while i know that is meant to be a joke it should be noted that "goldfish grow to fit bowls" by poisoning themselves with their own wastes when they're in too little of a space - goldfish actually need a minimum of 30 gallons (this minimum size can hold like two though, three maybe with excellent filtration)
no correctness in this context is not "will work in a user's real environment on his or her real hardware in a real world" and i haven't any clue where you pulled that out of your ass
did you get that from your high school microsoft word class teacher?
correctness in this context is ALGORITHM CORRECTNESS
anarchocapitalism doesn't recognize the fact that government is required to regulate and mantain a fair and equitable market for capitalism to thrive - anarchocapitalism is unlimited laissez-faire
IE something that would last about 1 week before you have an oligarchy run by business interest
nobody said they would have to - there are fucking gui tools to do the work for them - the database would just be the storage backend - why don't you read this entire thread before replying next time
how is my solution inflexible because you're too lazy to familiarize yourself with programs that will do all those things you want right there via a GUI for you using a relational database to store the data?
all you have to do is SELECT `ColA`*`ColB` as AB FROM `sometable`
I'm not being "closed minded" - i'm dismissing the WRONG TOOL for the job because it's a piece of shit and highly prone to error, can only be used by a single user at a time, etc.
Who the fark said it had to be a RAW DATABASE?! Ever heard of Database manipulation softwarwe? display software? the software exists for you to use the system with much more ease than you use it already - you just have been too lazy to go and figure that out
Bigger spreadsheets are available in Excel -- over 1 million rows and over 16,000 columns per worksheet
what kind of a jackass....? use a fucking relational database! I don't want to think how blazingly slow that big of a spreadsheet would be, not to mention any dataset that large is going to almost certainly be something that is supposed to be used by more than one person at a time
Never underestimate the arrogance of a religious individual who has no conception that their way isn't the only way, and is 100% beyond a doubt convinced of their own correctness without a shred of evidence.
My own mother makes snide ethnocentric remarks about my brother's soon-to-be-born daughter's non-christian name "it can be turned into a christian name" (behind his back of course) and she's a fairly liberal christian.
For Reference: My brother and I are atheists, my fiancee is an atheist, and my brother's wife is a neopagan.
BlackMail? I do not think this word means what you think it means
blackmail Audio pronunciation of "BlackMail" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (blkml) n.
1.
1. Extortion of money or something else of value from a person by the threat of exposing a criminal act or discreditable information.
2. Something of value extorted in this manner.
2. Tribute formerly paid to freebooters along the Scottish border for protection from pillage.
So, collective bargaining is blackmail?
So every time a health insurance company negogiates a better deal on perscription drugs because they represent a large number of consumers they're engaged in blackmail?
That's just one of MANY examples of collective bargaining. Collective bargaining is a natural part of a healthy capitalist economy. Spare me the Ayn Rand.
You feel insulted because I point out you're misusing a word to provoke an emotional response that has been hammered into americans (COMMUNISM IS TEH EBIL!!!!) to try and bolster your argument?
Perhaps it is you with a weak argument. I'm not going to continue to argue with some troll who likes to attempt to redefine words to his liking so that he can use them for argumentum ad metam. I just put people like that on the foes list.
A) Suggesting someone know the definition of a word before using it, since they just misused it, is not an insult B) Unions do not lead to communism, please consult the dictionary definition of communism.
I do not deny that SOME unions have because mediocrity mills, but that isn't an natural flaw of all unions, just an example of a poorly operated one that has too much bargaining power.
Leveled between the employees and the company, not between the employees. Beyond that your post because a bunch of BS that even cursory study of the history of even skilled labor shows to be bullocks.
I have a piece of advice for you: go learn the definition of the word socialist before you misuse it again.
I'm sick and tired of people misusing the word socialism. Socialism is the system in which the means of production are owned collectively by the citizenry of a country, not by a single individual.
To say Unions are socialism is to make a laughing stock of yourself, even worse was the person further up in the thread that called them communism.
Unions are groups of people banding togeather to enter into collective bargaining - a function of the capitalist market. They are not "calling all the shots", they are ensuring that the corporation isn't calling all the shots.
Note: not the "Free market" - unlimited laissez-faire is NOT capitalism.
Perhaps you should look up the definition of communism. Labor unions don't fit it. Labor Unions are collective bargaining organizations that use the power of the collective to increase the leverage of the employees to be on a level playing field
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you don't use the main site for that - they have a seperate mobile one
oh FFS - text based browsers in 2006?
absofuckinglutely stupid unless you're blind and using a screen reader
while i know that is meant to be a joke it should be noted that "goldfish grow to fit bowls" by poisoning themselves with their own wastes when they're in too little of a space - goldfish actually need a minimum of 30 gallons (this minimum size can hold like two though, three maybe with excellent filtration)
What evidence do you have of an oligarchy forming without some form of government interference?
go take a history course
no correctness in this context is not "will work in a user's real environment on his or her real hardware in a real world" and i haven't any clue where you pulled that out of your ass
did you get that from your high school microsoft word class teacher?
correctness in this context is ALGORITHM CORRECTNESS
ffs you're dense!
anarchocapitalism doesn't recognize the fact that government is required to regulate and mantain a fair and equitable market for capitalism to thrive - anarchocapitalism is unlimited laissez-faire
IE something that would last about 1 week before you have an oligarchy run by business interest
we're talking about CORRECTNESS you dolt
what exactly does the ammount of hardware required to do an operation have to do with the provability of the correctness of the operation?
Hint: it doesn't
nobody said they would have to - there are fucking gui tools to do the work for them - the database would just be the storage backend - why don't you read this entire thread before replying next time
how is my solution inflexible because you're too lazy to familiarize yourself with programs that will do all those things you want right there via a GUI for you using a relational database to store the data?
given the table
create table `sometable`
{
`ColA` int(10) unsigned,
`ColB` int(10) unsigned,
}
all you have to do is
SELECT `ColA`*`ColB` as AB FROM `sometable`
I'm not being "closed minded" - i'm dismissing the WRONG TOOL for the job because it's a piece of shit and highly prone to error, can only be used by a single user at a time, etc.
Who the fark said it had to be a RAW DATABASE?! Ever heard of Database manipulation softwarwe? display software? the software exists for you to use the system with much more ease than you use it already - you just have been too lazy to go and figure that out
People could nagivate a php-generated website controlling/accessing a relational database even easier :D
.mdb's for EVERYTHING.
that being said i once heard of a bank that used multi-gigabyte
Bigger spreadsheets are available in Excel -- over 1 million rows and over 16,000 columns per worksheet
....? use a fucking relational database! I don't want to think how blazingly slow that big of a spreadsheet would be, not to mention any dataset that large is going to almost certainly be something that is supposed to be used by more than one person at a time
what kind of a jackass
Never underestimate the arrogance of a religious individual who has no conception that their way isn't the only way, and is 100% beyond a doubt convinced of their own correctness without a shred of evidence.
My own mother makes snide ethnocentric remarks about my brother's soon-to-be-born daughter's non-christian name "it can be turned into a christian name" (behind his back of course) and she's a fairly liberal christian.
For Reference: My brother and I are atheists, my fiancee is an atheist, and my brother's wife is a neopagan.
a false sense of national security does not come before the law or the constitution
the government under bush is violating both
nice attempt at five-day-later snark
how about you look at the entire picture not just one 10 year period jackass
who have been shown to be overwhelmingly of the young liberal demographic and that same demographic is overwhelmingly cellphone-only
I find this poll suspect - it CERTAINLY has a sampling bias error for starters
where were these people, what was their demographic, did they include cell phone users, etc
BlackMail? I do not think this word means what you think it means
blackmail Audio pronunciation of "BlackMail" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (blkml)
n.
1.
1. Extortion of money or something else of value from a person by the threat of exposing a criminal act or discreditable information.
2. Something of value extorted in this manner.
2. Tribute formerly paid to freebooters along the Scottish border for protection from pillage.
So, collective bargaining is blackmail?
So every time a health insurance company negogiates a better deal on perscription drugs because they represent a large number of consumers they're engaged in blackmail?
That's just one of MANY examples of collective bargaining. Collective bargaining is a natural part of a healthy capitalist economy. Spare me the Ayn Rand.
You feel insulted because I point out you're misusing a word to provoke an emotional response that has been hammered into americans (COMMUNISM IS TEH EBIL!!!!) to try and bolster your argument?
Perhaps it is you with a weak argument. I'm not going to continue to argue with some troll who likes to attempt to redefine words to his liking so that he can use them for argumentum ad metam. I just put people like that on the foes list.
because it based on the premise that all people are equal and so deserve equal reward.
no it's not, it's based on collective bargaining power
A) Suggesting someone know the definition of a word before using it, since they just misused it, is not an insult
B) Unions do not lead to communism, please consult the dictionary definition of communism.
I do not deny that SOME unions have because mediocrity mills, but that isn't an natural flaw of all unions, just an example of a poorly operated one that has too much bargaining power.
Leveled between the employees and the company, not between the employees. Beyond that your post because a bunch of BS that even cursory study of the history of even skilled labor shows to be bullocks.
I have a piece of advice for you: go learn the definition of the word socialist before you misuse it again.
I'm sick and tired of people misusing the word socialism. Socialism is the system in which the means of production are owned collectively by the citizenry of a country, not by a single individual.
To say Unions are socialism is to make a laughing stock of yourself, even worse was the person further up in the thread that called them communism.
Unions are groups of people banding togeather to enter into collective bargaining - a function of the capitalist market. They are not "calling all the shots", they are ensuring that the corporation isn't calling all the shots.
Note: not the "Free market" - unlimited laissez-faire is NOT capitalism.
Perhaps you should look up the definition of communism. Labor unions don't fit it. Labor Unions are collective bargaining organizations that use the power of the collective to increase the leverage of the employees to be on a level playing field