by God.
Has anyone done a story wherein a civilisation launches a generation ship, expecting it to travel for a couple thousand years? But in the meantime, the group left behind develop FTL / wormhole generators / what have you and send a second group to the target planet to await the first?
Yeah, you just did! I'm going to nominate you for a Nebula. It's even better than "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love"!
I didn't say it did. My point is that it's very unlikely that an indicted, let alone convicted, Hillary Clinton would be elected.
Nobody voting for Hillary case about that.
With Carly Fiorina named as his running mate, her stance on H1B, as a former Captain of tech industry, is the first query lobbed at Team Cruz?
It doesn't matter who he picks for his running mate, he's not going to be the nominee.
I had an iPhone 4 for 4 years (oddly never experienced the reception problem), then upgraded to an iPhone 6 Plus. I'll probably have that one for 4 years as well. It makes phone calls, sends email, browses the web, lets me play games or read books during down time. Newer features such as pressure sensitive screens or "live" photos, 3D photos, or being able to pour a bottle of champagne on them aren't really killer features. Mostly they strike me as gimmicks that don't give me an overwhelming desire to upgrade.
I think the term still fits if you look at the the protectionist aspects of mercantilism. Clearly they're not protecting corporations for a state, but they're still using state power to protect them from competition.
That's odd, because actually it's Google Maps that full of these bugs, telling people to turn left or U-turn were you aren't allowed to, or sending them over private property and bus-only streets.
I typically use Google Maps over Apple Maps on my iPhone because I like the interface better. I haven't run into any of the problems you've described, and I use it quite often for my travel. I've run into a few strange issues, like one time it showed me to circle around a block to get to an intersection that was visible from my current location and no legitimate traffic reason for taking that route, but this is the exception instead of the rule.
There's already prior art.
You should read that Wikipedia link you gave, because Mercantilism wasn't what you described it as. The intention (apparent or real) had nothing to do with protecting consumers
You misunderstood what I wrote.I didn't say mercantilism had anything to do with protecting consumers. I'm saying that our current government system passes laws & regulations under the claim of protecting consumers when the reality is that it protects big business by shielding them from competition. McDonald's & Walmart can afford a minimum wage hike, mom & pop corner stores operating on low margins can't. Almost every form of licensing and regulation helps to give the existing players an advantage over those who are considering entering the market.