I am sure not ALL Australians see it that way and I am not an American.
Nope, Australians think in all kinds of ways, but a sizable enough majority think in this way to justify the policy. This isn't even truly punitive, the government is bribing people to reproduce and withholding the payment if their not satisfied with what you're getting. If you don't like it, you can still raise your child how you want, you just don't get that crooked little payment.
Australia is a social democratic state, you get certain services at the expense of being sometimes coerced into doing things you don't like it. If you don't like it, you can piss off somewhere else, I did. Under the terms of the Australia/USA free trade agreement it is trivially easy to emmigrate to America (E-3 visa is like H1b that works even if you work at McDonalds 3 hours a week) and every Australian citizen has the right to abode in New Zealand, not to mention the roughly 50% of the population with the right to apply for a foreign passport by ancestry... it's pretty much the easiest country in the world to get out of (ironic for a former prison colony).
The Library of Alexandria, at least the most famous iteration was burned in a Roman siege 48BC (according to Plutach), 45 years before the birth of Jesus. If you are blaming this on Theophilus (who was a bad man in his own right), then it is only recorded that he destroyed idols where some of the surviving scrolls may of been held, it would require quite a large leap of speculation to blame the destruction of the library here.
In other news, Facebook replaces an unnecissarily obtuse CD mailout service with a download service that sounds pretty useful. Has anyone here even bothered to mail out for your CD? Now you can download it, export it, do whatever you want with it.
All at the expense of some tracking information that can't really tell you anything about your own browsing habits than you already know, it's not like they're compelled to give their analysis of that data, simply what pages you refreshed when. If they correlate that to find you tend to search for ponography featuring chubby women after visiting your cousin's profile, that's their information, not yours.
My girlfriend reads English almost as quickly as I do, which is incredible since I am a fast reader by native standards and have been reading English for hours a day since I was 4 and she did it pretty much during highschool English lessons and researching accademic foreign papers for her masters.
I would it put it down to her going to school in China and never having a chance to have her brain addled by phonics. Phonics, as we all know, is a plot to make sure students can not reach a functional level of literacy before they are old enough to have become an intergrated part of the status quo. I conjecture that the man worked out that it was easier and just as effective as the old system of just writing everything important in Latin.
Nonsense, Australia has always been a very tolerant and welcoming society towards cabbie bashers. In fact, we even allow them to head major political parties.
Check the Wikipedia page. English, although being far from the widest spoken language, remains the official federal administrative language outside of areas that speak Hindi as a native language. Back in '47, there was a plan to transition to Hindi as the federal language, but a couple of decades later, other groups realised that it would put them at a disadvantage in federal politics, so blocked it.
It is basically a greedy algorithm that scans along the length of the cylinder
When you add a ball, you can work out where the possible positions of the next ball touching it, the side of the tube and an adjacent ball and repeat for that position, to give a spiral.
Like many greedy algorithms, this solution only works for a very constrained subset of the problem. 2.7013 is the diameter where it fails to be optimal, and packing efficiency degrades pretty horrifically after that. I would have used a greedy algorithm that simply places balls in the lowest position available that touches another ball (a priority queue can be used, when you place a ball, add the possible positions of the next ball to the queue, queued by height). This approach could be made to perform the same optimal packing in a narrow tube, by starting against the edge and would degrade to a suboptimal but decent approximation beyond that.
I'm looking at this and can't help but thinking that if I designed an algorithm like that, it would have caused a major glitch and everyone would be mad at me. If he were a programmer, Mr Chan would get a quick lecture from the lead about testing better before committing his code. I guess physicists get a photo shoot and a puff piece for the same achievement, but we cannot be all held to the same standard.
Well, maybe some people use addiction as a rationality for banning marijuana, but I've got some better ones:
It stinks, even worse than tobacco. Also is grotty, leaves residue.
It's bad for you, very high tar content and other carcinogenic shit in your lungs, causes emphysema.
Maybe America is in the weird situation that people are actually going to prison for it, which is a bit insane. However, for the rest of the western world, people can smoke it at home already. The key concern is that if it is legal, rather than just decriminalised, people are going to puff that dirty stuff in your face like people do with tobacco now. My only regret is that nobody made up some super sensational lies about tobacco when they had the chance and now we're stuck with it. That said, at least you can drive home safely after 4 cigarettes.
Finally, the biggest problem with weedheads is they turn up to a party, have a beer and two joints, or two beers and a joint and then they lie back in a folding deckchair saying and doing absolutely shit all for the rest of the party. The dilemma is that Johnny Q Potsmoker is absolutely convinced the next morning that he was not only lucid but also erudite and talkative and no amount of convincing can prove otherwise.
I think he was talking about myelination, the physical change when neurons get sheathed in Myelin so they process information far faster at the loss of learning abilities. It is a very concrete and observable process and does coincide with a pretty massive leap in human cognitive abilities. It's mostly complete by the mid teens though.
HDCP (not HDLC) was on the 22" LCD monitor I bought in 2006, I have bought two new displays since then, but that monitor is still very capable of playing encrypted Blueray content, although I would rather use my 52" TV for that. I think early adopter types who had bought a monitor before that, would have upgraded more times than me.
You appear to be really indignant about this, but in practical terms, early adopters buy because it is fun to play with new stuff. Same reason women often buy too many shoes. It's called "consumerism", and the folks who enjoy it don't care about your warnings, which sound even stupider in hindsight.
I worked 12 hours today and 14 yesterday, but then again I also have money entering my bank account every month and 1% ownership of the company I work for. I figure this is better than sitting around in a cell for the most productive years of my life and coming out with nothing.
Where the grandparents live is not a particularly hard debate either, someone can just read a copy of the Nevi'um, in particularly the books of Joshua and Samuel which is pretty much a Jewish account of Joshua leading a bunch of Jews from Egypt to boot the natives out of Canaan and King David finishing the job centuries later. While I don't condone what Vespasian did to the Jews in the first century, I don't see much difference to what Joshua did a millennium or so earlier. Point is, for the last 2500 years it has been past between Empires (Babylonian, Persian, Seleucid, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and British) and has always been a multi-cultural place where people of differing cultures and beliefs live together. This current state seems to want to erase millennia of history and go back to the days of Solomon.
Salaries for congressmen is one of the cornerstones of a true democracy. Before that, only those with large passive income (through land and industrial investments) could afford to invest the time into politics. Removing such things would obliterate all hope that one may be represented by anyone who has any other interest than making the rich richer and preserving the status quo.
Ron Paul would like a return to the glory days of American democracy where leaders would not mooch off the state and instead draw an income from honourable means, like plantations in Virginia.
XSS or Cross Site Scripting is a nasty method that bad people use to spy on sites you are logged in to. NoScript is a Firefox extension to limit javascript access privileges to prevent such attacks in addition to providing per-site script blocking.
In other words, he was complaining that he had to disable his XSS protection, not javascript in its entirety.
Those are the details, you could have looked them up yourself on google and been the one to clarify that post, but instead you wrote something based on incorrect assumptions and you were rebuked for it by a guy called "Anonymous Coward". If you care about an issue enough to comment, at least do 2 minutes of research, you really cease to be "audience" once you start heckling.
If you start off submitting safe bug fixes, generally they will be mainlined quickly and the maintainer will be greatful. If you start off by suggesting large modifications to the functionality or structure of the project, they're going to be rightly skeptical.
Oh, and if you bother to ask on IRC whether you can be one of the "developers" like you are applying for a job, you're probably going to be met with blank stares.
I've said this before on Slashdot and I'll say it again, as Chief Engineer of a Chinese tech startup. Software is not cheap to develop here in the slightest due to the fact that Chinese domestic web market is booming at the moment and everyone wants to grab the relatively few capable developers that make their way through the system. Replacing western developers in foreign project is the last thing on anyone's mind right now, outsourcing is always done in an attempt to save money, meaning there is going to be relatively little to gain from doing it.
But on every system I use, one of the first things I do is figure out how to remap the caps-lock key so it acts as a control key. In decades of effort, I've never gotten used to having the control key in a position other than immediately to the left of 'A'. If it works for most people, that's terrific, but it doesn't work for me.
And if you hadn't re-bound it, you would have probably learned very quickly. I'm all for configurability, but in most users case, they're only screwing themselves in the long run.
Trieste was kind of like a big tank of petrol with a sphere at the bottom called a "bathyscaphe", while technically a self-propelled submersible, it was extremely limited in thrust and manoeuvrability due to huge bulk and extremely limited room for power plant, control surfaces etc. In fact, it pretty much limited to going down then up. Currently the deepest diving real submersible is Shinkai 6500, which true to its name, can dive to 6500m, explore the ocean floor under its own power for a week or so and ascend. This submersible aims to go deeper still.
Frequent python developer here. I like VS when I'm not using python or Linux (which I'll admit is not very often). Hey, it's would be a good IDE if it was written by Hitler himself.
The ironic thing is, he kind of plagiarised a lot of his doctoral dissertation... I am glad that Boston University decided he should not be posthumously stripped of his PhD after uncovering it, but I think he should be held as an example of someone who believes in a liberal definition "fair use".
You've still got to bridge them into the IPv4 network in order for them to access the bulk of the present day internet. For that, you need to multiplex all those IPv6 addresses to a smaller number of IPv4 addresses and for that, you need connection tracking.
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Nope, Australians think in all kinds of ways, but a sizable enough majority think in this way to justify the policy. This isn't even truly punitive, the government is bribing people to reproduce and withholding the payment if their not satisfied with what you're getting. If you don't like it, you can still raise your child how you want, you just don't get that crooked little payment.
Australia is a social democratic state, you get certain services at the expense of being sometimes coerced into doing things you don't like it. If you don't like it, you can piss off somewhere else, I did. Under the terms of the Australia/USA free trade agreement it is trivially easy to emmigrate to America (E-3 visa is like H1b that works even if you work at McDonalds 3 hours a week) and every Australian citizen has the right to abode in New Zealand, not to mention the roughly 50% of the population with the right to apply for a foreign passport by ancestry... it's pretty much the easiest country in the world to get out of (ironic for a former prison colony).
The Library of Alexandria, at least the most famous iteration was burned in a Roman siege 48BC (according to Plutach), 45 years before the birth of Jesus. If you are blaming this on Theophilus (who was a bad man in his own right), then it is only recorded that he destroyed idols where some of the surviving scrolls may of been held, it would require quite a large leap of speculation to blame the destruction of the library here.
In other news, Facebook replaces an unnecissarily obtuse CD mailout service with a download service that sounds pretty useful. Has anyone here even bothered to mail out for your CD? Now you can download it, export it, do whatever you want with it.
All at the expense of some tracking information that can't really tell you anything about your own browsing habits than you already know, it's not like they're compelled to give their analysis of that data, simply what pages you refreshed when. If they correlate that to find you tend to search for ponography featuring chubby women after visiting your cousin's profile, that's their information, not yours.
My girlfriend reads English almost as quickly as I do, which is incredible since I am a fast reader by native standards and have been reading English for hours a day since I was 4 and she did it pretty much during highschool English lessons and researching accademic foreign papers for her masters.
I would it put it down to her going to school in China and never having a chance to have her brain addled by phonics. Phonics, as we all know, is a plot to make sure students can not reach a functional level of literacy before they are old enough to have become an intergrated part of the status quo. I conjecture that the man worked out that it was easier and just as effective as the old system of just writing everything important in Latin.
Nonsense, Australia has always been a very tolerant and welcoming society towards cabbie bashers. In fact, we even allow them to head major political parties.
I'd argue having the population of Queensland deprived of that liberty is well worth giving up one's own for.
Check the Wikipedia page. English, although being far from the widest spoken language, remains the official federal administrative language outside of areas that speak Hindi as a native language. Back in '47, there was a plan to transition to Hindi as the federal language, but a couple of decades later, other groups realised that it would put them at a disadvantage in federal politics, so blocked it.
Well, if Minecraft was able to do it, presumably other people would have been able to do it if they had thought of it.
It is basically a greedy algorithm that scans along the length of the cylinder
When you add a ball, you can work out where the possible positions of the next ball touching it, the side of the tube and an adjacent ball and repeat for that position, to give a spiral.
Like many greedy algorithms, this solution only works for a very constrained subset of the problem. 2.7013 is the diameter where it fails to be optimal, and packing efficiency degrades pretty horrifically after that. I would have used a greedy algorithm that simply places balls in the lowest position available that touches another ball (a priority queue can be used, when you place a ball, add the possible positions of the next ball to the queue, queued by height). This approach could be made to perform the same optimal packing in a narrow tube, by starting against the edge and would degrade to a suboptimal but decent approximation beyond that.
I'm looking at this and can't help but thinking that if I designed an algorithm like that, it would have caused a major glitch and everyone would be mad at me. If he were a programmer, Mr Chan would get a quick lecture from the lead about testing better before committing his code. I guess physicists get a photo shoot and a puff piece for the same achievement, but we cannot be all held to the same standard.
Well, maybe some people use addiction as a rationality for banning marijuana, but I've got some better ones:
Maybe America is in the weird situation that people are actually going to prison for it, which is a bit insane. However, for the rest of the western world, people can smoke it at home already. The key concern is that if it is legal, rather than just decriminalised, people are going to puff that dirty stuff in your face like people do with tobacco now. My only regret is that nobody made up some super sensational lies about tobacco when they had the chance and now we're stuck with it. That said, at least you can drive home safely after 4 cigarettes.
Finally, the biggest problem with weedheads is they turn up to a party, have a beer and two joints, or two beers and a joint and then they lie back in a folding deckchair saying and doing absolutely shit all for the rest of the party. The dilemma is that Johnny Q Potsmoker is absolutely convinced the next morning that he was not only lucid but also erudite and talkative and no amount of convincing can prove otherwise.
I think he was talking about myelination, the physical change when neurons get sheathed in Myelin so they process information far faster at the loss of learning abilities. It is a very concrete and observable process and does coincide with a pretty massive leap in human cognitive abilities. It's mostly complete by the mid teens though.
HDCP (not HDLC) was on the 22" LCD monitor I bought in 2006, I have bought two new displays since then, but that monitor is still very capable of playing encrypted Blueray content, although I would rather use my 52" TV for that. I think early adopter types who had bought a monitor before that, would have upgraded more times than me.
You appear to be really indignant about this, but in practical terms, early adopters buy because it is fun to play with new stuff. Same reason women often buy too many shoes. It's called "consumerism", and the folks who enjoy it don't care about your warnings, which sound even stupider in hindsight.
I worked 12 hours today and 14 yesterday, but then again I also have money entering my bank account every month and 1% ownership of the company I work for. I figure this is better than sitting around in a cell for the most productive years of my life and coming out with nothing.
If you want to improve the UN the best way to do it would be to revoke the special veto powers given to the winners of WW2,
Great idea! Let's hand over control of the UN to a collection of communists
Like the USSR and China? 2 of the 5 special countries that won WWII and enjoyed veto power all through the cold war?
Where the grandparents live is not a particularly hard debate either, someone can just read a copy of the Nevi'um, in particularly the books of Joshua and Samuel which is pretty much a Jewish account of Joshua leading a bunch of Jews from Egypt to boot the natives out of Canaan and King David finishing the job centuries later. While I don't condone what Vespasian did to the Jews in the first century, I don't see much difference to what Joshua did a millennium or so earlier. Point is, for the last 2500 years it has been past between Empires (Babylonian, Persian, Seleucid, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and British) and has always been a multi-cultural place where people of differing cultures and beliefs live together. This current state seems to want to erase millennia of history and go back to the days of Solomon.
retired from medical practice (OB/GYN) to go into politics
The difference is, one is someone who specialises in dealing with c--ts and the other one is a type of doctor.
Salaries for congressmen is one of the cornerstones of a true democracy. Before that, only those with large passive income (through land and industrial investments) could afford to invest the time into politics. Removing such things would obliterate all hope that one may be represented by anyone who has any other interest than making the rich richer and preserving the status quo.
Ron Paul would like a return to the glory days of American democracy where leaders would not mooch off the state and instead draw an income from honourable means, like plantations in Virginia.
XSS or Cross Site Scripting is a nasty method that bad people use to spy on sites you are logged in to. NoScript is a Firefox extension to limit javascript access privileges to prevent such attacks in addition to providing per-site script blocking.
In other words, he was complaining that he had to disable his XSS protection, not javascript in its entirety.
Those are the details, you could have looked them up yourself on google and been the one to clarify that post, but instead you wrote something based on incorrect assumptions and you were rebuked for it by a guy called "Anonymous Coward". If you care about an issue enough to comment, at least do 2 minutes of research, you really cease to be "audience" once you start heckling.
If you start off submitting safe bug fixes, generally they will be mainlined quickly and the maintainer will be greatful. If you start off by suggesting large modifications to the functionality or structure of the project, they're going to be rightly skeptical.
Oh, and if you bother to ask on IRC whether you can be one of the "developers" like you are applying for a job, you're probably going to be met with blank stares.
I've said this before on Slashdot and I'll say it again, as Chief Engineer of a Chinese tech startup. Software is not cheap to develop here in the slightest due to the fact that Chinese domestic web market is booming at the moment and everyone wants to grab the relatively few capable developers that make their way through the system. Replacing western developers in foreign project is the last thing on anyone's mind right now, outsourcing is always done in an attempt to save money, meaning there is going to be relatively little to gain from doing it.
But on every system I use, one of the first things I do is figure out how to remap the caps-lock key so it acts as a control key. In decades of effort, I've never gotten used to having the control key in a position other than immediately to the left of 'A'. If it works for most people, that's terrific, but it doesn't work for me.
And if you hadn't re-bound it, you would have probably learned very quickly. I'm all for configurability, but in most users case, they're only screwing themselves in the long run.
Trieste was kind of like a big tank of petrol with a sphere at the bottom called a "bathyscaphe", while technically a self-propelled submersible, it was extremely limited in thrust and manoeuvrability due to huge bulk and extremely limited room for power plant, control surfaces etc. In fact, it pretty much limited to going down then up. Currently the deepest diving real submersible is Shinkai 6500, which true to its name, can dive to 6500m, explore the ocean floor under its own power for a week or so and ascend. This submersible aims to go deeper still.
Frequent python developer here. I like VS when I'm not using python or Linux (which I'll admit is not very often). Hey, it's would be a good IDE if it was written by Hitler himself.
The ironic thing is, he kind of plagiarised a lot of his doctoral dissertation... I am glad that Boston University decided he should not be posthumously stripped of his PhD after uncovering it, but I think he should be held as an example of someone who believes in a liberal definition "fair use".
You've still got to bridge them into the IPv4 network in order for them to access the bulk of the present day internet. For that, you need to multiplex all those IPv6 addresses to a smaller number of IPv4 addresses and for that, you need connection tracking.