ewithrow didn't say anything about Democrats or Republicans, just rich and poor. There are rich Democrats and poor Republicans, and vice versa.
And obviously, the "people who dealt this wonderful winning blow" were not "the very democrats who griped about it all along." Those were most likely other Democrats, not the two on the Supreme Court.
Holy shit, that's an awesome idea! Instead of using one's riches and geek skills to become a sissy hero, become a super-villain! That would be so much more fun than being a superhero in real life, because if you were a superhero, you'd just be fighting mundane street crime. Whereas if you became a super-villain, you could mug people, rob banks, kidnap people for ransoms... all with ultimate technological power, and reasonable anonymity, getting richer all the while! Oh god, I am totally going to do that if I ever get rich.
(Message to any cops or FBI agents reading this: I'm kidding, I swear.)
A better solution is to use an encrypted proxy-chaining network, so your ISP can't know what you're doing, and the proxy servers can't know who's doing it. So let them log a bunch of public-key-encrypted data, see if it'll do them any good. http://tor.eff.org/
(Ironically, Tor is a product of the Onion Routing project of the United States Navy. But don't worry about spyware or anything -- it's all open-source and peer-reviewed.)
Simple. The children in CP are victimized every time it is viewed, because it violates their natural right to privacy. If it's a crime to look in a neighbor's window while they're showering or changing, then this should similarly to apply to erotic images, where the act depicted, or the photography thereof, is not consensual. Presumably, this applies to most child pornography; and from a legal perspective, where nobody under a certain age can consent to sex, it applies to all child porn. (However, I do think the age of consent should be lower, maybe corresponding to the average age when puberty begins, because declaring sex with a 15-year-old to be legally equivalent to sex with a 5-year-old is just silly.)
Make sure you edit out any mentions of Russia from article summaries. That can only lead to at least half of the comments being lame Soviet Russia jokes.
(Um, actually, Apple stuck pretty icons on them and called them folders. And Xerox PARC probably did before Apple. Microsoft just reused a symbolism that was already in wide use.)
It's certainly easy to understand a simple hierarchy. In fact, real-world metaphors seem to confuse some people more than unique terms would. For example, my dad has been using computers for 7 years, and he doesn't understand the difference between "windows," "folders," "icons," "files," "aliases," "menus," etc. He uses them all interchangeably. I seriously doubt that he's an isolated case, and let me just say that this makes it really hard to help him troubleshoot over the phone...
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I use PHP as one of my main languages, but you make many good points. I really hate the function-name inconsistency -- it's a good thing it's so well-documented, because I need to look up the correct spelling nearly every time I need to use some string function. Or nearly any built-in function, for that matter.
Another thing I dislike about it is that it's not fundamentally object-oriented. That's one thing I absolutely love about Python -- _everything_ is an object. I love being able to perform methods on strings and arrays, instead of having to pass them to global functions. And with PHP's built-in functions, there's so much C-style pseudo-object-oriented programming ("POOP", appropriately), like where you call a method to create a session or context object, and you pass that context as the first argument to other functions that work with it. That's just bewildering. There's object-oriented support, so why on earth must they have such unelegant messes of procedural programming at the core?
The only reason why I stay with it is that it makes web programming much easier, since it can act like a template language, embedded within HTML pages. For serious non-web programming, I've been migrating to Python, for maximum harmony. I just wish it had better documentation.
Finally, someone making sense! Seriously, I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't think that leaking trade secrets is a personal privacy issue. Kudos to you.
And I think you'll find that, even though it doesn't exist anywhere, it doesn't matter at all in the context you were replying to. Nonexistence is not a reason to redefine "Communism" in terms of the general irrelevant practices of people who have unsuccessfully tried to implement it. There are other words for that. There have been non-Communist authoritarian governments.
Pure capitalism probably doesn't exist anywhere either; there's always at least some government regulation of business.
"If Apple every unleashes OS X to the masses for the X86 Linux will feel the pain as much as Windows will... if not more."
You're technically right, but Apple won't unleash OS X to the x86 masses. Their strategy is just to put an Intel chip in their own still-proprietary hardware, nothing more. I don't know how they'll lock it out from other hardware, but I'm certain they won't release it unless they've taken the proper cautionary measures.
I'm a mac user, and I'm not pissed. I was surprised, but I trust Steve Jobs to steer the company in the right direction. He wouldn't initiate such a momentous transition if he weren't sure if it would work out. I'm sure there are plenty of other Mac users who agree.
Or is that the difference between Mac users and Mac-heads?
It will make it easier to make viruses, because x86 is more vulnerable to buffer-overflow security holes. It's because x86 allows execution of anything in memory, while the Power architecture keeps data and executable code separate. (If I remember correctly. I might be wrong, I'm just saying this from memory.)
Do you really think that Steve Jobs would support such a huge shift if he wasn't absolutely 100% certain that it would work out well for the company and the users in the long run?
It IS x86... during the keynote, Jobs announced a transitional developer kit, which includes a Mac with Mac OS X 10.4.1 running on a Pentium 4.
GNAA "Punjabi Extreme" made in APPLE GARAGEBAND!
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You GNAA guys love making fun of Apple, but I bet a lot of you don't even know that Punjabi Extreme was made in Apple's own toy music sequencer GarageBand. It makes you guys look sort of hypocritical, doesn't it now.
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And obviously, the "people who dealt this wonderful winning blow" were not "the very democrats who griped about it all along." Those were most likely other Democrats, not the two on the Supreme Court.
"Get your facts straight," eh?
(Message to any cops or FBI agents reading this: I'm kidding, I swear.)
Want to fight street crime? Become a cop. Want to fight real crime? See paragraphs 3 and 4 of the grandparent comment.
For iPod-zealot masturbatory appeal. Duh.
I do find it hard to believe that they haven't gotten NetBSD running on it yet, but I'm sure that's coming soon.
A better solution is to use an encrypted proxy-chaining network, so your ISP can't know what you're doing, and the proxy servers can't know who's doing it. So let them log a bunch of public-key-encrypted data, see if it'll do them any good. http://tor.eff.org/
(Ironically, Tor is a product of the Onion Routing project of the United States Navy. But don't worry about spyware or anything -- it's all open-source and peer-reviewed.)
(Well, it certainly should be.) Maybe in the US it's not a crime, but it is in some areas, including the UK if I remember correctly.
Simple. The children in CP are victimized every time it is viewed, because it violates their natural right to privacy. If it's a crime to look in a neighbor's window while they're showering or changing, then this should similarly to apply to erotic images, where the act depicted, or the photography thereof, is not consensual. Presumably, this applies to most child pornography; and from a legal perspective, where nobody under a certain age can consent to sex, it applies to all child porn. (However, I do think the age of consent should be lower, maybe corresponding to the average age when puberty begins, because declaring sex with a 15-year-old to be legally equivalent to sex with a 5-year-old is just silly.)
Yeah, right, and put Apple completely out of business too.
Make sure you edit out any mentions of Russia from article summaries. That can only lead to at least half of the comments being lame Soviet Russia jokes.
(Kidding, but also completely serious. :D)
It's certainly easy to understand a simple hierarchy. In fact, real-world metaphors seem to confuse some people more than unique terms would. For example, my dad has been using computers for 7 years, and he doesn't understand the difference between "windows," "folders," "icons," "files," "aliases," "menus," etc. He uses them all interchangeably. I seriously doubt that he's an isolated case, and let me just say that this makes it really hard to help him troubleshoot over the phone...
I use PHP as one of my main languages, but you make many good points. I really hate the function-name inconsistency -- it's a good thing it's so well-documented, because I need to look up the correct spelling nearly every time I need to use some string function. Or nearly any built-in function, for that matter.
Another thing I dislike about it is that it's not fundamentally object-oriented. That's one thing I absolutely love about Python -- _everything_ is an object. I love being able to perform methods on strings and arrays, instead of having to pass them to global functions. And with PHP's built-in functions, there's so much C-style pseudo-object-oriented programming ("POOP", appropriately), like where you call a method to create a session or context object, and you pass that context as the first argument to other functions that work with it. That's just bewildering. There's object-oriented support, so why on earth must they have such unelegant messes of procedural programming at the core?
The only reason why I stay with it is that it makes web programming much easier, since it can act like a template language, embedded within HTML pages. For serious non-web programming, I've been migrating to Python, for maximum harmony. I just wish it had better documentation.
Come on mods, it was a joke.
nano rocks! The smaller your editor, the bigger your penis! Text editors want to be minimalist!
Indeed! Especially when you've probably signed an employee contract allowing them to do that.
Finally, someone making sense! Seriously, I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't think that leaking trade secrets is a personal privacy issue. Kudos to you.
And I think you'll find that, even though it doesn't exist anywhere, it doesn't matter at all in the context you were replying to. Nonexistence is not a reason to redefine "Communism" in terms of the general irrelevant practices of people who have unsuccessfully tried to implement it. There are other words for that. There have been non-Communist authoritarian governments.
Pure capitalism probably doesn't exist anywhere either; there's always at least some government regulation of business.
"If Apple every unleashes OS X to the masses for the X86 Linux will feel the pain as much as Windows will... if not more."
You're technically right, but Apple won't unleash OS X to the x86 masses. Their strategy is just to put an Intel chip in their own still-proprietary hardware, nothing more. I don't know how they'll lock it out from other hardware, but I'm certain they won't release it unless they've taken the proper cautionary measures.
1. In Soviet Korea, only old computers have dual-core desktop chip in YOU!
2. ???
3. Profit!
I want a torrent of Mac OS X 10.4.1 for Intel. Anyone leaked+cracked it yet? :)
I'm a mac user, and I'm not pissed. I was surprised, but I trust Steve Jobs to steer the company in the right direction. He wouldn't initiate such a momentous transition if he weren't sure if it would work out. I'm sure there are plenty of other Mac users who agree.
Or is that the difference between Mac users and Mac-heads?
It will make it easier to make viruses, because x86 is more vulnerable to buffer-overflow security holes. It's because x86 allows execution of anything in memory, while the Power architecture keeps data and executable code separate. (If I remember correctly. I might be wrong, I'm just saying this from memory.)
Do you really think that Steve Jobs would support such a huge shift if he wasn't absolutely 100% certain that it would work out well for the company and the users in the long run?
It IS x86... during the keynote, Jobs announced a transitional developer kit, which includes a Mac with Mac OS X 10.4.1 running on a Pentium 4.
You GNAA guys love making fun of Apple, but I bet a lot of you don't even know that Punjabi Extreme was made in Apple's own toy music sequencer GarageBand. It makes you guys look sort of hypocritical, doesn't it now.